Chris Carter should have hired fresh blood, men or women, to write those episodes. It’s the last season, and with that team, as good as they are, there’s no way it’ll be better than season 10.
He literally named one character Einstein but apparently forgot about one his most famous quote: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
I don’t care if he had hired more women or more men. I just wanted fresh blood. (And Shonda Rhimes.) I was hoping he would have watched his own episodes and realized how bad they were, that he would stop writing and only produce. But instead of hiring qualified writers, he hired his assistant. So really, the gender of the Xfiles writers is the last thing I worry about. At this point, tell Chris Carter to hire more women and you’ll end up with Anne Simon writing an episode.
To sum it up, I don’t disagree with Gillian’s fight. I just wished she had pulled it before the articles started to come out, she could have known beforehand how it would be, she had the possibility to change it, to propose to write one, that would have made one good episode out of ten at least. But I think her involvement in the x-files is too small, that she discovered who was writing the scripts just like us, in the press, and that she decided to drag down her own show because she doesn’t care that much about it. That’s what it feels like, and that’s what bothers me.
Just Holding Hands 