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T-1000 To Replace Mulder On 'The X-Files'
Jacque Strapp writes: "This may be old news by now, but I haven't seen it yet on Slashdot; Robert Patrick (the T-1000 from Terminator 2) will be taking over as the male lead on X-files, though he won't be playing Mulder. Seems pretty final, the article says he starts shooting on Monday. " This is follow-up to last week's who will the replacement be -- too bad for Campbell.
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If the writing continues to be as bad as it was last year, I might turn the sound off, but I will not change the channel. :)
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i felt like i was reading a foreign language there... was it just me or was that abbreviated/jargon stuff just plain annoying?
Easy does it, dude. I for one am having fun watching X-junkies flexing their senses of humor.
"..don't you eat that yellow snow."
"The" is the correct term. The Terminator described him as a prototype at the time the Terminator was sent. More may have been made during the interval, or not.
"..don't you eat that yellow snow."
Isn't Bruce in some other show now?
(coming from a long, long-time fan of Hercules and Xena, who just doesn't give a shit about the crappy replacement shows).
if it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is!
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Scully, as Mulder's protegee, will assume the role of the avant garde explorer. The new character will be the sceptic.
"..don't you eat that yellow snow."
What I don't get, though, is if the Robert Patrick robot isn't T-2000, then why did they call the movie, T2: Judgement Day?
Cause the name of the movie is Terminator 2, or T2 to be short and trendy.
Now as to how the movie H20 got it's name...
- Isaac =)
>Patrick will team up with Scully to help track down the abducted Agent Mulder.
(holds up pictuce of Mulder)
"Have you seen this Agent?"
Drinking will help us plan!
The first case for the new duo will consist of mostly of the hunt for a missing child. Mulder2: Have you seen this boy?
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I saw him in a couple of "Outer Limits" episodes (re-run on the SciFi channel recently). He played a particularly wooden soldier/alien spy.
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Way back in the early 90s, (prolly between 91 or so at the very earliest, and 94) society at large began discovering Usenet, and in particular groups like alt.paranormal, alt.alien.visitors, and alt.conspiracy.
Although demented, the conspiracy theories and alien visitation stuff showing up in these groups provided some fairly fertile inspiration for good science fiction.
It's my guess that either Carter himself, or whoever told him about it, downloaded fairly substantial wads of this stuff and began spinning it into the episode storylines of what we came to know as the X Files. The Lone Gunmen in particular are a net stereotype...three reclusive, highly intelligent geeks who spend most of their time in dark bedrooms in front of screens, away from civilised humanity. *grin*
Sound familiar?
Anywayz, back then all of this stuff was new and different. The whole nerd lifestyle thing hadn't seeped into the public awareness as something special, and for a while there was a kind of deliciously grim fascination in the idea that a coalition of the Greys and the UN were trying to take over the world. The MJ-12 documents and Milton William Cooper's diseased ramblings in particular would have provided Carter with some great inspiration on the UFO side.
These days however, we're seven years into the X Files. The above mentioned conspiracy theory has been done on the show, not only once, but over and over and over again. Not only that, but I get the feeling that Usenet has once more sunk into it's deserved place in universal awareness...basically that of an online asylum for the mentally ill, for the most part.
For most of us, the X Files is no longer relevant...back when we were new to the net, taking our first tentative steps out into the online world, Carter was able to cash in on the momentary novelty of a somewhat deranged (but highly entertaining) element of it. But we've seen the novelty, IT has come up out of the sewers for several encore performances, and the Greys would have abducted enough people by now to depopulate the planet. As an earlier poster in this thread said, it's grown old.
(not that flying them down to LA, from time to time, would be that expensive -- but the Immigration paperwork could be like closing an X file)
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where we're supposed to pretend this is interesting?
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Hey, don't blame me, blame FOX for reminding me by running it last weekend...
Intolerant people should be shot.
Sweetiebabycookiehoney! It's all just lingo, like fsck, grep, and grok.
Thesp = actdroid (a/k/a "Talent")
Segs = segments
Sked = schedule ("line-up")
Skedded = scheduled
Skein = series
Topper = Executive ("suit")
More wacky showbiz lingo here.
