jgsugden
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I just started a rewatch in preparation. As this summer's TV is horrible, I might actually get through to the point where I want to stop watching before the end of the summer...
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2020 will be the year I gave up all hope.
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schild
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Every time they post something else to twitter or facebook about this I giggle like a school girl.
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sickrubik
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Yeah, X-Files is one of the few things I can't hide my fanboyness of.
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beer geek.
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Trippy
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schild
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SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Watched the pilot last night since its all on Netflix.
Holds up if you view it as "set in 1993".
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Paelos
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Watched the pilot last night since its all on Netflix.
Holds up if you view it as "set in 1993".
In the before time, in the long long ago...
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jgsugden
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...when shoulder pads were still considered sexy....
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2020 will be the year I gave up all hope.
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naum
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Samwise
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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schild
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Even though the question was asked, that doesn't belong in this thread. See, X-Files was legitimately good.
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RhyssaFireheart
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Even though the question was asked, that doesn't belong in this thread.
Wait, someone's actually worried about topic purity on F13? Like topics around here don't wander like drunken frat boys as it is.
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Ironwood
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Have you read The Black Honeycrisp ?
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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schild
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Even though the question was asked, that doesn't belong in this thread.
Wait, someone's actually worried about topic purity on F13? Like topics around here don't wander like drunken frat boys as it is. X-Files is special.
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Yegolev
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Heh, well, I guess so. Did your wife burn all of your Gillian Anderson posters?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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The Truth is On The Wall.
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Ironwood
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Gillian Anderson is on both of our lists. Wife would gie it a go.
A man can dream.
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RhyssaFireheart
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Have you read The Black Honeycrisp ?
Okay, that make me legit laugh out loud here at my desk. Well played, good sir.
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Draegan
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I haven't seen Anderson in quite some time. I think she looks even sexier now.
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Yegolev
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Interesting coincidence: Friday evening, we were set to introduce the boy to some more classic movies. This time it would be Terminator (Netflix). He was taking his time and so I was poking around Netflix; I quickly found the original X-Files and so my wife and I started watching the pilot. Fast-forward, my son is the world's newest X-Files fan.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Draegan
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Just re-signed up for FLix too. I think I'll start binge watching it.
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Tannhauser
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I am so excited for XF to return! Can't wait to see how M&S have changed and what they are up to. Can you imagine Mulder's twitter? Scully even twittering at all? All sorts of things have changed in twenty years, plenty of new story ideas to go around. I bet Mulder's FB is filled with crop circles and blurry UFO pics.
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Yegolev
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That's actually an interesting comment. Watch the second episode and ask yourself what things would be like if they had smartphones, or if Scully had internet access in the motel. She would have uploaded everything to the cloud before the place was torched. Also, no caller ID.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Sir T
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Considering I watched the last episode of the X-Files and it was all about that Mulder had found the truth and he could do fuck all about it (there was an alien invasion coming in 2012) And smoking man died as a hippie in a cave, I think what M&S have been doing is "getting off the drugs and explaining why they were fucking wrong about everything.
The last episode of the X-files was utter shit, by the way. So not enthusiastic about a new series.
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Trippy
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Heathen!
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Draegan
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So I'm now on S02E22 on Netflix. The show really holds up well except the technology stuff. It could almost be a modern day show.
I had watched this show religiously until around when the first movie came out, then I went off to college. I never really finished the series. Looking forward to getting back in to it.
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Teleku
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Heathen!
I don't think its particularly heretical to say that the end of the ex-files was really bad. Last few seasons had stretched the show longer than it should have gone. They had no real arcs left to cover, and the main actors left the show. It went the exact same route as Lost, where it should have ended several seasons sooner. The end was better than the last few seasons had been, but it still felt like a rushed let down after all the build up and superb storytelling of the majority of the series. I looooooved the X-files, but it was a victim of American TV's standard modus operandi of forcing a show to run as long as it still makes money. Up until it eventually turns to total shit and everybody stops watching it because you can't tell a narrative story forever with no end in sight. Then cancel it when its at its very worst. Mind you, that still doesn't stop it from being one of the best TV series ever made.
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Ironwood
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Ach, it's hard to blame them when you remember how fucking Huuuuuuge it was. It was even Huuuuuge over here.
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Teleku
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Sure, but when that's how every single show is run in America, it gets old. I've always been envious of the UK (and Japan) for making so many shows that are just one season. It was a huge hit! Great, think of something else now! Setting a definitive time limit just results in a better overall story. Open ended is fine when you are just making a totally episodic TV series that only randomly references past episodes like Cheers or Friends. It falls apart when trying to tell a big coherent story. BSG probably would have been one of the most perfect series ever if it had just been three seasons (and by that I mean with them knowing they only had one seasons left, they would have done something totally different than they did for season 3 ). Lost being set at 3 seasons also probably would have been good.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Trippy
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Heathen!
I don't think its particularly heretical to say that the end of the ex-files was really bad. The heathen part was for not being excited about the new show. I mentioned earlier that I stopped watching religiously after David left so I don't have issues with people complaining about the how the series ended.
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HaemishM
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I'm not excited about the new show mainly because 1) I watched the end of the series and it SUCKED and 2) I watched the last movie and it SUCKED EVEN HARDER.
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Ceryse
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Personally, I just pretend everything after Duchovny left never happened.
A decent amount of the show holds up.. but everything after that part is (and was) horrendous, imo.
I am looking forward to the new episodes, however. Duchovny and Anderson? Yes please.
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Tannhauser
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I liked Doggett and the woman agent but I knew the show was on its last legs. Loved the first movie, disappointed in the second. That trainwreck makes me nervous for the new series. What a terrible X-File.
It was a no-brainer; make another UFO movie and have M&S hook up. But no, Chris Carter was too coked up to figure out even that simple plot. Surprise! M&S are in bed together! Wha? We wanted the courtship and seduction, not skipping past that. At least that's what I wanted.
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schild
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I'm not excited about the new show mainly because 1) I watched the end of the series and it SUCKED and 2) I watched the last movie and it SUCKED EVEN HARDER.
Well, you also have shit taste in general, sooooooooo.
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