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X-Files was my first jump into fandom. I was around 19 when it came out and it was one of the only TV shows I made sure I was home to watch. I like the Monster of the week in season 1 but the finale and Scully's abduction in S02 hooked me in. One of the first things I did when I got AOL was to start looking up stuff on X-Files. There I met other fans and spent lots of time in chat rooms. Soon I found my way to helping a new online "friend" run their X-Files fan site. It was typical 90s fan site, screensavers, Windows Plus themes, horribly edited shipping videos, fan fic, you name it. I think someone noticed we had more hits then Fox's official site. We were sent a cease and desist but we just ignored it. Weeks later the webhost just deleted our site and stopped replying to our emails. I had recorded each episode, no commercials, on VHS when FX ran marathons. I bought a TV capture card just so I could post screenshots and really lovely GIFs. I ran a Geocities site that reviewed the X-Files comic book issues. (yes there was one). I'm currently re-watching on Disney+, after not seeing most of these in over 10 years. The early seasons reminded me of all those fan site titles like "geocities.com/MulderItsMe" or a page dedicated to Mulder wearing glasses or a speedo. Bonzo fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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The Lone Gunmen were awesome because they were old school hackers and phreakers. Their series was awesome and they got did dirty in later seasons.
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Dec 11, 2023 00:51
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Roswell. ROSWELL! Edit: That episode hits really different in today's climate. Still one of the best
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Dec 11, 2023 01:35
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Mark Snow's score is just amazing. It's just cheesy synth music but drat if you could imagine the show without it.
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Dec 11, 2023 04:38
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20 Blunts posted: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 To me that's what made X-Files a little special. It was this seemingly low budget show with B-movie level cheese. Even the music sounded like it was from an 80s horror. He could have easily been "that guy" of direct-to-video erotic mystery thrillers. I think his true calling would have been a secondary character on a popular sitcom. Duchovny was treated for sex addiction years ago, and it eventually ended his marriage.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:34
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I'm re-watching 80s Twilight Zone and the first half of season 1 is good but then it falls into heavy boomer themed episodes. One stars a very young Scott Grimes and it about a woman that choose a career over having kids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone) This episode is basically telling themselves they are still cool even thought they became Yuppies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_I_Married While watching these old seasons I saw a familiar author's name pop up. https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/twilight-zone-george-r-r-martin/
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Dec 13, 2023 00:18
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Dark Skies was a really good X-Files-like show on NBC but only got one season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Skies They had everything plotted out for 5 seasons and it was pretty good from what I remember.
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Dec 13, 2023 18:45
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I feel like many of you have never seen Shocker and that is a drat shame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF2Toamk1P0
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Dec 17, 2023 22:03
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You Are A Werewolf posted:I saw this in theaters and I own the Blu-ray. Makes a great Wes Craven double-feature with The People Under the Stairs (of which I also saw in theaters and own the Blu-ray) The soundtrack was in heavy rotation within my group that year. Wall to wall hair metal but there's an Iggy Pop track on there for some reason.
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Dec 18, 2023 00:35
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He is in later seasons of LOST which make those a little more harder to watch. But then go watch Green Mile and you'll feel better.
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Dec 18, 2023 01:39
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Have them go back to the Spencer/Mulder/Deep Throat era where they begin the cover up. Fringe was what I would consider a reboot of X-Files.
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Dec 19, 2023 22:43
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nice obelisk idiot posted:Personally I would love a sort of Victorian/Edwardian type X-Files. No cuteseyness or steampunky stuff though. Maybe instead of aliens it's humanoids from the hollow earth How about a lizard woman who was living in centre of the Earth but is now a detective in Victorian England. Her human assistant, Jenny, is also her wife. Oh and they have an alien butler. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/QnrHlN51YSCHfp9YqsRDyq/madame-vastra
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Dec 20, 2023 14:20
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lol I forgot about those novels. I've been watching SurrealEstate and it's a great monster of the week show.
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Dec 21, 2023 16:29
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Was that the same as the PC game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEHF1rmRzD8
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Dec 21, 2023 22:38
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Reboot with Rhea Shehorn and Bob Odenkirk as Mulder and Scully
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Dec 21, 2023 23:06
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Who else had the Big Book of Conspiracies? https://www.amazon.ca/Big-Book-Conspiracies-Doug-Moench/dp/1563891867
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Dec 24, 2023 23:46
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Laterite posted:ER was an amazing show that ran at least 5 seasons too long I always do a re-watch and stop right as Dr Greene....well....you know. The Dr. Romano ending was just too much. It's another good pre cell/internet kind of show. Now that it's in HD you can see that in the early seasons they have drawings taped to the CRT monitors. Nurse "Bob" did not get enough screen time.
