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Unexpected International pandemic found to have been caused by immigrants who were allowed into the country due to lax protocols. The ballyhoo about UFO's is idiotic, it was clearly a helicopter. People who claim otherwise were likely hallucinating, everyone was very sick. Cellphone photo's? Come on, I know Photoshop when I see it, even the videos just show a light. Anyway, the government was on it, yeah they tried to play it down at first to avoid a panic, but there was a cure ready to go within hours of the issue going really bad. I know its dumb, but its my best guess as to how they would do it. remusclaw fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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Even the new stuff is a bit. The Anthrax Vaccine stuff? The Anthrax scare was manufactured (the Anthrax that "got loose" came from a Govt. lab) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members (close to one million of them) get the vaccine and all the required booster shots, to the tune of billions of dollars. The thing is, a lot of the people involved in that decision who worked at the OSD at the time are now sitting on the board or are officers in the only company that makes that particular vaccine. 
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I really think Tad O Malley is part of the problem with the "new" mythology. If Mulder had come upon this info on his own or used one of his countless government insiders (one of which we even see at the end of the first ep), then it would have been a lot more palatable. Instead, Mulder looks up a bunch of YouTube videos, talks to Glenn Beck, and suddenly treats it all as fact. If Mulder had gone in with even a shred of skepticism it would have been better. It would also help if CSM's new plan didn't directly contradict everything he did as part of the Syndicate. 1995 CSM: "We sacrificed a few so we could save many. Also we're developing a vaccine." 2016 CSM: "LOL JK That vaccine was evil and I'm DEPOPULATING the world for the aliens" *exposes burnface, cackles*
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Mar 4, 2016 16:49
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Hopefully we'll get twelve episodes next time so we can get four good ones.
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Mar 4, 2016 17:05
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"Teso Dos Bichos" was very bad and made no sense to me.
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Mar 4, 2016 17:09
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egon_beeblebrox posted:"Teso Dos Bichos" was very bad and made no sense to me. That is one of the worst episodes they've done. I've watched it numerous times and never have any idea what is going on in it.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:"Teso Dos Bichos" was very bad and made no sense to me. Oh yeah, the cat one. It makes sense but it's not as clear because it's a horde of cats killing people instead of a single Jaguar-man or whatever.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I really think Tad O Malley is part of the problem with the "new" mythology. If Mulder had come upon this info on his own or used one of his countless government insiders (one of which we even see at the end of the first ep), then it would have been a lot more palatable. Instead, Mulder looks up a bunch of YouTube videos, talks to Glenn Beck, and suddenly treats it all as fact. If Mulder had gone in with even a shred of skepticism it would have been better. Honestly I can't believe they didn't make that guy evil or at the very least a dupe. Or at the very lest someone with their own agenda. Like, who gets helicopter rich off of youtube videos? Also yeah 1995 CSM was basically like big chunks of the US government circa 1950-1980. "The only way to win against an overwhelming force poised to annihilate us is to do every evil thing. We have to be more ruthless and do everything our enemies are afraid to do because the alternative is the Soviets win and we all die." 2016 CSM should have been about this hideous cold war relic applying that outdated mindset to a situation that's not an existential threat. Like, IDK, boring non-evil aliens if you really must have aliens. Turning local politics into a clash of civilizations for no good reason. Instead of "let's just be evil hahahaha" Hell, give us loving space alien 9/11 instead of whatever they gave us. Make it so the government shoots down a flying saucer full of space babies or something, idk. OXBALLS DOT COM fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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Mange Mite posted:Honestly I can't believe they didn't make that guy evil or at the very least a dupe. Or at the very lest someone with their own agenda. Like, who gets helicopter rich off of youtube videos? Alex Jones. Maybe not helicopter rich, but pretty drat close. Even more reason for the guy to be as much a shitheel as the conspirators.
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Old Boot posted:Alex Jones. It says on some website that Alex Jones is worth like $5 million. That is not helicopter rich, IMO
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egon_beeblebrox posted:"Teso Dos Bichos" was very bad and made no sense to me. It was so bad the cast and crew had t-shirts made up that said "I survived Teso Dos Bitchos." Darrin Morgan still wears his. When you hear them talk about it, the concept isn't bad, but the execution got all hosed and it ended up being silly as hell.
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My Q-Face posted:Even the new stuff is a bit. The Anthrax Vaccine stuff? The Anthrax scare was manufactured (the Anthrax that "got loose" came from a Govt. lab) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members (close to one million of them) get the vaccine and all the required booster shots, to the tune of billions of dollars. The thing is, a lot of the people involved in that decision who worked at the OSD at the time are now sitting on the board or are officers in the only company that makes that particular vaccine. I got deployed in the middle of the anthrax series so they had to start over because it had been too long. Then the second time they stopped because I was told the lab that made it failed a health inspection and got shut down. So, yeah, cool, I got part of the anthrax series twice. E: I'm watching Duane Barry now. Red Speedo! I didn't remember it's origins.
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Ascension is really, really good. Loving watching Skinner go from being a dickhead to a total badass. That part of it is making me angry at how underutilized he was in the event series. I'm having so much fun with this rewatch. The grocery store scene in Duane Barry was one of my favorites and I had totally forgotten about it.
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Duane Berry/Ascension is probably my favorite two parter of the whole series. So much good stuff, even little things like the Nick Cave song playing while Duane is driving. Apparently, Duchovny did all of his own stunts in that one, too.
