That would turn it into Scooby Doo. In the end it always turns out to be done by prick trying to cover up with mysticism.
A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural.
Submitted 2 months ago by ambitious_bones@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 months ago
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
My first thought
londos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s called Scooby Doo
Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reverse Scooby doo
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean X-Files is, right?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hear you but nah. We have more than enough “realistic” and “gritty” shows. The whimsy of X-files was what made it tick. Taking that way would just make it boring which is the worsts possible outcome for such a show.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
We don’t have nearly enough shows that promote healthy skepticism and the scientific method though.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
True, but I feel the original X-files had that in droves with Scully and practically everyone else opposing Mulder at every turn. It took a damn long time for him to finally be vindicated, arguably until the movie.
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
and this time Gillian Anderson is paid the same as David Duchovny from the very beginning
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This idea but with MAGA instead of Mulder.
Haha, but the show sounds like a fun twist, but probably only good for 2-3 seasons. It’d get really hard to keep interest in a show like that for very long. I.e. the good place ending itself after 4 was perfect.
ambitious_bones@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perhaps more of a Miniseries. And the thing driving the plot would be not just the investigations but Mulders Struggle to rethink everything he belived in.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’d work, 8-12 episodes of him on the rollercoaster, maybe even seeking therapy in the end. Scully babying him less and less as she gets more sick of his bullshit and stops pulling punches.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
So serious scooby doo.
As long as Gillian Anderson reprises her role… sign me up.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds like it would veer kinda close to Hannibal.
On that topic, I miss Hannibal. Mads Mikkelsen is an amazing Hannibal… and Gillian Anderson was in it!
Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Hannibal was fucking amazing and I agree, both Gillian Anderson and Mads Mikkaelson were amazing in it.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Nah, go for the darker more realistic version. Mulder just goes further down the rabbit hole, ends up going full Qanon, and ends up being killed trying to storm the capital building.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Great 1st season arc. I would add, not killed. Arrested then pardoned, but not before befriending some right wing militia that swears they captured Bigfoot and are breeding and training him to make super soldiers.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
How about a reboot where Mulder gradually looses his grip on reality and slides deeper into paranoia, hallucinations, and delusions. A tragic story where Scully is forced to helplessly watch as her partner fades away.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
No, he doesn’t just fade away, slowly converts from a protagonist to an antagonist. At first, everything is naturally explainable. He slowly grows increasingly agitated with that. Is the series progresses, a few paranormal, unexplainable things start to happen. Evidence, proving natural causes slowly wanes. Scully starts to suspect. Occasionally finds a small piece of evidence that is not quite where it should be. Suspicion grows over the run of the show, eventually they end up on the trail of an ever elusive criminal mastermind.
It’s Mulder. He goes whole ham evil and it’s up to her to stop him.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Or Mulder is a subj of MK Ultra 2.0, and he naturally can not believe the only real conspiracy is him being drugged and exposed to fake leads and evidence. His father, the originator of that program, thought they’ve created a batch of people immune to mind control and mind altering through procedures his son doesn’t remember well. Skully learns and exposes the scheme to him and he turns on her and other people thinking he’s the insane one while only he know The Truth. Plot narrowly misses a point, where out-of-mind federal cop with access to weapons, data and training could do what USA is sadly famous for.
Binturong@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
NO. Do NOT meddle with my X-Files just because you want to satisfy some selfish bullshit. Good DAY, sir.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I said good DAY
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I feel that any sufficiently understood form of the supernatural would just folded into science, it would be cool to see a show with a hybrid character like scully that is still a scientific and skeptic minded person that can ratle off the sub species of gnomes but knows that they where chased out of the reagon centuries ago and there haven’t been any reports of them in the neighbouring regions that couldn’t be explained away, while yes gnomes exist it turns out it was a serial killer using folk tales to throw off the investigation
I guess the short way to put it is there’s no reason things need to be mundane to be logically explored with scientific methods
“Most humans regect the existence of the supernatural just as some regect the validity of vaccines despite the vast documented evidence.”
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
You kinda arrived at Rick and Morty
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’d hope to not have characters so jaded and cynical even if they have to deal with killers
Soleos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What you’re describing is the Science Fantasy subgenre. If you haven’t already, like Sanctuary and Fringe are exactly what you’d be looking for.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Ya I’ve seen those but I felt like this would be a better alternative to scully always being right and nothing really fun happening, I guess I’d rather have supernatural + CSI instead of scooby doo + CSI, not sure if CSI is the best example but the only other cop show I could think of was law and order
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 months ago
*reject
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No my phone put in regect it’s in there multiple times
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.
It had “new strange” style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond the scientific, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: “it’s all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand.” The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.
That said, there’s no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there’s gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That sounds fun.
For the first sentence or two, I thought you were talking about the unrelated book.
Thank you for the new media!
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Partly what made the TV series ‘Evil’ so good was that it was horror from a skeptical perspective.
M137@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Belief*
anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just read a book that somewhat follows this kind of premise: A person believes in ghosts, and all these things happen, and, as the reader, I’m totally on board with it being ghosts. Then a new character enters, and gives logical explanations for everything, and the main character, and me, the reader, realize that, oh damn, it’s not ghosts at all. Except then it turns out it WAS ghosts, and the shit hits the fan.
It was a really fun read.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s the book called?
treyf711@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
I too am curious, even though now it sounds like the premise has been spoiled.
anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tap for spoiler
The September House
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Swamp gas”
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Thinking about that now, it’s one of the most long-running and popular media-things concerning ‘deep state’ fears before 2016. And while The X-Files ended, and for someone like me ended too late, one that toppled it is still running around on coke and hamberders having the most unpenetrateable fanbase ever. Why it’s not Firefly but Taco having a second season?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe with one subplot coming up occasionally that simply cannot be explained rationally, which drives Scully mad.
hkspowers@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That’s literally what happened in the reboot that came out a few years ago…
makyo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would love this except the twist would be everything he gave up believing in turns out to be true
ninth_plane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every episode, Scully is “right”, but they show the comedic rush of the Illuminati-like group to patch up the cover-up as they’re being investigated.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
MUSH ROOM
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sounds boring for the most part, although the new Revelations episode would be interesting, Since Scully was the believer and Mulder was the skeptic.
leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
My head canon is that Mulder applied for Blue Rose membership but was too loosey-goosey for Gordon Cole to hire him. Cole would’ve hired Scully in a heartbeat.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
It is revealed in passing that Scully used to go by Velma Dinkley.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every once and a while a few unexplainable things add up over a season, just to end with Scully pulling the face off an alien in the finale to reveal a stoned teenager and a dog are pranking Mulder…
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I told you it was just those meddling kids!
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s not even a stretch. Her full (married) name could easily be Dana Velma Scully, but she doesn’t go by her very distinctive middle name anymore. If I’d had a super funky middle name, I definitely would have used it in high school and definitely wouldn’t as an adult. And I’m not half as (lovably) joyless as Scully is.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Hire Mindy Kalinh. not that I’ll watch it, but they internet will lose its mind