Mulder and Scully from X Files are now black. Not kidding
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Don’t worry, any agent who gives them shit for working the X-files or gets offed by the monster of the week WILL be white.
The grand alien conspiracy will now be secret Hitler white supremacy government to kill all POCs and blame aliens
I don’t think they’re that creative. The ultimate bad guy WILL be a thinly-veiled Trump analog. If not Trump himself.
Once I got my hands on the whole X-Files series up to season 9, the original end of the series before their lazy restart years later, the first episode I really noticed an explicit real-life reference to politics was S06E03, Triangle, where Mulder gets dropped back onto a ship in WW2 and all the main characters are there like Dept. Dir. Skinner, Cancer Man, etc. Mulder makes a joking aside about the Monica Lewinski scandal, and my first thought was "uh-oh."
The moment that writers of a story start directly talking about the real world, when their stories have zero reason to reference current events, the whole thing is fucked. X-Files made it YEARS before I noticed something so direct outside of culture references (tell me if I did miss something else), and there's no way in hell this show makes it past episode 1 before it starts making jabs.
The main characters being non-Whites is the grotesque scab covering the rotten pus beneath.