Comments on: I Want To Believe

I Want To Believe

valkane — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:51:34 -0800

New teaser for the upcoming X-Files reboot!

By: chasles

chasles — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 04:11:50 -0800

Full body willy when the whistling part of the theme song kicked in. I want to believe this will be amazingly amazingly amazing.

By: fordiebianco

fordiebianco — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 04:35:08 -0800

They better make up for that horrible 9th season I just finished watching.

By: AlonzoMosleyFBI

AlonzoMosleyFBI — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 04:36:44 -0800

Given that Duchovny and Anderson look like they haven't aged a day, they can pretty much pick up right where they left off.

By: thegirlwiththehat

thegirlwiththehat — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 04:42:38 -0800

What chasles said

By: Pendragon

Pendragon — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 04:46:34 -0800

Reboot ? Who said anything about a reboot ?

By: colfax

colfax — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:16:05 -0800

Oh, I'm so excited for this! I'm always so pleased to see people from the X-Files in other things; it will be fantastic to see Duchovny and Anderson working together again!

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:17:02 -0800

Who said anything about a reboot ? They just mean that Mulder is "getting on" his "boots". The new series will be entirely scored by U2, and is set in the same universe as Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:21:00 -0800

CANNOT WAIT UNTIL JANUARY BUT SOMEHOW MUST AND I CAN'T EVEN.

By: gimli

gimli — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:25:06 -0800

I was wondering if Mitch Pileggi & William B. Davis would be back, so it was nice to see that confirmed in the Verge article.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:52:37 -0800

Given that the movies were only slightly less dull than Mulder and Scully Read Actuarial Tables Detailing Life Expectancies of Wheat Farmers In The American Midwest, 1946-68, I'm... cautiously optimistic? The mythology was such a mess by the end of the first series, and the movies were such a weird doddle off on tangents, that I'm hoping for maybe some sort of semi-reboot; that Carter et al have actually taken the last decade to get their universe sorted out and we wind up with something that feels like it's underpinned by a well-constructed bible and less like, well, what we wound up with on the first go-round.

By: Auden

Auden — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 05:55:43 -0800

Given that Duchovny and Anderson look like they haven't aged a day, they can pretty much pick up right where they left off. I WANT TO BELIEVE that Duchovny and Anderson look like they haven't aged a day. But... come on. (YAPPI: Please leave this room. You give off negative energy.)

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:08:58 -0800

Duchovny and Anderson look like rad older versions of their younger selves.

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:10:37 -0800

Duchovny and Anderson look like rad older versions of their younger selves. I am pretty sure this is what they are.

By: Sing Or Swim

Sing Or Swim — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:17:32 -0800

>have actually taken the last decade to get their universe sorted out and we wind up with something that feels like it's underpinned by a well-constructed bible and less like, well, what we wound up with on the first go-round. Unfortunately I do not believe this for ONE FRACTION OF A SECOND. If they were gonna do that, they'd have done it the first time out. I think the best we can hope for is that it will be good in the ways it was originally good. I don't expect it to be good in any new ways, I just hope it's not bad in any new ways.

By: Bulgaroktonos

Bulgaroktonos — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:20:12 -0800

Given that the movies were only slightly less dull than Mulder and Scully Read Actuarial Tables Detailing Life Expectancies of Wheat Farmers In The American Midwest, 1946-68, I'm... cautiously optimistic? The second movie was a fine, if not fantastic, long episode.

By: Vindaloo

Vindaloo — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:24:44 -0800

So much looking forward to this! Hopefully the writers will tighten up the mythology and keep the story arc focused; if they do then this will be beyond awesome.

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:36:19 -0800

Oh man, I want this to be good so badly. But I am one of the few people who really really disliked the second movie--I love the first--so I have super mixed feels. David Duchovny was probably longest term crush for the duration of my middle/high schools and a brief stint into adulthood.

By: echocollate

echocollate — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:44:29 -0800

This really puts the "tease" in "teaser."

By: Mister Moofoo

Mister Moofoo — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:49:24 -0800

If Chris Carter was really smart, he'd just step back and let Vince Gilligan run the thing.

