No offense to your post, thanks for sharing...

But I'm just drained of nostalgia and enthusiasm. I grew up with the X-Files. I've seen every single episode of the original run at least three times. I have them all collected, including the movies and two damn spin-off series.

But after a decade of everything being remakes, revivals, ressurections, returns... It's been a rowdy riot of rectal ripping retronostalgic ravaging. I couldn't care less that there's talks about more X-Files. If they actually manage to squeeze more out of this dried up sponge I'll just ignore it.

To the modern media producers all I can say is go choke on your 90's nostalgia.

I think the time was right in the 90s when conspiracy theories and urban legends were still just amusingly quirky and bizarre. We had a weekly watch party going in college. It was great. For its time.

In the post truth era? Yeah no. I've had it up to here with unhinged conspiracy theories and the utter lack of critical thinking that leads people to believe them. I have a feeling I'm not alone.

Give me a show where in every single episode the conspiracy theorist is shown to be a gullible bozo with the mental clarity of a sack of cats, while the science-y person is right 95% of the time, and maybe I'll watch.

Or a show that uncovers the kind of back room dealings and bullshit that actually happens (documented in the news) in the halls of power and manages to bring powerful corrupt assholes to justice. That I will watch the shit out of.

“It just feels like such an old idea. I’ve done it, I did it for so many years, and it also ended on such an unfortunate note,” Anderson said. “In order to even begin to have that conversation [about another season] there would need to be a whole new set of writers and the baton would need to be handed on for it to feel like it was new and progressive. So yeah, it’s very much in the past.”

-Gillian Anderson

Not looking good.

I’d be okay with a reboot, though, new blood could help a lot, I think.

It’s been 30 years, do something new.

Do something new for a change.

If it were a spiritual successor, focusing on monster of the week weirdness with great writing and minimal forced character drama? Sure I'll give it a go.

If it's just rolling out Mulder and Scully again to cash in on nostalgia? I won't waste my time.

And if Chris Carter is involved the season is basically dead on arrival so I'll be actively avoiding it.

It’ll be a “soft reboot”, same continuity, just ~20 years later. Agent Mulder has disappeared at a time when his government needs him most. Scully’s estranged son works as an FBI agent and is trying to bring a “new order” to the government, a MAGA-esque cult, by any means necessary.

Meanwhile, our new cast of intrepid, quirky, plucky, randomly gay, multicultural are introduced through a series of weird encounters and will absolutely hate working with each other. After a series of shadowy encounters, and ominous snippets of The Vaping Man”, they’ll be introduced to Senator Skully, who tasks them with finding out, “Where is Fox Mulder?” First season will end on a cliffhanger with Walter Skinner getting killed off and the new cast eventually meeting up with Fox Mulder. Final scene will be one of them handing off the "I Want to Believe" poster to Mulder... fade to black.

Somehow, JJ Abrams returns.

God no. Just continue the series under a current setting.

Everything rides on how they deal with the fact that so much tinfoil hattery in the real world today is directly sourced from the '90s series. Mulder would 100% be a Q crackpot now.