TravisR said:I couldn't be happier that the show is back but only having 6 episodes blows. Smaller episode orders have nothing to do with telling a better story, it's entirely related to the budget.
Looking at that EW article, they're guessing that these are standalone episodes so I can't believe that after 13 years that Chris Carter and whoever else comes on the writing staff couldn't come up with 12 rock solid scary episodes. Maybe if they were doing 6 mythology episodes (that were completely independent of the original mythology so it's accessible to a new audience) that could work because it would basically be a quick serialized story and unlike the series' mythology, it wouldn't have time to get bogged down in itself.MaxMorrow said:Better not enough than too much, says I. And there are plenty of stories that don't need 22 episode seasons (or a trilogy of movies, or whatever) to tell. Perhaps this will be one of them.
TravisR said:I couldn't be happier that the show is back but only having 6 episodes blows.
I thought 24 worked great with 12 episodes too but that was a show that by its nature always had some filler so by dropping to 12, they lost a lot of the junk. The X-Files isn't in real time so it doesn't need filler episodes, they can all be killer.Jason Charlton said:I'm not so sure I agree. I really liked the limited, 12-hour format of "24: Live Another Day" - I thought it forced the writers to avoid all the "filler" that had always been needed to expand the core story to 24 episodes.
joshEH said:The X-Files featured a Murderer's Row of writing talent, so the only way to get me excited about this would be to secure the returns of at least a few of them. Guys like Gilligan, Spotnitz, and Shiban have all moved on, but seeing as it's a limited-season thing, maybe some of them could still take part in some capacity.
I'd adore Morgan and Wong returning, but that seems pretty unlikely, considering their professional fallout with Carter after Millennium.
joshEH said:Interesting article at Forbes today:
The X-Files Revival Isn't About Fans or Closure, It's About Netflix