#mythXplained Bonus! Since FOX-TV does not promote FOX-feature films, we’ll add this to #201daysofxfiles. “Fight the Future”: XF goes BIG summer blockbuster with this Rob Bowman-helmed conspiracy thriller-cum-alien horror flick! Everything XF is here, with added explosions and action pieces. Colonization, the corn, the bees, and strong emotions: much is revealed here. “Multiply your fears by X”
An excellent and detailed history of the X-Files fandom by Matt from @[8273206453:69:The X-Files Lexicon] is now published at @[139191826118516:274:Den Of Geek]! (with a mention of @[413368385523727:274:The X-Files\: Eat The Corn])
Watch #XFiles writer-producers be themselves: Carter’s long ponders before giving answers, Glen Morgan’s quick as a flash abrasive comments, and Darin Morgan’s dodging characterizing his work as genius
#mythXplained The Beginning (catching up!): Opening shot: a big Californian sun! XF moves production to Los Angeles, changes a big part of its crew, and has to deal with less “free mood” from the rainy Vancouver and higher production costs all around. Still manages to transition from both s5 and the movie in this second pilot of sorts. The closing scene ties everything back together in the alien life cycle.
#mythXplained SR819: After The Pine-Bluff Variant @[147409421937269:274:John Shiban] creates another tense thriller and brings back Senator Matheson in one of his too rare appearances. Follow the link for musings on WTO/GATT rules and the Tunisian connection!
“My Struggle”
THE X-FILES HAVE BEEN RE-OPENED!! THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE TWO-NIGHT SEASON PREMIERE OF “THE X-FILES” AIRS SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 ON FOX SUN JAN 24 7/8c
Thirteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of the thrilling series THE X-FILES has arrived. FOX MULDER (David Duchovny) and DANA SCULLY (Gillian Anderson) have been contacted by TAD O’MALLEY (guest star Joel McHale), a popular conspiracy theorist web-TV show host who believes he has uncovered a significant government conspiracy. With the assistance of FBI Asst. Dir. WALTER SKINNER (Mitch Pileggi), O’Malley seeks to enlist the help of former X-Files agents Mulder and Scully, who have since severed ties with the FBI. Through O’Malley they are introduced to SVETA (guest star Annett Mahendru), a possible alien abductee who shares shocking information with them that will challenge everything that Mulder has ever believed about the existence of aliens and the government’s role in covering them up. “My Struggle,” the premiere episode of THE X-FILES, airs Sunday, January 24 (7:00-8:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
@[108381559187017:274:Frank Spotnitz]’s @[1600262146899838:274:The Man in the High Castle] — Philip K Dick’s novel adapted into a “TV/web” series — just came out! Find no less than 90 interviews with Frank in Eat The Corn’s Interviews Database!
#mythXplained “Two Fathers”/”One Son”: after not much of a build-up in the first half of the season, it’s time for the big reveal! The adding of layers to an ever-complexifying mythology stops, the cards are all laid on the table and the pieces are ranked in chronological order. It’s the end of the mythology that was developed over five and a half years, the quality of which the X-Files will try to imitate afterwards. After this, it’s a different show. The andswers are here
#mythXplained “Biogenesis”! The mytharc leaves the abysmally tangled web and moral tale of the Syndicate years, and heads towards a magnificently elegiac exploration of religion, science and spirituality. This results in EatTheCorn’s longest review by far:
SCULLY: It began with an act of supreme violence–
a big bang expanding ever outward, cosmos born of matter and gas,
matter and gas ten billion years ago. Whose idea was this?
Who had the audacity for such invention? And the reason?
Were we part of that plan ten billion years ago? Are we born only to die?
To be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth before giving way to
our generations? If there is a beginning, must there be an end?
We burn like fires in our time only to be extinguished. To surrender
to the elements’ eternal reclaim. Matter and gas… will this all end one day?
Life no longer passing to life, the Earth left barren like the stars above,
like the cosmos. Will the hand that lit the flame let it burn down?
Let it burn out? Could we, too, become extinct? Or if this fire of life
living inside us is meant to go on, who decides? Who tends the flames?
Can he reignite the spark even as it grows cold and weak?
After the Spanish version a few months ago, EatTheCorn is proud to present its Mytharc Primer, the definitive chronicle and explanation of the X-Files mythology (until further notice in barely a few months’ time!…) — in German!
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Wir begrüßen unsere Besucher aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz und anderen Ländern!
Hier finden Sie eine Zusammenfassung und eine detaillierte Erklärung über die X-Files Mythologie finden.
#mythXplained 4 writers, 1 essential ep: “Memento Mori”, or how to elevate the series to unprecedented emotional heights without introducing any mytharc elements that were not introduced before. The painful “cancer arc begins. Note: watch *after* Never Again.
