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Austrian mook posted:What is scorpion and why are 10 million people watching it It's too bad Scorpion didn't air at the same time as X-Files, then I could believe that Doggett had gone rogue and was working against his former colleagues. Actually thinking on that, other than the series finale, do Doggett and Mulder ever meet? I just remember Scully constantly bringing up Mulder to Doggett and him clearly not caring a lot.
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Apoplexy posted:Speculatory article on International Business Times says that the ratings explosion could mean more X-Files. Let us hope. Or, if you will, I WANT TO BELIEVE  Unless David or Gillian won't do it I don't see how Fox would pass. It's literally just starting X-Files over again, with audience, cast, and writers excited again. edit: just read that the actors will surely do it so it seems pretty much in Fox's court. “We have a show that can be comedy, drama, science fiction, mystery, thriller, horror and not feel like it’s a different show,” Duchovny elaborated. “Doing six is maybe not enough to show that flexibility, so maybe we have more to do. I don’t know, we’ll see. Having gone through it again, I think we’re all okay with moving forward with more. I don’t want to speak for everyone, but I would.” “It’s possible but not probable,” Anderson chimed in. “It will be an ongoing conversation. We have to see how it does and if people are enthusiastic about it and have the same interest. I think it’s all dependent on that.” I'd have to think Fox would be loving insane to not want more, but make sure to tune in to the TV broadcasts. Networks are weird. Spiky Ooze fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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My ideal scenario is they bring back the show for like 8-10 episodes a year, with a structure like this: - Two myth episodes a season, if they must - One Darin Morgan and/or Vince Gilligan episode a season - One Wong & (Glen) Morgan episode a season - For the rest of each season, let new and promising writers take a crack at it. I want to see what someone who's not part of the 'old guard' would do with the show. I think this formula would work pretty well and they could keep doing this each year as long as everyone was into it.
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Jan 26, 2016 18:08
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The first episode felt like pure nostalgia (not necessarily a bad thing), but the second was more a return to form. I am insanely hyped about the Darrin Morgan episode.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It's a old people procedural show that pretends to show NEW and DANGEROUS uses for technology. The pilot had a commercial jetliner flying 50 feet above the ground so that they could snake an ethernet cord out to the show's computerman hero's laptop who was racing behind the plane in a sports car because hackers. Another episode had bad guys hacking (???) an RV to drive off a cliff and the heroPCman had to do something computer to the RV by laying on a skateboard underneath the RV as it was driving. Robert Patrick stars. This sounds awesome actually
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It's a old people procedural show that pretends to show NEW and DANGEROUS uses for technology. The pilot had a commercial jetliner flying 50 feet above the ground so that they could snake an ethernet cord out to the show's computerman hero's laptop who was racing behind the plane in a sports car because hackers. Another episode had bad guys hacking (???) an RV to drive off a cliff and the heroPCman had to do something computer to the RV by laying on a skateboard underneath the RV as it was driving. Robert Patrick stars. Also it's "based on a true story" and the guy it's based off of is an executive producer so it's basically fanfic about what a badass he is.
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Slate Action posted:- For the rest of each season, let new and promising writers take a crack at it. I want to see what someone who's not part of the 'old guard' would do with the show. Aside from the lack of Vince Gilligan, this is my big regret about the writing crew on the miniseries. I wanted to see what someone who career-wise came of age watching The X-Files and was influenced by it have a shot at it.
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Chairman Capone posted:
Yes, they did meet in season 8 episodes. One of them is just the two of them stuck in an oil rig.
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Jan 26, 2016 19:15
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Omg its Abigail from Hannibal!
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I refuse to watch Scorpion because the title is stylized as </scorpion>
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Relatively new to X-Files, started watching the new episodes and was not impressed. Is the editing generally this poor in prior seasons?
