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McSpanky posted:I hope not because GMOs have been a thing for like 20 years, if the original X-Files run lasted much longer they probably would've done an episode about alien hybrid corn or something. 
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I've seen the original movie like 4 times and it is seriously one of the most forgettable films I've ever seen, the only parts I remember are: -Martin Landau -Bees -Spaceship in the ice I couldn't tell you a single loving thing that happens outside of that
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^^^ Haha yeah, pretty much thatJack Gladney posted:I think that was the plot of the first movie, actually. I swear I saw the movie but I don't remember a corn thing whatsoever.
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Jan 31, 2016 19:22
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They're growing acres of corn outside the bee tents. Mulder and Scully run through them away from black helicopters. I think the idea was that the virus bees would use the corn to spread the virus through pollination or something? 
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Jan 31, 2016 20:12
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Big Mean Jerk posted:They're growing acres of corn outside the bee tents. Mulder and Scully run through them away from black helicopters. I think the idea was that the virus bees would use the corn to spread the virus through pollination or something? Yup. The bee thing seems like such a big part of the conspiracy but I think its only brought up like once or twice in some later episodes?
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lamb posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUq_adFq6I Where...are her pants? I'm super excited about this episode. Monsters and Mulder rants and a little fun. This is how I like my X-Files.
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It's weird, every now and then the episodes on Netflix have a scene or a frame that's back in the old lovely resolution instead of crisp HD. It's usually an FX-heavy shot or an extreme close-up. I know it's not my connection because there's no artifacting and the transition from SD to HD is instantaneous. Did Fox cheap out on the restoration? Is it like this on the blu-rays?
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Jan 31, 2016 23:58
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I don't know how it compares exactly to the Netflix versions, but on the Blu-Rays there is the occasional shot that is in SD. I assume this is more due to limitations of the source material than laziness.
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It's only on shots that have complex cgi effects. The original effects were done to the SD video, not directly to the film. It would be prohibitively expensive to redo the effects in HD. Where they could they overlaid the cgi portions of the effects shots over the higher resolution film masters but sometimes (like when shots were framed for 4:3 instead of 16:9 and cropping of the top and bottom were required) they couldn't do that. The font changes on these remasters bother me more than anything and that's embarrassing. Doesn't bother me enough to not think the remastered episodes are awesome though. GutBomb fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Feb 1, 2016 00:24
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Sounds like the same issues they had with the TNG remasters. That said, I'd rather have the existing HD transfers at $25/season instead of TNG's $50/season thanks to countless FX rebuilds.
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I watch on amazon but I doubt it's different. I noticed that a lot of the establishing shots are in SD, probably because it was stock footage or the they were shot on video to save money. Obviously they're not sending anyone out to do re-shoots 20 years later for that stuff.
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GutBomb posted:It's only on shots that have complex cgi effects. The original effects were done to the SD video, not directly to the film. It would be prohibitively expensive to redo the effects in HD. Where they could they overlaid the cgi portions of the effects shots over the higher resolution film masters but sometimes (like when shots were framed for 4:3 instead of 16:9 and cropping of the top and bottom were required) they couldn't do that. Please tell me I can find before/after screenshots of the font changes. Preferably accompanied by pages of rambling about how they'll keep the DVDs, thank you very much. I understand the problem, but ultimately, who cares? I can see Jose Chung in HD now.
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It's just a thing people notice, goddamn dude.
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Hmm this episode is set in Maine, I wonder who wrote it.
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How many episodes did not involve paranormal stuff at all? I know there was the one with the serial killer who fixated on women's hair, and there were a couple with lone gunmen or just mulder that were more just general government conspiracy. Also you can stretch the definition farther and say stuff like "Jersey Devil" counts because technically it is a somewhat believable idea that doesn't require anything outside our understanding of science.
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I watched the Millennium episode Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me tonight, to get pumped up for more Darin Morgan tomorrow... that episode is so good, but really, the visual gag of Uzi-toting Greys storming in on an alien autopsy is an idea hilarious enough that I want to see a whole episode about it.
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:How many episodes did not involve paranormal stuff at all? I know there was the one with the serial killer who fixated on women's hair, and there were a couple with lone gunmen or just mulder that were more just general government conspiracy. Also you can stretch the definition farther and say stuff like "Jersey Devil" counts because technically it is a somewhat believable idea that doesn't require anything outside our understanding of science. How did you not name the episode where the monsters were just horrifically inbred rednecks. Home, man. Shivers.
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:How many episodes did not involve paranormal stuff at all? I know there was the one with the serial killer who fixated on women's hair, and there were a couple with lone gunmen or just mulder that were more just general government conspiracy. Also you can stretch the definition farther and say stuff like "Jersey Devil" counts because technically it is a somewhat believable idea that doesn't require anything outside our understanding of science. That first episode you mentioned about women's hair ended up being explicitly about the supernatural when he came back for a sequel.
