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Lu Yan posted:Random production comment: I hadn't realized how many X-Files locations Supernatural uses for filming. Jeez CW is cheap. Its called filming in Vancouver. Here is a list of shows that will share filming locations https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Television_series_produced_in_Vancouver&pageuntil=Three+Moons+Over+Milford#mw-pages bobkatt013 fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Chairman Capone posted:On the subject of shows created by X-Files staff, was Space: Above and Beyond any good?
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bobkatt013 posted:Its called filming in Vancouver. Here is a list of shows that will share filming locations It was almost a relief when Continuum was actually set in Vancouver.
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I liked how Highlander was set in a town called "Seacouver" that was meant to be part-Vancouver, part-Seattle. Speaking of Seattle, I'm still on Millennium and I'm into season two now. It's been most enjoyable so far - I especially liked "The Curse of Frank Black". It was something a bit different. Lance Henrikssen reminds me a lot of someone but I'm not sure who. Maybe either James Woods or Gary Cole? I think he sort of looks like them.
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So I watched the pilot of Space: Above and Beyond. It was cheesy, not counting the CGI which I give it a pass for due to it being on Fox in the mid-90s (though I actually did like a lot of the ship designs), but looking online I've heard others say it gets better after the pilot. Having R. Lee Ermey play the drill sergeant in an overt homage to Full Metal Jacket that lasted for 20 minutes was a bit on the nose. Honestly as much as I can see how people compared BSG to it, it reminded me a lot more of the contemporary SeaQuest DSV, especially its last season, complete with subplots about AI and "in vitroes".
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Right, so I'm on "The Mikado", and the cold open involves three guys enthusing over how there must be at least 39 (39!) hours' worth of porn on the Internet, then in the first two minutes or so after the credits, Frank asks, "Did any of these women have an email address?" Ah, the late 1990s. 
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bobkatt013 posted:I can not believe how amazing the blu Rays looks. I got myself the entire series on BR for Christmas.
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So I just finished the mythology episodes... What a lot of poo poo the super soldiers storyline was eh?
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It was poo poo. But they also had to come up with something that could be more powerful than the ultra secret all world encompassing conspiracy that they had apparently just solved. Fox programming decisions were as responsible for the decline of the show as anything.
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ICHIBAHN posted:So I just finished the mythology episodes... What a lot of poo poo the super soldiers storyline was eh? That's why I always tell people to watch all of the first five seasons, start skipping episodes in the sixth when they start feeling boring or pointless, and the minute characters start babbling about super soldiers, just walk away and pretend the series was abruptly canceled.
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Good advice. I skipped all the non mythology episodes. Never liked the monster of the week episodes.
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I finally finished listening to the latest X-Files Files episode, and am now even more super pumped for the miniseries.ICHIBAHN posted:Good advice. I skipped all the non mythology episodes. Never liked the monster of the week episodes. The best episodes of the show were overwhelming the MOTW, though! I mean, if I made a list of my absolute favorite episodes from the series (not limited by any specific number), probably the only Mytharcs on it would be the Pilot, Deep Throat, Duane Barry/Ascension, the Anasazi three-parter, Nisei/731, and Tunguska/Terma. And none of those are close to ones like Clyde Bruckman, Jose Chung, Ice, Beyond the Sea, Bad Blood, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, Dreamland, Hollywood AD... Actually, most of those are the comedy episodes, too.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Good advice. I skipped all the non mythology episodes. Never liked the monster of the week episodes. whaaaaaat
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Yup. The myth-arc was "make-poo poo-up-as-we-go", while the MOTW-episodes were often nuggets of brilliant writing!
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To be fair, first 5 seasons or so the mytharc was pretty tight. But that is when Fox decided to continue doing the x files as a tv show because everything else they had was doing terrible. The original plan was 5 seasons and then a movie franchise, then 7 and a movie franchise, and then both 8 and 9 were last minute renewals.
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Just not really interested in the FBI fighting monsters tbh.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Just not really interested in the FBI fighting monsters tbh. New thread title right here
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ICHIBAHN posted:Just not really interested in the FBI fighting monsters tbh. It turns out the real monster... is man
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I just binged through months of this thread to get caught up, and I'm gratified that so many of you watching the show for the first time appreciated the greatness and perfection of Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose. Whoever spoke of the "blend of comedy and pathos" nailed it, and it has the most perfect guest performance that completely nailed a role with dialogue that was written so well for that specific actor. We can't get Boyle back, but maybe Stupendous Yappi could have a guest cameo?
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Zwabu posted:We can't get Boyle back, but maybe Stupendous Yappi could have a guest cameo? He is dead too.
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^^Alas. Bruckman is one little episode that contains so much. But one thing that perfectly encapsulates everything great about the episode is the little bit of dialogue between Bruckman and Scully about his vision of the two of them, her reaction to hearing it, and then how this actually played out. Also, "BANANA CREAM!"
