Ryan Coogler to reboot the X Files.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

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.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Okay, 1) I agree re: the 70s, at least in film but I'll accept "literature by white people" as well, and 2) WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK I didn't think anything could make me excited for an X-Files reboot but that would be FASCINATING

[mirrorofsmoke]

Yass! We missed X-files the first time around. So excited!
Also those insels can fuck off. I’d agree. The thing that’s been getting me through the political shitshow is imagining how those “redpill” chucklefucks would react if they knew their precious Neo is a Black woman. I want the wokeness! This will be great!
-Neo

[numb3r_5ev3n]

The first X Files was really amazing for like the first six seasons. It was truly one of those shows that it seems like nearly the entire country would just put everything down and watch it on Sunday night, and then talk about it at work the next day. One of the "Water Cooler Shows." Even if it wasn't exactly bad after that, it started to lose viewers for a couple of reasons:

1. It started to become obvious that Chris Carter had never really planned on an ending for the show. After about 5 or 6 seasons, people started to realize that the payoff they were expecting with the "Mytharc" episodes probably wasn't going to happen. CC didn't have a vision for where he really wanted to end the show, and fan were afraid it would just be canceled one day with no real closure. Every point where CC could have started to move it towards that, he would introduce some new element that would kick the can further down the road. Threads didn't feel like they were being tied together, they felt like they were being pulled further apart.

2. Some of the major players wanted to go work on other projects, and so they were written out of the show. By the time fandom outcry reached the point when those characters were brought back, it was too late and the damage was done. The show had lost too many viewers and people seemed to think that the show had "jumped the shark" by this point. It lasted about another season after this, and then it was cancelled.

It'll be interesting to see what Ryan Coogler does with it. Will he start it back up 25 years later? Will he just pick up where CC left off? Will he create an entirely new storyline? I guess we'll see.