In a biography of Joss's there's actually an interesting section with Tim Minear talking about the problems he had on the Ats set at first because he felt like the Bts writers were getting all of the opportunities to write episodes, and the Ats were being pushed aside. He talks about going to David Greenwalt to complain that he went through something similar on TXF where it was hard to actually get a script produced on that show, so it sounds like he felt a bit crowded out by CC and the regular team of writers (Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank etc) getting first priority on stories? He definitely didn't get to contribute much when he was on the show during season 5, there were only two scripts credited to him that year, and one of those shared a joint credit with Vince Gilligan
I'm not sure that they did have more overall control of their episodes on the X-Files though, it sounds like it was more down to the individual writers when it came to thinking up episode concepts yes, but from what I've heard CC used to do quite a bit of rewriters with the final episodes, and it was more of a team episode then when it came to putting up something workable on screen? I guess that would explain why Tim Minear's voice never came across particularly strongly on his X-Files episodes, even though he became one of the best Ats writers
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Date: 2016-08-01 04:57 pm (UTC)I'm not sure that they did have more overall control of their episodes on the X-Files though, it sounds like it was more down to the individual writers when it came to thinking up episode concepts yes, but from what I've heard CC used to do quite a bit of rewriters with the final episodes, and it was more of a team episode then when it came to putting up something workable on screen? I guess that would explain why Tim Minear's voice never came across particularly strongly on his X-Files episodes, even though he became one of the best Ats writers