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thin blue whine posted:i tried re-watching the whole series a few weeks ago after not having watched any X-Files in probably 15 years, but after a couple episode i realized i just wanted to jump around and watch single episodes so i've been doing that. i forgot how good some of the MotW episodes are but Bad Blood. i liked Bad Blood a lot more on a re-re-watch. Yeah there are quite a few nothing eps, especially early on that there aren’t any really good reasons to watch except for completionist purposes. Like early Simpsons having clip shows, can watch if you want but why? lol just remembered a Lone Gunman episode where they have a working car engine that runs off water instead of gasoline but they don’t release it as they somehow think it will be worse for the environment. Never mind that such a device would easily mean safe & free infinite heat, power, etc as well as taking a lot of power from some of the worst autocracies, and make blood for oil wars obsolete. But no, this will clearly result in more roads so Lone Gunmen are vetoing.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Yeah there are quite a few nothing eps, especially early on that there aren’t any really good reasons to watch except for completionist purposes. Like early Simpsons having clip shows, can watch if you want but why? The rationale is it would be bad because so many people would be making these engines the resource drain would outstrip the benefits. It's possibly the dumbest conclusion in TV history.
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I don’t remember the episode well enough to know if this was addressed but water isn’t an infinite resource, especially if it has to run on fresh water. Im on team Gunmen for this one.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:I don’t remember the episode well enough to know if this was addressed but water isn’t an infinite resource, especially if it has to run on fresh water. Im on team Gunmen for this one. Fresh water is a shitload easier to make than gasoline The only way it makes sense is if the manufacture of the engine is somehow REALLY bad for the environment
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Dec 18, 2023 05:04
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Love the files. Love this loving reaction Mulder has as soon as this lady mentions aliens: https://i.imgur.com/vgx63IH.mp4 and moments later when she starts listing alien stuff: https://i.imgur.com/vJua2QY.mp4
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Dec 18, 2023 05:09
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"In the United States, on average, 1.5 gallons (5.7 liters) of water are consumed for every gallon of oil refined" https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pr6r5h6#main Water and Energy Interactions, James E. McMahon and Sarah K., (2011) Price Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Department Environmental Energy Technologies Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley.
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Dec 18, 2023 05:15
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Bad Blood is one of the best episodes, hence my custom title. Also Doug Hutchinson hit on me at the X-Files convention in 1998 when I was 18 (yes this has been my personality for a long time) so yes he's 100% creeper. Fun fact : we get the term "ship" from X-Files message boards in the 90s from people who wanted Miller and Scully to be together. I was a "no-romo" because I thought they should be platonic soul mates.
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Saganlives posted:Love the files. Love this loving reaction Mulder has as soon as this lady mentions aliens: Bambi???
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Dec 18, 2023 07:00
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Did...did the cigarette smoking man shoot her mother. 
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Bonzo posted:I'm re-watching 80s Twilight Zone and the first half of season 1 is good but then it falls into heavy boomer themed episodes. One stars a very young Scott Grimes and it about a woman that choose a career over having kids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone) There was also the late 90s revival of the Outer Limits, which I remember being REALLY into. I think there was a point pretty early on where the X-Files was busy jumping up its own rear end and our sci-fi fan crew in high school just collectively agreed that Outer Limits was by then the superior show.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:There was also the late 90s revival of the Outer Limits, which I remember being REALLY into. I think there was a point pretty early on where the X-Files was busy jumping up its own rear end and our sci-fi fan crew in high school just collectively agreed that Outer Limits was by then the superior show. Outer limits starts around Season 3 of X-Files, just where the myth arc starts to get spotty- but at the peak of overall quality. It goes on to 2002, and if it was good around season 6 (When the X-Files was showing it's whole rear end) in 99 then I can definitely see this!
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You Are A Werewolf posted:I saw this in theaters and I own the Blu-ray. Makes a great Wes Craven double-feature with The People Under the Stairs (of which I also saw in theaters and own the Blu-ray) I loved People when I randomly saw it a few years back. Feels like I was the only one who did.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:There was also the late 90s revival of the Outer Limits, which I remember being REALLY into. I think there was a point pretty early on where the X-Files was busy jumping up its own rear end and our sci-fi fan crew in high school just collectively agreed that Outer Limits was by then the superior show. "If These Walls Could Talk" remains one of the best little known setups for a horror story that I know of.
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mulder met a fitness instructor who's x-file is that she has tooms like flexibility he died shortly after this was taken.
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Mr. Barnesworth posted:
Look at that pig's huge ball
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The Truth is out there
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SRQ posted:mulder met a fitness instructor who's x-file is that she has tooms like flexibility Of dehydration?
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Shageletic posted:I loved People when I randomly saw it a few years back. Feels like I was the only one who did. childhood favorite of mine. crazy that the starring couple also plays a couple in Twin Peaks
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maybeadracula posted:The mytharc episodes feel the weakest NOW I didn’t like the multi episode aliens arc of xfiles and always wished they made all random monsters. This is not nostalgia because I haven’t watched xfiles in decades. To be fair I felt very alone in this opinion.
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https://www.cbr.com/x-files-reboot-ryan-coogler-update/ Apparently Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther, is rebooting X-Files on Disney+. I credit this thread
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Assuming it would be set in modern times, what is the 2020's equivalent of casual business suits with giant shoulder pads?
