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“Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder? To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down.”

“But you saved me! As difficult and as frustrating as it's been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over! You've kept me honest ... you've made me a whole person. I owe you everything ... Scully, and you owe me nothing..” BlueBook

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40-OMEN NOMEN 50-SCULLY & RUSH 56-THE HOUSE OF MIRTH The fate in in the name Modern heroines Masterpiece to be rediscovered Ehi Vidder, Frank wants you! If you love video editing, BigLight wants to see your chops. Frank is looking for a 3-5 minute video reel to showcase his producing 5 QUESTIONS WITH... and writing that will accompany him to various We know that as fans of Frank speaking engagements. We Spotniz's work, you have a lot of know there is a lot of talent burning questions. So Frank came up out there, so we want to with the idea of doing a 20 questions see how creative you can CONTEST type project. After a little get in featuring Frank's brainstorming, "5 Questions With..." producing, writing and directing work. The winner will be hand chosen by Frank, will was born. The best part about the "5 have their work seen at various events, and will also win a signed, one-of-a-kind script Questions With..." project is we from Frank's upcoming new BBC/Cinemax television show, "Hunted." want to get as many submissions If you are interested in entering your work into the contest, we have just a few small from YOU as possible! If you happen requests: upon an alum from Frank's previous 1. Please do not include any images of Frank himself, just include his work. (The X-Files or current work (at a convention, (TV series and feature films), Night Stalker, Strike Back, Robbery Homicide Division, The festival, etc.), you can film your own Lone Gunmen, Harsh Realm, Millennium, etc.) "5 Questions With..." and upload it 2. The images in the reel needs to be of DVD quality. right here to the Big Light Network. 3. Entries must be uploaded to network.biglight.com by August 10, 2012. We'll have a special place to feature If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]. some of the great Q&A sessions Happy editing!(Please note that the winner will receive the "Hunted" script after the you're filming so that you can share show has premiered this fall.) your creation with fans from all over the world. To kick things off, Frank and I did our own version of "5 Robert Patrick (John Doggett on The X- Questions With..." via Skype. We just Files) will star with Andre Braugher wanted to give everyone an example (Homicide: Life on the Streets)Max of what you could do, but Adler (Glee) in ABC’s Last Resort. remember, it's all up to you! So ask Patrick is one of a crew on a nuclear those burning questions, and dig submarine who become fugitives after down deep to think about what fans refusing to fire their missiles would *really* want to know about. on a foreign country. They take refuge If you have any questions, just shoot on a small island and create the them over to us at smallest nuclear nation for themselves. [email protected]. ROBERT PATRICK IN The series is from Shawn Ryan, the “LAST RESORT” creator of The Shield.

BBC America is reportedly eyeing the upcoming drama series The Fall. The series, starring X-Files actress Gillian Anderson, focuses on a serial killer on the loose in Belfast and the female detective superintendent in charge of Gillian AND ROBERT at the the investigation. According to TV Wise, Critics Choice Awards BBC America is considering adding the upcoming series to its 'Dramaville' block Gillian Anderson and Robert Patrick later this year, which in the past has presented best actor in movie/mini included shows like Luther and The Gillian in “” The Fall series at the Critics’ Choice Television Hour. The Fall debuts this winter on BBC Awards 2012. Two in the UK. 6 BLUEBOOK the X- Files retrospective “The X-Files” stars Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny and “X-Files” creator Chris Carter have appeared together on Fox’s 25th anniversary special.

Of all the shows “we did on The X- Files, one of my favorite episodes, maybe my favorite episode, it was called The Post- Modern Prometheus. It was really a Frankenstein story about a kind of unexpected Frankenstein.” Carter

As far as, The X-Files at the “time had the highest production values of any TV show. So that was different. And yes, cinemagraphically and story-wise, it was very different from what people were used to at the time. It was before all the shows that followed us that copied us. It was the first one. ” Gillian

7 BLUEBOOK When I read the Pilot “script for X-Files, I thought it was a good script. I thought "Oh this is an interesting pilot, an interesting story, an interesting one hour movie." I knew it was going to be about aliens and I thought, "Well nobody is really intersted in that." (Speaking about 'Post-Modern Prometheus') It just kind of had David everything that The X-Files was. Post- Modern Prometheus was somewhat funny, somewhat artistic, it was somewhat scary, and it was all those things put together. And at the end of it is this beautiful image of Mulder asking Scully to dance and then it turns into a comic book. I remember when I fist saw it, I got chills because that's kind of how I'll remember the show. And in fact when I catch the show on TV now, it's like watching home movies and I'll remember what was happening that day.” 8 BLUEBOOK Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Nicholas Lea and Frank Spotnitz at London Film & Comic Con 2012. The pictures fill our hearts and gladden our eyes.

“I think the best episodes were the ones when we didn’t have much money. I “My favourite is Clyde Bruckman’s Final think the show worked best when you Repose. My favourite episodes are had to use your imagination and that as probably the ones that I’m not in!” it got a bigger budget it lost something!”

9 BLUEBOOK XF3 “I’d do another one. The question is who’s going to write the script and when? I’m up for it.”

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11 BLUEBOOK It started with an vision: an X-Files convention on German soil. Organised by fans with the help and support and Ifor fans. In the beginning of 2009, the project started: Within the most active and largest message board of the German Phile commu- nity, xfiles-mania.de, fellow campaigners were looked for - and found.

With the blessing and support of 20th Germany Fox Home Entertainment, the work load for the organizing team and the volunteers on-site rose astronomically: Potential locations had to be scouted, legal matters had to be sorted out, a homepage needed to be setup, supporters had to be acquired and so on.

Thanks to the never-ending hard work of the participants the first X-CON was successfuly held at the Hotel Mercure Berlin Tempelhof Airport on October 17th and 18th 2009. The positive feedback from the attendees and guests showed that even 7 years after the last episode of "The X-Files" had been aired - the X-Philes are still out there and the X-Files Fandom is more alive and active than ever. X-CON 2009 was first X-Files convention on The Field Trip was hold on August 20th to German soil organized by fans for the fans August 22nd 2010. with international guest stars. More than 150 About 30 Philes went on a safari with Olivia Philes from all over the world traveled to Jones on Hamburgs famous St. Pauli District, Berlin, one attendee journeyed over 5.000 conducted a scavenger hunt and visited miles from South Africa all the way to the various sights in the Germany's second German capital. largest metropolis. In the end, almost € 600 has been raised for charity. Some of the raised money was used The Future for aiding the 2009 summer camp of the Neurofibromatosis Association Berlin- Like all other X-Philes around the world we Brandenburg. Two charity projects endorsed too are hoping for a greenlight for the third X- by actress Gillian Anderson were also Files movie. Depending of the future supported. developments we would love to having an event around a premiere of a new movie. 2010 - The Field Trip Soon after the X-CON 2009 took place, the organizing team was between the devil and the deep blue sea:There was no time for organizing a new convention. That was the time when the idea about a smaller, more intimate fan gathering occurred.

People had the opportunity to choose for one of the following cities: Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt/Main and Cologne. Hamburg won by landslide. Interview with Monika, the head of X-CON Germany

What’s the idea behind the X-CON Germany concept?

There is no rigid concept. The main goal is that “X-Files” fans from all over the world gather at one place where, in the best case actors and people from behind the camera join the fans. It should be fun for everybody, enjoy their favourite show, interact with other and make new friends. What ignited the idea to organise a questions were resolved timely. It was convention yourself? complicated endeavour but a lucky one.

I had the idea during a five hour car drive. My first contact with conventions was initiated by Are there „role models“? another favourite tv show of mine when I was The FedCon is a role model. Of course it’s younger. And from that my idea developed: much harder for us, but we have proven that Why not do a convention for “The X-Files”? it’s not impossible. If our budget is not enough to pay the salary of a guest star this year, What’s the difference between X-CON maybe we can afford them for the next event. Germany and other events of this kind? Especially if we do all we can to ensure that the guests are comfortable. Our feature is the causual atmosphere, that Other conventions started small and are now our guest stars are “touchable”. The X-CON is one of the largest of their kind. The size no anonymous mass event. doesn’t not matter for us, more important are the fun and interaction.

Which challenges is one facing upon on What does the future hold for X-CON organzing a convention? Germany? We are currently entertaining the idea of It’s very time-consuming, exhaustive and a having a new event soon. constant emotional roller-coaster. For months I tried to get the permission from 20th Century Fox Germany. I have to thank the responsible Marketing Manager at this point. Tremendously, because he went above and beyond for us. Thanks to him we found the solution to certain legal problems. His general approval of the event were a huge advantage for us, not only because were supplied with marketing material for the second “X-Files” feature film. They also sponsored our main raffle prize: a € 200 worth brand new “X-Files “ complete DVD box

What was the reason behind the decision to hold the convention in the Mercure Airport Hotel Tempelhof in Berlin-Neukölln

Of course there have been alternative locations in Berlin. The costs for room hire are located in the higher range already, and I would spare the attendees higher ticket prices. The capacities and flexibilities of the locations were not meeting our requirements in our capacity, so we have chosen this hotel. I’m very happy with it. The staff is very friendly and helpful, everything is clean and all issues and xDeux ex machina

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surfer is like a writer. He is always A standing on the borderline between dream and reality. He tries to dominate the uncontrollable strength of nature as well as a writer tries to manage and tell us about the various aspects of our existence. The sea and men’s life have much in common: they both can be impetuous, unforeseeable, frightening but even fascinating. The Santa Barbara Ocean knows well Chris Carter’s thoughts because of that cruel and honest bond that only nature can create with men and because of that silence which gives voice to the soul. That voice we have listened to in every X-Files episode, paying attention to details, because they give birth to the truth. Carter has written articles for Surfing Magazine for five years travelling throughout the world, staying in tents or at some friends’, just to reveal the spirit of This is what makes it an epic show. those who ride waves. Different people who Everything is possible in its improbability. It don’t have much in common culturally, but is from Scully and Mulder, together, that the who share a secret: they speak the summary of Carter’s personality emerges. language of the sea. If Dori, his partner, had The genial author has never believed in not persuaded him to start his scriptwriter aliens nor has he ever believed in the career, now he still would have been telling conspiracy aimed at hiding their existence. that secret, explaining to us its fascination. His brother is a scientist and he is really Christopher Columbus said “Language is not keen on physics, a science almost enough to describe, and hands can’t write completely based on faith in numbers and about all the wonders of the sea”. therefore hard to demonstrate. This faith For millions of fans’ sake, instead, Chris can be identified in Mulder’s will to believe in revealed himself through X-Files. He talked mystery and in Scully’s reliance on science. about his fears, his anguishes, thus showing Faith and Reason meet, unite without killing his personal view of politics and society as each other and let us get to know unknown well as his idea of love and friendship, truths. Although apparently distant, Science creating stories and characters which allow and Faith have their origin in common; the audience to develop their own point of men’s necessity to try to answer these view. “I’m by nature a restless man. And questions: who are we? Why do we exist? restlessness is followed by paranoia”. This is how the character of Fox Mulder was created. Mulder is simply his projection into a plausible reality which is more mysterious and terrifying than we expect.

