bitbydeath
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You are in for a treat.
Season three is one of my favourite seasons.
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X-Files Reboot
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Season three is one of my favourite seasons.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Do I need to watch Angel in tandem with Buffy?
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Not really. They do some crossover but I wouldn't say it's required. Angel is worth watching too though. Like Buffy, season one is probably the weakest.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
My favorite line; Creatively Bankrupt!
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
I want to reiterate what
bitbydeath
posted.You can watch both individually and you wouldn't miss much, but it's best watched Buffy First then Angel, IMHO!
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Trunx81
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You should. Later Angel episodes are amazing. More comedy than horror and a certain pale vampire steals the show in season 5. That's also the season with one of the cruelest gut punches ever.
On topic:
Everything X-Files related tanked after the first movie. Lone Gunmen. Millenium. They would need a completly new spin on the show, and I don't mean "now everyone is just black".
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
As a fellow life long fan (3 rewatches) how could you want this to fail? Ryan Coogler is a fucking catch, Sinners was one of the best films in a long time and the dude is writing/directing the pilot ffs, the best thing they've done is bounce Chris Carter down to non writing executive producer as ther guy cant fucking hack it anymore with those last seasons of Xfiles being utterly abysmal, he's still stuck in that 90's way of thinking. A new cast means we have a chance of revisiting Mulder & Scully if this thing kicks off AND above all else we get a motherfucking FBI show about Aliens/Supernatural shit hopefully shot from a modern realistic perspective and with modern effects!, i cant fucking wait to be honest.
‘The X-Files’ Reboot Casts Danielle Deadwyler to Star, Ryan Coogler to Direct
Hulu has officially greenlit a pilot to revive the classic UFO series, with the 'Sinners' filmmaker writing and directing.www.hollywoodreporter.com
This is gonna to be dead on arrival
As a life long X-Files fan, I hope this bombs hard
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
eh? its two new agents.. Agent Token & Agent BLM not the originals
They blackwashed my queen. Ryan Coogler you stupid motherfucker. You one trick pony.
John Bilbo
Gold Member
Oh it's the Sinners guy. Sinners was so bad.
Truth is out there in the graveyard six feet under the soil rest in peace.
Putonahappyface
Gold Member
Fun Fact: People fucking HATED each other on that set. This is one where the only chance of it existing is a full reboot.I wouldn't mind if they brought back Fringe though
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Really?? It's pretty much universally loved amongst anyone I've spoken to
newtypepilot
Member
so they are gonna make mulder a weak beta male that is always wrong while the new scully will be completely obnoxious who is always right and without any flaws because she's STUNNING AND BRAVE....
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Dayam youse are all jaded AF probably hate the new Star Trek Academy and all
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
X-Files was awesome but yeah that whole UFO / alien arc was a mess. It never made sense and nothing ever came of it or was resolved.
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MrCunningham
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The problem is that the UFO/ alien story arc will never have a satisfactory conclusion, because the X-Files was always basing its 'mythology' on real world events. There is no way to have a satisfactory conclusion as long as the alien/ UFO narrative continues in real life.
It is funny though how the 'reboot' seasons 10 and 11 tried to incorporate many current conspiracies and even insert an Alex Jones like character. When Mulder finally got to see the triangle UFO (The TR3B as it is refereed to) in season 10 (2016) that first made its debut in season 1 back in 1993.
The scientist explaining how it worked literally used Bob Lazar's alleged claim that these crafts run on Element 115. The writers are basically paraphrasing Bob's own first hand accounts.
Bob Lazar first talked about Element 115 when He 'blew the lid' off of Area S4 with George Napp back in 1989. Lazar's claims were further amplified with his later appearance on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM back in 1992. Lazars more current Joe Rogan podcast interview really made this information widespread. Which is Joe Rogan's most watched video on his youtube channel with 65 million plus views.
The Alien story thread just could never come to any proper conclusion, and would step over itself from previous seasons.
The Monster of the Week Episodes were more like episodic Weekly World News stories, Tabloid fodder and just creative writing from the writing pool. Those could easily be written off as one-off plots with no actual conclusions. The real FBI X-Files were the 'uneXplained' category that never had any real follow ups.