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Dec 19, 2023 05:12
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How do you do a conspiracy show when the only conspiracies people care about is racism
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Shageletic posted:How do you do a conspiracy show when the only conspiracies people care about is racism Probably ends up in horrible the racism is just a cover territory given the zeitgeist’s near endless appetite to cover up for and defend racists.
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Some of the 'pre-X Files' series might be worth a revisit. Doomwatch was a UK show from the 70s. Here is a plot synopsis of one episode "Doomwatch hears that in south Wales, tough ex-miners have taken to drinking gin instead of their usual beer, and are unresponsive to their wives' sexual advances, instead preferring to attend secret cock-fighting tournaments. After Quist is asked by the minister to look into the situation, as it is happening within his constituency, he and his team trace the cause to the local fish farm, which is using a special chemical to dissolve the bones in the fish. Unfortunately, this has led to the workforce becoming sterile..." I can't remember how accurate this is as a description, but it sounds close. I don't think it was 'just' sterility either, but sort of actually chemically castrating people.
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Episode one: The Lakeville murders. Scene 1 - Int: Skinners office - day. Mulder: After looking through weeks of looking through all the evidence in Lakeville murders, their wounds, the locations the bodies were found, the weird chemicals found in their blood stream, it was obviously to Skully and I it was the work of lizard people covering up their global pedophile ring, we must arrest Hunter Biden immediately. Skully: Mulder I've repeatedly told you, your ideas are insane and sad and very, very stupid, please stop trying to bring me into this. Mulder: Skully you just need to believe. See the Truth! Skinner: Yeah, I've had enough this Mulder, your fired. God I hope I never have to see you again. Mulder: You're both part of this, Hilirary pedophile jewish lizard people!!!! Vote Trump 2024!!!! Only He knows the Truth! Scene 2 - int: Mulder's mothers basement - night Mulder starts his laptop, opens 4 chan and makes a new post - " you won't belive the day I've had so my former co-workers have been toltally been brainwashed by the mainstream media clinton/lizards, and now i'm fired, and worst today had me so busy Ihaven't even had time to look at the new Q drop" dr_rat fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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It's ironic. Scully's skepticism in the face of unrelenting weirdness is the most unexplainable aspect of the show.
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maybeadracula posted:Look at that pig's huge ball
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redshirt posted:It's ironic. Scully's skepticism and also insanely Catholic when the story demands. Meanwhile mulder has no time for that weird poo poo
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Milo and POTUS posted:Scully's skepticism and also insanely Catholic when the story demands. Meanwhile mulder has no time for that weird poo poo Scully's Alien Baby
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Cornwind Evil posted:"If These Walls Could Talk" remains one of the best little known setups for a horror story that I know of. drat, sure looks like it from the synopsis. Weirdly enough I don't remember the episode at all, but then again it has been 28 years since I saw it. I wonder if Outer Limits is available for streaming anywhere (anywhere reasonable, I mean, I'm not gonna start paying for Paramount+ or something) or if I should just pirate it? In any case I want to see it again. E: Doesn't look like it's available legally in Finland.
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On rewatch and actually finishing the show this time I was surprised to see that despite popular consensus they do a lot to wrap things up and more or less explain everything that's going on... And then Fox gave them a renewal. So you get Duchovny's stand in running around the desert and only being seen from a distance because he agreed to be in like 5 episodes a season.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Scully's skepticism and also insanely Catholic when the story demands. Meanwhile mulder has no time for that weird poo poo I really liked that dynamic. I don't think Mulder ever criticized or objected to it the same way Scully did the standard paranormal stuff but it was clear what he thought of the religious side of things.
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The Finn posted:https://www.cbr.com/x-files-reboot-ryan-coogler-update/ What a terrible loving idea!
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Disco Pope posted:What a terrible loving idea! Welcome to 2024
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"Listen, we're really desperate here... Can we tie X-Files into the MCU and have them discover the existence of mutants?"
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JediTalentAgent posted:"Listen, we're really desperate here... Can we tie X-Files into the MCU and have them discover the existence of mutants?" Can't wait for the show to revolve around the whereabouts of Mulder or whatever in the lead-up to a 7 part spin-off series. I'm not opposed to Disney+ or whatever, but I don't subscribe anymore because I can only watch Gravity Falls (any X-Files fans, especially those with older pre-teens, should see that if they havent) and classic Simpsons so much, and the panning/scanning on X-Files episodes irritated me. I just think X-Files is such a show of and about its time, that I can't see a remake working well. There's been societal sea-changes that mean that the options are a tone-deaf straight reboot, or a totally different show. And if we're seeing new agents, good loving luck finding the chemistry of Mulder and Scully! Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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Mulder is a logger living and working under an assumed identity in the same place as dexter. Also there's also every other sort of miscreant there, from mob bosses to bank robbers, but mulder's too distracted hunting for bigfoot and aliens to notice all the potentially ripe arrests
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Garrand posted:I really liked that dynamic. I don't think Mulder ever criticized or objected to it the same way Scully did the standard paranormal stuff but it was clear what he thought of the religious side of things. Yeah they basically flip the dynamic around whenever there's a religious episode. Mulder becomes the skeptic and Scully is totally ready to believe that the devil is here or an angel or whatever crazy poo poo. Aliens though? Scully ain't down for that.
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