# X-files coming back next season? \[Yes!\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646 "2015-03-22T02:11:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/21 "2015-03-25T02:51:27Z")
I’m surprised they convinced the actors to return. They got spoiled making the movies. I’ll give it a chance and watch a couple episodes. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/22 "2015-03-25T03:01:53Z")
Edited title at OP’s request. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/23 "2015-03-25T03:33:25Z")
Retcons are all the rage these days, so I don’t see why they couldn’t just pretend that nothing after Season 7 actually happened. It was all a dream! A very poorly plotted dream! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/24 "2015-03-25T03:38:04Z")
So this will be a miniseries? Like they did with Torchwood? They had two miniseries runs of it after it got canceled. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/25 "2015-03-25T06:59:27Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m surprised they convinced the actors to return. They got spoiled making the movies. Spoiled how? They’ve both continued working in television. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/26 "2015-03-25T08:12:05Z")
\ Typically actors think making movies is more glamorous than tv. Actors that start in tv and transition to movies don’t want to go back. I guess David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson need the work and that’s a good thing for fans of the show. Sure wish they’d bring back Star Trek Deep Space Nine for a mini series. That would be the coolest thing ever. But, the cast is bigger. They’d at least need Sisko,Kira, Miles O’Brien, and Odo. Four actors to make it happen. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/27 "2015-03-25T08:20:55Z")
I really hope X Files gets back to its roots. Do episodes like they did seasons 1 thru 3. Investigating paranormal stuff. I quit watching after season 5 because all the conspiracy stuff just got too silly. Mulder chasing after his missing sister episode after episode. I got sick of it. I’ll watch a couple episodes too see which direction they’re taking the show. If they just continue some conspiracy where it left off then it won’t make any sense to me. I don’t remember all those back story details this many years later. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/28 "2015-03-25T09:11:53Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Spoiled how? They’ve both continued working in television. Anderson’s also continued to work steadily in film. I’m in two minds - I like both actors, but hate the way the alien plot ended up going (I loved the _beginning_, with Mr X and all that), and this is going to have to be about wrapping that up. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/29 "2015-03-25T15:16:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > \ Typically actors think making movies is more glamorous than tv. Actors that start in tv and transition to movies don’t want to go back. Right, but Duchovny and Anderson have been working in television pretty regularly. Neither one of them abandoned TV. I don’t see how you reached your conclusion that the movies spoiled them. > [@](#): > > I guess David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson need the work and that’s a good thing for fans of the show. They’re both getting plenty of work. They don’t **need** to do _X-Files_ again. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/30 "2015-03-25T15:24:26Z")
Here’s an idea: Make _X-Files_ a season of _American Horror Story_. Use the regular AHS cast, along with David and Gillian, and let the AHS writers and producers have free reign. I’d watch the hell out of that. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/31 "2015-03-25T15:27:02Z")
I hope it throws out all the “Mythology” and does six stand alone episodes. The Monster of the Week episodes were always the best and aged the best. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/32 "2015-03-25T16:41:15Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > It would be a slap in the face if they didn’t at least rap up some of the loose ends; > > Their child. > The aliens. > The end of the world. A slap in the face, maybe, but if they want to entice me to watch, these are exactly the elements they’ll forget ever happened. And I say that as someone who is an X-Files fan. I have all the episodes on DVD and have watched through it all at least three times. Scully’s baby is the single worst plot arc in all of X-Files. The alien conspiracy and end of the world are not entirely bad, but they become so ridiculously convoluted by the end that I need to pull up Wikipedia to remind myself what the plot is sometimes. By the time you have an alien faction working with a human faction that’s only pretending to work with another alien faction… and then you realize that there are multiple factions pretending to work with or against other multiple factions… and then they call in freaking alien bounty hunters… to kill the psychics! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/33 "2015-03-25T19:31:52Z")
I’ll definitely watch. Loved the show, especially the first few years. Didn’t care much for either movie. Here’s a Chris Carter interview: [AOL - Finance News & Latest Business Headlines - AOL.com](http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2015/03/25/producer-chris-carter-fox-originally-rejected-the-x-files/?SiteID=cbaolcompromotion33&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D632906) > [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > It would be a slap in the face if they didn’t at least rap up some of the loose ends… Please, God - don’t have Mulder and Scully rapping. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/34 "2015-03-25T19:48:21Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Here’s an idea: Make _X-Files_ a season of _American Horror Story_. Use the regular AHS cast, along with David and Gillian, and let the AHS writers and producers have free reign. > > I’d watch the hell out of that. Oooooooooooooo…why must you say such awesome things because you know we will never get them. You deserve a kick! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/35 "2015-03-25T21:30:15Z")
They’d have to ignore the mytharc, because by the original conspiracy, the aliens invaded for reals about 1997 and infected everyone in the world with the Black Oil, and now there are no humans or earthly civilization left at all. The earth is now, in 2015, an alien world, populated by whatever the original aliens that Deep Throat and Mulder Sr and CSM and WMM met in 1947. There’s no reason they would have stopped their invasion plans. We had nothing to stop them, or even slow them down, other than deceit. They should have made the mytharc this way: the aliens planned to invade, the Syndicate knew they couldn’t stop them, so they pretended to be collaborators. But they were secretly working on a plan. And that plan was the X-files. The whole reason for the XF department was to find supernatural or superscience ways to defeat the invaders. The Syndicate hopes that, before the delayed invasion deadline, something would be found that would work. Maybe an army of Tony Shaloubs that can kill with their shadows. That would be quite the weapon! And the interesting thing about this version - CSM is the good guy! He wasn’t a collaborator, he was saving humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/36 "2015-03-26T00:56:47Z")
Not a bad idea. And they could probably still make it happen that way! More likely, though, the invasion will either not be mentioned at all, or will somehow have been… postponed. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/37 "2015-04-26T22:29:23Z")
:bump: [Cool news.](http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/36703/remastered-x-files-quietly-hits-netflix) Netflix has added HD-widescreen copies of the first 13 episodes of the show. Sounds like they chopped the tops of the pilot, but the rest was filmed in widescreen even though it aired in 4:3. The pilot was filmed differently. > [@](#): > > The series was filmed on Super 35 and though shot for 4:3 fullscreen, at the time they knew widescreen was coming so the shots were protected for 16:9 which means there’s no problem with the jump to widescreen - images will have more information on the left and right than the original broadcast - but in the process have lost some of the top and bottom. Edit: Apparently some data is lost from the top and bottom, but I guess we won’t see crew or lighting, etc? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/38 "2015-04-26T22:32:45Z")
Watching “Ice” in HD right now. Wow, they look so young! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/39 "2015-04-26T22:46:35Z")
Yeah, I watched _Ghost in the Machine_ last night and noticed the change to HD. I hope they can do the same with the rest of the series. _Ice_ is up next for me–a very memorable episode that I haven’t seen in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646/40 "2015-04-30T23:00:48Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > :bump: > > [Cool news.](http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/36703/remastered-x-files-quietly-hits-netflix) > > Netflix has added HD-widescreen copies of the first 13 episodes of the show. Sounds like they chopped the tops of the pilot, but the rest was filmed in widescreen even though it aired in 4:3. The pilot was filmed differently. That is awesome. Same sort of thing with Seinfeld, the currently running reruns are HD widescreen and look quite good. Its neat seeing more on the sides of the screen than the original airings had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-files-coming-back-next-season-yes/715646.md?page=3)