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Scully to leave X-Files as well 144

Posted by Hemos from the this-is-the-end-of-the-innocense dept.
Rick Razzano writes "Canoe is reporting that Gillian Anderson says that she won't return for another season of the X-Files. She's saying that she's "spent" from doing the series.. So does this mean that the show will end, or can the show's producers find someone fill Mulder and Scully's shoes? "
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  • X-Files will Continue in movies, Carter vows. (Score:4)

    by ryder ( 111 ) on Wednesday October 06, 1999 @02:34PM (#1632847)
    According to today's Studio Briefing [imdb.com] over at the IMDB: Chris Carter says that series will continue on the big screen with both Duchovny and Anderson on board.

    The original source is today's New York Post. Anyone got a link?

  • As with all of the previous times the talent expressed a desire to leave, the producers will simply produce a regeneration scene to ease the transition to a new Doctor.....er.....wrong show, sorry.
  • Chris Carter has been saying for awhile that this would be the last season and they would continue doing XFiles movies. It would be rather pointless to do a movie where you have to introduce two new characters because Mulder & Scully were killed in the final TV episodes.

    I just hope that they have the guts to make the aliens invade Earth for the last couple of episodes. That would be a hell of a way to end the show.
  • Remember when they changed the Duke boys? It really sucked (ok, it already sucked, but now it sucked even more).

    The moral is that it just doesn't work. Unless your show is called Law & Order.

  • A-Team (Score:1)

    by belial ( 674 )
    Lance Henriksen has played a Frank Black before.

    in the A-Team.

    Seriously.

    It's scary.
    But True.

  • This always happens. Remember the two fake cousins on the Dukes of Hazzard who showed up for the third season when the original actors left, who looked just like Bo and Luke but weren't? Or the poor guy who looked just like Johnny Depp on Jump Street after he left? Or the dark haired guy and the blond guy, who were supposed to be Apollo and Starbuck's kids on Galactica 1980, who were in their 20s even though Commander Adama hadnt aged a day? I *am* kidding about comparing those shows to the X-files, but there's truth in all this: network executives always take great shows and ruin them by trying to "keep the magic going" after the original stars leave. Instead of doing the right thing and cancelling the show, or making a truly different spinoff with a few of the remaining characters, they instead create what effectively becomes a parody of the original by sticking in clones of the actors and hiring bad writers to do canned remakes of old episodes. And then the show becomes tainted; instead of a great few seasons and a brilliant ending we're left with the memory of yet another gasping struggle for ratings. It's had a good life, let it die with dignity.
  • This always happens. Remember the two fake cousins on the Dukes of Hazzard who showed up for the third season when the original actors left, who looked just like Bo and Luke but weren't? Or the poor guy who looked just like Johnny Depp on Jump Street after he left? Or the dark haired guy and the blond guy, who were supposed to be Apollo and Starbuck's kids on Galactica 1980, who were in their 20s even though Commander Adama hadnt aged a day?

    I *am* kidding about comparing those shows to the X-files, but there's truth in all this: network executives always take great shows and ruin them by trying to "keep the magic going" after the original stars leave. Instead of doing the right thing and cancelling the show, or making a truly different spinoff with a few of the remaining characters, they instead create what effectively becomes a parody of the original by sticking in clones of the actors and hiring bad writers to do canned remakes of old episodes. And then the show becomes tainted; instead of a great few seasons and a brilliant ending we're left with the memory of yet another gasping struggle for ratings.

    It's had a good life, let it die with dignity.

  • She didn't have much of a choice (Score:4)

    by Scott ( 1049 ) <stl@ossuary.net> on Wednesday October 06, 1999 @02:41PM (#1632854) Homepage
    I think it was an Entertainment Weekly interview with Duchovny where he said he was leaving, and that he though Carter was going to kill the series after this season.