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fromsinkingsands posted:Relatively new to X-Files, started watching the new episodes and was not impressed. Is the editing generally this poor in prior seasons? Yes. Whatever you do, skip the pilot, best season is 7. You can start there really.
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Jan 26, 2016 20:00
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berzerkmonkey posted:Going back a few pages, people were saying that the UFO crash wasn't Roswell - didn't it explicitly state "Roswell, 1947?" Actually, it didn't. It said something like "High Mountain Desert, North Western New Mexico." The problem is Roswell is Eastern NM, and the original Roswell crash site was actually up by Capitan, IIRC, which is still Eastern NM, but a little more central. I mean, this could easily be a production error, so not sure it's worth reading anything into it.
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MariusLecter posted:Yes. Whatever you do, skip the pilot, best season is 7. You can start there really. Do not listen to forums poster MariusLecter. First three seasons are perfect, even the mythology stuff. If you decide to skip around, find a guide that tells you what's a mythology episode and what's a monster of the week so that you don't end up watching the end of a two parter (there's lots of those).
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Do not listen to forums poster MariusLecter. First three seasons are perfect, even the mythology stuff. If you decide to skip around, find a guide that tells you what's a mythology episode and what's a monster of the week so that you don't end up watching the end of a two parter (there's lots of those). The first six and a half seasons are good to great. Watch until the One Son two parter. After that the myth-arc goes off the rails completely, though there are still a few good motws.
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Man, X Files is the only show that ever seems to get psychic powers right and make them drat terrifying.
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Everyone will have a slightly different version of this, but for someone trying to get into The X-Files, I'd recommend starting at Season 1 and watching, at the bare minimum: Pilot Deep Throat Squeeze Ice Fallen Angel Eve Beyond the Sea E.B.E. Darkness Falls Tooms The Erlenmeyer Flask These are all from Season 1. If you get all the way through this list, it's safe to say you like the show.
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Jan 26, 2016 20:49
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fromsinkingsands posted:Relatively new to X-Files, started watching the new episodes and was not impressed. Is the editing generally this poor in prior seasons? For goodness sake don't watch Squeeze of Tooms! These people have been drinking the x-files conspiracy koolaid, if you catch my meaning.
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MariusLecter posted:For goodness sake don't watch Squeeze of Tooms! These people have been drinking the x-files conspiracy koolaid, if you catch my meaning. I've known a couple people that only got into X-files after it went on netflix, and they got majorly creeped out by Tooms. Obv, just anecdotal but still a data point.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:07
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Reminder that Tooms is so creepy... because he is creepy in real life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mC37YO9yFM "WHAT CAN A 51 YEAR OLD MAN... SEE IN A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL?"
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MariusLecter posted:For goodness sake don't watch Squeeze of Tooms! These people have been drinking the x-files conspiracy koolaid, if you catch my meaning. ?? Those episodes are awesome.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:39
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Regardless of the real dude, Tooms is a great episode and character. If he creeps you out that much, then The X-Files probably isn't for you.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:39
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The Tooms episodes are great, especially when he gets killed with the escalator. I was three or four when I caught a glimpse of that on the tv. poo poo hosed me up in the best way.
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So I've seen up though the first half of S08E01, and last night's episode got me itching to watch some more X-Files. What are the season 8 and 9 episodes that are worth watching?
