#I also got to RECAP the x-files for my JOB??? powerless to turn that down

[scullysflannel]

Hello! I’d like to ask you a totally random question about the x files if I may?

If you could hit a button that would totally wipe away seasons 9, iwtb, 10 and 11. (In other words they would have never existed and season 8 was the TRUE series finale) would you do it?

I ask because I’ve recently started watched txf after not watching it since 2018, and I’ve been thinking “man, seasons 9-11 kinda sucks (with the exemption of a few great shippers scenes ofc!) and not really worth watching. I mean yea season 8 had its problems, but shit I think it’s a WAY better ending than any thing that came after.

Anyway, my personal answer is yes, and I would do it in a heartbeat. How bout you? (and anyone else who may see this)

oh, see, I’m too selfish to say yes to this. this is like when a tv character is given a choice that’s like, “you can erase your miserable timeline but if you do your child will never be born,” and the character is like, “well too bad for humanity then.” I’m that character!! I’m keeping my child! (the revival is my terrible child.) I couldn’t leave mulder and scully at their happiest ending if it meant I never got to see them in the unremarkable house. it’s just so good and weighty to see them together when they’re older. plus the revival was the only time I’ve ever been able to watch the x-files live and I’m greedy for that.

I'd do almost the whole revival differently if I could, but I’d rather have a bad one than no revival at all. the x-files is porous; so much happens on the margins and in the spaces between what’s in the script. I’m not saying that excuses the bad writing. it doesn’t. but it does make it a lot easier to not take the scripts as gospel, because the show has always made it clear that it’s not telling the whole story. the point of the x-files is that the love between mulder and scully is too big for the show to sum it up. so there’s the show and then there’s the feeling of the show. even when the show fails me the feeling doesn’t.