By: danapiper

danapiper — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:51:04 -0800

I don't think I'll ever grow out of that crush. Californication almost ruined it. Almost. I get ridiculously giddy every time I see any promo on this. I'm only worried I won't be able to rewatch the entire series enough times before January.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:53:47 -0800

"I met Charles Manson!" "I met Hannibal Lecter!" ***HUGS***

By: thegirlwiththehat

thegirlwiththehat — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:27:29 -0800

I am doing my first rewatch since adolescence and I keep having these mixed feeling on who I was then and who I am now. Hearings the music makes me 13 again, the best part of being 13.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:34:22 -0800

I'm saving my real squee for the news: "Darin Morgan has confirmed he has been signed to write one or two episodes."

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:38:09 -0800

Here's hoping they dig into whatever the Grey Aliens of now are rather than recycle 90s motifs. Unless it's Benghazi.

By: skycrashesdown

skycrashesdown — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:48:16 -0800

I feel kind of nostalgic for the days when the worst thing we thought our government might do was maybe hide some aliens from us.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:15:16 -0800

Best Episode Not Ghost in the Machine Home And Zero Sum Improvements

By: schoolgirl report

schoolgirl report — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:17:40 -0800

If Chris Carter was really smart, he'd just step back and let Vince Gilligan run the thing. In his recent interview with Marc Maron, Gilligan said he really wanted to be involved but he's busy with Better Call Saul and isn't a multitasker. He sounded really bummed, as am I.

By: SmileyChewtrain

SmileyChewtrain — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:38:30 -0800

FWIW, at least the first FOUR seasons of The X-Files have recently been restored in pristine AMAZING looking HD widescreen, on Netflix, as of the last 2-3 weeks. Carter apparently "future-proofed" the series for HD by framing most of it in 16:9 from the beginning, but it was never released that way until now. It looks incredible - feels like I'm watching these episodes for the first time. And the show definitely stands up to modern counterparts, especially technically. It no longer has that feeling that you're watching "old tv through vaseline" that a lot of old SD shows do when seen on an HD set. And man, so gorgeously shot. I switched from watching a couple season 3 episodes last week to the newest True Detective, a modern show that I often feel is pretty well shot, and... oof. The difference was.. apparent. Probablay due to film/lighting due to digital / over -colorgrading.

By: SmileyChewtrain

SmileyChewtrain — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:49:22 -0800

film/lighting "vs" digital / over-colorgrading, that is.

By: GreyboxHero

GreyboxHero — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:50:03 -0800

I'm not huge on Grantland, but this longform about the X-Files is one of the best TV features ever, imho. http://grantland.com/features/the-x-files-20th-anniversary/ This passage in particular is solid: The X-Files was probably the first great TV show to be galvanized by the Internet and the last great TV show to depict a world in which the Internet played no part. Its fan culture found a home online early in the series' run, but though the role of computers became both more central and more realistic as the show progressed,3 it was possible at least through the fifth season or so to see the Web as a distraction, something with no important bearing on anyone's life. Remember when you could turn it on and off? We often credit the Internet with the disintegration of the old American monoculture, because it liberated us to be absorbed by our own interests, to spend our time downloading obscure anime, say, rather than caring about Madonna or ABC. But the Internet also created a new type of monoculture: It made every place accessible to every other place. We could no longer assume that the peculiarities of our own environments were private. Our hometown murders might appear on CNN.com. The world of small-town X-Files episodes is still that older world of extreme locality, where everyone in town grows up knowing that the rules here are different and we handle it ourselves. Children vanish or trees kill people or bright lights appear in the sky, but there is no higher authority to appeal to and it has nothing to do with what goes on 10 miles down the road. In my hometown we knew that the spillway by the lake was where you painted a memorial if your friend was killed in a drunk-driving crash. It's the same thing. Here is here. And this, it goes without saying, is just the opposite of the here-is-everywhere world inhabited by the conspiracy, which is global in scale, utterly connected, and ruled by pseudonymous men whose flat-affect, no-eye-contact meetings were almost the personification of a chat window.

