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Jack Gladney posted:So what happened in like Buenos Aires or Mumbai? Is Scully the only one who can make the cure or did she figure out how to make it on its own and send a bunch of faxes? I hope the next season begins with aliens saving the world and then we get a Grey alien who joins the FBI and is Mulder and Scully's new partner.
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Chairman Capone posted:I hope the next season begins with aliens saving the world and then we get a Grey alien who joins the FBI and is Mulder and Scully's new partner. Only if the Grey alien is played by Eric Pierpoint.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 05:03 |
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Chairman Capone posted:The Ansazi three-parter is a huge highlight for me, too. That arc is as good as the series gets, outside of some brilliant lone motw episodes. Holy poo poo @ those Skinner/CSM confrontations.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 05:16 |
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Nail Rat posted:The original mytharc was acceptable enough, but after the syndicate was destroyed they tried to keep it going by heaping piles of more poo poo on top. Said poo poo was bad. That's why when I do re-watches I watch until the Syndicate dies and then pretty much stop. There are some good motws after that but the Myth arc becomes complete garbage.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 05:56 |
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Just having interesting ideas or stories (I'm not saying here was any) doesn't make good tv or story telling. That whole last episode was just exposition and plot advancement without any subtlety or pacing or cohesion.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 06:11 |
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Jack Gladney posted:So what happened in like Buenos Aires or Mumbai? Is Scully the only one who can make the cure or did she figure out how to make it on its own and send a bunch of faxes? Maybe people outside of the US also have secret agents, scientists and stuff, and can fend for themselves.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 10:03 |
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Paladinus posted:Maybe people outside of the US also have secret agents, scientists and stuff, and can fend for themselves. But she made it out of her own blood, right? She'll run out before helping even a small fraction of the people in DC if that's true.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 10:48 |
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Soft Shell Crab posted:Just having interesting ideas or stories (I'm not saying here was any) doesn't make good tv or story telling. That whole last episode was just exposition and plot advancement without any subtlety or pacing or cohesion. And a lot of good x-files episodes are really simple or even stupid ideas but executed well
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 15:25 |
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68k posted:That arc is as good as the series gets, outside of some brilliant lone motw episodes. Holy poo poo @ those Skinner/CSM confrontations. I"m really looking forward to that (just finished "Space" on what is my first rewatch ever). I don't quite remember the details, but I remember cheering at my TV when Skinner confronted CSM.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 01:03 |
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It's kind of funny to me they actually bothered to change the opening sequence to include Skinner's badge when he's hardly even does anything in the episodes he is in. His appearances: Episode 1: My Stuggle: "Welcome back, I'm Skinner, don't gently caress up." Episode 5: Babylon: "I'm Skinner, and drat it Mulder you hosed up." Episode 6: My Struggle II: "Find Agent Mulder. Because he's hosed up."
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 01:45 |
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He also was in Episode 2: I'll fill paperwork slowly so Mulder and Scully can do some X-filin'
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 02:39 |
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Cybershell posted:It's kind of funny to me they actually bothered to change the opening sequence to include Skinner's badge when he's hardly even does anything in the episodes he is in. His appearances: 'Hold on, Agent Einstein, you're talking to a scientist!'
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 03:02 |
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Cybershell posted:It's kind of funny to me they actually bothered to change the opening sequence to include Skinner's badge when he's hardly even does anything in the episodes he is in. His appearances: Toss in a ghost-stripper-murder and this is pretty much business as usual for Skinner. They just condensed everything into three 2 minute cameos for some reason.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 03:18 |
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Skinner is the scary dad you're really afraid of disappointing. Not because he'll beat you or be mad or anything, but because you'll know you let him down and he'll just be quietly disappointed in you. Did he ever get back with his wife after she got possessed by that killer ghost stripper or whatever?
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 03:25 |
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Jack Gladney posted:Did he ever get back with his wife after she got possessed by that killer ghost stripper or whatever? I think she left him for Q.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 04:19 |
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Skinner got his ID in the opening during season 9 (or maybe even 8) so it made since for them to keep it even though they reverted back to the old intro instead of the slightly newer one they used later. Also he deserves it even if he was barely in this, I like that guy a lot
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 06:27 |
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Krenzo posted:I think she left him for Q. Haha, I had no idea Skinner's wife was Vash. Kind of funny given that the woman he sleeps with in the beginning of the episode is Amanda Tapping from Stargate.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 06:34 |
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Chairman Capone posted:Haha, I had no idea Skinner's wife was Vash. Kind of funny given that the woman he sleeps with in the beginning of the episode is Amanda Tapping from Stargate. Whta can i say the woman has a thing for bald guys
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 22:03 |
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The very existence of Vancouver almost guarantees budget sci-fi actor incest will take place at some point for every show.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 22:58 |
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It's irrationally irritating me that her hair just vanishes instead of, like, receding into the head. Does anyone know where to hit one's head to make that part of the brain stop ing out?
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 23:28 |
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I stopped watching, is Scully really an alien?
