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    The X-Files returns

    With less than a month to go before The X-Files returns from its "13-year commercial break" for a six-episode event series, the long-running sci-fi series has provided a 21-minute video as a preview for the miniseries. The extended clip doubles as a refresher for old fans and introduction to uninitiated viewers who didn't grow up with David Duchovny's Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully. For viewers who don't have time to marathon-watch The X-Files' nine seasons on Netflix, the "Re-Opened" featurette is mandatory viewing.

    Like the original X-Files, the miniseries' arc will feature a combo of "Mythology" episodes – Mulder and Scully's series-long search for proof of extraterrestrial life – and standalone "Monster of the Week" episodes, where the agents are roped into a bizarre investigation outside their UFO pursuits. This time around, the two types of episodes will bleed into one another (as opposed to the original series, which kept the storylines and its consequences separate). "Even in the standalone episode, there's some story to advance," Duchovny says. "It's not just about the case."

    At the heart of the six-episode miniseries is the continuing story of Mulder and Scully. "We've always tried to have a human element. It was always tied to how it affected Mulder and Scully as human beings, and same here," writer Darin Morgan, who penned some of The X-Files most beloved and offbeat episodes, says in the preview. "They're going through all these weird stories but the throughlines is them confronting their age and confronting their life choices."

    The X-Files' miniseries premieres January 24th. In addition to bringing back the majority of the main cast – even supposedly deceased characters like the Smoking Man – creator Chris Carter and the series' main stable of writers returned for the new episodes.



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    This may sound weird, I never watched this series.

    If I do, is there something to learn from it? Or is that "information" available in a less "fictionalized" format here?

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    If I do, is there something to learn from it? Or is that "information" available in a less "fictionalized" format here?
    Did you know that many of the X-Files stories were based on actual FBI cases.But unfortunately for me i think some of the whistleblowers got their information from this actual series.For me Dan bursch i am on the fence with him if you see what he came out with its like a copy of the x files stuff.

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    Quote Originally posted by The One View Post
    Did you know that many of the X-Files stories were based on actual FBI cases.But unfortunately for me i think some of the whistleblowers got their information from this actual series.For me Dan bursch i am on the fence with him if you see what he came out with its like a copy of the x files stuff.

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    I agree on the Dan Burisch thing. There was just something about his body language that told me he was a fraud. He may have had real inside knowledge, but I don't trust him.

    He also had an exaggerated sense of drama, and he loved being on camera and/or in front of an audience. That much was very clear.
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    I think X-Files is at least one of those shows that get produced with a drip feed of insider information. I'm sure a lot of things are "hollywooded up" and interpreted loosely, but some of the things in the few X-Files episodes I've seen are obviously based on the kinds of things that whistleblowers get serious about.

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    Quote Originally posted by bsbray View Post
    I think X-Files is at least one of those shows that get produced with a drip feed of insider information. I'm sure a lot of things are "hollywooded up" and interpreted loosely, but some of the things in the few X-Files episodes I've seen are obviously based on the kinds of things that whistleblowers get serious about.
    Also, The X-Files wasn't the only series revolving around a UFO cover-up by secret government agencies. There was another such series around 1996-1997, called Dark Skies, which explains the events of modern history from the vantage of an extraterrestrial intervention into human affairs.

    Although the series does depict the typical alien Greys as hostile beings, it will turn out later that the real enemy is a spider-like parasitic species with a hive mind, which can attach themselves to humans, Greys and animals alike, and as such, completely take control of their victim's bodies, similar to the alien invaders in Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters, which was adapted into a movie in 1994.

    Anyway, this here-below was the pilot episode of Dark Skies. As I gather, only 18 follow-up episodes were ever made before the series was cancelled for not meeting the expected viewer ratings.


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    Aragorn, that was great. I never saw it. I wonder if the remaining episodes are as good.

    John Jackson, playing Charles Pratt, looks a lot like Steve Martin.

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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    Aragorn, that was great. I never saw it. I wonder if the remaining episodes are as good.
    Well, I've watched that series back when it aired here, and as I recall, it was pretty good indeed, albeit somewhat dark/sinister in tone.
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    For those who missed last nights episode it here http://www.fox.com/watch/607308867569/7756658688

    For those not living in the USA you will not be able to view it unless you change your location. I have just used dotvpn you then click united states and you will be able to watch it.

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    How can you change your location, Malc?

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    Quote Originally posted by Elen View Post
    How can you change your location, Malc?
    By using a VPN ("virtual private network"), as he wrote. It's like a proxy server, but less detectable.
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    Quote Originally posted by Elen View Post
    How can you change your location, Malc?
    https://dotvpn.com/en/
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