On the holidays treat yourself with The X-Files Virtual Season 12. It’s fanfic that tries to capture the overall style of the show semi-professionally, a group of writers that produced stories in the format of scripts (like Millennium VS4 before it). There’s a mix of mythology, stand-alones, comedy, experimental, and stories grabbed from present-day conspiracy circles or urban legends. Plus, it continues on from the Struggles and was written as a final-final season, it wraps everything up at the end in a quite satisfactory way. Written in 2018 but I only read it this year. Happy holidays!
[FRENCH] Décidément, il y a plein de choses avec lesquelles je suis en désaccord sur ces commentaires sur la s7, mais c’est indéniable que c’est la plus faible saison des 7 premières. Dommage qu’il y a eu autant de choses qui sont venues après, parce que je suis de ceux qui pensent que Requiem aurait bien marché comme un series finale.
Happy Ten Thirteen, happy birthday Mulder, happy birthday Chris Carter! 67 years old, already — retirement age, one could say — but that didn’t stop Marty, Francis, Sir Ridley…
And what’s this? A book announcement for something that comes out 22 October 2024, one year from now? Paul Terry’s “The X-Files: The Official Archives: Volume II: Extraterrestrial Activity and the Syndicate“! YES! We had found listings for this back in May that it would come out in December this year — so whatever the reason for the delay is, the making of this must be already well advanced if not completely finished. Says Terry:
“volume two covers the entire mythology—from seasons one all the way through to season 11, including Fight the Future, with some surprises—reading through it, and studying it, will feel a little different. Because I wanted volume two to be an even more immersive experience. So, while Agent Leyla Harrison is collating and preserving the reports and evidence, let’s just say that some strange things happen… things that, in spirit, will be familiar to X-Files fans.”
Can’t wait to see if Dr They rewrites Leyla Harrison’s memory to make sense of the revival mythology in a coherent way with the earlier years. Regardless of that, vol. 1 was such a beautifully done object that this can only be excellent!
Some things I noticed from the cover page: unlike vol. 1, this volume covers the years 1989, 1990 and 1992 as well (the years Mulder was alone in the XF division, or with Fowley) and the year 2017 (the missing year between s10 and s11). Terry’s signature reads 7/2/23, further proof that this was delayed sinificantly.
Edit: as per the author in the ETC Facebook comments (!), the date is not in any ay related to any delay, it’s an Easter egg. The hunt is on, what does it mean? “FBW”?
“A love song from an alien abductee to the alien who disappeared”: here it is, the song heard that was written in haste in a matter of hours for the needs of production of “Dreamland II” finds success 25 years later!… (as reported earlier)
This was not Mark Snow as this was not much in his style, so Dan Marfisi and Glenn Jordan came to the rescue. I’m no fan of country music, but this story is wild!
+ interviews with the song’s writers and with Chris Carter at Rolling Stone.
[FRENCH] Écoutez divers épisodes prendre cher, dans ce podcast sur The X-Files saison 7, certains mérités d’autres moins. Mais dans l’ensemble c’est vrai que c’est une des périodes les plus faibles de la série, malgré la qualité étherée de la mythologie.
