Word is out that the romance between the two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents is over as the incoming network revival begins.
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A new clip of the highly anticipated The X-Files revivial was shown at the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Beverly Hills on Thursday. Dana Walden, Chairman and CEO of Fox Television Group, said the limited series will feature the same balance of episode types as the original run of the show.
The scene screened at TCA featured Scully frantically arriving at Mulder’s farmhouse because he’d hung up on her earlier. Like Paul Scheuring returning for Prison Break, Walden feels these TV revivals allow the creators to explore their creations with new energy and perspective, after having a break from the grind of running a weekly series. If the underwhelming I Want to Believe set the precedent, then why get excited for another revival? Though thats not for loves sake, either, as its Annet Mahendrus Sveta, a victim of alien abduction, and Mulder says that she is the key to everything. The key to conspiracy-driven stuff, sure, but not to our hearts.
To fans, it probably felt like a pretty good mythology episode on a grand scale, but the general public’s response to the film, however, is best summed up in Roger Ebert’s critique: “As a pure movie, The X-Files more or less works”.
Mahendru’s character “believes she’s regularly abducted by aliens”.
Mulder still wants to believe. Of course, the fact that they have broken up at the start of the series is far from proof that they will remain that way at the end. She’s anxious about him, but he seems to think that he’s found the answer.
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There’s not much more to add to this one. It is that haunting open-endedness that out there that drives the entire enterprise-that out there that sparked online message boards and fan conventions the world over.
