the problem with the latter was that there was never any real resolution. normally they do a trope like villain escalation where they defeat one villain to only find out he was just a middle manager. they just waffled on that entire story arc and then got into alien stuff in one of the movies, but that was still pretty weak.

then the next movie was about a fucking pedophile so you know there's no way that's happening unless they project the character basically as trump or desantis and it has nothing to do with x-files.