“Endgames” is the three-issue finale of the IDW comics Season 11 — actually the finale of the entire story that Joe Harris started in June 2013 with Season 10 #1 that spanned 33 issues + 2 Christmas specials. The end of a nearly-three-year ride! It is also the announcement of the start of a new ride, since a new comics series begins very soon, set in the continuity of the live revival that happened in the meantime. Let us first take a look at the story proposed in this finale, before looking at the larger picture.
@[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records] will be reissuing @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]’s 4 CD @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] Volume 1 (2000 copies) – the first edition has been long sold out since its release in 2011. On Feb-9 is your chance!
MULDER AND SCULLY UNCOVER A SHOCKING TRUTH WITH GLOBAL RAMIFICATIONS
The investigations that Mulder and Scully previously began with conspiracy theorist and web-TV show host Tad O’Malley (guest star Joel McHale) seem to have awakened powerful enemies. A widespread panic begins as people all over the country suddenly start falling gravely ill, and Scully must look within to try and find a cure. Meanwhile, Mulder confronts the man whom he believes to be behind it all, but another figure from Mulder and Scully’s past may prove to be the key to their salvation in the all-new “My Struggle II” Season Finale episode of THE X-FILES airing Monday, Feb. 22
#TheXFiles: science, conspiracy theories and populism – the point of view of the sociologist, a very interesting analysis (with an EatTheCorn reference!) – in Italian…
@[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]’s The X-Files Volume 1 reissue by @[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records] – now is your chance! LIMITED EDITION OF 2000 UNITS
And mark my words, Volume 3 is coming VERY SOON!
10X2: Founder’s Mutation — UPDATED with photos, welcome UK philes! Also, what may be going on in the background here may underlay future mytharc developments: the creation of a new race to do what? Be a slave hybrid race to future alien colonists, or a mutated race of humans immune to alien viruses?
“It seems clear, today, that there won’t be a third film. Fox isn’t interested. Why not, on the other hand, and depending on the success of these new episodes, engage into another mini-season?” – Gillian Anderson (re-translated from French) #TheXFiles#XF3
Back Gallery Project owner Monica Reyes (yes, that’s who the character is named after) presents #TheXFiles exhibit in Vancouver, “all the original scripts, props and objects that are included in this exhibition were used during the last summer’s production in Vancouver. The material comes directly from director, producer and writer Chris Carter”.
Art gallery website: http://www.backgalleryproject.com/
#TheXFiles finale preparation: 7 things Carter says influenced him for the revival. 2 things haven’t surfaced yet:
Mycelium Running: The Paul Stamets book, subtitled “How Mushrooms Can Save the World,” looks at how certain fungi could be bred to decompose toxic waste, stop viruses and protect humans from nerve gas.
Crispr-Cas9: This new genetic technique enables DNA to be easily edited. Those tweaks would then be inherited by the person’s offspring, making permanent changes to the human gene pool and potentially altering the nature of humans. In December, a group of scientists called for a moratorium on proceeding with such changes.
–> Both of these could come into play in how we might all have alien DNA activated in ourselves, in how the apocalyptic plague is released, and in how a cure against it might be found…
“X-Philes: They Wanted To Believe”: an all-new 90min documentary on X-Files fandom, from the 1990s to today, including certain interviews with cast! [in French]
#TheXFiles finale: “My Struggle II” reviewed: a hard sell, to say the least! A rush to the credits, likely inconsistencies abound. But a story worthy of a feature film, and surely the world of The X-Files will never be the same.
A summary of possibilities long discussed by fans for a return of Frank Black! The IDW Joe Harris comics went the “MM: Apocalypse” way (@[109148669162593:274:Millennium Apocalypse Season Two\: The Dark Inside You]). However, probabilities that this will happen are wearing thinner and thinner every year.
Interview with James Wong by XF Lexicon – could this be an EatTheCorn reference? If so, very humbled and *cool*!
“surprisingly, or not surprisingly, there’s a whole website devoted to the mythology of The X-Files. So, knowing that I wanted to deal with William, the baby, for me that was a very emotional , interesting connection that they have that hasn’t been dealt with. So, knowing that, I went onto a website where a lot of fans have written about things that have happened, about the mythology, which episode that occurred, and all of that. So, I went through that and had a basic understanding of what’s happening. That’s how I approached it.”
Confirmed: coming Summer 2016: Mark Snow’s 4-CD #TheXFiles Volume 3 by La La Land Records!
Mar 30, 2016 15:22
Out today: @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] Season 11 #8, “Endgames, Part 3”, the last issue of @[8473603278:274:IDW Publishing]/Joe Harris’s Season 10/11 series — the culmination of 35 issues and a nearly 3-year journey! It’s been a great ride since June 2013. EatTheCorn Lowdown coming soon…
This is the final of the six episodes of this revival. In all the promotion by FOX, it was billed as the “season finale”, implying there will be more even if negotiations have not started. Accordingly, the episode ends with a huge cliffhanger: Carter had written this cliffhanger into the story months ago, gambling it all in hopes that the audience would be there and that more episodes will be made — after all, if FOX was interested to revive the show after all these years, why not more than once? So far, ratings are such that a season 11 seems only to be a matter of time.
In that context, the episode’s tagline, “This Is The End“, is ironic! It also introduces us to what presents itself as the most important episode of The X-Files mythology, but ends up being the most frustrating.
This episode was written and directed by Chris Carter. And this episode could only have been spawned from Carter’s mind. “Babylon” is “Fight Club” mixed with “Improbable” mixed with “The After” mixed with post-9/11 political commentary! It also introduces two new characters which will be, for lack of a better word, recurring…(at least) in the one last episode that is left out of this 6-episode revival.
“How to reconcile the two? The extremes of our nature.”
This episode was written and directed by Glen Morgan, who is also the executive producer of the entire “season 10” alongside creator Chris Carter. Glen, the brother of last week’s Darin, was of course the writing partner of Jim Wong, of the previous week, in three seasons of The X-Files and two seasons of Millennium. This is the first time Glen directs for The X-Files — actually his only other directing credits were two remakes of 1970s horror movies that Glen and Jim did, Willard and Black Christmas.
This episode is written and directed by Darin Morgan. With only four-and-a-half episodes (4 + 3X22: Quagmire) written previously but all of them in people’s “best of” lists, he is known for how his comic episodes expanded what the show could be and made fun of its codes and characters while managing to present a good X-file investigation.
