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Jack Gladney posted:He posted to a reddit that was about the podcast that he felt weird continuing after working with so many of the people involved in making the show. I think it's over because of the revival, which Kumail was one of the earliest public proponents of, actually. Maybe the earliest. Yeah. Not to mention the fact that Kumail publicly criticized the X files episode with the Muslim plot. So it would be pretty awkward to bring back the podcast and somehow not deal with the fact that he was in season 10, that season 10 sucked, and that he personally took issue with one of the episodes.
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He should say something. That episode was racist horseshit.
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Isn't Fox still trying to do another season of X-Files? I can only hope that Chris Carter's influence is somehow reduced. Even if it's just not letting him write any episode on his own.
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I love the X-files but season 10 was one of the worst bits of television I've ever seen. I'd prefer they just let it stay dead at this point.
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Chairman Capone posted:Isn't Fox still trying to do another season of X-Files? I can only hope that Chris Carter's influence is somehow reduced. Even if it's just not letting him write any episode on his own. My understanding is that every person involved wants to do it but it is just a matter of scheduling. Given that the X-Files is not the main focus for most of them it could be a while.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:My understanding is that every person involved wants to do it but it is just a matter of scheduling. Given that the X-Files is not the main focus for most of them it could be a while. They wrote themselves into a hell of a pickle in that last episode. 6 episodes of fallout from that sounds dire, and leaves little room for the bread and butter of what actually made the show good in it's prime. Season 10 was already three seasons too far and some would say four, so I don't know. Hopefully the inevitable reboot is good?
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remusclaw posted:They wrote themselves into a hell of a pickle in that last episode. 6 episodes of fallout from that sounds dire, and leaves little room for the bread and butter of what actually made the show good in it's prime. Season 10 was already three seasons too far and some would say four, so I don't know. Hopefully the inevitable reboot is good? I recently went to a friend's house and their X-Files DVD box sets caught my eye. Their collection stops at season 7.
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I'll be forever grateful for this last season because it inspired me to watch from the beginning. I had really forgotten just how goddam great this show was. Plus I realized that due to college and hearing it good bad I figure I must have stopped watching in season 4. In four episodes into season 5 so now I'm enjoying xfiles episodes that are both great and new to me.
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Season 10's mytharc was worse than the wheel spinning that was season 9. Season 8 was still sort of entertaining even though it was reaching the point of total nonsense.
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I'd be perfectly happy with ten monster-of-the-week episodes.
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I just saw Post-Modern Promoetheus for the first time.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I just saw Post-Modern Promoetheus for the first time.
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I rewatched Jose Chung over the weekend... still a contender for my favorite episode of any show, ever.
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Chairman Capone posted:I rewatched Jose Chung over the weekend... still a contender for my favorite episode of any show, ever. Make sure you also watch the Jose Chung episode of Millennium, if you haven't already. In retrospect, Season 10 of the X Files makes Season 3 of Millennium look good.
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Gobbeldygook posted:It's a really good episode but kind of unsettling that we're supposed to have sympathy for a man who impregnated most of the women in a town with animal-human hybrids without their consent in order to create a mate for his son. Well, yeah. There is that. Still, it was an incredibly weird gamble that mostly hit big.
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My fiance and I have been rewatching the series, and have reached the end of season 6. My new belief, after watching the episode Field Trip, is that they never got out of the giant mushroom/fungus thingie. Basically they're STILL in it, and everything that has happened in seasons 7-10 is all just part of the trip. 
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Gravitee posted:I'd be perfectly happy with ten monster-of-the-week episodes. Yes, the Rhys Darbie were-human episode was IMO the best episode of the bunch, and I'd like more of them, and less mytharc please.
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PassTheRemote posted:Yes, the Rhys Darbie were-human episode was IMO the best episode of the bunch, and I'd like more of them, and less mytharc please. After a decent amount of distance from watching season 10, that is the only episode I have positive thoughts about in it anymore. I have no idea how they are going to tie up the loose ends of that last ep though without a complete rear end pull about mass hysteria or something such.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:The garbage man episode was a rock solid MOTW. Only problem I had with this episode was that they dealt with a tulpa before in... 7th season? The one where they go undercover as a married couple in the yuppie neighborhood where people who don't take care of their lawns get killed by the homeowner's association leader summoning a tulpa. Really, I thought that Home Again and Founder's Mutation were very solid MOTW episodes with the only faults being that they both had too many shoehorned in Baby William references. My Struggle I was kind of ridiculous but as a return to the X-Files I was more than willing to role with the ridiculous melodrama of it, and the attempt to change the status quo of the Mytharc didn't bother me, it wasn't like the show hadn't tried to do that before. And the Were-Monster episode was a Darin Morgan episode with Rhys Darby and Kumail in it, so already at the top of the entire show. Babylon was not just bad but offensive in a way that I'm honestly not sure any other episode of the show has been. At least it had the shroom sequence so I can at least rewatch that as a YouTube clip separate from the rest of the episode in the future. If Babylon was more offensive than any of the original run episodes, My Struggle II was bad in a way that none of the original run episodes were,. Assuming that is actually the last ever X-Files episode it will go down with the finale of Dexter for absolute garbage ends.
