This is really just for me to obsess over the new X-Files film now there are little titbits of information and a few stills around.

I so hope that there's still enough interest to make this a success.

I really think it's going to be excellent. They're going to have a sort of post-90s cynicism hanging over everything. People are so used to conspiracy stuff now that I think we just take it for granted, but the focus has shifted, the things we worry about now are things like climate change, like the way that wars and disasters seem to be perpetuated by capitalism - the horrors of this century are even worse than those of the last and I reckon they'll overshadow this film, even though it sounds like the story is more localised this time. Mulder and Scully will be older, more depressed than ever, careworn. I wonder what William will look like now.

They always used to do serial killer/forensic science stories really really well, and I think they had a lot of impact on shows such as Dexter and Bones. And in some of their finest episodes (eg Home, or in a different way, Paper Hearts) I think they did have that that-much-darker edge; but they did also tend towards over-seriousness a bit, and I think they'll have learned in turn from newer sensibilities and there'll be a bit more blood, gore, grim humour.

Also Xzibit is in it, which, you know, is going to be aces.

I've been meaning to buy up all the old X-Files episodes on second-hand DVD and start from the beginning, because I loved it back in the day, before it disappeared up its own arse with the whole labyrinthine conspiracy plot. I might try a bit harder to follow it up the aforementioned arse this time.

I interviewed Gillian Anderson once, you know. She had a screaming baby in the room, and a Meat Loaf CD on the stereo.

Some of those one- or two-part episodes, away from the increasingly tedious story arc, were absolutely fantastic. It had that grim, downbeat hopelessness that inspired stuff like Millennium (Lance Henriksen, not Robbie Williams) but with real moments of humour (I'm imagining Gillian Anderson eating that bug at the end of the freakshow/circus episode) and a lightness that the imitators never really matched.

You've MET Gillian? What was she like? A friend of mine had dinner with her once in Vancouver and said she spent the whole evening snogging her husband (this was the first one).

And you can't go wrong with any of the first 5 series, really. 6 and 7 have great moments too but are a bit more patchy.

There was loads of humour in the X-Files at the start.

The funniest episode was the one where Mulder swapped bodies with this horrible lech CIA agent, played by Michael McKean from Spinal Tap.

I always used to fall asleep through The X Files. Without fail. Ten minutes in, I'd be there on the sofa, head back, rivulet of dribble trickling down the side of my cheek.

I mean, despite myself - I did like the few minutes I caught before succumbing to the urge to nod off.

That was in series 6 Mitch! Dreamland.
Yeah they did humour really well. Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'; Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose; Bad Blood; Home; War of the Coprophages, the aforementioned Humbug, and now I realise what a colossal nerd I sound like so I'd better stop.

Lyra wrote:

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You've MET Gillian? What was she like? A friend of mine had dinner with her once in Vancouver and said she spent the whole evening snogging her husband (this was the first one).

Honestly, she was a bit boring and humourless.

Maybe I just wasn't asking the right questions, but it was one of those interviews where it never quite clicks.

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A friend of mine had dinner with her once in Vancouver and said she spent the whole evening snogging her husband

I read this a few times before I realised you meant Gillian Anderson was snogging her own husband rather than your friend's.

I've just been watching the trailer a few times in an attempt to keep the hype going. Let's face it it's what I've got to look forward to.

Anyway. It's going to be SO aces. It has almost everything. Mulder scrabbling in the snow. Mulder going 'I NEED you on this, Scully" in that super-romantic way just like he did in teh first film. The black oil! Visions from God and ranting priests. Extreme chiaroscuro. Scary medical equipment. People submerged in vats of icky goo. And some fantastic looking kissing. And Xzibit looks great.

I just cannot wait.

I never did see the first film. My brother was more into the X-Files than I was. I did however, purchase seasons 1-4 on DVD last year and I should really get round to buying the rest, but buying the Sopranos on DVD took over.

Duchovny is fucking great.

The first film was watchable but nothing special. I've forgotten most of it.

The title to the second one is a bit crap.

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The title to the second one is a bit crap.

Aye, it makes me heckle "I don't want to watch."
I used to love the show, but I hate stuff being brought back all the time for that old rope effect.

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The title to the second one is a bit crap.

But it's the poster in Mulder's office! And it's basically his own personal philosophy that's kept him going all these years.

I would normally agree about the old rope, etc, but this case is an exception.