By: clockzero

clockzero — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:51:27 -0800

Here's hoping they dig into whatever the Grey Aliens of now are rather than recycle 90s motifs. Unless it's Benghazi. Spoiler: it's only about Benghazi, and the GOP donated $1.2 billion to its production, so it will all be shot on location and will last either ten seasons or until all Democrats are convicted of grand Benghazi in the first degree

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:00:45 -0800

I would totally watch a completely insane Republican X-Files about how Whitewater led to Benghazi because Obummer is an alien hybrid.

By: save alive nothing that breatheth

save alive nothing that breatheth — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:17:12 -0800

In this series a nasty shadowy agency of the US gov't has computers storing and analyzing all of Mulder and Scully's communications.

By: I-baLL

I-baLL — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:56:37 -0800

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_Season_10

By: el io

el io — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:20:00 -0800

Did anyone else hear the rumor that the X-Files reboot is doing a crossover with the Heroes reboot?

By: I-baLL

I-baLL — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:39:53 -0800

It's not a reboot though.

By: scaryblackdeath

scaryblackdeath — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:46:33 -0800

Given that Duchovny and Anderson look like they haven't aged a day, they can pretty much pick up right where they left off. Hush, you. Gillian Anderson has gotten more and more beautiful as she has aged.

By: I-baLL

I-baLL — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:53:44 -0800

And Leon's gotten larger.

By: dragonbaby07

dragonbaby07 — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:40:25 -0800

I'm counting the days, that's one of my favorite shows.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:58:16 -0800

I suppose I'll have to attempt to watch them all now (gave up around 'Paperclip' first time around... dipped back for the last ep - er okay, and the first film)

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:09:18 -0800

Yeah, not a reboot. Some shows (like Heroes) could benefit from a reboot, but not X Files. This show has always been about mad, incomprehensible things happening in the dark. There's no need to retcon anything. Fifteen seconds! Such a brief teaser, but it hits some familiar notes: old timey soldiers (Maybe from Roswell?), murder being concealed, scary medical experimentation, and Mulder and Scully. And just a few notes of the theme to bring it all home. TV shows should've never stopped doing theme songs. So many modern shows are interchangeable now without the themes to set them apart. Themes could set the mood and tell you something about the emotional "feel" of the show before the first actor even starts to speak.

By: Ursula Hitler

Ursula Hitler — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:01:38 -0800

Anderson has described the first episode as "slow, intense and functional," which seems like an odd way to promote the show. (Although I suppose a detractor could say the same about the glory days of the show.) I've heard through a friend of a gossipy friend that Chris Carter doesn't have the same kind of control over the miniseries that he had over the original show, and part of Fox's conditions for agreeing to this thing was that they could meddle with stuff more. If true, I'm not sure how to feel about that. Carter is the guy who created and ran the show and Fox is the network that has driven Joss Whedon to despair on a couple of occasions... but that last X-Files movie was such weak sauce that it may be a little meddling could do Carter some good. I'm curious how William B. Davis fits in there. They really, REALLY killed the Smoking Man in the series finale. I mean, we saw his flaming skull! (The show did have old characters come back as ghosts sometimes, usually doing long monologues as they observed Mulder and Scully. I'm guessing ol' Cancer Man is getting in on that action.)

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:44:41 -0800

Maybe he's in a flashback? The soldiers in the clip seem to indicate that at least some of the story is set in the past, and CSM was involved in everything.

By: Ray Walston, Luck Dragon

Ray Walston, Luck Dragon — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:15:24 -0800

I would totally watch a completely insane Republican X-Files about how Whitewater led to Benghazi because Obummer is an alien hybrid. Have you tried Free Republic?

By: I-baLL

I-baLL — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:36:35 -0800

Yeah, most likely a flashback or a shapeshifter since Deep Throat's in this one too. And Morris Fletcher. And, yes, I cheated by looking at the cast list on IMDB. You know who was missing from the list? The Lone Gunmen. If they're not in it (or somebody like them) then I'm not watching.