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If the new season is good and successfully 'rights the ship' it will make up for so many of the show's latter-day fuckups, plus maybe bring in a bunch of new people to watching the series. I really hope it's good. Slate Action fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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I hope the next season does its own thing, ignores some poo poo from the old show, and has some fun with it. We already know The Lone Gunmen are in, so at least that dumb episode is being ignored. Too bad Robert Patrick ain't back. I liked him a lot.
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I'm about halfway through the third season of Millennium - I know a lot of people don't like it but I think it's fine.  I'm just a bit worn out on apocalyptic stories, so while season two certainly impressed me a lot, I wouldn't say it completely blew me away.Anyway, I have this image of the Cigarette-Smoking Man watching everything the Millennium Group does while smugly narrating to himself about how they're a bunch of rank amateurs who he could run rings around if he thought they were worth the effort. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Anyway, I have this image of the Cigarette-Smoking Man watching everything the Millennium Group does while smugly narrating to himself about how they're a bunch of rank amateurs who he could run rings around if he thought they were worth the effort. I like the thought of the Cigarette-Smoking Man being a member of Selfosophy. From the Musings episode, I can kind of see him holding their beliefs. And he loves trashy fiction!
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Ok I've only just noticed there's a second X Files film. Now, given than I'm only interested (or was interested) in the over-all mytharc, should I bother with the film? Thanks.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Ok I've only just noticed there's a second X Files film. Now, given than I'm only interested (or was interested) in the over-all mytharc, should I bother with the film? Thanks. No
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ICHIBAHN posted:Ok I've only just noticed there's a second X Files film. Now, given than I'm only interested (or was interested) in the over-all mytharc, should I bother with the film? Thanks. It's one big MotW episode, so probably not.
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68k posted:It's one big MotW episode, so probably not. It was also dogshit
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I've mostly enjoyed both MOTW and mytharc episodes at least until the latter started to go off the rails soon after the movie. I really liked the overall theme and the dark, smoke-filled atmosphere, so even when the episodes didn't make much sense, they were still pretty cool. Just watched the pilot of Millennium after all the conversation a couple of pages again - for some reason I thought it and The Lone Gunmen were the same show. Oops. It was a bit more hardcore than I expected with all the blood and tits, though it did feel a bit like a more mature episode of the X-files without Mulder and Skully. Still, pretty cool, and might watch it all before the new season airs. Speaking of which, what's the latest info on plot? Does it continue from the end or what? I stopped watching somewhere in season 7 or 8 so I'm not actually familiar with how things ended, or whether I need to know it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Right, so I'm about half a dozen episodes into the first season of Millennium and I've enjoyed it so far. I reckon if this had come out maybe 10 years later, it could've been a huge hit; it reminds me a lot of Criminal Minds, only with a kind of mystical dimension. Yeah, Millenium was super ahead of it's time. Shows like True Detective and Hannibal owe a lot to it.
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Millennium and The X-Files between them are clearly the originators of the idea that science-fiction shows need to have ludicrously byzantine mythology plots replete with secret societies working against each other and trying to fulfil or prevent ancient prophecies, usually involving Terry O'Quinn. They started it, then J. J. Abrams picked it up for Alias and Lost, then everyone else copied it, but they didn't succeed (possibly because they lacked Terry O'Quinn).
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Mister Kingdom posted:I got myself the entire series on BR for Christmas. I was tempted, then realised that this time next year there'll maybe be a bumper box set with the extra episodes from this new 'season'. Though that doesn't seem to have stopped it being sold out everywhere already.
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They actually left space in the box set for the new season
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Your weekly reminder that Kumail Nanjiani is the man.
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Wheat Loaf posted:They started it, then J. J. Abrams picked it up for Alias and Lost, then everyone else copied it, but they didn't succeed (possibly because they lacked Terry O'Quinn). Two or three years before O'Quinn got the job on Lost he was living outside a Baltimore suburb while his kids went to high school. They moved to Hawaii once Lost started production. Anyway, Terry was the coach of our Little League team for two seasons. None of us had ever seen him in anything at that point because we were like 10 years old and hadn't seen The Stepfather or Millennium. Word got around pretty quick though and soon every kid on the team was a Millennium fan. The X-files movie was in theatres during the time he was our coach, so it was really neat to go see that in a theatre and hey look its Terry! O'Quinn(or just Quinn to those who know him in the real world) was a kickass baseball coach. He didn't have a regular full-time job so he was really gung-ho about coaching the team, and he was unbelievably friendly and supportive. I was a short, skinny kid, probably the smallest on the team, and he really injected some confidence in me and helped me to see past my physical limitations to the point where I felt like a valued member of the team. He also threw kick-rear end end of season bbqs at his house, which at the time seemed like a mansion to us but this was before Lost so I guess he's got even more money now then he had then. Anyway I told you all that to make you jealous, did it work?
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