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T-1000 To Replace Mulder On 'The X-Files' 166

Posted by Hemos from the old-stuff-new-stuff dept.
Jacque Strapp writes: "This may be old news by now, but I haven't seen it yet on Slashdot; Robert Patrick (the T-1000 from Terminator 2) will be taking over as the male lead on X-files, though he won't be playing Mulder. Seems pretty final, the article says he starts shooting on Monday. " This is follow-up to last week's who will the replacement be -- too bad for Campbell.
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  • Any actress that can wear a conservative, navy-blue suit and still look hotter than the surface of an overclocked Pentium III chip that ran overnight with no fan or heatsink... that woman merits every second of TV screen time she gets.

    If the writing continues to be as bad as it was last year, I might turn the sound off, but I will not change the channel. :)

  • i felt like i was reading a foreign language there... was it just me or was that abbreviated/jargon stuff just plain annoying?
  • Easy does it, dude. I for one am having fun watching X-junkies flexing their senses of humor.
  • "The" is the correct term. The Terminator described him as a prototype at the time the Terminator was sent. More may have been made during the interval, or not.
  • Isn't Bruce in some other show now?
    (coming from a long, long-time fan of Hercules and Xena, who just doesn't give a shit about the crappy replacement shows).

    if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
  • Scully, as Mulder's protegee, will assume the role of the avant garde explorer. The new character will be the sceptic.
  • What I don't get, though, is if the Robert Patrick robot isn't T-2000, then why did they call the movie, T2: Judgement Day?

    Cause the name of the movie is Terminator 2, or T2 to be short and trendy.

    Now as to how the movie H20 got it's name...

    - Isaac =)
  • >Patrick will team up with Scully to help track down the abducted Agent Mulder.

    (holds up pictuce of Mulder)
    "Have you seen this Agent?"

  • The first case for the new duo will consist of mostly of the hunt for a missing child. Mulder2: Have you seen this boy?

    \//
  • I saw him in a couple of "Outer Limits" episodes (re-run on the SciFi channel recently). He played a particularly wooden soldier/alien spy.
  • Discussing whether or not the X Files ought to get the chop in general is something I can get somewhat sociological about.

    Way back in the early 90s, (prolly between 91 or so at the very earliest, and 94) society at large began discovering Usenet, and in particular groups like alt.paranormal, alt.alien.visitors, and alt.conspiracy.
    Although demented, the conspiracy theories and alien visitation stuff showing up in these groups provided some fairly fertile inspiration for good science fiction.
    It's my guess that either Carter himself, or whoever told him about it, downloaded fairly substantial wads of this stuff and began spinning it into the episode storylines of what we came to know as the X Files. The Lone Gunmen in particular are a net stereotype...three reclusive, highly intelligent geeks who spend most of their time in dark bedrooms in front of screens, away from civilised humanity. *grin*
    Sound familiar?

    Anywayz, back then all of this stuff was new and different. The whole nerd lifestyle thing hadn't seeped into the public awareness as something special, and for a while there was a kind of deliciously grim fascination in the idea that a coalition of the Greys and the UN were trying to take over the world. The MJ-12 documents and Milton William Cooper's diseased ramblings in particular would have provided Carter with some great inspiration on the UFO side.

    These days however, we're seven years into the X Files. The above mentioned conspiracy theory has been done on the show, not only once, but over and over and over again. Not only that, but I get the feeling that Usenet has once more sunk into it's deserved place in universal awareness...basically that of an online asylum for the mentally ill, for the most part.
    For most of us, the X Files is no longer relevant...back when we were new to the net, taking our first tentative steps out into the online world, Carter was able to cash in on the momentary novelty of a somewhat deranged (but highly entertaining) element of it. But we've seen the novelty, IT has come up out of the sewers for several encore performances, and the Greys would have abducted enough people by now to depopulate the planet. As an earlier poster in this thread said, it's grown old.

  • and have only watched episodes hoping that I will catch an episode with the 3 slashdot geeks, err Lone Gunmen.
    Well, given that the Lone Gunmen are Vancouverite actors, and the show's now being filmed in Los Angeles I wouldn't hold your breath too much. I guess that's part of the reason they decided to spin of the Gunmen.
    (not that flying them down to LA, from time to time, would be that expensive -- but the Immigration paperwork could be like closing an X file)
  • where we're supposed to pretend this is interesting?
    ---
  • Hey, don't blame me, blame FOX for reminding me by running it last weekend...
  • Sweetiebabycookiehoney! It's all just lingo, like fsck, grep, and grok.

