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Just watched this weeks episode and it was great, definitely felt like a Darin episode and everyone was on point. I'm glad the season is on an upward swing 'cause I thought the first episode was pretty lifeless.
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MacheteZombie posted:They should go the movie franchise route so we can have two hour Darin Morgan adventures. I'm all for more movies, but not written by Darin Morgan. I know that sounds like sacrilege, and I love the guy's episodes, but 42 minutes is exactly how long he needs to tell a good story. I can't imagine stretching his writing style to feature length. It's quality over quantity. X-Files movies should be...well, what Fight the Future was. A big-budget version of the mytharc stuff where you can indulge the dumber aspects and give the audience a ride. Leave the more intimate side of the show on the television screen.
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Yeah, aside from Carter episodes, if we're staying on the quality uptick they might have hit creative alchemy with this miniseries format.
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Feb 4, 2016 00:12
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hope and vaseline posted:Yeah, aside from Carter episodes, if we're staying on the quality uptick they might have hit creative alchemy with this miniseries format. If you exclude Carter's episodes this season is three episodes long.
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Feb 4, 2016 00:13
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Oh goddammit I didn't realize he penned the last 2.
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Feb 4, 2016 00:19
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hope and vaseline posted:Oh goddammit I didn't realize he penned the last 2. But as someone else pointed out, Carter is capable of good writing. The Duane Barry episodes are among my favourites.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm all for more movies, but not written by Darin Morgan. I know that sounds like sacrilege, and I love the guy's episodes, but 42 minutes is exactly how long he needs to tell a good story. I can't imagine stretching his writing style to feature length. It's quality over quantity. I'm not for more movies. I feel that what you are saying is true for the show in general. I'd be happy with half a dozen MotW episodes per year from now until infinity.
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JetsGuy posted:Skinner vs X is my favorite. I like X as a character, but I never quite understood his deal. He was apparently Deep Throat's successor and had ties to the Syndicate, but he often seemed like he hurt more than he helped. While Deep Throat would show Mulder what he needed to see, X was just kind of an unhelpful dick and got in the way a lot of the time. Was his purpose mostly to waste Mulder's time? He led Mulder to Marita, but only in his dying minutes.
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Feb 4, 2016 01:40
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sticklefifer posted:I like X as a character, but I never quite understood his deal. He was apparently Deep Throat's successor and had ties to the Syndicate, but he often seemed like he hurt more than he helped. While Deep Throat would show Mulder what he needed to see, X was just kind of an unhelpful dick and got in the way a lot of the time. Was his purpose mostly to waste Mulder's time? He led Mulder to Marita, but only in his dying minutes. His deal was supposed to be that he was unwilling to endanger himself and his own position to help Mulder, so that required doing stuff for the Syndicate at times. I didn't feel like it was ever properly articulated why he wanted to help Mulder at all, though.
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Feb 4, 2016 02:07
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I'm pretty sure if you hated that episode you just hate fun. 
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X seemed to help Mulder only out of obligation to Deep Throat. I don't think X ever thought Mulder was capable of doing what needed to be done, so he never gave Mulder the full measure of help he could have. Plus X seemed way more concerned with his own self-preservation.
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evenworse username posted:His deal was supposed to be that he was unwilling to endanger himself and his own position to help Mulder, so that required doing stuff for the Syndicate at times. I didn't feel like it was ever properly articulated why he wanted to help Mulder at all, though. Wasn't Marita also working for the Syndicate the entire time? I also remember that she was originally the aide to the Special Representative to the Secretary General but then later episodes forgot that and had her be the SRSG herself.
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Chairman Capone posted:Wasn't Marita also working for the Syndicate the entire time? I think so? I remember there was at least one episode where she's revealed to be taking orders from the hoarse-voiced dude to 'tell Mulder what he wants to hear'.
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Octy posted:But as someone else pointed out, Carter is capable of good writing. The Duane Barry episodes are among my favourites. Carter was capable of it. His mythology episodes really got out of hand after season 4. I can think of maybe two Carter-penned episodes after 4th season that were pretty good - Postmodern Prometheus and How the Ghosts Stole Christmas.
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Soulwrangler posted:I liked the episode a lot but my favorite part was this: oh gently caress That was pinging something deep in my brain, and there it is. So good.
