Movement of the Summer: The X-Files

by **Simon M.** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:39 am

it took me until the penultimate episode of the first season and some absolutely miserable standalone episodes, but I finally - FINALLY - found a standalone episode in Roland that's genuinely 'so bad, it's good', rather than just plain bad. The lawyer from Homicide: Life on the Street plays a retard idiot-savant who spends the entire episode expressing his love for another retard a la The Other Sister...and then periodically gets possessed and kills old crotchety scientists in increasingly bizarre and Friday the 13th-ish ways. Awful. Glorious.

...mythology, please :shoot:

by **wigwam** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:51 am

what the fuck is your problem, pal?!

i got season 2 comin in the mail tomorrow *woot*

by **Simon M.** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:53 am

wigwam wrote:what the fuck is your problem, pal?!

by **wigwam** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:19 pm

watch first disc of season 2, i cant remember why i was set on watching it all, they were all so completely shitty beside the awesome aliens in puerto rico one (which had the greatest bad f/x in the 70s flashback, and awesome early 90s pre-microsoft computer stuff :lol:

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by **Simon M.** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:31 pm

wigwam wrote:beside the awesome aliens in puerto rico one (which had the greatest bad f/x in the 70s flashback, and awesome early 90s pre-microsoft computer stuff )

sounds great.

anyway, finished the 1st season - in its entirety. And I'm glad I did watch every episode, despite some REALLY awful standalones, 'cuz those just made the mythology seem that much more awesome - WHICH IT IS.

...OK, so maybe Deep Throat's dying-breath "trust....noooo oneeeee" was cheesy as all hell, but still, just how the entire season's worth of lies and secrets and misinformation and shady characters and suspicion basically all led up to that one moment of Scully finding the alien in deep-freeze was epic, and about as great a pay-off as you can ask for in a seasons'-length story arc. Can't wait to see where this goes next :praise:

by **Simon M.** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:13 am

and you were right wig, the season premier with the aliens in Puerto Rico was all kinds of epic :praise:

(though the 70s flashback of Samantha's abduction = *rotfl*

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by **wigwam** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:57 am

it was kinda cool that even as a sullen semi-meathead teenager he's all into watergate and paranoia and stuff

by **Simon M.** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:34 am

Stratego!

by **Simon M.** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:24 am

man, what's the deal with these first few standalones from season 2 all of a sudden having a pro-environmental message? I'm all about the environment, but first the tapeworm man episode is all about Chernobyl and the dangers of nuclear fallout, then in the very next episode fucking pesticides are to blame when people see atm machines and microwaves and cellphones telling them to kill people. Standalones... :shake:

on the bright side, though, in this latest pesticide episode, I had another deja vu moment like I had for Fallen Angel in season 1! The episode was absolutely awful, but I had glancing images and memories flooding back from way back in my youth of the "climax" as the J.F. Sebastian guy from Blade Runner was shooting his sniper gun from atop the tower, complete with Homicide/Godard-style jump cuts. sooooo lame, but just like before, soooo awesome to suddenly remember that I'd seen all this before, back when I was too ignorant/young/turned on the channel too late to comprehend it :rotfl:

by **wigwam** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:03 am

KILL EM ALL!

by **Simon M.** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:04 am

HE'S GOING TO RAPE YOU

by **wigwam** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:17 am

well that was actually true, Fox and his porn addiction

by **Carmelo** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:24 am

I think I lost interest in X-Files, I'll just watch the unwatched seasons of Curb instead.

by **Simon M.** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:21 am

as lousy as the pesticide episode was, though, it's always a delight to see the Lone Gunmen, especially Frohike's ultra-creepy perving of Scully, even when she's not in the room :icecream:

by **warthog** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:25 am

x-files is over simon, you're the last one left in this silly movement!

by **Simon M.** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:27 am

by **warthog** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:29 am

by **Carmelo** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:56 am

I'm going a Curb Your Enthusiasm MoS instead.

by **wigwam** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:04 am

The Last Name wrote:x-files is over simon, you're the last one left in this silly movement!

i am doggett to your mulder, simon!

by 'Trust No One' it's apparent they meant tweedle-tuc and tweedle-olof here

by **warthog** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:05 am

whats up wig? did you lose your peanuts? you'll see god during the search

by **wigwam** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:09 am

i have a pale hairy potbelly full of cashews right this moment! :omg:

by **warthog** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:27 am

fuck off

by **Simon M.** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:07 pm

wigwam wrote:
The Last Name wrote:x-files is over simon, you're the last one left in this silly movement!

i am doggett to your mulder, simon!

by 'Trust No One' it's apparent they meant tweedle-tuc and tweedle-olof here

doggett? please, you're no higher than Reyes :roll:

but you're right, only the cool people watch Candyman influence people's dreams so that they burn to a crisp or get shot 17 times, but only internally :snob:

and clearly tuco is Krychek and olof is the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

by **wigwam** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:49 pm

Si-Guy, im sorry, but the conspiracy has gotten to me too and i'm dropping out and loading my queue with Carnivale and Romy Schneider movies :cry:

im sorry buddy, keep fightin the future, the truth is out there, i just dont want to believe anymore

*cries*

(oh and im demoting this thread from announcement to sticky :snob:

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by **Simon M.** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:21 pm

ridiculous.

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