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.
and this time Gillian Anderson is paid the same as David Duchovny from the very beginning
I hear you but nah. We have more than enough “realistic” and “gritty” shows. The whimsy of X-files was what made it tick. Taking that away would just make it boring which is the worst possible outcome for such a show.
We don’t have nearly enough shows that promote healthy skepticism and the scientific method though.
It is revealed in passing that Scully used to go by Velma Dinkley.
Every once and a while a few unexplainable things add up over a season, just to end with Scully pulling the face off an alien in the finale to reveal a stoned teenager and a dog are pranking Mulder…