NOT DONE YET
First, I want to express my joy and frustration over the recently announced Fight the Future Blu-Ray release. Joy, because it looks like, among other features, this will include the infamous Hallway Kiss that David and Gillian staged and which appeared in the gag reel. This alone will guarantee that every fan will want a copy. Frustration, however, because only a small percentage of fans actually own a Blu-Ray player of some kind. And they ain't cheap. Most of us have already poured more money than we can afford into seeing multiple showings of IWTB. We can't afford to spend another $300 on a Blu-Ray player just to watch one or two XF discs. Will Fight the Future also be re-released on DVD with the same extra features?
Second, as to discussion of a possible XF3, I just want to say this: "The X-Files" story is not complete. There is a final chapter to be written, regarding 2012. What format that story should take (movie, TV, book, comic, etc.), I don't know, but the story needs to be told. With XF2, I feel like we invited the entire world to what should have been a private party. It was a movie for the fans, and the fans loved it. Even more so, XF3 has to be a story for the fans. It has to be entrenched in the mythology. Even if the only way to tell this story is for Chris to sit around a campfire with us and narrate the story in person, it needs to be told. The X-Files has always been innovative, so maybe in 2012, we need to innovate again, forgo the traditional blockbuster movie setting, and find a fan-generated and fan-pleasing way to tell the story on a smaller scale, to those of us who care the most. I don't know what such a project might look like, but technology and trends are constantly changing, and a lot can happen in four years. I ask only that you and Chris keep an open and optimistic mind that a feature film isn't the only way to share the final vision with us.
By the way, I was reading Joseph Campbell this week, who describes five key elements to the "infant exile" theme in mythology (i.e., William's threatened birth and his adoption). William's storyline has included all but the last of those elements: "In the end, the hero, now a youth returning to his proper home ... becomes reconciled with the father and completes the father's work." As much as I believe that the final chapter of the X-Files remains to be told, I also am a firm believer that William's story is not yet complete, and that he is a key part to that final chapter. Concluding that cycle of "infant exile" with the young man's return brings the story to completion and justifies everything that's happened to get him to that point. When I think of William, I always think of Moses, adopted out by a loving mother in order to save his life, and what a great man he became. I'd like to see William have the chance to fulfill that destiny.
Here's to "The X-Files: 2012!"
Belle
Oregon
Second, as to discussion of a possible XF3, I just want to say this: "The X-Files" story is not complete. There is a final chapter to be written, regarding 2012. What format that story should take (movie, TV, book, comic, etc.), I don't know, but the story needs to be told. With XF2, I feel like we invited the entire world to what should have been a private party. It was a movie for the fans, and the fans loved it. Even more so, XF3 has to be a story for the fans. It has to be entrenched in the mythology. Even if the only way to tell this story is for Chris to sit around a campfire with us and narrate the story in person, it needs to be told. The X-Files has always been innovative, so maybe in 2012, we need to innovate again, forgo the traditional blockbuster movie setting, and find a fan-generated and fan-pleasing way to tell the story on a smaller scale, to those of us who care the most. I don't know what such a project might look like, but technology and trends are constantly changing, and a lot can happen in four years. I ask only that you and Chris keep an open and optimistic mind that a feature film isn't the only way to share the final vision with us.
By the way, I was reading Joseph Campbell this week, who describes five key elements to the "infant exile" theme in mythology (i.e., William's threatened birth and his adoption). William's storyline has included all but the last of those elements: "In the end, the hero, now a youth returning to his proper home ... becomes reconciled with the father and completes the father's work." As much as I believe that the final chapter of the X-Files remains to be told, I also am a firm believer that William's story is not yet complete, and that he is a key part to that final chapter. Concluding that cycle of "infant exile" with the young man's return brings the story to completion and justifies everything that's happened to get him to that point. When I think of William, I always think of Moses, adopted out by a loving mother in order to save his life, and what a great man he became. I'd like to see William have the chance to fulfill that destiny.
Here's to "The X-Files: 2012!"
Belle
Oregon
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