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negator2vc
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The best X-Files episodes where monster of the week. The main episodes were meh at best.
But that was back then where tv series had 20+ episodes per season.
Current tv series have at best ~10 episodes, so little chance for those excellent monster of the week episodes.
But that was back then where tv series had 20+ episodes per season.
Current tv series have at best ~10 episodes, so little chance for those excellent monster of the week episodes.
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Unknown Soldier
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Hollywood's unending quest to find every single thing we might have liked when we were younger and destroy it will only end when there is literally nothing left to destroy?
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
They had a chance to call it "they/them files". Disappointed.
chromhound
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Giallo Corsa
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I don't get it, the main story was wonderful man - The cigarette smoking man, the Alien conspiracy and revelations, the episode with the hundred Alien bodies inside the train wagon, the Antarctica ones with the hybrids (or was that in one of the movies?) , the sense of dread was real when it came to the main story.
Sure, there were also some great standalone episodes like "Home" (damn man) but again, I don't think the show ever suffered for having a mediocre main plot.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
the conspiracy ones were what made the show imo as it offered a continuing evolving storyline to follow with monster fillers, the first 5 seasons capped with the excellent 1st movie and then the 6th season are peak Xfiles
Dr_Ifto
Member
I have been thinking about X-Files recently and thought it would work as a season arc type show and not episodic. A major issue per season. Kind of like Stranger Things, with each season being a different thing but tying into an over arching issue that culminates after 5-7 seasons.
DeepEnigma
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negator2vc
Member
For me the whole arc(s) lacked direction especially after the destruction of the cyndicate.
Don't get me wrong Cigarette Smoking Man was an excellent villain but the rest of them for me were meh (even the alien villains).
In fact some of the villains of the monster of the week episodes were for me far better and far more terrifying.
I especially loved some of the "part 2" episodes in later seasons that concluded some of the monster of the week stories of the early seasons.
hououinkyouma00
Member
I agree with this 100%. Part of the allure of X-Files is the 90s and early 2000s setting. Part of that is the "simpler times" allow for everything to be more believable for lack of better words.
Certain shows just don't work in modern settings IMO. Like imaging something like The Sopranos in modern times sounds abhorrent. Same with something like Sex and the City. These shows have a time and a place.
Also X-Files LITERALLY IS David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
I know people probably enjoy current Law and Order SVU but I just can't. SVU to me is all about that late 90s-early 2000s NYC vibe and that combined with the loss of Stabler killed any interest in the show past S11 as I already started to lose interest due to the vibe.
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Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
When Stabler was gone, that was pretty much it for me too.
X-Files I love for the UFO arc. I found it more interesting than the Monster of the Week episodes.
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
Way overrated show. The only good actor was the old man. The rest were grating to say the very least. It's also one of those shows where it's enough to only watch the first season. I really wanted to love it as I'm a sucker for all things scifi, but it never managed to lift off the ground.
Another redhead on the sacrificial altar......
They blackwashed my queen. Ryan Coogler you stupid motherfucker. You one trick pony.
Fundamentally I don't think x-files works today because TRUST in the FBI, and the US gov in general, as any kind of competent organization is GONE GONE GONE. The notion that the gov could hide all this fancy alien shit and smoke any whistleblowers and what not is downright laughable given the colossal fuck-ups we've seen in recent decades.
If anything, the new x-files should be about a team of agents that HIDES alien shit from the country and has to constantly cover the tracks of obvious stuff via increasingly absurd means. Basically a low tech form of "Men in Black".
Angry_Megalodon
Member
X-Files only makes sense in a pre-internet culture. This is an awful idea, again proving how dead Hollywood is. It's mind-blowing that in the last 10-15 years they haven't created anything remotely impactful for future generations, despite having the best tech and tons of money. Talent is irreplaceable and right now the entertainment industry is severly lacking that.
My understanding with the new agents was to attempt a passing of the torch. But the rebooted seasons didn't do well so the continuing series wasn't green lit.
Season 11 did bring one of my all time favorite episodes "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" aka Remember to Tip Your Sushi Bot.
