Duchovny: ‘X-Files’ revival ‘just felt right’

“They like his sense of humor, they love the relationship between him and Scully”, Duchovny said.

“It’s always good to find a reason”, replies Fox Mulder, the truth-seeker played by David Duchovny.

Ed Araquel/FOX Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in “The X-Files”. The landmark series returns to Fox for six episodes beginning January 24, almost 14 years after the show was last on TV.

And while Anderson couldn’t be there on Saturday, she sent fans a video message from Jodhpur, India, where she is filming Viceroy’s House. As for the rest of the truth, it’s out there and coming our way January 24, 2016.

The show kicks off with a Roswell-esque framing device, as a mysterious spacecraft lands in the desert circa 1947.

In a report by Mashable, executive producer Chris Carter is taking flak for his move to split Mulder and Scully in the upcoming revival of the “The X-Files”.

The two different aren’t simultaneously romantically or properly. Mulder may have met his match in McHales’ Tad O’Malley, a conservative webshow host who may or may not believe everything he says.

Through O’Malley, Mulder and Scully are introduced to Sveta (Annet Mahendru), a woman who claims to have suffered alien abductions since childhood and had multiple unborn babies taken from her in the process. Skinner soon turns up too, in a tense scene with Mulder that gets in a good ceiling-pencil joke while Mulder tramples – literally – on an “I Want to Believe” poster. Online for more about The X-Files.

The episode begins with a lengthy narration by Mulder (David Duchovny), highlighting the talking points of the first nine seasons. Even Presidents Obama and Bush make archival appearances, “Homeland” credits-style. It made a 2016 X-Files feel like an honest continuation rather than a cynical cash grab. Pileggi responded, without hesitation, “Oh, I’m a believer”.

Where exactly it will go will be revealed in the follow-up finale episode. “Little did I know he was an X-Files fan”, says the showrunner. “I think we knew we needed to make a statement”.

Nanjiani, who appears in an episode of the new season, approves.

And both the storylines and the context feel fresh and contemporary, allusions to Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal perfectly chiming with the widespread paranoia now peaking across the US.

Nearby, Max Cernigliaro and his mother Nicole offered a look at the other end of the spectrum. Before it ended the show earned 16 Emmy Awards, five Golden Globes and a Peabody Award. “Even if we died in an explosion, we could always come back”. “It’s just so exciting to be able to watch it on television”, he said. Otherwise, most of the episode – which could’ve passed for fan fiction if not for the main cast’s presence and big budget production moments – passed by without much stirring, laughter, cries or gasps.

So many years, in fact, that Vince Gilligan has gone, started and completed a phenom of “X-Files”-level proportions in the interim with “Breaking Bad”.

Fans can expect to hear more about William, Mulder and Scully’s child, whom Scully gave up for adoption late in the series. Whether or not you agree with the things Carter’s chosen to pursue is going to be a matter of personal taste.

The iconic series screened on Fox from 1993 – 2002, and spawned two movies Fight The Future in 1998 and I Want To Believe in 2008.

After all, big is what plays, as evidenced by the Comic-Con attendees going nuts at the spectacle and insider tips Saturday.

Carter said the show is back because of Duchovny. There’s also alien action unlike anything fans of the show have seen before. “But when it became six, there’s just no fair way for me to be absent that much”.

“We have a group memory when we come together”, he said.