Hey, let's do lunch some time, okay?
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Of course, the show has sucked for other reasons too. I think probably the only episodes worse than the FPS one were the "celebrity" writer episodes, including Duchovny's own self-referential brain fart.
Bite the hand.
I mean, will they kill him off in the 11th episode? Most likely he will mysteriously disappear during some kind of alien encounter, so we'll never really know what happened to him. Of course, they could always kill him off, then bring him back next season. Remember Bobby Ewing in Dallas.
Well, Skinner was definitely *turned* in the season finale. Unless the writers choose to ignore it, he's a believer now.
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We are the 'Lone Gunmen'!
Microsoft conspiracy theories abound, as well as stories on the 'Evil' Big Government taking our rights and the 'Evil' Big Corps turning the world into a stockholder controlled police state!
Oh, and at least half us have a thing for Scully, too..
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OK, so maybe Bruce Cambell isn't the best actor in Hollywood, but he's damn sure a good one. It just seems to me that old Bruce is one hard-luck guy when it comes to getting and keeping gigs.
From Brisco County Jr. to Xena, Bruce has either been under-appreciated or under-used. Personally, I think he would have been the perfect fit for the X-Files. After so many years of dark, brooding, rambling commentery from Duchoveny, it would have been a nice change of pace to see Bruce in that role. They could have even done the old role reversal: have Bruce come in as the sceptic, and force a now almost-ready-to-belive Scully to play the role of the crackpot. Instead, we are saddled with Robert Patrick, who undoubtedly will come in and try to be Mulder2, and fail miserably.
I used to think the X-Files was still as good as show as it ever was, but after getting the Season1 DVD's and watching them in between Diablo2 marathon's, I can definitely see a drop in quality. The show seems to be on cruise control. I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but it's probably a good thing that next season will be the last.
but lately, the show really sucks now. the mythology makes no sense anymore, i don't even care now that it's so confusing and convoluted. the regular episodes are just rehashes of old plots done before, and it has now become a parody of itself.
i wish the show would just rest in peace after next season. it's better to flame out and slowly burn away.
Y'know, I was about to say the same when I checked IMDB, and it says R.P. is T-1000 and Arnie is just plain 'Terminator'. So I cancelled my posting
Who's right ????
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Of course, fingers still crossed for a great 8th, since they didn't end it...
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What about the Evil Twin episode (or have they already done that?)
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Besides -- Them two sucking face would simply take time away from the plotline. If you want to see pictures of Skully getting boned by a Fox, go hunt down alt.binaries.pictures.nude.celebrity.fake.kinky
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Huh? Who did what to who now? I don't remember anything about nano-bots...
Intolerant people should be shot.
Duh... It's not like they're meant to be.
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*lol* Well.. At least Duchovny was known to smile every once in a while, and managed generally not to get that constipated look that bad actors believe denotes a serious character.
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"One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn't pulling it off . Like, her hair was red... but it was a little too red, you know?" :) (Probably my *favorite* episode...)
...seeing as he's about the only person who's a colder fish than Duchovny. :)
Did ya read the article? Lemme quote you a little:
"In other "X"-related news, Carter said he believes Fox execs are considering a plan to launch the "X" spinoff "The Lone Gunmen" in "X's" 9 p.m. Sunday slot next spring. The one hitch: Fox has already said the skein will bow on Thursday nights starting in January."
Not trying to be rude, just thought you must have missed it.
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JR did it!
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Scully : Mulder...you are turning in to mercury droplets.. How do you do it ?
New Mulder : Its called Cubic Environment Mapping baby...yeah!!!
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The slashdot crowd will support "The Lone Gunmen", I'm sure.
Even if our kung-fu is better than theirs...
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Light traveling faster than c in a vaccum? Rejected.
New 1petaflop computer IBM is working on? Rejected.
Unfilmed Crusade scripts posted online? Rejected.
New actor on X-Files? Post that right away!
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That's one way to get away from Tony Soprano cleanly.. join the FBI.
heheheheh..
(look up Robert Patrick at IMDB for clue if you don't get it...)