17 BLUEBOOK Chris Carter started a production company What is there after death? Are we alone in called Ten Thirteen Productions. this universe? Reason (Scully) needs Faith Since 1993 it has produced: (Mulder) to avoid becoming a blind fundamentalism; Faith can’t do without 202 episodes of The X-Files Science to maintain the humility that men 67 episodes of Millennium need. The famous poster in Mulder’s office, I 9 episodes of Harsh Realm X Want To Believe, perfectly explains Carter’s 13 episodes of The Lone Gunmen interior fight between faith and rationalism: “I don’t believe in it but I want to!”. The feature film The X-Files: Fight the Future There is also another mystery that has The feature film The X-Files: I Want to Believe intrigued men for ages, and that is love. Carter has a precise idea of how to represent it on TV: “the strongest relationships can’t be recognised by sexuality, but by sensual, love signs and trust”. In addition to the mysteries of extraterrestrial life and feelings, Chris has analysed fear, revealing to us his personal “demons” and then focused on the new form of horror created by our society and by scientific progress. “In my childhood I used to spend summers on a farm where we milked cows. There were wheat fields. Have you ever been in an endless field of wheat? There is no worse fear. Imagination could give birth to any type of monster. There is something upsetting in wheat fields. It is systematically organised by rows, and once in, you don’t know how to find your way out”. In Fight The Future we can see Fox and Dana attempting to make a way through a wheat field while pursued by black choppers. But this is not the only thing he is afraid of. Bees (which have a key role in the X-Files mythology), violent death and especially incurable diseases are Carter’s other main fears. The theme of incurable diseases, which often recurs in the show, focuses on the men’s fight against pathologies in order to hope for a rebirth.

18 BLUEBOOK The fourth season episode “Momento Mori” is completely based on this theme. Nevertheless, Carter has not only a dark side. This 90s’ TV genius is a polite and positive man, endowed with a great irony which is well represented by Mulder’s typical British humour. The falling of the Berlin Wall created many problems, such as the mistrust of people towards governments, and Carter took advantage of these circumstances to develop the best paranoid TV show ever. Our society created the wave and Carter rode it and dominated it. A perfect wave, the one which all the luckiest surfers can face once in a lifetime. That is why Carter had heaps of problems to succeed again. He tried to create, enthusiastically, other TV series and films of a different genre, but he failed. Going over their limit is the toughest challenge for men, especially if they want to do it by resetting themselves, thus becoming new men. Chris Carter is now trying to follow this path. Since majors didn’t help him, he wrote and directed a film on his own. “Fencewalker” is a semiautobiographical drama without paranormal elements and shot in secret in 2008 in Los Angeles. Unluckily it has not been released yet, due to a lack of distributors.As a producer, he financed Derek Magyar’s “Flying Lessons”, a movie about the conflict of human relations. And, in conclusion, X-Files 3 will be the right occasion for Carter to wipe out the wave perfectly thus being able to say: “I have ridden the perfect wave”. x

19 BLUEBOOK INTRODUCING AND CONTINUITY

he first, and perhaps the most important crux of IWTB is the necessity of giving a semblance of continuity between “The TTruth” and the beginning of a new cinematogra- phic piece. The fans expect a resumption of the series from “where we were”. Carter instead offers a convenient arrangement to solve the problem quickly. Scully as a doctor is a plausi- ble and suitable option for her role in the movie, if we consider her new characterisation. However, it is the first sign of a situation which completely concerns the civilian area. Scully, a character easier to manage as she is accused of misdemeanour, whilst Mulder is accused of crimes, and she doesn’t have to do with the X- Files anymore. But she’s not speared by the conspiracy. As for the Spooky, the situation is arguably more serious: he is wanted and condemned to death. But it’s on him that the authors (I will talk in plural, but you can read it as Chris Carter) base the continuity. The continuity doesn’t follow the final series, but the X-Files spirit. The narrative trick is soon unveiled: we don’t try to make Mulder’s return to the bureau likely, but we will restart from a new point. And so, in the room of the new house of the two protagonists there is a bearded man who expects the visit of Scully, just like he expected her visit in the Pilot. There is the I Want To Believe poster with the UFO, there are pencils from Chinga hung on the ceiling, there is the photo of Samantha behind the door. It’s a new beginning. Agent Whitney: “The past is gone”. Cosy, simply, clean. But not sufficient. A few words about their return to the F.B.I. offices as well. The black chopper which picks them up and lead them on the roof of the governmental building is the so-called return “in style”. It is needed for the double aim of creating a “cavalry is approaching” atmosphere for the regular audience and give a sensation of “they’re back” to the x-philes.

20 BLUEBOOK THE NEW CHARACTERS THE CASE FILE Agent Whitney is the one who asked about Surely, this Frankestein-style case has a little to Mulder. Her behaviour at the beginning is that do with X-Files. This disappoints especially the of a very professional woman who is gambling neutral audience since although the fans don’t away her career to solve the case, but she want to accept it, X-Files is associated with softens as the movie goes on. She is the aliens. And this is what they expected, if we also antithesis of Scully: Dakota Whitney believes to consider that Fight The Future was based on Mulder, whilst Scully was sceptic (in this movie, alien conspiracies. Chris Carter has offered a but even in the first seasons of the series in dull case, sometimes predictable. It is good for general). In contrast, agent Drummy, man, is the those who want to see Mulder and Scully on the detractor. Nevertheless, she seems to be the big screen again in the F.B.I. agents’ shoes, but dominant agent in the F.B.I. couple. Father the plot hasn’t been sufficiently interwoven Joseph, called Father Joe, is the most interesting with the mythology. Somebody tries to justify character as he embodies some different aspects that by saying that it would have been which have already been treated in the series extremely hard to make a new mythology plot. He is a priest. He is a pedophile. He is a chapter: that’s true. But still, the mythology is visionary. He has been made for not being the essence of X-Files; the movie becomes a nice believed, especially by Scully. Instead agent thriller without it. Whitney gives him some credence at the A positive note of the plot is the current theme beginning, both for collecting clues to solve the of the case. Cancer is the disease of this new case and acting as Scully’s “counter alter”. Plus, millennium and the Russians were trying to Father Joe smokes? Does this mean something bypass through unorthodox methods. There is to you? Christian, the child treated by Scully. He also the old contraposition between the performs two roles at the same time: reminding Americans and the Russians, the aftermath of William, like it has been clearly said, being an the Cold War which, from the American point of innocent to be saved; being the symbol of the view, sees the Russians as the enemy of their terrestrial impotence in front of divine choices. country. Not only do these two aspect recall This last aspect is well underlined in the some typical characteristic of the series, but dialogues too and it is a crux of the they are part of the worldview of the 90s (after characterisation of Dr. Scully. She works for a the 11th September 2011, the American chose Christian hospital: her superiors are ecclesiastic new enemies, on both small and big screen) in and in the meantime she is reluctant to believe which X-Files took place. to Father Joe.

21 BLUEBOOK THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN again in that world, which doesn’t belong to her anymore, and even because she is MULDER AND SCULLY sceptical towards Father Joe. She blames him for still being looking for her sister. She fears On the relation level, the authors have decided darkness so much that she lets her partner to change the approach adopted up to the last risk his life alone declining his cooperation episodes of the show. They proposed a de requests (the scene in which he calls her but facto couple, not married. Scully: “He’s not my she doesn’t answer because she was too busy husband”. A couple who gave their baby in with the child’s therapy). She gets back to the adoption and whose fosterage still has Scully we all know when she gets anguished consequences, especially for Scully. The over Mulder’s disappearance. Scully: “There mature behaviour, cohabitation, the sharing of must be somebody with balls there. Let me the same house and bed recalls images of talk to him!”. normal life, so unusual for them but so Mulder would like to demonstrate Father Joe’s expected, especially by Scully. Scully: “ We’re innocence but she stops him, saying that two ordinary people, who go back home every nobody would believe him. She stops him night, in a normal house”. But the facts because she desires a normal life, out of contradicts her, especially for what concerns darkness. The life she wants doesn’t involve Mulder: he is wanted, he doesn’t go out and the X-Files. And he gets convinced. she says she’s worried for him at the beginning of the movie. Therefore, her prayer for normality are not supported by facts. She’s RELIGIOUSNESS AND FAITH still has the obsession of getting out of IN SCULLY darkness, recurrent theme with which the movie ends. Mulder has not changed a lot: he Scully, once again, lost and re-found her faith. makes explicit his need to have her by his side, Her scepticism before her disease can be which have always been kept implicit before compared to the one she has towards Father the film. They are more than partners. We Joe. And there is also the clash against the knew it before and it is now stressed, for hospital council, which is presided by shippers’ sake. ecclesiastics. However, getting back to believe It is on the professional level that they have will help her find the way. Father Joe tells her their worst clashes. She is absorbed by the not to give up and she implicitly interprets it as medical work, she fights to save a child sign to continue with Christian’s therapy. Later, suffering from an incurable disease. He she verifies the truthfulness of the information supports her because she feels impotent and collected by Mulder and so she restarts doubtful about trying to save Christian’s life or believing in him. At the end, she analyses the surrendering to divine choices, which she is mail box number 25-2, like the Proverbs verse unable to accept and justify. First, worried, she recited by Father Joe. In the same scene, she invites him to get out of his den and accept the hears dogs barking, just like in the mystic task. Then, she realises she can’t stand that visions of the priest. That of Scully is a very world and refuses to follow him through his introspective role, imposed by the fragility of investigation, because she fears to be involved the character and by the narrative necessity.

22 BLUEBOOK MARGINAL NOTE This also seems to delegitimise Mulder’s investigation and presence in an official F.B.I. The arrival of Skinner, even if very late in the context. The soundtrack and background music story, is a shot in the arm. Not only does he edited by Mark Snow can be defined as the best restore the X-Files spirit which seldom could be aspect of the film. All crucial scenes, from those breathed at the beginning, but also he acts like a of action to the ironic ones are perfectly father towards Mulder, who tried to defend highlighted by the soundtrack. Even the closing during the trial. The character of Dakota credits soundtrack was carefully chosen. Whitney deserved to be more deepened or on the contrary censored further on. She has been shown as a blue-eyed, clean-looking Mulder’s OVERALL RATING fan. Clearly a second female protagonist wasn’t intended to be too much involved, in order to As an x-phile, I was happy to see Mulder and not put Scully in the background. Perhaps Scully in action again, even if they were not in showing why she wanted only his help would their original roles. However, the movie hasn’t have made sense, maybe hinting at a past event respected the expectations, neither those of fans of her life. In addition, one can deduce that the nor that of the audience. Although we got to relationship between her and Mulder hasn’t know that incomes covered the production been allowed to be tightened: She is killed as costs, I think that a more mythological plot soon as she calls him “Fox”. Was the punishment would have given more intensity. It looks like for having broken tradition? Never call anybody the movie has been thought as a gift for the fans, by name in X-Files. The overall setting in since they are able to catch the numerous Canada, though the facts take place in Virginia, references to the series and appreciate the has some disadvantages. It makes the movie evolution of the relationship between the quite far from the typical setting of X-Files, i.e. protagonists; but consequently, the movie can’t the snow makes the recordings too rich of light, catch the interest of the normal audience, which so different from the ones the x-philes were expected aliens, conspiracies or at least an X- used to. Then, it seems that the investigation is Files worthy of this name. isolated from Washington, thus making the x operation look clandestine. The third point is that the snow and the movie’s bad guy make the GFelix film background Russian rather than American.

