X-Files Officially Returning for 6-episode Season 10

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Man, best news. My old VHS tapes are still around somewhere.

I only watched through season 5 then went off to college. Netflix has been great getting back into some older episodes over the past few years.

And Gillian did and still does look great, SD or not.
 
That's crazy talk. The show has aged extremely well.



Well there you go, he mentions William. They have to wrap him into the story somehow.

Thank you for this. I really want some mythology answers.
I really need to rewatch season 8 (or all of it, really). Season 8 was my favorite but I am damned if I can remember why Scullys baby was important.
 
Do you guys think it'll follow the comics at all? Like did you buy these for no reason ?

It does not follow the season 10 comics at all from what I read.

I hope we get a proper Blu-Ray release of the series since Fox is sitting on the HD transfers:

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Screenshot from episode one of season one.
 
I expect this to be one of two things:

1. A six episode "finale" to series, wrapping up the invasion storyline and sending the characters off on the right (no boat waving).

2. A test run by Fox. We'll get some MotW episodes and maybe a mythology tease and if it does well we'll get a full season the next year.

Either way I'm happy.
I'd be surprised if it didn't set up 2 new younger agents who would lead a new series if these 6 eps did will. I don't think Anderson and Duchovny would do more full seasons but I'm sure they'd occasionally pop in the new series every now and again as special guests...
 
Do you guys think it'll follow the comics at all?

No.

From a liveblog of a Comic-Con panel a couple years ago:

They start talking about the ongoing X-FIles comic book, though Carter says that very little of that -- even though it's called Season 10 -- fits into X-Files canon. He says they exist as comic-book properties. And wouldn't fit into any future stories.


http://www.cinemablend.com/television/X-Files-20th-Anniversary-Panel-Comic-Con-Live-Blog-57601.html
 
Thank you for this. I really want some mythology answers.
I really need to rewatch season 8 (or all of it, really). Season 8 was my favorite but I am damned if I can remember why Scullys baby was important.

Man, I watched the shit out of that show and even I'm confused by what the truth is behind William. Different factions in the show seemed to believe different things. All I know is that
he has telekenetic powers and can interact with alien technology, which I think leads to the thought that he's part alien. I think one of the last William episodes involves Spender injecting him with some shit that's supposed to have taken his powers away, but there was never any real confirmation on that, so fuck Spender
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Some juicy tibits:

The smoking man has been confirmed to be back. The show will be using the same studio as the original and will be shot in Vancouver. You can now do your happy dance!

https://twitter.com/XFilesNews/status/581266638663733248/photo/1

The location I'm cool with. The other bit of news, I don't think I care for that too much. I was happy with the way he went out in the series.
 
Okay who has the monkey paw now? You don't need the other two wishes ><

I would love for this to be good but I will keep my hopes low.
 
It does not follow the season 10 comics at all from what I read.

I hope we get a proper Blu-Ray release of the series since Fox is sitting on the HD transfers:

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Screenshot from episode one of season one.

X-Files looks amazing in its uncropped 35mm format:

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I really have to question why they haven't put these on Blu-Ray yet.
 
^Damn, I'm rewatching it on DVD right now, and it's actually heartbreaking not being able to watch the show like that.
 
Skinner!

Mitch Pileggi Confirms a Return to The X-Files
Unless Chris Carter pulls a David Lynch strop and walks away this is gearing up to be an amazing revival. Skinner was one of the best characters because he teetered so finely between loyalty and bureaucracy.

Now get the Lone Gunmen back and I'll be in heaven.
 
I don't understand. I remember when X-Files ended on TV the last episode literally
Was the beginning of the Alien invasion, and Mulder and Scully are talking in the desert, and then it is all over. The aliens are coming.

Is there something I missed?
 
I don't understand. I remember when X-Files ended on TV the last episode literally
Was the beginning of the Alien invasion, and Mulder and Scully are talking in the desert, and then it is all over. The aliens are coming.

Is there something I missed?
Yes, there is something you missed.
The aliens weren't coming then. They were coming in 2012 with the whole Mayan calendar thing. Their discussion was about how after all they've done, nothing has changed and the date for invasion hasn't moved. But the date at the time was still far away. Then they never got to make a movie in 2012, so it's now kinda awkward.
 
Didn't CSM
get taken out action hero style in a hail of helicopter mounted machine gun/missile fire?
its the only thing i remember from the last episodes when I saw them on original airing
 
I guess you can look at it like 6 episodes is the length of two 2 hour movies. So instead of getting one movie were getting 6 episodes
 
Unless Chris Carter pulls a David Lynch strop and walks away this is gearing up to be an amazing revival. Skinner was one of the best characters because he teetered so finely between loyalty and bureaucracy.

Now get the Lone Gunmen back and I'll be in heaven.

