The X-Files TV Series Reboot

The X-Files have been filed away in the bin of history, they need something similar but it has to be altogether different. Mulder had all the answers when going into a case and you never worried about those two as they were trained and armed FBI agents with back up. There is a lot of new urban legends and CTs to investigate, I'd like to see some new and very flawed characters with lots of weaknesses investigate them.

I want to see something of the older inspiration of the X Files, Carl Kolchak, a type that has to learn along the way while improvising through his investigations. But he needs some bigger problems like excessive drinking, smoking, gambling, and what have you. We need some really good and interesting characters because nothing in the way of a story line will be frightful enough to actually scare anyone these days. The story plots will likely be fairly tame because of the fact that people have been burned out on gore, so we need good characters, esp. with the same old stories and CTs.

I've been exploring these ideas in a fictional story I'm working on, here's a link to the first chapter. The second chapter will be up soon.

Story Link

a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

the did a Kolchak reboot a few years ago. Awful. he was portrayed as an elegant urbanite.

originally posted by: ElGoobero
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

the did a Kolchak reboot a few years ago. Awful. he was portrayed as an elegant urbanite.

I know, but that isn't what I'm suggesting. The new guy, gal or team should be more like the original Kolchak, not a reboot of the old series. The X-Files were inspired by Kolchak the Night Stalker series, but they changed that all around to become something more. I say, look at both of those series and develop something entirely new with characters that are more like the old Kolchak. The main characters in the X-Files were too good to be real, while Kolchak had flaws, was mostly unprepared and was kind of a con artist ready to break some rules to get his story.

The TV series Fringe was like the X-Files, more like a cheap knock off when it came out after X-Files, but it had some cool stories and interesting characters. Other shows like Friday the 13th: The Series appeared between Night Stalker and X-Files and was similar to both. So there are similar shows that have come and gone, whatever is next needs to get even better IMO.

I'd rather it was left alone, I just recently rewatched the entire series. And I forgot how bad series 10 and 11 were, changing the mythology so that there wasn't aliens as the bad guys was ridiculous. I guess that was done so when they pull operation blue beam, the public will fall for it. Leave its poor old corpse in the past and develop something new.