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Martin Fulterman a.k.a. Mark Snow (August 26, 1946 – July 3, 2025). Gone, but not forgotten.

God rest his soul...

His works tend to include elliptical editing, documentary-style lighting, hand-held camera work, natural settings, and real filming locations over studio work, not to also mention, of course, use of traditional stunts and miniatures over C.G.I., which is mainly sparsely used (unless you count Inception and Interstellar), and that's a major factor in his preference to shoot with actual film instead of digital cameras and advocate for the use of higher-quality, large-format film stock. He also embeds narratives and cross-cutting between different time frames, and features experimental soundscapes and mathematically inspired imagery and concepts. All of this, combined with his exploration of such existential and epistemological themes and motifs as subjective experience, materialism, distortion of memory, Human morality, the nature of time, causality, and the construction of personal identity with emotionally disturbed, obsessive, and morally ambiguous characters facing the fears and anxieties of loneliness, guilt, jealousy, and greed, making his seemingly amateur filmmaking style almost instantly recognizable. I just thought I'd share this curiosity of mine that just popped into my mind with all of you.

The X-Files: Albuquerque isn't moving forward after all. Guess there just wasn't enough interested invested into it.

... it's probably safe to assume that The X-Files comics from both Topps Comics and WildStorm Comics, the comics The X-Files: Season 10, The X-Files: Zero Year, The X-Files X-Mas Special 2014, The X-Files: Season 11, The X-Files: Conspiracy, Millennium, and The Lone Gunmen, and the crossover comic series The X-Files/30 Days of Night, as well as the computer and video games The X-Files: Unrestricted Access, The X-Files Game, The X-Files: Resist or Serve, and The X-Files: Deep State, and The Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files" (which parodied Mulder and Scully) are set in an alternative reality. Since we never saw or heard from Special Agent Craig Willmore again after The X-Files Game, and given that Special Agents Winter and Dale from The X-Files: Deep State weren't involved in the new seasons and their cases weren't at all referenced, I'd say that it's safe to assume so. Plus, the Season 10 and Season 11 comics have totally different events and cases than the actual seasons did.

It's been some time since it was announced, and last I for one checked, not much has been said about it since then, so I'm just wondering if anyone's heard anything new about it, whether it be anything official or if they're just rumors. Like, who the main characters will be, who will voice them, who'll compose the music (hopefully Mark Snow and/or Jeff Charbonneau will come back), and the kinds of storylines they'll explore (whether it'll be firmly in either the alien government conspiracy story arc or "Monster-of-the-Week" episodes, or if it'll alternate between the two like the original). It'd be great to hear about! And remember: the Truth is Out There....

Many of us X-Philes have often wondered what become of John Doggett after he was last seen with Agent Monica Reyes fleeing the New Mexico Desert at the end of "The Truth", the original series finale and finale of season 9. Well, one reason was revealed in a bonus feature included on the home media release of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which features X-Files cases with scenarios involving unexplained phenomena similar to that detailed in the film, along with A.S.A.C. Dakota Whitney's analyses of them and the case's suspects. In it, she notes that since the X-Files were closed at the time, Doggett and Reyes were reassigned to engage in high-priority counter-terrorism assignments. As such, it can be assumed that Reyes' departure from the F.B.I. to infiltrate the Smoking Man's one-man conspiracy really took place right around those high-priority assignments, and that Doggett is still working on those cases.

What do you fellow X-Philes think it would be titled? I for one am inclined to think that it would be called The X-Files: The Alien Invasion, but I'm curious to read what you all think a good title for it would be.