    Infact, in EW's fall show preview issue coverage of the X-Files, they confirm this is the last season and Mulder and Scully will do something they've never done before.
  • ...and bring back the writers from the first
    two seasons of Millinium. It would be Millinium
    with a different name. Man, I miss that show. :)
  • Relaunch? Huh? With the writers from the first
    two seasons hopefully? I used to love that show,
    but when the original writers left...well, I
    have no reason to even own a TV now. ;)

  • good (Score:1)

    by jafac ( 1449 )
    then with the exception of King of the Hill, I now have my Sunday nights back.

    Don't get me wrong, I loved X-Files, but all good things must come to an end. They were running out of decent stories anyway.

    It will be sad to watch Fox try to butcher and bastardize something to try to capitalize as much as they can from the carcass. Let's hope the maggots make quick work of it.

    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
  • Hey, she signed that piece of paper, and took Fox's money.
    That's what contracts are for - to keep spoiled actors (and sports figures), working long after they figure they got enough money and fame.

    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
  • . . . then again, the Krychek character has been through a lot of changes - switching sides, (?), being an underling of "the syndicte", then later, apparently having the upper hand - his continuing adventures could make for an interesting season or two (no more!).

    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
  • No, the entire show has been about the phenomenon of the "urban legend" in American pop culture. The Mulder (irrational truth) vs. Scully (objectivist denial) dynamic was just there for fun.

    "The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
  • Aye, Krycek is one possibility. Perhaps making him an Anakinesque fallen hero would work.

    Or have something about the early days of the Cigarette Smoking Man (Spender or whatever his name is) and his cabal; though that might be too Dark Skies-esque.

    One idea I've had was for something focusing on the early days of the Well-Manicured Man's involvement in the conspiracy, set in the labyrinthine British intelligence establishment at the height of the Cold War. There'd be plenty of potential there for intrigue, paranoia and head-spinning plot twists, and WMM (with his reversal and subsequent death in the movie) would make a great Anakin.
  • I had heard that Chris Carter's vision was "7 seasons" but I could be misremembering

  • Anderson will be the new Shelly Stringfield (ER quitter), and Ducovny will be the new David Caruso (NYPD Blue quitter). Neither of these two had any success after they quit, and their careers are for all intensive purposes, dead
    I think there's reason for a little more optimism. Gillian is the less experienced of the two as far as movies go, but I think she shows good promise. Despite being paired against a miscast Jon Stewart, she was real good in Playing by Heart, although I'll admit that she gets totally upstaged in that one by Angelina Jolie who is awesome. She had a small part in the recent The Mighty too, and despite only minutes of screen time she shines in a role completely opposite her stoic X-Files character. My only worry is that Hollywood isn't very kind to actresses over 30--she's 31. Duchovny was already a veteran actor before the X-Files, so I don't need to argue about his future. I'm not as big a fan of him as I am of Gillian (gee, wonder why?), but so long as she's around, he'll at least have the X-Files movies.

  • Gillian's movies [imdb.com]. Not sure how I screwed that one up.

  • David Hasselhof as Mulder, Pamela Anderson Lee as Scully..

    Then call it: X-Files Nights

  • Okay guys, I see the potential to bring Scooby-Doo back on the air. That would seriously kick ass. Of course, it would have to be animated. The test photo on dark horizons last week of some dude made up to look like Shaggy was creepier than the creepiest costumed amusement park owner I've ever seen.
  • Mulder and scully should be obducted by aliens that have been conspiring with a secret government agency and the Vatican.
  • Replace Mulder and Scully with two aliens that are both pretending to be Mulder and Scully. Each one would think that the other is real and would have to keep up the charade

  • Re:good (Score:1)