    Thesp = actdroid (a/k/a "Talent")
    Segs = segments
    Sked = schedule ("line-up")
    Skedded = scheduled
    Skein = series
    Topper = Executive ("suit")

    More wacky showbiz lingo here [variety.com].

    Hey, let's do lunch some time, okay?

    k.
    --
    "In spite of everything, I still believe that people
    are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
  • Ever since they moved production to California, the show has pretty much sucked. I used to be a fan, but without everything being dark and wet and foggy, it lost its creepy-cool ambiance. It's funny that Duchovny is leaving the show, after he kicked and whined to make them move the production and basically killed it.

    Of course, the show has sucked for other reasons too. I think probably the only episodes worse than the FPS one were the "celebrity" writer episodes, including Duchovny's own self-referential brain fart.

  • I mean, will they kill him off in the 11th episode? Most likely he will mysteriously disappear during some kind of alien encounter, so we'll never really know what happened to him. Of course, they could always kill him off, then bring him back next season. Remember Bobby Ewing in Dallas.
  • Well, Skinner was definitely *turned* in the season finale. Unless the writers choose to ignore it, he's a believer now.

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  • We are the 'Lone Gunmen'!

    Microsoft conspiracy theories abound, as well as stories on the 'Evil' Big Government taking our rights and the 'Evil' Big Corps turning the world into a stockholder controlled police state!

    Oh, and at least half us have a thing for Scully, too..

  • Too bad indeed... (Score:5)

    by jayhawk88 ( 160512 ) <jayhawk88@gmail.com> on Friday July 21, 2000 @08:19AM (#914560)
    OK, so maybe Bruce Cambell isn't the best actor in Hollywood, but he's damn sure a good one. It just seems to me that old Bruce is one hard-luck guy when it comes to getting and keeping gigs.

    From Brisco County Jr. to Xena, Bruce has either been under-appreciated or under-used. Personally, I think he would have been the perfect fit for the X-Files. After so many years of dark, brooding, rambling commentery from Duchoveny, it would have been a nice change of pace to see Bruce in that role. They could have even done the old role reversal: have Bruce come in as the sceptic, and force a now almost-ready-to-belive Scully to play the role of the crackpot. Instead, we are saddled with Robert Patrick, who undoubtedly will come in and try to be Mulder2, and fail miserably.

    I used to think the X-Files was still as good as show as it ever was, but after getting the Season1 DVD's and watching them in between Diablo2 marathon's, I can definitely see a drop in quality. The show seems to be on cruise control. I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but it's probably a good thing that next season will be the last.

  • the x files sucks now (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    and i used to be a huge fan back about 3-4 years ago. i bought a bunch of the boxed vhs tv shows and followed the show religiously.

    but lately, the show really sucks now. the mythology makes no sense anymore, i don't even care now that it's so confusing and convoluted. the regular episodes are just rehashes of old plots done before, and it has now become a parody of itself.

    i wish the show would just rest in peace after next season. it's better to flame out and slowly burn away.

  • Y'know, I was about to say the same when I checked IMDB, and it says R.P. is T-1000 and Arnie is just plain 'Terminator'. So I cancelled my posting
    Who's right ????
    ---
  • Of course, fingers still crossed for a great 8th, since they didn't end it...

    --
  • What about the Evil Twin episode (or have they already done that?)
  • But it would be better than the
    sexual tension between Mulder and Scully. Fox was a wuss!
    Blame it on Nelson ratings. It's a pretty common belief that consumating the sexual tension on a boy/girl series often results in loss of interest (kinda like in real life).

    Besides -- Them two sucking face would simply take time away from the plotline. If you want to see pictures of Skully getting boned by a Fox, go hunt down alt.binaries.pictures.nude.celebrity.fake.kinky

  • Huh? Who did what to who now? I don't remember anything about nano-bots...
  • Duh... It's not like they're meant to be.

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  • *lol* Well.. At least Duchovny was known to smile every once in a while, and managed generally not to get that constipated look that bad actors believe denotes a serious character.
  • Maybe they should make his character a disguised alien...oh wait that may make it even more probable...

