#our uncertain future

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AH: They are saying to me in my ear we cannot let you go without talking about The X-Files. Do you think — is there a way, or a world, where there is...

DD: Doubt it.

AH: ...yet another...

DD: I — like, Gillian has said she doesn't want to do it, and you know, I don't — I wouldn't do it without Gillian, so... that's, it's fine! And, you know, who knows! And who knows that there's not like a Beverly Hills 90210 X-Files, like the youngsters, like a new Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, and we'll be like the grandparents in a wheelchair and give them advice.

AH: Is somebody writing this down?

(Access Hollywood)

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Do you think 2018 just seemed long because we lost the previous three years in an x files hole?

I think this is very plausible, actually. I sure did at least. 

It’s been odd in some ways going into what amounts to a post-XF life. Not that I still don’t, you know, think about XF a whole lot or whatever (see: this blog), but there’s no longer something XF-related on the horizon that I can focus my anticipation on. It’s strange, yet restful. There was always so much anxiety commingled with the excitement. NOT anticipating it, not hanging onto and analyzing every scrap of information, was never an option for me, but part of the anticipation was always dread. Not even just about things I had a reason to dread, haha. The feeling that if it all ended, if I didn’t have this thing in my life anymore, I would get hurt somehow, or I wouldn’t be able to go on without it in some sense. Well, it ended, I did kinda get hurt (lol), but I go on, and it is different, but fine. 

This got deeper than I intended, heh. 

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So, what are the odds that this: 

...is the sum total of the direct conversation that these two have had about the possible future of XF? Place your bets now. 

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The irony is that the fans are prepared for it to end. We are dying, D Y I N G, for closure, for resolution. 

The thing ruining it/distracting from it isn’t Gillian saying that she’s not planning to return. It’s David and Chris talking about how maybe it won’t end after all, maybe it can continue in some bastardized form, interrupting our goodbye rituals with chaos and uncertainty. 

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Gillian’s tweet is so shady. I think she’s implying that the viewership went down because the quality of the episodes (well I think s10 wasn’t great so people didn’t tune into s11). Either way she’s tired of being blamed, when really this is all CC’s fault!

I think she’s correcting the implication that the headline makes: that the reason Fox has no plans for a Season 12 is Gillian Anderson’s exit. The headline/article stops short of stating that – nowhere in the article does it say “Fox is not ordering a Season 12 because Gillian Anderson isn’t returning” – but saying that one thing happened (Gillian left) and now another thing is happening (they’re not ordering a Season 12) certainly does imply a correlation. 

So what she’s saying is “Actually, Michael, the reason there won’t be a Season 12 is NOT that I’m not returning, but that the show lost 77% of its viewership.” I have no idea where she got that statistic, but assuming it’s correct, it’s perfectly fair of her to say that. Implying that Gillian leaving the show is what killed the show is like complaining that the first person to get off the Titanic into a lifeboat is what caused it to sink. It was already sinking, Michael. 

I know everyone’s all gleeful about her throwing shade, but I just see it as her quite literally having reached the end of the time in which she is willing to personally take shit for the show. She is no longer contracted to do so and she does not feel like doing it any longer out of the kindness of her heart, and so she has switched from tactful silence to calm, straightforward correcting of misinformation. 

So yes, I’m agreeing with you, basically. 

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I keep hearing GA saying she's done and CC and DD talking about there being more stories and that season 11 will end on a cliffhanger and I feel like it's going to be season 9 all over again. I just can't go through that again.

I wish I could assure you that this won’t happen, anon. We just have to wait and see, I guess. Hopefully everyone involved will see sense, or at least catch a glimpse of sense through all the dollar signs. 

If there is some kind of XF continuation without both Mulder and Scully, I at least know that I won’t be interested in watching it, which is...freeing in a way? I love XF, obviously, but I’m actually kind of looking forward to a rest from worrying about it. 

It would be nice if we could have a satisfying wrapup instead of endless non-resolution, and I’m still hoping that CC will give us that, even if there is some kind of “OR WAS IT???” tag at the end. We’ll see soon enough. 

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When you read the Den of Geek article, did you tear up when it was 'assumed' that S11 would be the last XFiles season? I did. I mean, I always thought that to be the case. But it's in official print now and David and Gillian are recognizing that this is probably the last. I'm getting emotional thinking about all the lasts that this would mean: last filming together, last promotional events together, last Mulder and Scully together. I don't know if they'll ever work together again

I guess I have been assuming that too, that it’s the last season…although you never know. Honestly, my feelings about XF in the modern era are so damn mixed, and we’ve heard so many contradictory things, that it’s hard for me to have a full emotional reaction in one direction or another about that idea. I’ve already had all possible emotional reactions, haha.

Gillian was telling everyone that it was the last one LAST time, with varying degrees of force, and it seemed to depend on where the contract negotiations were sitting at that moment. I wouldn’t quite call this official – I don’t think it’s official until CC says it, or Fox does. I can see a scenario where David and Gillian “assume” it’s the last season, and then Fox throws more money at them and they don’t have a compelling reason to say no. So I don’t necessarily take that as full confirmation that there will be no more. 

I think I basically didn’t have that strong a reaction to that statement because (a) it really doesn’t say much as far as whether it’s truly over or not and (b) I don’t have a good handle on where I’m at as far as how sad to be about it if it is in fact over. 

I mean – I will always want more. IT’S IN MUH BLOOD. But there would also be a certain…restfulness in knowing that it was time to move to a new chapter of my XF lovin’. 

If we ever DO get confirmation that it is totally done – which, let me remind everyone: we NEVER HAVE; ever since Season 9 ended we’ve been told that a movie or whatever was just around the bend and to keep “believing” – I will, indeed, be super sad and I will cry and it will be a weird time. (I sort of have pre-experienced that as well, when GA gave that interview saying she was pretty sure it was done, last winter I guess it was. That felt real to me, and I was like “Well, fuck” and went through a grieving process, and then we got an 11th season after all.) (And trust me, I am NOT complaining about that fact.) 

My HOPE is that if/when we learn that it’s really over, Mulder and Scully will be in a good place. And so, my fervent hope is that that will be the case at the end of these 10 episodes. I wouldn’t have felt OK about saying goodbye to Mulder and Scully after S10. I hope it will feel easier at the end of S11. 

As far as lasts – if they stop doing XF, I would be surprised if they NEVER did any promotional or whatnot stuff together again. Some part of them will always be Mulder and Scully, anon!

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That seems like the sort of casting that would support new spin-offs. I mean, that was always possible with William, but I wouldn't be surprised if that influenced the decision to go with an older, more established actor.

I also would not be surprised, anon. In fact with this casting I’m guessing they’re at least thinking about it. As long as Mulder and Scully can have a decent ending and get safely off the stage, and as long as they don’t waste the time that they have with David and Gillian setting up some new venture (the way they wasted DD in Season 8 because they were trying to make Doggett happen), then if that’s how they want to keep extending the property, go for it. It’s not something I would be interested in watching, but some people might. 

And I am SURE 1013 would not, say, kill off Scully in order to set up a new reboot spinoff with William and Mulder, because they know very well that that would betray everything this beleaguered fandom has been counting on as we hang on and endure all the teasing and torture and being manipulated and jerked around in hopes of finally getting a decent ending for the characters we have loved for so long, so, definitely that is not happening, as that would be completely unforgivable, so let’s not even go there, so say we all. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