New beginning?

And you thought this blog was dead!

The X-Files is coming back to television!

I am so excited for this. I especially like that it's a limited, six episode run, though presumably if it does well, there'll then be talk of extending it into a full series.

But for now, six episodes will give them the space to tell a concise and tight story. And given the changes to television in general between 2002 and now, I'm expecting more serialisation and continuity than the original series had, even if they do extend it to a full 'tenth' season of the show.

I'm not sure how the comics (which I am so far behind on) will fit in to this, and I really hope they ignore the second movie, too, because that was crap. I'd even be fine with them saying seasons eight and nine weren't canon and restart after Mulder's abduction. Revive the Lone Gunmen, undo William's entire existence, pretend John Doggett doesn't exist (though we'd then also have to pretend Scully never threw a cup of water on him), maybe try and find a way to at least bring Monica Reyes back because she was cool at least, and bring the Cigarette Smoking Man back for one last conspiracy.

Either way, this is some of the best TV news I've heard since Supernatural got renewed for an eleventh season.

This blog will obviously have to change somewhat, since I'm not binging the show, but I'll be watching in real time, discovering all the twists and turns at the same time as everyone else watching it. That's pretty exciting, too, since I didn't get to experience that when the series first aired.

So, welcome back. I probably won't post much (read: at all) over the summer, and I still prefer to avoid spoilers, but posting will resume when the first new episode airs.

The End

So this is it, I think. I don't know that I have that much more to say about The X-Files that I haven't said in the course of watching 201 episodes and two movies.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe

Uh, what the hell did I just watch?

The X-Files Final Friday Feature: Favourites

Before I get to the second movie (that'll be on Monday), I might as well go through the series and talk about some of my favourites. I feel like such lists would have been made a lot in 2002, and since the movie didn't come out until six years later, I don't think there's much left to be revealed that would influence my list or anyone else's. I can list things I really liked, and maybe a few things I really didn't, and I'll write about I Want To Believe next week.

The X-Files Season 9, Episodes 19/20: The Truth

The end. Wait, that was season five. This is really the end. No more X-Files episodes after this. One movie. Some comics. And it's over.

Nine years of television, for us condensed into around ten months. And what a ride this has been. Let's see how it all turns out.