The X-Files : Season X (Spoilers!)
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Uh-oh.
"X-Files Season 11 May Be In Jeopardy"
I hope that the finality of Anderson's quote is just hyperbole and they're able to work something out. I really want an eleventh season of the series.
"X-Files Season 11 May Be In Jeopardy"
I hope that the finality of Anderson's quote is just hyperbole and they're able to work something out. I really want an eleventh season of the series.
I've never been one to piss on someone else's parade (given here there were fans of Season X) but I'm somewhat glad if this bears out as the beginning of the end - again.
Every episode of the season written by Carter was an embarrassment and I genuinely struggle to understand how a man with such clear talent has had it evaporate so fully. With him back on as showrunner, any hope of seeing a return to quality for S XI was negligible to nil. Only the Morgan's brought any substantive content to the previous season and even theirs were diluted from the quality they have produced before.
Both Duchovny and Anderson deserved a hell of a lot better than they were given over those 6 episodes and I'm far more interested in seeing Anderson's work on American Gods and Duchovny try something else. In fact I was holding out hope that he would get an expanded role in the Twin Peaks revival, but so far it appears he's only in for a single episode.
Carter began worrying me as a writer when he turned in that terrible pilot The After for Amazon, which is one of the very worst SF pilots I have subjected myself to in recent memory. I hoped it was a blip, but his plotting and character work on My Struggle I & II were just a trite. The less I think about Babylon the better.
I'd love to see a return to the days when he was punching out fun stuff like Tempus Fugit/Max along side Lamentation and Pilot of Millennium, but the likes of that hasn't been seen in 15+ years and, frankly, holding out hope is pointless at this moment.
I wish Chris Carter all the luck in getting a new project off the ground, but please, let the X-Files lie. It's already in the shallow grave you left it in back in 2002. No need to scratch at the soil looking for the bones of what is already decayed.
Hugo - Uber Fan, back in the day
Every episode of the season written by Carter was an embarrassment and I genuinely struggle to understand how a man with such clear talent has had it evaporate so fully. With him back on as showrunner, any hope of seeing a return to quality for S XI was negligible to nil. Only the Morgan's brought any substantive content to the previous season and even theirs were diluted from the quality they have produced before.
Both Duchovny and Anderson deserved a hell of a lot better than they were given over those 6 episodes and I'm far more interested in seeing Anderson's work on American Gods and Duchovny try something else. In fact I was holding out hope that he would get an expanded role in the Twin Peaks revival, but so far it appears he's only in for a single episode.
Carter began worrying me as a writer when he turned in that terrible pilot The After for Amazon, which is one of the very worst SF pilots I have subjected myself to in recent memory. I hoped it was a blip, but his plotting and character work on My Struggle I & II were just a trite. The less I think about Babylon the better.
I'd love to see a return to the days when he was punching out fun stuff like Tempus Fugit/Max along side Lamentation and Pilot of Millennium, but the likes of that hasn't been seen in 15+ years and, frankly, holding out hope is pointless at this moment.
I wish Chris Carter all the luck in getting a new project off the ground, but please, let the X-Files lie. It's already in the shallow grave you left it in back in 2002. No need to scratch at the soil looking for the bones of what is already decayed.
Hugo - Uber Fan, back in the day
Word. Not really interested in American Gods for what it's worth, but I wish her luck in it and I hope that DD can try other stuff as well.
As much as I'd love to see M & S get off the bridge, I sure as heck don't want to see anymore of CC's writing. The Morgans and Wong at least put in some effort, but CC... I'm at a loss for words for. You put it very well.
At least IWTB had something, but when CC is by himself (at least in part), it all gets shot to heck. And for what it's worth, I used to like his writing, so it's sad to see it fall apart like it has.
As much as I'd love to see M & S get off the bridge, I sure as heck don't want to see anymore of CC's writing. The Morgans and Wong at least put in some effort, but CC... I'm at a loss for words for. You put it very well.
At least IWTB had something, but when CC is by himself (at least in part), it all gets shot to heck. And for what it's worth, I used to like his writing, so it's sad to see it fall apart like it has.
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If you guys are interested in Duchovny he was pretty good in Aaquarius. I'd recommend Californication too, but that one's definitely not for everyone.
The main reason I'd want to see a Season XI would be to see if they would stick with the retcon of the Mythology we got in Season X, or if there was more going on there. I really liked the Mythology stuff in the original series, and what they did to it last season really annoyed me.
The main reason I'd want to see a Season XI would be to see if they would stick with the retcon of the Mythology we got in Season X, or if there was more going on there. I really liked the Mythology stuff in the original series, and what they did to it last season really annoyed me.
Exactly. I wanted to throw something at my tv after it.
It didn't fit for Scully to not touch Mulder when he was ill, and vice versa. It felt so damn clinical that I could scream. 
And that's not including the bad science and what not.I'm in the middle there on that. I hope it does, but yet I want the characters to get some dignity. But with CC in charge, I doubt that'll happen.
@Hugo Rune Agreed about Babylon. The episode was a bad joke and the ending was just bad. Bad dialogue, the interactions felt forced, saccharine and fake. And the song felt like it was just put in there to try to appease the shippers. It didn't appease me, it just made me more upset. At least with Founder's Mutation, the writing was good. The chemistry may have been off there, but at least James Wong tried to do something meaningful.
The X-Files has always been like that, or at least it started off that way. Just working agents on the job.
Yeah, a lot of the seasons seemed to end with "We're shutting down the X-files-forever!" only for them to come back early in the next season (or in the movies).
Didn't Skinner and Kersh help Mulder escape from federal custody in the original series finale "The Truth?" Maybe Kersh fell on his sword for that, took the lion's share of the blame, and lost his job as a result (hence, no mention of him in Season 10), but Skinner was still implicated by his former association with both Mulder and Kersh. The higher-ups at the Bureau could have unofficially blocked him from ever being promoted, like Worf was after choosing to save Jadzia's life in that one episode of DS9.
Maybe Skinner didn't let them promote him. Or transfer him. Or do anything that would take him from behind the desk in his office, because while he's there, he can make a difference.
Yep. But in some ways though, I feel similarly to how @bigdaddy feels on it though. Sure you can act like it's normal, but when the writing is subpar it kind of undermines it.
That could very well be the case.
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