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Dec 25, 2023 06:49
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Warehouse 13 is another great X-Files-ish kind of show. Monster of the week , underlying conspiracy, skeptic vs. believer Have we talked about Millennium yet or have I had too much egg nog?
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Dec 26, 2023 05:18
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Evil is another great show. It's like X-Files but instead of the FBI it's the Vatican.
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I think he may have been on a few episodes of Arrow? But again, signs your career is "meh"
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SPACE HOMOS posted:The reason its hard to follow is the reason why the G-men are doing things is a moving goal post. The writers didn't have a 'bible' so much as Chris Carters rantings. Keep in mind they never had a mythology plot planned. Gillian Anderson got pregnant and they need a reason to write her off for a few weeks in Season 2 so they came up up with the abduction story line and the fans ate it up. There is no real established story for the aliens. Not because it's an artistic decision, like the Sopranos ending where fans debate for years, but just lovely writing. The gist of what I can recall after 2 beers: Aliens landed in Roswell. Shadow agencies formed, soon an agreement between world leaders. Aliens were coming to take over Earth but I don't recall the reason. A virus would be used (this would be where the bees come in) to kill the human race. Hybrids/Clones would survive so the black ops folks (CSM, Bill Mulder, Deep Throat) are told their children would be safe if they were cloned. This is why Samantha is taken (Oh Hoollllllly poo poo let's not talk about that right now) There are sympathetic aliens, like the Jeremiah Smiths and Older-Samantha's. Or are they hybirds. No...clones. Clones that can be killed only with the ice pick weapon. Their blood is also toxic to humans. The Black Oil is another alien race, or a faction of the ones we already know. The oil is how they infect and travel from host to host. The Fight The Future movie shows that the oil has been on Earth for a loooooong time. The ones with their eyes and mouth sealed are clones or aliens that are rebels...I think? The reason their faces are like that is so the Black Oil doesn't infect them. TL:DR Chris Carter can't write
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Dec 28, 2023 05:34
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How many people had, or knew someone that had a pet named Queequeg?
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Dec 31, 2023 18:52
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Gillian Anderson has done REALLY well with her career. I was kinda shocked she did new episodes because she didn't exactly need the work.
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She did a voice over in some techno song, yes? Also a voice over in a Microsoft Game and I think came with the Sidewinder joystick.
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tfw you see any other title other than The Truth Is Out There at the end of the opening.
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If you think about it, Scully is Gillian Anderson's worst role. Not how she played it, but the writing.
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The fact that Mulder is the best serial profiler the FBI ever had, really makes is even more dumb that Samantha was kidnapped and killed by one and he never knew it.
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Anyone have the CCG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_Collectible_Card_Game
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pseudanonymous posted:There is a service that lets you print cards on card stock, used for novelty poker but lots of magic players print proxies o them. There seems to be a large quantity for sale on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/313910264727?hash=item4916828397:g:r88AAOSwUiBiK7ka
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When people complain about LOST not having a well thought out ending I tell them to go watch X-Files and get back to me.
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I don't recall any Q stuff just Joel McHale guest started as an Alex Jones type of a character.
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If you are looking for similar shows, (Monster of the week against telling a longer story) I'd suggest Evil https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9055008 and the lighter fare, SurrealEstate. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11952974 If you are looking for a show to thrill you and piss you off as much as LOST did, check out From https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9813792
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No Jorge, don't touch that red button. Noho on the rojo
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Watched Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man tonight. Such a fun episode. Payback's a bitch, Ivan.
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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 At the time drama shows had no soundtrack and, to me anyway, the cheesy-ness of it reminded me of low budget horror movies which just made it all better. It was different at the time and pretty soon just became part of the show. But I can totally see watching it in 2024 for the first time where it likely sounds worse than than the soundtrack on CW shows.
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Marita Covarrubias?
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newts posted:My kids pointed out that she has the same hair as Scully. (TBF, it was the 90s, so everyone had that hair) Tell them it was a government issued hairstyle.
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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: I mean, I could see them saying this in the beginning but what does it matter? She became a huge sex symbol and remains so even today. Knowing what we know now, think about the executives at Fox back then. I AM GRANDO posted: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. She is dressed horribly in her 1st few scenes. The pilot also has her in bed with a guy when Mulder calls her at night. This was cut out and I think the boyfriend may get one other brief mention a few eps later and is then dropped.
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redshirt posted:Feeling like we're getting a bit foggy about Fox TV in the 90's. They were breaking boundaries the other channels were not. lol Fox News would have a heart attack if Married With Children was a new show. My interpretation is that that Fox had Kelly Bundy tastes but only a Gillian Anderson budget.
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If you're going to reboot an old Fox show, do Warewolf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-QTvowyHU
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