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Mendrian posted:-Wait the primary tension in this episode was that Scully didn't do a thorough enough job on a DNA test? "I have Alien DNA" "This test says you don't!" *GASP* "Wait... this test says you do after all!" *GASP* Boy... no wonder the episode sucked. It was full of contrived poo poo that was pointless.
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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? S1 Squeeze Ice Beyond the Sea Darkness Falls Tooms S2 The Host Firewalker Die Hand Die Verletzt Fearful Symmetry Humbug Soft Light Our Town S3 DPO Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose War of the Coprophages Syzygy Jose Chung's From Outer Space Pusher Quagmire S4 Home Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man Paper Hearts Leonard Betts Small Potatoes S5 Post-Modern Prometheus Kitsunegari Bad Blood Folie a Deux S6 Drive Dreamland Dreamland II How the Ghosts Stole Christmas The Rain King Tithonus Monday Arcadia The Unnatural Filed Trip S7 Hungry Rush The Amazing Maleeni X-Cops Hollywood A.D. Je Souhaite S8 Roadrunners Alone S9 Sunshine Days It's not a full list by any means, but it's most of what this thread agrees on.
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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. Monday?
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Jack Gladney posted:Monday? That's the one where Mulder pulls a groundhog day and has to figure out how to stop a bank bombing.
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John Doe is considered MOTW, isn't it? It's a really good Doggett-focused episode.
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Episode was worth it for Skinner's "hey watch it, you're talking to a scientist" burn on Agent Einstein.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That's the one where Mulder pulls a groundhog day and has to figure out how to stop a bank bombing. Not Mulder, but the bank robber's girlfriend. Mulder is just a weirdo who slowly starts to notice a few things and Pam (the person in the loop) is relived someone is thinking "oh this strange"
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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. Redrum fits this category although it makes no effort to explain the why of what's happening.
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Just watched the last episode and booy howdy did this go down the drain in a spectacular way.  What even happened to the old series' mytharc, btw? Now the aliens were actually benevolent (and the real evil was MAN DUNDUNN) and the supersoldiers etc. didn't happen at all? What? Was the oil a hallucination too? I mean I get retconning things, but they didn't even try here Dropbear fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Feb 29, 2016 |
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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. Dod Kalm
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Posted without comment. https://vimeo.com/116760708
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Midjack posted:Dod Kalm I'm watching that one right now, and it's not very good.
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Dos Calm's greatest sin is how boring it is. Total waste of such a great setting.
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Man, "Soft Light" is good.
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I'm almost done with Season Three now and I think it might be my favorite. Clyde Bruckman, Quagmire, Jose Chung, Hell Money, Corpophages and so on.
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Slate Action posted:Posted without comment. Better plotline than all of season 10.
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Dropbear posted:Just watched the last episode and booy howdy did this go down the drain in a spectacular way. Yep. I will try to erase the entire season from my brain. With alien juice!
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Man, "Soft Light" is good. I kept wondering why the guy wouldn't just, like, lay down when somebody was going to walk into his shadow.
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Jack's Flow posted:Yep. I will try to erase the entire season from my brain. With alien
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esselfortium posted:I kept wondering why the guy wouldn't just, like, lay down when somebody was going to walk into his shadow. Hahahaha. I like how vague it was. Like, were they zapped into a hell dimension? Were they absorbed into the shadow? I really like how mean the ending is, too.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I'm watching that one right now, and it's not very good. Quality wasn't a listed criterion. 
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Hahahaha. Dark matter, pure annihilation into energy upon contact. At least, that's what the companion book I had said.
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So the season 3 opener has a weird moment about the Smallpox vaccine. I laughed out loud because of the recent nonsense in the finale.
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I've been rewatching the original run and I forgot that "Eve" was only a Season 1 episode. It's always been one of my personal favorites for its pacing and its writing, and I forgot just how fully realized this show was nearly right from the beginning. Great stuff.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Dos Calm's greatest sin is how boring it is. Total waste of such a great setting. Aw mannn, I loved Dod Kalm.. Scully's monologe toward the end about the Norse end of the world myth (the world will end "not in a sudden firestorm of damnation as the Bible teaches us but in a slow, covering blanket of snow") coinciding with their imminent demise was marvelously written.  Plus it was also an example of one of their "this premise is pretty out there but still within the realm of possibility enough that I can reasonably suspend my disbelief" moments, which to me is when the show was at it's best. As the seasons went on and the quality declined, this aspect of the show diminished along with it. When they just blatantly start showing you alien spaceships and poo poo (as in the first ep of the new run where we got literal crashed flying saucer right off the bat) it kills the mystery. Relayer fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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So there's a Season 6 episode with a guy that can't die and it's implied he transferred his "gift" on to Scully, for people keeping track of the "Scully is immortal" theory.