    "One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn't pulling it off . Like, her hair was red... but it was a little too red, you know?" :) (Probably my *favorite* episode...)

  • ...seeing as he's about the only person who's a colder fish than Duchovny. :)
  • Did ya read the article? Lemme quote you a little:

    "In other "X"-related news, Carter said he believes Fox execs are considering a plan to launch the "X" spinoff "The Lone Gunmen" in "X's" 9 p.m. Sunday slot next spring. The one hitch: Fox has already said the skein will bow on Thursday nights starting in January."

    Not trying to be rude, just thought you must have missed it.
  • But this is kinda my point. I mean, here's Bruce in another new series, and it's probably destined to be another short-run, under-appreciated show. I've not seen the show, don't know whether it's good or not. But it is second-rate syndication (teamed up with Cleopatra 2525? What the hell is that?), that only hard core Bruce cultists or insomniacs will see on a regular basis.

    Good point about the Mulder opposites. Scully is obvious. Krycek was first introduced as a Mulder boot-licker, then ultra-evil. Spender is just a dick: I try not to think about him too much.

    I think they might have missed their calling on this one in the form of Skinner. Skinner all but admitted he was a believer at the end of last season after what he saw. It would have been kinda cool to see the normally by-the-book, maybe-I'm-compromised-maybe-I'm-not Skinner take Mulder's spot. Lot's of great potential material in seeing just how far Skinner would go in investigations, would he have contacts Mulder didn't, would others higher up be worried by his "turning", etc. Hell, Skinner chilling with the Lone Gunman would be worth a season right there.

    Pipe dream, I know. Skinner probably doesn't have a high enough Q rating or something with network execs. Still, it would have made for some interesting TV...
  • Ever since they moved production to California, the show has pretty much sucked. I used to be a fan, but without everything being dark and wet and foggy, it lost its creepy-cool ambiance. It's funny that Duchovny is leaving the show, after he kicked and whined to make them move the production and basically killed it.

    Yeah, I think the California thing is pretty key to why recent seasons have been really bad compared to the earlier ones. The X-Files' theme colors are black and green, something you can get a lot of in British Columbia, and almost none of in LA. Plus, and I've figured out that this is the thing that really bugs me, because they're in Los Angeles, they don't have access to *actors who look like normal people.* I swear, nothing kills an episode fast than not being able to have any empathy at all for the main character because they look like some Hollywood layabout rather than a normal person with some horrible alien parasite inside him.

    There were a couple episodes last season that might have been all right. Take that one ep for example, the one where the high school kid finds a secret cave that gives him the power to move with impossible speed. That had some things in it that might have made it enjoyable to watch, although the three high school kids in it all looked like they were twenty-six years old, and they just looked completely wrong and unappealing.

    Sigh. I guess I'll just have to watch episodes on tape when I want some good television.


    --

  • Scully : Mulder...you are turning in to mercury droplets.. How do you do it ?

    New Mulder : Its called Cubic Environment Mapping baby...yeah!!!
  • The slashdot crowd will support "The Lone Gunmen", I'm sure.

    Even if our kung-fu is better than theirs...
    ---
    pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate [ncsu.edu].
  • What else has he been in other then as the t-1000? I remember seeing him in the old "Double Dragon" movie as the bad guy. That movie was really aweful. His acting was totally wooden, it was totally weak, but maybe that was just cause the movie sucked.
  • News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Let's see.

    Light traveling faster than c in a vaccum? Rejected.
    New 1petaflop computer IBM is working on? Rejected.
    Unfilmed Crusade scripts posted online? Rejected.
    New actor on X-Files? Post that right away!

    --Ty

  • That's one way to get away from Tony Soprano cleanly.. join the FBI.

    heheheheh..

    (look up Robert Patrick at IMDB [imdb.com] for clue if you don't get it...)

  • Chewbaca would have been a better pick.
    People wouldn't even notice the character switch!
  • what will happen to mulder's knack for his assumptions always magically being right so the plot either fits in 1, 2, or 3 one-hour episodes?
    will t-1k become the new character with the perfect 'gut-feeling' all the time? or what?
    maybe scully will be the new person with the "trust no one" motto... she seems to become less skeptical every episodes (or maybe this is just the fact that's so sexy in that fbi uniform distorting my perception :-)
  • ..who they replace Mulder with. The show has been crap ever since they stopped filming episodes in the Vancouver area.
    Now all the scenes are full of cloudless days and bright sunshine, how is that supposed to assist in setting a moody, cryptic, "the truth is out there" environment!?!
    Bring back the rain and the clouds!

