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JetsGuy posted:I don't remember anything nearly as gross as a woman attempting to cut her own baby out on the XFiles. Apparently you never saw "Home."
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"Mulder, the internet is not good for you." *Closes Brazzers window*
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That was realllllly good, despite the grossness.
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That was some good rear end x-files, even the references to bad old continuity stuff couldn't derail it. Faith restored
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Jan 26, 2016 03:01
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Definitely better. The cinematography seems a lot less dark and noir on this new stuff.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:02
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So so good. I hope the ratings were high again tonight.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:04
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That episode was much better and gives me hope for the rest of the season. Pretty cool to see the Hannibal reunion too.
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Got the nostalgia vibe from this one a LOT. Really felt like good ol' X-Files "freak of the week" stuff. I was really worried it would be a 6-episode "mythology/relationship" arc that would have me barfing. I had enough of that with the I Want To Believe movie. That thing STUNK.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:06
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That intro... I'm thinking it was a mistake to do a big fat dab minutes before the episode started. I'm not okay with the way this is going. Goddamn. 
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Jan 26, 2016 03:06
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It seems like even the MOTW episodes will give some exposition to the mythology. That's cool, some of the MOTW were like that back in the day.
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JetsGuy posted:It seems like even the MOTW episodes will give some exposition to the mythology. That's cool, some of the MOTW were like that back in the day. Season 2 does that a bit. Blood and that Tony Todd episode own. I haven't watched yet tonight. Recorded it. Hoping it's not bad.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Apparently you never saw "Home." Don't remember it. Definitely saw it multiple times.
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Only seen the first episode, but: LIKED: Duchovny and Anderson. DID NOT LIKE: Awful exposition dumps, a plot driven by a really half-assed, handwavey attempt to retcon away nearly all of the series' alien mythology, one which fails to ring true even on a character level. I mean, yes, the series' mythology got far too convoluted for its own good, thanks in large part to Carter making things up as he went along, but surely there were better ways to deal with that than "everything in the original series involving aliens was an incredibly, ludicrously elaborate smokescreen to cover up a *different* conspiracy involving aliens." Thank god that the next two episodes are allegedly better.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:11
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Pretty decent episode but man I do not give a single poo poo about magic wonder baby William. We already had two seasons of that. Also  at Mulder imagining him being abducted. Not everything has to be aliens, Mulder.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:15
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BlackJosh posted:I mean, the new theory doesn't exactly jive (yet) with all that we know and have seen but that alien was totally an alien Maybe, Maybe not. There was that one episode with the cigarette smoking alien in a cage who turned out to be a human test pilot in a suit.
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My Q-Face posted:Maybe, Maybe not. There was that one episode with the cigarette smoking alien in a cage who turned out to be a human test pilot in a suit. Well, to be fair, that was (if I recall) Jose Chung's From Outer Space, so everything mythology-based in that episode is highly suspect. Still... Maybe it's not aliens after all. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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woodch posted:Well, to be fair, that was (if I recall) Jose Chung's From Outer Space, so everything mythology-based in that episode is highly suspect. I want to believe Mulder ate an entire sweet potato pie while asking UFO questions.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:22
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Watched the first episode. Oh my god, 24 was more subtle than this. Scully: "Why, Fox, you can't go on camera and lay out a blatantly fear-mongering right-wing tirade like that! Why, exposing an audience of millions of easily swayed American citizens to something like that would be downright irresponsible." :turns to camera and winks: .....aaaaaaaand I think I'm done. edit: also didn't they already reveal that the whole alien conspiracy thing was a smokescreen in the old series?
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Jan 26, 2016 03:27
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Episode owned bones, X-Files is back baby I hope season 11 is at least 10 episodes, preferably 12. And still no more than 2 or 3 mythology episodes.
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XboxPants posted:Watched the first episode. Oh my god, 24 was more subtle than this. Yes then no then yes then no again.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:35
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Jack Gladney posted:Yes then no then yes then no again. God that story was convoluted. Don't even ask me what the hell ever happened to Mulder's sister.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:39
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XboxPants posted:God that story was convoluted. Don't even ask me what the hell ever happened to Mulder's sister. Killed by a Santa Clause-themed serial killer who kidnapped her from a hospital she ran to after escaping from the smoking man's house after he secretly adopted her from the aliens and chose to raise her as his own.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:42
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Don't know why people don't love that sweet conspiracy mytharc! The conspiracy episodes are at their best when they're digesting and reflecting the American paranoia of the age and the weird secret history of the United States. When they make up their own poo poo it just all goes sideways. But the early conspiracy episodes were great because of how they engaged stuff that was already out there. This is why the Devin Faraci episodes of the X-Files Files are the best: he was a pothead conspiracy nut in the 90s.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:45
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A question about the last X-Files movie from 2008 (subtitled, I Want to Believe): does that movie tie into this new series? I didn't see the movie, so didn't know if I should watch that first in case it had anything that ties into this new series. Or was the movie stand-alone and not "canon" as far as this new series is concerned?
