X-Files season eleven confirmed.

[raiken_]

I know! It will be revealed Mulder was replaced by an android duplicate programmed by Russians to discredit the US government during the miniseries!

[PerrySimm]

I was really disappointed that the new season was written as episodic television. It wasn't until Act 3 of Founder's Mutation that I caught on that X-Files was still stuck in the 90s. When you only have six episodes - tighten things up a little!

I guess it worked out anyway. But if S10 is any indication, the revival is not a triumph of SFF, but just a bit more of the same, while it lasts.

[The Romulan Republic]

I know! It will be revealed Mulder was replaced by an android duplicate programmed by Russians to discredit the US government during the miniseries!

Heh.

Well, he was sympathetic to the views of that Right wing conspiracy host in season ten.

Does Fox Mulder want to Make America Great Again?

[Karha of Honor]

Tonal time capsule? Care to elaborate?

Well, the Were-monster episode has Mulder showing Scully all these big conspiracy theory things from the 90s, and showing that nowadays, they're all debunked and given real reasons. Essentially, the episode is one long potshot at how out of date Mulder is in the 2010s because today's audience usually knows better, or can consult the internet.

Basically this.
Conspiracy theories reached their golden age at the end of the Cold War and the dawn of the internet. We are now in the middle of what I would like to coin "The Cold Peace" with Russian influences and are neck deep in the internet. Conspiracy theories like blurry photos of UFO's feel super out of date to the point of being naive. Everyone has a camera now and the number of bigfoot and UFO photos has not gone up.

Maybe the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but it isn't building Mulder's case at all.

No, this is the golden age, it's just not about UFOs.

[The Romulan Republic]

Yeah, but the prevelent conspiracy theories now are a lot scarier and more sinister than "UFOs are abducting people", which unless you take it too seriously, is more entertaining than something used to advance an agenda.

Edit: Though of course, those sorts of theories were always around as well.

[PerrySimm]

Season 10 clearly decided against political critique of modern times. I wouldn't make too much hay out of the colour of tie a disposable character wore.

[ChiggyvonRichthofen]

Yeah, The X-Files is about a lot more than just UFOs or specific conspiracy theories. And still, the fact that the average person might be less likely to actually believe those theories is only relevant up to a point for me. Most people don't believe in talking tattoos or a giant flukeman either. Verisimilitude is nice, but it isn't necessarily the be all end all. If people watch the show now, it will because of nostalgia, the characters, or the stories, rather than because it captures the current zeitgeist. With that said, I don't disagree that some of the storytelling techniques need to be updated if the next season is going to be a success.

That discussion might end up being moot anyway, depending on how they handle the cliffhanger. There was a potentially worldwide, civilization-ending pandemic and a huge UFO that everybody saw. Such an occurrence obviously should completely change the show's dynamics (at least some of them). Whether Carter will follow through with that or try to negate it somehow to maintain the status quo is another question.

[Karha of Honor]

Season 10 clearly decided against political critique of modern times. I wouldn't make too much hay out of the colour of tie a disposable character wore.

What should that political critique look like to be critique?

[Redem]

Heh.

Well, he was sympathetic to the views of that Right wing conspiracy host in season ten.

Does Fox Mulder want to Make America Great Again?

Considering that character clearly based off Alex Jones(although much more handsome), I wonder what direction they would take him considering recent developpement of the IRL one