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:How many episodes did not involve paranormal stuff at all? I know there was the one with the serial killer who fixated on women's hair, and there were a couple with lone gunmen or just mulder that were more just general government conspiracy. Also you can stretch the definition farther and say stuff like "Jersey Devil" counts because technically it is a somewhat believable idea that doesn't require anything outside our understanding of science. Drive isn't paranormal, it's a DoD experiment that caused a brain tumour. Same with Eve. Ice is sort of not paranormal since it could be just parasites, I think Mulder says extraterrestrial parasites but really it's just a bunch of people getting sick with a virus/disease so it doesn't matter. Agua Mala is the same way F. Emasculata is just a disease like Ebola. I think Grotesque ended up just being a bunch of murders by a crazy person. Same with Hell Money I think? Kill Switch is just a William Gibson cyberpunk story. The Goldberg Variation is just a guy getting very very lucky. And Je Souhaite of course, because it's just a genie. piratepilates fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:How many episodes did not involve paranormal stuff at all? I know there was the one with the serial killer who fixated on women's hair, and there were a couple with lone gunmen or just mulder that were more just general government conspiracy. Also you can stretch the definition farther and say stuff like "Jersey Devil" counts because technically it is a somewhat believable idea that doesn't require anything outside our understanding of science. Possibly the Jodie Foster tattoo one. And that weird-rear end one that Gillian Anderson directed with all the Enya and Moby. And the one where Mulder trips on horse tranquilizer and almost shoots his mom.
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Just rewatched Pine Bluff Variant, put it on the list
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What was the one where iirc nothing bad really happens but Mulder fucks a vampire?
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crazy cloud posted:What was the one where iirc nothing bad really happens but Mulder fucks a vampire? That was 3 which was very boring and hard to follow. Although bad stuff does happen since like 3 people died.
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Depending on how you interpret them, Jose Chung and War of the Coprophages might not have any paranormal stuff. Again depending, the episode with the lake monster, since A) the lake monster is only seen in the last few seconds, and B) all the stuff in the episode was really just being done by a hoaxer and/or alligator and had nothing to do with the monster. Darkness Falls was just prehistoric fireflies.
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piratepilates posted:That was 3 which was very boring and hard to follow. Although bad stuff does happen since like 3 people died. Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs I guess 
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piratepilates posted:That was 3 which was very boring and hard to follow. Although bad stuff does happen since like 3 people died. That episode somehow felt longer than the two movies combine, my god.
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Chairman Capone posted:Depending on how you interpret them, Jose Chung and War of the Coprophages might not have any paranormal stuff. The cockroaches in War of the Coprophages were made of some kind of weirdo metal and they were too advanced to be recognized by that professor. It was heavily implied they were like alien cockroaches or some poo poo.
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PBS Newshour posted:That episode somehow felt longer than the two movies combine, my god. I don't know if it really was but I remember just being terrible visual quality, like a very low budget movie from the 90s. It really just had nothing going for it.
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Feb 1, 2016 05:11
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There are worse episodes for sure, but they never felt that glacially paced.
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piratepilates posted:The cockroaches in War of the Coprophages were made of some kind of weirdo metal and they were too advanced to be recognized by that professor. It was heavily implied they were like alien cockroaches or some poo poo. I think they were just cockroaches, and it seems like an advanced metal because it's not actually metal
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Feb 1, 2016 05:12
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No topical point was ever broached more awkwardly on The X-Files than that scene in "3" where Mulder is hanging out in a club with Vampire Follower Lady and she goes to put a bloody finger in his mouth and he recoils, stating simply: "AIDS."
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What do we think about Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy and the Jim Rose Lollapalooza sideshow? The Enigma was a real dude.
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Jack Gladney posted:What do we think about Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy and the Jim Rose Lollapalooza sideshow? The Enigma was a real dude. Detaching murderous conjoined twin.
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I guess anything with a cryptid type creature that doesn't do something too unbelievable counts as non paranormal.
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I'm keeping a running tally of OJ jokes
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The Amazing Maleeni is just sleight of hand. Which by the way I just watched and jesus the smugness of the magicians is almost unbearable. Also it kind of ends on a weird note with the guy almost pulling off some EFT scam with just a badge number and a fingerprint? And Mulder doesn't seem to care that he was almost implicated in this? edit: Watching The Goldberg Variation now and apparently it is set in Chicago, yet when he's being thrown off the roof in the beginning you can see that really distinctive skyscraper in Los Angeles in the background
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Feb 1, 2016 05:46
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One of the biggest recurring crimes of the show is that even when the answer isn't supernatural, Scully often still doesn't get to be right about it.
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There's also the episode where the gender-shifting amish alien person hypnotises Scully with pheromones and after Mulder has to pull the guy off her, he takes the time to admonish her for letting it happen.
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The general pattern is that in the Mythology episodes Mulder is an overeager idiot and gets conked over the head by men in black, and in the Monster episodes Scully is always wrong and gets conked over the head by werepeople. Also, on this latest rewatch I'm really noticing how easily 30% of episodes of the show are "someone is taking revenge from BEYOND THE GRAVE and Mulder and Scully really can't do poo poo to stop it."
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I just rewatched Fire (1x12) which was pretty cool because the villain is awesome, but what the hell was his motivation? Why was he burning members of the aristocracy alive? And why was there that painting of the dude's wife in the Massachusetts house when they get there? Is he A) lusting over the wives, B) painting portraits of them, then C) burning the husbands? If so, how come we never see part A or B of that? Apart from one throwaway line about love letters. Also, what happened to the family's driver? He just drank some tainted cough syrup, but then his skin went all melty.
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