Oh but I find the fight totally legit. What I dislike is that she did sign for another season of The X-Files. No one forced her. She knew exactly what it would be like, she knows Chris, she knows all the writers, she worships them all, usually.
She has played many many roles since the original series ended, pretty much all written by men. She has been plugging other shows (you know which one in particular), written by men. Never she complained about the lack of female writers in The Fall, or American Gods, or even Streetcar. So why now? Why picking XF when she’s about to start filming? She did a pretty bad job so far promoting this season and I’m scared it keeps going this way. I’m also pretty sure Chris would have let her write an episode if she wanted to, but it seems like the less she’s involved in it, the better, and it’s a bummer.
XF made who she is now, it made her famous, it made her an icon, she made a lot of money thanks to this show, and even if I don’t have a lot of feelings for Chris Carter, he is the one who pushed for her to be Scully. One of the first strong female character of all time. We owe him that, and so does she.
It just seems to me that she’s often unfair and ungrateful towards this show. So I get that it’s not as good as it could be, that the writing doesn’t give her as much material as she would, and that the subject itself don’t interest her much. It’s understandable. But still, I wish she would show a little bit more of enthusiasm for a show who has millions of fans and which will reward her with a few millions dollars.
This is a totally personal thing, but I always do have issues with people who publicly and loudly criticize what made them who they are now, as bad as those things are.
In other words, don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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