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Bandsohard t1_j1vp0xa wrote

The X-Files, but somehow without Chris Carter having more than a cursory influence.

There's still room for the sci-fi/conspiracy/horror government agency show. Fringe tried to do its own thing, and that would be a good reboot too, but I just prefer the more mysterious X-Files.

They can reboot with fresh agents, tie in something new like the UAP task force as a competing more bureaucratic agency, even redo plots or monsters from the original show. I'd watch. Just less Chris Carter revisionist changing his mind plot nonsense.

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StarChild413 t1_j20kybu wrote

but the problem I see (not saying that would make an X-Files reboot impossible, it's just it's something it'd have to overcome) is you'd have to overcome how politicized a lot of conspiracy-theorist stuff has become as if the big sci-fi conspiracy metaplot stayed at least the same as how the OG X-Files one was initially set up to be you could theoretically see (although not at the same time) both sides as right-wing depending on your point of view with the conspirators for obvious reasons (as making any of those characters non-white and/or non-male would be seen as unrealistic by some given their positions) and if the aforementioned fresh agents fit the same archetypes I could see whoever's the "new Mulder" accidentally becoming something of a hero within the irl QAnon community (if that movement isn't nipped in the bud before this is made) because as they'd be fighting the government and investigating conspiracies they'd be seen as fighting for what those people believe in

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