By: Ursula Hitler

Ursula Hitler — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:36:43 -0800

You know who was missing from the list? The Lone Gunmen. I got curious a while back, and looked up what the Lone Gunmen guys had been up to. There was a picture of them together now and it was funny because Frohike and Langley still looked pretty much just like Frohike and Langley but Byers had shaved and gained some weight and he looked like a totally different guy. The Lone Gunmen already did the ghostly visitation thing in the series finale, so maybe Carter doesn't feel like he can bring them back. But if Deep Throat is actually in there, I'd say anything goes. I don't know how they'll explain why "ghosts" look like they've aged 20 years since they died. Maybe there'll be lots of ghostly fog and wigs for everybody.

By: MaritaCov

MaritaCov — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 07:18:55 -0800

SmileyChewtrain, thanks for the info. I'm now watching the pilot and it is beautiful. I told my husband when he got home and his response was, "Oh God, what about that cat?" HD did not do Teso Dos Bichos any favors.

By: Sonny Jim

Sonny Jim — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 09:10:03 -0800

I have mixed feelings about this as I feel we've already had an X Files reboot and it was, especially in its later seasons, consistently better than the X Files itself ever was: Fringe.

By: SmileyChewtrain

SmileyChewtrain — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:13:22 -0800

I have mixed feelings about this as I feel we've already had an X Files reboot and it was, especially in its later seasons, consistently better than the X Files itself ever was: Fringe. I loved Fringe but it was really only an X-Files reboot for part of the first season, if that. They pulled a similar bait-and-switch to Lost being a "reboot" of Gilligan's Island and then quickly becoming... something else. Fringe became more or less a long form serial story about two parallel universes at war, not aliens or government conspiracies etc. Which was awesome - but sort of apples and oranges. FWIW, Darin Morgan (mentioned above), who was a story editor on the X-Files and wrote some of the greatest eps (Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, etc) worked on Fringe for a little while in the beginning, as a consulting producer. I like to imagine he was behind some of the weirdest funniest lines: Olivia asks a bunch of rapid fire questions regarding the plot, Walter responds with innocent wonder, "You're like a question machine!"

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:15:28 -0800

Fringe was a very good application of the X-Files formula to current concerns, and the alt. universe stuff was a very satisfying swap out for grey aliens. It's sort of an inverse of X-Files in that it's my this episodes were generally much stronger than the monster-of-the-week ones, and it betters it in that it's big ending mostly kind-of works. So yeah, Fringe would very much be a thing to emulate, though the nature of the thing is that if they do a proper job it'll be going in mostly the same direction anyway.

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:21:45 -0800

Worst case would be the continuo bing story of Mulder's sister and assorted boring 90s plotlines nobody cares about now.

By: clockzero

clockzero — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:28:05 -0800

Worst case would be the continuo bing story of Mulder's sister and assorted boring 90s plotlines nobody cares about now. "Those pagers didn't just vanish, Scully!"

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:43:52 -0800

"The clothes became another color - it has to mean something!"

By: lownote

lownote — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:45:52 -0800

Fringe was not better than the x-files at anything.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:46:43 -0800

I'm really, really hoping that this miniseries has a whole new story arc. I am so hoping that there isn't some lameass revival of the Smoking Man, because we saw him engulfed in flames, for heaven's sake. I think they could maaaaybe get away with using him for flashbacks, because William B. Davis hasn't aged so terribly much in the last 13 years and makeup and special lighting would help a lot, and yes, a new story arc that involved some new conspiracy/threat that he was involved in back in the day could work as a narrative.

By: Pendragon

Pendragon — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:49:53 -0800

Fringe was not better than the x-files at anything. Pistols at dawn!!

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:10:04 -0800

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS I JUST LEARNED THAT DARIN MORGAN HAS DEFINITELY WRITTEN ONE OF THE SCRIPTS I AM NOW IN FULL KERMIT-ARMS MODE

By: Ursula Hitler

Ursula Hitler — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 22:14:09 -0800

Also, the Lone Gunmen are back. Not sure how to feel about Darin Morgan being back. He did write some good episodes, but some of his most celebrated episodes were kind of over-cute, quirk-heavy send-ups of the show, and it really doesn't seem like there's time for that stuff when they've only got six episodes. I guess it wouldn't be the X-Files without at least one self-parody episode that everybody but me thinks is great.

By: Artw

Artw — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 07:16:14 -0800

Maybe he's back as Fluke Man.