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RE: New X-Files mini series discussion
January 25, 2016 at 12:32 pm (This post was last modified: January 25, 2016 at 12:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They'll stream tonight (1 and 2).
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RE: New X-Files mini series discussion
January 25, 2016 at 3:06 pm
I half watched it. It seemed to suffer from bad pacing.
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RE: New X-Files mini series discussion
January 25, 2016 at 3:15 pm
I'll wait until the whole mini series has been released and then likely watch it over the space of a weekend.

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RE: New X-Files mini series discussion
January 25, 2016 at 4:59 pm
Okay, watching now and will try and do a blow by blow of thoughts:

Spoilers below, so just keep scrolling if you don't want to read them. I'm setting the precedent for no hide-tags here and now! :p

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No mention of the second movie in the voice-over at the start... Undecided

YAYAYAYAYA!!  They went back to the (mostly) original opening title theme! Added Skinner and shortened it, but it's not the craptastic revamp from seasons 8-9... Big Grin

The font they used for the credits at the start is different...  more vertical than it used to be... right?

Ewww, I don't like Scully's hair color.

Boy, Duchovny has aged badly... Tongue

Awkward interaction between Mulder and Scully...

Hey, Poca!  Sveta was a spoiler! Tongue

Eeew, I hate when Mulder calls Scully Dana...

o0o0o0o, does The Soup guy have a crush on Scully???

Super-paranoid Mulder is BACK!!

AHHH!! HE'S SCHMOOZING HER IN A LIMO!!!!!!!!!  THE SOUP GUY IS HITTING ON SCULLY!!!!!

Ooo, the basement office! Smile  And Skinner!!  HA!! And the pencils are still stuck in the ceiling! Big Grin

Mulder is living in the same house as he was in the second movie...

Why did Mulder have his hands on Scully's shoulders for that whole exchange?  That was weird.

LOLOL x-files science is funny.

Wait?  The Tuskegee experiments and Henrietta Lacks are the only examples Mulder gives for the government lying to its citizens??  C'mon, x-files, do better.

Prediction: Sveta doesn't have alien DNA but Scully does...

Half right: both.  And maybe William?  Are we going to see William in the miniseries?!?

Ooops.  Bye Bye Sveta...

AAAAAAAAAHHH!  Smoking Man!!  With a Phantom of the Opera mask?!?

EEK!! Excited... Big Grin


(January 25, 2016 at 11:04 am)Rhythm Wrote: Withholding judgement for the monster and comedy stand-alones.

I doubt they'll do stand-alone episodes; if they're doing a miniseries/short season it'll be all business which will probably mean myth-arc, conspiracy stuff, which seems to be the heading based on the first episode here.
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January 25, 2016 at 5:48 pm
I am SO HAPPY this is a thread!!! I'll offer my thoughts after tonight! [emoji7]. Enjoy, fellow PHILES!
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January 25, 2016 at 5:51 pm
(January 25, 2016 at 4:59 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Okay, watching now and will try and do a blow by blow of thoughts:

Spoilers below, so just keep scrolling if you don't want to read them. I'm setting the precedent for no hide-tags here and now! :p

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.

No mention of the second movie in the voice-over at the start... Undecided

YAYAYAYAYA!!  They went back to the (mostly) original opening title theme! Added Skinner and shortened it, but it's not the craptastic revamp from seasons 8-9... Big Grin

The font they used for the credits at the start is different...  more vertical than it used to be... right?

Ewww, I don't like Scully's hair color.

Boy, Duchovny has aged badly... Tongue

Awkward interaction between Mulder and Scully...

Hey, Poca!  Sveta was a spoiler! Tongue

Eeew, I hate when Mulder calls Scully Dana...

o0o0o0o, does The Soup guy have a crush on Scully???

Super-paranoid Mulder is BACK!!

AHHH!! HE'S SCHMOOZING HER IN A LIMO!!!!!!!!!  THE SOUP GUY IS HITTING ON SCULLY!!!!!

Ooo, the basement office! Smile  And Skinner!!  HA!! And the pencils are still stuck in the ceiling! Big Grin

Mulder is living in the same house as he was in the second movie...

Why did Mulder have his hands on Scully's shoulders for that whole exchange?  That was weird.

LOLOL x-files science is funny.

Wait?  The Tuskegee experiments and Henrietta Lacks are the only examples Mulder gives for the government lying to its citizens??  C'mon, x-files, do better.

Prediction: Sveta doesn't have alien DNA but Scully does...

Half right: both.  And maybe William?  Are we going to see William in the miniseries?!?

Ooops.  Bye Bye Sveta...

AAAAAAAAAHHH!  Smoking Man!!  With a Phantom of the Opera mask?!?

EEK!! Excited... Big Grin


(January 25, 2016 at 11:04 am)Rhythm Wrote: Withholding judgement for the monster and comedy stand-alones.

I doubt they'll do stand-alone episodes; if they're doing a miniseries/short season it'll be all business which will probably mean myth-arc, conspiracy stuff, which seems to be the heading based on the first episode here.

First and last episodes are myth arc...the four in between are "monster of the week" stand-alones. [emoji41]
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January 25, 2016 at 5:52 pm
(January 25, 2016 at 3:06 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I half watched it. It seemed to suffer from bad pacing.

Yes, pacing was an issue among a few other things. Part of the problem is they had ALOT to cover in 45 minutes...
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RE: New X-Files mini series discussion
January 25, 2016 at 6:54 pm
(January 25, 2016 at 5:51 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(January 25, 2016 at 4:59 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I doubt they'll do stand-alone episodes; if they're doing a miniseries/short season it'll be all business which will probably mean myth-arc, conspiracy stuff, which seems to be the heading based on the first episode here.

First and last episodes are myth arc...the four in between are "monster of the week" stand-alones. [emoji41]

Whoa, really?? They spent an entire episode setting up mytharc stuff and then they're going to do MOTW episodes? I would have thought the miniseries was going to be a super-saturated mytharc thing where they covered the super-soldier stuff, caught us up with William, and that stuff...

Huh
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RE: New X-Files mini series discussion
January 25, 2016 at 7:00 pm
BARF!

I'm sorry, but that show when it first came out showed me how gullible humans can be. I cannot tell you how many stupid people I ran into that could not take it just as entertainment. I am sure the same will happen with this new series and I hope it dies soon. We don't need more stupid people.
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RE: New X-Files mini series discussion
January 25, 2016 at 7:10 pm
Missed most of it last night. I didn't even realize it was on, until I read about in Kitan's post about hating football. I immediately turned the TV to Fox and was surprised to see...Joel McHale?
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