Ryan Coogler to reboot the X Files.

With Andor Season 2 being released, I was working on a follow-up post to my Andor/Goncharov post from 2022, postulating that the 1970s (more specifically, the Carter era) and not the 1990s might have been the pinnacle of American culture, based just on the vibes from this video. (Also, I need to finally watch Xanadu.) But then, lo and behold, this happened:

Ryan Coogler will be rebooting the X Files, as per this announcement which first aired on The Last Podcast On the Left.

Guys,



I have not been this hype about anything fandom-related in a long time. I'm hype about this the way I am NOT hype about the new Tron sequel. Unless Ryan Coogler decides to cast Jared Leto, in which case I will no longer be as hype.



Already, reactionary dorks are blubbering about how Ryan Coogler is "going to make it woke," and "is going to include CURRENT DAY politics," but I'm like:



I truly hope so, and the weird incel dweebs can fuck all the way off. Those dorks really thought that Donald Trump being back in office meant that they would never have to see anyone who doesn't look like them in a media creation ever again. THINK AGAIN, ASSHOLES. Also: X Files dealt with "current day politics" back in the 1990s! It's only with about 25+ years of separation and hindsight that it seems devoid of 1990s-era politics. WTF did they think that such a thing as a LITERAL TV SHOW ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES was going to not address what were then "current-day politics" for the time?

(They mean Black People. It's going to have Black People. And probably people with pronouns! That's what "current day politics" means to these people.)

But regardless,

WE. ARE. SO. BACK.