    by JoelG ( 5822 )
    Yeah. I personally think that either they could either:
    1. Take somone like the renegade "group" member and show his adventures trying to undermine the plans that the "Smoking man" comes up with. That could probably last a few seasons.
    2. Continue it on only in movies (This idea stinks IMHO.)
    3. Kill it off and come up with something new (Now that's a novel idea.)
    4. Have someone replace Mulder and Scully. If this idea is to work they must have two people with two COMPLETELY different dispositions than Mulder & Scully. To try to reproduce them would be a complete failure to revitalize the show. Maybe instead having a person that is half on the verge of skepticism, yet also wanting to believe. With a partner that really couldn't care more or less about the philisophical aspect of the cases and is just there to enjoy the ride (trigger happy mad man?) Now that would be a rather good spin off. Though this type of show would still run into the problem of not much material being available. Maybe instead of funky alien interactions they could be in the midst of multiple alien civilizations trying to infiltrate the earth (AKA: Earth Final Conflict, without the friendly contact), and they are experiencing all of the wierdness of these species slowly infiltrating into earths conscience? While trying to keep the fact that the aliens are there totally hush, hush (Like MIB.) The search for truth could still be there but maybe with a different twist. Like one of the FEDS wife was abducted by aliens, had a wierd entity inside of her, and is slowly mutating into one of them? There are many possibilities!
    Though you must admit, since when has anyone made a good spinoff of a show? There are many possibilities but generally the producers are already so engulfed in ideas of money instead of quality, they don't care about uniqueness anymore.
  • Modify the name of the show to something more funky, like "ne-X-t Generation", and voila... the show must go on.

    Surely 'the Y-Files' would be the logical choice?


  • the hell w/Bo and Luke, Dukes of Hazzard wouldn't be the same w/o Daisy!

  • Yeah, he's scheduled to guest star in an episode later this season. (It was rumored that it would be the first episode during the year 2000, but that part is yet unconfirmed, AFAIK.)

  • They might try and do something with the other characters in the show (much like "Angel" spinning off from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" this season.). Even if they tried to claim it was still the "X-Files", it would be a spin-off, however. Given that X-Files is so popular, it'd be pretty likely that they'd try to create some kind of spin-off.
  • Well, they did have Bo and Luke swapped out for thier "cousins" at one point in time whilest bo and luke did something else, maybe injured or something...

  • Whew .. (Score:1)

    by Splat ( 9175 )
    I used to watch the X-Files religiously. Except as of late in the past 3 seasons or so, I'd turn on FOX and the suckfest would begin. After Mulder's nth abduction things got pretty stupid. Gillian Anderson is doing a good thing getting away from the show - it's like beating a dead horse. She's got immense acting talent (ok I'm goign to get snotty comments for that... she's ABOVE AVERAGE).

    Hopefully Chris Carter realizes it's time for the show to end finally.. maybe. I think a really good show could be built around the supporting characters such as Skinner, The Lone Gunmen, and maybe a few of those badass FBI suits who are always causing trouble. A spinoff series with The Lone Gunmen would be quite good, but I don't know if you could build a show entirely around Skinner. Mitch Pugel (I know I just totally blew that guys name ..) is a really decent actor but his characters gone quite bland in recent years. Plus he lost all credibility from me when he hosted that Masked Magician show :)
  • Ah crap, THAT'S who I was forgetting. His character could also be something really really cool in a series of his own.
  • Thanks to the X-Files, a whole new generation has grown up believing in hogwash like UFOs, telepathy, teleportation, etc etc.

    As a firm rationalist, I think the X-Files is as dangerous as TV evangelism, and about as valid.

    Hell, even the stories were crap after Toombs.

    It deserves to be cancelled NOW.
    --

  • no way (Score:1)

    by Norny ( 9940 )
    David and Gillian are the XFiles. Replacing them would just make Fox look stupid. I would like to see them have one final blow-your-mind show though.
  • I'm not a big fan of the show (totally lost track of the story about a season ago) but I heard about this on the radio. Apparently Gillian Anderson has made the statement that she is spent physically and emotionally and no longer wants to do the show, BUT the studio says she still has two years of contract left and WILL be returning. So if she really does want to leave, it looks like there will be a nice legal fight to add to the drama.

    It is a sad situation when a piece of paper forces someone to do something they really don't want to do, but at the same time you must consider how much the studio has invested in the show's success. Someone is going to have to be the loser here.

  • Has anyone noticed that "Harsh Realm" is the bastard offspring of "Strange Luck" and "VR-5" (or whatever it was called) ?

