X-file fans still want to believe!

It’s been fifteen years since the X-files originally aired on Fox and fans even now want to believe that the X-files will continue on for generations to come.

 

The X-files was created by Chris Carter and first aired on September 10, 1993. The show had a nine year run on Fox in which the slogan “I want to believe”, made people tune in to watch every week the exploits of F.B.I. agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson).  The sheer chemistry between Fox Mulder, who was also referred to in the show as spooky Mulder and doubting skeptic Dana Scully made the show a smash hit and a sci-fi, cult classic around the world.

 

What Chris Carter had achieved in the pilot episode of the X-files set the stage for the shows over all success and longevity. The pilot episode was launched with Dana Scully being assigned to Fox Mulder on the X-files in an attempt to debunk Mulder’s work, obviously that back-fired, as Scully and Mulder became friends and a trust and understanding was developing between the two characters. Scully herself found it difficult to believe in anything that Mulder was saying or the very essence of the X-files itself. Though that all gradually started changing when Scully found herself being unable to explain the many things she had seen and experience along side with Mulder. Scully herself slowly started to become a believer of some sort in both the supernatural, and the unexplainable, including Mulder obsession with extraterrestrial and U.F.O.`s, which leads Scully to doubt even her own believes in both the government conspiracy and extraterrestrials. Mulder`s passion to discover the truth was driven largely by the fact that his sister was abducted when they were just children. Thus the show revolved a lot about the very slogan it started off with, “That the truth is out there.”

 

Such infamous characters as the Cigarette smoking man, the shadow government, and the seemingly unexplored sexual tension between Mulder and Scully kept fans glued to their television sets. I remember myself thinking there’s definitely something there between Mulder and Scully, yet that part wasn’t explored much on the show until later on, which was both a plus and a minus for devoted X-file fans who wanted to see Fox and Dana hook up as a couple. The X-files phenomena even lead to a parody on the animated Fox series ``The Simpsons``, where the X-Files, Mulder, and Scully met Homer Simpson and Homer ended up becoming a test subject for Mulder and Scully`s experiences into the paranormal and unexplained.

 

Now unlike CBS which decided to cancel both Jericho and Moonlight because of the ACNielsen ratings and Disney Channel which gave the big boot to both Disney animated series Kim Possible and American Dragon on the same situation blaming the cancellation on ratings. Fox television decided to stick with the X-files, even despite the fact that the X-files finished 102nd place out of 118 U.S. ACNielsen ratings shows. Fox television picked up the X-files for a second season and X-file fans, unlike Kim Possible, American Dragon, Jericho, and Moonlight fans, never had to fight to get another season of their favorite show. Fox executives saw the true potential in the X-files and listened to the growing fan base that was totally devoted to the X-files and even still is now.

 

In 1998, X-file fans got the ultimate treat as the X-files movie premiered in theatres world wide. The movie did well at the box office and Twentieth Century Fox gave the green light for a much anticipated sequel. Unfortunately numerous negotiations and wrangling kept the sequel from being made back in 2003 for a 2004 release. Those negotiations were finally resolved and X-files, I want to believe, went into production in December 2007.

 

On July 25, X-files, I want to believe, was released in North America to the delight of X-file fans everywhere. The film was certainly not expected to beat box office champ `The Dark Knight` which is cleaning house at the box office, but X-files, I want to believe is expected to do well at the box office and was clearly made for the fans of the X-files.

 

This goes to show that if fans fight hard enough to keep their show alive and keep lobbying the powers that be, in this case Twentieth Century Fox, something might just happen that fans can really believe in like an X-files 3.