David Duchovny says he and Chris Carter want to start filming a second X-Files film by the end of the year. Gillian Anderson has not yet signed up.

If it goes ahead, it looks like the film will have a stand-alone one-off plot, rather than delve in to the immensely convoluted 'mythology' of later series. I for one would be glad of that, since I became very bored by the show towards the end of its life.

I agree Chapman. I was a huge fan of the show over 5 series, then bizarre programming and personal circumstances meant my viewing of series 6 through to the final season was patchy.

This wasn't helped by the ever-convoluted mythology, which lost credibility. Arc stories can be fantastically involving and interesting, but carried on for too long can lose their drive and focus. The X Files mythology appeared at times to be being made up as Carter went along. I personally didn't like the attempt to tie every single piece together. This meant there were little green men, shapeshifters, bounty hunters, abductions, pregnancies, conspiracies, Samantha Mulder - all made to relate to each other in far-fetched ways.

The stand alones tended therefore to be the more enjoyable episodes, with wit, irony and post-modernism, although the later monster-of-the-week stories were sometimes naff.

I did enjoy the movie version though, and it would be nice to see Mulder and Scully back together, after the on-off appearences of the final few seasons.

Best episodes of the X-files were definitely those stand alone twilight zone esque stories.

My favourites

Darkness Falls - Flesh eating insects which attack in the dark and scared the crap and of me and which is very similar to Pitch Black *coughs* rip off *coughs*

Humbug - The genius freak show episode, by far the funniest ever episode.

Home - Family of inbreds where the mother is under the bed...

Folie a Deux - The where a man thinks his boss is a monster turning his co-workers into zombies, but you have to believe it to see it.

At least those are the ones that stick in my head. Well I've discussed the X-Files on the internet, there is now no question of my geekiness.

Hmm...

"Tooms" - by far the best in my book, and one of the greatest bad guys to ever grace a screen.

"F. Emasculata" - the grossest thing you`ll ever see, insects bursting out of sores in people`s skin.

"Dark Matter"? (I think) - Tony Shaloub is the scientist who`s shadow turns into a black hole, sucking his friends and family in.

They`re my favourites, anyway.

All great I agree.

I forget how many wonderful episodes there were and how much I loved it (and particularly Mr. Duchovny) may be time for a DVD purchase.

Just a damn shame they gotted bogged down with mythology, because that`s when I switched off, it just seemed over-indulgent to me, and I got bored.

yey..id love to see another film

i just bought season 1 on dvd. i likey. thing is, i might be tempted to keep on buying, which will cost me a lot!

ok not a massive x-files fan ( saw the first coupla series on and off and enjoyed them but it went on a bit ) but i watched zoolander the other day and saw david duchovny in it.

the film was shite but he was brilliant - i reckon he's a great comic actor, as proved by the larry sanders show. would love to see him in more dry comic roles.

David in Larry Sanders was brilliant - such a funny running gag.

Him crossing his legs in a dressing gown sticks in my mind!

*puts on geek hat*

"Soft Light", it was called, Starscream. A good episode, featuring some of Mark Snow's best work.

My standalone favourites would be;

"Small Potatoes" - shapeshifting guy with a tail played by x files writer Darin Morgan
"Irresistable" Nick Chinlund plays hair- and nail-collecting guy
"Post Modern Prometheus" - Cher-loving mutant guy
"Squeeze" - first apperance of Eugene Victor Tooms

That`s the one. Thanks Jessop, it`s been literally years since I`ve seen any of them, but that one really stood out for me.

I used to be a big X files fan. David Duchovny and crazy shit. Twas my dream combination. But I lost interest around series 6.

I too love
Humbug (Darin Morgan did the best episodes)
Small Potatoes,
Squeeze & Tooms,
DPO,
War of the Coprophages,
How the ghosts stole Christmas
And the one about the angel-girls with six fingers.



By the way, I love the fact that this thread exists with this title.


EDIT: Just realised that I was wrong there. I missed practically all of season 5 and then only caught a few of the episodes in seasons 6 and 7. Didn't bother past there.

That's a very funny one, particularly when he morphs into Mulder

"Where do I sleep"

Tee hee

And thusly the topic is revived from the dead ...

