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Ishtar said:
I honestly wish they had done the alien invasion thing in 2012. Mulder and Scully would be living in exile, and would get to witness the alien ships landing. They'd be unable to stop it or fight but it would have been a cool and dark ending.
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Doesn't even need to be an ending; "X-Files" going "X-Com" would be the kind of interesting shit that only had a snowball's chance in hell 10 years ago, and 0 chance nowadays (of being good, anyway.)
Despite the endless convolution of the Conspiracy during the series' original run, there was still something there that could have been salvaged by an inventive shift in trajectory that explains away some "big" points and then pivots the show in a new direction, shedding the excess weight of irrelevant sub-conspiracies in the process.

Shame the reboot was garbage and just repeated the mistakes of the original run in a shorter span of time.
 
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Standardized Profile said:
And the episode [Gillian Anderson] directed sucked.
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>implies Mulder and Scully had sex
>main story focuses on affair Scully had an affair with her teacher
>paranormal aspect is vague "new-age religious force" that relies on Buddhist imagery to be mystical
>commentary track details how the original story also included the teacher's wife killing herself
>Moby song focus
Written and Directed by Gillian Anderson.
XYZpdq said:
>x-Files season 4 episode 8: Tunguska
>Skinner is ripped af
I- wait, what?
This is only slightly less unsettling than discovering that CSM really water skiis
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Skinner being ripped and a veteran means that he gets to be knocked out like Mulder and Scully when something paranormal happens and multiple eyewitnesses can't be present.
Standardized Profile said:
Thematically, Mulder's the one who charges ahead and Scully represents restraint and deliberation. I'd put her behind him in things like promo shots to reinforce that. And Mulder's also the driving force in most of the plots. Scully saunters into the office every morning and Mulder's already there, slide projector loaded and plane tickets in hand. He's the one who makes the contacts and interviews witnesses, usually seeking confirmation of his crackpot theories or planting ideas in witness's heads. Scully's role is to discredit Mulder's work, which she can't do until Mulder has done the work.
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I agree. The show will sometimes have Scully witness/experience a paranormal event, and they will either try to brush it off with either another character providing information (which very well could be false whether the writers intended it to be or not) or Scully flat out doubts herself on whether it happened.

(Clip is from S7E21)
 
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I might have to divorce my wife again.
she thinks the ending of Post-Modern Prometheus is dumb instead of fucking great dumb
 
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I discovered a couple weeks ago at a thrift store that stand-alone books of The X-Files exist, and I'm kicking myself for not realizing this sooner. Whether they're of rejected scripts or just from the minds of fans, they sound super interesting. The one I looked at, "Skin", is about Scully and Mulder investigating claims of a funeral home selling skins of corpses on the black market, and I guess there's mention of a Thai legend about the "skin eater" involved, and holy shit if I had the money I'd look into this book. Wanna read it so bad.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
I might have to divorce my wife again.
she thinks the ending of Post-Modern Prometheus is dumb instead of fucking great dumb
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I was confused about what was so post-modern about it. I mean obviously it was technically post-modern because of its relation to the rest of the show, but the contents were just kind of weird.
 
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Haven't watched it in a while after stopping midway through season 5. I love the earlier seasons though and enjoyed watching it with my mom as well.
 
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2Shy and Roadrunners are the most unsettling episodes to me.

2Shy is about a mutant whose body doesn't produce lipids (essential fats), so he has to consume fat from other sources. Why he couldn't just stack up on a supply of pig fat somehow, I don't know, but he's the Monster of the Week, so... yeah.

Roadrunners is about a creepy cult in a small, quiet, "hick town", who worships a disgusting, realistic-looking banana slug... thing, that's a super-intelligent parasite which is implied to talk through its hosts, after it fuses to the spine, and eventually reaches the brain, so it can get its worshippers to help entrap its next host, and the cycle continues. Victims/hosts also become crippled the longer the Worshipped Spinal Parasite is within them, and eventually, they require crutches to hobble around.

Three images from 2Shy:

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This is what Virgil Incanto the Fat "Vampire" looks like when he's starving. He probably died within the same year.


Three images from Roadrunners:

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LOOK. LOOK AT THE STATE OF THAT THING. The cult also believes it to be the Second Coming of Christ, because... why the Bloody Hell not.
 
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"In order to even begin to have that conversation, there would need to be a whole new set of writers and the baton would need to be handed on for it to feel like it was new and progressive," Anderson added. "So yeah, it's very much in the past."

In 2017, The Washington Post reported that only men had been hired for "The X-Files" writing room for the newer seasons.

In response to this Anderson tweeted: "And 2 out of 207 eps directed by women. I too look forward to the day when the numbers are different. #TheFutureisFemale."
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Woman craps on show that made her career and made the Sexy Female Nerd a beloved archetype. Old show wasn't "woke" enough for her sensibilities, and didn't have enough harridans in the writer's room lecturing men on their privilege.

Woke writers and actors literally hate everything that came before the Current Year, and don't care that their "new progressive ideas" are literally turning everything to shit. I didn't watch the X Files reboot series or the final seasons of the original, but I'm of the opinion that the show was ruined by Mulder and Scully fucking, since the "will they or won't they" tension was pretty much the point of it.
 
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Woman craps on show that made her career and made the Sexy Female Nerd a beloved archetype. Old show wasn't "woke" enough for her sensibilities, and didn't have enough harridans in the writer's room lecturing men on their privilege.

Woke writers and actors literally hate everything that came before the Current Year, and don't care that their "new progressive ideas" are literally turning everything to shit. I didn't watch the X Files reboot series or the final seasons of the original, but I'm of the opinion that the show was ruined by Mulder and Scully fucking, since the "will they or won't they" tension was pretty much the point of it.
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The first six episode reboot season was very good. As always, the main lore episodes were a fucking mess, but that's X-Files for you. The other 4 were good.

As for Anderson... look, you can't be as famous as she got in the 90s and not be out of touch. She's also finally aging out (though I think, for a while, she got better-looking as she got older), and that makes crazy women crazier. And remember, she probably only knows other crazy proggie cunts.
 
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frozen_runner said:
The first six episode reboot season was very good. As always, the main lore episodes were a fucking mess, but that's X-Files for you. The other 4 were good.
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only thing that I think I caught in that was near the end when the radio guy was explaining paranormal happenings so amazingly spectacular no mortal SFX budget could possibly try to show it
 
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You know, I've just thought of something: I despise the stereotypical, crackpot, tinfoil hat UFO conspiracies, but I like how this series does it: The aliens, or their ancestors, originated millions of years ago on Earth, before spreading out among the stars, and colonising other planets, which is why they nosy around our blue marble, and mess around with the people that have evolved since they buggered off. It's a fascinating spin on a tired myth/conspiracy.
 
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Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
You know, I've just thought of something: I despise the stereotypical, crackpot, tinfoil hat UFO conspiracies, but I like how this series does it: The aliens, or their ancestors, originated millions of years ago on Earth, before spreading out among the stars, and colonising other planets, which is why they nosy around our blue marble, and mess around with the people that have evolved since they buggered off. It's a fascinating spin on a tired myth/conspiracy.
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didn't Lovecraft do this shit with the Fish people?
 
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