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MariusLecter posted:I know you all hated Mulder's snark with Obamacare and stuff. But that was dope and totally Mulder. A+ poo poo. The Obamacare line was great. The combination of Mulder's tone, and it of course being something that Mulder would say, and of course be something that a nun would accept on why the mean old socialist government has to stick its nose into the church's business. Plus I feel like everyone complaining about "all the 2016 references" forget how much the original run referenced stuff from contemporary developments. Waco, Oklahoma City bombing, the Clinton impeachment, the militia movement, the ALH meteorite all got referenced and that's just off the top of my head.
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Fox Mulder stood guard for me in several late 90's - early 2000's startup cubicles. He's happy to be back out of the box of beanie babies and matchbox cars to his rightful place. Bids start at $5,000.   The first thing my parents did after I got them high speed interwebs and an AppleTV a few years ago was go and binge all of X-Files. I agree that Ep1 was a bit of a mess and Ep2 was a huge step up (despite the weird editing). I think Duchovny was sick during filming or something as he sounded and acted fine in that Aquarius show from earlier in 2015. Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jan 27, 2016 |
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Jan 27, 2016 18:33
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Batham posted:Nightmares about the X-files? Never. OH my god, I had so many loving nightmares because of this show as a kid Also, I just rewatched Erlenmeyer Flask, and holy poo poo is that an amazing episode
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Jan 27, 2016 18:36
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I had that toy too. Mulder would fight aliens and predators.
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X Files is possibly the best show ever when its firing on all cylinders. Hopefully we get an episode like that tonight.
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Austrian mook posted:X Files is possibly the best show ever when its firing on all cylinders. Hopefully we get an episode like that tonight. Next Monday, actually.
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Jan 27, 2016 18:59
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anyone else find it pretty jarring how episode 2 just starts with them back in suits investigating cases again like it's no big deal? i understand the time constraints and all, but still.
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Jan 27, 2016 19:08
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Is this new season self contained or would I need to watch all the other seasons to understand whats going on?
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SalTheBard posted:Is this new season self contained or would I need to watch all the other seasons to understand whats going on? You should watch the show, yes. I mean you can watch this, but it's going to be weird as hell for you. Also, I heard that Episode 2 was supposed to be Episode 5, hence why it seems rushed after Episode 1.
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Jan 27, 2016 19:17
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Finally got around to watching it second episode. It was a great stand-alone monster-of-the-week. Why was that so hard for them to do in the first episode?
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I really enjoyed both episodes, but yeah the second was a lot stronger. I can see where most of the complainers are coming from. Though I'm kind of baffled at the people who complain about Mulder spouting a load of absolutely ridiculous theories- he used to do that in every episode!CelticPredator posted:Also, I heard that Episode 2 was supposed to be Episode 5, hence why it seems rushed after Episode 1. loving hell Fox. Are they capable of showing a scifi show in the correct order? I remember they did the same thing with Serenity and Almost Human.
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CelticPredator posted:You should watch the show, yes. I mean you can watch this, but it's going to be weird as hell for you. Boo, I guess I'll have to knuckle down and watch X-Files. I've wanted to watch it before but have never for around to it
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SalTheBard posted:Is this new season self contained or would I need to watch all the other seasons to understand whats going on? I haven't seen any of the other X-Files but the premise is basically "Conspiracy Theorist and more rational person investigate weird stuff as part of the FBI". Everything else you can kind of pick up by context (like how they've been inactive for a while).
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redmedicine posted:anyone else find it pretty jarring how episode 2 just starts with them back in suits investigating cases again like it's no big deal? i understand the time constraints and all, but still. This was originally meant to be the 4th or 5th episode.
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Well yeah I suppose you could just jump in with the new episodes if you really want to, and still follow the plot without any major issues. But the old episodes are really good and on Netflix so you should watch them first.
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If that is the 5th episodes, there is a good chance that it might be reminding people about William, as his story might not be finished.
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marktheando posted:I really enjoyed both episodes, but yeah the second was a lot stronger. I can see where most of the complainers are coming from. Though I'm kind of baffled at the people who complain about Mulder spouting a load of absolutely ridiculous theories- he used to do that in every episode! Well, before it would be just him talking and sounding like a lunatic. This time though it had a bunch of stock video stuff for every beat like a bad youtube video making it sound too authoritative, like if the showrunners are talking and not the character
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Mange Mite posted:Well, before it would be just him talking and sounding like a lunatic. This time though it had a bunch of stock video stuff for every beat like a bad youtube video And you think that's not exactly what Fox is into?
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MariusLecter posted:And you think that's not exactly what Fox is into? But the effect is that it makes it seem as if it's the show itself that's talking and not the character Also bad as in it's amateurish and pointless.
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CelticPredator posted:You should watch the show, yes. I mean you can watch this, but it's going to be weird as hell for you. Wait, they're showing the episodes out of order? That's a thing which still happens?