Having been prompted by the diiirty thoughts about somekinda Krycek/Mulder bunk-up. Sorry. It is a guilty pleasure of mine. Foxy Mulder still hypnotises me with that low hypnotic voice

Anyhooo - Finally got around to getting DVDs of Season 3 of X-files - years since i saw the eps but it is still bloooming fabulous. It has aged well (hasn't aged that much actually) and i am throughly enjoying what i have seen so far. Clyde Bruckman epsiode being one standout piece. some duds though but over-all - fabby fabby fabby! And it even has minor guest roles for pre-famous Ryan Reynolds and Lucy Liu!!

Pity Chris Carter ended up fannying about like a mungbean and spoiling it all.

Just thought i'd say ...

Sefi x

If you still have a video, go to the works bookshop and get some X files box sets on the cheap

The works bookshops? Maybe - i am a DVD convert and would rather save up to be honest. OR do a downloady thing. I already have enough videos for DS9 - most cumbersome they are too.

Sefi x

I remember Lucy Liu in 'Hell Money', but what episode was Reynolds in?



I believe actors refer to it as mumbling.

I used to love the X-Files, I got the magazine and everything, had some fairly good comic work in it too. The comic book adaptation of 'Ice' i think it was called was really well drawn. The story was a kind of remake of the Thing. I've still got all my X-Files magazines on my bookshelf, might have to look back through them now. Got a couple of graphic novels too. Some of the stand alone comic book stories were very good if i remember - Firebird was part of a good story which I ended up getting the graphic novel of.

I used to buy the magazine and the comics. I didn't really like the artwork, but I did get artist Charles Adlard's signature at a comic collectors convention. Fact.

He could mumble in my direction whenever he wanted.

Oh Agent Mulder...

...sorry you lost me for a minute there.

Adda girl!!! See Zoe understands the compelling sexmo of Foxy Mulder. I still bloody would - even though Duchovny is possibly an arse and he married a no-lipped twiglet. but Krycek is my bad babylove. His eyes are too far apart and he only has one arm and the actor is possibly gay but no matter. he can butter my muffin any day. Damn you Marita!!! Although the ill-advised floppy haired Melissa section is perhaps something i like to forget. I'm thinking last bits of Piper maru - "like a new man" *snooch!*

Ryan was in Syzygy - the high school jock from the opening titles whose coffin sets on fire.

Sefi x

Ah, yes - never liked that episode, I think i only watched it once, that's probably why I didn't remember.

Duchovny - he's on my gay list. Don't understand the Krycek thing though, Sefi. His mouth is like C3-P0's and he's got an action man hand.

Is it wrong to post this?



Let's pretend it's a caption competition and not an excuse to see Mulder in a speedo.

KRYCEK: "Dig the budgie-smugglers, Fox"

Oh yes - you are swayed by the one they call Fox for good reason? Hmmm - i especially like his nose. Tis a cross between an ice-cream scoop and tapir's nose at times but draws me in like som antenna. Duchovny - you idiot, i still covet you lots. Damn you Leoni - Damn you!!!





i know i know - at times he looks a bit spoon faced. but he just ... i dunno ... i cannot explain it - i just really fancy him. Trecherous rat that he is. I mean - he is sooo evooool, he is the only man in Hong Kong to wear black leather jacket and gloves. I am sucker for a villain and i am pre-programmed genetically to fancy all men who slightly resemble Michael Biehn so i am lost cause.

And do men still fancy Scully? her foxiness grows on you.

Sefi x

EDIT -Zoe you are a bad bad girl. I love you! Pssst - You want more???
http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season2/duane_barry/index.html
http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season2/duane_barry/cap032.jpg

Oh, Michael Biehn. I'd give him one too.

I never fancied Scully - I had too much professional respect for her.

Yes, but you have dressed up like Mulder

*explodes*

You have fine taste in men, JJJ.



Do i smell someones pants on fire???

Sefi x

PS - dare i admit that some people think i lookeylikey like Gillian??

Thanks, I know.



No, seriously. Although I bought the infamous FHM magazines, she never did it for me.

But many people do like her, so why not whore yourself and your lookylikeyness and show them all!

I've got far too much X Files to be healthy... They re-released all the X Files series recently on DVD, over a few months, and I bought all 9 series and sent off for the limited edition box thingy to store them all in.

Whore myself? erm - you make it sound ever so appealing if you put it like that. Nope. I shall retire to the West and remain Serafina.

