posted on May 17, 2001 12:12:24 PM new(credit must go to krs for bringing this sad news to our attention)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - ``The X-Files (news - Y! TV)'' star David
Duchovny is leaving the show after this season, Fox network's top
executive said on Thursday, after confirming that the show would be
brought back in the fall for its ninth season.
posted on May 17, 2001 12:15:37 PM new
I stopped watching it when they got into the alien crap all the time. I liked the other shows..when there was really weird stuff...like that gross thing off the russion ship that looked like a man-leech, for example. They got out of that and went into UFO's too much. Top it off with Mulder leaving, its just not the same show (even though the guy that took his place is a great actor and pulls it off...just too much alien stuff for me).
posted on May 17, 2001 12:16:15 PM new
I just knew when he married that yucky Tea Leone [sp] that he would leave the show!
OK, so maybe it was few years ago. So what. I still think it's her fault!
posted on May 17, 2001 12:18:00 PM new
Hepburn, Don't you always expect the new guy [why can't I think of his name!]to turn into liquid metal when he starts running?
YES! Tea Leone is the Yoko of the X-Files. Once he married her he went prima donna and demanded that the show no longer be filmed in Vancouver but instead moved lock, stock and barrel down to California. Then she weaseled her way into a guest appearance on the show, then came Duchovny's antics regarding his contract last season ... Yup, I bet she has a hand in this. It's like that old saying, "scratch a Fox, find a Tea."
Personally, I'm not terribly bothered by this development. I regret that the continuity of the show has been disrupted, but all my anger at Duchovny was spent this past season when he kept everybody guessing till the very end whether he'd be back, then agreed to do only half a season.
The plot of "what happened to Mulder's sister" was laid to rest in a really shabby way season before last, again because the show's creators couldn't depend on Duchovny and wanted to wrap up that storyline. Consequently after years of following the story of young Samantha Mulder whose brother was certain she was abducted by aliens, who found clue after clue to support his suspicions ... we the viewers are left with the tepid explanation that she wasn't really abducted by aliens, no, really she was kidnapped by a child killer and transformed into starlight before he got around to murdering her.
Transformed into starlight? How freaking bogus is that?
I tend to get disgusted with actors who exhibit little or no appreciation for the audience. I saw Duchovny on Leno last year just before he signed the contract for the half season. He was so smug, so cavalier about the fate of the show and the storyline ... he couldn't have cared less. I decided then that Duchovny isn't worth my attention.
But I do regret the demise of the Fox Mulder character and the fact that he's riding off into the sunset without any of the answers that he so desperately sought all these years.
At least we still have Gillian Anderson, who is the superior actor of that duo.
Hepburn,
The alien storyline is the heart of the show, LOL. How can you dislike it? The other episodes were just filler.
posted on May 17, 2001 01:17:11 PM new
Spaz..the alien stuff was fine...but I wanted more gross shows, like that awful one where the mother of the backhills people was legless and kept in a trundle bed under the bunk. Remember that one? SICK! I heard they got alot of flak over that one.
Yes, I expect him to turn to metal, rawbunz, lol! Hes a good actor. I dont like that Tia Leone either. Mulder got a big head. Fine. He can follow that red haired guy that thought his sh!t didnt stink either (left that cop show) and look what happened to him. Nobody wanted him and it seems his sh!t DID stink, just like everyone elses.
posted on May 17, 2001 01:43:36 PM new
Is that episode (mom under the bed) called something about the war of Northern Agression? The family that sleeps together....
I'll miss Fox, but I'm really liking Doggett a whole lot. And I like the new woman touchy-feely agent also - maybe she'll replace Scully after the next season?
My fave was the one with Charles Nelson Riley (sp?). Was it date rape or abduction? And the scene where the alien who was abducted by the other alien is shaking his head and smoking a cigarette, saying, "This can't be happening..." cracks me up.
I agree about Tea - another stick with a head on it. blech. I wish they would have kept the character of Mulder and just replaced DD with another actor - they do it on soaps all the time. I mean, um, we know they're just actors, right?
Good suggestion about replacing the actor. I feel the same way. Plus it would show these celebrities that the world doesn't grind to a halt if they decide to jump off. Sure, there would be the inevitable comparisons but if they got the right actor -- a better actor -- to pick up the ball and run with it, it might actually work.
Sadie, did you know that Charles Nelson Reilly reprised his role as author Jose Chung in an episode of Millennium? (also created by Chris Carter). He dies in that one. X-Files and Millennium reruns are shown every weeknight at midnight on FX Network.
posted on May 17, 2001 01:56:31 PM new
spazmodeus,
I know about the reruns on FX, but sorry to say that due to the nature of the hamster in a wheel cable we have in this little town, I don't get FX - wahhhhhhhh. I don't even get a WB affiliate, and so have missed my darling Buffy grow up.
I think I have the episode where Chun dies on a tape somewhere - mixed in with xfiles and a very short lived show called Forever Knight about a vampire cop.
posted on May 17, 2001 02:02:10 PM new
No offense meant [really!], but this is news??? I remember reading back before the the beginning of this season that Duchovny was only going to do 6 episodes and that he would not be back next season. I also read that he was leaving the option open to do another X-Files movie if the chance arose, which meant there was no way they were going to kill off his character for good.