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Chairman Capone posted:Only problem I had with this episode was that they dealt with a tulpa before in... 7th season? The one where they go undercover as a married couple in the yuppie neighborhood where people who don't take care of their lawns get killed by the homeowner's association leader summoning a tulpa. Mulder's plot dump and continued association with the Right wing Conspiracy guy led me to believe early on that they were going with a Mulder is unstable story, and that you couldn't take any of what he was saying seriously anymore, but then they play it straight, and he's right, and I have no loving clue. I mean, Mulder is almost always right in his conclusion jumping, but he was so manic and long winded that I was certain it was meant to be the rantings of someone with way too much time on his hands and nothing productive to do except built a grand unifying theory of crazy.
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Chairman Capone posted:Only problem I had with this episode was that they dealt with a tulpa before in... 7th season? The one where they go undercover as a married couple in the yuppie neighborhood where people who don't take care of their lawns get killed by the homeowner's association leader summoning a tulpa. yeah i'd go along with this. i was willing to see where it went from ep1 but 5/6 were a trash fire and no one should be allowed to write this series except darin morgan.
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Leaving where earth is long overdue for an alien 8nvasion but nothing ever shows up would have ebeen a great way to add in this creeping sense of dread of where they're going ti show up which would probably be a good way to mix the show with modern societal concerns but noooope they went full retard Also they should have gone with the corrupt aliens hiding in our government as actual people now. Much like how Hillary was a reptilian irl
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Even the shroom bit in Babylon was garbage because they wasted a Lone Gunmen cameo. Just terrible in every aspect.
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Twist: the earth has already been colonized, we just don't realize it. Mulder is one of the few willing to speak out against these illegal space migrants and asylum seekers hiding on our planet, helped by not-Alex Jones and a shadowy powerful figure in the government known only as "The Donald"
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It turns out that the world was actually ended by the plague released at the end of Millennium season two and everything that's happened since in the shared Chris Carter universe has just been the dying hallucinations of its inhabitants.
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Babylon was weird because when offensive things make it on TV these days they usually are making a point to do so and know their own politics. It was such a bizarre mess of "hey we are all one human race" and Islamophobia. It was the X-File's version of Crash.
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So just to be clear is any depiction of Muslims engaging in terrorism an example of Islamophobia?
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Any depiction of Muslims engaging in terrorism? No. A depiction where every single Muslim, except one, is a terrorist and has no other defining characteristic other than being a terrorist? Now you are getting close.
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Was Saving Private Ryan racist against Germans because every single one was portrayed as a Nazi soldier? Of course not. It wasn't a story about "good" Germans, why waste time showing any? It would serve no narrative purpose. Babylon was about a terror cell. There was no need demonstrate the full range of Muslim life in America. To its credit, Babylon at least made an effort to depict Islamophobic behavior on screen.
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Ruh roh.
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Ruuuuhhh rooohhhhhh.
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X-Files always had that well-meaning but stupid racism thing going on. If you see an asian, you better bet your rear end that some mystical knowledge or organized crime is coming your way. An old Jew? Here comes a golem and probably some holocaust talk. An American Indian? Fuuuuuuuck, you better buckle up.
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Jack Gladney posted:An American Indian? Fuuuuuuuck, you better buckle up. Sooooo many magical medicine men
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Jack Gladney posted:X-Files always had that well-meaning but stupid racism thing going on. If you see an asian, you better bet your rear end that some mystical knowledge or organized crime is coming your way. An old Jew? Here comes a golem and probably some holocaust talk. An American Indian? Fuuuuuuuck, you better buckle up. Yeah, it's that thing where no-one involved is trying to be racist, but they end up becoming so unintentionally due to a lack of cultural knowledge, which leads to falling back on the kind of stereotypes that look fairly regrettable with the passage of time. And eventually you end up with a story about an Indian dwarf who likes to crawls up people's butts.
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Maelstache posted:Yeah, it's that thing where no-one involved is trying to be racist, but they end up becoming so unintentionally due to a lack of cultural knowledge, which leads to falling back on the kind of stereotypes that look fairly regrettable with the passage of time. So just to be clear is any depiction of Indians crawling up people's butts an example of Indophobia? Was Saving Private Ryan racist against Germans because every single one was portrayed as a Nazi soldier? Of course not. It wasn't a story about "good" Germans, why waste time showing any? It would serve no narrative purpose. Badlaa was about an Indian butt dweller. There was no need demonstrate the full range of Indian life in America. To its credit, Badlaa at least made an effort to depict indobuttdwellerophobia behavior on screen.
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