X Files Reboot inbound and some hopeful musings on it

According to this link we have an X Files reboot coming.  I will reserve judgement until an actual trailer drops.  But being the eternal optimist I am I will gladly give them the benefit of the doubt.  Like Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey I consider this a kind of dare on behalf of the filmmakers.  Ryan Coogler's filmography is fine for the genre and these days jumping between film and TV projects is not as odd as it was back in the 90s when the original was in production.

It's interesting to me that they are going for pilot first as that is rarely done now.  The original XFiles pilot still holds up and sort of stands on its own.  For me the original show still holds up very well but I still think an opportunity was lost when they didn't transition to feature films after the 1998 film that finally answered the alien conspiracy question.  I think they should have continued with movies after that.  As such, on a rewatch I say stick with the first five seasons, watch the 1998 film and then the 2008 film and stop.  I am in the minority with this opinion.  I only saw bits and pieces of the Xfiles with seasons 6 thru 9 and I don't remember seeing any of the limited runs of 10 and 11.  

(As an aside, I have this theory about the perfect length for TV shows.  5 seasons which results in about 100 episodes.  You reach 100 shows and you can air forever 5 days a week in syndicated programming and take in the ad revenue which is a license to print money.  Obviously this no longer works with Internet and streaming)

I don't know how well an overarching conspiracy plot would work today.  Shows like Burn Notice or Lost overstay their welcome when they just keep piling on twists and turns and the original XFiles did this too.  Coogler and his team would have thought of that.  The pairing of skeptic and believer is always a solid play and goes back at least as far as Holmes and Watson.  Writing and casting will be key here and until we know the second lead none of this matters.