{"id":11616,"date":"2016-01-12T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2016-01-12T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:20:41","slug":"foxs-x-files-revival-has-controversial-new-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/12\/foxs-x-files-revival-has-controversial-new-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox’s ‘X-Files’ revival has controversial new theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox\u2019s upcoming and eagerly awaited revival of The X-Files is updating its conspiracy theories \u2014 only this time, the sci-fi series might cause more controversy than when the show told tales of government-aided UFO cover-ups during its initial 1990s run.<\/p>\n

In the first return episode screened for reporters (trailer below), paranormal investigators Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) team up with a charming web-series host named Tad O\u2019Malley (played by the usually comedic Joel McHale, here in a dramatic role). The character, loosely based on conservative online personalities Alex Jones and Glenn Beck, bashes the \u201cliberal media\u201d in the episode; at one point, Mulder compares O\u2019Malley to Fox News host Bill O\u2019Reilly (\u201cWhat Bill O\u2019Reilly knows about the truth can fill an eyedropper,\u201d O\u2019Malley retorts).<\/p>\n

Now we don\u2019t want to reveal too much about the episode, or how the conspiracy relates to the show\u2019s existing labyrinthine mythology. What we will report \u2013 and stop reading if you don\u2019t want to know anything about the first hour \u2013 is that O\u2019Malley eventually sways Mulder and Scully to adopt a new conspiracy that lays a framework for the six-episode revival. The theory involves global warming, war in the Middle East, NSA spying, chem-trails (here called \u201caerial contaminants\u201d), police militarization, supposed FEMA prison camps, and the eventual military \u201ctakeover of America\u201d by a UN-like group of \u201cmultinational elites.\u201d The conspiracy theory plays a bit like Oliver Stone during his JFK fever pitch \u2014 only if his source material was Infowars instead of UFO lore.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a CitizenFour world now,\u201d says creator Chris Carter, referring to the documentary on NSA leaker Edward Snowden. \u201cWe\u2019ve given up certain rights and freedoms because we want the government to protect us after 9\/11. We see the admitted spying by the government. These are not things we\u2019re making up and it informs everything Mulder and Scully and doing are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter describes himself as a \u201cmostly interested observer\u201d in the conspiracy world, and notes he researched the new show by combing through conspiracy websites and attending a conspiracy convention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve kept my finger to the wind and trying to figure out what\u2019s relevant and possible credible,\u201d Carter says. \u201cPeople know the show deals with science and fact and also deals with far-flung theories about not only the supernatural but government conspiracies. It throws out as many questions as it does answers. And I have to say what it\u2019s done for me and the writers it has given us a whole new open field which to run. It\u2019s given the show an interesting new life and context that it might not have had in 2002.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.N. takeover threat, however, is something Carter suggests is credible. \u201cThe idea of a New World Order is relevant,\u201d Carter says. When we suggest the show is embracing \u201cright-wing\u201d theories, Carter counters, \u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily. I don\u2019t see Alex Jones as right-wing, I see him as libertarian \u2026 [and O\u2019Malley is] a character who casts everything in doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most eyebrow-raising moment in the premiere is when O\u2019Malley brings the 9\/11 terrorist attacks into his conspiracy framework. \u201c9\/11 was a false flag operation,\u201d O\u2019Malley declares on his Truth Squad with Tad O\u2019Malley show, echoing on Infowars theory. \u201cIt\u2019s all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell.\u201d The clip is presented early in the episode. Later, Mulder and Scully embrace O\u2019Malley\u2019s overall position, though the 9\/11 element isn\u2019t referenced.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo here\u2019s the thing,\u201d Carter says when we asked about the \u201cfalse flag\u201d line. \u201cChris Carter doesn\u2019t believe that. Chris Carter is very open minded about these things. But the character O\u2019Malley believes it. And he convinces Mulder to \u2013 not necessarily believe that \u2013 but to believe many other things he\u2019s exposing. I don\u2019t think Mulder and Scully adopt any political position so much as a new approach in their search for the truth. While I think their politics are balanced, I think the turn they take is toward a more heretical political position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: <\/span>Fox’s ‘X-Files’ revival has controversial new theories | EW.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox\u2019s upcoming and eagerly awaited revival of The X-Files is updating its conspiracy theories \u2014 only this time, the sci-fi series might cause more controversy than when the show told tales of government-aided UFO cover-ups during its initial 1990s run. In the first return episode screened for reporters (trailer below), paranormal investigators Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) team up with a charming web-series host named Tad O\u2019Malley (played by the usually comedic Joel McHale, here in a dramatic role). The character, loosely based on conservative online personalities Alex Jones and Glenn Beck, bashes the \u201cliberal media\u201d in the episode; at one point, Mulder compares O\u2019Malley to Fox News host Bill O\u2019Reilly (\u201cWhat Bill O\u2019Reilly knows about the truth can fill an eyedropper,\u201d O\u2019Malley retorts). Now we don\u2019t want to reveal too much about the episode, or how the conspiracy relates to the show\u2019s existing labyrinthine mythology. What we will report \u2013 and stop reading if you don\u2019t want to know anything about the first hour \u2013 is that O\u2019Malley eventually sways Mulder and Scully to adopt a new conspiracy that lays a framework for the six-episode revival. The theory involves global warming, war in the Middle East, NSA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1779,1960,1968,1969],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-files","tag-the-x-files","tag-x-files","tag-xfiles","tag-xfilesrevival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}