That would turn it into Scooby Doo. In the end it always turns out to be done by some greedy prick trying to cover things up with mysticism.
My first thought
I just read a book that somewhat follows this kind of premise: A person believes in ghosts, and all these things happen, and, as the reader, I’m totally on board with it being ghosts. Then a new character enters, and gives logical explanations for everything, and the main character, and me, the reader, realize that, oh damn, it’s not ghosts at all. Except then it turns out it WAS ghosts, and the shit hits the fan.
It was a really fun read.
What’s the book called?
I too am curious, even though now it sounds like the premise has been spoiled.
Yea, I didn’t know how to write about it without spoiling it 😩
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The September House
Partly what made the TV series ‘Evil’ so good was that it was horror from a skeptical perspective.
It’s called Scooby Doo
Reverse Scooby doo
You mean X-Files is, right?
Belief*
Thinking about that now, it’s one of the most long-running and popular media-things concerning ‘deep state’ fears before 2016. And while The X-Files ended, and for someone like me ended too late, one that toppled it is still running around on coke and hamberders having the most unpenetrateable fanbase ever. Why it’s not Firefly but Taco having a second season?
“Swamp gas”
I would love this except the twist would be everything he gave up believing in turns out to be true
Every episode, Scully is “right”, but they show the comedic rush of the Illuminati-like group to patch up the cover-up as they’re being investigated.
This idea but with MAGA instead of Mulder.
Haha, but the show sounds like a fun twist, but probably only good for 2-3 seasons. It’d get really hard to keep interest in a show like that for very long. I.e. the good place ending itself after 4 was perfect.
Perhaps more of a Miniseries. And the thing driving the plot would be not just the investigations but Mulders Struggle to rethink everything he belived in.
That’d work, 8-12 episodes of him on the rollercoaster, maybe even seeking therapy in the end. Scully babying him less and less as she gets more sick of his bullshit and stops pulling punches.
Plottwist in the finale: It turns out there really was a conspiracy after all. The alien Invasion happens unopposed while Scully is just annoyed and Mulder sits at home depressed and confused.
Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.
It had “new strange” style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond understanding, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: “it’s all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand.” The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.
That said, there’s no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there’s gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.
That sounds fun.
For the first sentence or two, I thought you were talking about the unrelated book.
Thank you for the new media!
Loses*
And belief*
Nah, go for the darker more realistic version. Mulder just goes further down the rabbit hole, ends up going full Qanon, and ends up being killed trying to storm the capital building.
Great 1st season arc. I would add, not killed. Arrested then pardoned, but not before befriending some right wing militia that swears they captured Bigfoot and are breeding and training him to make super soldiers.
NO. Do NOT meddle with my X-Files just because you want to satisfy some selfish bullshit. Good DAY, sir.
I said good DAY
That’s literally what happened in the reboot that came out a few years ago…
and this time Gillian Anderson is paid the same as David Duchovny from the very beginning