-'fester
Chewbaca would have been a better pick.
People wouldn't even notice the character switch!
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
what will happen to mulder's knack for his assumptions always magically being right so the plot either fits in 1, 2, or 3 one-hour episodes? :-)
will t-1k become the new character with the perfect 'gut-feeling' all the time? or what?
maybe scully will be the new person with the "trust no one" motto... she seems to become less skeptical every episodes (or maybe this is just the fact that's so sexy in that fbi uniform distorting my perception
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..who they replace Mulder with. The show has been crap ever since they stopped filming episodes in the Vancouver area.
Now all the scenes are full of cloudless days and bright sunshine, how is that supposed to assist in setting a moody, cryptic, "the truth is out there" environment!?!
Bring back the rain and the clouds!
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I wonder if they'll kill off the Mulder character, or leave it open for guest appearances. Maybe Mulder will join forces with the Three Geeks.
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as well as the contextual meaning of "skein" and "topper", all of which were found in Variety's article, or should that be "arkle"? Possible interpretations include updated versions of "fnord", or possibly hackneyed "showbiz" "lingo."
I looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked into me--and we both winked.
There have been (extremely unsubstantiated) rumors of a 9th season, but I'm pretty sure Carter plans to end it with this upcoming 8th.
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Arnold is a Cyberdyne Systems Model #101, while Robert Patrick is the T-1000. In Terminator 3D at Universal Studios, there is a T-1 million. Get it straight!
I'm sorry, but I don't see Bruce getting the role. For one specific reason - he's already played a character on the show who really wouldn't work as an FBI agent (hmmm - demon turned FBI - maybe it would work).
I don't know about you, but I'd hate it if they switched him over to a totally new character, even if it was only 1 episode that he played the demon in.
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I've scared myself quite enough, now.
Arnold was the T-800, Cyberdyne System's Model 101. Living flesh over a hyper-alloy combat chassis. Fully armored, very tough.
Robert Patrick was the T-1000. A mimetec poly-alloy, liquid metal terminator.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
IIRC, Arnie was a Cyberdine Systems Model 101.
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then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
Arnold was killed in the first movie by a big crushing machine. They sent a second arnold robot back in the second movie. That's why he's a different model between movies.
What I don't get, though, is if the Robert Patrick robot isn't T-2000, then why did they call the movie, T2: Judgement Day?
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I'm thinking something towards Tea Leoni.
Has CC ever written-in a mention of /. when visiting the lone gmen? i bet we see that this year. or at least some mention of a named online discussion group/fanzine. they're always throwing in more recent jargon and buzzwords.
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I personally would have liked to see Bruce Campbell there, only because he's completely loose to how tight Scull is, but I think Robert can play the part well, especially if he's lighthearted like I saw him on the golf course, as opposed to hard nosed T2/"The Falucty" character, though he can play both decently.
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I don't involve myself with flames, much less know how to bait one.
Geez, if they want a guy like that, why don't they just have Brian Thompson (The Bounty Hunter) play the role?
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I wonder why they decided to bring in another FBI agent, rather than not just "promote" the Lone Gunmen? Wasn't there talk in the past about a possible Lone Gunmen spin-off? Obviously, there's interest from the fans
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It seems pretty obvious to me that what they're doing is to have Scully take Mulder's paper as the big believer, sort of like a student turned master (with all those references to past Mulder experiences in nostalgic rememberance), while T1K does the skeptic part... sort of like a renewed more of the same...
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
Adds new meaning to the idea of a robotic actor
And killing the audience
Robert Patrick isn't your vacuum-brain pretty-boy galumphing hunk type. He's got that edginess to his look and demeanor that's an essential element in this role. He looks like the type who could coalesce from a mist in a darkened alley. Now, if the producers of the X-Files can just resist the temptation to have one of those drawn-out seductions between Scully and Patrick's character. That 'will-they, won't-they' crap has gotten incredibly tiresome.
wtf? i thought arnie was a T-800 and patrick was the T-1000? at least in the german translation. i am quite certain about this.
And which parallel universe did you crawl out of?