Eat The Corn Dossier: An examination of what @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] has left unresolved, in what ways it could develop, and what new it could add to the mix, in 3 parts
Eat The Corn Dossier, Part 2/3: An examination of how the world has changed since @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] has left the air and what it could incorporate in its storylines from the news
#mythXplained Tempus Fugit/Max, or how to do a double episode nearly independent from the rest of the mythology with quality set design and action pieces — this could be a feature film of itself! RIP Pendrell.
Part 3/3 on the future(s) of @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files]: some speculation, some wild theories, some creative paths the show could take — and there are several!
Full liveblog of Chris Carter at world premiere of @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files].
“It’s really a dream come true for me to do something.”
“Every day I look at the newspaper and I see a possible X-Files episode, so this is obviously something that – I did it for a long time and you never quite lose the eye for what would be good X-Files storytelling. It’s a perfect time to come back with the X-Files considering global politics.”
Asked about the future potential for new episodes, Carter was optimistic. “I love telling X-Files stories. The truth is out there! If we satisfy audience expectations, certainly there’s an opportunity,” he said.
#XFilesRevival premiere first reactions by French journalists Romain Nigita Alain Carrazé: Great! + thank you for the non-spoiler policy!
7 Oct 2015, 11:11
#XFilesRevival premier Italian review: “uno dei più grandi ed importanti eventi televisivi dell’anno prossimo” — did Carter really say “dopo le prime sei puntate” (after the *first* six episodes)?
#XFilesRevival premiere press in German: its fulfilling! “Um es kurz auf den Punkt zu bringen für diejenigen, die an dieser Stelle lieber nicht weiterlesen möchten um so wenig wie möglich zu wissen, nur so viel: Es werden viele Erwartungen erfüllt.”
#XFilesRevival premiere: short Carter interview: answers coming, but questions too
9 Oct 2015, 08:57
#mythXplained “Zero Sum”: Skinner specialist Howard Gordon teams with @[108381559187017:274:Frank Spotnitz] for an episode making the fullest out of the very serialized story-telling in the last half of season 4
#XFilesRevival premiere press: Carter only mentions seasons 1-3 eps as essential viewing before the revival. That + forgetting that the opening credits were different in seasons 8-9 says quite a bit!
10 Oct 2015, 21:46
#XFilesRevival press: US premiere at #NYCC before a crowd of 3000: despite some fans who know how to keep a secret, expect spoilers to hit the internets soon (and, who knows how good rule-keeping was, perhaps video clips of the episode will surface as well). The January premiere is still over 3 months away.
#XFilesRevival premiere press: It’s back to classic X-Files!
Alien conspiracy theorists treated as an X-Files in of itself: “Mulder has been diagnosed as depressive by his wife” Will we learn more about what happened between Mulder and Scully? “I don’t think so, that’s for other shows” + teasing the stand-alone episodes, like Darin Morgan’s “Curse of the Were-Lizard” (interview below does go into some spoilers)
There have been plenty of articles and some interviews that have come out, some go into extremely spoiler territory. I will not relay all this here, those who want them can look for them.
I am very intrigued and interested to see where this goes. It really feels like Carter took a long break and is back with an X-Files for present times, and has kept a good memory of old-school seasons 1-3 X-Files as if these defining seasons is what should really remembered about the show. Wait and see.
12 Oct 2015, 00:25
Lets we forget! #mythXplained “Demons”: producer Bob Goodwin provides the story, Chris Carter turns it into a mytharc episode full of half-truths, deliciously ambiguous about what is real and what is memory warped by obsession. An oft-forgotten gem
#mythXplained “Gethsemane”: Carter’s very personal themes of faith and skepticism cry out in pain for the whole world to hear in this episode that tries to shake everything in the world of the show’s mythology, kicking off one of the show’s very best multi-part episodes
This philosophical existential dialogue between our two heroes is one of the best in the series:
MULDER: I’m as skeptical of that man
as you are, but proof… definitive proof of sentient beings sharing
the same time and existence with us, that would change everything.
Every truth we live my would be shaken to the ground. There’s no
greater revelation imaginable, no greater scientific discovery.
SCULLY: You already believe, Mulder. What difference would it make?
I mean, what would proof change for you?
MULDER: If someone could prove to you the existence of God,
would it change you?
SCULLY: Only if it were disproven.
MULDER: Then you accept the possibility that belief in God is a lie?
SCULLY: I don’t think about it, actually, and I don’t think it can be
proven.
MULDER: But what if it could be? Wouldn’t that knowledge be worth
seeking? Or is it just easier to go on believing the lie?
Apart from some other anniversaries, October 13 is also the anniversary to one of @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files]’ best episodes.
Read genius Darin Morgan with his typical self-depreciation:
“A lot of that free will and fate stuff had to do with the fact that I was really bad, at the time, at plotting.”