23 BLUEBOOK X-Files Blue Book, X-Files Italian Fan Club, X- Files Universe, Expediente X, The X-Files 3 in 2012 were joined to give a voice to fans around the world...

WHY DO YOU WANT XF3?

(X-Files Universe) Evan Thomas and Arianne Nicole Urick : Mainly because one can never get enough X-Files.

Evan Young: I would like closure on so many levels, for the characters, the mythology, the people behind the scenes, etc. And, as the guy above with the same name as me, because I can't get enough X-Files!

Samantha C. Sullivan: I feel as though that us as fans need closure. How can Carter and Co. place a prediction inside the series, but then never act on it? Never show us if colonization is actually going to happen and what our duo is going to do. Philers are sitting in the dark. XF2 didn't even allude to colonization. It did show us that they are still together, which is nice. But what does 12/22/2012 mean for them? What does it mean for the fans? On a side note, if either of them die in XF3, riots will ensue.

Rose Boose Pérez: For closure. To know what happens to William. What becomes of him. Where M&S finally end up. How they manage to save the world.

Jilly Corgan: Because its my life!

Dee Hinds: We all know "The Truth is Out There" So need I say more...X-Files will be forever in our hearts & minds!! We need more from Fox & Dana Please!

1824 BLUEBOOK Kellie Andrews: X-Files 3 needs to be more like the series and/or Fight The Future. The 2nd movie was a disappointment to me; the story was all over the place. I'd love to see some things from the series resolved and if it so happens that The Lone Gunmen were just " Mulder dead " and they made a return to help Mulder & Scully save the day... that would be great. I saw an X-Files fan made trailer on youtube the other day that seemed so realistic that I thought X-Files 3 had already been filmed and was awaiting release. After watching it a second time, I realized that clearly it wasn't ... but what I saw looked good.

Olga Pankiewicz: Because so many things are left unsaid or unexplained... I want to know how they are doing after FBI dropped all the charges against Mulder, what is going on with William right now, how Mulder and Scully are doing as a "normal" couple... and let's not forget about the date of course (Dec 22nd, 2012).

Charly Blänk: Because everything needs an end and IWTB wasn't an end. There was a open end and I thinks that it isn't a great final. And I wanna know what happens with the aliens :)

Sharon Prosser: We just need a proper ending the XF and the Philes deserve this its such a classic series :-)

(THE X-FILES 3 IN 2012) Eric Ahola : I think there are more ways to go with the whole alien area of it. David and Gillian still look great, and it has a huge fanbase. If it is well thought out, it could be great. Already have good characters, just get a new story. – USA

Christopher Bernard: I'm from U.S.A. And I Believe that X-files 3 should have been made already, because in the mythology it all goes down in 2012. They dropped the ball on this one. I would love to see another movie, but for me it will not mean the same. I thought someone would be smart and creative and tie it in to the year. And the coming definately needs to be a movie! P.S. Sorry, but I think the last movies was all wrong.... I just expexted better!

Joe Latimer: Because the conclusion of the series was pathetic....What really happened with the alien invasion?!

Rachel Hernandez: i want x-files 3 because i think that 2nd movie could have had a better story line i mean come on its the x-files we need some aliens and creepy monster stuff and i would like to see mulder and scully together again and because i love the x-files i remember watch it with my dad and brothers when i was younger and now that im 15 and i would love to see mulder and scully on the screen again :) united states

Rob Wallace: Second movie was utterly brilliant: premise, conceit, execution, acting, script. I'm fascinated by the inability of the fanbase to grasp this. The failure of a 2012 production doesn't undercut the 2008 movie. Hindsight here isn't 20/20.

Marya Petrina Uy: Why do I want X-Files 3? With all the alien invasion movies today, I think The X-Files team will be the only team that could deliver an amazing story line. And, I mean, really well. It has been shown in the series itself. Great writing. Well, sure, not a lot of people were satisfied by the previous movie but some of us were. The first one was really good. Having heard the sentiments of Chris, Frank and the rest of The X-Files team, XF3 will focus on the mythology and when it comes to this arc, they can truly deliver! It's time for the legitimate one. It is The X-Files. Plus, Philes have continuous faith not just in the show but those who are part of this amazing franchise. I think FOX owes us this much to give us the movie we have always wanted. With the right promotion, it'll be huge. Let us make our voices heard, WE WANT X-FILES 3. There are so many questions needed to be answered. :) (From the Philippines)

25 BLUEBOOK Tony Hansford: The second movie was rubbish. It was more like an episode of CSI than xfiles. We need a third movie to close off the series and answer all the unanswered questions about alien colonisation or weather Mulder was actually a paranoid delusional. And Scully needs to do a nude scene. Australia.

Jennifer Coston: There's still a huge fan base; all of us want a 3rd movie! Plus, in my opinion, the 2nd movie could've been way better, it left me with a lot of unanswered questions & it left me wanting more Mulder & Scully. – USA

Joe Latimer: Chris Carter does have a secret project in the works...

Mayra Alcivar :Because us xphiles need a great last send off, and I love X files.

Nadia Abrate: Because there are lots of unanswered questions. I didn't like the 2nd movie and i think they should talk more about the alien invasion. This year is 2012!. (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Joey Medina: Beacause it's 2012...colonization!!!!!! They can't leave it like this!! We Xphiles are still here because the truth is out there...

Madison Pohl: X-Files 3 will give us fans a chance to finally see our favorite alien stopping duo save the world from its invaders! There are plenty of fans who want this.....so very badly! Plus if it comes out in 2013, then the whole alien invasion arc is a moot point. – USA

Ashlee Tuaileva: Coles The second movie was great (kinda pointless, but great), but it left so many questions unanswered! What about William? What about the alien invasion of the earth? Aren't Mulder and Scully gonna stop it? We need more answers, more action, more aliens and X-files, and most of all, more Mulder and Scully!!!

Nina Cervantes As fans,we need closure,Mulder and Scully need to stop the alien invasion,and time is running out! We also want to reunite William with his parents;we need X-files 3!! Spain

Tessa Louise Thomas: I want the X Files 3 because I don’t think the story will be over until 2012 – Colonisation. Although I’ve come into the X Files very, very late, I can’t imagine my life without have knowing the fantastic storyline that captured millions of viewers each week. For me, it would a suitable closure to have the third movie revolve around the Alien Invasion; Chris Carter already has a great cast and writing talent and I’m sure that the film would be a huge success so long as the story was played right. Personally, I would love to see the reappearance of Reyes and Doggett as well as a possible reunion of Mulder, Scully and William. Anyway, I want XF3 because the X Files is absolutely AMAZING and X Philes still are here because ‘The Truth Is Out There’! : England

Santiago Grippo: Because I left with more desire to see them: Argentina

Laura Sockmonkey CANADA: I still am watching reruns of all the episodes. Even though I know whats going to happen I still enjoy it every time. I never watch the x-files when it was on TV (due to my age) and i would love to watch an x files made in my generation

Susana Valdivia-Rivas: I want a third X Files Movie because a) the "truth" was never revealed in the series, the mythology needs a conclusion, b) this is my favorite show of all times, c) the show has touched me in many ways and I live to have the truth be discovered to all. I live in the U.S. but most likely I will watch the movie in my home country of Nicaragua.

26 BLUEBOOK Elizabeth Reuter-Palmer U.S.A. For the same reason Mulder tirelessly searched for Samantha. Closure! For the same reason that after 20 yrs we still re-watch episode after episode, why we re- watch the movies. Because it was good TV. We followed the adventures of Mulder and Scully over nine seasons, we bought tickets to both large screen events. We bought the t-shirts, the action figures, the trading cards, the books, the posters, the videos, the dvd collections. We've written fan fiction, we made fan videos. How many shows can say that after all this time they still have such a large global fanbase, that their fans still want more? The X-Files has done a beautiful job in acknowledging their fans,(Leyla Harrison) and a third film should be made just for the fans. For once it would be nice for a studio to make something not for the revenue aspect, but for the human aspect. It begs to written and produced and watched. Philes revolutionized fandom, with fanfiction and fan based movies. If not for the fans there never would have been a franchise, the fabulous writing, and shooting, the story line filled a need in each and every fan, X-Files the Third movie should be made to complete the amazing journey we have followed all these years. It should be made for the fans, not the revenue. Make it with meeting the expectations of the fans, and the revenue will follow.

Waishan Liu: We need TXF3 because this show has touched so many lives and changed the way we watch TV forever. great characters, well written stories and overall the Mythology was got us gripped every week. The alien Mythology needs an epic conclusion and with 2012 nearing a close, the time is right for TXF3. It's what the fans and the whole world is waiting for the Mythos of 2012 and an epic ending to Mulder & Scully's quest for the truth.

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Estefanía Gala: Yo quiero XF3 porque merece un final digno y no lo que Chris hizo en IWTB.

Clara Ríos: Yo necesito una tercera película para cerrar la serie, quiero saber qué pasó con William y si el mundo se acabará o no.

Leo Mg: Porque dejaron cabos sueltos, como la fecha del fin del mundo y que pasó con William.

Sandra Vázquez- Expediente X: Mi opinión es que quiero una tercera película porque creo que los fans nos merecemos un final digno para nuestra serie. Queremos que cierren las tramas que quedaron abiertas como es el caso de qué fue de William y, sobre todo, que papel juega en el fin del mundo. También me encantaría ver a Mulder y a Scully salvando el mundo en pantalla grande, creo que se podría hacer algo grande que dejase satisfecho a los fans de siempre y a posibles nuevos fichajes.Y sobre todo, porque me niego a aceptar que I Want to Believe sea el final de mi serie favorita!! TODA GRAN HISTORIA MERECE UN GRAN FINAL!!!

MP Arachné: Porque tan digna serie merece un digno final que cierre el arco mitológico tan brillantemente desarrollado en 9 temporadas y 1 película...Tod@s los fans merecemos saber qué pasará el 21-12-2012 con la colonización alienígena y con cómo lo afrontarán Mulder y Scully. He dicho.

Irene Abernathy: Porque The X Files está muy lejos de ser sólo una serie. Es parte de nosotros, de nuestras vidas, y sin ella, muchas de las series actuales no existirían.

Cristina Vereda: Porque la mitología de la serie está sin terminar. Necesitamos un final cerrado para la saga.