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Sorry if this was already pointed out or is blindingly obvious, but some people might want to take another look at the title of the episode: "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster." Etymologically, the "were-" in constructions like "werewolf" comes from an Old English word which literally means "man." (Thus, "werewolf" quite simply just means "man-wolf.") So the title of this episode is, literally translated, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Man-Monster."
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Feb 4, 2016 08:04
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Darin Morgan, you awesome mother fucker.
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Soulwrangler posted:I liked the episode a lot but my favorite part was this: The 6 year old boy in me was crying from happiness and couldn't articulate why to anyone in the room.
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Ravane posted:Omg, this is young old Alec Sadler from Continuum. Brilliant casting as well - he and Young Alec really do look similar. So far, this season has been everything I wanted from a return of the X-Files. The first episode was understandably slow, as they had to essentially give an elevator pitch of the show to new viewers and people who haven't seen an episode for 20 years. The second episode was both a bit disturbing (the way he slides that latter opener into his ear, so slowly and methodically...) And the latest episode was absolutely wonderful. I always loved that fact that the X-Files was a show that could occasionally make fun of itself, and this episode just reinforced that in my mind. I laughed the entire way through (though the psychologist scene was a bit strained.) Even Gillian Anderson seemed more relaxed this episode - in the previous two, she seemed really wooden and acted like her jaw had been wired shut most of the time. My wife, who tends to spend entire shows buried in Facebook ("Wait, what happened? I missed it.") closed the laptop after a few minutes and was engrossed the entire time. Honestly, with the previous episodes, and the preview of next week's ep, I have to say they are hitting it out of the park - it looks like they are going to have individual episodes devoted to each of the things that made the show great - Conspiracy, unethical science, comedy, supernatural horror, etc. A++, would watch again. EDIT: Oh and one thing which I noticed (that's more than likely coincidence) is the fact that Mulder and Scully were dealing with a lizardman in Oregon. The band Clutch has a song called "Oregon" which is about a lizardman (specifically a "dragonman") fleeing west to Oregon, because things weren't weird enough out east. I'm pretty sure the Oregon plates were used to justify the Vancouver location, but my inner Mulder thinks the reference was intentional. berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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i appreciated the meditation on the terror of human existence in this funny episode of the xfiles.
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Mr. Pumroy posted:i appreciated the meditation on the terror of human existence in this funny episode of the xfiles. I sympathies with Guy Mann w/r/t my own alarm clocks and also at the idea of alarm clocks in general.
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There are so many work-related gifs I want from that episode. I hope some start turning up soon.
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COOL CORN posted:There are so many work-related gifs I want from that episode. I hope some start turning up soon.  via tumblr, so the quality blows.
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zoux posted:I sympathies with Guy Mann w/r/t my own alarm clocks and also at the idea of alarm clocks in general. https://youtu.be/-jlngD3OIXc?t=52s
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I like the fan theory that Deep Throat and X were a couple, and that's why he so reluctantly came to Mulder but helped in such a limited way anyway.Chairman Capone posted:Wasn't Marita also working for the Syndicate the entire time? sticklefifer fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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sticklefifer posted:I like the fan theory that Deep Throat and X were a couple, and that's why he so reluctantly came to Mulder but helped in such a limited way anyway. Where are fans getting this from? X and Deep Throat are pretty clearly colleagues or mentor/mentee. X just doesn't place as much faith in Mulder as DT did.
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I don't care if every other episode of this season sucks horribly, this episode was so good that it was all worth it if just for this.
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sticklefifer posted:I like the fan theory that Deep Throat and X were a couple, and that's why he so reluctantly came to Mulder but helped in such a limited way anyway. There's a fan theory that hypothesizes a homosexual coupling between two characters despite nothing in the show itself ever remotely suggesting anything of the sort? How surprising.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Where are fans getting this from? X and Deep Throat are pretty clearly colleagues or mentor/mentee. X just doesn't place as much faith in Mulder as DT did. The idea that loyalty so fierce so as to endanger your career and life many times by leaking sensitive information against your better judgement could be more than professional isn't really a novel concept. I don't necessarily subscribe to the idea, but it's fun to watch X's scenes with that in mind.