“I left it in there as my own inside joke; I laugh every time I see it.”
“My pitch to Chris was, because Mulder’s interested in the psychic ability, that’s all he focuses on, and doesn’t really treat Clyde Bruckman as another human; he’s just interested in the phenomenon. Because Scully didn’t believe in it, she could treat him as a person, and see how his belief that he could see the future had ruined his life.”
#mythXplained It’s 1989! Vince Gilligan professes his love for the Lone Gunmen, gets all MK-Ultra on them, plus we get those vintage shoebox-sized cell phones
The leaks are out there! 4 promos with unfinished VFX are spreading through the internet. Our first glance at the non-mythology episodes — monsters, mutants, psi powers, medical experiments — and it’s touching all the notes it’s supposed to touch (maybe too much so?). The X-Files are back!
#mythXplained “Christmas Carol/Emily”: an acute sign of torture porn on Scully on the second half, but brought about so smoothly, beautifully, ethereally in its first part. A wonderful mix of mythology and character study — despite a link of these episodes with the core mythology that is problematic at best, besides they were written by John Gillnitz and not Carter
#XFilesRevival is going to be a mix of same-old same-old and radical break with what came before.
Chris Carter: “I jumped at the idea when I found out the actors were interested. I can tell you the idea of a reboot wasn’t the way I wanted to go. I didn’t want to come back to do a victory lap, to do sequels, or anything like that. I wanted fresh, new material, and that’s what we’ve done.”
Then why not do an original series instead of more X-Files? And why not use the opportunity to wrap up the X-Files properly instead of opening all-new mysteries?
@[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] Massive Music Compilation has been updated! Find @[107907589230040:274:Mark Snow] music requests from no less than 150 episodes! FYI @[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records].
#mythXplained Patient X/The Red and the Black: A pivotal 2-parter. The aliens-as-God parallel at its apex, a continuation and reversal of Mulder’s crisis of faith, the introduction of the Faceless Rebels, cinema-quality direction by Manners & Carter and memorable music by @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]. As “Fight the Future” approaches, definitve answers in the mythology come in spades.
This exchange in particular becomes more and more relevant as the #XFilesRevival approaches:
Mulder: It all comes down to a question, one that hasn’t been answered or I don’t think honestly addressed. Who made that chip in your neck? That chip was found in a military research facility. Our government made that chip, implanted it in your neck as part of a secret military project to develop a biochemical weapon, to monitor your immunity or to destroy you like a lab rat… if the truth were to be exposed. Your cancer, your cure. Everything that’s happening to you now. It all points to that chip. The truth I’ve been searching for? That truth is IN you.
Scully: (pauses, looks down) Mulder, when I met you five years ago, you told me that your sister had been abducted… by aliens. That that event had marked you so deeply that nothing else mattered. I didn’t believe you, but I followed you… on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there, based not on facts, not on science, but on your memories that your sister had been taken from you. Your memories were all that you had.
Mulder: I don’t trust those memories now.
#mythXplained Travelers: It’s back in time within a back in time episode, exploring a very Dark Skies-like type of alien we never see again. Also never referenced again: Mulder’s ring, a Duchovny improvisation, that could be linked to the later introduction of Diana Fowley. Nice reuse of actors (young version of Mulder’s father from “Musings”, “Demons”; same actor for J.E.Hoover in Millennium’s “Matryoshka”)!
Two interviews with Chris Carter on the big twist in the mythology in the #XFilesRevival, preparing the ground for what ought to be some massive questions:
(6:40) Question: we’ve been lied at the whole time
“Not necessarily the whole time, he [Tad I guess] makes a reference to something. But you don’t know to take people to face value and to trust what they’re saying. Everyone’s got their version of the truth and they may be lying as well. So, we wanted to sort of throw that out there.”
(1:05) “People are not necessarily to be trusted. So when someone says something you can’t necessarily take it at face value in The X-Files.”
#mythXplained This is the end…of the best period for XF, the Vancouver era, and of Carter’s initially planned 5-year span for the series. The first of many ends. For the occasion, a scene actually takes place in Vancouver (@[802493469802487:274:Every Frame a Painting] 😉 ), we meet a boy who is “the key to everything”, and with Spender and Fowley and the Syndicate shenanigans the show is more an ensemble than ever. Bye bye Bob Goodwin & Vancouver crew!
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Sep-10-1993: 22 years since we first saw Mulder & Scully meeting the Class of ’89
10 Sep 2015, 23:14
#TheXFiles201Days #mythXplained The X-Files continues exploring the memory of World War II and the Black Oil makes its radioactive, spooky entrance with Carpenteresque music from @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]
#mythXplained Atención a tod@s los X-philes hispanohablantes: la cartilla de la mitologia XF ahora en español!
