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X-Files (and Everyone Else), Embrace Your SF Cred
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12/15/08
Long live Fringe
(and Lost, for that mater).
While its quite sensible to progress a charecter age wise...(imagine how much worse Indy4 would have been if they set it the same time as the others)...you will need more then that to start a new show.
The Xfiles did something great, and laid the way forward for many other shows. (just as others laid the way for the Xfiles).
But, at its end, the Xfiles stood as a leason as to how NOT to deal with plotarcs, (a particular warning for Lost), and it was always at its strongest with its individual storys.
Oh, and of course Xfiles is sci-fi.
It has fictional science in it.
Either that, or their saying its all real. Which I guess would suit the shows conspiracy/coverup feel even if it would make them deluded.
12/15/08
The X-Files was the original and best and there may be a lesson in season 8 and 9 in how not to deal with a mytharc ( which it arguably invented in terms of television drama/sci-fi, at least in name only) but no series since has learned from it's mistakes. Lost has completely missed the point and Fringe doesn't have an iota of the charm the X-Files did.
There's a point about delusion in here but it certainly isn't applicable to '' Them '', whomever '' they '' are... *cue X-Files theme*
12/15/08
The thing I like about Fringe is its atheistic approach, where Seasons 6 (an on from there) of the X-files was crammed full of religious bullshit that didn't belong in the show. Granted Mulder was sort of an atheist, but they really went to town on Scully and her religion ... and it was nothing more than a distraction. It really ruined the show for me. Maybe Fringe might go the same route, and if it does I will stop watching it. I'm tired of great Sci-Fi shows integrating the christian religion.
12/15/08
Fringe and it's '' atheistic approach ''is not unique; I'd argue it's the only way a show can survive these days and that it's secular approach is merely a cop-out.
What the hell is more sci-fi than religion?
12/14/08
Me, I love Duchovny - and I happen to think Fox is his weakest role. He's MUCH more fun to watch in Twin Peaks or Californication........ neither of which is "sci-fi"
(though Twin Peaks is as much sci-fi as the X-Files)
12/15/08
Fox Mulder is GOD. Blasphemer!
( That may or may not have been on my pencil case when I was 14)
12/15/08
Dennis/Denise Bryson will probably be Davids greatest role of all time.
12/14/08
I see a 50-year-old Mulder as a young Deep Throat. (Cue the Duchovny sex-addiction jokes...) He'd be the old, cynical guy in the shadows, made much wiser by his years of hitting brick walls built buy the government. Cynical and bitter. Similar, in some ways, to the Darrin McGavin character from one of the XF episodes of yore, except more active and less attached to his couch.
Unfortunately, as long as Carter is attached to any X-Files project, I ain't interested. He's a horrible storyteller.
12/15/08
Yeah, I have to agree with you there. He was MUCH better in the early days of the X-Files, but quickly became shit once he starting invoking all a fuck-ton of religious stuffs in Season 6 and on.
12/14/08
And I want to see 60 year old Mulder, provided he is still a porn fiend.
12/14/08
I'm glad Duchovny is game for the sixty-year-old Mulder role, cuz I'm gonna be the freaking Russell T Davies of the X-Files, guys. Just you wait.
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I really like Duchovny. Especially after last Sunday's fucked-up, depressing episode of Californication. We all grow as people in our careers as time goes on...and being who he is, he's had all of us watching him harder than Michael Jackson sometimes. He's more than alright in my book. One day people will look back and miss the fuck out of that guy.
12/14/08
I just want a fucking excellent, blow your mind XF3, that obliterates the memory of IWTB and I'll be happy.
But the way Fox is being run these days, that's never going to fucking happen, is it?
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Is the ceiling in his apartment entirely full of pencils?
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12/15/08
But that's also on Showtime, HBO's red headed cousin's next door neighbor.