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redshirt posted:That's cool. Do you talk X-Files? We haven't but I'll have to bring it up next time we talk. He always loved Coast to Coast AM and I have good memories of listening to that with him too. We didn't watch it together in the original run I think I thought the theme music was too scary.
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I loved every episode I could manage to watch when I was a kid. I didn't care for much of the actual conspiracy stuff but I loved all the aliens and crazy horror stuff. Friends and I used to debate if it was based on actual events or not.
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Wow I never watched Season 11 of the Xfiles, somehow I missed it coming out. Most of these are really bad. For some reason they keep having Mulder be like an action hero? Fighting guys with his hands handcuffed (and yes, at least they threw in a sex joke but...) Forehead sweat was good though.
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Jan 1, 2024 06:45
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The one mystery Skinner got to the bottom of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2zuxnEDyjM
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pseudanonymous posted:Wow I never watched Season 11 of the Xfiles, somehow I missed it coming out. Most of these are really bad. For some reason they keep having Mulder be like an action hero? Mulder is a superman
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I like to nurse the theory that Smoking Man isn't so easily killed because he's a supersoldier.
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Jan 1, 2024 09:19
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Remember hot British Scully? From Scotland Yard or some such?
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The Fall. I haven't watched it yet but I've been told she is 🔥 in it.
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All Scullys are Beautiful
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She's good in everything, ASAB.
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The Fall was good, at least the first season. She also voiced her own parody character on the CGI animated show ReBoot, Data Nully.
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She did a voice over in some techno song, yes? Also a voice over in a Microsoft Game and I think came with the Sidewinder joystick.
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I had totally forgotten but there was a podcast called Kumail Nanjiani’s The X-Files Files (he’s Dinesh in Silicon Valley, stand up guy, animal control officer in the S10 were-monster episode) which was pretty good. It was basically a rewatch podcast - an episode of the podcast per episode of the show, where they rewatch the episode and talk about it with a guest who usually has some connections to the show and/or episode. He was into season 4 of the rewatch and stopped, which was also around the time he did his appearance on season 10 and I’ve only just gone looking for a reason, which was “don’t turn something you love into work.” In the back of my head I had the idea he’d gone paid subscription or platform exclusive like a bunch of podcasts did, and because I used to listen to a lot of podcasts to get me through the work day, I never bothered to look. Anyway, it still exists on the various platforms and there’s a bunch of interesting guests talking X-Files.
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Watched FPS with my friend group today to explain why we won't be going past the end of season 6. We're convinced as a group that the episode was an executive mandate and the writers intended it as a joke/satire- yet look who wrote and directed it. This wasn't ironic at all.
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DRINK ME posted:I had totally forgotten but there was a podcast called Kumail Nanjiani’s The X-Files Files (he’s Dinesh in Silicon Valley, stand up guy, animal control officer in the S10 were-monster episode) which was pretty good. It was basically a rewatch podcast - an episode of the podcast per episode of the show, where they rewatch the episode and talk about it with a guest who usually has some connections to the show and/or episode. Oh nice that does sound good. I’d imagine he may have got too busy? He’s in a ton of stuff & was the only good part of the Eternals.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:Edit 2: Actually I really like X. His short story arc is my favorite. Dude wants to help but doesn't want to put his life on the line, then ultimately saves Mulder. Steven Williams is fantastic and they killed him off too soon.