    D. B. Sweeney plus virtual reality equals "Harsh Realm."

    Don't worry, that sucking noise you hear is just the script.
  • I just hope that they have the guts to make the aliens invade Earth for the last couple of episodes. That would be a hell of a way to end the show

    I was just thinking - maybe this show (and all the ones like it) are really out there to help the population adjust to the "Cultural Shock" of an upcoming real-life scheduled alien invasion.

    If not, it still seems like it would be good timing on the aliens part. Hello up there?

    Then again, I might just be a bit paranoid.

    System halted
  • I preferred Rosco P. Coltrane myself. I think I can still do a pretty good imitation of him too.
  • Actually I have not for about three years.
    For news I listen to the BBC world service.

    When I glance at what other people watching TV these days, I'm amazed. 104 channels of garbage.(Okay, maybe I'll exclude CNBC, but not CNN)
  • Remember Coy and Vance. They were the replacement cousins on the Dukes of Hazard. When I was little, I watched the show constantly, now I can't stand it.

    --Dixie Horn, Red-Orange streak, and off they go
  • Pass the crack-pipe over here, you need to share! :)

    What in the world are you TALKING about? If you could just try to be a LITTLE more unrelated to the topic at hand, it would make it easier for the moderators to recognize that you're either trying to be ludicrously funny or that you're really serious about what you're saying.

  • clink! clink! clink! clink!

    :-)
  • New Fox show: The Lone Gunmen! Yeah!

  • So, there was a planned Millennium crossover, with Frank Black making an appearance on the X-Files. I'm not sure if this is still happening, but either way it implies that Carter's creations lie in one universe. Wouldn't it be possible for Mulder and Scully to live on within the universe, perhaps making appearances when the time is right? Obviously, this could easily be overused and made stale, but, done right, it could be an effective method of keeping the two characters "alive."
  • You've got to be kidding! Mulder and Scully are the only good points about the show (with the possible exception of the Lone Gunmen). It sure wasn't Chris Carter's "vision"--Harsh Realm is going to die a nasty death.
    ---
  • The X-Files without Mulder and Scully would be like The Dukes of Hazzard without Bo and Luke, it would suck...
  • It sorta doesn't work. What if she does her work poorly? They'll want her to leave...
  • Point well taken. I guess if she's leaving the business it might be worth acting as such.. but hey, if she's with the show tha long, she must love her job as an actress more than who she's working for...
  • Man, I seriously hope that since the main actors are leaving the show, the powers that be will just let it go. There is nothing lamer than having the main character leave, only to be replaced suddenly with someone else who shares that person's motivations... The show wouldn't make sense if they add in new characters. (and no, I don't want it to suddenly be about the CSM and Mimi Rogers, thank you.) The entire show has been about Mulder, his obsession with the truth, and his burgeoning relationship with Scully. To try and add in a new set of characters will kill the entire idea off and ruin the memory of the show. It will always live on in reruns and movies.

    Lotek---

  • The show has been on for ages, and there were arguments between Carter (producer) and Duchovny (Mulder) on money, that's why Duchovny left. He'd left earlier, but it seems he didn't have much success with his movie career. It's different for Anderson, who hasn't played big parts but who was pretty successful at them (according to the critics; see this site [ao.net] for more on Anderson). I think they'll make more movies because the overall money/time ratio is better ;-)
  • They should have M&S permanently lost somewhere and focus on the lone gunmen. They're already the next most popular characters. It would be an almost perfect spinoff that would appeal to geek culture. Or maybe chris will focus on harsh realm and make it not suck as hard as millenium.
  • The show should go out with a bang. I'd like to see them both get killed off by the bad guys. It would be just like real life where the good guys loose and the powers-that-be win. Kind of fitting for the show.

    Of course, I'd like to see another movie too...

    I'll miss them.
  • I wonder why my last comment got "redundant" when I was the first to say it... not that I really care, but I think I was expressing a valid viewpoint. The show itself has become redundant, which is what I said... maybe I pissed off a x-files die-hard ;)

  • (Score:1)

    by segmond ( 34052 )
    Every good thing must come to an end. Xfile has
    already ended as far as I am concerned, I do not watch it any more, it got too boring, and I hate re-runs. I use to love this show, and give up everything to watch it, but they screwed up, too late, they should let it be.

