The X-Files was once the premiere sci-fi mystery show in television. Stretching 9 Season, and Multiple Feature Films, The X-Files had a legacy most shows dream of achieving. Until the powers at be decided to bring Mulder and Scully back for a tenth season of The X-Files. With this new season, old X-Files fans had many complaints about how their favorite investigators were handled. The X-Files should never have been rebooted, by doing so they may have tarnished the legacy of Mulder and Scully for new generations of fans.
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The X-Files theme song scared me as a kid. Actually, most of X-Files scared me as a kid.
You really can't do a modern day X-Files. Most of the original mysteries the show built itself on have pretty much be debunked,(crytpids and the like) and the new mysteries and conspiracies that have replaced them aren't things that would make a fun tv show. A modern day Fox Mulder would be an anti-vaxer or such.
I had no problem with the reboot 2.0 (Season 10) because I thought Carter and the writers would bring the XXI century to them. I mean by then "conspiracy theories? were no longer ignored and given the ridicule treatment (hell the term itself is a CIA creation !!!!). Internet explosion, social media info campaigns and wars, and open source info out there were game changers. The 90s ambiance and Matrix was shifting or crumbling when Season 10 and 11 aired, and that compatamentalization of secrets and all by TPTB and their connections in government was no more. Carter dropped the ball. Lets be real. Huge fumble. He HAD to know the REALITY like he did in the 90s but didn't. So many missed opportunities. XXI century ambiance should have easily made Mulder vindicated, and in Season 10. I hear a reboot 3.0 is on the table and both are up to returning, only if "corrections" are made.
X-files really paved the way in both how to make excellent event television. And also how not to do it, ie have no plan on what the story actually is and just make it up as you go along.
I have no idea why people talk down the 'monster of the week' episodes as they were by far my favourite. Episodes like Squeeze are absolute classics. I pretty much checked out with the alien conspiracy episodes.
X-files is my third favourite series. My favourite would be The Lone Gunmen and second favourite Doctor Who.
In my opinion the show X-Files went considerably downward after they moved from Friday nights to Sunday nights. Believe it or not a lot of kids used to watch it when they probably shouldn't have and like many other kids I had a curfew and had to go to bed to get enough sleep for school the next day on monday. But until then I love the show and kept watching it. But like with any popular show eventually the show Riders start to jump the shark a little bit. But I still love the show it was awesome and inspired other shows to come.
the show got boring
When the first movie came out and there was STILL no significant reveal regarding the "mythology" arc it became increasingly clear there was nothing planned there and it was just being strung along. And so was the audience.
Its more, restarting fail
degration is the best new word I've heard today
The worst part of seasons 10-11 for me was that they tried to distance themselves so much from Mulder and Scully being a couple, that they ended up turning the whole thing into a ludicrous plot-twist-from-hell soap opera with no sense or reason, while retconning stuff that they thought would be good fanservice, and wasn't. They thought we would all be excited to see the cigarette smoking man again. We were unimpressed.
There is an elimently new season at works
It's 2024 and a sitting congresswoman claims the US Deep State is using secret weather modification technology to inflict targeted damage by controlling hurricanes, with FEMA acting as agents of the shadow government. We have no need of an X-Files Season 12. We're living in it.
Season 6. Episode 1. The follow up to the movie's finale had to deliver. After Mulder rescued Scully from a UFO in the deep depths of the Antarctic Ice and said UFO whirred and hovered over them both up into the skies, I remember being psyched to see the s6 kick off. I was dismayed when then, despite all that happened, Scully was STILL a skeptic! Her happening to be 'passed out' as the UFO made a deafening buzz over her, and left a gigantic crater in the Ice behind them was a terrible excuse to delay proper character development. Carter was absolutely not able to fully forward character development – the Believer-Skeptic dynamic could only work for so long, before by season 6 it was boring, predictable and unbelievable.
Season 6 was also laced with toned down, light hearted comedic episodes that ruined any progress the Film made, and made the whole show feel and look like something else entirely. Season 7 could and should have corrected this back on track, but what happened? Even more wild tangents to OTT sci-fi, even more light hearted muck, resulting with "Fight Club'- the worst episode of the entire shows run. Dreadful. I admire season 8 in many places for attempting to return to the dark roots of before- Robert Patrick was superb. And the episode 'Via Negetiva" is up there with anything from the early years- a FANTASTIC episode. But, season 9 derailed things again with the mythology being so overblown- the entire "William' arc was a mistake. One of the all time best shows, that, because of network insistences and no clear endgame from Chris Carter did'nt know when to end.
The show was great as long as it made us wonder about that question. Do aliens exist or there is a government conspiracy behind it? As soon as it gave some answers it was forced to ask new questions and the lore became so complicated it made no sense
Apparently, I left early because some of the story bears in this video are completely new to me.
It's long enough, it ran out of ideas.
You should do a video about the UFO craze of the 1990s. Where shows like Sightings and Alien Autopsy Captured mainstream imagination. You really can't talk about the X-Files I'm not talk about the UFO craze.
I’ve used the phrase “Chris Carter gets tired of his toys too quickly” many times in the past. It’s like if Andy from Toy Story decided mid-play to throw half his toys to the side and just restart everything with ones he’s not sick of. Pretty much how Carter wrote the latter half of the series.
The comments either say they shkuld have stayed eposodic or that was the downfall inreresting
I actually forgot about Season 11 and I only now realize I did watch it. Yikes. Talk about forgettable.
I was living in a small town in BC where they filmed some of the scenes from the 2008 movie. We saw FBI vans around town, which was pretty funny. Never saw Gillian Anderson, dammit.
I gotta disagree that most of the stand-alones were bad; I personally thought 'The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat' was a frankly brilliant piece of meta-satire on par with the best of Douglas Adams! XD
Just more white people 🤷♂️ again
The X-Files should have ended permanently at Season 8, with The Lone Gunmen spin-off series being continued.
The show nobody wanted to do after season 7. The network ordered another season after another season. Season’s 8-11 are awful.
The mythology story was done at the mid stage of the sixth season. The two alien sides met and made peace and decided to piss off.
I watched it for a while after that, but it was just adding in things to keep treading water and none of them tied to it all.
I liked the second movie because it didn't bother with any of that, and focused on the two main characters in a relatively small environment and it worked.
That ALSO had the satisfying ending too. It was a suitable farewell to characters that the show had beat to death a LONG time ago.