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.

Sounds boring for the most part, although the new Revelations episode would be interesting, since Scully was the believer and Mulder was the skeptic.

It's called Scooby Doo

and this time Gillian Anderson is paid the same as David Duchovny from the very beginning

That would turn it into Scooby Doo. In the end it always turns out to be done by some greedy prick trying to cover things up with mysticism.

So serious scooby doo.

As long as Gillian Anderson reprises her role... sign me up.

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 away would just make it boring which is the worst possible outcome for such a show.

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."

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 understanding, 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.

Partly what made the TV series 'Evil' so good was that it was horror from a skeptical perspective.

Loses*

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.

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.

Belief*

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.

“Swamp gas”

How about a reboot where Mulder gradually loses 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.

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?

NO. Do NOT meddle with my X-Files just because you want to satisfy some selfish bullshit. Good DAY, sir.

That's literally what happened in the reboot that came out a few years ago...

MUSH ROOM

I would love this except the twist would be everything he gave up believing in turns out to be true

Maybe with one subplot coming up occasionally that simply cannot be explained rationally, which drives Scully mad.