Would you watch a rebooted X-Files with new actors?

[Lord]

Isn't that wat they already did by season 8?

 

[Raiden]

If they remake X-files, I hope it'll be on cable networks like HBO or Showtime, or even Fox's FX.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

X-Files has ended.I don't think a reboot should be made.

 

[Destructus86]

I don't think it should be rebooted. I think they should do a spin-off of a sort. Have Mulder and Scully in the pilot episode and introduce two new agents. It would be a sort of send off. And of course Mulder and Scully would make cameo's every now and then. But it would basically be a continuation of the series with new agents and a new story.

 

[Wyrminarrd]

I prefer a reboot since that way the writers wouldn't be burdened by established facts and could instead create their own over all plot without risking creating contradictions (not that the original writers worried about that if I remember correctly )

 

[KALEL114]

I loved the show, but it is over and done. I'm sick and tired of reboots.

 

[Lord]

Over, not really, many plot points weren't wraped, namelly, Scully's son and the 2012 colonisation, they can still end things nicelly with a 3rd film, that seems less possible every day

 

[Lord]

Now that i think about it this could be very good in good hands, but they would have to make the supernatural aspects more ambiguous by not having every X-File end up a supernatural case and in the begining of the show not make it clear that Aliens or monsters were involved, then it would make more sence for Scully to be the non-believer.

However in todays networks i don't think it would survive unless they desguised it as a crime show like Bones (which some times has some episodes that are like X-Files but more ambiguous) or if it went to a network that doesn't ask for too high ratings like CW.

While it is a very difficult task a reboot of a classic show isn't something new and that allways ends up in doom, just look at Hawaii Five-O and Nikita.

 

[moviedoors]

If they actually gave the skeptic their due credit instead of ******** lip service where the believer is right with his crazy **** 99% of the time? Maybe. The X-Files had it's moments, and some of those moments where legitimately great and game changing, but rewatching it now, it pisses me off so much how frequently they gave the hippy/New Age/UFO nut/conspiracy theory nut/ fill-in-the-blank-with-whatever-outrageous-theory nut the high ground when it came to being right. I can give the show credit for very, very, very rarely making Scully an idiot, but she was still wrong almost every single time, until later in the series, when she was mostly right only after she became Mulder-believe-everything 2.0. I can't get behind a show that has a message of "don't be skeptical, don't use critical thinking, just believe." I would love to see a new version of the X-Files that actually engaged in that debate, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Lord]

If they actually gave the skeptic their due credit instead of ******** lip service where the believer is right with his crazy **** 99% of the time? Maybe. The X-Files had it's moments, and some of those moments where legitimately great and game changing, but rewatching it now, it pisses me off so much how frequently they gave the hippy/New Age/UFO nut/conspiracy theory nut/ fill-in-the-blank-with-whatever-outrageous-theory nut the high ground when it came to being right. I can give the show credit for very, very, very rarely making Scully an idiot, but she was still wrong almost every single time, until later in the series, when she was mostly right only after she became Mulder-believe-everything 2.0. I can't get behind a show that has a message of "don't be skeptical, don't use critical thinking, just believe." I would love to see a new version of the X-Files that actually engaged in that debate, but I'm not holding my breath.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons i think a reboot could be done differently but with the same characters, i didn't like how Scully was allways completelly wrong even after watching crazy stuff, even after an UFO flying right from the sky in the movie she wasn't convinced. A reboot where they researched strange cases that didn't have an explanation but end up not being supernatural many times would be a good.

What comes to mind is the episode "The Devil in the Details" from the tv show Bones where they find a demon like figure burned in a church but it is revealed that it was a human that was born with some deformities and mental problems that made some alterations to his oun body so as to look more like a demon. Some episodes like this would be a nice change from the old formula as now Mulder would end up having been very wrong.

This doesn't mean the UFOs and and supernatural conspiracy theories wouldn't exist, but they could be less obvious in the begining and more ambiguous. They could also plan the mythology and story ahead of time, one of the problems with the original show was that sometimes they didn't know where they were going or what they wanted to do.

For some reason less and less people like to watch these types of show and prefer policials and shows with medics, however i think that X-Files would benefit from a reboot, some shows like Buffy shouldn't be rebooted but X-Files has too much potencial and missed oportunities, not to mention that the franchise is kind of dead right now.

I heard that the show creator planed season 5 to be the last and for the franchise to continue as movies, it's kind of a shame that didn't happen because it kind of lost its way after season 5, it could have ended up like Star Trek with the movies now replacing the shows. There were some rumors that the 3rd film may reboot the franchise but i think that a new show reboot like Hawaii Five-0 and Battlestar Galactica would be the best choice.