Gish joins X-Files Cast

By Azad January 3, 2001 3:29 PM

Annabeth Gish will join the cast of The X-Files as a new FBI agent in a three-episode arc this season, with an option to return in the fall as a regular, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gish will play an as-yet-unnamed character in the FBI's New Orleans office, where she has been working with reports of satanic cults.

Gish's character has a personal history with Robert Patrick's character, Agent John Doggett, and both characters will be teaming up. Gish's first episode will air Feb. 25, when she joins the hunt for the missing Agent Fox Mulder, played by David Duchovny (duh), who makes yet another small appearance for the season.

If the show returns for a ninth season, Gish will become a regular, but she will not be replacing anybody, said X-Files creator Chris. "It seems to me that we have benefited from the addition of Robert Patrick to the cast, and we're hoping that we can expand the cast even further and as successfully with Annabeth," he said.

Patrick and co-star Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) are contracted for the ninth season of the show. Carter is in preliminary talks about coming back next season. Duchovny's X-Files future however, is still not clear.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 4, 2001 10:24 AM

I think that Gish would just add more mystery and intrigue to this series. However, Duchovny should NOT even be allowed to come back ever again! He is the one responsible for moving the WHOLE CAST down to Hollywood to be closer to his wife, and then once he has put Canadians out of work,
he decides that he doesn't want to be in the series anymore! Duchovny, should have done some serious soul searching, before he said he won't do the series unless I get my way and move closer to my wife!!!!! Kill his character off, you've done it before with other characters who were much better, so do it to Duchovny!!!!!!

A Fan Of The Series

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 4, 2001 3:39 PM

I'll drink to that. 

-another fan

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 4, 2001 11:27 PM

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Robert Patrick -- he's a gifted actor, but without David Duchovny The X Files has lost the sense of humor it so perfectly cultivated in previous seasons. He and the amazing Gillian Anderson had a unique onscreen chemistry that was tremendously endearing and sympathetic. That heart is now gone. Patrick's terrific, but the show is now more routine and pedestrian. Duchovny's dialogue was an effective counterpoint to the dreary lapses into imitative sci-fi. The truly original part of The X Files was always Skully and Mulder's relationship. No doubt Anderson is brilliant, but Duchovny is pitch perfect, bringing a 3-dimensional presence to the character. I miss Mulder's wry take on life. 

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 5, 2001 9:34 AM

I agree, David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson made X-Files more than just another sci-fci show. Not only did you tune in to see where they would take you, but you tune in to see how these two character's would do it. A true X-Files fan would smile (or laugh) at little things Scully or Mulder would say or do to each other. The true heart of the show is missing. Chris Carter needs to end the show gracefully and take his bows for what it was.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 5, 2001 8:25 PM

Mulder and Skully ARE The X Files. Robert Patrick is wonderful but, the magic is missing without Duchovney. Skully's character is now doing things she wouldn't do. Hello, Chris Carter? Too busy writing those books for Bantam?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 5, 2001 11:45 PM

hmmm...DD had that...he had totally lost it last season...he's bored with it, and there's no going back now...it was great while it lasted...but he just lost whatever chemistry and cutting one-liners as it got on into the 5th and 6th seasons...

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 6, 2001 12:40 AM

No... it's not Duchovny, it's the writing and vision of Chris Carter that no longer has it. Duchovny is as good as he ever was -- it's Carter's grasp on the story that has slipped. Duchovny reads the words he's given. 

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on January 7, 2001 11:57 PM

I would love to know how much of this Duchovny exit has to do with his lawsuit against Carter and Fox. I would suspect a lot. This season's X Files is another show, and not as good (even given the weaker last few seasons) without Duchovny. He is missed; a spark is gone. Mulder and Skully were a kind of TV sci-fi Tracy and Hepburn. Anderson, as good as she is, is wandering glumly around the screen without him. 

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Posted by SKULLY (DDEL@EXCITE.COM) on March 31, 2001 3:02 AM

I really enjoyed Gish on the show, with out Mulder there isnt much life to it and none of the story lines are solved or explained anymore. She cant hurt the show.

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Posted by davidsgirl (xphile) on May 21, 2001 5:40 AM

Are you crazy?! Mulder has been the heart of the entire show. The whole thing has revolved around his search for Samantha. How can you say better characters have been killed off?! Chris Carter needs to just end the entire show, not kill off Mulder. The spark between David & Gillian is what keeps true Xphiles coming back again & again.

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Posted by davidsgirl (xphile) on May 21, 2001 5:41 AM

You can say that again!!

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Posted by Monica_Reyes (No Email) on September 19, 2001 12:58 PM

I think Reyes is an excellent character! She has added new life to the show. I'm glad David is gone, I think that Anderson and Gish (with the help of Patrick ) can carry the show perfectly well. I think that a relationship between Reyes and Scully would add a new flame - a new, exciting twist.

Sorry Mulder fans but Scully has always, always always been my fave...

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Posted by Monica_Reyes (No Email) on September 19, 2001 1:05 PM

I used to worship DD, but then I realised that in all honesty ...he can't really act. He has had the same monotonous, depressing voice since the beginning of the xf. Real actors/ actresses like Gillian , can vary tone etc to create emotion...I just don't hear that with David.

His movies haven't really been "brilliant...award winning " have they? I haven't seen Return to Me...and I have to admit it does look good but all of his other movies have been flops.

He says he left the show to persue his movie career...well David....I think that maybe you "should" try and learn how to act first...