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I started rewatching the show from beginning with MY GIRLFRIEND recently, and we're both loving it. Doing it in order means I'm seeing the 'minor' episodes that I probably only watched on their original broadcast, and I'm quite surprised how much I've enjoyed ones that I'd passed over when I got the DVDs, like 'Shadows', 'Miracle Man' and 'Roland'. Even 'Born Again' and '3' were... well, not exactly good, but so far even the weakest episodes have still contained something interesting. I'm not eagerly anticipating episodes that I remember boring me shitless on first broadcast, though. 'Dod Kalm' and 'The Field Where I Died' are both lurking in the future...
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I'd completely forgotten that 'Red Museum' was part of the mytharc. Cultists and slaughterhouses and creepy voyeurs, then suddenly BAM! Purity Control out of nowhere! I've also annoyed the hell out of my girlfriend by improvising lyrics to match both the whistling and the visuals in the opening titles, and now she can't get them out of her head:  A wobbly UFO, A glowing plasma globe. Two germinating seeds, And David Duchovny. With Gillian Anderson, And a white falling man, An eye. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Feb 24, 2014 15:06
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Mid-season 2 is when they really started to go for it in terms of production values. Stuff like the submarine conning tower rising out of the ice in 'End Game' was not just an iconic image of the show, but a drat impressive - and expensive - combination of prop and set. Building something that size as a static piece would have been a big enough job, but then they had it move! (And then they spray-painted a whole Canadian rock quarry red to make it look like southwestern sandstone in 'Anasazi'...)
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Feb 26, 2014 19:40
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Jack Gladney posted:Oh Psi-Factor, the bargain-bin (even moreso) Canadian X-Files. Dan Akroyd will still claim that the OSIR is a real organization that submitted material for the show. I honestly can't tell if he really believes that or not.
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Jun 7, 2014 09:32
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Cancer Man should be brought back the same way the Master comes back on Doctor Who after being killed, this time for real, undeniably, no doubts in anyone's mind, honest: have him simply show up as if nothing's happened, and if anyone calls him on the fact that he was last seen dying screaming in flames, he just chuckles mockingly before swiftly moving on.
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Apr 8, 2015 16:08
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steinrokkan posted:How could they improve upon Gbson's impeccable cyberpunk imagination????
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Jun 7, 2015 23:20
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WebDog posted:I think the main appeal for me was spending too much time reading crap like this.
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Aug 12, 2015 20:50
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esselfortium posted:How the hell is CSM still alive?! He was shot by helicopter missiles and engulfed in fire! Maybe they decided to just hope everyone's forgotten all about the terrible series finale. It would probably be for the best, I guess.
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Oct 2, 2015 11:58
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember when they filmed the second movie, they released false spoilers and set photos that made it look like the movie was going to be about a werewolf, and I really wish it had had that storyline instead.
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Oct 8, 2015 19:55
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Gillian Anderson's actually done a fair bit of British TV over the past few years; Bleak House, Great Expectations, The Fall (which I think has either just had or is about to have a third series) and some others, and she's in the new version of War & Peace that just started. All that and Hannibal and various movies too - she's keeping busy. She mostly seems to be concentrating on miniseries, though, so I imagine she doesn't want to be tied in to anything long-term that might keep her from other work.
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Jan 5, 2016 15:45
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Astroman posted:Yeah, continuity was highly verboten on tv shows in the 50s-90s because they wanted to rerun them and expected people to be able to watch on any random weekday a syndicated episode and not feel left out. All plots resolved by the end of the episode, very few recurring characters, and arcs or continuity more by accident. Hell, in the early days of tv they never expected them to rerun at all, so they cared even less.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:45
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I missed the final episode of the new series. I'm going to assume from comments here that no, actually I didn't miss anything of value.
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Aug 11, 2017 15:53
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mastershakeman posted:having slogged through every episode of the x-files should i get myself amped up for the 2nd movie? I'm really unmotivated for it  in movie form. I remember coming out of it both disappointed and wondering what the hell I just watched, and now all I can recall of the story is that it somehow went from Billy Connelly as a repentent paedophile priest having visions of dead kids to gay Russians doing head-swap surgery. I have no idea at all what happened between those two things.
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