Also, knowing that Gillian Anderson wasn't interested in returning for a Season 12, his recent comments will be met with confused reactions.
“Skinner, Mulder, Scully, and William’s stories are still unresolved. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to do that,” Carter shared. “Being that Gillian has decided to move on with her career, we certainly couldn’t do Mulder and Scully again. But that’s not to say there isn’t another way to do the X-Files. And so right now I think the future is unwritten.”
In Season 11, audiences discovered that William, who we believed to be Scully and Mulder's son, was the result of the Cigarette-Smoking Man drugging Scully and impregnating her. Fans weren't the only ones disappointed with these reveals, as even Anderson herself cryptically expressed that she empathized with those disappointed fans. Carter, however, claimed that the people disappointed with those reveals were at least slightly out of touch with the overall intentions of the series.
“There were some objections to the [Cigarette-Smoking Man] and his connections to William,” Carter admitted. “I can tell you that people who objected never asked me the right questions in the end.”
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