Robert Patrick will not be playing Fox Mulder. He'll be FBI agent John Doggett
Dog(get) chases Fox -- heh!
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A principal character leaving the series (Mulder).
A 'love story' (Mulder/Scully) which can't continue without said character (Okay, there are still people who don't want to see this, but it is central to the series).
Another principal character who's storyline is basically defined by Mulder's (Scully: please don't flame me on this; 'the Enigmatic Dr. Scully' is one of the most interesting characters on television), and who may not continue past this season when Gillian Anderson's contract ends.
A sizable chunk of the interesting secondary characters (the Lone Gunmen) being given their own show.
And
A new guy (I don't envy Robert Patrick here) who will probably be blamed for everything when the series tanks.
Don't they remember what happened when they replaced the 'Duke Boys'? (*g*)
If you look at franchise series that are successful (Star Trek being a prime example), they tend to be built on ensemble casts, with overarching storylines involving everybody in some way. Whenever a character leaves, there are still established characters you care about who take on larger storylines. A replacement, if needed, is given time to establish something new by giving other characters more of the limelight. And finally, if a given series and cast has run it's course, it is retired and replaced by a new one, with at least a shared mythology and frequently characters from previous series.
The current series is running out of steam. With the Gunmen gone, the only remaining characters who can carry a show are Scully, Skinner, and Krycek. Robert Patrick is a good actor, but I can't see his character meshing with the established main storyline enough for us to care.
The solution, IMHO, would be as follows:
Either kill off or send away both Scully and Mulder. (Sending them off somewhere would be better. It would also make more movies possible). If you keep them alive, give them some kind of closure (either on the small screen or the large), then bring them back as guests when the situation demands it.
Concentrate on the Gunmen series
If you have to keep a second series going, create something with a stronger ensemble cast (here's an idea: X-Files Black Ops - a secret special ops team at war with the Consortium).
If none of these are an option, do the smart thing : Just end it.
Everything's been downhill since the TRS-80
The T-1000
Will replace the agent Fox
By becoming him
Arnie was definitely a Model 101. Patrick was a T-1000. Maybe T3 will feature an Open Source Terminator...
The lone gunman *is* getting a spin-off show, at least according to the ever-so-hip lingo at variety that I had to get my 4 year old nephew to help me decipher.
... at "Vermont" restaurant just down the street from me here in Hollywood. Didn't think to look who she was with - there were about 7 other people at the table. Come to think of it, one of them did look like Robert Patrick.
Hmm... I should've taken a closer look. *Definitely* looked like an industry meeting, though. Gillian had a very stern look on her face, listening to the guy across the table explaining something.
Well, as useless as it is, that's what I saw.
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Nope. Cancerman was in the Pilot. He put the nasal implant in that big storage room in the Pentagon.
Speaking of which, did anyone else catch William B. Davis on the SciFi channel's Poltergeist last night (or was it 2 nites ago).
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
VERY FUNNY!
However, I don't get the reference to PPC. Are you refering to MacOS X, or to X-Window, or both?
Also, you lost me on the bloatware reference, I don't see this applying to either MacOS X or X-Window.
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Fun stuff, this issue of The Onion. Check it out.
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Howard! Oh my god! Ever since I read that book in college I've been waiting for you to sneak in my bedroom! ;-)
Back to the quarry I go...
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Drive out into the middle of Antarctica, run out of gas, enter an alien ship, escape the ship, ship blows up real good... Scully and Mulder are safe & sound in the middle of a frozen wasteland, near the south pole, with no food, shelter, transportation, communication, or suitable clothing. On top of that, one of them is almost completely incapacitated. CUT TO: Debriefing in the FBI headquarters. I could not stop laughing.
The one good part of the whole movie was early on when Dana got stung by a killer bee, and clinically described each of her rapidly-developing symptoms as she slowly passed out. That was pretty damn funny, and captured the spirit of her character better than any single episode of the show I can think of.
Take that, and the bomb scene from the beginning, and you would have the first half-hour of a pretty good episode of the show. Instead, we get 90 minutes of loose ends not being tied, along with plenty of Ghostbusters slime.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I had a pontiac t1000 a few years ago. It never changed forms like the t1000 did in terminator 2. Actually I think it was false advertising all it was was a chevette with the name chevette crossed out and t1000 written in with crayon. Pretty lame actually.