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wait i'm only rewatching now but i'm a mental nick cave fan, what song. i need to get on this
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Mar 5, 2016 06:15
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Red Right Hand. I'm pretty sure it's still in the Netflix version.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Red Right Hand. I'm pretty sure it's still in the Netflix version. It is, I just watched it a few days ago.
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Also in the Songs in the Key of X cd there are two hidden Nick Cave tracks along with Red Right Hand Their cover of the X Files theme is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYyA1Mc3KZM Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zbpto0BTYQ
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Oh yeah Time Iesum Transeuntum et non Revernedum is sick
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Duane Berry/Ascension is probably my favorite two parter of the whole series. So much good stuff, even little things like the Nick Cave song playing while Duane is driving. Apparently, Duchovny did all of his own stunts in that one, too. The ending to Duane Berry is still one of the more intense/disturbing moments of the series. That moment when he's looking through her window. 
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YOU CALLIN DUANE BERRY A LIAR?
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68k posted:YOU CALLIN DUANE BERRY A LIAR? Whoever did casting for the series was really good at their job. There's so many great MOTW performances and the dude who played Duane Berry nailed it. Coming right after Tony Todd who was excellent in Sleepless, too.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Whoever did casting for the series was really good at their job. There's so many great MOTW performances and the dude who played Duane Berry nailed it. Coming right after Tony Todd who was excellent in Sleepless, too. Tony Todd always owns. Even in all the terrible movies he does.
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Rewatching a lot of the mytharc stuff over the last few months, I realized that Duane Barry/Ascension is really the last time there's an alien episode that covers the "typical" alien abduction mythology (missing time, repeat abductions, implants, drills, medical tests, etc.) before the show starts to make up its own stuff. I think in The X-Files Files, Darrin Morgan even talked about how the pilot, this two-parter, and Jose Chung are the only episodes that really follow the "standard" abduction tropes. I also think Duane Barry is the episode that first shows the typical X-Files UFO interior (red criss-cross table thing) that constantly keeps coming up, too (it's in Jose Chung, the Mulder abduction episodes, at least a few others).
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Mar 5, 2016 22:25
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I was especially amused to see it come back in Mulder's mushroom trip.
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Skinner is shirtless and beating up Krycek and I guess I have a man-crush on him now.
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I wish he was my dad.
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Chairman Capone posted:Rewatching a lot of the mytharc stuff over the last few months, I realized that Duane Barry/Ascension is really the last time there's an alien episode that covers the "typical" alien abduction mythology (missing time, repeat abductions, implants, drills, medical tests, etc.) before the show starts to make up its own stuff. I think in The X-Files Files, Darrin Morgan even talked about how the pilot, this two-parter, and Jose Chung are the only episodes that really follow the "standard" abduction tropes. Don't forget the Max Fenig episodes.
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But Max Fenig was being hunted by The Predator.
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I've been watching through the whole series with my wife again, never watched the last 2 seasons before and now I don't regret it, the late mytharc stuff is really tedious, but there have been a couple of gems. Really liked the episode where Doggett is in Mexico robbed of his memory, and the weird Boston subway episode was cool, along with Jane Lynch encasing Reyes in a web.
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Jack Gladney posted:I wish he was my dad. I don't usually say this but same.
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Mange Mite posted: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. Person of Interest is a pretty good show.
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I need a sitcom spinoff starring Steve & Edy from X-Cops.
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Overall, I'm disappointed. The middle episodes (2-5) were good - especially the episode where the green creature turns into a man; man, that was a good episode - but the first and last episodes were just ... bad. Everything was off; everything felt off - script, characters, acting.
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I enjoyed every episode for the most part. The first/last were definitely weaker but not that I felt my time was wasted. I really hope we get more, they do so much right and it feels like the show belongs. I have never been able to get into all the other shows that try and ape parts of this. Mulder and Scully are just too familiar.
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Philthy posted:I enjoyed every episode for the most part. The first/last were definitely weaker but not that I felt my time was wasted. I really hope we get more, they do so much right and it feels like the show belongs. I have never been able to get into all the other shows that try and ape parts of this. Mulder and Scully are just too familiar. I think one could argue that the shell of a decent X-Files story is in there, it was just rushed and handled with ham fisted hand-waving. Everything could have been acceptable with more warmup time. I mean let's face it - the original myth arc was dumb. By telling it slowly it was easier to swallow. Leaps of logic in a story as complicated as this feels forced and fake. There's no time to get bought into it. This is like the difference between slowly disgesting your average comic book story versus explaining it to your brother's fiance at thanksgiving dinner.
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Can of Cloud posted:Overall, I'm disappointed. The middle episodes (2-5) were good - especially the episode where the green creature turns into a man; man, that was a good episode - but the first and last episodes were just ... bad. Everything was off; everything felt off - script, characters, acting. Episode 5 was not good, it was history's greatest monster.
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A hypothetical season 11 with more than six episodes would give the New Mytharc episodes more room to breathe. Both 'My Struggle' episodes felt like two-parters hastily condensed into single episodes.
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I've watched Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man half a dozen times because it's great, but I only just noticed that towards the end when CSM is picking up the magazine that contains his story, there's another publication titled End Credits with the feature 'Where the Hell is Darin Morgan'. 
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