  • The Simpsons had a pretty good X-Files parody a couple of years ago.
  • Someone actually told me that was the plan... Of course, he's not entirely credible, so I take it with a grain of salt. Anyway, I haven't watched Millenium...

    -----------

    "You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."

  • "something they've never done before"
    ?? Hmmm...
    Gives all the X-philes something to think about. I'm thinking that this "something they've never done before" is pr0n.

    Oh, wait, Duchovny has already done that.

  • They can be replaced. (Score:3)

    by blue_adept ( 40915 ) on Wednesday October 06, 1999 @02:33PM (#1632912)

    Scully should be replaced by a gorgeous woman with telepathic abilities, and Mulder should be replaced by a more authoritarian, comandeering figure... possibly a bald ship captain.

    Also, they should change the mood of X-files to something a little brighter and more futuristic... maybe a spaceship... and swap out smoking man for an android. Now THAT would be cool. Modify the name of the show to something more funky, like "ne-X-t Generation", and voila... the show must go on.



  • There's been a couple of shows that have focused primarily on the Lone Gunmen and they seem to be able to handle center stage pretty well. If they got some good storylines I think they could make a very entertaining spinoff. I also think Krycek might be able to fare well in a spinoff. He seems to have a lot of sides to his personality, he's had quite a few adventures. The more I think about it, the more I think they could really do something with that character.
  • ...that they bring in Lance Henriksen as Frank Black.
  • I want to see what happens. I think this might be a good thing, if it is known in advance that the series is coming to an end, they can plot out the last season properly. I'd rather have some kind of ending than be stuck the way I was at the end of Twin Peaks...
  • They should never have moved production out of
    Vancouver. The quality of the show went *way*
    downhill after that. Everyone appears to have lost interest - including the viewers!

  • From what I understand, and have been told (My Father is in the X-Files fan club) the show was never meant to go over 5 seasons. So when some people complain of repeditive content, you can understand why. Truely the movie did mostly 'end' the series, since most everything was in the open by then, and Mulder got what he was looking for. Be it true or not about how long the show was intended to last (I hope somone will correct me if I am wrong) it's still a dissapointment to see the cast slowly leaving. I pretty much own my TV for X-Files.. =] But like any good show, it has to end somewhere. At least what they did have, they made to be a Very Good Thing. Looks like I'm going to be back in front of the monitor 16 hours a day again.. =]
  • News Flash CBS 198?

    In a news flash today the producers of the hit show "Dukes of Hazzard" say the stars who play "Bo" and "Luke Duke" are leaving the show. The producers say the show will go on with two new characters, apropriately enough, cousins, who will be named "Coy" and "Vance". After all, it is the innovative plots that weekly drive the show and not the characters according to unnamed CBS executives.

    But can the future Coy and Vance continue to jump the General Lee over all the Friday night Prime Time competition? Time will tell.

    Tom Wopat and John Schneider refused to comment, but sources believe they may return for annual weekly movies. Other executives point to the failure of the spin off show "Enos", to generate enough interest and viewers to justify continuation of the popular action series with its main stars gone, but where there's a chance to make money, Hollywood will give anything a try.
  • I just hope that they have the guts to make the aliens invade Earth for the last couple of episodes. That would be a hell of a way to end the show.

    Been there, done that. I believe it was called "V."

  • Back in the day, the X-Files was one of my absolute fave shows and not just because Gillian Anderson is a Goddess (which she is ;-)).When it was good, it was *really* good--well-written scripts, tight acting, characters you gave a damn about, and mystery. But these last few seasons. . .

    I stopped watching the show regularly back in January--it was clear by then that it no longer had any direction, it was just gonna keep going on and on with no resolution to the story arc in sight. In fact, I don't really think that there IS a story arc any more, if there ever was; I believe Carter is now just more or less making it up as he goes. This is why I say Fox should just let it die. Instead of raping the corpse and trying to squeeze one last buck out of it they should wrap it all up neat and tidy this season--with or without an alien invasion--and move on to something else.