27 BLUEBOOK Eva Martínez: Porque necesitamos un final digno y no Lourdes Bolanos: Porque no nos merecemos un final acabar con la birria de segunda peli que nos hicieron; tan absurdo como el que nos dieron en IWTB, después porque queremos saber que ha pasado con William; de tantos años de FANATISMO PURO, es lo menos que porque quiero saber si vienen los OVNIS o no leches nos merecemos. para ir preparándome!! Y porque nos lo hemos currado mucho pidiéndola y HONDURAS luchando por ella!!! Gloria Martínez: Porque es una serie icono, única e Eva Inestrosa: Quiero X Files 3 porque no nos pueden inigualable que aun sigue vigente y que siguen dejar con un final asi,muchas preguntas y muchos fans mencionandola; que hasta otras series la siguen y deseandolo,porque han luchado mucho para que se copian, X files quedara siempre en la historia de la TV y haga. deben darle su final digno. Aun hay muchas cosas por muchas cosas pendientes por responder, ademas somos Sophie Bart: Quiero X-files 3 porque los fans muchisimas personas en todo el mundo y hasta el cast y queremos tener un final digno de todas las luchas que crew de la serie que deseamos XF3, y por todo lo que han vivido Mulder y Scully.Y queremos saber si Williams brindo The X Files se lo merece y punto !! tiene un papel en esta invasion tan predecida.Una serie de esta calidad merece un gran final , no pueden ARGENTINE dejarnos asi, queremos ver nuestra pareja de The X- files, una vez mas en accion. Claudia Noemi Romano: me encanta la serie... y yo quiero que hagan el final... porque sino quedará Carmen Sanchez Fructuoso: Quiero XF3 Poque es inconcluso... y ni da para que termine así... fue es y sera necesitamos saber un final, todos queremos ver a scully la mejor serie!!!! yo mire esta serie desde que era una y mulder juntos otra vez y saber el desarro llo tambien nena de 7 años... por eso fue muy importante para mi... de su peque. Además es una serie que si siguiera seria no m perdía ni un capitulo...somos muchas personas en genial. el mundo que nos gusta los expedientes secretos x. le dimos fama a en canal Fox... no tendrían que ser tan Anneli Sijé: Porque los fans de la serie nos forros de no darle un punto final a la historia... ya que merecemos un final a la altura de Expediente X, porque volvieron los hombres de negro 3, the x files 3 también es la serie pionera de la que han bebido tantas otras, tendría q volver... que se pongan las pilas!!! porque David y Gillian son unos grandiosos actores y es maravilloso verlos juntos, porque...la lista es Nany Ramírez: porq no pueden terminar "semejante" interminable...X Files 3 yaaaa!!! serie con IWTB!! hace falta un cierre para los 10 años de x files, para la historia, para los personajes y para Isidro López Zapata: Porque el mundo será más nosotros q somos los q mas lo sufrimos.....asiq FOX, por bonito si logramos conseguir más minutos de Scully, y esos mas de 10 años q te dimos de comer, DEVOLVE porque Gillian y todo el mundo está deseando ALGOOOOO!!! participar! y porque necesitamos otra escena con un buen morreo entre MyS. Y saber qué pasó con William, Georgina Aguirre: Quisiera q venga rhe x files 3 por que Mónica y Doggett. Necesitamos decirles adiós por quiero el final con williams!! Estaria genia!! Saludos última vez como es debido. desde Argentina

Ana Toro: Porque es la mejor serie del siglo XX y sus Lucia X-Phile: Porque IWTB no puede ser el final. millones de fans tenemos la necesidad de que se cierre Necesitamos saber que paso con William y si se va a bien y de que al final sepamos cual es la verdad reencontrar con sus padres. Porque queremos ver a despues de tantos años. Esta serie necesita un final Mulder y a Scully salvando al mundo. Porque nueve digno de su embergadura,todos lo merecemos porque temporadas no se pueden echar a la basura. Porque creer es la clave. quiero volver a ver a DD y GA actuando juntos otra vez. Porque todos los X-Philes luchamos por XF3. Por todo COLOMBIA eso y mucho mas, I want to believe in XF3!!

Carola Doncel: Como ya han dicho anteriormente, Angel Juarez: Es simple es el año del fin del mundo...El porque sentimos que IWTB no es el final. Necesitamos gran 2012 y que mejor q una pelicula donde se buske la un cierre, que nos cuenten qué pasó con la invasión verdad acerka del famoso final de la humanidad con el extraterrestre y el apocalipsis para diciembre de 2012. 21 de diciembre de 2012...Si rocky saco 6 peliculas xq También queremos saber qué pasó con William y cómo expedientes x no podria...Aparte falta esta peli sobre el regresa al lado de sus padres, porque lo lógico es que 2012 y sin lugar a dudas seria ganadora de todos los vuelvan a estar juntos. Ése es el final que X-Files se premios por lo q representa este año y el que vendra si merece: Nuevamente reunidos después de salvar el no sucede nada el 21 de diciembre mundo. Una razón muy simple pero muy poderosa: Porque somos millones de x-philes en todo el mundo VENEZUELA que amamos con todo el corazón a XF y queremos ver reunidos de nuevo a Mulder, Scully y William. Gaby Pernía: Básicamente, porque el Sr. Carter dejó muchas interrogantes que necesitan respuestas, pero MEXICO creo que lo que más quiero saber es ¿Qué pasa con William? ¿y la colonización? ¿Qué harán Mulder y K-ro Gamboa: Por que una serie que marcó, y apesar Scully?X- Files merece tener el mejor final porque fue, es del tiempo, sigue marcando la vida de muchos, debe y y seguirá siendo la mejor serie en su estilo. Como bien necesita un final, épico, mágico, parnormal, único, todo dijo Gillian en el especial de la FOX: "... Fue todo entorno aquello que la serie fue . por eso los fans, y los nuevos a ella tan diferente. Fue antes de que todos los shows fans, merecemos XF3 que nos siguieron, nos copiaran. Fue la primera”.

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Fiorella Tucto Rivadeneyra: Tiene q ver xfiles 3 porq nos merecemos un final digno, porq queremos ver a de nuevo a mulder y scully, luchando con los ITALY extraterrestres ademas queremos saber de william y por muchas cosas mas fox no nos puede dejar asi seria una ofensa.

Luis Miguel De La Cruz: Yo quiero X Files 3 porque es una serie única en su genero que capto mi atención desde niño tanto así que amo la serie y me gustaría que cierre con un final grandioso porque Mulder y Scully harán lo imposible para evitar la invasión extraterrestre, también porque quiero saber el papel importante de William en esta hazaña. Saludos desde PERÚ

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Katherine Poblete: Quiero X Files 3 porque esta maravillosa serie merece un final a la altura de esta. Tambien porque todos los fans de X Files la queremos para poder aclarar todo y poder ver una vez mas a nuestra pareja del FBI trabajando juntos.

Mónica Francisca Arredondo Urra: Porque merecemos un final digno de contar, tanto para Mulder y Scully, como para todos nosotros, y porque la serie estuvo 9 años tras la verdad y llegada la fecha de ésta es imposible que no sepamos que pasa finalmente con nuestro mundo!!!! IWTB en TXF3...

Maria Jose Espinoza: Por que The X-Files tiene una historia (mitológica) apasionante que debe seguir su curso natural y aparecer en la gran pantalla con un final que todo fans merece ver, porque la historia de la serie se lo merece, porque cada capitulo que nos dio Chris Carter fue una esperanza más para ver el gran final combatiendo el futuro. Porque Mulder y Scully merecen ser nuevamente los grandes protagonista de ...una historia cautivante y atrapante que estuvo nueve años al aire y es una de las mejores series de todos los tiempos... YO quiero XFILES3 porque no concibo un final como corresponde, porque no concibo que la Fox, teniendo todo para que sea un gran exito, no este (XF BLUEBOOK/FAN CLUB) haciendo nada.... Yo amo la serie y quiero un final justo para ella, para los personajes y para nosotros, los fans. Marco Andreotti: Voglio XF3 perchè tutta la verità deve venire a galla,e perchè voglio vedere insieme Mulder e PARAGUAY Scully. I Want to Believe.

Gaby Basz: Quiero un final digno de está serie, algo Davide Feudale: Per dare una degna fine a questo que sea inolvidable, que este al nivel de lo que fue está meraviglioso telefilm,e per chiudere una volta per tutto il serie.. Saludos desde Paraguay. cerchio..dopo 9 anni di telefilm,e tutta questa attesa mi sento di dire che ce lo meritiamo. URUGUAY Francesca Pirillo: Voglio XF3 perchè la mitologia di X- Fani Xf: Porque nos merecemos una peli para concluir Files merita una conclusione. Questo, seppur scontato, esta gran serie, tanto nosotros sus fans como sus è di certo il motivo numero 1! Poi ci sono un sacco di actores y productores, porque esta serie le dio altri motivi "affettivi". La serie mi manca da morire, sono muchiisimo a fox y no se merece que la traten tan mal cresciuta con Mulder e Scully, è normale! Vorrei tanto como para no querer darle un final digno !! quedaron scoprire come negli anni si stia evolvendo la loro muchas cosas inconclusas en la serie, y si invierten en relazione. In più sarebbe una bellissima occasione per cosas que no valen la pena, no tienen derecho a no portare di nuovo questi personaggi sul grande schermo invertir en una ultima peli de X-FILES que sus mismos e magari farli conoscere meglio alle nuove generazioni. fans estamos pidiendo !!! C'è anche da considerare che in questo modo potremmo vedere nuovamente Gillian Anderson e David BRASIL Duchovny recitare insieme! L'alchimia tra i due è innegabile. Ogni scena tra i due mi emoziona Carlos Solo: Quiero X-Files 3, 4, 5, 6 ..... tantissimo! Un po' noi Philes ce lo meritiamo XF3.

29 BLUEBOOK Rosarita Verdicchio: Perchè sono rimasti dei punti in sospeso ke vanno chiariti....che fine ha fatto William,figlio di Mulder e Scully?....che fine hanno fatto Reyes e Doggett che nel secondo film della serie nn si sono proprio visti....quello ke aveva predetto l'uomo che fuma prima di morire,ovvero l'invasione aliena che si abbatterebbe sulla terra il 22 dicembre 2012,avverrà per davvero?....e poi rivedere la complicità che esiste tra Mulder e Scully,rivivere quelle stesse emozioni che ci hanno regalato per 9 anni,quegli sguardi,quei sorrisi,è tutto quello ke voglio e che vogliamo tutti noi che amiamo e ke ameremo per sempre questa meravigliosa creazione televisiva...... GRANDE X FILES!!!!!!!!

Paolo Cingaleras Pignatelli: Perche' vorrei finalmente avere un finale epico, drammatico, o anche triste, ma chiarificatore, che chiuda degnamentente la saga di Mulder e Scully.....una saga mitologica e troppo sfruttata male degli ultimi anni del serial....qualcosa che faccia dire a tutti i fan, "ehi, le ultime smaronate fatte da Carter e co. nelle ultime serie e nell'ultimo film, sono acqua passata grazie a questo film!" (poco probabile lo so.....)....insomma, un degno TRIBUTO a tutti quei fan che si son sempre prostrati di fronte a questo telefilm, comprandone dvd, vhs, magliette, studiandone ATTENTANTAMENTE la mitologia, le storie, la scienza che c'e' dietro, ed appassionandosi cosi' tanto da guardarla anche quando la serie era diventata poca cosa rispetto alla serie precedenti, nell'ultimo anno....ed anche a chi ha lasciato la serie subito dopo il primo film e che si aspettavan molto di piu' da quest'ultimo all'epoca, a causa delle solite promesse di Carter, pur essendo stato carino....Per entrare nello specifico, vorrei il terzo film, per assistere ad una risoluzione della mitologia, intricata, raffinata e spettacolare al tempo stesso, senza che una cosa, debba lasciare il posto ad un'altra...qualcosa di COMPLETO, ecco. Senza scuse di budget, o di trama difficile da capire per i nuovi spettatori (si posson architettare tanti modi furbastri, come gia' dissi una volta, per spiegare piccoli particolari del passato, come accade in parecchi film di Hollywood....basta solo LAVORARCI un po, non in fretta e furia, ma con tanta pazienza, ingegno e FATICA. Lo spero per tutti coloro che han sempre creduto in questa storia. Se lo meritano. E loro lo devono a noi.

