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The Vancouver acting scene wasn’t quite big enough for the needs of multiple weekly tv shows. I remember seeing Roger Cross like two or three times. Benita Ha from Street Cents was on a few times too, but never Jono Torrens.
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McGavin posted:That's because Street Cents was filmed in Halifax and Jonovision was filmed in Toronto. That's a very good reason.
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There is a pivotal scene in Neuromancer where a bunch of cynical teen hackers help the main character by using pay phones as part of some sci-fi phone phreak thing.
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Pac and Cheese posted:i've been watching x files for the first time, my main takeaways are that it's one of the best comedies ever made, and that mark snow got paid more to aimlessly noodle around on a keyboard for a few years than you'll make in your entire life It perfectly balanced tension and character-based comedy for maybe four seasons and then they leaned too far into humor and upset the balance. It’s really something to enjoy.
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And that lone oboe of comedy.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I would be shocked if this actually comes out, but this quote kind of blew my mind: On the one hand, the way they had her dressed was kind of dowdy. On the other hand, they made her do a strip tease in the pilot. I wonder if that scene was to placate the executives.
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On Fridays they were up against TGIF and Burke’s Law, neither of which I think of as lasting very far into the 90s. EDIT: Burke’s Law only existed in the 90s. I’m way off.
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I love the rough edge on those early seasons. It’s not as good when they’re not straining to afford a single train car explosion.
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Chris Carter ponderous monologues are so bad. They’re indistinguishable from parody.
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bagmonkey posted:yes!!! Robert Patrick Modell. He's one of my absolute favorite characters in the series. If I ever get an X-Files tattoo, it's gonna be cerulean blue of some sort The earliest pop-cultural depiction of a weeaboo I can think of.
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Diet Poison posted:This is the only episode I skip every time now. There are some bad fuckin episodes but this one just makes me ill. I can’t remember where I read it, but I saw a post once that said the problem with the Lone Gunmen series is that it took characters loved for bringing comedy into a serious show and for being clever saviors of the serious main characters there and it made them straight men who need help from other characters. Adding the dumb millionaire guy and the sexy spy lady was exactly the wrong decision—the lone gunmen needed like a boring cop or some other set of fbi agents who were even less fun than Mulder and Scully to play off of. When the only conflict is between the three of them and they need help, they become incompetent clowns. The timeline wouldn’t have worked, but they should have been joined by their old police contact from Baltimore, John Munch.
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Zesty posted:Yeah let me throw a dart here. I forget the episode (it might be the psychic bowling alley pinsetter guy one in your post), but there’s a scene where Mulder and Scully interview residents of a group home for people with developmental disabilities, and it has some gags that would probably not have been ok at the time because they’re about how wacky and weird the people in the boarding house are.
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bagmonkey posted:BINGO! Also Fight Club loving SUCKS and that might be my most hated episode. It starts out so promising and then... yeah, it's absolutely not an X-Files episode after the first like 15 minutes and the amount of disappointment I feel with a good monster of the week idea wasted on kathy loving griffith That’s the one where she helps an angel kill some kids born with extra fingers, right? Or “helps them escape to heaven”?
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There were those dementia-reversing Vietnamese mushrooms that caused absolutely no ill effects unless someone took too many (like all medication). Luckily, Mulder and Scully discovered them and had the nurse who was growing them deported so that medical science could never learn of them.
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There are probably scientific explanations for Bruce Campbell. Wasn’t he testing people’s blood to find someone who was more likely to have a normal baby with him? He and the other devil lady could have just been weird mutants or like part of an ethnic group with unfortunate features.
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Having any kind of world-changing implications from the motw episodes is complicated by having all of the superpowered or supernatural one-off people be gross criminals or unfixable perverts independent of whatever magic thing they do. Nobody could ever convince that lightning kid to do anything good or even be curious about what he can do. Even scientists are usually obsessed with revenge from beyond the grave or some poo poo instead of taking Scully or their old department chair aside for five minutes to explain how it works. And then when you do get somebody reasonable, smoking man black-bags him for a mind suck.
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He’s actually not that bad, but the show’s pretty much out of steam. It was actually out of steam two seasons before that, but it can still be fun.
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Alien Bounty Hunter is great because he’s the only guy involved in the alien stuff who’s just punching a clock and absolutely does not give a poo poo.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:both Yeah, he’s introduced as the guy tasked with killing the Samantha clones (who are aliens, I guess) and identical scientist guys who are working together to escape alien stuff and live secretly on Earth. Then that gets forgotten and he’s just there to kill humans whenever certain alien stuff is at risk of being exposed. Other alien stuff is not a big deal, apparently.
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It was a really good idea to use the half of the season they had Duchovny for at the end instead of the beginning, and then to just have him as a supporting character just kind of farting around and helping the new agents. They just executed it poorly and then did another season after a conclusion that was decent enough for Mulder and Scully (they’re pretty much done with fighting aliens and happy to leave that to the new characters while they focus on raising their kid). A few more episodes of Duchovny/Patrick teaming up and learning respect for one another would have really sold it when Mulder took the heat for blowing up an oil rig and got fired. Then a couple more with him just consulting and seeing the new kids do it on their own would have been great. The show also suffers from taking the conspiracy stuff in that weird robot army guy direction. The black oil and everything from the Mulder era just drops out, so it’s weird having him back investigating Adam Baldwin. Maybe part of those final episodes could have been him realizing that all his expertise on the old conspiracy is basically useless and he’s behind the times post-resurrection.
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tidal wave emulator posted:Also the fact that every planet in Stargate SG-1 just happened to have the exact same biome as inland British Columbia. Inland British Columbia being the same as every other planet they visit just means that Earth is typical for a planet with a stargate.
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