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Octy posted:Oh no! John Neville aka The Well-Manicured Man is dead. I was really liking his character so far. Oh no! I liked the nomenclature for all the members of the Syndicate, it sorta helped "sell" that these men are members of such a deep conspiracy--the archetypal Men in Black G-Men spooks--that these basic, pretty banal identifying features like whether they smoke or what haircut they have or the state of their fingernails become their "names".
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I'm listening to an old compilation album of music cues from the first three or so seasons (the album is "The Truth and the Light: Music from The X-Files" and splices a lot of dialogue from the show into the music, which makes for a good atmosphere but can be annoying if you just want the music) and it's reminding me of how The X-Files had hands down one of the best and most interesting soundtracks I've ever heard in a TV show, especially one from the 90s. At the same time that Brannon Braga and Rick Berman were telling the composers for Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager that their compositions had to be as interesting and memorable as "aural wallpaper", here was Mark Snow crafting these dark, moody, gorgeous, incredibly striking sonic atmospheres, and I think Snow's work was instrumental in getting that "X-Files" aesthetic we all know and love. I'm disappointed I missed out on the huge limited edition X-Files compilation album La La Land Records was selling a while ago. Hopefully one of these days I'll be able to get the second volume before it goes out of print too.
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bobkatt013 posted:I also agree that the show needed more Well-Manicured Man As do I.
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haveblue posted:No, the worst episode is the one with the Indian mystic who crawls up people's asses and rides around in them. Back when I was in middle school I caught that episode on SyFy (or was it still the Sci-Fi Channel at that point?) and my older sister sat down and watched it with me. She spent the next few days teasing me about how bad that episode was.
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Mar 30, 2015 23:54
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:All this worst episode chat and no one mentions the mummy urn that summons swarms of house cats? Or the Stephen King Chuckie knockoff? Or the one where the two Kathy Griffins cause fights everytime they get near each other? I didn't mind the Stephen King episode all that much the last time I watched it. That's the one where Scully's all on her own and when she comes back to the office all Mulder's been doing while she's been gone is throw pencils at the ceiling, right?
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Apr 1, 2015 04:04
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Mulder's office still has a bunch of pencils stuck in the ceiling!
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Sep 29, 2015 14:57
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The next episode's a MOTW one, right?foobardog posted:OK, I'll watch this. This is going to be a stupid silly ride, but it seems fun. AFAIK they're sticking with the original theme song and credits through the whole run.
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Jan 25, 2016 05:25
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McSpanky posted:I hope not because GMOs have been a thing for like 20 years, if the original X-Files run lasted much longer they probably would've done an episode about alien hybrid corn or something. Wasn't that a subplot in the first movie?
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The X-files was one of the first shows to have a (relatively) massive online fandom, considering the size and scope of the internet at the time.
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