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 23:54 |
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I stopped watching, is Scully really an alien? We all are, apparently.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 23:56 |
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I stopped watching, is Scully really an alien? Scully has alien DNA due to her abduction/experiments which saves her from the man-made/alien-inspired virus which was placed in the populace via the smallpox vaccine, now the solution is to spread her alien DNA via IV bags to save humanity/Mulder but now I guess Alien Baby William has just shown up in a UFO to do something
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 00:07 |
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Also I guess every city that doesn't have Scully in it is now full of corpses.
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68k posted:Scully has alien DNA due to her abduction/experiments which saves her from the man-made/alien-inspired virus which was placed in the populace via the smallpox vaccine, now the solution is to spread her alien DNA via IV bags to save humanity/Mulder but now I guess Alien Baby William has just shown up in a UFO to do something Stem cells.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 00:27 |
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Jack Gladney posted:Also I guess every city that doesn't have Scully in it is now full of corpses. This is Alphas season 2 finale all over again.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 02:44 |
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Thoughts throughout the episode: -Why does it seem like Einstein holds out and screams and insults and then just kind of goes along with this poo poo? It was the same in Babylon too. -Okay so wait, I thought the smoking man was trying to, in his own selfish way, protect humanity or at least a small part of it? -How the hell do they manage to talk in enigmatic riddles when everybody involved knows what's going on? -Wait the primary tension in this episode was that Scully didn't do a thorough enough job on a DNA test? -Why the gently caress do we need stem cells?
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 04:04 |
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Rocksicles posted:Robbie Amell. Firestorm > Mulderlite Didn't he also play an FBI agent on Some other show this season? neolithic posted:but for all the noise, The Lone Gunman cameo was totally wasted. I disagree. That whole tripping balls segment was by itself as good as the Guy Mann episode. The rest of the episode though Slate Action posted:The real question is, is X-Files worth continuing if Chris Carter is going to continue writing half the episodes (which he probably is). That would mean he's not writing half of the episodes. Enderzero posted:Gunmen Going Their Lone Way I lolled to the point that I had to get up and walk away, well done. FrakkinCylon posted:Chris Carter hates us all.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 07:58 |
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Mendrian posted:Thoughts throughout the episode: I think stem cells are necessary because Mulder is already in very bad shape and Scully's magic vaccine wouldn't work on him. But, again, CC. My Q-Face posted:That would mean he's not writing half of the episodes. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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So was it only the smallpox vaccine?? (Also this vaccine part pissed me off because a rapid pro-vaxer) but the didn't they stop small pox vaccines in the 70s or something? So what about everyone who didn't get a SP vax?
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 17:39 |
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It was passed down to their children.
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 20:18 |
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It alter their DNA so the people who got new vaccines were hit immediately while radio waves and chemtails infected those who got it pass on to them
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# ? Feb 28, 2016 20:33 |
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Still loving my rewatch, even some of the episodes I didn't think sounded particularly good from the synopsis, and didn't remember are actually really good. Case in point, Lazarus.
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# ? Feb 29, 2016 05:06 |
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I'm watching a S6 episode that's ostensibly set in Kansas but has giant foothills in the background. At least make it Colorado or something.
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# ? Feb 29, 2016 07:51 |
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Re-watched the mytharc episodes of the original series and it really fell apart towards the end. Was there a list of the good MOTW episodes per season on this thread or did I imagine it?
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Emetic Hustler posted:Re-watched the mytharc episodes of the original series and it really fell apart towards the end. Was there a list of the good MOTW episodes per season on this thread or did I imagine it? Yes, several. A new one is posted every time someone asks this question. I'm not digging it up for you, though.
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Emetic Hustler posted:Re-watched the mytharc episodes of the original series and it really fell apart towards the end. Was there a list of the good MOTW episodes per season on this thread or did I imagine it? watch every one that looks interesting, unless it involves magic trees, because that one is really bad.
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I recently watched 'Rush' from season 7 and it addressed something I think should've come up in the show more often: broken spacetime. I know like every other episode of Star Trek explored "temporal/spatial anomalies" but I always liked the X-Files MOTW episodes where the universe just screws up somehow. What are some other episodes in a similar vein? The only ones I can think of are Soft Light and Monday, and technically Dreamland.
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Emetic Hustler posted:Re-watched the mytharc episodes of the original series and it really fell apart towards the end. Was there a list of the good MOTW episodes per season on this thread or did I imagine it? I was going to do that but 3/4 through season 1 I am not regretting just watching all of them. Like I just said, I thought Lazarus sounded dumb and didn't remember it at all, and ended up really liking it.
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sticklefifer posted:I recently watched 'Rush' from season 7 and it addressed something I think should've come up in the show more often: broken spacetime. I know like every other episode of Star Trek explored "temporal/spatial anomalies" but I always liked the X-Files MOTW episodes where the universe just screws up somehow. What are some other episodes in a similar vein? The only ones I can think of are Soft Light and Monday, and technically Dreamland. Triangle?
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