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Dod Kalm is probably the most badass name for a TV episode ever.
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So regarding Babylon: How far along/or at what point in the writing process did Chris Carter realize it should be set in Texas so Mulder can line dance while tripping balls? Even though I think that episode is garbage overall, the scene is starting to grow on me. The change in tones is still staggering though. Edit: Here's the best video link I could find if you'd like to watch it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKWtFOr34d8 Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Yeah I dunno. I liked parts of that episode but not the mushroom bit. First of all it feels entirely for the benefit of the audience. Young Mulder would have found a shaman somewhere who claimed he could talk to the dead to do the whole thing for him; it came off as an abuse of power. I don't understand why Einstein went along with the whole thing and it just seems petty for Mulder. The scene went on for way too long and, of course, it worked or seems to have worked, wrapping everything up in a neat package. It was a punchline to a tone-deaf joke. Meh. Actually tone-deaf sums up a lot of the season. For instance I don't understand why we had a very special Scully episode in the same 45 minutes I was supposed to be worried about homeless Banksy.
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Because we treat the homeless like trash. Like we treated our son!
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Midjack posted:Dod Kalm Ahh, I knew I forgot one. I was thinking of time fuckery on a ship but only Triangle came to mind (which sort of doesn't count because it may or may not be Mulder's dream).
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Man, "Soft Light" is good. It's one of my favorite episodes.
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Mendrian posted:Yeah I dunno. I liked parts of that episode but not the mushroom bit. First of all it feels entirely for the benefit of the audience. Young Mulder would have found a shaman somewhere who claimed he could talk to the dead to do the whole thing for him; it came off as an abuse of power. I don't understand why Einstein went along with the whole thing and it just seems petty for Mulder. The scene went on for way too long and, of course, it worked or seems to have worked, wrapping everything up in a neat package. It was a punchline to a tone-deaf joke. Meh. I don't understand why I'm supposed to care the slightest bit about their stupid son.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I don't understand why I'm supposed to care the slightest bit about their stupid son. STEM CELLS
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Stultus Maximus posted:I don't understand why I'm supposed to care the slightest bit about their stupid son. I guess that they're trying to fill in for the now resolved Mulder's sister emotional hook. It's just not very well developed. Not to mention the fact that the reason Mulder s sister worked was because it explained not only his motivations but also shaped his personality as he grew up.
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A couple weeks removed from it now, and I'm still kinda bummed about this iteration of the X-Files. Not that this is a shocking revelation or anything. The whole final episode felt so schlocky, even by late-season arc episode standards. As has been mentioned before, there's really no coming back from that cliffhanger without some wide-ranging consequences for everyone involved (which is, at last count, EVERYONE). The subtle beauty of the X-Files of old was that at the end of each episode, there was a certain level of... I don't wanna call it plausibility, but it's the best word I can come up with right now. A sense that somewhere, somehow, this might have actually happened, only to be quietly covered up by a shadowy consortium of people. The clues were there for others to find, but only if you looked really hard and could connect the scattered pieces somehow. This last episode really leaves no exit strategy--it's the whole drat country (or world) in a huge panic--dying or dead, and staring down the business end of a real, live goddamn UFO. How do you possibly back-pedal this to return to Scully and Mulder chasing boogie-men, same bat-time, same bat-channel? They've kind of always resorted to the ol' "reset switch" for their bigger episodes, but the affected size of the reset was mostly the shadowy elements of the government, and Scully and Mulder, and that was basically it. This would be a reset on a global scale, which really stretches the suspension of disbelief. And of course, I'll watch the next season because of course I will. And I'm sure I'll groan at whatever explanation they come up with to write themselves out of the corner they've gotten into, and then I'll go back to loving the episodes about the fire-starter cheerleaders, and the mind-altering cable TV experiments. And I will forget about this entire crazy-pants path the series went down that one time. Hopefully. And... egon_beeblebrox posted:"War of the Coprophages" is Amazing.  
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A surprising number of X-files were based on actual government scandals, too. Like even the weirdo stuff about mind control drugs and experimenting on pregnant women and poo poo. It was all part and parcel of the conspiracy theory background of the show. What the should have done is built off of the new shady stuff the government does or is alleged to have done. Not like silly 9/11 stuff but actual things like using computers to model behavior and even select people for killing, torture, mind control through media, etc. Although then again, the Pilot episode of the Lone Gunmen was about a false flag attack to remote control a plane crash into the World Trade Center - in an episode which came out six months before 9/11.
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