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One among many: The X-Files’s fascinating role in blurring the line between cinema and television – always a touchy subject, especially at a time when so many think-piece writers and social media posters sound off defensively about how TV is so good now.
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Though mainstream appeal has waned, the cult persists.įor a number of reasons, I’m one of those who proselytise for the series in toto – peaks, valleys and plateaux. Some have even spoken of their love of the much maligned second theatrical feature, The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), which was more concerned with intimately scrutinising the Mulder-Scully relationship than providing ‘closure’ to the labyrinthine narrative that Carter and his collaborators devised, not always elegantly, over a labour-intensive decade. In the run-up to the new series a few devoted X-Philes (the official moniker for fans) have voiced their appreciation for the latter seasons.
Multiple answers, none of them definitive – kind of like an X-File.Īnnabeth Gish as Monica Reyes and Robert Patrick as John Doggett in season six of The X-Filesīut reactions cut the other way, too. For still others, it was after season seven, when Duchovny split, frustrated by the rigorous filming schedule and angry with Fox for holding out on profits, appearing in only half the episodes of season eight and one instalment of season nine those years showcased a new pair of agents, John Doggett ( Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes ( Annabeth Gish), toward whom many fans were decidedly ambivalent, if not outright hostile. For others it was the moment, different for everyone, when the show’s overarching narrative (which dealt with the alien colonisation of Earth, but was interrupted for large portions of each season by a number of standalone ‘Monster of the Week’ episodes) became too convoluted for its own good. For some it was when the series stopped filming in atmospherically misty Vancouver and moved production to sun-baked Los Angeles. The break-up points are never entirely the same. Yet ultimately it was this strangely invigorating Kolchak: The Night Stalker-inspired mix of government paranoia, conspiracy theory, alien abduction, religious mysticism and slow-burn melodrama – the brainchild of 35-year-old former Surfing magazine reporter Chris Carter – that caught on with critics and audiences alike, going from a cult item to a zeitgeisty blockbuster… and back again.Īsk people about The X-Files and it’s likely they’ll fondly recall the earlier years while dismissing the later ones.
The executives at Fox, the show’s home network, were more enamoured of its 8pm lead-in, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., a sci-fi western starring Sam Raimi muse Bruce Campbell as a steampunkish bounty hunter. When that pilot first aired, at 9pm on 10 September 1993, nobody had reason to expect that its own journey would last almost nine years and include two movies – not to mention a new six-part miniseries, which premieres on 24 January. The X-Files miniseries is airing now on Channel 5 in the UK and Fox in the US.
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