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this poster continues to baffle me, it's like x-files at home is the original copywrited? would a poster store even care?
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Scully, according to the Lone Gunmen, there are reports of something strange going on with posters at the something awful forums. And before you say anything, no, not in the usual sense.
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Dec 12, 2023 06:35
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Dec 12, 2023 07:06
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I got a refund for the x-files at home poster and get to keep it, yay.
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Dec 12, 2023 07:14
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In 2020 when most public pools were closed, David Duchovny reached out to an Paralympic swimmer who needed somewhere to train and let him use his Malibu house pool whenever he wanted. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/...&smid=url-share
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Dec 12, 2023 07:33
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What is that picture of him in armor from
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Dec 12, 2023 08:22
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Milo and POTUS posted:What is that picture of him in armor from First Person Shooter, an episode written by William Gibson of all people (I actually really like the earlier William Gibson episode with the cybergoth who lives in a container and dead guy stuck in the internet and poo poo). The second Gibson penned episode is shockingly bad and not even as entertaining as screengrabs from it.
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Dec 12, 2023 08:25
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X-Files has to do with the imagination distorting these files are secretly located in a drawer in an office that doesn't exist there are peaks and leaks into other realities it's a flawed concept the X File is the file they're looking for it is in a parallel office to the imaginary office with a golden key that unlocks any mystery beyond perversions perversion after perversion like a circle the cycle is never ending like the theory of dark matter the very solid idea itself can reshape our contained reality lest the boat sinks with its imaginary passengers in an imaginary ocean (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 12, 2023 08:45
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Disco Pope posted:First Person Shooter, an episode written by William Gibson of all people (I actually really like the earlier William Gibson episode with the cybergoth who lives in a container and dead guy stuck in the internet and poo poo). Kill Switch (the cybergoth episode you mentioned) has one of my favorite cold opens of any X-Files monster of the week. Episode is pretty good too but I love that cold open.
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Dec 12, 2023 09:07
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I'm gonna hijack this thread briefly to say that I after saying I had watched and loved Twin Peaks when it first aired but not since then, I obtained the first season of Twin Peaks yesterday and watched the pilot. It was more of a mixed bag than I remembered. Some of the comedy scenes feel extremely hokey, like the scene of Sherilyn Fenn scaring away the Norwegians (who are for some reason wearing German Tyrolean hats?) and then laughing about with a ridiculous comedy soundtrack. Some of the acting is also BROAD as gently caress, like Bobby Riggs being interrogated in the library feels like a parody of someone overacting like crazy. And some of the characters feel like Lynch trying to make everyone as quirky and weird as possible, maybe to the hindrance of the show. Case in point, the psychiatrist who wears comically large ear plugs, is dressed like he fell into a Good Will donation bin and acts like a cartoonishly stereotypical bad psychiatrist. I mean it's David Lynch, so it's gonna be some David Lynch poo poo, but it's kinda wild how I don't remember picking up on any of this as a teen. Let's see where this goes.
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Dec 12, 2023 09:13
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I felt like some of Twin Peaks hokeyness is it being a bit of a parody of soap operas but it's hard to tell how much
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So lucky. imagine getting to lick david duchovny
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I felt like some of Twin Peaks hokeyness is it being a bit of a parody of soap operas but it's hard to tell how much Huh, I didn't know that. I really want to read up on this kind of stuff, but obviously I can't just now because I'm still on episode 2/8 and any discussion about the themes and details of TP would involve a ton of spoilers. I mean I kinda remember the ending, possibly, but besides from that not much. drat good coffee, though.
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Dec 12, 2023 11:51
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That might just be my interpretation. But I definitely got the impression is was at least partially intentional, especially with the in-show soap opera often being shown so prominently.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:That might just be my interpretation. But I definitely got the impression is was at least partially intentional, especially with the in-show soap opera often being shown so prominently. I think more than anything it is telling about Lynch's own emotional life, and to a large degree his passion for meditation and plunging into his own depths. And I think that a lot of the characters line up with parts of his psyche that he had identified.
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Dec 12, 2023 13:42
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on topic: just like everyone else who saw it as a kid i wish that i didn't see the flukeman episode. I was intermittently scared of the bathroom for ages and would sometimes have fleeting intrusive thoughts along the lines of the stuff in the episode well into adulthood
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Dec 12, 2023 13:51
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nice obelisk idiot posted:on topic: just like everyone else who saw it as a kid i wish that i didn't see the flukeman episode. I was intermittently scared of the bathroom for ages and would sometimes have fleeting intrusive thoughts along the lines of the stuff in the episode well into adulthood yeah but did you see home, there's very little home chat itt and i feel like home was a real wild episode
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Dec 12, 2023 13:54
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It was a great show until they went all in on the black oil/sludge.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I felt like some of Twin Peaks hokeyness is it being a bit of a parody of soap operas but it's hard to tell how much I definitely got the vibe it was sometimes a parody of soap operas. That's how I watched it, intentionally.
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redshirt posted:I definitely got the vibe it was sometimes a parody of soap operas. That's how I watched it, intentionally. I'm still amazed they gave David Lynch a TV show that ran as long as it did
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Dec 12, 2023 14:09
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MrQwerty posted:I'm still amazed they gave David Lynch a TV show that ran as long as it did Indeed. I could see it today, with two decades of bold TV shows under our belt. But back in the late 80's'? That's amazing.
