One of T.V.’s most legendary programs, The X-Files still has a devoted fan base. After years of silence, there’s finally good news: we have a new X-Files movie.

For a long time, all we knew was that David Duchovny and nerd pinup Gillian Anderson would be returning. Hooray! Then she wasn’t coming back. Boo! Then she WAS coming back. Hooray! Now, more news has leaked, including a spoiler photo from the set that apparently means a lot to long-time fan of the show (or “philes”).

As someone whose sum total of X-Files experience is the occasional episode in syndication, I’m not sure what to think. Should I get the entire series from Netflix and try to catch up? Maybe not - it appears that this new film, casually dubbed X-Files 2, has nothing to do with aliens or with the show’s mythology. (Apparently “the show’s mythology” is another thing that means something to philes.) It’s not intended as a sequel to the first X-Files movie, either. Which is good, because I’ve only seen about a minute of The X-Files Movie in the context of the Mystery Science Theater Summer Blockbuster Review.

Considering that the X-Files was supposed to be a show about aliens, every time someone describes an episode to me, there are no aliens involved. Lots of bizarre and supernatural villains, but no aliens. I guess it can be equated to vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In any case, I doubt that the new movie will suffer from its lack of aliens.

The truth, et cetera!

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