![]() ![]() FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) back in actionĪ feature film spinoff The X Files (1998) had been produced between the fifth and sixth seasons, although that was generally regarded as unsatisfying by the series’ fans, caught with the unenviable task of trying to condense the plot of the first three seasons into a single film so that newcomers could understand what was going on, while at the same time continuing to spin the ongoing mythology out so that fans could enjoy it.ĭespite the film’s mixed reception, there had been strong rumours during the decade between the release of The X Files and I Want to Believe of a second X Files film. It was not long after that the series was cancelled. By this point, the back mythology was becoming so improbably contrived that most fans lost interest, while the original standalone stories offered clear evidence that the show was running out of original ideas. Neither of these new characters caught on in a big way. ![]() ![]() The series was certainly past its peak years by the time of the final two seasons where David Duchovny bowed out, having become bored with the show, and Gillian Anderson’s Scully became the believer in ‘extreme possibilities’ and was paired with two new agents played by Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish. The X Files is generally regarded as having jumped the shark from about the sixth season onwards (if not earlier), concurrent with David Duchovny’s demands that the production base be moved from Vancouver back to California on the grounds that he did not like being separated from his wife. Unfortunately, as The X Files went on, the back mythology became so tied in knots in the series’ constant need to keep providing surprises that it became apparent that the show was a shaky house of cards that had been built with little forward planning, unlike a show such as Babylon 5 (1993-8), which come with a pre-planned schema. Less successful was the series back mythology, which concerned an extraordinarily complex conspiracy involving different factions of aliens, alien-human breeding experiments, covert factions of the government and a web of secrets involving Mulder’s family and past. It was one of the first tv series to substantially gain its fandom via the internet, where for a time star Gillian Anderson became one of the most searched images of women online.ĭuring its heyday, The X Files ventured into fairly much every field of the paranormal and fringe science imaginable and the episodes were clever and sharply written. The show, which was initially not expected to be a hit by 20th Century Fox, garnered a huge fanbase in a very short period of time. Indeed, TV Guide voted it the No 2 cult tv series of all time – with Star Trek (1966-9) inhabiting the No 1 spot naturally. The X Files (1993-2002) was one of the great cult tv shows of the 1990s. ![]()
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