    --
    Za's Vid
    P/.
    ************************
  • I wonder if they'll kill off the Mulder character, or leave it open for guest appearances. Maybe Mulder will join forces with the Three Geeks.
  • Oh, maybe I'm misunderstanding something here. I was under the impression that he was not necessarily appearing in 11 consecutive episodes. It was said that the new character won't be Scully's new partner, anyway.
  • PUH-LEEZ
    BBC Article [bbc.co.uk]
    Yahoo Article [yahoo.com]
  • ...include the meaning of these cryptic terms:
    thesp
    segs
    sked or skedded
    starrer
    as well as the contextual meaning of "skein" and "topper", all of which were found in Variety's article, or should that be "arkle"? Possible interpretations include updated versions of "fnord", or possibly hackneyed "showbiz" "lingo."

  • There have been (extremely unsubstantiated) rumors of a 9th season, but I'm pretty sure Carter plans to end it with this upcoming 8th.

    --
  • Arnold is a Cyberdyne Systems Model #101, while Robert Patrick is the T-1000. In Terminator 3D at Universal Studios, there is a T-1 million. Get it straight!
  • I'm sorry, but I don't see Bruce getting the role. For one specific reason - he's already played a character on the show who really wouldn't work as an FBI agent (hmmm - demon turned FBI - maybe it would work).
    I don't know about you, but I'd hate it if they switched him over to a totally new character, even if it was only 1 episode that he played the demon in.
  • What scares me the most about this is the fan-fic that's going to result. We used to have Mulder and Scully playing hide-the-alien-probe (I wouldn't know, ofc, I just .. um, saw it for, er, research purposes) and now we'll have Robert Patrick doing his T-1000 impersonations under the sheets.

    I've scared myself quite enough, now.

  • Re:Arnold will be the next Mulder? (Score:3)

    by Lord Kano ( 13027 ) on Friday July 21, 2000 @08:26AM (#914591) Homepage Journal
    Arnold was the T-800, Cyberdyne System's Model 101. Living flesh over a hyper-alloy combat chassis. Fully armored, very tough.

    Robert Patrick was the T-1000. A mimetec poly-alloy, liquid metal terminator.

    LK
  • IIRC, Arnie was a Cyberdine Systems Model 101.
    --
    then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
  • Jack of All Trades sucks. I feel bad for Bruce. I just saw Army of Darkness for the first time recently and laughed my ass off. Jack of All Trades is, IMO, a step down.

    I agree, they really missed the boat with Skinner. Skinner has already admitted he's a semi-believer (while in Vietnam, he saw something he couldn't explain, he thinks it's a UFO) AND he has got the HUGEST crush on Scully. Imagine a no-nonsense, quietly pining Skinner, searching through all this paranormal bullshit trying to help Scully, the woman he is attracted to, find Mulder, whom he views as his competition.

    The few Skinner episodes they've done rank among my favourites. Hey, Chris, if you're listening, ditch T-1k and use Skinny!
  • Arnold was killed in the first movie by a big crushing machine. They sent a second arnold robot back in the second movie. That's why he's a different model between movies.

    What I don't get, though, is if the Robert Patrick robot isn't T-2000, then why did they call the movie, T2: Judgement Day?


    Seth
  • I'm thinking something towards Tea Leoni.
  • AND he has got the HUGEST crush on Scully

    hehe, add to that the fact that she's apparently pregnant to increase the tension. Gee, Scully, you sure look nice today in that, uh, maternity dress and all.

    Yeah, Army of Darkness rules. Too bad it made about $2000 at the box office and effectively ended his movie career.

    Oh, well, I guess we're stuck with T1k for now. At least they didn't choose Lou Diamond Phillips. I still wake up in a cold sweat because of Young Guns 2.

    *shudder*
  • Has CC ever written-in a mention of /. when visiting the lone gmen? i bet we see that this year. or at least some mention of a named online discussion group/fanzine. they're always throwing in more recent jargon and buzzwords.
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  • I met Robert Patrick just before the release of T2. His father was a member at the country club which I caddied for during high school. He had brought his son around after the filming was done, and film editing still to be done. I was fortunate enough to be the caddy for that group. At that time, not having seening the movie, the one thing I remember was his ears -- but he didn't have the snear that helped him realize the T1000 character. After seeing the movie, I realized how well he acted that role. He also plays a mean game of golf :-) (I believe he ended up 4 over for 18 holes)).