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lelandjs posted:So I've seen up though the first half of S08E01, and last night's episode got me itching to watch some more X-Files. What are the season 8 and 9 episodes that are worth watching? -Season 8- Without Patience Roadrunners The Gift This Is Not Happening Dead Alive Three Words Vienen Alone Essence Existence -Season 9- John Doe Castor Poe fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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i was super excited to learn about new x-files. x-files was MY drat JAM back when i was a high school kid but i fell off i guess around after the x-files movie. anyway, the first new x-files was really weird because it referenced characters and things that i guess i missed? like that old doctor guy who mulder was talking to? and they were info dumping like crazy about the REAL conspiracy. it was kind of funny when they referenced FEMA camps, because that was a very zeitgeist-y 90s bogeyman, but in this ~post 9/11 world~ whenever i think FEMA i think of gwb going 'heckuva job brownie" like FEMA is a sad old joke and pinnacle of government apathy and negligence so seeing that pop up was like "oh boy" (but what if that's what they want me to think  ).like, i didn't even know that mulder and scully even had a kid. yikes. i missed a lot by falling off x-files. but then it turns out that all those alien hybrids and abductions actually weren't real??? i mean i watched the x-files movie and i remember mulder and scully goign to the antarctic and seeing a ship as big as an office building so???? i guess it was all a prop by the government? and also that bill o'reilly guy has a alien/human spaceship in a warehouse that has GRAVITY WARP??? what the gently caress is gravity warp?? how does mulder know a thing has gravity warp just by looking at it? did he take an advanced astrophysics class in a later season? so the first ep was very weird to me. don't know if starting off with some big exposition about the conspiracy and their relationship was the best way to re-introduce the series. but then i see the second episode and crows are gathering ominously in fields dudes are stabbing their brains with letter openers and blood is pouring out of all their face holes and mulder and scully are being throw around by telekinesis and YUP THEM FILES ARE MIGHTY X SIR. i liked it. Mr. Pumroy fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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CelticPredator posted:Regardless of the real dude, Tooms is a great episode and character. If he creeps you out that much, then The X-Files probably isn't for you. The scariest thing about Tooms is that he's married to a 16-year-old. And according to Kumail's podcast, he kept trying to get Gillian Anderson to go back to his hotel room to "celebrate her birthday." I assume he has a way of saying that phrase that communicates the scare quotes aurally.
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If you want to check out old X-Files, you should look at a list of eps from seasons 6 and 7 and pick out the ones with the absolute silliest synopses. Body swaps, genies, Christmas ghosts, alien baseball players, a COPS themed episode, Bermuda triangle time travel... that's the stuff.
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Mr. Pumroy posted:i was super excited to learn about new x-files. x-files was MY drat JAM back when i was a high school kid but i fell off i guess around after the x-files movie. anyway, the first new x-files was really weird because it referenced characters and things that i guess i missed? like that old doctor guy who mulder was talking to? and they were info dumping like crazy about the REAL conspiracy. it was kind of funny when they referenced FEMA camps, because that was a very zeitgeist-y 90s bogeyman, but in this ~post 9/11 world~ whenever i think FEMA i think of gwb going 'heckuva job brownie" like FEMA is a sad old joke and pinnacle of government apathy and negligence so seeing that pop up was like "oh boy" (but what if that's what they want me to think I believe there is a current strain of tinfoil that believes in FEMA camps built under abandoned WalMarts. Jack Gladney posted:The scariest thing about Tooms is that he's married to a 16-year-old. And according to Kumail's podcast, he kept trying to get Gillian Anderson to go back to his hotel room to "celebrate her birthday." I assume he has a way of saying that phrase that communicates the scare quotes aurally. He is a creepy, creepy man but the former child bride turns 22 this year.
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Pinky Artichoke posted:I believe there is a current strain of tinfoil that believes in FEMA camps built under abandoned WalMarts. I'll bet you could hide an entire fleet of black helicopters in an abandoned WalMart!
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AbstractNapper posted:First episode had condensed all the stuff that had grown to annoy me or even make me hate the X-files. I hope at the end its revealed that the conspiracy guy is just a stooge because hahaha they already control the world.
