The X-Files Might be Coming Back to TV

[Wilco86]

My favorite X-files episodes were the stand alone episodes and monster of the week episodes. I never cared much for the ongoing Mythology episodes involving the aliens. I might be in the minority on that one though.

Nope, same here. Stand alone episodes like nightmare-fuelled Folie à Deux are still my favorites and I watch them now and then. Of the "main story episodes" I remember liking Paper Clip, but otherwise not that many other...

PS: If someone is not familiar with the X-Files, I can predict that he/she should watch the original and not the remake when or if it comes out. (Before watching the original series, I mean.) It's whole different era from now when the original takes place - it's actually surprising how much tension it adds when someone has to find landline phone to call help instead of grabbing an iPhone...

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

My favorite X-files episodes were the stand alone episodes and monster of the week episodes. I never cared much for the ongoing Mythology episodes involving the aliens. I might be in the minority on that one though.

Nope, same here. Stand alone episodes like nightmare-fuelled Folie à Deux are still my favorites and I watch them now and then. Of the "main story episodes" I remember liking Paper Clip, but otherwise not that many other...

PS: If someone is not familiar with the X-Files, I can predict that he/she should watch the original and not the remake when or if it comes out. (Before watching the original series, I mean.) It's whole different era from now when the original takes place - it's actually surprising how much tension it adds when someone has to find landline phone to call help instead of grabbing an iPhone...

I find it surprising that the one episode you mentioned Folie à Deux, which happens to be one of my favorite creepy episodes. I also liked Arcadia a lot.

Anyway as you mentioned, X-Files thrived I think partially because of the decade it took place in. It was very 90s. I can't imagine it doing as well today.

 

[Wilco86]

I find it surprising that the one episode you mentioned Folie à Deux, which happens to be one of my favorite creepy episodes. I also liked Arcadia a lot.

Great minds think alike! =D

And Arcadia is a great episode. (There's a Finnish song that somewhat translates "My Clean Neighborhood Unit", and that constantly reminds me of that episode. Edit: Actually The Finnish Parliament is located in Arcadia's Hill, if translated.)

 

[Strazdas]

That is interesting. i loved the show and would love to see more of it, though as another poster pointed out, im not sure what plot they could continue. maybe something set AFTER 2012 colonization with reopening of X-files with different characters?

PS: "What does the Fox say?!"......CANCELLED!

i laughed way too much at this. probably because its so true. I once made a list of great shows that got canceled with the channels behind them. over half of the list was FOX.

DON'T F*** THIS UP!
DON'T F*** THIS UP!
DON'T F*** THIS UP!
DON'T F*** THIS UP!
DON'T F*** THIS UP!
DON'T F*** THIS UP!


I really really really really really really really really REALLY hope this won't suck.

One could say..... you want to believe....

yeah...

 

[MDSnowman]

Here's the problem. I look at the X-Files as an example. I point to it and say "This is what was considered good TV in the 90s." Since then the hour long television drama has advanced by miles. They're not going to be able to go back to the original formula and expect anyone to care. They're really going to need to step up their game.

 

[MDSnowman]

Sorry double post

 

[DocZombie]

I'd love to see the old gang back together again, but think the format of the show would have to be so different from the "original" series that it'd probably only be regarded as a knock-off Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Also I've been rewatching Fringe on Netflix of late and was amused to hear reference to the "old X designation" when Agent Broyles was appearing before some committee or other - fan service nod or a platform for a shared universe cross-over where Mulder and Scully are called in during the early days of the Observer occupation...

Nope, sorry - can't let that get out there...

 

[hermes]

Most of my memories of X-Files comes from the latest seasons. The ones where Duchovny got replaced by the T-1000, Scully got pregnant, and she got the ability to see Mulder's ghost, for some reason...

Needless to say, those are probably not the best memories of the show. I guess a new season can be good, but they have to fix a lot to get my interest back...

 

[Lagslayer]

One could say..... you want to believe....

yeah...

I think I like you.

 

[Big_Boss_Mantis]

My favorite X-files episodes were the stand alone episodes and monster of the week episodes. I never cared much for the ongoing Mythology episodes involving the aliens. I might be in the minority on that one though.

Include me in this minority.

The whole alien colonization mythos started off strong, then it got dumber and dumber to the point of ludicrous.

Still, the stand alone episodes like Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, Humbug, Soft Light, El mondo gira, Home, EBE, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, Beyond the Sea, Pusher, Ice, Young at heart, Bad Blood, they seem to not have aged at all and are still some of the greatest things ever aired on TV, IMHO.

I was a big fan of The X-Files back in the day and I absolutely adore seasons I to IV, but season five onwards it started dipping in quality so hard that I just stopped watching to preserve the memories of the golden days.

 

[Big_Boss_Mantis]

My favorite X-files episodes were the stand alone episodes and monster of the week episodes. I never cared much for the ongoing Mythology episodes involving the aliens. I might be in the minority on that one though.

Nope, same here. Stand alone episodes like nightmare-fuelled Folie à Deux are still my favorites and I watch them now and then. Of the "main story episodes" I remember liking Paper Clip, but otherwise not that many other...

PS: If someone is not familiar with the X-Files, I can predict that he/she should watch the original and not the remake when or if it comes out. (Before watching the original series, I mean.) It's whole different era from now when the original takes place - it's actually surprising how much tension it adds when someone has to find landline phone to call help instead of grabbing an iPhone...

I find it surprising that the one episode you mentioned Folie à Deux, which happens to be one of my favorite creepy episodes. I also liked Arcadia a lot.

Anyway as you mentioned, X-Files thrived I think partially because of the decade it took place in. It was very 90s. I can't imagine it doing as well today.

Damn, I missed Folie a Deux. There's so many great episodes.
The psychological horror in Folie a Deux is just so nightmare inducing. As Cobain wrote "just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you".
Definetely one of the series all time highs.

Arcadia is just "ok" in my book. Seemed to be trying too hard to be funny, unlike Clyde Bruckman's final repose or Humbug.