Please don’t think I am rude, I’m not meaning to be. Just wondering why all these bloggers who keep coming out with stuff about Chris Carter, (who created the best sci fi show ever in my view) criticizing season 10, pulling the episodes apart non stop. Why don’t they boycott season 11? I have been a X Fan since it started, not really big on MSR. I think it was done spot on in the 90’s. I was never expecting season 10 to be as good but I it enjoyed nonetheless. If people arent happy….1/2

2/2 …If they are not happy with how season 10 went, why bother watching Season 11. To me MSR/Gillovny fans just want romance and love. It is a sci fi show first and foremost. I have seen ‘don’t let Chris Carter near the writing desk’. How disrespectful is that. Then someone has set up a petition to Fox to try and ensure David writes an episode. Since when did Gillovny/MSR think they had the right to dictate to CC & Co. I think they forget the show has die hard sci fans watching too. Not good.

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Okay, first of all, where’s this petition? I want to sign it with my blood.

Then, season 10 wasn’t “good”. There was 2 episodes and a half that were actually good, in my opinion (and not only), but you have the right to disagree. It’s subjective after all. I did enjoy it though, at this point, I would have enjoyed pretty much anything. But it’s not the same now, our thirst for more episodes was quenched, so he has to do it right this time for us to fully enjoy it.

What I think is that Chris Carter is just not able to keep writing this show in 2017. He has created it, he’ll always own it, and this fandom we’ll be eternally grateful to him for that, but it’s time for him and for us to move on. It’s not the 90′s anymore, time has passed, tv has changed, the way we write series too, but Chris Carter seem stuck in his old-fashioned way of seeing things, and his stuborness to keep going against what the fans ask is more than annoying.

You have the right to see it as a sci-fi show, I guess it is, I love the monsters, I love (most of) the mythology, but to me it’s more than a sci-fi show. It’s the best love story on television ever. Of all time. You have the right to think shippers don’t understand the show and have no rights to criticize Chris Carter, but do you know what shippers want? One real kiss. In plain light. (And all the outakes for the sake of Gillovny shippers too). Do you really think it is too much to ask? In 25 years? Because I guess Chris Carter does think it is, and it is beyond my comprehension. You can have all the aliens and stem cells you want, but just allow all the shippers of this planet to have a decent development of the characters Chris Carter has created, and a closure that would please us. I think we deserve it.

You enjoyed the Revival, good for you. But don’t forget there’s a whole side of the fandom, living and breathing right next to you, who has just been suffering for the last 25 years, and had to endure Chris Carter’s decision to cut Mulder’s kiss on Scully’s CHEEK after 10 years of nothingness.

It’s enough.

I think GA coming back to do more XF’s is foremost a business decision this time around based on the fact it took so long to settle negotiations. If she was really doing more episodes out of her enthusiasm for the show she’d have come to a decision sooner. Last year she even said she got no fulfilment from playing Scully anymore. I also think she realizes it wasn’t fair to leave the last season on a cliffhanger (thank you very f*cking much Chris Carter).

Gillian doesn’t come back in The X-Files for the love of Alien abductions and stem cells stories. No one is doubting that. But there are many other motivations than only business and money. She said many times that what she enjoyed the most in season 10 was to work with the old crew and with David, so I think there’s that too. I also hope she managed to deal the directing or the writing or both of one episode at least. I think she also does it for us, because of the pressure, because if we don’t get a decent closure, there’s no way she was going to be left alone with that and “allowed” to move on.

I’m not saying she’s a total philanthropist, no one is in this business, of course money matters, and for now, she can’t get as much money as what she makes with xf with any other show. But money isn’t everything.

Do you think it’s possible they could have exaggerated the length of time the negotiations took a bit and the question of will they or won’t they be back so that there would be more interest when they did announce it? It made more buzz than it would have if they just said they ordered another season last year.

No, I don’t think so. I don’t believe Fox have any interest in delaying season 11 for a year. If they could have aired it this year, they would have. They could have had the benefit of the Revival buzz and good ratings. The more they waited, the more the buzz faltered and the audience (fans aside) disengaged and forgot it was even a thing. They have everything to recreate again, and remind everyone it’s still a thing and it’s happening again now.

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I’ve seen some posts going around about The Hair Issue, and I know there were a lot of mixed feelings about the wigs Gillian wore during Season 10. I think we can all agree that while we’d love for Scully to have her iconic red hair, in the event that a dye job would do too much harm to Gillian’s hair, how do we feel about a blonde Scully? I, for one, would be thrilled. I think it would allow Gillian to connect easier with Scully without the added physical discomfort of the wig.

I present, for your consideration, Exhibit A:

Now, I realize that this is a photoshoot, but I ain’t mad at this look, to be honest.

What are your thoughts???

I’m not a fan of a blonde Scully, honestly. Scully is a redhead – she just is. But if it’s between the awful red wig of S10 or real blonde? I’ll take platinum white see-through towhead Scully, hands down.

I can’t get behind the blonde very easily. Gillian had a hard time “finding Scully” in Season 10 I feel, and I think having essentially “Stella hair” would make that even harder, for her and for the viewers. I’d go for the wig over blonde hair, even as awful as it was. However, I’d have to think they’ve got enough time to remedy that situation this time around. Please???

I’m with you guys. I cannot get behind a blonde Scully. Give me that wig any day. Scully is a redhead. She doesn’t need the bright red hair she once had, a lighter strawberry blonde would do. She is older, her hair would lighten. But it would still be red.

The issue last time was that she had to dye her hair back blonde immediately for Stella, which would do great damage to her hair. This time, as far as we know, there are no projects for her directly afterwards that demand blonde hair. I’m hoping she can dye it this time, since it seemed she wanted to last time but couldn’t because of logistics.

I would have a hard time with blonde Scully too – but I also hold the hope that in case dying her hair isn’t possible, someone will make GA a better wig?

What about just some semi-perm dye? I mean there are ways. Seriously. No blonde Scully for me either. I missed her constantly fussing with her bangs and brushing it from her face. And I feel like that affected her ability to get in to character.

Ps Mulder’s hair could use some work too. It was shockingly bad.

Keep everything the same, but dye the hair RED.

Gillian looks so natural as a blonde, I’d love to see Scully blonde. That wig removed me from being able to concentrate on the revival at all. It was so distracting and phoney. Gillian’s face looked stretched and wrong. She’s too beautiful for that shit.

I can’t deal with that wig one more time. Her whole face looked red and stretched. Dye her hair or blond Scully and this-haircut Mulder all the way! Let them be at their hottest!

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.