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Also the x files made me reread some of a book i have on mkultra and now im feeling a little down https://books.google.com/books?id=w...epage&q&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uneth...e_United_States quote:In 1957, with funding from a CIA front organization, Dr. Ewen Cameron of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada began MKULTRA Subproject 68.[131] His experiments were designed to first "depattern" individuals, erasing their minds and memories—reducing them to the mental level of an infant—and then to "rebuild" their personality in a manner of his choosing.[132] To achieve this, Cameron placed patients under his "care" into drug-induced comas for up to 88 days, and applied numerous high voltage electric shocks to them over the course of weeks or months, often administering up to 360 shocks per person. He would then perform what he called "psychic driving" experiments on the subjects, where he would repetitively play recorded statements, such as "You are a good wife and mother and people enjoy your company", through speakers he had implanted into blacked-out football helmets that he bound to the heads of the test subjects (for sensory deprivation purposes). The patients could do nothing but listen to these messages, played for 16–20 hours a day, for weeks at a time. In one case, Cameron forced a person to listen to a message non-stop for 101 days.[132] Using CIA funding, Cameron converted the horse stables behind Allan Memorial into an elaborate isolation and sensory deprivation chamber where he kept patients locked in for weeks at a time.[132] Cameron also induced insulin comas in his subjects by giving them large injections of insulin, twice a day, for up to two months at a time.[113] Several of the children who Cameron experimented on were sexually abused, in at least one case by several men. One of the children was filmed numerous times performing sexual acts with high-ranking federal government officials, in a scheme set up by Cameron and other MKULTRA researchers, to blackmail the officials to ensure further funding for the experiments.[133]
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The Tooms episode also really hosed me up when I was a kid. It ended up being the main reason I stopped watching and didn't come back to it until the recent news. I'll check out the suggested list. I know A.V. club just posted an article as well for top 10 episodes.
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The first episode really felt like an "Oh poo poo how do we do this again?" thing to me. Like watching a guitar player pick up a guitar for the first time in years. Episode two hit it's stride much, much better. And yeah the MKULTRA stuff just reminds me that conspiracy theorists can never truly come up with something as completely hosed as real deal cover ups
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Dr. VooDoo posted:The first episode really felt like an "Oh poo poo how do we do this again?" thing to me. Like watching a guitar player pick up a guitar for the first time in years. Episode two hit it's stride much, much better. And yeah the MKULTRA stuff just reminds me that conspiracy theorists can never truly come up with something as completely hosed as real deal cover ups Yeah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States#Radioactive_iodine_experiments quote:In 1953, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ran several studies at the University of Iowa on the health effects of radioactive iodine in newborns and pregnant women. In one study, researchers gave pregnant women from 100 to 200 microcuries (3.7 to 7.4 MBq) of iodine-131, in order to study the women's aborted embryos in an attempt to discover at what stage, and to what extent, radioactive iodine crosses the placental barrier. In another study, they gave 25 newborn babies (who were under 36 hours old and weighed from 5.5 to 8.5 pounds (2.5 to 3.9 kg)) iodine-131, either by oral administration or through an injection, so that they could measure the amount of iodine in their thyroid glands, as iodine would go to that gland.[60] OXBALLS DOT COM fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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Slate Action posted:
1) Who the gently caress is watching Supergirl? People who leave their TVs on one channel? 2) The fact that X-Files did that well against known hard to beat The Bachelor is pretty amazing.
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Castor Poe posted:-Season 8- Season 9 also has Sunshine Days
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How come someone hasn't made a gif/screenshot of Bigface McGee shovelling food into its enormous face yet? From the mutant children walk-by scene.
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I want to do an X-Files re-watch but I really don't want to go through every episode. Is there a "mandatory episodes guide" or something people would recommend? I see a few for select seasons in this thread but I'm looking for something more comprehensive. Thanks.
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mr. unhsib posted:I want to do an X-Files re-watch but I really don't want to go through every episode. Is there a "mandatory episodes guide" or something people would recommend? I see a few for select seasons in this thread but I'm looking for something more comprehensive. Thanks. Its hard to do it since there is the mythology episodes that go to poo poo after the end of the syndicate and then the monsters of the week episodes. There are a few that most everyone agree are great or trash, but there is a lot of that depend on personal taste.
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