Nah, go for the darker more realistic version. Mulder just goes further down the rabbit hole, ends up going full Qanon, and ends up being killed trying to storm the capital building.
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Great 1st season arc. I would add, not killed. Arrested then pardoned, but not before befriending some right wing militia that swears they captured Bigfoot and are breeding and training him to make super soldiers.
So serious scooby doo.
As long as Gillian Anderson reprises her role... sign me up.
Sounds like it would veer kinda close to Hannibal.
On that topic, I miss Hannibal. Mads Mikkelsen is an amazing Hannibal... and Gillian Anderson was in it!
Hannibal was fucking amazing and I agree, both Gillian Anderson and Mads Mikkaelson were amazing in it.
Also agree. That final episode still haunts me to this day.
The thing that kills me, is that there would have been more Hannibal if NBC and Amazon (Which had the streaming rights) werent complete dicks about selling the show and impossible deadline demands from Amazon if they picked it up.
10 years later, and we're still hyped about the show... and the corporate mechanisms seized up due to executive stupidity and have prevented us from having the product we yearn for.
I mean executive idiocy is the reason for a good portion of stupid decisions in every field. How we let coloring book majors be the most listened to and hold the most authoritive positions is a large blackmark on our society.
A good deal of CEOS are psychopaths or sociopaths.
They get elevated cause they are masters of manipulation, are capable of oozing massive amounts of false charisma, and have zero fucks about cutting down and hurting anyone in their way.
Which explains a lot of corporatism
I just read a book that somewhat follows this kind of premise: A person believes in ghosts, and all these things happen, and, as the reader, I'm totally on board with it being ghosts. Then a new character enters, and gives logical explanations for everything, and the main character, and me, the reader, realize that, oh damn, it's not ghosts at all. Except then it turns out it WAS ghosts, and the shit hits the fan.
It was a really fun read.
What's the book called?
Tap for spoiler
The September House
I too am curious, even though now it sounds like the premise has been spoiled.
Yea, I didn't know how to write about it without spoiling it 😩
Partly what made the TV series 'Evil' so good was that it was horror from a skeptical perspective.
Maybe with one subplot coming up occasionally that simply cannot be explained rationally, which drives Scully mad.
Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.
It had "new strange" style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond understanding, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: "it's all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand." The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.
That said, there's no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there's gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.
That sounds fun.
For the first sentence or two, I thought you were talking about the unrelated book.
Thank you for the new media!
Belief*
Thinking about that now, it's one of the most long-running and popular media-things concerning 'deep state' fears before 2016. And while The X-Files ended, and for someone like me ended too late, one that toppled it is still running around on coke and hamberders having the most unpenetrateable fanbase ever. Why it's not Firefly but Taco having a second season?
That's literally what happened in the reboot that came out a few years ago...
Sounds boring for the most part, although the new Revelations episode would be interesting, since Scully was the believer and Mulder was the skeptic.
That would turn it into Scooby Doo. In the end it always turns out to be done by some greedy prick trying to cover things up with mysticism.
My first thought
NO. Do NOT meddle with my X-Files just because you want to satisfy some selfish bullshit. Good DAY, sir.
I said good DAY
and this time Gillian Anderson is paid the same as David Duchovny from the very beginning
I feel that any sufficiently understood form of the supernatural would just folded into science, it would be cool to see a show with a hybrid character like scully that is still a scientific and skeptic minded person that can ratle off the sub species of gnomes but knows that they where chased out of the reagon centuries ago and there haven't been any reports of them in the neighbouring regions that couldn't be explained away, while yes gnomes exist it turns out it was a serial killer using folk tales to throw off the investigation
I guess the short way to put it is there's no reason things need to be mundane to be logically explored with scientific methods
"Most humans regect the existence of the supernatural just as some regect the validity of vaccines despite the vast documented evidence."
*reject
No my phone put in regect it's in there multiple times
What you're describing is the Science Fantasy subgenre. If you haven't already, like Sanctuary and Fringe are exactly what you'd be looking for.
Ya I've seen those but I felt like this would be a better alternative to scully always being right and nothing really fun happening, I guess I'd rather have supernatural + CSI instead of scooby doo + CSI, not sure if CSI is the best example but the only other cop show I could think of was law and order
You kinda arrived at Rick and Morty
I'd hope to not have characters so jaded and cynical even if they have to deal with killers
Then I watch
My head canon is that Mulder applied for Blue Rose membership but was too loosey-goosey for Gordon Cole to hire him. Cole would've hired Scully in a heartbeat.
I would love this except the twist would be everything he gave up believing in turns out to be true
Every episode, Scully is "right", but they show the comedic rush of the Illuminati-like group to patch up the cover-up as they're being investigated.
MUSH ROOM
It's called Scooby Doo
Reverse Scooby doo
You mean X-Files is, right?
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