Massimo Fontana: Perché vogliamo crederci. Finally Giorgia Bazzocchi summarizes the reasons why fans want the third movie: I want XF3 because.. We need a conclusion. We need to close the loop. We need to find William. We need ... More X-Files in the world.

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31 BLUEBOOK cience Fiction fans have always, proudly meet and greet simultaneously. It became Sembraced a culture all of their own, but increasingly exciting and evident that we since the advent of the Internet just under 20- had indeed arrived in the ‘future’, and who years ago, the face of the fanatical has shifted better to celebrate than the devotees of dramatically. Fandom is no longer reflected Science Fiction who had always dreamed it through figurine and video collections, but via possible?Chat sites, search engines, dedicated online chat rooms, fan conventions banner ads, gaming, Napster and (rallied and promoted online, of course), downloadable applications all began to Facebook, Twitter streams and websites that emerge at the speed of light throughout the are as professionally run as any traditional era now referred to as ‘dot com’. As we form of print media. It was around 1993 when cruised through the age of Excite, Yahoo, the first general users of the Internet began to Hotmail, Amazon, Wikipedia, MySpace, utilise the ‘new and exciting media’ to promote and of course, more recently, Google, favourite films, television series, music and the YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, the like. Back then there were only about 80 Internet not only became faster and more websites in existence, and of those, quite a accessible but emerged as an invaluable few were actually dedicated fan sites for communication, marketing, business and beloved Sci-Fi entities such as The X-Files networking tool. As the Internet swiftly and Star Trek. Not only were these websites evolved, so did its original core themes interesting and informative, but they including the Sci-Fi fan site genre, which encouraged users from all over the world to has since matured to be more interactive, interact. For the first time in history, engaging, entertaining and sophisticated international fans could liaise, share, than ever before.

32 BLUEBOOK Matt Allair, filmmaker, videographer and I have always felt that in the long run, also creator/editor of the popular website quality material wins out over gimmicks. x-fileslexicon.com (launched 2005), is one You can have all of the bells and whistles of the pioneers of this genre. He enthusia- imaginable on your site, and gossip of stically rides the wave of the web and has course, but I believe you won’t last long if participated across its evolution from the there’s no intelligent content for fans to ‘90s, to the point where he has turned his digest and discuss. Some of the best fan passion for sharing information with other sites actually existed on the web in the early online fans into a professional media entity days, and the reason they were brilliant all of its own. His site has been so succes- sites was because of their quality content, sful that it’s not only sustained fan support, which had to prevail because the design but he and his international team (who, as technology of many sites today didn’t exist you would guess, all met online through a yet”. love of Science Fiction) have even worked Matt is a passionate media buff, blogger with creators of The X-Files, having been and website producer who admits to invited to contribute to the Blu-Ray extras on inadvertently entering into professional fan the 2008 release, I Want to Believe. This is site activity thanks to his general delight of evidently a monumental achievement for all things ‘entertainment and technology’. anyone, let alone ‘some fans on the web’; “I fell into online fandom as a distraction however it is testament to the critical when I was having trouble with screen- influence independent websites can achieve writing, and it just progressed and inevi- in the 21st century. tably opened up doors I never could have imagined. Creating and maintaining a fan site as a business is ideal for anyone who is looking for a way to creatively channel a passion, whether it be for a television series, sport or hobby. I was involved with two other professional fan sites, including Harry Potter Lexicon, before x-fileslexicon and through over ten years experience maintaining such sites, I learned firsthand what could work and what didn’t. The idea of the x-fileslexicon being a ‘professional’ fan site was actually devised from the start”.

Only a small percentage of fans are ever included within the inner fold of the production they admire, and the x-fileslexicon team is rightly proud to have been invited on board as associates of the 2008 film instalment – an indicator that they are passionate but professional to boot. So how do you turn a true passion into something viable and useful to others? Dedication and credibility are key. Matt says, “running a professional fan site can be a challenge, and in some ways there are limits as we choose to be more formal in our conduct; there’s a trade-off. That said, I’d Of course, many sites that boast an expert advocate keeping your nose clean, and being edge often evolve with the assistance of respectful and smart in interactions with the an IT professional tweaking behind the talent. Our editorial team didn’t jump on the scenes, as in Matt’s case. “I started the bandwagon with reporting on gossip and site just by doing simple coding and speculation when I Want to Believe went into having a play with elements that were of production in 2008, and associates of the interest to me. Suddenly though, show, including Jana Fain and Gabe Rotter feedback, interest and reaction from the paid attention to our conduct. public grew, and then the push to further

33 BLUEBOOK develop the site did also. We keep expanding Obviously we’ve rolled with the times too by trying to think ahead. ‘XF Lexicon TV’, and have links on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, our video news feature is a good example. StumbleUpon, and Ning. We’re always Few X-Files sites have thought of doing trying to figure out the best outlets to this outside of news podcasts, but we pay capitalise on, as should anyone attention to fan feedback and ideas as well maintaining a dedicated site. You need to as staying in the loop with technological be relatable and current, but individual in advances. your approach”. We’ve also instigated a unique networking While the big guns of the ‘dot com’ facility, syndicateconsortium.com, which corporations battle it out to buy and sell the encourages fansite webmasters to join in an next big thing in Cyberland, where can we effort to unite all X-Files fans on the web. go to from here, being that an average Internet user emails, chats, networks, ‘Skypes’, ‘Googles’, shares information, engages in traditional forms of media ‘on demand’, with passionate users like Matt professionally producing much of this content free-of-charge on a dedicated daily basis? Will those facilitating the fan site genre soon be able to offer television series or films as they are released? Is an iPhone app next for x-fileslexicon? Tim Flattery, General Manager of Digital Artists (www.digitalartists.tv) has worked in the thick of the Internet evolution since the early ‘90s and most recently spent two years as head of new media and branded entertainment for Becker Entertainment working in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. He also launched the well known social forecasting and new media development firm Pophouse. He anticipates an exciting new Internet age that will be particularly engaging for online media moguls such as Matt. “We call it the ‘second digital decade’ where the internet will disappear’, will stop being something separate and will be the centre of everything. The first digital decade was an entrée to how powerful the internet really is and the connectedness of everything through technology.

34 BLUEBOOK It has only just started to stretch its legs in It’s extraordinary to witness this technological terms of usage. Wherever there’s electricity it progression in our lifetime – definitely will touch you… You’ll plug into the Plasma something only imagined for many years. screen with no problems, and everyone can Whether you plan to host a successful fan become a media proprietor. The future will be site in conjunction with your very favourite fast, furious and entertaining, especially for entity, or fate leads you to such a pastime, those facilitating their own fan domains. The the future looks incredibly bright for those Internet is very good at entering inefficient with passion and media flair. “If you had told business spaces like book selling, auctions, me over a decade ago I would have been the idea of searching for information – any involved with online fandom, I would never industry that doesn’t offer customers great have believed you. It just found me,” Matt services is vulnerable to the Internet. For says. “It’s a labour of love – fulfilling when we example, television is a terrible customer engage with other fans, and rewarding when service if you’re thinking with your Internet we’re asked to professionally liaise with the head-space. Who wants to wait when you production we’re promoting. We’re all excited can have instant access? The internet is about a third The X-Files film that’s presently salivating to take control of that industry on a in the pipeline and anticipate avid growth global level. Higher quality ‘instant’ video and because of this buzz. I feel the sky is the limit television over the Internet in the next three as far as the future goes, as long as we hold years is the next big thing, particularly with to our integrity. The site keeps growing and I faster internet being implemented worldwide. see it going on”.x It will change our consumption habits forever”. Sarah Blinco

"-" Co Conspirators - ' The X Files Lexicon . s exclusive interview with Alex Gansa (05/08/2012). Conducted by Matt Allair

Matt: Thematically, do you see any parallels between 24, Homeland, and The X-Files? Did your work on The X-Files influence the kind of work you're doing today?

Alex: Well, I think the kind of stories that we told on The X-Files, and the need to tell a narrative with a very strong story engine was something I learned on The X-Files, and which certainly carried over into 24 and into Homeland. They're each unique unto themselves, but there were certain tricks, and tropes that I learned on The X-Files that have been incredibly helpful over the span of 24, and Homeland, and one of those things is just learning how to compress a story. In other words, you wind up plotting an episode out, and then you realize that some of those events that you planned to happen later in the episode, actually should happen earlier, and likewise, over the course of the series, some event that you plotted, that you planned to happen in the middle of the season, or towards the end of the season actually wind up being in the second or third episode, and it always helps propel the story, and gets you off at a good clip in the beginning.

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“After having worked on The X-Files for so many years and really spent so much time thinking about these characters of Mulder and Scully, you do fall in love with them a bit, you do obsess about them. You find yourself thinking about them for hours and hours and hours. And that’s what Milagro’s about. It’s about the power of that kind of obsession.”

- Frank Spotnitz

Yeah, me too, Frank. Only I don’t get paid for it. You see, an idea is real. It’s an intangible reality that’s as real as any physical manifestation. Faith is real. Hope is real. Love is real. No one outside of ou’ve heard it all about “Milagro” before. Karl Marx would call me crazy for believing that. How writers Spotnitz and Shiban came up But if I said to you that I would only believe Faith Y with the idea for it after commiserating was real if I saw it standing before me, then I’d over the trials and tribulations of the creative life. have earned my right to a padded cell. How the character of Padgett is really a stand-in for the writers on The X-Files, right down to his Dana Scully is an idea. She started out in the mind board full of index cards. of Chris Carter the Beloved, she was translated into the written word by various scribes, she was I’m going to let smarter, more academically interpreted in the body of Gillian Anderson the disciplined heads than I grapple with the more Sacred, she was relayed through a series of intellectual issues that “Milagro” raises - authorial messengers, directors, photographers and editors, intent, metafiction and the viewer as voyeur. That’s and finally, she was accepted by faith into the not why I’m here. I have a much more simplistic hearts and minds of many a television addict. outlook on the “Milagro” message: Dana Scully is a friend of mine. Like a game of Telephone, it’s hardly doubtful that Dana Scully as she began is not the same Dana “Au contraire,” you say, “Dana Scully doesn’t exist.” Scully that viewers know and love. Every hand she passes through shapes and creates her, including “Au contraire,” I mimic, “Dana Scully exists the audience that eventually receives her, until she absolutely.” is a recognizable and independent form that even an objective observer can say, “That’s Dana Scully” “There’s nothing wrong with my state of mental or “That’s not Dana Scully” the same way they health. I like it here with my childhood friend. Here could say “That’s patriotism” or That’s narcissism.” they come, those feelings again!” She’s her own entity, moving at her own speed and -Men at Work toward her own destination despite Chris Carter’s original best intentions. At least, that’s what Dana Scully is real. She lives in my head. She “Milagro” is telling us. probably lives in yours too. She gets around like that.

