David Duchovny In The X-Files Finale 144
unemployed_schlep writes "According to the official press release, DD will reprise his Fox Mulder role for the two-hour series closer. He'll also direct and co-write (but not appear in) an episode to premiere in late April. The final five eps all deal with the mythology thread." I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping
that the final round of episodes can wash the taste out of
my mouth from this season. I know Carter & Co have
it in them...
Re:Name like a pet snack (Score:1)
But maybe that's just me.
DD?! sweet. (Score:3, Funny)
x-files + porn = dream come true.
Well it may not be porn, but... (Score:1)
Re:Well it may not be porn, but... (Score:1)
Re:Thank God (Score:1)
I do agree that the show has gone down hill, but I'll still stick with it until the end.
Rest In Peace (Score:1)
The TRUTH about that Mulder (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The TRUTH about that Mulder (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:The TRUTH about that Mulder (Score:2)
Transvestite Truth (Score:1)
Re:Transvestite Truth (Score:2)
Plot Spoilage (Score:1)
Ended the WHOLE series for me, as far as I am concerned.
Re:Plot Spoilage (Score:1)
Crossing my fingers.... (Score:4, Interesting)
Clyde Bruckman (Score:2)
I stopped watching it shortly after "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", 3x04. Was there anything remotely as good ever again on the series?
Who knows, maybe they'll fire all the screenwriters, post a slash competition somewhere on Usenet, and the final episode will end with a Mulder/Skinner/Krycek three-way.
--grendel drago
Dead Krycek. (Score:1)
And if "no necro" was stipulated, I'm sure they could also bring him back from the dead. 'Cause TV does that. Far too much.
--grendel drago
Re:Clyde Bruckman (Score:1)
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:1, Informative)
This would be an excellent idea. The guy, Darin Morgan, directed my favorite X Files episodes. My absolute favorite was Humbug. Man, that was a funny eps.
See this [interlog.com] for more info on Darin.
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:3, Interesting)
It would be nice to have a whole "blows the lid off the government" ending as well.
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Evan
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:1)
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:1)
Resolve the plot.... (Score:1)
I figured this out around the same time the movie came out, and this is one of the reasons I haven't kept up in the recent seasons: There is no possible ending that could satisfy the audience.
The mystery and magic is a result of the unknown, that's why all the good horror movies don't show you the monster until the very end.
The whole conspiry stuff is far more interesting when it's unknown then when it's known. I predict right now that if they do give away the "whole deal" in the final episode, it will be a big dissapointment to many people, and I think Carter knows this. Their initial plan was to stop the series at the time the movie came out, which was a very commendible thing to do, stop the show in it's prime and occasionally release a movie, as opposed to letting the series show how it's run out of steam.
Now, with all that said... When do the final episodes start?
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:2)
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Evan
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:3, Informative)
That's Darin Morgan [interlog.com], who also wrote the Episodes Humbug (you know, the hilarious one set in the town of retired sideshow freaks), War of the Coprophages (good, not great), and Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (hilarious, moving, Emmy-award-winning).
He also appearead as Eddie Van Blundht in the episode Small Potatoes, which he did not write.
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:2)
Crossing My Fingers! For A Bad One! (Score:2)
So for the X-Files, there's only one choice. Aliens get ahold of both of them, strip 'em down, and then throw cream pies at them. It should also be perhaps 3 minutes and 49 seconds long.
Re:Crossing My Fingers! For A Bad One! (Score:1)
Re:Crossing my fingers.... (Score:2)
[ END misanthropic_rant ]
oh boy (Score:2, Flamebait)
The end of the series that is, I couldn't care less about DD
X-Files in the UK? (Score:1)
The last episode I remember seeing was one that was filmed like a live news item...
Re:X-Files in the UK? (Score:3, Informative)
For people in other countries:
Australia's Network 10 will air Season 9 in July.
In Denmark, TV2 will air Season 9 in late April.
Norway will get Season 9 in September on TV2.
HMG in Holland is currently running Season 8, and they are expected to begin Season 9 in late September.
TV4 in Sweden is also currently showing Season 8. They will air Season 9 in September as well.
Re:X-Files in the net... (Score:1)
Salvaging the wreck (Score:2)
After all the storytelling bullshit that's been going on in the show, I watch it more out of a bored bad habit than anything else. And it was so entertaining before...
