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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought Mulder was coming back next season but now in my entertainment newsletter it says...

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CARTER LOOKS FOR NEW 'X-FILES' LEAD
According to The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, Chris Carter is believed to be eyeing Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead), Robert Patrick (T2), Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba), and Hart Bochner (Anywhere But Here) for the new male lead on X-FILES next season. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com http://www.fox.com

So does anyone know what exactly is going on?

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I hard someone once make a passing reference to Mulder's only being in half the episodes next season. I guess maybe he'll be coming back from time-to-time, or something...

Suddenly, I can't even remember what happened at the end of last season...

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

*spoiler alert*
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Mulder is kidnnapped by aliens, Sculley is preganant (implied with Mulder), set-up for the spin-off with the Lone Gunmen, etc...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Bruce Campbell? Wow. That's...that's different.

Personally, I wouldn't want to see them try to replace Mulder at all. I think Scully/Skinner could carry the show.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

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Duchovny's involvement:
Duchovny himself has been propelling the rumor that he's not going to be in the reported 11 episodes. EW's Fox source is saying that, as previously reported, Duchovny will appear in the first two episodes of the season and "disappear" for the next 8 to 9 episodes. Then, he will return for the season's last 11 which will include the possible series finale.

Source: Cinescape

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Posted by kiltedbear (Member # 1138) on :

E!Online posted a rumor that Chris Noth (Mr Big of Sex and the City) is being considered for the role of Scully's new partner next season. Anyone know anything about this?

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Tvguide Online (tvguide.com) is reporting that the guy who played the T1000 in Terminator 2 will replace him. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Robert Patrick, in my first list.

Not that I blame Duchovny for leaving, the episodes lately have gotten silly and way off what the X-Files was suppose to be all about. A humor-based episode is okay once and a while, but this last season was nothing but. I've always been interested in the overall plot with Cancer Man's group, the black oil Purity, the stomach bursting aliens which evolve into the Hollywood grays, the shapeshifting clones and bees. That's about it I think. Instead you get comedic or gimmick episodes. Not to say I think that The X-Files should just stick to the list above, not at all. A few of the episodes like "First Person Shooter" I enjoyed.

Hopefully they'll start writing better episodes instead of the lame ones and get the show back on track.

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Personally, I think Chris Carter doesn't really know where the X-Files is going (unlike JMS and B5), so I think he's trying to make it so convoluted and messed up as possible so no one notices.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Why do they want a replacement for Mulder? It's obvious he/she/it will suffer from extreme Ezri Dax Syndrome. They'll have to spend so much time on character development (especially since, unlike DS9, they don't have many other characters to focus episodes on), they won't have as much time for real plots. And, if it ends up being the final season, they'll have lost any chance of going out w/ a bang...

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

T2 is.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Damn, TLE beat me to it...

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PATRICK JOINS 'X-FILES'
Robert Patrick (T2, The Faculty) has officially signed on to play Scully's new partner next season on FOX's THE X-FILES. David Duchovny will also appear in the first two episodes of the season, but won't return again until its 13th episode. X-FILES returns with FUTURAMA, KING OF THE HILL, and THE SIMPSONS on Sunday, November 5th. http://www.thex-files.com
- ZENtertainment #410

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

As much as I enjoyed T2, I'm kind of disappointed Noth won't be playing Scully's new partner. I thought him a really interesting as detective Logan back on Law & Order, oh well.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Haha.

I don't get to watch X-Files much anymore, so it doesn't bother me as much, but my girlfriend does, and she was pissed Mulder wouldn't be around.

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Posted by kiltedbear (Member # 1138) on :

Before the news came out about Robert Patrick joining The X-Files, E!Online had posted a rumor that Chris Noth (Mr Big of HBO's Sex and the City) was possibly being considered as Scully's new partner. Anyone hear anything about this?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

You know, I've thought that the comedy episodes (Dreamland and so on) are what the X-Files do best. The monstor of the week ones have gotten same,y and the conspiracy ones are now so annoying that they could win an award for being annoying at an obtuse and annoying contest.

You watch one and go "ooh look, plot development!". Then you watch them 4 months later and say "Hang on, nothing's changed at all. Carter's been treading water now for 5 years."

And First Person Shooter was AWFUL. The biggest load of tripe I've seen since I had tripe for dinner a few months ago. Awful. Bad. Appalling. Don't watch it. Ever.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

You didn't like "first person shooter" ?
I loved that episode, though it still wasn't as good as last year's area 51 exchanged identity episode, you know, the one w/ Michael McKean, now that was funny.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I thought it was great how his character showed up again in "Three of a Kind" - you know the Lone Gunmen episode with the ditsy Scully.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

I was using it as an example of the off-base episodes. I do like the episode, I think it'd be cool to have a game like that, without the killer digital babe.

True the story hasn't progressed a whole lot in 7 years. But it's still what I watch X-Files. Those monster-of-the-week ones are what I consider lame when that's all there is lately, one silly episode after another. X-Files was suppose to be a drama, not a comedy.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I like the fact that The X-Files can do so many different kinds of episodes.

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