Étiquette : The X-Files

What network, writer, showrunner listen to the fans?? Almost in every show, there are some parts od the fandom where ppl complain about everything and hate producer, even much more than xfiles fans hate CC. You sound extremely naive if you think that way. More, FOX would never do more xfiles without CC (they depending on each other) and they only give him money. His company produce the series, employ staff. FOX was enough excited about rankings. For the network only this matter.

If Network don’t listen to fans (they do!), they can also listen to press, they can accept the critics and work to fix the problems raised by both fans, viewers and journalists. They have nothing to win to go against popular opinion. 

I’ve never said Fox should ditch Chris Carter, but maybe that they’ll minimize his role in the writing process. In a world where we have Game of Thrones, Scandal, Grey’s anatomy, Westworld, or Big little lies, they must know that Chris’ way of writing series, without using a bible, purposefully ignoring what fans claim for years, forgetting who and what his characters are and did, and using cliché after cliché about populations, cities, politics and more, can’t make it anymore. So I’m hoping he’ll keep producing, and giving directions, and let others, old writers and fresh blood, do the writing ten times better than he can. 

It’s almost the end of April. CC has only three months to come up with something good. I’m most concerned about how he would succeed in such a short time. I hope that he will call the other (better) screenwriters for help. I hope he has something ready. I’m afraid for him. I’m afraid for us.

He had almost two long years to work on it, to find out how to take Mulder off this stupid bridge, and how to deal with the Cliffhanger. I really hope he took this time to gather old and new screenwriters, and I also want to trust Fox for telling him to stand as far as possible from any pen or computer. 

We don’t know yet whether GA will be in every episode of the new season. One of the stipulations in her contract could be that she films enough scenes to guarantee Scully appears in every episode, but that her scenes in some episodes will be limited. My worry is that Scully will be taken on board that alien spaceship and we’ll only see glimpses of her for the first 3 or 4 episodes.

It’s possible, but 3 or 4 episodes out of 10 without Scully is too many, and I think Fox know that. I’m prepared to have one, maybe two episode without her, because I have the feeling it was one of the negociation point for Gillian, but they can’t seriously do more than that without her. 

I assume they heard the bad critics from last season, I hope they learnt from their mistakes, and I hope this time they’re listening to the fans. They were lucky for the Revival, everyone was waiting for it, they had that waiting effect playing for them on the ratings. It won’t be the same case this time. People who’re not hardcore fans and who’ve been disappointed once have to be re-seduced since the first episode of season 11, and it won’t happen if Gillian’s not in it. 

Gillian said before she signed up for season 11 that she would only agree to do it if certain conditions were in place. Money wasn’t an issue this time according to Pat Munn so it has to be to do with screen time IMO. We’ll find out during the FOX panel at the upfronts what those conditions are no doubt. I’m not sure DD and GA will attend though. It might not be necessary.

I’m not sure Fox will be transparent with us about the conditions and the reasons why it took them so long to find an agreement, though. But I agree, I think one of Gillian’s condition was the number of episodes, and the time of filming.

american gods has 10 eps and they were filming it 6 or 7 months (the production get longer than they planned). The crown has also 10 eps and they had spent half a year on the set. Even Gillian said at one comic con that now series are filmed longer than in the past and that is why more and more series do fewer eps for the season.

I can see why American Gods took 6 months for 10 episodes, I can even see why The Crown did, I guess royals costumes show take more time and the aesthetic of American Gods justifies the long-time filming, furthermore, those two series have 60 minutes long episodes, for only 42 minutes for xf. 

The more they film, the better, I wish they could film all year long, so we could have more bts, more pics, more everything, but in the end, I think they’ll wrap in 3 months or so. 

they took 3 months to film 6 episodes so I think this time it’ll take them at least 5 to film the 10 so they’ll stay in Vancouver from the beginning of August to the beginnings of December? I really can’t see how Gillian agreed to that if when she filmed s10 she wasn’t already happy with the time away from her boys. but I ain’t complaining I’m glad she agreed to it

I’m not convinced it’ll take them more than 3 months to film 10 episodes. On average, tv shows take one week to film one episode, so in a normal world, 3 months to film 10 episodes should be enough. 

I think there’s also a weather parameter. If they start in August, I think they can’t end in December. At least not in Vancouver, except if the weather is part of the story telling. If they do, it’ll start under the sun and end in the snow. 

In my opinion, they’ll film 3 months, maybe 3 months and a half, and wrap mid-November, maximum.

I don’t know what took them so long the last time… Maybe not enough preparation, too many special effects or hours spent to set up bad lightings.

Why doesn’t GA just cut her real hair into the Scully bob? That way we get the original Scully haircut and she gets to keep her hair. Also, what is her real hair color anyway? I remember reading that she isn’t really blonde.

I’m not quite sure the old Scully haircut would fit with actual Gillian. She’s skinnier that she used to be, and it’s probably slightly old-fashioned. But I wish she could go red for real.

She isn’t a real blond, the real color of hair is some shade of brown, I think. She said if she would go red, and then turn blond again, she probably would end up bald, so I guess we will have to deal with another wig. As long as it does’t look like the season 10′s one, I guess it’ll be fine. 

I just really hope they have burned the tied-hair doctor Scully one. It was the worst!

I hope GA made it a condition of her contract that they give her a decent wig that a) didn’t look as ridiculous and b) didn’t cause her pain like the last one did.

What scares me is that I had the feeling the wig was pretty much her own choice. I remember an interview when she said she’d been working with wig creator in London. But the wig had so much criticism that I guess they have no choice than to find a better one, or to make her go red, or to have a blond Scully.