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Am I the only person who sees a permanently unread post in this thread in their bookmarks and no other thread? 
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Jan 4, 2018 11:19
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Gobbeldygook posted:Am I the only person who sees a permanently unread post in this thread in their bookmarks and no other thread?
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Jan 4, 2018 11:24
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Oh good it's not just me. Also the show very clumsily retconned most of the original series' mytharc so I am pretty okay with Chris Carter pulling out the ultimate hack writer tool and saying last season was a dream.
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Jan 4, 2018 11:44
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Noticed it after I posted :/
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Jan 4, 2018 12:34
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Gobbeldygook posted:Am I the only person who sees a permanently unread post in this thread in their bookmarks and no other thread? An unexplainable ghost post is super fitting for this thread. You can read it, but you have to take mushrooms first.
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Jan 4, 2018 14:39
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Please change the thread title to "I impregnated her with science. ALIEN SCIENCE." According to critics, this episode is far and away the worst of the season. But overall they're saying it's much improved over last, and that the Darin Morgan one even surpasses Were-Monster so we have that to look forward to.
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Jan 4, 2018 15:05
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This episode is so unbelievably bad. The editing, the writing, the story is all awful. You can tell Duchovny and Anderson basically phoned it in.
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Jan 4, 2018 15:08
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This episode is great evidence of why Carter is alone in the group of main writers from the original run to never ever be given another chance or land another show after the original run ended. He should have to pay a fee to Gilligan, the Morgan brothers, Wong and Howard Gordon every time he gets to make another season of X Files. Yesterday was like every hack's worst tendencies combined into one: "it was all a dream," long expository scenes and full on tell, don't show, clunky dialog, etc.
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Jan 4, 2018 16:44
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Oh, good, Scully's the damsel in distress again. Also that ending was skeezy as sweet gently caress-all. A million  s of ever-increasing size go here. Even the comments in this thread were not nearly enough preparation for those last few minutes. Even knowing that line was coming.A million s. One million.
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Jan 4, 2018 18:30
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I mean, it's no First Person Shooter. There were a lot of bad X-Files episodes, it's just that nearing 20 years later we now live in an age of Everything I Watch Is The Worst Thing I've Ever Seen™.
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Jan 4, 2018 18:52
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Woof. That was awful. The only good part was the great tie they put smoking man in with Reagan in the opening. I guess Skinner got back with his ex, though, or they didn’t bother to have the actor take his ring off?
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Jan 4, 2018 18:53
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sticklefifer posted:I mean, it's no First Person Shooter. I'd rather watch First Person Shooter. It had a(n albeit stupid) plot and was decently produced. S11E01 seemed like someone was playing with an X-Files Lego set and was narrating it with lovely voices.
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Jan 4, 2018 18:56
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sticklefifer posted:I mean, it's no First Person Shooter. I go back and watch it through seasons 1-7ish every now and then and I don't recall too many awful episodes in the original run. The only one that is even jumping out in my mind right now is Tesos Dos Bichos. Seasons 8-9 are another story of course but I haven't watched them in a while and so can't really comment.
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Jan 4, 2018 19:00
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sticklefifer posted:I mean, it's no First Person Shooter. There are bad episodes that are just bad episodes. And then there are bad episodes that are so bad that make other episodes retroactively bad. My Struggle III was the latter, first person shooter the former.
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Jan 4, 2018 19:12
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The biggest lol for me was the dumpy conspiracy guy (or smoking man, I don’t remember) name-checking the fourth turning and Strauss and Howe, signifiers of self-satisfied middlebrow overconfidence everywhere. Carter must think he’s so smart. Old-man shove fight was pretty good too.
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Jan 4, 2018 19:22
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business hammocks posted:The biggest lol for me was the dumpy conspiracy guy (or smoking man, I don’t remember) name-checking the fourth turning and Strauss and Howe, signifiers of self-satisfied middlebrow overconfidence everywhere. Carter must think he’s so smart. I'm pretty sure he also misused the term "the end of history" as if it means the end of all human civilisation, which is not what that means at all. Wikipedia posted:The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. It was a phrase people were throwing around after the end of the Cold War, meaning humanity had turned a corner in it's evolution, democracy had triumphed and everything from now on was going to be just fine. Ha. I lol'd very hard at the shove fight, mainly at Duchovny's total lack of emotion as he was shoving Pileggi. He has just loving checked out of this now, hasn't he? Does not give a poo poo.
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Jan 4, 2018 19:42
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Maelstache posted:He has just loving checked out of this now, hasn't he? Does not give a poo poo. He looks like his diet consists of Marlboros and cheap beer at this point.
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Jan 4, 2018 20:16
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Timby posted:He looks like his diet consists of Marlboros and cheap beer at this point. He smokes Morleys. Not my brand.
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Jan 4, 2018 20:42
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Timby posted:He looks like his diet consists of Marlboros and cheap beer at this point. I had no idea Steve Bannon acted.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:03
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I checked out of the X-Files mythos stuff after Season 7 so...uh...the alien rebels and alien not-rebels no longer care about us or something?