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sticklefifer posted:The idea that loyalty so fierce so as to endanger your career and life many times by leaking sensitive information against your better judgement could be more than professional isn't really a novel concept. I don't necessarily subscribe to the idea, but it's fun to watch X's scenes with that in mind. But there's nothing in the show to lend evidence to that theory. Why isn't "not wanting a secret cabal of sinister alien collaborators to continue unethical experiments and child abductions for a project that will result in slavery or death for the entire human race" motivation enough for that character? I don't understand fandom sometimes.
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I like that in the dumb horrible video game you saved at places with X's little X taped on a door or window or whatever.
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They killed off X way too soon. They could have done so much more with him. And what's even worse is they replaced him with Marita Covarubius who was a poo poo character and mediocre actress. Steven Williams was so good.
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You know I'm watching Theef and I think I just really hate episodes with a subject that is just straight up evil, aside from the syndicate and mytharc where their intentions are ambiguous and shrouded in mystery. Like this guy's daughter is involved in an accident that leaves her with a very small chance of surviving -- also he's Appalachian so if this was anywhere near his home she would have been dead anyway -- so he decides to kill the father of the doctor who treated her, his wife, kills this woman who was renting him a room, blinds an agent protecting a person who someone is trying to kill, and attempts to kill the doctor himself. I hate watching 40 minutes of someone who is straight up a terrible person doing terrible things and getting away with it because of the supernatural.
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My wife was talking about a co-worker of hers mentioning that they need to go back and watch the original series episodes so they can talk about them after the mini-series is over. They don't want to watch from the beginning, so I know there is a definitive list of must watch episodes out there. Where can I find that list? I don't want to cut all the mytharc or all the MOTW episodes, I just want to cut it down to the eps that they will really be able to discuss. Personally? I'm cool with rewatching the entire series, episode by episode, cause that's how I roll. 
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Ginette Reno posted:They killed off X way too soon. They could have done so much more with him. And what's even worse is they replaced him with Marita Covarubius who was a poo poo character and mediocre actress. Steven Williams was so good. They should have at least let people stew over what SRSG meant for a few months before revealing what it menat. Setting that up then spoiling it immediately afterwards was such a wet fart of an ending to that storyline.
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berzerkmonkey posted:My wife was talking about a co-worker of hers mentioning that they need to go back and watch the original series episodes so they can talk about them after the mini-series is over. They don't want to watch from the beginning, so I know there is a definitive list of must watch episodes out there. Where can I find that list? I don't want to cut all the mytharc or all the MOTW episodes, I just want to cut it down to the eps that they will really be able to discuss. The mytharc is kinda all or nothing, I've done rewatches where I only watched mytharc episodes, or only MotW, but it would be tough to figure out which mytharc episodes to cut out. Best bet is probably every mytharc episode, which isn't as many as you might think, then pick the best two or three MotW episodes from each season. There's a thousand "Best MotW Xfiles episodes" lists out there to reference.
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piratepilates posted:You know I'm watching Theef and I think I just really hate episodes with a subject that is just straight up evil, aside from the syndicate and mytharc where their intentions are ambiguous and shrouded in mystery. He can probably make you a poultice for that
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Big Mean Jerk posted:But there's nothing in the show to lend evidence to that theory. Why isn't "not wanting a secret cabal of sinister alien collaborators to continue unethical experiments and child abductions for a project that will result in slavery or death for the entire human race" motivation enough for that character? I don't understand fandom sometimes. To be fair this was before every single fandom in the world shipped literally every single possible pair of characters together. This wasn't a "fandoms lol" thing. We're talking about a small group of people on old school mid 90s internet Fox forums who literally invented "shipping" specifically for the two main characters, so you can't really compare it to today's fandom standards. I don't even think fandom was a word back then, or at least not commonly in use. People came up with unsupported theories all the time in the early days of the show. I didn't say I believed it.
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sticklefifer posted:To be fair this was before every single fandom in the world shipped literally every single possible pair of characters together. This wasn't a "fandoms lol" thing. We're talking about a small group of people on old school mid 90s internet Fox forums who literally invented "shipping" specifically for the two main characters, so you can't really compare it to today's fandom standards. I don't even think fandom was a word back then, or at least not commonly in use. People came up with unsupported theories all the time in the early days of the show. I didn't say I believed it. What about Star Trek? Shipping and fandom was definitely a thing back then and before.
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