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That was a bad episode of the X-Files, but I don't care, because it was an episode of the X-Files. The fact that the entire conspiracy rant made total sense to me is... somewhat worrying.
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Did they throw out the aliens completely in later seasons? I quit after Mulder and Scully stopped being regulars. That makes zero sense.
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Jan 26, 2016 01:14
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This was a mediocre episode of the X-Files, but it was an episode of the X-Files. So I am content. At one point I did briefly fantasize about what a six-episode season showrun by Vince Gilligan would look like though.
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Jan 26, 2016 07:25
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I think this episode would have been a lot better if they had used the phrase "alien DNA" a lot less and made it two hours: it would given them time for Mulder to have an actual plot and the pandemic to actually start spreading.
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Feb 25, 2016 08:22
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:What, was "ITS SPREADING" I feel like the episode spent so much time trying to set up what was going on it never really got a chance to explore what was going on. With more runtime, they could have replaced the exposition with demonstration! And maybe given Skinner something to do? Like, Chris Carter did write Fight the Future, right? I rewatched it in anticipation of the new season and really enjoyed it. What the hell happened to him?
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Feb 25, 2016 10:36
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not enough exposition for you?
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Yeah, I don't think this isn't really that much about getting off your phone, anyway -- they DO get off their phones toward the end, and doesn't solve the problem -- they actually survive because Mulder picks up the phone. It's a reasonable read of the ending, mind, but an equally plausible one is that we need to maintain our relationships and be compassionate, because we're building a world where we will regularly be interacting with entities that will not only learn from us, but behave in ways that are difficult or impossible to fully understand.
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Mar 2, 2018 07:52
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But AI is much stranger and weirder than that: this isn't just about learning from Mulder and Scully. All of the services they use are systems that have clearly already been in place for a while, and they've been learning from a whole collection of racists and trolls and shitheads before this week's episode. This is one of the unsettling things about deep learning: if you point an AI in the direction of a goal (walking, chess, getting a tip), they'll find strategies that a human will find incomprehensible or even horrifying. Mulder and Scully are just the poor saps who have to suffer from the results.
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Mar 2, 2018 17:57
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You're all being ridiculous; this is clearly just another vision that Scully and William are having, and if the show ever got resurrected they would just zoom out of Scully's eye again and start over for My Struggle V.
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Mar 27, 2018 13:27
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