I loved Skinner. He had some good episodes, especially the one where he bangs the ghost. As silly as that sounds, I think that's one of the more underrated eps of the series, really showed the guy's humanity behind the buttoned up stern exterior he projected for most of its run. Also love the cold cock he gives Krycek when Mulder drags him to the apartment. Such a badass. Glad to hear he's back.

edit: Jesus I remembered that episode wrong lol. Its been awhile!
 
Cigarette Smoking Man/Spender got blown into pieces. But the X-Files have had plenty of creatures that have defied death. Of course the simplest way to bring him back is through cloning since that was a long-established technology the Aliens were using along with the Syndicate. More far-fetched means would be the tech that the Super Soldiers are made out of who can't be killed unless exposed to a particular element.

I'm kinda torn between both being pumped and disappointed that he's back. His fate was fitting in that he lost all his power, became physically crippled and ended up dying along in a rock.

Skinner being back is awesome. He was a nice sight to see in the Second film albeit brief his time was. Still wondering how they'll manage to reconcile all these things for only a 6 episode season. They really should have made it 12 eps.
 
Cigarette Smoking Man/Spender got blown into pieces. But the X-Files have had plenty of creatures that have defied death. Of course the simplest way to bring him back is through cloning since that was a long-established technology the Aliens were using along with the Syndicate.

I'm kinda torn between both being pumped and disappointed that he's back. His fate was fitting in that he lost all his power, became physically crippled and ended up dying along in a rock.

Yeah, he could have been a clone hybrid or something that got blown up. They've established that just about anything weird can happen in the show, so it's not really a stretch.
 
I went to high school in a suburb of Seattle and during an assembly in the gym one day I looked across to the other side of the bleachers and my eyes went wide. I leaned over and asked my friend, "Is that William B Davis?" He looked over and started laughing. Dude was the spitting image of Smoking Man. Wouldn't have surprised me either if it was, pretty sure he lived in Vancouver BC and even ran an acting school there. Why he'd be attending a random assembly at our school however was lost on me. Should have stalked the dude afterwards and asked for an autograph :/
 
Yeah, he could have been a clone hybrid or something that got blown up. They've established that just about anything weird can happen in the show, so it's not really a stretch.

See I disagree here. When you continually bait and switch the death or removal of characters in a show you start to stretch the audiences faith if not the shows internal logic.

Showing the main cast escaping peril = OK. Having
Fox coming back dead after being abducted by Aliens then miraculously having survive through symbiosis with an Alien virus that was turning him into an Alien clone which was stopped with anti-virals = Errrrm. Having CSM dying of cancer immobile only to get thrown down the stairs implying him surely dead only to have him return in the finale to get blown up by rockets only to announce his actor (if not his character) will be returning for this = not OK.

It's continual 'ha!' moments that lost me as much as the focus on the TOTAL GLOBAL SATURATION conspiracy elements towards the end. The fun of the X-Files for me was Mulder and Scully slumming it in the basis having banter and solving odd things happening. That probably will still happen but I feel it will be buried under the weight of other baggage it's accumulated.
 
Im trying to get through all seasons at the moment (in season 3 right now) but where do the movies fit in? When should I watch them?

Ps : In S03E13 (about satanist high school girls) Skully is being a bitch to Mulder and she'd better cut that shit out.
 
Im trying to get through all seasons at the moment (in season 3 right now) but where do the movies fit in? When should I watch them?

Ps : In S03E13 (about satanist high school girls) Skully is being a bitch to Mulder and she'd better cut that shit out.

First movie is set after season 5 while the second movie was released after the series finished.

Enjoy the ride. Still a few very good seasons ahead of you.
 
First movie is set after season 5 while the second movie was released after the series finished.

Enjoy the ride. Still a few very good seasons ahead of you.

Thank you :)

I used to watch them when I was young but the episodes are blurs to me, hence me watching (and enjoying) them right now.

Do the episodes hold up story wise or does it go downhill somewhere?
 
Thank you :)

I used to watch them when I was young but the episodes are blurs to me, hence me watching (and enjoying) them right now.

Do the episodes hold up story wise or does it go downhill somewhere?

The monster of the week episodes hold up quite well, but the conspiracy stuff is a bit bloated by the end. When it aired I loved the conspiracy episodes, but in hindsight the payoff is not what I hoped it would be. It's a slow decline though, and still entertaining, but they kind of "lost it" by the end. And the finale is kind of disappointing...
 
An actress who I am going to work with in a web series I am creating is good friends with William B. Davis. She went to his acting school and they keep in touch regularly. I asked if there's anyway she could get him in my show. Of course I knew there wasn't. :p
 
I thought the show lost quite a bit by moving the production to California. I thought that pacific northwest atmosphere added a lot to the eerie, dark quality of the first half.

Then, of course, the mytharc plotline started becoming absolutely bonkers.
 
Wait, they had to get a special permission from Fox to do cold opens? Isn't that format more common than ever on television? Justified, Better Call Saul, Hannibal... basically every show I watch seems to use the cold open each episode.
 
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