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.
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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.