Good name for the new Mulder?
For those of you who have no clue who Robert Patrick is (myself included), here are some links to some pics and info on him.
A fan page. Lots of pics here.
In the imdb.
A basic bio.
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Now I don't feel so bad. I thought I was the only one to remember that word for word.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
I really miss Cooper's "holistic" investigation methods. It makes me want to get my hands on the Twin Peaks tapes again.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I hope you recover from the eyestrain of reading that mess soon, while I go twice around the rosary for not using the Preview button.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
How right you are. Here's the key differences between the two characters as I see it:
So, I guess that answers your question. Man, I can just imagine the personality clashes now - this is going to be some great TV!!!
Seriously! If the actors are growing tired, and the script-writers are growing stale, it's time to call a halt. Hey, they could have held back this season, for a while, on the off-chance that a rest could revitalise the series.
Scamming the fans for ratings & money is an act of true betrayal. Giving things a rest, then returning refreshed would be an act of consideration and kindness. It might even win more cash & ratings, in the long-run.
As for Sapphire & Steel, yes, I'm serious there, too. This series would be an IDEAL replacement for the X-Files, being even stranger & more surreal, but with a similar enough format to appeal.
Besides, Scully can't make time run backwards or round & round in circles!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Replace Mulder with Boba Fett!
I just don't understand people sometimes. Fox had the opportunity to bring in a new fanbase and revive interest in their struggling show with Bruce Campbell, but instead what did they get? A long line of T2 jokes to come and a further drop in ratings I'm sure. I for one can't wait to see the Lone Gunmen, but I'm afraid X-Files is as good as abducted.
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He got blown up once in an episode of Highlander . . .
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The reason for the Millennium Tie-In was to provide some closure for the Millennium viewers, since the show was canceled between seasons, with a cliffhanger season finale. Carter decided to attempt to wrap up the show in an episode of the X-Files, and hey, he can do it, they were both his shows.
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Let's not forget... He has had, for the last couple seasons, a million nano-bots crawling around in and on him which Krycek has been using to control him. Believer or not, his life is no longer fully his own.
The Englishman Who Came to a Concert
I know...same here. Do you recite it with Arnold's Austrian accent as well?
If you had read the Variety article you would have seen that FOX has committed to a January 2001 launch for TLG. The article mentions that Carter is thinking of moving TLG into X's slot Sundays at 9, but FOX wants to put it on Thursdays to start.
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They did it with Krycek, so why not Campbell?
:).
I was watching one of the VERY early X-Files episodes, the one where there's this Amish-type group in Massachusetts which turns from male to female (and vice versa) when they have sex - and Krycek (or at least the actor who played him) was one of the people who was suckered by the rogue member of this cult
Mulder is already going to be in 11 out of 20 episodes. Can't he just not be in the last nine?
Why can't the last 9 episodes have Scully and the Lone Gunmen searching for Mulder then next year, instead of having "The X-Files" have "The Lone Gunmen". Rumors have been flying around about that show and most people want that and don't want more X-Files anyway.
Anyway... I am a huge X-Files fan so don't think I'm knocking anything but... freakin' die already...
How's this...
"Reese, Sgt. Tech-Com DN38416 assigned to protect you, you've been targeted for termination."
"Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do. Don't do that again. Listen, and understand! That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever! Until you are dead."
Tada
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"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
can somone fill me in ... i must have miss something ... is krychek indistructable ... wasn't he blown up once ... and didn't he get his arms and legs cut off in russia???
Have I been smoking that three dollar crack again, 'cuz I seem to recall that the Terminator played by Arnold in the original was the T-808, and that in the second, he's a T-101.
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Nothing informative or funny, just plain "Damn. I'd have loved to see Campbell in that show."
... is also the brother of Richard Patrick of Filter fame. Off-topic, I know, but I thought it was interesting ;)
OK, it's a bit farfetched. But it would be better than the sexual tension between Mulder and Scully. Fox was a wuss!
