Ecclesiastes 3King James Version (KJV)
3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
I'm not religious but this sums up my feelings regarding this show (and others) in the abstract. TV shows have a life, they're born, they grow, then they die. We need to stop trying to keep them alive forever. The more we stretch the credulity of the premises the more diluted and lame they become.
X Files should have been put to rest years ago. Same with Star Trek. Same with Stargate. Put this shit to bed and give us something completely new.
Actually, fans actually want a bit of Nostalgia and there is a bit of familiarity when I am watching something.
I for one would take the good old days anyday when life was simpler, when you didn't need to worry about your next paycheck and that the world was a little more compassionate and wasn't so greedy and at the sametime so fucked up about money when there are easy ways of making money.
We consumers are also to blame, because we have constantly set higher standards of entertainment, and hollywood did at one stage deliver good, quality content and it still does but it's gotten so competitive that it will probably drive someone to insanity. I as a fan can't keep up with all the shit hollywood puts out. It's just not possible to consume all that in a short amount of time.
You also can't blame hollywood for not bringing out a new IP. It's fucking expensive, tedious and draining putting out new original content on TV. A movie these days costs a quarter a billion dollars to put out because of the sheer man/women power required. It's insane that no one ends up in a mental institute when you consider the amount of hours that goes into making a tv show or a movie. This is also a gamble that hollywood is counting on. They are fighting a war to stay relevant and alive too you know? They have people that they own money to.
This is one of the reasons why actors want more money. It's because they work 12-15 hour days per day for the next 6 to 12 months of filming, reshooting, rehearsing, makup, dressing up. These people are humans too and I think we are becoming a little insane of our expectations.
When they do bring out original content, it's either hated by fans or liked by fans. We will either complain that it sucks or it isn't like it used to be. Majority of the time, it's extremely hard to build a fanbase because it can take years to build it or it can flop hard.
X-files has been about the only reboot that hasn't fallen off rails and gone really fucked up.