A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly loses his belive in the supernatural.
It is revealed in passing that Scully used to go by Velma Dinkley.
That’s not even a stretch. Her full (married) name could easily be Dana Velma Scully, but she doesn’t go by her very distinctive middle name anymore. If I’d had a super funky middle name, I definitely would have used it in high school and definitely wouldn’t as an adult. And I’m not half as (lovably) joyless as Scully is.
Hire Mindy Kalinh. not that I'll watch it, but they internet will lose its mind
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.
My first thought
It's called Scooby Doo
Reverse Scooby doo
You mean X-Files is, right?
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.
We don't have nearly enough shows that promote healthy skepticism and the scientific method though.
and this time Gillian Anderson is paid the same as David Duchovny from the very beginning
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.
Perhaps more of a Miniseries. And the thing driving the plot would be not just the investigations but Mulders Struggle to rethink everything he belived in.
So serious scooby doo.
As long as Gillian Anderson reprises her role... sign me up.
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.
Great 1st season arc. I would add, not killed. Arrested then pardoned, but not before befriending some right wing militia that swears they captured Bigfoot and are breeding and training him to make super soldiers.
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.
No, he doesn't just fade away, slowly converts from a protagonist to an antagonist. At first, everything is naturally explainable. He slowly grows increasingly agitated with that. Is the series progresses, a few paranormal, unexplainable things start to happen. Evidence, proving natural causes slowly wanes. Scully starts to suspect. Occasionally finds a small piece of evidence that is not quite where it should be. Suspicion grows over the run of the show, eventually they end up on the trail of an ever elusive criminal mastermind.
It's Mulder. He goes whole ham evil and it's up to her to stop him.
Or Mulder is a subj of MK Ultra 2.0, and he naturally can not believe the only real conspiracy is him being drugged and exposed to fake leads and evidence. His father, the originator of that program, thought they've created a batch of people immune to mind control and mind altering through procedures his son doesn't remember well. Skully learns and exposes the scheme to him and he turns on her and other people thinking he's the insane one while only he know The Truth. Plot narrowly misses a point, where out-of-mind federal cop with access to weapons, data and training could do what USA is sadly famous for.
NO. Do NOT meddle with my X-Files just because you want to satisfy some selfish bullshit. Good DAY, sir.
I said good DAY
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."
What you're describing is the Science Fantasy subgenre. If you haven't already, like Sanctuary and Fringe are exactly what you'd be looking for.
Ya I've seen those but I felt like this would be a better alternative to scully always being right and nothing really fun happening, I guess I'd rather have supernatural + CSI instead of scooby doo + CSI, not sure if CSI is the best example but the only other cop show I could think of was law and order
*reject
No my phone put in regect it's in there multiple times
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.
That sounds fun.
For the first sentence or two, I thought you were talking about the unrelated book.
Thank you for the new media!
Partly what made the TV series 'Evil' so good was that it was horror from a skeptical perspective.
Loses*
And 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.
Belief*
“Swamp gas”
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?
Maybe with one subplot coming up occasionally that simply cannot be explained rationally, which drives Scully mad.
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
Every episode, Scully is "right", but they show the comedic rush of the Illuminati-like group to patch up the cover-up as they're being investigated.
Sounds boring for the most part, although the new Revelations episode would be interesting, since Scully was the believer and Mulder was the skeptic.
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.