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My favorite part of the show, which I hope they still do, is when Mulder and Scully show up to people's doors, flash their FBI badges, and get totally blown off and disrespected.  Probably less likely to happen after 9/11 though...
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Jan 11, 2016 03:44
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So here's one thing I never put together before... In Apocrypha, we last see Krycek locked in the bottom of a missile silo with a UFO. Then when he shows up again in Tunguska, he basically just says that the militia group broke in and rescued him. So now I wonder if in the universe of The X-Files, the equivalent of Ammon Bundy has a bunch of black oil and alien heat rays they use whenever they Defend Are Freedoms. (I also didn't realize just how different the black oil is in its introductory episodes vs. later episodes. Or how it's explicitly not even supposed to be black oil, it's just a creature living within the oil because that's what it found on the crashed plane.) I also noticed that Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man has actors from both Space: Above and Beyond and Battlestar Galactica in it. That's one of the only actual "connections" I've been able to find between the shows. (The only actually-substantive connection seems to be that Félix Enríquez Alcalá directed episodes of both shows.)
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Chairman Capone posted:I also noticed that Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man has actors from both Space: Above and Beyond and Battlestar Galactica in it. That's one of the only actual "connections" I've been able to find between the shows. (The only actually-substantive connection seems to be that Félix Enríquez Alcalá directed episodes of both shows.) You mean besides Glen Morgan and James Wong creating Space: Above and Beyond and writing for X-files?
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Jan 11, 2016 20:00
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I pretty clearly meant connections between Space: Above and Beyond and BSG.
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Jan 11, 2016 20:13
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There's also an entertaining Easter egg in the second season finale of Millennium where Peter Watts breaks into a secret government bunker and discovers one of CSM's discarded cigarette packets.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:07
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You can watch the first minute of the new season here.
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Astroman posted:Yeah, continuity was highly verboten on tv shows in the 50s-90s because they wanted to rerun them and expected people to be able to watch on any random weekday a syndicated episode and not feel left out. All plots resolved by the end of the episode, very few recurring characters, and arcs or continuity more by accident. Hell, in the early days of tv they never expected them to rerun at all, so they cared even less.
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Payndz posted:I've also wondered how much TXF paved the way for shows like CSI or Hannibal by raising the bar for the level of gore allowed on network TV. I know that by the 90s we were a long way past the days when corpses couldn't be shown with open eyes on US TV (Star Trek used to get regular reminders from the network censors not to do it), but by 'Bad Blood' we had the bloody entrails of a murder victim being thrown about on screen for laughs, and plenty of gruesome scenes involving bodies or parts thereof before that. It's sort of a strange thing, isn't it, where you can have gore and it's fine so long as it's funny? Like that Monty Python with the big fat guy who eats all the food in a restaurant and explodes.
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Speaking of CSI, I just remembered that Nicholas Lea (Krycek) had a recurring role early on in the original CSI. I think he was dating Marg Helgenberger's character.
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's also an entertaining Easter egg in the second season finale of Millennium where Peter Watts breaks into a secret government bunker and discovers one of CSM's discarded cigarette packets. Morleys have actually shown up a whole lot of places, not all of them deliberate X-Files nods, wherever a cigarette is needed but you can't or won't use a real brand.
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haveblue posted:Morleys have actually shown up a whole lot of places, not all of them deliberate X-Files nods, wherever a cigarette is needed but you can't or won't use a real brand. Oh, yeah, I know, but in the context of The X-Files, they're CSM's brand, and they wouldn't have gone out of their way to focus on the packet in that Millennium episode if that wasn't what they were hinting at.  Chairman Capone posted:Speaking of CSI, I just remembered that Nicholas Lea (Krycek) had a recurring role early on in the original CSI. I think he was dating Marg Helgenberger's character. I really enjoy the episode of Highlander where Nicholas Lea plays an Immortal who McLeod and Amanda knew in the 1930s when he convinced Amanda to go and by the Bonnie to his Clyde, and every time they were inevitably killed in a shoot-out with the police, McLeod had to go and dig them up so they could start over.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Oh, yeah, I know, but in the context of The X-Files, they're CSM's brand, and they wouldn't have gone out of their way to focus on the packet in that Millennium episode if that wasn't what they were hinting at. I remember in an episode of Californication they make a point of showing Duchovny's character getting a pack of them, too.
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Chairman Capone posted:In Apocrypha, we last see Krycek locked in the bottom of a missile silo with a UFO. Then when he shows up again in Tunguska, he basically just says that the militia group broke in and rescued him. So now I wonder if in the universe of The X-Files, the equivalent of Ammon Bundy has a bunch of black oil and alien heat rays they use whenever they Defend Are Freedoms. The patriot militia fruitcake groups were a thing back in the 90s; it goes hand in hand with deranged conservatives railing against a Democratic President. There are multiple episodes of the X-files referencing those kinds of people.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:22
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They were looking for nukes in that episode as I recall. There's another one where Mulder goes undercover with a militia and they end up being used to test some experimental bioweapon by the government. It's weird how 90s paranoia was so synched up between the left and the right.
