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Can't decide whether this is a good idea, or a terrible one. Interesting link I found while googling for more info: http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/201

by to3m 12y ago

Can't decide whether this is a good idea, or a terrible one. Interesting link I found while googling for more info: http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2015/03/24/x-files-reboot/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2015/03/24/x-files-r...

conover 12y ago
Consumers are themselves the product as usual.
fit2rule 12y ago
I question the motive for this .. I believe it'll be a social-engineering effort (propaganda) more than anything. I look forward to seeing what subjects get addressed in the new series, and what relation it will have to contemporary thinking on things like Snowden/NSA, global warming, etc. Lets see if, yet again, people are snookered into thinking what everyone else thinks, just because its popular on TV ..
- to3m 12y ago
  Good point about the potential sources for material. I hadn't thought of it from that angle. I hope the writers don't get too distracted, though, and work events into the X Files world, rather than vice versa. (No shortage of ways to spin things, but if they lack confidence, they might try to update the story line to keep it "relevant".) As for the propaganda aspect - well, of course, trust no-one :D But since I lived from the UK, and watched the X Files as a teenager, that would probably have passed me by. Older viewers in the US might have had a more sophisticated take on it.
  - fit2rule 12y ago
    I was old enough when X-Files hit the scene to be highly dubious of it as a means of propaganda'izing issues that I thought were being trivialized - secret government programs, psychopharmaceutical experiments, cover-ups, etc. I was also not at all trusting of Fox as a media group, because in the early days of its existence it was pretty clear that it was a propaganda front for the government.
- krapp 12y ago
  Not impossible, but what would it propagandize? The whole premise of the X-Files is that every government conspiracy you can think of is either real, or an elaborate smokescreen to cover up an even bigger conspiracy. I don't doubt at all that they'll have some mention of Snowden or global surveillance, but it would be absurd of them not to, since it is the paranoia du jour, but they're not going to come back and start doing pro establishment storylines.

by to3m 12y ago

conover 12y ago

Consumers are themselves the product as usual.

fit2rule 12y ago

I question the motive for this .. I believe it'll be a social-engineering effort (propaganda) more than anything. I look forward to seeing what subjects get addressed in the new series, and what relation it will have to contemporary thinking on things like Snowden/NSA, global warming, etc. Lets see if, yet again, people are snookered into thinking what everyone else thinks, just because its popular on TV ..

to3m 12y ago
Good point about the potential sources for material. I hadn't thought of it from that angle. I hope the writers don't get too distracted, though, and work events into the X Files world, rather than vice versa. (No shortage of ways to spin things, but if they lack confidence, they might try to update the story line to keep it "relevant".) As for the propaganda aspect - well, of course, trust no-one :D But since I lived from the UK, and watched the X Files as a teenager, that would probably have passed me by. Older viewers in the US might have had a more sophisticated take on it.
- fit2rule 12y ago
  I was old enough when X-Files hit the scene to be highly dubious of it as a means of propaganda'izing issues that I thought were being trivialized - secret government programs, psychopharmaceutical experiments, cover-ups, etc. I was also not at all trusting of Fox as a media group, because in the early days of its existence it was pretty clear that it was a propaganda front for the government.
krapp 12y ago
Not impossible, but what would it propagandize? The whole premise of the X-Files is that every government conspiracy you can think of is either real, or an elaborate smokescreen to cover up an even bigger conspiracy. I don't doubt at all that they'll have some mention of Snowden or global surveillance, but it would be absurd of them not to, since it is the paranoia du jour, but they're not going to come back and start doing pro establishment storylines.