Frank-Spotnitz

THANK YOU. And I think a little piece of my heart as well as Vince Gilligan's and John Shiban's was broken when that show got cancelled and will always stay broken, because we all loved that show so much.

It was so sweet, and such a breath of fresh air and kindness, after the dark paranoid world of the X-files we'd been living in for so many years.

We cracked ourselves up working on it. But I think the reason the show struggled was because it came along SO late in the run of the X-files, and looking back on it, network television was in transition, and nobody realized it at the time. I think, looking back on it, it shouldn't have been canceled, it actually did very well, but we tried to get the right balance of comedy and drama in early episodes, and I think we all felt that by the end, we really were where we wanted to be.

Those last few episodes, especially the final episode, which was called All About Yves, really defined what the show should be. And if we continued into season 2, we would've had Michael McKean (he was going to be a series regular in season 2) - and now that Vince has cast him in BETTER CALL SAUL, it's spiritual revenge! We got him! At least Vince finally got him, because we loved him.

Well, it really was the early days of the world we now live in - the digital world, and how digital technology is used for surveillance, but unlike the X-files, the bad guys in THE LONE GUNMEN were big corporations that were subverting democracy, to make money. And I think - that was 2001, we made that show. And I think we were really spot-on. And that's the world we live in now.

Thank you - if you like it, please go to Amazon.com and vote for the show. The sooner, the better.

And I can say that all those fans who waited for the show to come back are the reason why I think it will come back.

And I would like to especially single out everybody at XFilesNews.com, who have worked so hard and so tirelessly for the past 7 years plus to make this a reality. They were heard and I think they not only made us proud (everyone associated with the X-files) of our fans, they took their enthusiasm and really cleverly used it to benefit charities, and do good in the world.

So it's a very happy story. And it's going to have a happy ending. And that's what I can say, beyond Don't give up.

Hahaha!

A prominent nose?! What could you mean by that?

I can't answer that question. Except to say... well, I don't think you really want me to answer that question. I think part of the fun of this is being surprised and seeing what is going to happen. But what I can say is that obviously we have never forgotten about William, and he's an important part of the mythology, so rest assured we have our own answers to these questions.

Wow, that's very nice. I have been ready for the X-files revival for 7 years now. I'm beyond ready for the X-files revival. And always have time for it.

Wow, interesting question.

Well, thank you, I appreciate the compliments. And I don't consider myself a paranoid person. But my mind does go there, very easily, hahaha!

I don't know why that is. But it does.

And I think the world we live in is so vast, and complicated, and we are all exposed to so much information, every single day, that we sense that we don't... understand, or see, all the connections between things. And so I think it's natural that we feel paranoid, and that we hunger for stories that would connect the dots that we can't see.

I think the danger is not so much in entertainment, but on the internet, when you see people connecting dots in a really reckless, or malicious way. And I think that happens all too often.

And I would like to think that the stories I tell, which are fiction, are true, even though they are made up. Which is to say I'm trying to describe ideas, and characters, that really do exist in life. Whereas a lot of the conspiracy theories I see on the internet are mean-spirited, and dangerous.

All my conspiracy theories - there are bad guys, for sure. But you recognize them, hopefully, as people who have their reasons, and they are believable people, hopefully.

In MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, if it goes to series, you're going to meet some of the worst bad guys you've ever seen. These are Nazi war criminals. But if I do my job correctly, they will seem like believable and complex human beings doing monstrous things. And my problem with a lot of conspiracy theories that I see on the internet is that they depend on believing in unbelievable characters - that is to say, that people would act in ways that I would find it impossible to believe they would.