2 seemingly innocent words in the official description for Ryan Coogler’s X-Files reboot have me worried

I want to believe this reboot can be good Ryan Coogler’s upcoming X-Files reboot has cast Himesh Patel as one of its leads, in addition to the previously announced Danielle Deadwyler. Both are fantastic actors. Combine that with master storyteller Coogler, and there’s every reason to believe this reboot is going to be great. Yet, there are two words included in the official series description that really have me concerned. According to Variety, the show’s official logline is as follows: “Two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents (Deadwyler, Patel) form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.” That all sounds fine, with one exception: The words “long-shuttered” could mean a few different things for this series, and each comes with its own issues. Variety makes clear that Patel and Deadwyler are not playing Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, the characters that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson made famous in the original series. Yet it’s unclear if this series exists within the same continuity as the original series. If it doesn’t, my only real concern about the series is the same as it would