    Makes me appreciate Babylon 5 all the more--JMS decided at the start that he had a story he wanted to tell, that it would go on for a finite length of time with a beginning, middle and end, and that once it was over it was frigging OVER. I wish that that kind of foresight had gone into X-Files--the show would in all probability be finished by now, but at least it would have ended decently

  • Just a rather amusing scooby-doo tie-in:

    Cartoon Network ha sbeen running commercials for their newest "Cartoon Theater" production. A parody of Blair Witch entitled "The Scooby-Doo Project"

    The logo kicks serious ass. :)
  • Okay. Normally I don't go jumping up and down about a show, but TWIN PEAKS!! Preach on!

    Actually, Twin Peaks is a show that left the TV scene accidentally. Where X-files has just hit the 'growing old gracefully' mark. The X-files has been drying up ever since the conspirators were all turned into crispy critters by rebel aliens.
    I don't blame anyone for wanting to move on. Carter could salvage it, but hopefully he won't. That fact that Carter does try other things (Millienium, the new Harsh Realm) does show he's been planning to move on for awhile.

    As for Twin Peaks IIRC, David Lynch and Mark Frost had to stop, since the show didn't recieve network support and the story was hard to carry after the Black Lodge ending. Maybe it is time for Uberagent Dale Cooper to return with a recharge to the story line.


  • I'll buy any one of them a beer, If I run into them. Lone Gunmen rule, and I hope to see some folks at the local Con.

    Am I the only person who liked the last season? It looked like they cut loose with projects that got shelved during other seasons.

    ____________________
  • I suppose if Chris C. wanted, he could have them replaced with Pamela (Anderson) Lee and David Hasselhoff. Rename the show "X-Watch."

    Hey, its guaranteed to be a hit in Germany with all of D.H.'s star power.
    I guess that would give new meaning to the phrase "I have alien implants."

    >;)

    Hmmm, or they could have Nitrozac replace Scully. Which wouldn't be all that bad, you'd only get shots of Scully from behind or great close-ups of her boots!
    "Lone Gunmen, I'd like you to meet friends of mine; they're the Techno-Talkin' Babes."

    Ok...back to work for me.

    -Vel
  • I think if anything else happens with the show, it will spawn spin-offs. Kinda like Star Trek/TNG/DS9/Voyager. Other than that, the show is going to die.
  • Hmm. Mulder, Scully and the Lone Gunmen are lead into a trap by the original Deep Throat, who has returned from the dead to try and get them to join up with them.

    Deep Throat has set up a test for them, which Mulder think he has proven that Deep Throat is infested by Aliens, when actually Deep Throat is testing Mulders Loyalty.

    Mulder and DT meet, Mulder orders Deep Throat to stand still, but DT, overcome by emotion staggers forward to embrace him. Mulder fires twice, and DT Looks down to see a really big hole in his chest.

    Evil MIB (or whoever the main villans are) rush in, to show that it really was a trap the whole time, and they have been in complete control for the last season. The Lone Gunment and Mulder are quickly killed, and just Scully is left, standing over Mulders corpse, shocked by what has happened. They order her to drop her gun.

    She stands still, looking down at Mulder. Then, having reached a decision, she looks at the nearest generic redshirt, slowly raises her gun, points it at his face, smiles and... Freezeframe

    Credits roll, with the sound of gunfire replacing the usual music.

    Damn, they don't make Christmas episodes like that anymore. That just said "This is the end of the show".

    And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you missed a great English TV show in 1978-1981. Pity I just ruined the ending
  • Very rare - Quite Probably. Worth a large sum ? I doubt it.

    I have a copy myself, and I have the following problems with it :
    -some extreme out of character writing, -a silly main plot with Avon's Sister taking over the galaxy
    -the introduction of a copy of Orac called Caro, which was built by Avon as an anti-Orac
    -going to the effort to bring them back just so they can be killed in stupid ways (Tarrant gets killed by quick-evolving white sabertooth tigers on Terminal for example)

    The thing that annoyed me most was that Vila is written as a drug & alcohol addict. Not a 'I have nothing better to do, so I'll have a bit of a drink, if they are in trouble they'll call me. Oops one drink too many' who is kept around cause he is too useful to dump. And he's way too chummy with Avon, considering Avon had blatently tried to kill him in the 3rd last episode (Orbit)

    The two radio plays they did this year and last year are a much better value for money, even though they have a few plot problems. They get around the fact that the crew are all dead by setting them in the early 4th season.