    I personally would have liked to see Bruce Campbell there, only because he's completely loose to how tight Scull is, but I think Robert can play the part well, especially if he's lighthearted like I saw him on the golf course, as opposed to hard nosed T2/"The Falucty" character, though he can play both decently.

  • How about they visit Springfield to investigate some alien findings, which turns out to be from the cast of Futurama. Maybe too complicated, but without Duchovny, they will need a ratings boost.


    luckman

  • Geez, if they want a guy like that, why don't they just have Brian Thompson [imdb.com] (The Bounty Hunter) play the role?

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  • I wonder why they decided to bring in another FBI agent, rather than not just "promote" the Lone Gunmen? Wasn't there talk in the past about a possible Lone Gunmen spin-off [slashdot.org]? Obviously, there's interest from the fans

  • It seems pretty obvious to me that what they're doing is to have Scully take Mulder's paper as the big believer, sort of like a student turned master (with all those references to past Mulder experiences in nostalgic rememberance), while T1K does the skeptic part... sort of like a renewed more of the same...
  • Adds new meaning to the idea of a robotic actor
    And killing the audience
  • Robert Patrick isn't your vacuum-brain pretty-boy galumphing hunk type. He's got that edginess to his look and demeanor that's an essential element in this role. He looks like the type who could coalesce from a mist in a darkened alley. Now, if the producers of the X-Files can just resist the temptation to have one of those drawn-out seductions between Scully and Patrick's character. That 'will-they, won't-they' crap has gotten incredibly tiresome.
  • wtf? i thought arnie was a T-800 and patrick was the T-1000? at least in the german translation. i am quite certain about this.
  • Robert Patrick will not be playing Fox Mulder. He'll be FBI agent John Doggett
    Dog(get) chases Fox -- heh!
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  • Okay, so season 8 of 'X-Files' is upon us and what have we got.

    A principal character leaving the series (Mulder).

    A 'love story' (Mulder/Scully) which can't continue without said character (Okay, there are still people who don't want to see this, but it is central to the series).

    Another principal character who's storyline is basically defined by Mulder's (Scully: please don't flame me on this; 'the Enigmatic Dr. Scully' is one of the most interesting characters on television), and who may not continue past this season when Gillian Anderson's contract ends.

    A sizable chunk of the interesting secondary characters (the Lone Gunmen) being given their own show.

    And

    A new guy (I don't envy Robert Patrick here) who will probably be blamed for everything when the series tanks.

    Don't they remember what happened when they replaced the 'Duke Boys'? (*g*)

    If you look at franchise series that are successful (Star Trek being a prime example), they tend to be built on ensemble casts, with overarching storylines involving everybody in some way. Whenever a character leaves, there are still established characters you care about who take on larger storylines. A replacement, if needed, is given time to establish something new by giving other characters more of the limelight. And finally, if a given series and cast has run it's course, it is retired and replaced by a new one, with at least a shared mythology and frequently characters from previous series.

    The current series is running out of steam. With the Gunmen gone, the only remaining characters who can carry a show are Scully, Skinner, and Krycek. Robert Patrick is a good actor, but I can't see his character meshing with the established main storyline enough for us to care.

    The solution, IMHO, would be as follows:

    Either kill off or send away both Scully and Mulder. (Sending them off somewhere would be better. It would also make more movies possible). If you keep them alive, give them some kind of closure (either on the small screen or the large), then bring them back as guests when the situation demands it.

    Concentrate on the Gunmen series

    If you have to keep a second series going, create something with a stronger ensemble cast (here's an idea: X-Files Black Ops - a secret special ops team at war with the Consortium).

    If none of these are an option, do the smart thing : Just end it.

  • The T-1000
    Will replace the agent Fox
    By becoming him
  • Arnie was definitely a Model 101. Patrick was a T-1000. Maybe T3 will feature an Open Source Terminator...
  • The lone gunman *is* getting a spin-off show, at least according to the ever-so-hip lingo at variety that I had to get my 4 year old nephew to help me decipher.
  • ... at "Vermont" restaurant just down the street from me here in Hollywood. Didn't think to look who she was with - there were about 7 other people at the table. Come to think of it, one of them did look like Robert Patrick.