As for Robert Patrick, I was watching Terminator 2 on DVD last week before watching the X-Files, and it sure was odd seeing him in both roles. What was even stranger, though, was seeing him go up against one of those "unstoppable" aliens [a.k.a. Billy Miles]. I just kept thinking that the alien had no fear, no pity, and absolutely, positively would not stop until Scully was dead....
And yes, the explanation for what "really" happened to Mulder's sister was one of the biggest let-downs of the entire series.
Barry
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The opinions expressed above are for comparison purposes only. Your mileage may vary....
posted on May 17, 2001 02:07:21 PM new
I find myself watching Xfiles less and less all the time. Same thing with Buffy. I really enjoy the "The Lone Gunmen" spin off of X files...I love those crazy guys! I find "Angel" is much better than Buffy.
Tea Leone sucks. She is a terrible actress but someone in power at the networks liked her and kept trying to put her out there for us. Blech.
That is another gripe of mine. Why can't women actresses be actresses anymore? Why do they call them all actors? AND heros, women used to be heroines and men heros now they are all the same. I liked it the other way.
Edited to say:No, it is not Breaking News.This is not the Newscenter though so it's ok to talk about it here!
edited ~ Mine too!
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posted on May 17, 2001 03:43:52 PM new
"The Lone Gunmen" was hysterical! I'm hoping that gets picked up next season.
My husband has been die hard X-Files fan from the very beginning, and the past two weeks I don't think he's even watched it. We'll watch this week, since it's the season finale, but it will probably be disappointing.
The alien stuff is ok, but the show was better when they mixed it up more - aliens one week, witchcraft, ghosts, sick stuff. It's become the All Aliens, All the Time show.
posted on May 17, 2001 03:55:03 PM new
Ladies, it's not "The Naked Gun." The Naked Gun was the movie version of the old TV series Police Squad starring Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebbin.
The show you're actually referring to is The Lone Gunmen. Personally, I can't stomach those guys. Haven't watched a single episode.
posted on May 17, 2001 04:18:17 PM new
Well, Spaz, right you are! How silly of me to forget! At least you knew what show we were talking about so we did get the idea across anyhow.
posted on May 17, 2001 04:36:40 PM new It's become the All Aliens, All the Time show.
Week before last they had a nifty episode about a guy who was half-human, half gecko. Lizard body, humanoid head. Weak plotwise, but there was a great scene of Mulder chasing the critter across the lawn of an estate. Lizardman eludes him by running up the side of the mansion and ducking through a window.
Funny ending to that one too, where another FBI agent who is a big fan of Mulder and Scully asks Mulder, "When you went to Antarctica to rescue Scully from the flying saucer and the batteries to your Snow-Cat died, how did you get back?" That was the big flaw in the X-Files movie, the question everybody asked, LOL.
posted on May 17, 2001 04:59:17 PM new
I won't miss Mulder much, either. Doggett is a pretty good character. I agree that Tea Leoni is really annoying. Hard to picture those two married.
We also watch the reruns every night on FX.
I have been browsing eBay for the X-Files seasons 1-3 on DVD, and I am *dying* to own them. Sad thing is that we don't own a DVD player yet.
Spaz, I saw that lizard episode, but I must have missed the ending! I love the humor on the show - and that really was a big flaw of the movie...
And of course they didn't answer the question. Instead Mulder and Scully started bickering over whether it really was a flying saucer. Mulder's saying, "Come on, how can you deny it?" and Scully's shaking her head, "I was unconscious, remember?" It was the same conversation fans everywhere had walking out of the film since at that point Scully was still a confirmed skeptic.
posted on May 17, 2001 05:50:01 PM new
You could be right, krs. Alone, many of the plots are pretty flimsy: The writers anthropomorphize some tidbit of scientific arcana, pit the characters against it, place one in mortal jeopardy so the other can rescue him/her, end of story. What carries it is the chemistry, the friendship between Mulder and Scully. Guess we'll have to tune in next season to see.
posted on May 20, 2001 07:24:31 PM new
I'd like to know what you guys think of the season finale and the revelations about Scully's baby ... but since the episode won't air on the West Coast till midnight EST, let's withhold our comments till after 1am.
posted on May 20, 2001 10:15:43 PM new"We feared the possibilities but we both know the truth."
At this point in time, it seems that Fox Mulder is the father of Dana Scully's baby. The passionate kiss he laid on Scully in the final scene tonight did nothing to dispel that impression.
posted on May 21, 2001 06:04:57 AM new
Yes, Mulder is the father. The only question is whether it is the result of the "failed" attempt at artificial insemination using his sperm, as was explained in a previous episode, or whether it happened in a more, er, "conventional" manner.
As was alluded to in last week's episode, the reason the baby was a "miracle" is simply because Scully was supposedly unable to conceive, not because it was an alien hybrid/super baby.
Now I'm left wondering what next season will bring. Supposedly Gillian Anderson is going to return [although it sure LOOKED like Dogget had himself a new partner there at the end], but without Duchovny it will be sort of odd if Scully and Mulder are now supposed to be a "couple".
Ah well, I thought it was a nice treat for the fans, especially those who have wanted Mulder and Scully to "hook up" from the beginning. And, since Duchovny is leaving, we don't have to worry about how it will affect their working relationship....
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