I don’t think I ever heard of this one. But it’s got John Locke in it, so that’s pretty cool. I like him.
He’s in nearly every Chris Carter project; he was even in Millennium, which didn’t make sense in-world since Millennium was a spin-off of X-Files, and he was killed in the X-Files movie.
…not that I’m that I’m, uh, one of those rigid, insufferable people who needs consistency in his fantasy worlds or anything.
Huh. I also never heard of this show. Was it good?
I only know of it because X-Files felt checked out towards the end of its sixth season (I don’t care what IMDb ratings say, The Unnatural and Milagro are terrible episodes; one was written by the props designer and the other by Duchovny), and timelines/trivia suggest it’s because Chris Carter was all in on this show and Millenium instead, which imo have some GREAT/terrible After Effects time capsule editing.
I especially love the intro to Millenium just saying “who cares?” That was a magical time for the Arial Narrow font.
Whoa.
I feel take-it-or-leave-it about Milagro, but The Unnatural is a classic! Definitely was feeling the fatigue by the end of season 7 however, but sometimes I feel Chris Carter was his own worst enemy on the production. Meaning, he would have a great vision half of the time, and then just confusing writing, and cloudy direction on where the show was headed.
I’ve heard good things about Millennium. No idea about this show, though. Would also love to watch the goofy Lone Gunman episodes at some point.
Apparently he wanted to end it at season 5 and tell the rest of their story through feature length movies, but FOX dumptrucked money to his house or something.
Also it’s getting rebooted, which… I don’t know how that’ll work. The government’s lost any semblance of smoke and mirrors, and it never made sense to me that someone in the FBI would (pretty much) freely investigate its own government. I recognize they kept getting reprimanded and hamstrung on the way, but… I mean c’mon, in today’s surveillance state? also just fire or kill them.
Funny, that happened with Friends as well (they wanted to end around season 7).
I agree with all points in your second paragraph. They should just set it in the 1990’s. It may not make sense, but uh…it seems highly implausible for today.