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redshirt posted:Can someone successfully and succinctily summarize the "Mythology" storyline? The overall plot of the X-Files makes no sense whatsoever, especially when you get into the characters' behaviour, but there are some basic aspects of the setting that are pretty consistent across episodes. Note: the following is from seasons 1-5 and the movie, because I don't really give a poo poo after that. One of the more fundamental jokes in The X-Files is that "Greys" don't actually exist. They're totally horseshit, but the US government promotes belief in them when they want to cover things up and make Mulder look like a crackpot. Greys consequently only appear in dream sequences, hallucinations, and fictions.* So what is the US covering up? Usually pretty basic stuff like mind-control technology, warp-engine fighter jets, new bioweapons, etc. That poo poo all gets blamed on the Greys. Actual aliens do exist in the setting, but they take the form of germs, bugs, fungus, and those sorts of things. These non-anthropomorphic aliens apparently fall to Earth in meteorites all the drat time, and have a tendency to infect people, so governments have been conducting covert experimentation to produce vaccines and/or immune genetic hybrids. (Greys provide a convenient cover story here too, since common symptoms of alien infection are discolored skin and a swollen cranium.) The main type of alien-human hybrid are the green-blooded clones who appear across show. These guys are organic, but act exactly like the robot drones from the movie Terminator. Each type is manufactured for a specific function, like ants, and they're continually working in the background as slaves for the real baddies. Those real baddies are, naturally, a bunch of rich old white dudes. But those white dudes are, themselves, servants of the real real baddie: a formless mass of black goo. Unlike most aliens in the show, the black goo is intelligent - apparently made up of nanomachines or something. It's billions of years old and, having developed saucer-like ships capable of space travel, likely created all life on Earth. The goo hosed off back into space shortly afterwards, but is now preparing to return one day so it can forcibly transform humanity into a race of xenomorphs from the movie Alien.** So, what's up with the bees and the abductions? The goo isn't as powerful as you might expect, since it needs to spend decades breeding genetically-engineered bees to serve as a delivery mechanism (like the 'facehuggers' from the movie Alien). That's primarily what the secret clone army has been working on. These clones are partly created from the genetic material of abductees - people who the government has had kidnapped for whatever arbitrary reasons. Scully, for example, was abducted to mess with Mulder, while Duane Barry was abducted so that he could be brainwashed into a kind of "manchurian candidate" sleeper agent. The DNA collection seems kinda secondary in importance, but they use it anyways. That's about it, I think. As you can see, it's pretty coherent in the abstract, but nothing about how Mulder and Scully are actually fighting this evil plot makes any sense. *A Grey finally does appear for real in the very first episode of season 6, immediately following the movie, but I stopped caring at that point. **As noted above, season 6 immediately retcons the film and says the black goo xenomorphs were actually just baby Greys all along, which is boring.
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One thing that bugged me is that whenever someone dies Carter kept saying no one really stays dead in the X-Files. Which....other than one, maybe two cases is complete horseshit. I also grimace at the later episodes where it comes across as really antivax.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The overall plot of the X-Files makes no sense whatsoever, especially when you get into the characters' behaviour, but there are some basic aspects of the setting that are pretty consistent across episodes. Good summary, loses points on succinctness. What do you think of earlier theories that there were rival aliens, working at cross purposes?
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There are rebel aliens of the same species as the bounty hunter guys who sealed their face openings so they couldn't be infected. They were fighting the alien colonists, but since the alien colonists were working with the human syndicate most of their targets were humans or human/alien hybrids so they weren't exactly friends to humanity. You know what never made sense to me? Scully and Mulder discover people and beings with fantastic abilities like controlling electricity, psychic projection, a legitimate genie, and none of them get weaponized for use against the world-ending alien threat.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:There are rebel aliens of the same species as the bounty hunter guys who sealed their face openings so they couldn't be infected. They were fighting the alien colonists, but since the alien colonists were working with the human syndicate most of their targets were humans or human/alien hybrids so they weren't exactly friends to humanity. I wasn't saying the other aliens were human friendly, rather, just that there were multiple aliens with multiple agendas, as well as for their human agents.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:You know what never made sense to me? Scully and Mulder discover people and beings with fantastic abilities like controlling electricity, psychic projection, a legitimate genie, and none of them get weaponized for use against the world-ending alien threat. Walter Bishop was in a mental facility at the time, alas.
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Wasn't there an episode where people come from a future not controlled by aliens? Doesn't that imply that alien domination is not inevitable?
