No offense to your post, thanks for sharing…
But I’m just drained of nostalgia and enthusiasm. I grew up with the X-Files. I’ve seen every single episode of the original run at least three times. I have them all collected, including the movies and two damn spin-off series.
But after a decade of everything being remakes, revivals, ressurections, returns… It’s been a rowdy riot of rectal ripping retronostalgic ravaging. I couldn’t care less that there’s talks about more X-Files. If they actually manage to squeeze more out of this dried up sponge I’ll just ignore it.
To the modern media producers all I can say is go choke on your 90’s nostalgia.
Everything is a reboot, a remake or whatever spin-off they think will be good enough. There are a lot less original ideas and everything ends up being around a superhero, with a bullshit plot twist.
It’s been 30 years, do something new.
If it were a spiritual successor, focusing on monster of the week weirdness with great writing and minimal forced character drama? Sure I’ll give it a go.
If it’s just rolling out Mulder and Scully again to cash in on nostalgia? I won’t waste my time.
And if Chris Carter is involved the season is basically dead on arrival so I’ll be actively avoiding it.
Everything rides on how they deal with the fact that so much tinfoil hattery in the real world today is directly sourced from the '90s series. Mulder would 100% be a Q crackpot now.
