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They're back filming in Vancouver this June 9th! Can't wait to see them running around again.
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David and Gillian kissed, and people freaked the hell out.
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May 13, 2015 23:41
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Blond Scully? no no no, my universe is shattered.
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May 13, 2015 23:43
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He is bad at writing songs. Why's he doing all this midlife crisis poo poo? You're no singer and you're no novelist, Mulder. It's a miracle you escaped the show and got to be on others, but that's it.
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May 14, 2015 01:38
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Kurtofan posted:Blond Scully? no no no, my universe is shattered. Right? It looks so
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May 14, 2015 02:51
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Could just be an early out-of-character promo shot, assuming those two wear business attire like that when they don't have to. Gillian Anderson has been blonde in just about everything I've seen her in since X-Files and it totally works for her but Blonde Scully would still feel weird, yeah. That said, check out her recent Top Gear appearance for a blonde, giggly, and English-accented Gillian Anderson swearing like a sailor. If Cancer Man is coming back then I hope they also find a way to revive the Lone Gunmen. I've been rewatching X-Files recently and they show up a lot more often than I remembered.
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May 14, 2015 03:02
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Delsaber posted:If Cancer Man is coming back then I hope they also find a way to revive the Lone Gunmen. I've been rewatching X-Files recently and they show up a lot more often than I remembered. At this point I say gently caress it, bring everyone back with zero explanation. Pretend this is Season 7 (or whatever) Mark 2 rather than Season 10.
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May 14, 2015 03:04
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David Duchovny said in a facebook chat, or AMA, or something (can't recall) that Gillian would dye her hair red again for the show.
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May 14, 2015 03:28
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She was blonde for the second movie which felt odd and I'm glad she's going back to red for the new series. It's only right.
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May 14, 2015 04:53
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I wonder if they're going to act like that movie exists.
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May 14, 2015 05:07
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I think there will be many things they won't acknowledge besides that.
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May 14, 2015 08:44
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I've started watching this and I'm working my through. Just started season 4 so far. I don't want spoilers but does the main story get a decent resolution and does the quality ever drop hugely near the end? I can deal with the bad episode now and then
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May 14, 2015 21:37
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Jose posted:I've started watching this and I'm working my through. Just started season 4 so far. I don't want spoilers but does the main story get a decent resolution and does the quality ever drop hugely near the end? I can deal with the bad episode now and then The first one is sort of true depending on where you stop watching, the second is most definitely true.
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May 14, 2015 21:38
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haveblue posted:The first one is sort of true depending on where you stop watching, the second is most definitely true. I would say the opposite of that actually. Nothing of the main plot ever gets concluded satisfactorily, usually because Chris Carter got bored of a plot thread or forgot it existed, and the show has major ups and downs in quality from the beginning to the very end. There are great and terrible episodes scattered all throughout its run.
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May 15, 2015 15:22
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esselfortium posted:I would say the opposite of that actually. Nothing of the main plot ever gets concluded satisfactorily, usually because Chris Carter got bored of a plot thread or forgot it existed, and the show has major ups and downs in quality from the beginning to the very end. There are great and terrible episodes scattered all throughout its run. I really disagree. If you watch the entire show in a short enough time that you can actually remember whats going on from season to season, the whole Syndicate/Smoking Man arc has a very definitive conclusion. Everything after that is only very loosely connected to what came before, but the Syndicate and their relationship to the Colonists is the core of the mythology up until that point and it ends very conclusively.
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May 15, 2015 15:27
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Once CSM goes a tumbling thats it for him (the finale is stupid as gently caress).
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May 15, 2015 17:25
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For all the talk about how the myth arc sputters out, it kinda ignores how there are really 2 different myth arcs. There is a clear ending to the first one, and then the second one is them saying "well poo poo, now what." There is not much actual connective tissue between the two of them.
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May 15, 2015 19:43
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If the first one ends decently I don't really mind if there is a second one that goes bad so much. I'd rather it have a good ending than be dragged out over 9 seasons. If it gets really bad I'll just stop watching. Does the video quality ever improve on netflix or was it just made too early? Its funny watching this after Fringe because while I knew Fringe borrowed heavily, they pretty much completely steal a bunch of monster of the week episodes Jose fucked around with this message at 21:28 on May 15, 2015 |
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May 15, 2015 21:26
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Basebf555 posted:I really disagree. If you watch the entire show in a short enough time that you can actually remember whats going on from season to season, the whole Syndicate/Smoking Man arc has a very definitive conclusion. Everything after that is only very loosely connected to what came before, but the Syndicate and their relationship to the Colonists is the core of the mythology up until that point and it ends very conclusively. It's not so much that the mytharc (notably the Syndicate/Rebels arc) doesn't have definitive conclusions, it's that a lot of the plot threads and concepts mysteriously change, or get retconned altogether. The concept of what the black oil is, for example, changes multiple times. I do agree with you though, watching the entire show in a short enough amount of time is more conducive to understanding what the hell is going on. It was drat near impossible for me to follow the mytharc watching week-to-week and year-to-year back in the day. But I still loved it, even if I didn't understand what was going on.
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May 15, 2015 22:45
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Jose posted:If the first one ends decently I don't really mind if there is a second one that goes bad so much. I'd rather it have a good ending than be dragged out over 9 seasons. If it gets really bad I'll just stop watching. Netflix has the first season in remastered 16x9 1080p, but yeah, the rest has some serious aging and is effectively 480p. Same deal with regards to disc releases.