    Hmm... I should've taken a closer look. *Definitely* looked like an industry meeting, though. Gillian had a very stern look on her face, listening to the guy across the table explaining something.

    Well, as useless as it is, that's what I saw.
  • Nope. Cancerman was in the Pilot. He put the nasal implant in that big storage room in the Pentagon.

    Speaking of which, did anyone else catch William B. Davis on the SciFi channel's Poltergeist last night (or was it 2 nites ago).
  • VERY FUNNY!

    However, I don't get the reference to PPC. Are you refering to MacOS X, or to X-Window, or both?

    Also, you lost me on the bloatware reference, I don't see this applying to either MacOS X or X-Window.

  • (teamed up with Cleopatra 2525? What the hell is that?)

    Learn more (as they used to say on CBS) about "Cleopatra 2525" here [theonion.com], at this week's The Onion news briefs.

    ...Cleopatra, an exotic dancer cryogenically frozen in 2001 and accidentally thawed out in 2525 by two female warriors, race through a futuristic cityscape to evade a horde of murderous Betrayer robots.

    Fun stuff, this issue of The Onion. Check it out.

  • Howard! Oh my god! Ever since I read that book in college I've been waiting for you to sneak in my bedroom! ;-)
    Back to the quarry I go...

    The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
  • The character John Doggett has been scheduled to go for about two seasons, until he realizes that he has no hope of scoring with Scully. He then retires from the FBI at the ripe old age of 24 into the lavish underworld of New York City as a city animal catcher.

    Dog gett...yeah, ok, sorry.

  • The campiest part of the movie was the jump-cut to the epilogue. (Warning: Spoiler ahead... although I'm spoiling a really bad movie, I thought I would warn you anyway.)

    Drive out into the middle of Antarctica, run out of gas, enter an alien ship, escape the ship, ship blows up real good... Scully and Mulder are safe & sound in the middle of a frozen wasteland, near the south pole, with no food, shelter, transportation, communication, or suitable clothing. On top of that, one of them is almost completely incapacitated. CUT TO: Debriefing in the FBI headquarters. I could not stop laughing.

    The one good part of the whole movie was early on when Dana got stung by a killer bee, and clinically described each of her rapidly-developing symptoms as she slowly passed out. That was pretty damn funny, and captured the spirit of her character better than any single episode of the show I can think of.

    Take that, and the bomb scene from the beginning, and you would have the first half-hour of a pretty good episode of the show. Instead, we get 90 minutes of loose ends not being tied, along with plenty of Ghostbusters slime.

  • I had a pontiac t1000 a few years ago. It never changed forms like the t1000 did in terminator 2. Actually I think it was false advertising all it was was a chevette with the name chevette crossed out and t1000 written in with crayon. Pretty lame actually.
  • Sorry, I don't have a source to back this up but I thought that he said he would be willing to do movies... Obviously then he is going to diappear and then he will be back in the first silver screen movie after the end of the series...
  • Good name for the new Mulder?
  • For those of you who have no clue who Robert Patrick is (myself included), here are some links to some pics and info on him.

    A fan page [robbecker.net]. Lots of pics here.
    In the imdb [imdb.com].
    A basic bio [360entertainment.com].

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    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday July 21, 2000 @08:56AM (#914625)
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  • Sod this! (Score:2)

    by jd ( 1658 )
    Dump X-Files and bring back Sapphire & Steel!

    Seriously! If the actors are growing tired, and the script-writers are growing stale, it's time to call a halt. Hey, they could have held back this season, for a while, on the off-chance that a rest could revitalise the series.

    Scamming the fans for ratings & money is an act of true betrayal. Giving things a rest, then returning refreshed would be an act of consideration and kindness. It might even win more cash & ratings, in the long-run.

    As for Sapphire & Steel, yes, I'm serious there, too. This series would be an IDEAL replacement for the X-Files, being even stranger & more surreal, but with a similar enough format to appeal.

    Besides, Scully can't make time run backwards or round & round in circles!