    But honesty, wouldn't you love to see Scully and Mulder in this situation ? [blakes7.com]

  • They have. It's called Harsh Realm.

  • This is nothing new (Score:3)

    by Ferzerp ( 83619 ) on Wednesday October 06, 1999 @02:25PM (#1632930)
    As I posted when the Mulder story was posted. The X-files was not to continue after next season anyway. It would be hard for them to continue on the show when there is no show to continue on.

  • I certainly hope they cancel it (Score:3)

    by Jack William Bell ( 84469 ) on Wednesday October 06, 1999 @02:34PM (#1632931) Homepage Journal

    Considering how badly the Millenium re-launch was handled, and how easy it would have been to do it right, there is little hope that the a show as long-running as the X Files could continue without either of the stars.

    Which leaves room for something entirely new, and perhaps even as daring as the first season of Millenium...

    Jack

  • Or possibly Kyle Maclachlan as Agent Cooper.



    just kidding.
  • huh?

    where did you get this bit of "information"?
    did you make it up just now?
    or do you have some evidence to cite?
  • I've thought the show was going to end this season anyway, I hope they put it to death. I don't think this will be the end of the movies, though. Carter has said he plans more.

    Hope they don't do the law and order thing, to replace the only leading woman character on the show every 2 years.


    -- Moondog
  • i agrea totaly..scooby doo is goovy

    --bsDaemon
  • I used to be an avid X-Files fan until the abduction thing started becoming the main theme of the story, instead of the "investigation of the paranormal," which was the original intent of the whole X-Files project. Replacing the characters won't work, I've seen several halfway-decent shows ruined by that attempt. Let the show die and move on to something else.
  • I read an interview of CC where he stated that originally, Nick Lea was to be the lead in Harsh Ream (intentional misspelling), but it didn't come together. CC does want to keep working with Lea, tho.
  • She is the BASIS of the story!!! She's so skeptical which keeps the story going. Without her, the story would and will be shorter. All I can say is, please get someone good to fulfill her place. If not, I am going to open up a can...
  • I think they owe it to there fans to finish the show the way it was meant to be. I agree with people that it has been dragging on a for some time, but I still want to see it end in a good way. All good things come to and end, but do they come to a good end?
  • Anderson will be the new Shelly Stringfield (ER quitter), and Ducovny will be the new David Caruso (NYPD Blue quitter). Neither of these two had any success after they quit, and their careers are for all intensive purposes, dead (and no, made for TV movies don't count Shelly).

    If Anderson & Ducovny were smart they'd stick around and do another X-files movie. At least that way they wouldn't have to work again. But now people are going to be pissed off at them for forcing the show to end. And, IMHO it is still the only show in the wasteland of TV worth watching, despite what people say about it getting old.

  • Hey that's really funny... about a year ago I dressed up as Gillian Anderson and went out to some bars and met this... oh shit.

    --
    Child: Mommy, where do .sig files go when they die?
    Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
    I've never been the same since.

  • It sorta doesn't work. What if she does her work poorly? They'll want her to leave...

    She won't be getting many job offers in the future if she acts like a spoiled actress and pouts about it by doing a lousy job.

    I think the professionals (including her) wouldn't do this. She's got a lot of acting (including live) experience, and I don't think she'd do this or would even want to do this.

    BTW, I work in television and see pissed off people become the most personable people you'd want to meet when the cameras are rolling.

  • .........and am I the only one that knows that this year was planned for the last two years as the final season of the X-Files, and that *OF COURSE* neither Duchovney or Anderson would be returning after this year?

    Hello? I guess this "canoe.com" doesn't even know what the hell is going on either...

    sixgun

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