StueyDuck
Member
Fringe, warehouse 13 and Eureka...I wouldn't mind if they brought back Fringe though
Bring em all back, make it a shared universe or whatever gets gen Z excited.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
My favorite line; Creatively Bankrupt!
I want to reiterate what
You can watch both individually and you wouldn't miss much, but it's best watched Buffy First then Angel, IMHO!
Really is, when it comes to Hollywood, most of the time haven't been excited for a lot of the new movies coming out. It's why I love horror films, so far when it comes to modern Hollywood, I find that horror films tend to be more fresh when it comes to giving me a new experience watching a movie. They are usually one off too
There's so many reboots, remakes and yes superhero films and shows that it just gets eye rolling at times. Not to mention lot of these companies trying to milk anime to death with these live action adaptations
Not surprised, I remember people talking about how much the actors playing those main two characters on that Castle show hating each other in real life. I'm not surrpised since I do think it's more common than Hollywood would want to admit
That's the thing, I love the main storyline. I think due to the popularity of the show, if they ever wanted to finish the storyline, they are able to now since the popularity of the show would justify spending a lot on a season or two finishing the storyline. It would be cool if both actors from the OG Show returned and this time there's a full scale alien invasion
I'm aware of that but I find it interesting that even with a lot of time passing, they still can't find anyone who can replace the actors playing Mulder and Scully. Not only the characters themselves but each one of the new agents introduced aren't memorable at all in looks too. Whenever I saw Mulder and Scully on a magazine cover, I knew instantly who they were. There's just a distinctive look to them that can't be replicated in a new show
That's another thing, I might have been disappointed in them not really delving into the main storyline in those two new seasons we got, but the standalones episodes we got were great
Mulder taking mushrooms and than going on a trip where he ends up dancing at a country bar. Had me dying on the floor
Skinner past as a Vietnam soldier was one of my favorite episodes. I was teary eyed at the end where Skinner talks about his past to Mulder and Scully. He's one of my favorite characters in the show
I'm still salty they killed off The Lone Gunmen. I wasn't a fan of the show but I was a huge fan of Milliennium and Harsh Realms
I love all the seasons including Seasons 7 to 11. But I do agree that Season 1 to 6 and the first movie are the best when it comes to the show in regards to the pacing and plot
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Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Really is, when it comes to Hollywood, most of the time haven't been excited for a lot of the new movies coming out. It's why I love horror films, so far when it comes to modern Hollywood, I find that horror films tend to be more fresh when it comes to giving me a new experience watching a movie. They are usually one off too
There's so many reboots, remakes and yes superhero films and shows that it just gets eye rolling at times. Not to mention lot of these companies trying to milk anime to death with these live action adaptations
Not surprised, I remember people talking about how much the actors playing those main two characters on that Castle show hating each other in real life. I'm not surrpised since I do think it's more common than Hollywood would want to admit
That's the thing, I love the main storyline. I think due to the popularity of the show, if they ever wanted to finish the storyline, they are able to now since the popularity of the show would justify spending a lot on a season or two finishing the storyline. It would be cool if both actors from the OG Show returned and this time there's a full scale alien invasion
I'm aware of that but I find it interesting that even with a lot of time passing, they still can't find anyone who can replace the actors playing Mulder and Scully. Not only the characters themselves but each one of the new agents introduced aren't memorable at all in looks too. Whenever I saw Mulder and Scully on a magazine cover, I knew instantly who they were. There's just a distinctive look to them that can't be replicated in a new show
That's another thing, I might have been disappointed in them not really delving into the main storyline in those two new seasons we got, but the standalones episodes we got were great
Mulder taking mushrooms and than going on a trip where he ends up dancing at a country bar. Had me dying on the floor
Skinner past as a Vietnam soldier was one of my favorite episodes. I was teary eyed at the end where Skinner talks about his past to Mulder and Scully. He's one of my favorite characters in the show
I'm still salty they killed off The Lone Gunmen. I wasn't a fan of the show but I was a huge fan of Milliennium and Harsh Realms
I love all the seasons including Seasons 7 to 11. But I do agree that Season 1 to 6 and the first movie are the best when it comes to the show in regards to the pacing and plot
I actually agree with a lot of what you said.