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Jan 26, 2016 03:52
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Both episodes have felt super, super rushed. It's very disconcerting to be watching a show live and sitting through commercials. These episodes are not the best, but nothing can be worse than season 8-9. Mulder and Scully leaving the world forever with "I want to believe" was depressing, so I feel at the very least if these last 6 episodes are the actual ending, things will at least end on a tolerable note.
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Jack Gladney posted:This is why the Devin Faraci episodes of the X-Files Files are the best: he was a pothead conspiracy nut in the 90s. Lol@ Devin Feraci. The worst part of chud.com back in the day which is saying a lot. Liked this episode much more than the premiere. Watching Millennium now just because isaboo fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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nnnotime posted:A question about the last X-Files movie from 2008 (subtitled, I Want to Believe): does that movie tie into this new series? I didn't see the movie, so didn't know if I should watch that first in case it had anything that ties into this new series. Don't watch it.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:54
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This is the show I loved. There you are. It stung a bit. But it's back, and I'm so glad.
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nnnotime posted:A question about the last X-Files movie from 2008 (subtitled, I Want to Believe): does that movie tie into this new series? I didn't see the movie, so didn't know if I should watch that first in case it had anything that ties into this new series. Here's a spoiler-free mini review from what I remember of watching it: It's shameful, nostalgia-cash-grab garbage, overloaded with exposition and flat dialogue. I can't tell you how it ends because I gave up on it with about 20 minutes left. I just did not care how it was going to end. To paraphrase Homer Simpson, "PEEEEEEYOOOOOOO! Whooooooo! I mean, I don't usually walk out in the middle of a movie, but whewwwwwwww!"
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Jan 26, 2016 04:18
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I just watched the first two eps back to back. My god, do things step up the second you get this out of the hands of Carter.
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nnnotime posted:A question about the last X-Files movie from 2008 (subtitled, I Want to Believe): does that movie tie into this new series? I didn't see the movie, so didn't know if I should watch that first in case it had anything that ties into this new series. It's unneeded. Basically the only two things which barely tie into the new series are it serves as a minor-bridge between the old series and the new for two plot points: It sets up why Mulder is no longer hunted by the FBI after the original series finale, and it sets up Scully's job working at the hospital she's still working at in this series. Other than those two things, it was a movie which would have been a passable monster of the week episode stretched out to movie length. Teek fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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Jan 26, 2016 04:45
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When do ratings get released?
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hcreight posted:My god, do things step up the second you get this out of the hands of Carter. This is the actual Truth.
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Holy loving poo poo that high pitched whine hitting Mulder was unpleasant. poo poo gave me a headache.
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Teek posted:It's unneeded. Basically the only two things which barely tie into the new series are it serves as a minor-bridge between the old series and the new for two plot points: It sets up why Mulder is no longer hunted by the FBI after the original series finale, and it sets up Scully's job working at the hospital she's still working at in this series. I like this first episode so far, but it's a real chore to watch it on Fox's website, since the stream keeps locking up, and the commercials re-run for 2 minutes each time I refresh. Scully seemed so tired and lacking energy, even more so than I recall from the original series. Perhaps she was just acting depressed, which is understandable. Mulder looks a little less spry but still shows the same enthusiasm as before.
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If they gave up William as a baby, why do they have flashbacks of him older than that, them acting as parents? Don't think I missed anything. Edit: Also, wasn't Our Lady of Sorrows the place where Eve 6 was cooked up? xPanda fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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Jan 26, 2016 05:43
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68k posted:When do ratings get released? Tomorrow. Don't expect anything near what the premiere got, considering that came right after the NFC Championship Game. But any demo number that's halfway decent will get Fox to want to make more.
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Barry Convex posted:Only seen the first episode, but: This was my main problem with the premier. Even if some parts of the original mytharc weren't great, it's silly to try to throw it all away. Am I really supposed to believe that all of those times we saw aliens and shape-shifters, it was really just part of a man-made conspiracy? What about all the times the syndicate was discussing the different alien factions, when Mulder and Scully weren't even present? Hopefully it turns out that Tad is just trying to manipulate Mulder for some reason by lying to him, and Mulder is just too desperate to believe. That said, I'm glad Cigarette Smoking Man is back. Anyway, episode 2 was rad. Think there was any significance to that kid who ran out in front of Mulder and Scully's car? Was he around 15? He could be their son. Or was there some other reason for that shot that I'm missing? (I could be reading too much into nothing, of course.) xPanda posted:If they gave up William as a baby, why do they have flashbacks of him older than that, them acting as parents? Don't think I missed anything. Those weren't flashbacks. Mulder and Scully were each imagining what their lives would have been like if they had raised him. They imagined their hopes (parenthood) and fears (alien stuff). DorianGravy fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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Jan 26, 2016 05:56
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DorianGravy posted:Anyway, episode 2 was rad. Think there was any significance to that kid who ran out in front of Mulder and Scully's car? Was he around 15? He could be their son. Or was there some other reason for that shot that I'm missing? (I could be reading too much into nothing, of course.) That was the doctor's son. They were establishing (after the fact) that he was in the area to use his power on Mulder when they were investigating the apartment.
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