And film it up north! (Score:2, Funny)
Plus it'd hopefully really piss DD off to have to return to this "rainy" city he so hates. =)
What, do you really .. (Score:2)
I will confess that during my time in London, the hype around this show seven years ago was crazy. I watched the 'murderous office building' episode and could not believe it was filmed in Vancouver. And the acting was terrible.
To my lament, I was hooked. These days I feel X-Files viewers are being punished for their loyalty. Like heroin addicts.
Do you really think bringing it back here would be worth it? The show would still suck.
Re:And film it up north! (Score:1)
I expected more (Score:1)
Oh bleh... (Score:1)
Poor, Gillian Anderson. Wonder when she'll be posing in Playboy to "boost her career"?
Career Boosters. (Score:2)
Umm.
Appear in a series of movies based on the show but not nearly as good (though the effects rocked), as well as in "Red Shoe Diaries" and as voiceovers in "Gargoyles".
Yeah, she's got a long and illustrious career ahead of her... in B-movies, where everyone will yell out "It's Scully!!!", and then "Take it off!".
--grendel drago
Re:Oh bleh... (Score:1)
Re:Oh bleh... (Score:1)
He shouldn't have quit filming The X-Files; maybe the next porn film he's in will be called "The XXX-Files."
hopefully a good wrapup (Score:1)
An another note... I pray to God that DD writes some Scully-in-the-shower or Scully-with-some-greased-up-lesbian-aliens into his episode.
Re:hopefully a good wrapup (Score:2)
The XXX-Files!!!! (With apologies to Mad-TV)
get ready, i'm about to make you groan (Score:2, Funny)
Chris Carter is full of mouthwash?!
Re:get ready, i'm about to make you groan (Score:1)
Thats Not Mouthwash!
Oh Dave... (Score:1)
Re:Oh Dave... (Score:1)
Are you kidding? The baseball episode was probably the best episode of that season.
Dinivin
Isn't X-Files getting a little ridiculous ? (Score:4, Interesting)
The last episodes I watched have absurd plots that have no clear beginning or end, refer to obscure things in episodes of years ago, hint clumsily at new incredible developments that will happen in future episodes, and quite frankly have more special effects than interesting plot. Plus now they threw in those two new agents that, despite being honestly decent actors, just don't match Gillian and Duchovny and can't seem to manage to peel them off the screen. It reminds be of Coy and Vance who replaced Bo and Luke in the Dukes of Hazzard : they weren't bad at all, but the serie was so linked with its original characters that they just didn't fit in.
I don't know, my friends and I used to enjoy debating what the various X-Files characters were up to, and what might happen in the next episode, but these days it's a just clumsy show that doesn't stick.
Re:Isn't X-Files getting a little ridiculous ? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Isn't X-Files getting a little ridiculous ? (Score:1)
Re:Isn't X-Files getting a little ridiculous ? (Score:1)
Maybe they can finally pick up that angle and make a spin-off series ?
Debunking. (Score:2)
"Look, it's something strange and dangerous."
"No, it is harmless and ordinary."
"Oh. Well, back to the office."
Somehow, I don't smell a smash hit here. Go see The Amazing Randi [randi.org] if you want debunking. The rest of us would like a smidgen of escapist drivel with our TV.
--grendel drago
Re:Debunking. (Score:2)
Re:Isn't X-Files getting a little ridiculous ? (Score:2)
At some point within about a season of the point he originally wanted to end it, Fox said "no, you can't end, you're still making money", and demanded he keep going with the series.
If i remember right, i read this in the Houston Chronicle [chron.com], but i can't remember exactly.
I seem to remember this being about the time that they moved the production to California from Canada. I seem to remember the point at which the series was originally meant to end being about the time that all the crucial personell on the show started bitching mercilessly and quitting, and about the point the writing seemed to lose direction utterly. (Although the episodes that first season in Los Angeles were generally excellent..) "Like butter scraped over too much bread.."
I don't know how true any of this is, but it seems pretty plausible. If so, i would definitely say that the x-files could have ended as a much, much stronger and more interesting show if they'd just let Carter conclude it the way he originally meant to.
