Why is it that 99% of good TV franchises always have HORRIBLE finales? The series finale for the X-Files TV show was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. A good show, that started to get bad… then started to pick up again… then ended in a giant mess of poo. It left fans almost demanding another X-Files film to clear up the mess and make amends for the horrible mistakes the series started to make in its waning years.
Talk of another X-Files film has been going on for years. It hasn’t quite been on an Indiana Jones 4 scale, but you get the picture. It appears though that X-Files 2 is getting closer and closer. Yahoo News gives us this:
The “X-Files” film sequel is heating up. Co-star David Duchovny indicated Saturday during the Television Critics Association press tour that the film, which has been the subject of speculation for the past few years, is one step closer to becoming a reality. “I’m supposed to see a script next week,” Duchovny said at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, adding that creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz wrote the screenplay and that Carter is set to direct.
Duchovny also reiterated past remarks that he and “X-Files” co-star Gillian Anderson “are on board” the follow-up to the 1998 film and the series that ran on Fox from 1993 to 2002.
Call me crazy, but I’m one of those people who would really like to see another X-Files movie. I thought the first one had potential (didn’t quite live up to it… but I still thought it was good), and the whole X-Files mythos is so rich and the characters are so great (I guess there will be no “Lone Gunmen”) that I think it’s worth exploring again.
One thing that I think most X-Files fans will disagree with me about… is that I would really like to see Robert Patrick back as Agent Doggett. To me, he was the sole reason that series stayed afloat after the departure of Duchovny.
