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Fox has decided to renew X-Files, a series that aired its last episode over thirteen years ago, with a \u201csix-episode event series\u201d that begins this January. I don\u2019t know what an \u201cevent series\u201d is but I\u2019m pretty excited. Of course, there\u2019s a lot of new things to distrust the government about, so one has to wonder: from the burning temperature of jet fuel to the Facebook algorithm, what will the writers decide to focus on? I couldn\u2019t help myself and made a listicle.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m gonna go ahead and say that alien abductions don\u2019t quite capture the public imagination like they did in the 90s. The reason for this is probably over-determined, but making an educated guess as to why greyskins levitating someone off their bed and out the window went from terrifying to hackneyed, would help us know what to avoid while making a compelling and interesting alien sub-plot.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the uniformity of alien abductions makes them no longer eligible for Quality Television. Maybe it was the very first episode of South Park that signaled that it was a predictable trope. In any case\u00a0I think the classic bright lights, big eyes sort of alien abduction could make a comeback if it were shot immaculately and had some sort of new spin on it. There needs to be a new and compelling reason for the abductions. You can also reimagine\u00a0the sequence so that the victim isn’t always walking through the forest or sleeping in bed. I think the V\/H\/S 2 (2014) alien kidnapping<\/a> is the way to go here.<\/p>\n UFO sightings are harder to make compelling for many reasons that I’ll get into later but one of the biggest hurdles is that the\u00a0ability to capture so much has diluted the market in unexplainable events caught on tape. There are tons of \u201cBest UFO Sightings 2013 Compilation<\/a>\u201d videos but so many of them are well-made but obvious fakes. What would it take to convince Mulder and Scully to investigate one of the hundreds of videos uploaded every year? Perhaps the conspicuous absence of video (nine minutes perhaps<\/a>) would be more compelling than capturing what looks to be a flying saucer. Proof of aliens won\u2019t be shocking and well-documented alien abductions, it\u2019ll just be creepy holes in the digital record.<\/p>\n Slenderman is the closest the Internet has to a legendary folk creature<\/a>, so naturally it would make sense that someone open an X File on it. Because Slenderman is from and of the Internet, so much about him is out of focus, glitchy, and full of static. A slenderman episode might be a great opportunity to push the genre and, like the X-Files did many times in its later seasons, bring in a guest director to do a feature episode. Bringing in\u00a0Paranormal\u00a0Activity<\/em> director Oren Peli to do a found footage episode would be pretty fun. It’d have to be as least as good as X-Cops.<\/a><\/p>\nSlenderman Episode<\/strong><\/h2>\n