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May 15, 2015 22:54
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f#a# posted:Netflix has the first season in remastered 16x9 1080p, but as far as I can tell none of the other seasons are remastered. Same deal with regards to disc releases. Parts of season 2 are also now in HD on netflix
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May 15, 2015 22:55
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I'm watching the series at around an episode a day or so. I can't imagine how poo poo it would have been to follow live to try and remember things. Simple stuff like the season opening episode being what now would be the season finale to create a cliff hanger
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May 15, 2015 23:11
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I really liked the episode the Smoking Man wrote in Season 7.
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May 16, 2015 03:32
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Hybrid children watch the sea Pray for Father, roaming free
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May 16, 2015 03:36
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Jack Gladney posted:The one where he almost successfully seduces Agent Scully? Yeah, "En Ami". Another underrated episode, in my opinion. It's one of those episodes I mostly forget about, until I come upon it in my re-watches, and it pleasantly surprises me. It had some really good dialogue between Scully and CSM. CSM: "How do you take your coffee?" Scully: "Unadulterated, thank you."
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May 16, 2015 06:13
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My favorite thing about CSM is that he gets a lot of crap from random X-Files fans for being a Skeptic in real life.
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May 16, 2015 06:23
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mr.capps posted:My favorite thing about CSM is that he gets a lot of crap from random X-Files fans for being a Skeptic in real life. Isn't Duchovney a pretty firm skeptic and Gillian Anderson more of a believer in real life? I remember reading that in some interview back in the late 90s.
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May 16, 2015 19:29
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So the Amazing Maleeni was just on in HD and widescreen (first I've seen with netflix) but then Orison, the next episode, is back to SD.
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May 17, 2015 08:10
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This tattoo episode in season 4 lol
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May 19, 2015 19:42
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Also in season 4: Scully straight-up sees a ghost. Total apparition of someone killed by a serial killer. It's ridiculous that she stays totally skeptical after that. I had forgotten she runs into more than just alien poo poo.
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May 20, 2015 06:43
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I think the best way to rationalise it is that Duane Barry gave her some frontal-lobe damage, so her memory's a bit screwy.
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May 20, 2015 18:12
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So in that one where Mulder does a bunch of drugs and has that guy drill into his skull so that he can remember being a kid, did we ever find out if his mom was really cheating on his dad with the smoking man? The way his confrontation with her plays out just seems like she's a confused old woman who's shocked and pissed that her drugged-up insane kid would accuse her of cheating on her dead husband. Does she even show up again after that, or was that the last conversation she ever has with her son?
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Jack Gladney posted:So in that one where Mulder does a bunch of drugs and has that guy drill into his skull so that he can remember being a kid, did we ever find out if his mom was really cheating on his dad with the smoking man? Not only did CSM and Teena Mulder have an affair, but CSM is actually Mulder's biological father. At least, I was under the impression that he was. When Scully tested Jeffrey Spender's DNA (in season 8, I believe), it was similar to Mulder's. And yeah, she does show up again. Their last conversation, before she committed suicide in season 7, was about Samantha, and how Mulder should let go and move on with his life.
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May 21, 2015 09:32
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CSM alludes to the fact that he's Mulder's father multiple times before the DNA reveal in the finale, and he may have even openly claimed it at one point. We'd maybe be tempted to assume he's lying, because its CSM, but then we do see him and Mulder's mother having a heated conversation about something, so it fit. Then in the finale Spender is proven to be related to Mulder, which pretty much ends whatever debate there may have still been.
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May 21, 2015 14:02
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Basebf555 posted:CSM alludes to the fact that he's Mulder's father multiple times before the DNA reveal in the finale, and he may have even openly claimed it at one point. We'd maybe be tempted to assume he's lying, because its CSM, but then we do see him and Mulder's mother having a heated conversation about something, so it fit. Then in the finale Spender is proven to be related to Mulder, which pretty much ends whatever debate there may have still been. They even say it in season 7 when Mulder is going nuts due to the space ship fragment.
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May 21, 2015 16:23
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Basebf555 posted:CSM alludes to the fact that he's Mulder's father multiple times before the DNA reveal in the finale, and he may have even openly claimed it at one point. We'd maybe be tempted to assume he's lying, because its CSM, but then we do see him and Mulder's mother having a heated conversation about something, so it fit. Then in the finale Spender is proven to be related to Mulder, which pretty much ends whatever debate there may have still been. He looks an awful lot like the CSM when he ages from the water in that tanker in season 2
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May 21, 2015 22:55
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night slime posted:He looks an awful lot like the CSM when he ages from the water in that tanker in season 2 Oh god, that episode, haha. How many times were Mulder and Scully afflicted with some clearly-irreversible ailment that they were completely healed of by the end of the episode?
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May 22, 2015 15:55
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night slime posted:He looks an awful lot like the CSM when he ages from the water in that tanker in season 2 I love that episode. Scully has a really awesome poetic monologue about a wolf eating the sun or something.
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May 22, 2015 16:43
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esselfortium posted:Oh god, that episode, haha. How many times were Mulder and Scully afflicted with some clearly-irreversible ailment that they were completely healed of by the end of the episode? The worst was that episode where they were hypermutating and it turned out they were evolving into salamanders and had salamander babies but then they just cut to the end of the episode and somehow despite the rest of the episode being a struggle with their condition the doctor somehow just makes them human again offscreen.
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