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XF3 YAY!!!
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@DavinOgodai:
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The X-Files is dead. I really no longer care about the characters of Mulder and Skully. I don't care about the conspiracies or cover ups or the ice cream man that kidnapped Mulder's sister (It would have so degenerated to that level). I just don't care. The show itself sucked what love I had for it, out of me (I wonder if this is how people who watch Lost will feel in a decade).
But! But, I would like to see Duchovny and Anderson guest star on Fringe. Not together mind you, but separately, and maybe playing each-other's X-Files character.
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Except that they killed Amanda Peet, that sort of sucked.
And Fringe is not all that X-filey. That's like saying Lost is like Robinson Crusoe.
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x files was best when they did their story arc stuff.black oil,aliens,super soldiers,etc.
x files never really finished their story arc so a new movie should continue on with new story.
what we really need is some of these suits in hollywood using their brains to come up with new original stuff.
i will in fact boycott your products and films if you keep on raping my past.
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On top of that, yes, there is definitely still need for a new movie. The story wasn't finished - they have discovered that the alien take-over is planned for 2012 and want to prevent it. I for one am dying to know how they'll manage that and I know there are lots of people out there who feel the same. If there really only was room for one more movie they should have made this next one instead of "I want to believe". Which I didn't even hate, by the way, only the fact that they didn't even mention said take-over and didn't seem to be planning how to fight it: continuity disaster! A real ending would be lovely.
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Of course, my judgement isn't to be trusted, since I thought X-Files 2 was a fine film whose major flaw was not having a story epic enough for a motion picture. The film itself was well done, though, and stands among the best episodes in my eyes.
08/22/09
Basically, the "Syndicate" were the guys who were originally supposed to find out about the aliens....but in the 1970's they decided it was impossible to resist, and officially "surrendered" to them.
The "Alien colonists" apparently evolved on Earth but left in ancient times....this got complicated....but apparently the "Black Oil" *is* the alien, at least in an early stage....what the aliens didn't even tell the Syndicate (but they found out in the movie) is that the aliens *gestate* inside of people, they don't just take them over....they use their bio-mass to grow the adult stage of the alien inside of them, which then bursts out and matures into the familar "Grey Alien" (it's not like Dark Skies where the Greys were slaves to the parasite)
Given that its a "sentient virus" it was theoretically possible to make a vaccine; both the US Syndicate and their Russian counterparts were working on a vaccine...albeit an untested, weak one, but all their hopes were on it; eventually the Russians made the vaccine first, but the US syndicate stole it too, and were eventually able to perfect the vaccine.
But in the meantime, since the 70's, the Syndicate wanted part of humanity to live on, even as slaves, so the aliens agreed to let them undertake Hybridization experiments, that would convert the family members of the Syndicate into human/alien hybrids (not through procreation, gene therapy on live-adults)
Mulder's sister was taken because of this; she became one of their experiments. It's unclear if she ever survived (a later season had a very bad episode where Mulder finds out more about what happened to her, she may have died, but he came to peace with it....with isn't an answer, because other bad guys spoke of her as "alive" and there's a legion of Samantha-clones)
But meanwhile, "out in space" there's a war going on between the Black Oil aliens and the "Faceless Rebels" - other aliens who mutilated themselves by sewing their orificies shut to keep the black oil out. It's not clear who's winning, but in the meantime, Faceless Rebels came to Earth and incinerated every Syndicate base they could find, wiping almost all of them out except for the Smoking Man.
Now the aliens have shifted gears, and are developing "super soldiers" who are nearly impossible to kill (they can survive being decapitated or regenerate from a single surviving vertebra)...the only thing that can kill them is certain kinds of magnetism.
Basically, there's a special kind of "Magnetite" that exists in certain mountains; the last time the aliens came, the Pueblo Indians ran to the hills where there was Magnetite, that's why their cities were built there ("the original Shadow Government")
Basically the US government's plan for surviving the aliens is that all of our HomeSec bases in the Virginia mountains are bunkers built near lodes of magnetite, and they're just going to hide in the hills with no real plan for fighting them.
With the Syndicate gone, the aliens have now shifted to just plain infiltration using their hybridized alien super-soldiers.
08/22/09
Now I don't need to bother watching the last 2 seasons. Thanks, mate!
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Agree 100%! Those stand alone episodes were the best - they could take on the iconic status like some of the original Twilight Zones - "To Serve Man" comes to mind.
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Chris Carter and Fox rushed it into production. They were so proud of themselves for 'beating' the strike that no one ever slammed on the brakes and went, "WAIT. This script needs a few more spins in the rewrite machine."
Fox will do it if Anderson and Duchovny sign up. It's low budget (XF2: IWTB came in at 30 million) and a built in audience.
08/22/09