36 BLUEBOOK Back when I first started to watch The X-Files I was watching reruns on FX and was way behind the current run of the show. Before I swore off the internet and chatrooms (see the upcoming “The Unnatural” review), I couldn’t resist doing a little investigating into the future of the Mulder/Scully relationship. You can only imagine my 13-year-old horror when I discovered that Chris Carter had sworn on a stack of show bibles that Mulder and Scully would never be a romantic pair. I’m not ashamed to say I felt something akin to panic. So I did the only thing I could and attempted to console myself by watching more of The X-Files. I watched and was quickly comforted - What I saw didn’t match up with what Chris Carter had so adamantly avowed. It’s then that the rebellious thought occurred to me, “That man doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” Said thought was accompanied by the dismissive facial expression only a 13-year-old can make.

Arrogant? Yes.

How can the viewer claim to know more than the creator? In my defense, I instinctively knew from watching the real Dana Scully what her Pygmalion-like creator may have still been in denial about, that come what may, she was falling in love with Fox Mulder. It didn’t matter what anyone else said, including Chris Carter. Scully told me. It was the gospel truth. The more cynical among us might say that Carter eventually caved in the MSR department only because of fan pressure and potential ratings, but I’m not of a cynical turn. A Mulder/Scully romance would have happened eventually because their relationship naturally evolved irrespective of original intent or outside expectations. By Season 6, to keep them apart much longer would have been more unrealistic than a man-sized worm. My Philey Sense tells me that Chris Carter realized this and just went with the flow. Philip Padgett, Scully’s creepy admirer, is a not so subtle, if far less socially adept, substitute for Carter himself as the writer whose character has escaped his control long enough to writer her own script while he wasn’t looking. Like I said, intangible ≠ unreal. Scully is so much her own person, such a fully fleshed idea, that Padgett can no longer predict her choices. The question is then, did he ever really? Where does the writer’s intention end and the real Dana Scully begin? I don’t know the answer to that exactly but I know that it’s not just the writer who creates her. Accor- ding to that same game of Telephone I mentioned above, the idea of Dana Scully is communicated to a series of people through a series of mediums and the method of communication is in part what shapes her. In a lot of ways, I bet life is easier for a novelist than a television writer. A novelist creates and idea and shapes it with words, communica- ting directly with his audience.

37 BLUEBOOK A television writer sees his vision revised by What? You didn’t recognize his legendary purple several sets of minds and hands until what the prose? I swear, he must’ve been holding the viewers at home see may or may not be thesaurus open with one hand for this one. All recognizable to him. But that’s just tough cookies. these years and I never realized he was actually holding back most episodes. Here he lets it all Is it a wonder fans sometimes act like they own hang out, using his skills in flowery verbiage to Scully? We’re partially responsible for creating purposeful effect by making it difficult to her. Not that any of us can take credit for the distinguish between the actual goings on of the original brilliance of idea that she is, but we’ve Scully mind and the writer’s fantasy, for those are taken that idea and obsessed over it until it’s two separate things both in the world of “Milagro” taken a concrete form in our own minds; she’s a and in this one. Fortunately for all of us, the well- shared idea. 10 Philes from 10 different countries rounded Chris Carter is no Philip Padgett, though with 10 different perspectives could sit around it’s possible he identifies with him all too well in and talk about her like they all know her… because some ways. Padgett is the worst kind of stereotype they all do. Great fiction tends to work like that. of a writer; awkward socialization, barren (For instance, I recognized Hogwarts the instant I existence, overuse of highbrow language. And in saw it on the big screen. I had already seen it in his youthful arrogance he believes that as the my mind’s eye, after all. Funny, but my best friend author he actually has authority over his whose mind’s eye doesn’t belong to me recognized characters. Ha! He learns that lesson. it too.) And great characters live on long after you Padgett is wonderfully played by 1013 repeat stop reading or watching them. offender John Hawkes, who previously guest And I suppose that’s why The X-Files was/is a starred on Millennium and auditioned for the role benchmark of fanfiction. It created characters of Pinker Rawls in “Trevor” (6x17). The part of whose adventures its audience couldn’t help but Padgett was actually written with him in mind so chronicle offscreen because they existed, waiting it’s not surprising that he fills it well. Somehow, to be chronicled. After all, how could a TV show despite his gratingly calm assurance and his hold them anymore than it could hold you or me? Creepy McCreepy vibe Padgett manages to be an In fanfiction, the viewer becomes the writer, empathetic character. We start to glimpse his flipping the natural order on its head but at the humanity when he first confronts Scully before same time drawing even more attention to the the painting of the Sacred Heart, a scene that heart of the process of characterization. quietly reveals the root of this episode that’s all The milagro, the real miracle here is the mysterious about the relationship between creator and power of the obsessive mind to create life where created. there was none. No, these earthly creators can’t breathe the physical breath of life into Dana Scully, It’s the God-given desire to share love. but they can do pretty much everything shy of it, That’s what Padgett tries to explain to Scully to the point where I sometimes find myself through the story of Jesus and St. Margaret Mary. wondering how it could be possible that Dana That’s why any creator creates, to share their Scully isn’t standing in front of me with eyebrow heart, good, bad or indifferent. That’s what raised in inquisition the way Naciamento appears humans are designed to do is share the love in before Padgett…. though I suppose she’d come for their hearts. Maybe for the writer that love is Chris Carter first. But I’m next. Right at this easier to express in writing. Maybe for the fan the moment “Milagro” is playing in the background. writer’s love is easier to share in because it takes And if Dana Scully were to plant her fingers on the place in an alternate reality of fiction. bottom of my television screen and pull herself I’m going to shamelessly take Pagett’s story of out, only mild surprise would register on my face. Jesus’ Sacred Heart even further and say that in the same way the Creator speaks into existence She already exists in my head, why shouldn’t she fully formed personalities and then gives them exist in my room? free will, a human creator is at his best when he, The great thing about “Milagro” is that there are so through his love, forms an idea so powerful that it many intellectual and emotional questions raised has a life of its own. on various levels that like any good work of Why does the writer write? To share his heart. fiction, there are many ways to read it. There isn’t Why does the reader read or the watcher watch? another episode quite like it and it’s certainly To share the heart of the writer. Who is Dana more meta, and more overtly artistic, than The X- Scully? She’s the collective beating hearts of the Files is usually comfortable with. That’s probably writers and the watchers. She’s the idea they all why it feels so personal. love. While Shiban and Spotnitz rough drafted the idea “Imagine that.” of “Milagro”, it was Carter, the creator himself who wrote it up which is so fitting you’d thing someone - Philip Padgett x had scripted it.

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t is necessary to start the etymologic/symbolic analysis from the X, and properly, from two theories: Kubek’s and Jan Delasara’s theory. The first hypnotises that the X stands for: “the fate of the feminine under patriarchy”, in the “You only expose your father” essayI in “Reading the Xfiles”, and everything is based on the fact that in X-Files there are two worlds facing each other, the male and feminine world. X, which means unknown, is the destiny of Samantha, but X is also the symbol of a world where the feminine flees to safety from the conspiracy. That is to say, Sam “gets safe” because she has been made disappear by the oppressive male world. Obviously, the author wrote this essay before “Closure”. In my opinion, it is a weak theory since the series hadn’t finished yet and reducing the issue to the male/feminine point is interesting, but that doesn’t involve thousands of other aspects and thematic. Instead, according to Delasara’s “Poplit, popcult and the Xfiles”, the X stands for: (The) crossing out, denying or negating a piece of information, and mathematically X designs an unknown quantity...” therefore, the X-Files are the denied things, unknown, kept secret. And as fans, we are used to thinking this way. Let’s start now talking about Dana Katherine Scully, starting from her first name. It is the name of a Goddess which comes from the Latin name Diana (Artemide). Joseph Frank in “Ancient Romans in America?” says: “Diana was the synonym of the Greek Artemide, the patron of the Olympus, of the working women and the children.

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In the Greek-Roman art, both the versions x were usually portrayed with a fox which followed the Goddess, thus representing her believers. But this animal is not the only convincing link between the Old World and the pre-inca South America..” This is interesting isn’t it? Is it the fox that mediates between the Roman Goddess and the new pre-inca world? And fox always follows the Goddess. I want to highlight her status of “protector of the working women”. How much did Scully work to be recognised as a working woman in a male world? Diana is, however, the Latin form, in reality Scully’s name is Dana. In Gaelic, “Tuata dè danaan” is the name of a mythical wary people: in the Irish pantheon, it is Goddess Dana’s people (B.Walker, The woman's encyclopaedia of myths and secrets , 1983). The name of the Goddess shows “knowledge”, she is also the Goddess of fertility and birth. Sadly ironic is the reference to fertility for Scully. As a matter of fact, Scully’s road to becoming mother has a resonance with this name. Moreover, according to the legend, the Tuatas arrived in Ireland on “flying boats” and theories which ties the Tuatas to some alien visits on Earth can be found on the internet. Scully’s second name is Katherine, that in the Greek/Byzantine form refers to Ecate, the Goddess of hell: in fact, Scully escaped the Kingdom of the Dead/alien abduction (I’m thinking about the boat in the lake, tied to the pier, in “One Breath”). And in the episodes (“Clyde Bruckman”, “Leonard Betts”, “Tithonus”), Scully is said to be immortal: Goddesses are immortal. Then, in the eighth season, some fans compared her to the Virgin Mary (either when she cries for the death of Mulder, the Deposition, or the birth of William, the Nativity). Will she be taken up into Heaven? Yes, if she will be abducted again by the true aliens, and not by those induced in the memory by the Syndicate. In addition, in the Greek/Roman world, Katherine means “clear, straightforward”, and these are perfect adjectives for Scully. Clear when she has get to the point and straightforward when expressing her opinions. When Mulder has to choose a name for her in “Arcadia”, he chooses Laura, but Laura & Rob Petrie are the names of the 1961 “Dick Van Dike Show” protagonists, where this couple personified the “American way of life” of those years, which meant serenity, funny situations and divertissement bourgeois.

In the episodes (“Clyde Bruckman”, “Leonard Betts”, “Tithonus”), Scully is said to be “ immortal: Goddesses are immortal.

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These two names so indicate that Mulder (or better, the “Arcadia” scriptwriters) have considered how these names could be perceived by an “unnaturally” perfect community: choosing stereotyped names means to criticise the false representation of a perfect society. Josè Chungh gives to Scully the pseudonym of Diana Lesky, maybe hinting at Albin Lesky, a famous Russian philologist and therefore a meticulous figure, or just for a pronunciation assonance? Now is the surname turn: Scully is the surname of Vince, a sports commentator also known as “God’s voice”, (Carter denied this link in 1994 D.Bishoff’s interview) but in the chapter “The Name Game”, op. cit., Delasara underlines that it is also the surname of Frank, the author of “Behind the Flying Saucers” in 1952, and I add that in a FBI note about the UFO crash in New Mexico, Frank Scully is mentioned as a witness. Delasara also claims that the names of the characters could remind of those present in the comics of EC “Vault Of Horror” in the 50s: it is evident that “skull” has a dark and macabre link to Scully as it is pronounced almost in the same way. Carter have kept on insisting that no names of those present in X- Files have references, just like Badley says in “The Rebirth of Clinic” in “Reading the Xfiles”; but why keep denying such proofs? I made some calculations from a numerological table put forward by Delanera about “f o x”, of which I will talk about later, and “d a n a” results as number 2. The number two is the contraposition, the contrast the antithesis of number one (and Mulder symbolises the number one…), but two is also the number of complementarity, of who lies by you. In the relationship between Mulder and Scully, she has these characteristics: her character is Mulder’s co-star, his colleague and subordinate. She helps him when wounded, she justifies him during the investigation and so on. Max Fening nicknames her “Enigmatic” in “Fallen Angel”. The definition for “enigmatic” in the Oxford dictionary is: perplexing; mysterious. And isn’t Scully mysterious for Mulder’s eyes? Or for every other man she meets? Surely, Max refers to this woman’s complexity. Her feelings and pains always hidden.