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inignot posted:The patriot militia fruitcake groups were a thing back in the 90s; it goes hand in hand with deranged conservatives railing against a Democratic President. There are multiple episodes of the X-files referencing those kinds of people. Yeah, I know that. What struck me is more the fact that in the show one of those groups apparently broke into a hangar where an actual UFO was but didn't seem to care.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:29
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Kumail Nanjiani interviewed Duchovny and Anderson on the set of the show: http://www.feralaudio.com/55-kumail-talks-to-david-duchovny-and-gillian-anderson-on-the-set-of-the-x-files/
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Kumail sounds so happy talking about the conversation  That's a great recording, even if the sound was hella spotty at times.
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inignot posted:The patriot militia fruitcake groups were a thing back in the 90s; it goes hand in hand with deranged conservatives railing against a Democratic President. There are multiple episodes of the X-files referencing those kinds of people. Back in the 90s? We've got militia groups taking over government buildings right now. First time as tragedy, second time as comedy I guess?
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Interesting article about the new conspiracies in the show. This is the link http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/11/x-files-revival-conspiracyquote:“We live in a CitizenFour world now,” says creator Chris Carter, referring to the documentary on NSA leaker Edward Snowden. “We’ve given up certain rights and freedoms because we want the government to protect us after 9/11. We see the admitted spying by the government. These are not things we’re making up and it informs everything Mulder and Scully and doing are doing.”
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I hope it's revealed that 9/11 was in fact done by Islamic terrorists acting alone
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Mulder's sister was abducted by grays to pilot the plane into the second tower.
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Turns out the Syndicate discovered the secret antidote to the black oil written in invisible ink on the back of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Turns out the Syndicate discovered the secret antidote to the black oil written in invisible ink on the back of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. National Treasure 3: File of Secrets
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I am a bit worried about the reviews coming in.quote:In messy, tedious form, the revered sci-fi series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson limps back for a limited run on Fox. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/x-files-tv-review-854844 quote:Throughout the premiere, it’s simply hard to escape the prevailing malaise of this being a deal-driven exercise, a chance to cash in on the name recognition of the title in a format that mitigated the time commitment for all concerned, particularly Duchovny and Anderson. http://variety.com/2016/tv/reviews/x-files-review-revival-david-duchovny-gillian-anderson-1201675982/ I remember trying my best to like I Want to Believe when it first came out and slowly, begrudgingly accepting its ordinariness. Then again, it is just the premiere. The MotW eps might be better. Octy fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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I'm up to season 7 episode.... 13? Is it worth watching anymore? It's just so convoluted
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Black oil can't melt steel beams.
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RC Cola posted:I'm up to season 7 episode.... 13? Is it worth watching anymore? It's just so convoluted Hollywood A.D. is pretty fun
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RC Cola posted:I'm up to season 7 episode.... 13? Is it worth watching anymore? It's just so convoluted After that point, I like: En Ami (15), Brand X (18), Hollywood A.D. (19, and one of my favorites of the entire series), Je Souhaite (21), and Requiem (22, which really would have been an ideal place to just end the series, or at least the alien mytharc). But really after those there's nothing you absolutely need to watch in the last two seasons. Except maybe the episode where Aaron Paul is a high school Jackass-copycat.
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Chairman Capone posted:After that point, I like: En Ami (15), Brand X (18), Hollywood A.D. (19, and one of my favorites of the entire series), Je Souhaite (21), and Requiem (22, which really would have been an ideal place to just end the series, or at least the alien mytharc). Surely, Sunshine Days should be in this list as about the only good thing that came out of Season 9?
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I'm also a pretty big fan of the Burt Reynolds as God episode that's also from season 9. The name of it escapes me at the moment.
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The reviews have been straight loving disappointment so far.quote:Breaking news: Carter doesn’t have it. Opening with a long-winded voiceover (that even Duchovny psuedo-complained about during the post-screening Q&A) and awkwardly infusing old lines to new events, the first hour of the revival never really finds its stride. http://www.indiewire.com/article/review-the-x-files-revival-shows-its-age-in-season-10-premiere-20151010 eughhh haven't seen a positive review yet
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But the reviews are only for the 1st episode, which suffers the double whammy of being related to the mytharc and being written by Carter (which was always the weakest of the writers, in my opinion). I want to see what they will say about the Morgan episodes (both Darin and Glenn).
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A lot of the reviews complain about Carter's tendency to write indecipherable mystery plots and long rambling speeches, both of which I actually find endearing. But we'll see!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6pLxYXpW8I gently caress off, Keith! meatpath fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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Jan 13, 2016 21:55
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Yeah, the long winded voice over thing is pretty x files.
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68k posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6pLxYXpW8I ...THE INTERNETS! oh, i needed this
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68k posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6pLxYXpW8I The interview with them is great! They are so cute together! I could pretty much see how they'd be down to do a few eps a year just to hang out.
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