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:You know what never made sense to me? Scully and Mulder discover people and beings with fantastic abilities like controlling electricity, psychic projection, a legitimate genie, and none of them get weaponized for use against the world-ending alien threat. I guess because all of the bigwigs in the government have just resigned themselves to the deal and thought that something like this might raise too much suspicion. But it would have been cool if they had gotten the guy from Pusher to try and stop an alien. Could his powers even work on an alien brain?
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Spazzle posted:Wasn't there an episode where people come from a future not controlled by aliens? Doesn't that imply that alien domination is not inevitable? if its past like, season 6, there's a poo poo ton of weird stuff that happens that either get reconned in later seasons or just gets completely forgotten about and never mentioned again
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:
A lot of those folks just end up dead, and I definitely remember it being a thing in multiple episodes where the government captures some of the ones who survive for study. And the genie is obviously too dangerous to even try anything with, also Mulder frees her anyway.
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Isn't X the guy who captures and experiments on Monk
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Garrand posted:A lot of those folks just end up dead, and I definitely remember it being a thing in multiple episodes where the government captures some of the ones who survive for study. Almost every episode ending in a total loss, or pyrrhic victory at best, is a defining trait of The X-Files, yeah.
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This thread has spurred me to watch the series. Never saw much of it during the original run since I was young and scared. Wish me luck.
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gently caress you're lucky
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Spazzle posted:Wasn't there an episode where people come from a future not controlled by aliens? Doesn't that imply that alien domination is not inevitable? Yeah, there's a time-travel episode, but it's pretty isolated and the implications (that an alien apocalypse is like 60 years away, if it all) aren't explored. A Fancy Hat posted:I guess because all of the bigwigs in the government have just resigned themselves to the deal and thought that something like this might raise too much suspicion. It works for me that there was never like, an X-Files X-Men, because most of the mutants and people with abilities they meet are loving psychos who live off of human livers or whatever. And yeah, they'd have a vested interest in the world not ending, presumably, but they're hardly reliable (in the cases where they survive and are captured and not outright killed or disappear mysteriously). It is interesting we didn't see much of people who are "monsters" trying to get on day to day - there was one later episode, maybe season 7, where there was a dude who was a gross mutant, but also was just some nervy dude who was doing his best as a fast-food manager.
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The Jersey Devil drawing is legit top 5 TV moment for me. I physically gasped. I spoke WAY to soon 
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Houle posted:One thing that bugged me is that whenever someone dies Carter kept saying no one really stays dead in the X-Files. Which....other than one, maybe two cases is complete horseshit. Kind of a hindsight thing. This was before Wakefield, and it's implied the vaccines did work- just that the program was cover for genetic sampling too. The whole Syndicate's plan is to Create a vaccination for the alien parasite/black goo secretly after making a deal with them to release a virus to cripple the world in 2012 for their invasion [and create hybrid slaves]. They're playing both sides, ostensibly, trying to make themselves and choice others survive. The stretch-goal was finding a way to genocide the aliens. The implication being the secrecy wasn't so much about us finding out- it was them. If they find out X-Files becomes X-Com very quickly. Unfortunately when a splinter faction of aliens tried to overthrow the overall government, the syndicate chose to be loyalist and hedge their bets- and all died. It's implied the rebellion failed either way.
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tfw you see any other title other than The Truth Is Out There at the end of the opening.
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Bonzo posted:tfw you see any other title other than The Truth Is Out There at the end of the opening. 
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EVERYTHING DIES
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Bonzo posted:She did a voice over in some techno song, yes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqQ4EteFyc
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She wore a dress with vaginas all over it for the Golden Gloves last weekend. LEGEND
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did bad blood tonight loving wild episode love it, probably the series peak I've decided to call it a close after we finish S6 Season 5 is kind of a rollercoaster for quality
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I'm into season 9, only made it as far as the movie when it aired. Was nuts about the show for 3 seasons and just lost interest in season 5 with Scully's secret hybrid daughter. The Reyes/Doggett pairing, super soldiers and Koran/Bible UFO stuff is very underwhelming. I'm about to watch 'William'
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