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Dec 12, 2023 14:17
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nice obelisk idiot posted:on topic: just like everyone else who saw it as a kid i wish that i didn't see the flukeman episode. I was intermittently scared of the bathroom for ages and would sometimes have fleeting intrusive thoughts along the lines of the stuff in the episode well into adulthood "Scully, its me. What do you know about the Skibidi Toilet?"
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I like that they made an evil HOA episode because one of the show runners had a beef with his HOA
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bitterandtwisted posted:I like that they made an evil HOA episode because one of the show runners had a beef with his HOA That one doesn't seem to get a ton of love but it's a good mix of spooky and funny. Mulder intentionally being a little poo poo to rile up the HOA is really great.
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bitterandtwisted posted:I like that they made an evil HOA episode because one of the show runners had a beef with his HOA They also had to make 26 episodes a year, so they did a lot of crazy poo poo.
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Eerie, Indiana was, well, "p. good" would be a stretch, but it was a fun show and it was basically X-Files for kids tonally it's really weird. it's supposed to be a little goofy I think but also not entirely unserious. which does add to the surreal vibe which is what's best about it i started rewatching it recently. i think i saw a lot of it as a kid but the only episode i had remembered was the one where the kids "retainer" [read: full dental headgear] lets him read dogs' minds and also discover the dog conspiracy against the humans 
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nowadays Mulder would be like "The government is watching all of us!" and Scully would be like "Yeah, we know, Mulder. Everybody knows. Nobody cares." and then Mulder would just look sad and disappointed
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eSports Chaebol posted:nowadays Mulder would be like "The government is watching all of us!" and Scully would be like "Yeah, we know, Mulder. Everybody knows. Nobody cares." and then Mulder would just look sad and disappointed Modern Mulder would be a man crippled by internet porn, YouTube iceberg videos and wider acceptance and knowledge of autism.
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eSports Chaebol posted:nowadays Mulder would be like "The government is watching all of us!" and Scully would be like "Yeah, we know, Mulder. Everybody knows. Nobody cares." and then Mulder would just look sad and disappointed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Art_of_Forehead_Sweat The revival seasons are absolutely a mixed bag and have the worst season finales of the whole show (and that's saying a lot) but they did handle this topic in an amazing episode.
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Spazzle posted:They also had to make 26 episodes a year, so they did a lot of crazy poo poo. Modern tv shows really suffer from the lack of crazy poo poo you can do if you only have 6-10 episodes to work with.
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Enfys posted:Modern tv shows really suffer from the lack of crazy poo poo you can do if you only have 6-10 episodes to work with. Watch Stargate SG:1 to see the Clip Show reach its highest perfection.
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I got into a rewatch of the X Files a couple of yrs ago and only made it to season 2 or 3 I think (those long seasons take so much time) but I was taken back how well most of the episodes came off. Just really high production values that almost feel like mini movies. And mature protagonists that are smart and capable as hell, acted by people fully committing to the hosed up ness of whatever their character was experiences. Like someone mentioned the Thing episode. And yeah it's a real good one and illustrative of my point. Scully and Mulder are the smart people in a horror movie that are nonetheless pushed to the limits, and there's so much happening with the guest stars and the plot that it really is a full meal of an episode. And without the need for season hooks, or a greater mystery or whatever. Just great sci fi.
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Shageletic posted:Like someone mentioned the Thing episode. And yeah it's a real good one and illustrative of my point. Scully and Mulder are the smart people in a horror movie that are nonetheless pushed to the limits, and there's so much happening with the guest stars and the plot that it really is a full meal of an episode. And without the need for season hooks, or a greater mystery or whatever. Just great sci fi. Lotta great guest starts throughout the show. Peter Boyle or Bryan Cranston were probably the best ones in terms of their performance, but I really love Luke Wilson in Bad Blood, especially when he portrays the hick version of himself that Mulder remembers. "Ya'll from the gubmint?!?"
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also the X-Files's commitment to just shooting grainy-as-gently caress night scenes instead of using day for night was commendable. i feel like you gotta watch it on a CRT almost
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Other guest starts include: Ryan Reynolds Lucy Liu Jane Lynch Felicity Huffman Octavia Spencer Seth Green Jack Black Brad Dourif (but this one is kinda obvious) Shia LaBeouf Aaron Paul Giovanni Ribisi I could go on... Most of these were before they made it "big" too! 
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Gravitee posted:Other guest starts include: If you like guest stars before they made it big, 80s Twilight Zone is a goldmine. Frances McDormand, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren… the hits keep coming. Plus so many pre-Star Trek actors show up like Frakes & Tim Russ, plus a rare non-Trek Brent Spiner.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:If you like guest stars before they made it big, 80s Twilight Zone is a goldmine. Frances McDormand, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren… the hits keep coming. Plus so many pre-Star Trek actors show up like Frakes & Tim Russ, plus a rare non-Trek Brent Spiner. Helen Mirren was already star of a million teenage nerd imaginations after Excalibur.
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eSports Chaebol posted:Eerie, Indiana was, well, "p. good" would be a stretch, but it was a fun show and it was basically X-Files for kids Don't the dogs eat him at the end?
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im slightly gay for david duchovny for sure, but what an interesting career. always in bad movies with good casts and/or directors, it seems. just half-assing it with the best of em' on movies they knew would suck a little bit californication was cool to watch cuz you just felt like you were buds with a chill hollywood dude. you felt like you were in the vicinity of getting ridiculous amount of pussy. and then there was kind of a plot and a little bit of softcore porn
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