  • The reason for the Millennium Tie-In was to provide some closure for the Millennium viewers, since the show was canceled between seasons, with a cliffhanger season finale. Carter decided to attempt to wrap up the show in an episode of the X-Files, and hey, he can do it, they were both his shows.
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  • The believer-vs-skeptic dynamic will be gone. It can be said that this is the heart of the show. I'm looking forward to episodes in which the actors and script writers go through the motions, possibly including tie-ins with other shows (like the Millennium tie-in a while back).

    I'll probably end up getting bored and playing Diablo II instead, or whatever game is occupying my attention at the time.

  • ...but I think the X-Files has outlived its welcome. I am a serious X-Phile, but I have a nagging feeling that this next season is going to suck. They really should have ended it with this season, but Duchovny spent such a long time jerking everyone around that there wasn't time to end it properly.

    I know you all know this already, but I need someplace to vent.

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  • Go ahead, go curl up with George Will and G W, read some Ayn Rand and kill some seals.

    Wow! You just described my last weekend!

    I can't wait for tomorrow -- going to pour some cancer-causing chemical waste in the public pool and cancel your grandmother's social security and medicare. Sunday, Rush Limbaugh and I are planning to drive our big gas-guzzling SUVs to a nearby preschool where we'll sight-in our full auto assault rifles.

    Did I leave anything out?

  • Mulder will still be in 11 episodes next season. So I'm inclined to say that he's not going to be killed off.
  • Most of what I've heard on the subject indicates that the push for season eight, despite Duchovny's vocal attempts to get out, were to provide closure, both for Carter (who already had the rug pulled out from him during a cliffhanger on his "Millenium") and for Fox, who would concievably be in better shape to push for a big finale.

    However, the Variety article linked in the article has Carter hinting that the inclusion of Patrick may be the series' ticket beyond this upcoming season. I'm torn on this; I think Patrick could provide an interesting new dynamic in the series, and I wasn't as displeased with the previous season as some, but it may not be a good idea to push it too far....

  • The horse isn't dead yet? (Score:5)

    by phranking ( 134197 ) on Friday July 21, 2000 @08:08AM (#914658)
    Scully: Mulder, I've never had to do an autopsy on a horse before...

    Mulder: I know its strange Scully, but our informant from FOX *swore* that there was still life in it.

    Scully: Hm. There do appear to be some strange foot or shoe marks on its hide - almost as if somewhat kicked it repeatedly...
  • Variety is the MacOS Rumors of the entertainment business. I personally won't believe this until I see it in USA Today. Bruce Campbell will be the one!
  • Duchovny will be back. The T1000 will, of course, morph into "Mulder" to cover its real mission.

  • Anyone still going to watch it? (Score:3)

    by Sheepdot ( 211478 ) on Friday July 21, 2000 @08:12AM (#914679) Journal
    I don't mean to get moderated to "redundant", but is anyone even going to watch X-files anymore? I think I lost interest around the time the movie came out (which was nothing suprising, really) and have only watched episodes hoping that I will catch an episode with the 3 slashdot geeks, err Lone Gunmen.

    I like the idea of still having the show, but I'm getting tired of being able to predit every episode of the X-files.

    Death in first 5 minutes of show, regular wierd stories guessing death by Mulder, another death confirms part of Mulder's story, Mulder and/or Scully almost die, bad thing stopped, Mulder still thinks it happened like he said it did, Scully doesn't know for certain or thinks otherwise. End.

    It gets old..
  • Chris Carter said Patrick's character, FBI agent John Doggett, will be the virtual mirror opposite of Duchovny's alien-hunting, conspiracy-loving Fox Mulder.

    Of course he will be Mulder's opposite. Every character introduced starts out as Mulder's opposite. Scully was the skeptic. Kraicheck (sp? sorry) was the perfect FBI man, right down to the boring, wide-striped ties. I wonder what Doggett will become.

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  • Robert Patrick was really good in The Cool Surface, also starring Teri Hatcher.

    http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109478

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  • From The X-Files Official News Page [thexfiles.com] says: "Robert Patrick joins the cast of The X-Files as a series regular. While not replacing David Duchovny, Robert is committed to appear in all of Season Eight."
  • Fool! I'd successfully scratched that episode off my brain until I read your post. Then it all came flooding back!

  • The obvious choice is Dale Cooper (Score:3)

    by Howard Roark ( 13208 ) on Friday July 21, 2000 @08:16AM (#914705)
    I think the perfect replacement for Mulder would be Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks (Kyle MacLachlan)!
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