#xf scripts

[agentelmo]

The X-Files script that was too bleak to air

Cult horror author Thomas Ligotti explains why his nihilistic take on the sci-fi series never made it to TV

Hey, I found another random X-Files script that never made it to air! lol... You can read the script in full - there’s a link in the article.  There is only one small MSR scene (see below) but it’s worth reading the whole thing because whoa, it’s seriously weird but in such a cool X-Files-esque way, that it’s a tragedy this never made it as an episode.

[asifyoudidntknow]

PHILLIP PADGETT:

A story can have only one true ending. Even as the stranger felt compelled to commit his final words to paper he did it knowing they must never be read. To see the sum of his work was to see inside his own emptiness the heart of a destroyer not a creator. And yet, reflected back upon him at last he could see his own ending. And in this final act of destruction a chance to give what he could not receive.