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Jan 4, 2018 23:31
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WhyteRyce posted:I checked out of the X-Files mythos stuff after Season 7 so...uh...the alien rebels and alien not-rebels no longer care about us or something? There was some overwrought lines in this episode about the aliens no longer wanting a planet with a warming climate and dwindling resources.
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Jan 5, 2018 00:16
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McSpanky posted:There was some overwrought lines in this episode about the aliens no longer wanting a planet with a warming climate and dwindling resources. I barely remember the shitshow of last season, but didn't they try spinning it last season that there weren't even loving any real aliens or something and it was all just another layer of obfuscation by the ~real~ conspiracy?
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Jan 5, 2018 00:47
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Laterite posted:I did find myself comparing whose nose had grown more comically bulbous, Duchovney or Pileggi's. I kept wondering if they put prosthetics on them or something because I do not remember their noses being that large before. Gillian Anderson has aged tremendously well though.
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Jan 5, 2018 00:53
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I barely remember the shitshow of last season, but didn't they try spinning it last season that there weren't even loving any real aliens or something and it was all just another layer of obfuscation by the ~real~ conspiracy? Yes, and this episode walks a good chunk of that stuff back. Honestly, I can see the strands of a decent mytharc story here - it's a lot of recycled plot threads from past seasons though - but it's written and edited so poorly and feels like a 2 parter condensed into a single episode. There are so many needless monologues, and I could feel David Duchovny increasingly not giving a poo poo each time he had to deliver one. The fact that it retcons season 10 kept me on board until loving alien science happened.
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Jan 5, 2018 01:08
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Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster definitely happened.
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Jan 5, 2018 01:18
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Only the last episode never happened, but apparently everything about the smoking man happened, except he still has his nose and doesn’t wear a phantom of the opera mask.
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Jan 5, 2018 01:40
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None of the characters actually met the Smoking Man in season 10 until that finale though, right? And that didn't actually happen. Still disappointed in Reyes' heel turn being actually real.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:06
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Mulder’s shellfish allergy is out of control in this new season.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:10
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Cael posted:Please change the thread title to "I impregnated her with science. ALIEN SCIENCE." Personality quiz, Which voice did you hear this in your head? A)Professor Farnsworth from Futurama B)Walter Bishop from Fringe
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Jan 5, 2018 02:15
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hangedman1984 posted:Personality quiz, Which voice did you hear this in your head? C.) Walternate While he's got the death stare on his face. You know the one.
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Jan 5, 2018 03:17
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That was utter dogshit.
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Jan 5, 2018 03:59
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Gonz posted:C.) Walternate D) Mr. Peterman sticklefifer posted:I mean, it's no First Person Shooter. Sorry, friend, retroactively turning En Ami into even more of a "date??? rape" episode is not good television. It's edgelord nonsense. UnknownMercenary posted:Still disappointed in Reyes' heel turn being actually real. Yeah, say what you will about the actress/character, the about-face makes all of zero sense.
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Jan 5, 2018 04:01
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that was trash but so absurd it seemed like self satire, which is sort of redeeming i guess?
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Jan 5, 2018 04:12
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Old Boot posted:D) Mr. Peterman The whole episode had a smell of desperation about it, like they were scrambling for anything to connect the lunatic poo poo in this episode to the old show. “Hey, remember one episode of our show from 20 years ago that we only made because we thought it would be fun to have an actor write a one-off character episode? It’s now central to our narrative.”
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Jan 5, 2018 04:21
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I do wonder what was Davis' original intention for that scene. Carter told EW the date rape was planned since S7, but I'd like to think that was Carter's idea shoehorned into the ep or something. Then again one of the original draft's scenes for En Ami had CSM teaching Scully how to water-ski, so idek
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Jan 5, 2018 04:55
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I just watched this and it really is horrifically bad. It's a very sad thing to see actually.
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Jan 5, 2018 05:09
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Ignis posted:I do wonder what was Davis' original intention for that scene. Carter told EW the date rape was planned since S7, but I'd like to think that was Carter's idea shoehorned into the ep or something. Carter didn’t even know what would happen in this episode while they filmed the last one. His whole career is painting himself into corners and then spinning ways of getting out. I guess everyone forgot that Scully has already been impregnated with magic alien science children in a twist that reveals it was the government instead of aliens and that smoking man has already been dramatically revealed to unexpectedly be a main character’s father. It’s like the show has Alzheimer’s.
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Jan 5, 2018 05:10
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business hammocks posted:His whole career is painting himself into corners and then knocking through a supporting wall to get out. This is how I've heard someone describe Chris Carter's writing on the X-files years and years ago, and it's so damned true.
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Jan 5, 2018 05:45
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McSpanky posted:There was some overwrought lines in this episode about the aliens no longer wanting a planet with a warming climate and dwindling resources. But since mankind is the source of both of those problems why not just kill off/convert with black oil the whole human race?! Oh god I'm thinking too much about this show again
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Jan 5, 2018 06:29
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I immediately watched "Beyond the Sea" afterward to cleanse myself.
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