You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend

our disbelief.

I'm Eric Mulinsky.

There are two ways to go when extending a franchise.

Reboots or revivals.

I'm a sucker for picking up where we left off, even though it really doesn't work

all the time, because after so many years, very often actors can't relate to some old

character they played a long time ago, or, you know, the style of filmmaking and storytelling

has just changed and it's sort of weird to try to pick up where you left off.

But I just love the idea that these fictional characters have been going about their lives,

even when we're not watching them.

So I will tune in with cautious optimism when the X-Files resumes for a limited run in

January.

They police us and spy on us.

Tell us that makes us safer.

We've never been in more danger.

And do something about it, Mulver.

In case you never watched the X-Files, David DeCovny and Jillian Anderson played Fox

Mulver and Dana Scully, FBI agents that were assigned to paranormal cases.

He was the believer, she was the skeptic.

There were also on a quest to unravel a massive conspiracy between shady government officials

and mostly unseen aliens that were preparing the Earth for colonization.

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