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
If irrelevant show-biz nonsense qualifies as "news for nerds", then we had best rethink what gets posted. How about the current stock price of Mountain Dew? That affects a lot more nerds in my circle of friends than yet another season of a show that got worn out years ago.
On a lighter note, why didn't they consider Patrick's Faculty co-star, John Stewart for the role? He atleast has some personality.
But, maybe this isn't unexpected or unwarrented. The X-Files needs to end before these new seasons drag down the classic earlier seasons . I think this interesting choice of acting replacement will do the trick.
It's important to note here that Patrick is NOT replacing Duchovny. Even though he is appearing in all the shows this season. He is simply a new character being added to the show. Although he'll probably be in more episodes than anyone else before it's better to think of him as another Alex Krycek who was used as Mulder's temp partner back when Scully was "abducted". Duchovny is still the male lead on the show.
For the official fox line read here:
http://www.thexfiles.com/news/index.html
Does anyone know of any websites that summarize the big alien conspiracy that's been the focus of the X-Files since the beginning? I got sick of it a couple of years ago and stopped watching the show. Maybe(hopefully) this will be the last season and we'll get some final, definite answers.
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Yeah, this is fair! They replace DD with this guy? Jazus, not exactly in the same realm of attractiveness. Guess David couldn't handle the competition. Christ, Krycek and Skinner are about 100 times better looking than this guy. Sorry, I know the guys out there could give a rat's ass; I'm just ranting for the female fans!
I'll probably end up getting bored and playing Diablo II instead, or whatever game is occupying my attention at the time.
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...but I think the X-Files has outlived its welcome. I am a serious X-Phile, but I have a nagging feeling that this next season is going to suck. They really should have ended it with this season, but Duchovny spent such a long time jerking everyone around that there wasn't time to end it properly.
I know you all know this already, but I need someplace to vent.
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Has anyone heard how many more seasons they plan on doing?
Go ahead, go curl up with George Will and G W, read some Ayn Rand and kill some seals.
Wow! You just described my last weekend!
I can't wait for tomorrow -- going to pour some cancer-causing chemical waste in the public pool and cancel your grandmother's social security and medicare. Sunday, Rush Limbaugh and I are planning to drive our big gas-guzzling SUVs to a nearby preschool where we'll sight-in our full auto assault rifles.
Did I leave anything out?
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.
Sure, his last few outings haven't been great, but the kid's got a lot of promise, and a second half drop off is not unusual for rookie pitchers. He figures to be a mainstay of the Oakland rotation for a good long time, barring injuries.
Oh, you mean Fox Mulder, not Mark Mulder.
Nevermind
I've seen worse jokes, some of them my own.
There's a reason everyone can't moderate all the time. There's little point to moderation instructions. Maybe all the moderators aren't the greatest, but you think it really helps to post this? Who is going to read your post and then reconsider whether or not the original was funny? One out of a thousand? If you think the moderation is so bad that you need to post moderation advice or instructions, you'd probably have better luck emailing CmdrTaco with ideas on how to make it better.
Also, it may not be that everyone thought it was funny (obviously by the negatives it got), but that nobody with points thought it bad enough to waste a point moding it down. IMHO, there are better things to mod down. If I was moderating today, I would have skipped it, figuring someone like you who really doesn't like it would mod it down anyway, and then continue to look for other things to use my points for.
Scully: Mulder, I've never had to do an autopsy on a horse before...
Mulder: I know its strange Scully, but our informant from FOX *swore* that there was still life in it.
Scully: Hm. There do appear to be some strange foot or shoe marks on its hide - almost as if somewhat kicked it repeatedly...
Variety is the MacOS Rumors of the entertainment business. I personally won't believe this until I see it in USA Today. Bruce Campbell will be the one!
Statistics mean squat. The guy played a good robot in one action flick, and has had a ton of mediocre bits since them. Oh yeah, The Faculty was a real gem. Acting in the movies is not the same as acting on TV -- hence your observation about Duchovny.
The only way you could have found a more wooden actor, is if they had used a cigar store indian. I've seen this guy in several second string roles, and he never really gets being a vacant-eyed emotionless lump of flesh on the screen.
