X-Files reboot again.

[OutHouse]

i was not all that thrilled with last years reboot. i hope they do better with this try.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/x-files-is-returning

 

[Kaido]

In all seriousness, they need to hire a fanboy to follow the writers & directors of the reboots around. Their job being to constantly call them out on stupid decisions that make the shows lame.

That's part of the reason I never want Firefly to be rebooted...I'm afraid they would slaughter it. I'm sad there's no season 2, but what they gave us was quality & I'm happy with what we got.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Sadly though, it makes sense. The movies were NOT that good, and by the last season it just wasn't that good either. I think the storylines just got too played out. They need to go back to monster of the week rather than the over arcing storyline that just never made sense.

If they want to reboot...they need to completely reboot it for modern times. I suppose they more or less already did that with Fringe.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I'm mixed, on the one hand, even though I love X Files, that new season was pretty terrible.

Just give us Mulder, Scully, and sometimes Skinner and a good (sometimes more serious, sometimes silly) case and stop with the awful main story. I even liked Doggett and Reyes, but by that point the show had gotten so fucking stupid ridiculous that there's only so much they could do.

I'll still watch it, but I'm almost certainly not going to go out of my way to watch it, and very possibly will just wait until it's on Netflix (especially since I can't watch them for free on Hulu).

In all seriousness, they need to hire a fanboy to follow the writers & directors of the reboots around. Their job being to constantly call them out on stupid decisions that make the shows lame.

That's part of the reason I never want Firefly to be rebooted...I'm afraid they would slaughter it. I'm sad there's no season 2, but what they gave us was quality & I'm happy with what we got.

I don't agree, and most of these reboots are done to appease the fanboys, and that's why they end up sucking, as they pander to the worst fans.

Prior to the X-Files reboot I heard people bitch and moan about the "monster of the week" aspect when that was consistently the most entertaining and enjoyable part of the original run of the show. The main plot was fucking garbage and completely shit on the characters as it went on.

I think it's the only way it makes sense to bring the show back. They could maybe do seasons as a consistent story, like of them hunting some serial killer or other phenomenon that they could tie together.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Sadly though, it makes sense. The movies were NOT that good, and by the last season it just wasn't that good either. I think the storylines just got too played out. They need to go back to monster of the week rather than the over arcing storyline that just never made sense.

If they want to reboot...they need to completely reboot it for modern times. I suppose they more or less already did that with Fringe.

Yeah that's what I think too.

I don't know that they can reboot it like that. Conspiracy theories now have taken on too much a dark and serious tone, they're not as easy to make light of (but also somewhat take serious or have a character do so). You can't really embroil in that and ignore stuff like 9/11 or even the recent election. And while I don't doubt some writers are salivating over the opportunity that Trump provides, I really don't think that will help the show.

They could definitely go dark and serious with it, but I'm not sure that would be a great idea either. It did make for some of the more memorable X Files episodes though.

 

[rockyct]

I'm looking forward to it. I thought there were a couple good episodes in the last batch.

 

[Kaido]

I don't agree, and most of these reboots are done to appease the fanboys, and that's why they end up sucking, as they pander to the worst fans.

As an X-files fanboy, I don't agree with that. The X-files movies were pretty dumb. The new season was pretty hit & miss. I do agree that the monster of the week episodes were the most fun, like the chupacabra & stuff. The problem with the alien storyline was that they never progressed it. It would have been awesome to alternate between monsters as tactical episodes & aliens as strategic episodes for the overall arching storyline, except they put a halt on any new info & progress. Same old smoking man, same old Scully never sees the alien bit...they should have had more Men in Black stuff with random sightings or abductions that they had to go out & investigate & actually move forward on.

 

[Kaido]

Sadly though, it makes sense. The movies were NOT that good, and by the last season it just wasn't that good either. I think the storylines just got too played out. They need to go back to monster of the week rather than the over arcing storyline that just never made sense.

If they want to reboot...they need to completely reboot it for modern times. I suppose they more or less already did that with Fringe.

Yeah, I think Fringe was a good take on modern X-files, at least for awhile there.

It's hard for shows to go a long time without getting dumb, too. I'm a big fan of the Flash on CW, but now he's fighting Savitar, who basically looks like a Transformer, and they just did a planet of the apes episode called Attack on Gorilla City that was so boring that it took me three days to get through it. But the first season or two was a great example of how to do both in the vein of X-files...there was the "monster of the week" episodes where he had to fight somebody new & increase his skill set, but there was also an excellent over-arching plot with the main bad guy that tied everything together. Kind of fizzled out after that.

Really the only series I can think of that did it right, off the top of my head, is Breaking Bad. Pretty much every episode was fantastic & they ended the series in a way that didn't make you hate the writers, unlike Lost. Oh my gosh, don't get me started on Lost lol.

 

[Ajay]

(Meh)^2

 

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