I'm confused xfiles went from monsters, aliens and mythology to racist propaganda. Wtf happened to our show?
I could spend hours on this question nonny (and I’m assuming you’re talking about Babylon) - but it’s Sunday night and I don’t wanna get too deep. What happened (in my opinion) in the revival in general (but especially Babylon) was that nobody questioned Chris Carter and said, “dude I respect your vision and history with this show but it’s 23 years later and “X” really isn’t appropriate, sufficient/a good idea. Let’s bench, for example, that “overblown, insensitive and frankly unbelievably clumsily offensive terrorist trope” and instead tie up one of the 6 billion loose ends from the original series/previous four episodes.” And then the network/producers supporting that person and making it happen.
After watching Babylon for the first time I basically expunged it from memory because it’s that problematic. Sure, there are nice scenes and even some good ideas but the execution is so wildly off that it’s like the team behind it wrote it back in the 90s with only a Cliff Notes guide to the future political situation and then just ran with it. The show has never been without uncomfortable moments, some of the old monsters were… culturally borderline at best, but for me the balance is still overall on the side of good. Should Season 11 happen I would very much hope that somebody jobshares the overall creative with CC at the very least (I’m not team fire him and shoot him into space just put him in a box and only let him shout suggestions...). The show needed dragging into the modern world, not just in terms of CGI and wardrobe but in terms of script quality, cultural awareness and the consistency we now expect from TV, it seems like nobody on the executive level got that memo for S10. So I think unless someone with balls of steel constantly confronts CC with those realities and shakes up the hangover status quo then I am afraid we’ll see more like Babyln and less like the old days.
But I want to believe that wont happen. So don’t lose hope!