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Mange Mite posted:But the effect is that it makes it seem as if it's the show itself that's talking and not the character I am pretty sure they have done the same with a couple of Fox's voiceovers in the original series.
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bobkatt013 posted:I am pretty sure they have done the same with a couple of Fox's voiceovers in the original series. The original series was amateurish and pointless.
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bobkatt013 posted:I am pretty sure they have done the same with a couple of Fox's voiceovers in the original series. No usually the voiceovers are background for a s8 ngle thing, not an illustrated presentation
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I have a potentially stupid question, or maybe its just that the first episode really was that bad. Isn't this a rehash of a storyline they did around the midpoint of the series, maybe season 4 or 5? Mulder got a lead from some contact that led him to evidence that showed the whole UFO/alien abduction phenomenon was just a smokescreen for government experiments. I swear all that happened before, I think around the time when he almost came to believe Samantha had been abducted by a serial killer. Am I missing some detail that makes this storyline different from that storyline? Does the direct involvement of the Roswell crash change things somehow? Did I miss a line if dialogue somewhere?
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Basebf555 posted:I have a potentially stupid question, or maybe its just that the first episode really was that bad. Yeah they had a somewhat similar plot in season 5. The difference is in season 5 Mulder was led to believe that aliens didn't exist and all the abductions were human led. The plot they're running now says that yes humans are the ones behind all that poo poo but they're doing it with stolen alien tech. Season 5 = it was just the government all along, no such thing as aliens Now = it was the government all along, but aliens do exist. the government conducts abductions using stolen alien tech from crashes/shot down craft.
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Also in the first movie, the informant character Dr. Hurtzweil tells Mulder in an alley way about the govt take over plan begins on X day (national holiday in movie, Friday in Sunday's episode) and FEMA takes over and everything goes to poo poo. Both speeches were very similar.
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Ginette Reno posted:Yeah they had a somewhat similar plot in season 5. The difference is in season 5 Mulder was led to believe that aliens didn't exist and all the abductions were human led. I just wish at some point in the first episode this would have been acknowledged, even just one line of dialogue would have done it. Like, "Wow Mulder, remember that time you thought UFO abductions were a government sponsored distraction? Maybe you weren't so off-base after all!"
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Basebf555 posted:I just wish at some point in the first episode this would have been acknowledged, even just one line of dialogue would have done it. Like, "Wow Mulder, remember that time you thought UFO abductions were a government sponsored distraction? Maybe you weren't so off-base after all!" And they should have mentioned that nest of gundarks they fell into. Boy was that a sticky situation!
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MariusLecter posted:And they should have mentioned that nest of gundarks they fell into. Boy was that a sticky situation! Well if there was going to be a whole gundark nest storyline, yea I'd think mentioning the previous one would be appropriate!
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First 2 eps were good. It makes me want to rewatch the whole series and makes me realize that I guess I didn't watch it all. I had no idea Mulder and Scully had a kid.
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Pretty underwelmed by these first two episodes. It was better when i was 8.
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Ginette Reno posted:Yeah they had a somewhat similar plot in season 5. The difference is in season 5 Mulder was led to believe that aliens didn't exist and all the abductions were human led. Also something else will probably turn out to be the case since it was only the first episode, plus the old doctor from the flashbacks flat-out told Mulder he wasn't quite right. The old man laughing about the old series shapeshifting burly muscleman aliens setting each other on fire doesn't make sense though, since that happened plenty of times when only the smoking man or somebody was around and I don't even know if Mulder found out about all that stuff.
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Jack Gladney posted:Also something else will probably turn out to be the case since it was only the first episode, plus the old doctor from the flashbacks flat-out told Mulder he wasn't quite right. I thought Scully was there when they set fire to a bunch of abductees.
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bobkatt013 posted:I thought Scully was there when they set fire to a bunch of abductees. Implanted memory.
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MariusLecter posted:Implanted memory. Man all the corpses they found around her must have also been one.
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bobkatt013 posted:Man all the corpses they found around her must have also been one. Faked. Remember the alien they found in the ancient ice that was inserted through a drill hole?
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bobkatt013 posted:I thought Scully was there when they set fire to a bunch of abductees. What about when one of them replaced the gruff-voiced fat man and all the rest of the conspiracy people were scared and hiding out though? If they don't do it right it will be like one of those tv episodes that ends with everything being a dream, but the character having the dream wasn't present for the B story.
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Jack Gladney posted:What about when one of them replaced the gruff-voiced fat man and all the rest of the conspiracy people were scared and hiding out though? If they don't do it right it will be like one of those tv episodes that ends with everything being a dream, but the character having the dream wasn't present for the B story. I just remembered all the episodes where the rebels came and burned the poo poo out of abductees. Mulder was aware of that and then Scully witnessed it.
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bobkatt013 posted:I just remembered all the episodes where the rebels came and burned the poo poo out of abductees. Mulder was aware of that and then Scully witnessed it. Oh yeah. Smoking man's wife was a deep-cover disinformation agent really committed to selling the illusion.
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