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And now Mulder.

His unusual name “Fox” has very ancientx roots. In Chinese myths, foxes are very suspicious characters, I think about Mulder and his “trust no one”. In Russian folklore, the fox is very cunning and so is Mulder, even if maybe he is more curious. For the Celts, the fox represents slyness and the ability of putting of the scent, whilst Mulder often makes tracks! In myths, the fox sees others’ movements undetected and so here is the link. It is weird instead that the fox is a stupid animal in the Catholic Bible. More interesting is that in the myths of North American natives, the fox has the power to give back life to the dead, a sort of demiurge like the coyote, and Mulder speaks to the dead (The Truth, Closure) and in a certain sense, evoking them, he let them live again. The link between the American natives and Fox emerges in the episodes “Blessing Way” and “Shapes”. In the last one, Mulder receives the Indian name “Running Fox” or “Sneaky Fox”, and in my opinion they are due to his curious and investigative nature. When Albert Hosteen heals Mulder, he says: “The F.B.I. man would have surely died had he not stayed underground, protected like the jackrabbit or the fox”; referring to fox’s power to defeat death. In this case and even in the first episodes of the eighth season, Mulder emerges like an immortal man. Kubek, op. cit., referring to Albert’s speech, evokes the symbology linked to the name Fox in “Blessing Way”: the fox has been buried by the symbolic Order (the Syndicate), but being the unconscious Fox’s usual habitat (he’s a psychologist, he has bonds to hidden things, he’s a hidden truths discoverer) he is now remerged from it (this is my interpretation). So, I say that the fox is an animal of the unconscious, which saves from the symbolic death that the Super Ego (ethic laws of fathers, the Syndicate here) may make grind on the Ego. In fact, Fox dreams about Bill first and Deep Throat then during the ritual practice, his putative fathers. I like mentioning another fox as well, the friend Saint-Exupery’s “Little Prince”. In this masterpiece, the fox teaches the little prince the friendship value. Mulder tells us he is a good friend through his bonds with Scully and the Lone Gunmen. Last, I want to mention the pseudonym that José Chung gives to Mulder, Reynard (Muldrake, reynard means fox in French). And Reynard was a character of European tales of 12th/13th Century, says Delasara, and was famous for the ironic but hard critics to the Catholic church and the nobles.

43 BLUEBOOK x The X Files But FOX is also the name of the network, which believed in Carter and X-Files while Disney didn’t. Delasara thinks that having the letters of the network in the protagonist’s name, an X which stands for unknown, mysterious, and it also reminds of the name that cinematographic workers use of special effects (fx) have let the public identify the show with the network. Marketing power. Delasara, using numerological tables, assigns the number 6 to the name “Fox”. Six is an androgynous number, we all remember that Mulder is an atypical hero in the policemen scenario of the early 90s: he’s sensitive, careful , empathic, he never brags, he is a sort of hero with feminine characteristics (I want to point that to drive all the doubts about his heterosexuality away, the authors after having shown him crying, stressed his inclination towards pornography). According to Wikipedia, Mulder’s second name, William, has two roots: Will and helm, intended as protection. If broadly speaking we consider Will as “wisdom”, we can point that the name barely means “that who is protected by his wisdom”. The notions of desire and knowledge make me think of the Amor Fati trilogy: Mulder is wiser than other human beings, but this comes against him. The helm didn’t work. His “knowledge” of paranormal squished his mortal brain. Delasara shows the parallelism between the many William that there are in X-Files. Mulder’s father and Scully’s father, and I would also mention the little William. The authors consider Bill Patterson (“Grotesque”), the mentor of the golden boy that has been just enrolled for FBI, among the father figures he meets during the show. This is to create a bond between and world of the fathers which biblically means that sons are not responsible for fathers’ sins and Mulder fights against the sins of the fathers belonging to the Syndicate. The surname: Mulder. “To molder” means “decompose, rot”. In “The Rebirth of the Clinic” in “Reading the xfiles” Badley mention another verb in addition to the one before: “to mull over” that according to the Oxford dictionary, means “meditate, ponder, speculate”. Delasara, mentioning the names of the horror comics we named before, discovers the gothic form X of “mold”, that is to say “mould” which means So Mulder is the man “to shape, to forge”. who ponders and So Mulder is the man who ponders and “ forges, we could say he decodes and forges, we could say organises clues. He looks for the truth, he he decodes and shapes it, despite all the attempts to be organises clues. thrown off the track. The definition of demolition worker is suitable for the character: ”

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he demolishes lies to discover the truth. According to the numerology, m u l d e r is the number 1, which is not only the number of loneliness as Mulder says in “Fight The Future” but it is also the number of independence, a quality he often shows. Let’s now focus on the FBI notes in “Requiem”. As for the nicknames Mulder receives during the show, the one chosen by José Chung is particularly fitting. According to Delasara, Muldrake for assonance recalls “mandrake” a curative but poisonous plant. The mandrake also has aphrodisiac properties. Does this have to do with Mulder’s love for pornography? This combination lets me mention another Mulder pseudonym, the one he gave to the erotic chat operator, as Eddie Van Blunth witnesses in “Small Potatoes”: Marty. In the 60s, an American movie titled Marty, which talks about a very shy man with serious relational problems with women, came out (it earned Ernest Borgnine an Oscar as best protagonist actor). Do you think these facts are connected? I have already talked And now the best point, his “classic” about Rob Petrie before. In “Little Green nickname Spooky. I guess that all the Men”, Mulder uses the name George H. Hale definition for “spooky” would fit his personality. to book his flight to Puerto Rico. In the same In Quagmire, Scully refers to Mulder as Ahab, episode, we can deduce his admiration for the the Moby Dick captain, just like she does with scientist: MULDER - From 1948 until recently, her father. However, Mulder claims he is the it was the largest telescope in the world. The antithesis of Ahab and so he is not “Gnawed idea and design came from a brilliant and within and scorched without, with the infixed, wealthy astronomer named George Ellery unrelenting fangs of some incurable Hale. Actually, the idea was presented to Hale idea.”(Moby Dick, H. Melville). Scully was one night. While he was playing billiards, an instead called by her father with the name of elf climbed in his window and told him to get the “Pequod” chief mate, Starbuck, who in the money from the Rockefeller Foundation for a book was referred to as “Uncommonly telescope. - conscientious for a seaman”. (Melville ,op cit.) In Hale’s bibliography, the inspiring elf is not The parallel that Scully wants to create mentioned, but Mulder’s ego identifies itself between Mulder and her father figure is easy with a person whose mind is open to fantasy to catch, but Mulder claims his personality not despite him being a scientist. In “Fallen Angel” accepting the parallel. Captain Scully instead Max Fenning says that Mulder use a had chosen for Dana a fitting comparison. x pseudonym, M.F. Luder, to sign articles about paranormal, an anagram of his name. There Anasilv exist an experiment in psychology, in which References : the examined person has to make an J.Jagodzinski - B.Hipfl Youth Fantasies: Reading “The anagram out of his name and surname to X-Files”. Psychoanalytically. Studies In Media & create a new name onto which he can project Information Literacy Education University Toronto a new relative personality with aspects that Press ,vol. 1,n.2,2001 J.Delasara Poplit, Popcult and the X-Files ,Mcfarland & would otherwise stand in the background. To Co., 2000 analyse the anagram, it is necessary to point 4. L.Badley The Rebirth of the Clinic: The Body as Alien that Fox doesn’t exist for him and this is in The X-Files ,Deny All Knowledge: Reading The X- demonstrated by the fact that he doesn’t want Files, Thompson Syracuse University Press, 1996 E. B. Kubek You Only Expose Your Father Deny All to be called by Scully by his name. This is why Knowledge: Reading The X-Files, Thompson Syracuse F. remains F. Luder can be connected to the University Press ,1996 adjective “loud”. In the article about UFO on B.Hauser Vanishing Americans , The X files And OMNI during the first Gulf War, as Luder, he literature, S.R.Yang Cambridge, 2007 T.Betonneau-K.Paffenroth The in -breaking wrote “loudly” about topics he could only bedhalement of truth The Truth Is Out There: Christian “whisper” about as Mulder. Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction, Brazos press,2006

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Interview conducted by XFBlueBook and GFelix n the 90s, X-Files has managed to catch the fears of the Americans and represent it on the screen. According Ito you, could the show be aired on today’s TV, or as many say, the Ground Zero attack has generated such fear to put the theme of the series on the background?

I fear the Ground Zero had an impact on Carter’s show as well as on other shows. Science fiction has always had a precise link to cultural movement and the world general situation. It was first born as popular literature so it couldn’t, and can’t today, move away from the anguish of people. It could be visionary such as Dick’s, it could be ironic and paradoxical such as Sheckley’s, but it can never be taken out of the projection that anyone makes of his future, which is influenced by the present. The heroic prewar science fiction was the natural heir to Verne, the men’s struggle in the name of a positive science with an enlightenment and lay vision of the universe. The post-Second World War science fiction identified an enemy and fought him in space battles on unfriendly planets, face-to-face, using weapons in a sort of repetition of the conventional war; however, there also were some fictionists who refused that clash between cultures and hypothesised better societies and world such as Roddenberry. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the risk of the total war vanished and the theory of a global conspiracy took off thus putting in discussion the certainties of our history, Chris Carter did this first and magisterially. Ground Zero erased this tendency, especially in the Anglo-Saxon science fiction, gave back the physicality to the enemy, identifying it in every thing that is different and can shake our certainties. 46 BLUEBOOK 47 BLUEBOOK X-Files still is a relevant series for the shows. According to you, what are the language, but it has been overwhelmed main innovations brought about by X- by media’s fear more than the events Files? themselves which have left the mark in this decade. X-Files and Chris Carter introduced the industrial model of cinema in the TV show. Since then, the main series have begun to used those narrative and grammatical structures which were typical of the cinema up to the 90s. I think Chris Carter rode the wave of something that was in the air and that was necessary to turn around the crisis of creativity of those years. Carter was able to “weigh out” the most important points of the narration, dispensing them in the right moment to open and close narrative threads which made people’s expectations burst, at least up to the 7th season.

The relationship between Mulder and Scully revealed to be the keystone to success as it was a non-love among the most aching and romantic of TV, which kept our eyes on the screen. Why is always love which makes audience, rather than aliens, mysterious islands and supernatural powers?