Back to X Files - you think they will make another movie? I hope not although i would live to see more - they kinda killed the show and i don't want to sully the memories i have still left.

Sefi x

A shy one? On the Spaced Out forum? Surely not! Oh well.

I'm not sure what the point of another movie would be. I love the characters and the majority of the 900 seasons, but there was a great deal of flogging the equine cadaver towards the end, and I don't want the memories to diminish with a crap film.

Not shy - just don't have any pix. Sorry.



I don't want it - just keep hearing stuff about it. All unfounded probably.

Do they ever repeat XF on TV?

Sefi x

X Files was great when they were doing stand alone scooby doo style mysteries. Then he geeks took over and it turned to a pile of wank.

Is it ever on Fox 289 or whatever it's called?

Its Fx 289, its on at 4

pooh - that's more DVDs for me to get then ... i don't have cable no more!!!

Sefi x

Sorry to DP - but Widowspider has a specific request ...



It was the best i could find. Still you get the picture. WS -You bad bad girly - you.

Sefi x

Hurr hurr hurr hurr
*rubs hands on thighs*

Any more?

I never liked it, it was always a bag of complete and utter toss.

Well - we could do a whole series of homoerotic caption competitions. Will try and find some goodies for you, WS. Red speedos aside.

You know - i love the files and that - but the show had so little sex, made me wonder if Chris Carter was a monk in his previous life or something. Poor Scully got the brunt of it - they even gave her a baby too. But no nookie. Shame!!!

Sefi x

Ahhh, but when the cameras stopped rolling



Oh I wish - they were at each others throats weren't they?

I dunno - i think they just got fed up of each other. Duchovny although TEH SEKZZ is maybe an arse in real life (from what i'v heard) but also - i have heard Gillian is lovely (i know someone who met her) but very 'actressy'. Both a pair of prima-donnas really who irritated each other at times. But then again, the way they shafted the show, no wonder things got tense. All kinds of factors methinks.

I HATE the whole 'Scully hearts Mulder' plot cos that makes a show go downhill. Like they did with Moonlighting and Avengers - platonic characters go all in love is usually a death knell. Why they do it? Erm - not enough well-rounded supporting characters to provide meaningful relationships with and lack of plot avenues left??? I liked the tension and the 'but will they?' atmosphere rather than the 'i love you bayyyybeeee' plots. Maybe that is just me.

Sefi x

Gillian Anderson became pissed off because Duchovny was being paid more than her. Duchovny became pissed off because he didn't want to film in Vancouver, then wanted more money once they relocated to LA. I hate it when external problems affect a show. It always leaves you wondering about what could have been. If Duchovny hadn't been written out, the final seasons may have been better. Like when Babylon 5 was cancelled after four seasons then renewed after JMS had wrapped up all the interesting plot threads, leaving a shitty season five. *sigh*

YEah this is true ... seems XFiles was set with probs of such nature.

Funny cos as a former resident if Vancouver it is weird to see the place feature as 'Virginia' and even Russia or the like. It all looks like vancouver - esp when they film in Gastown or somewhere distinctive.

Still - tis quite amusing to be listening to the song Je T'aime by Serge and Jane on 6Music and be looking at piccies of Scully and Mulder all saucy like. Ha!!!

Sefi x

Those pre-LA episodes (the first four seasons in other words) have a lovely atmosphere to them, due in part to the location filming. Those rain-soaked highways bordered by dense pine forests had a claustrophobic, slightly threatening beauty which enhanced the fish-out-of-water situation agents Mulder and Scully found themselves in each week. After the move to LA, suddenly they were surrounded by bright sunlight, parched sandy landscapes, and in-bred hillbillies under the bed. There are still some brilliant episodes after that point, but you have to agree that seasons 1-4 are the most 'classic' of all the series.

I agree - i love the Vancouver episodes most of all. When i think of Xfiles, i think of those things you say - the rainy grey skies and green forests and that.

LA was really really different . Some good episodes yes but I know what you mean. The atmosphere changed and it was noticeable.

But then Xfiles post Mulder for me NEVER was as good. Season 6 onwards it went a bit wonky really. Such a shame.

Sefi x

Gillian Anderson quits film for 'X Files'.

So it looks like this often talked about, much delayed project may be about to get underway at last . . .

July 25, 2008 is the release date for the second film.

I really liked the X-Files, but I'm finding it hard to muster any real interest in this.