As is i kind of stopped watching altogether at some point shortly after the massive two-episode thing with Mulder being locked in the train while all the people with no faces ran away, or whatever (i think that's when it was), and though i watched pretty religiously up until that point i have absolutely no idea what has been happening since then. I know nothing at all about the "mulder's replacement" character. I'm wondering if there's any point at all in trying to watch, given i may not understand the plot of the show anymore and given i don't have a television anymore. [slashdot.org]
Well, no matter. Even if the show did kind of sputter out and die ungracefully (This is the way the series ends, not with a bang but a whimper?) the X-files production team has produced more quality television than you could possibly expect of any single show, and i'm applauding them quietly for a job very well done. Hopefully i'll be able to go back and pick up some of those episodes i missed (and hopefully i'll be able to do this without resorting to gnutella or other Questionable Methods
P.S. : is the "groundhog day" workalike episode available on tape or DVD? if it is, i'd buy a copy
Re:Isn't X-Files getting a little ridiculous ? (Score:3, Funny)
our top secret spies at Fox have uncovered the conversation that took place, and it shows how fox was able to bend Chris Carter to there demands:
Fox:"We demand you keep it going"
CC:"no, that wouls interfere with the story integrity"
Fox:"Here is a wheel barrel full of cash"
cc:"nope"
Fox:"Here is a truck load of cash"
CC:"OK"
Break the habit.. (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't think Mulder will help much, it is purely for the nostalgia of the show.
Personally, I think the series effectively ended when Mulder figured out what happened to his sister. After that, it was never that amazing..
raise your hands if.... (Score:1)
An intersting observation (Score:4, Funny)
The 9 Lives of Mulder and Scully (Score:5, Interesting)
A fitting end to the series would be the death of Mulder and Scully. The best way is to have Krycek comes back to life and kill them.
But Scully is Immortal (Score:1)
Re:Krycek is dead? You could've fooled me (Score:2)
Re:Krycek is dead? You could've fooled me (Score:1)
Cross-OVER (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cross-OVER (Score:2)
Re:Cross-OVER (Score:2)
But do we have to have John Edward [scifi.com] there to get the full truth?
Re:Cross-OVER (Score:2)
When did X-files jump the shark? (Score:1)
Next show (Score:1)
The X-Files ended about 3 seasons ago (Score:2, Flamebait)
Or at least it was so bad I stopped watching it.
-Kevin
Should have ended sooner... (Score:4, Informative)
They really would have been better off ending it after the movie. Or maybe even ending it with a movie, I don't know.
I would have been hyped about seeing it's finale in Season 5, but today it's like "uhh... people are excited about it?"
I'm not trying to bash X-Files, I like the show. But now I understand why some series are ended with the explanation of 'we want to stop while it is still exciting.", kind of like they did with Deep Space Nine.
He still needs work? (Score:2, Funny)
The only thing I like about the X-Files these days is the song that Bree Sharp did about it.
http://www.breesharp.com/
Plot Revealed! (Score:3, Funny)
This is the problem (Score:1)
It's almost like the writers are afraid to make any bold statements or actually GO anywhere with it.
Let It Go (Score:1)
Bravo, CmdrTaco (Score:1)
Well spoken, sir. I could not have said it better myself. And no spelling errors!
like Stephen King's recent announcement... (Score:3, Interesting)
King and Carter both created some fantastic entertainment- one producing some of the most popular horror and fiction books of his generation- the other creating one of the greatest television series in two decades.
But both have signaled their plans to leave only after overstaying their welcomes. They have exhausted their respective imaginations but keep mining, occasionally pulling out a tiny gold nuggest from the mines that once were their motherlodes.
King's last great works came in the early 90s- and Carter's last great season of X-Files was at least two or three seasons ago.
so bummer. I'll watch- but not because I've any interest in seeing what happens to characters I once cared about. Instead, morbid curiousity makes me wonder "How bad will it be? How bloody bad can it get?" And methinks the answer will surprise us all.
the whole thing vaguely reminds of the last line of a beautiful poem I remember reading in high school.
"his face turned to the face of a man who has said goodbye, and can not find the door".
THANK THE GODS IT'S FINALLY OVER (Score:1)
series finale? (Score:1)
Lemmings (Score:1, Insightful)
The show has given me (and probably a lot of you)excellent entertainment from year one.
I still enjoy the X-Files. I have since the pilot and I am sure I always will
FYI: Duchovny / Anderson to do 2nd X-files movie (Score:1)
http://www.upcomingmovies.com/xfiles2.html [upcomingmovies.com]
The answers to all your X-Files timeline questions (Score:2)