Aquí podeis encontrar un resumen y una explanación detallada de la mitología de Expedientes X.
M-S romance: “I had been thinking about it” and this is probably the one thing Carter wanted to ‘correct’ in the story of the series. What remains to be seen is if this will be a well-managed evolution or just a gimmick die to lack of imagination in order to have tension.
#mythXplained Avatar puts the spotlight on Skinner, w/ story by Gordon & Duchovny, mixes well a monster-of-the-week story and serialized mythology #TheXFiles201Days
“The date is set”: Carter & Duchovny deliver a literate ep that is calm but drives the mythology in a definitive direction. Colonization, manipulative conspirators, undercover aliens, musings about faith and science and power, the Campbellian hero who discovers where he comes from, Mark Snow’s atmosphere, a very “meta” guest star, it’s all there. A memorable finale to perhaps the show’s best season.
Chris Carter’s “The Red and the Black”, DVD vs HDTV comparison. Is the BluRay planned yet, The X-Files?
23 Sep 2015, 21:17
Chris Carter interviewed by @[127419440630254:274:Kyle Thiermann] – a great insight into the man, his creative process, his approach to time management and multitasking, and some real complicity between fellow surfers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skX67bhMT1k
25 Sep 2015, 15:34
#XFiles photorealistic art by James Zark – for Stephen Harber’s article series
25 Sep 2015, 19:58
“Medici”: After @[1600262146899838:274:The Man in the High Castle], another very interesting development from @[108381559187017:274:Frank Spotnitz] — who has been developing TV projects with diverse international teams in Europe for a while now. The Medici have links to banking, the Vatican, Galileo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo…there’s a big potential in this!
Vancouver in film & TV: The X-Files get a mention. What @[802493469802487:274:Every Frame a Painting] doesn’t get right though is that upon leaving Vancouver, XF payed the city a tribute and set a scene in Vancouver: the chess match at the opening of 5X20: The End!
26 Sep 2015, 10:04
#XFilesRevival trailer coming soon — via @[8273206453:69:The X-Files Lexicon]
#mythXplained “Tunguska”: after examining World War II in s3, The X-Files get into Cold War territory in s4, in one of the most complex, multi-layered and satisfying two-parters of the series. Among the spookiest scenes with the worm-like Black Oil, cult scenes for Skinner & Krycek!
So. @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] trailer is here. Weary Mulder and reluctant Scully, check. Dark spaces and flashlights, check. Supportive Skinner, check. Shadowy old informant, check. The immortal Cigarette-Smoking Man, check. Modern paranoia and secrets from our post-World War II past, check. Beautiful photography, check. The date is set.
Some heavy-weight work on the promotional material for the #XFilesRevival! It’s good to see FOX putting its trust on the material (unlike, say, with I Want To Believe).
Jan 23, 2015
Everything on the #XFilesRevival news + The After no more + Season 11 coming https://www.eatthecorn.com/2015/01/23/revival-revival/ @FoxTVStudios @joeharris @FrankSpotnitz
FYI @nerdist @sambarsanti @zhandlen @DenofGeekTV @DeadlineNellie @robbricken @rtg0nzalez @bradmiska @devincf @Darren_Mooney @XFiles_Truth @axepisodes @EsX @GrupoTheXFiles @XFilesArg @Lady3Jane1013 @XFilesManiade @XFBluebook
Jun 10, 2015
@XFilesNews @NoBordFromOrbit Impressive amount of info and its only Day3 #XFilesRevival! Welcome to 2015–but at this rate massive spoilers!
Aug 27, 2015
FIND THE TRUTH: The first Italian Convention for The X Files. FOLLOW FOR MORE INFO #xfilesrevival #xfilesitaliancon https://www.facebook.com/groups/1480399608947522/
@EsX @Expediente_X_Es Proyecto convencion XF organizando en Italia,inscribete para hacerlo realidad #Xfilesitaliancon
Jul 9, 2013
@XFiles20sdcc If X-Files had ended with Season 7 as planned, what would have been the ending? Where is Strughold now?
@XFiles20sdcc If X-Files were made today, what would the conspiracy be about? Government or private? Enemy within or foreign?
@XFiles20sdcc What would Mulder & Scully have to say about the economic crisis today?
@XFiles20sdcc Once the mytharc ended in Season 6, was it easy to come up with ways to go forward?
Jul 19, 2013
You need a reason to get excited about doing it again,but coming here today and seeing all these people,this is very inspirational -CC #XF20
Carter “[Season10 stories] more comic-booky, they’re their own mythology” How about no XF3 movie and tell the story in XFS10? @joeharris
“The suspicions and the conspiracy theories are rampant today, so I think that if XF were to come back now, you could do the show now” -CC
“We went through a period there where I think ‘The X-Files'” was not-relevant” -CC on #SDCC #XF20