The most stupid answer could be that 55% of the TV audience is made of women, and love stories catch women’s heart. But the very key to success was indeed the incompleteness of the relationship between them. Narratively speaking, it is a great solution if one is able to manage, the step to ridiculousness is quite short. Carter X-Files has historically marked a turning manage to make the show the object of point the science fiction production as it is the daily chats between friends and still used today as an element of compa- colleagues, and the success didn't distort rison to evaluate the quality of new TV the plot of every single episode in anyway. x

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lenty of female characters have inspired TV series in the last ten years. After the revolution brought about by a character P like Dana Scully: a strong-willed woman beside a weak man. A woman who is ready to question her certainties as well as her life; who is ready to believe and love; a professional but not a virago; who has doubts, but is able to pursue the truth at any cost; it is therefore not surprising that finding another Scully-oriented character has been a challenge in shows that followed. Yet something that Scully may have inspired, although in a very different context, can be found in Lilly Rush, the heroine of "Cold Case". Cold Case, a TV series which ended this year after seven respectable seasons, focused on unsolved cases being reopened after several years, thus even rebuilding parts of American history. Physically speaking Gillian Anderson (Scully) and Kathryn Morris, who plays Lilly, are different but they have many things in common. Those determined blue eyes wide open towards the unknown; always in search of truth and justice. Their sober dress sense does not hide their sex appeal, but neither does it transform them into cheerleaders; both

50 BLUEBOOK women are characters who seldom yield to emotion. Their differences can be seen in their family backgrounds. Dana Scully comes from a military family. She grew up in a strict but loveable environment, tied to her sister Melissa who died prematurely. She is a brilliant FBI agent with multiple degrees and records of accomplishments in varying areas. Compare this with Rush, who as a child had to look after her alcoholic mother, who finds her father (played by Raymond J. Barry aka Senator Richard Matheson who protected Mulder in the first season of The X-Files) again only in adulthood, who’s wild sister, who has made the police her second family, creates problems every time she reappears in her life. Both women find that their job provides them with a reason to live. Even though in the beginning Scully’s work for the X-Files is essentially to ensure that Fox Mulder does not actually go through with any of his wild ideas, and she only

51 BLUEBOOK later develops a passion for her colleague’s As the series progress, there are some cause (later friend and then partner). developments in the relationships between In contrast Lily Rush is a woman on a mission Mulder and Scully; and Lilly finds her partner (including John Finch, a well-known name from in Eddie Saccardo, a cop who carries out often the X Files, playing Lt. Stillman here) to bring dangerous investigations, to Lilly and Scotty’s justice to the victims whose memory has not shippers’ disappointment. Their adventures yet vanished. She wants justice and not are obviously different, but Dana Scully and revenge, because in the Cold Case’s universe Lilly Rush are good examples of modern perpetrators are often the defeated. There are heroines, constricted between fragility and no absolute evils such as the Cigarette Smoking strength, with a mission to carry out, not Man, and despite they are being a central blindly, but with reason and emotion. Neither thread in the characters’ lives, a main story like of them will ever replace the other, but both are X-Files’ mythology is missing. As for the love valid and interesting studies due to their life of these two protagonists, there are attitude to work, their attitude to others, and commonalities and differences. Being two because they make truth and justice their women in a world of men, and two career pillars. x women at that, they seem to be destined to solitude. We only know that Scully had a boyfriend and that she had an affair with her teacher at Quantico. Lilly seems to be modern version of an old maid living with three cats, trying to heal old and current wounds.

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Cold Case stars Kathryn Morris (Minority Report, Mindhunters) as Lilly Rush, the lone female detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad who finds her calling when she's assigned to "cold cases" -- crimes that have never been solved. Previously, she used her instinctive understanding of the criminal mind on current murders. Now, she's interrogating witnesses whose lives and circumstances have since changed, making use of today's new science and finding fresh clues to solve cases that were previously unsolvable, all of which appeals to this smart, driven detective. She's also prepared for the consequences: that her work will open up old wounds and may lead suspects to commit new crimes. When she hits a dead-end, Lilly seeks advice from her respected mentor, Lt. John Stillman (John Finn, Catch Me If You Can). Also on the team are Det. Scotty Valens (Danny Pino, The Shield), Rush's confident and strong-willed partner; Det. Will Jeffries (Thom Barry, The Fast and the Furious), who's been around long enough to serve as Lilly's link to the past; and Det. Nick Vera (Jeremy Ratchford, Angel Eyes), a tough cop who's considered the go-to guy for getting a confession. Lilly makes it her business to ensure that no victim is ever forgotten. On the show's third season, former narcotics detective Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms, Wonderfalls, As If), a young and spunky girl, joins the team. Cold Case is created by Meredith Stiehm (ER, NYPD Blue). Executive producers -- in addition to Ms. Stiehm -- include such reigning entertainment industry names as Jerry Bruckheimer (The Amazing Race, CSI), Shaun Cassidy (Invasion, The Agency), and Jonathan Littman (The Amazing Race, Close to Home).old Case is an American police procedural television series which ran on CBS from September 28, 2003 to May 2, 2010. The series revolved around a fictionalized Philadelphia Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases. On May 18, 2010, CBS announced that the series had been canceled.

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group, and together throw themselves into a futureless relationship: the woman will sacrifice herself and the others to save him leaving us wondering if they really were vampires or serial killers. An interesting story, with the always effective combination between vampirism, death and sex, a good attempt to ampires have had a great significance in make vampires plausible in a real inquiring our imagination for a long time, before context, involving even satanic sects. the current trend of teenage bloodsucker, Somebody saw reminiscences between the Vand in a TV series which focuses on super- vampire congregation and Charles Manson’s natural inquiries such as X-Files, vampires were “family”, the author of one of the bloodiest a must-be though they weren’t Mulder and crimes. In addition, shippers didn’t like Mulder Scully’s favourite second leads. Two are the “cheating” on Scully, even if it was a moment of episodes about vampires, one belonging to the second season (Three) and one belonging to the fifth season (Bad Blood); they are poles apart in terms of rhythm, editing and story, with two opposite approaches to vampires, not canonic but with some points of interest. “Three” is one of the few episodes Scully doesn’t appear in because she is just been abducted (by aliens? By governors?) and that left Mulder in despair since he feels responsible for that. As a distraction, he accepts to inquire into a series of murders which seem to be committed by a vampire, complete with bloodless victims, thus getting to a psycho- pathic trio which created a sort of brotherhood between them. Fox Mulder gets in touch with Kristen, the weak link to the

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Writer: Chris Ruppenthal Glen Morgan,James Wong Director: David Nutter Original air date: November 4, 1994 Jokes: Club Tepes is named after Vlad the Impaler Tepes, who is the real-life inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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Writer: Vince Gilligan Director: Cliff Bole Original air date: February 22, 1998 Jokes: Sheriff Hartwell is named for Vince Gilligan's girlfriend, Holly Rice (her middle name is Hartwell).

despair and relationship was undoubtedly futureless. Out of curiosity, Kristen was played by Perrey Reeves, who was then Duchovny’s real fiancée. So different is “Bad Blood” as Mulder and Scully tell a story, like a flashback, about a case they investigated a case which ended with the death of a presumably vampire suspect, a pizzaboy who used his job to obtain his victims. They give a different point of view about the case, the narration structure resembling that of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, even if the result is not one of the best. “Bad Blood” is too grotesque to be an X-File, it’s not what we would call a masterpiece, but in the meantime it’s interesting how the agents‘ points of view are in conflict and it’s also interesting the desecrating treatment of the vampire theme, which is nice compared to today’s romantic vampires. Sure, Polanski made better, but he was Polanski. x

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illian Anderson has chosen since long time to devote her time to G theatre and high-quality movies: after having reached success with X-Files, she prefers now to devote herself to things she considers closer to her feelings and her interests as an artist. A path she had deci- ded to take while she was still playing Dana Scully in 2000, when she was enrolled for “The House Of Mirth” by Terence Davies. She shot the movie during her holiday trip to Scotland and Ireland after having been engaged by the director, who had never watched any X-Files episode but was amazed by her resemblance to the women’s portraits painted by the late 19th-century painter John Sargent and to the leading actresses of many romantic movies of yesteryear such as Greer Garson and Eleanor Parker. Inspired by the homonym novel by Edith Wharton, one of the most ruthless chronicler of the well-off American society customs, “The House Of Mirth” narrates

56 BLUEBOOK the rise and fall of Lily Bart, an heiress oppressed by debts and the necessity of finding a suitable husband in a society which doesn’t allow women to have a bad reputation (not only sexually) and earn their living, even if reduced to penury though belonging by birth to the aristocratic society. You can watch the fall, through a series of scenes with great settings, of this good-natured social climber, incapable of being wicked just like her rival Bertha Dorsett, but even incapable of sensing both the rapaciousness of others and the love of the only man that could save her.A ruthless moral story, masterfully conducted by the director who managed to make it The cast, which stars excellent second more exciting on the screen (a very rare leads, ranging from Laura Linney, perfect thing) rather than on book pages. in the villain role so diverging from her Costumes, musics and settings are simply usual roles, to the Jack Malone-to-be impeccable and contradicts the saying Anthony Lapaglia; from Dan Aykroyd to the according to which great money expenses unforgotten lost girl of “Once Upon A Time and computer graphic aids are required to In America” Elizabeth McGovern, even produce costume films: the budget wasn’t including Eric Stolz, is captained by a great indeed one of the biggest but everything Gillian, so at ease in the 19th-century was in the right place, and sometimes you tangles, which will get her in confusion just can even recall Visconti in Davies’ touch. like the X-Files conspiracies and aliens did. While watching the movie one never thinks: “Look at the 19th-century Scully!” but one will appreciate the great perfor- mance of a chameleonic actress which has found in theatre and cinema a better place to express herself and her talent.

57 BLUEBOOK “The House Of Mirth” is a movie not only to be rediscovered by the X-Files fans, but it is a real gem to which everybody contributed, Gillian primarily, and we are sorry it didn’t received any Oscar nomination. Gillian is not only Scully, but she’s a real actress, we’re happy for her devoting to theatre, but we still hope to see her taking parts in such movies: there are plenty of stories she could act in perfectly and we’re sorry for her refusal for the reporter Martha Gellhorn project (what about reconsidering the idea?) and for the closure of the civil rights activist Edna St. Vincent Millay project, because we could really appreciate a great actress in “The House Of Mirth” apart from our love for her as Scully. At that time she received indeed good recensions (“Scully is a good actress even without aliens, but also smarter comments) and approvals for a movie belonging to a niche genre, the so-called period movies, which could count on a faithful public. Looking forward to seeing Scully playing in period movies again, it could be nice to relive with her the drama of Lily Bart, a heroin suspended between a now unsuitable romanticism and a modernity that she doesn’t want to follow. x

58 BLUEBOOK Directed by Terence Davies Produced by Olivia Stewart Written by Edith Wharton (novel) Terence Davies (screenplay)

Starring: Gillian Anderson Laura Linney Dan Aykroyd Anthony LaPaglia Terry Kinney Elizabeth McGovern Eric Stoltz

Cinematography: Remi Adefarasin Editing by Michael Parker StudioGranada Productions Distributed by FilmFour (UK) Sony Pictures Classics (USA) Release date(s) 2000 Running time:140 min.

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The modern-day spy thriller stars Grey’s Anatomy’s Melissa George as an elite intelligence operative who becomes a target for assassination. From the mind of X Files producer Frank Spotnitz and directed by SJ Clarkson (Dexter, Heroes), Hunted will bow on the BBC and HBO, Cinemax this fall.

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