I guess it's time to start looking for something /else/ to do on Sunday night.
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Duchovny will be back. The T1000 will, of course, morph into "Mulder" to cover its real mission.
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I think he's probably just too funny for x-files though... and too much of a pretty boy to get taken seriously. They always cast him when they need someone as a hero - but over-the-top and sorta campy. The guy should get a couple of good facial scars and get his nose broken if he wants to be taken seriously. Or just keep being the funniest sci-fi hero in the business.
i want my five minutes back!
I don't mean to get moderated to "redundant", but is anyone even going to watch X-files anymore? I think I lost interest around the time the movie came out (which was nothing suprising, really) and have only watched episodes hoping that I will catch an episode with the 3 slashdot geeks, err Lone Gunmen.
I like the idea of still having the show, but I'm getting tired of being able to predit every episode of the X-files.
Death in first 5 minutes of show, regular wierd stories guessing death by Mulder, another death confirms part of Mulder's story, Mulder and/or Scully almost die, bad thing stopped, Mulder still thinks it happened like he said it did, Scully doesn't know for certain or thinks otherwise. End.
It gets old..
Of course he will be Mulder's opposite. Every character introduced starts out as Mulder's opposite. Scully was the skeptic. Kraicheck (sp? sorry) was the perfect FBI man, right down to the boring, wide-striped ties. I wonder what Doggett will become.
Amazing. I wasn't very far off with that Agent Arnie post.
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Even though I haven't liked the X-Files for the last few seasons, I think this guy is a good choice.
When I saw T2, I thought he would make a perfect choice to play the Sub-Mariner comicbook hero/anti-hero...
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Bruce would have been a spicy agent! Just picture Mulder ransacking random aliens with attached chainsaw and a boom-boom stick. I'd work for me!
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Robert Patrick was really good in The Cool Surface, also starring Teri Hatcher.
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Damn... And I was gonna start watching the X files again if it was bruce campbell... I love that guy.
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From The X-Files Official News Page says: "Robert Patrick joins the cast of The X-Files as a series regular. While not replacing David Duchovny, Robert is committed to appear in all of Season Eight."
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I can't find it now, but this morning I saw a news page that said that Patrick would be playing a "died in the wool" normal FBI agent. In light of this, I can't imagine it getting very far without Scully taking on the role of paranormal believer.
Additionally, it said that their motive would be the investigation of Mulder's abduction, and that adding Patrick might be the needed impetus to keep the show going beyond its currently alloted number of seasons.
Personally, I've been losing interest in the story lines, and this may perk it up for a while, but int the long run, I can't see myself faithfully following X-files like I did several years ago.
How could anyone pass the oportunity to cast the one and only Bruce Campbell? I don't care what you are casting for beit a reader's theater, Flintstone's movies, or p0rn- B.C. will make it infinately better. That being said I am now going to return to my Bruce Campbell temple of worship.
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No, he'll become an unpublished SciFi writer, take up chain smoking, and head up an international conspiracy.
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Ahh, the many lives of Alex Krycek...
Seems like everytime they end a season, something bad happens to Krycek. He's been invaded by an alien host, left for dead in an abandoned missle silo, left for dead in a Russian experimentation prison, left for dead in a Turkish prison...Do I sense a pattern here?
I swear, the final episode they ought to let both Mulder and Scully beat Krycek to within an inch of his life, set him on fire, divide the ashes into 4 air-tight containers locked in metal chests, and dump them into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans. Then sit back and watch all the X-Philes ask, "I wonder when Krycek will show up on The Lone Gunman?"
Wouldn't this be one way for Carter to have his cake and let the fans eat too? Picture the following scenario:
Duchovny does his stint for first half of season. Sexual tension goes through the roof near the midpoint, put just as it looks like Scully and Mulder are going to violate several fraternization guidelines, he gets abducted (whether this is capital-A Abducted or merely a terrestrial variety, perhaps by the New Conspiracy, doesn't matter.)
Patrick gets brought in. He plays straight laced, inside man to play off against Scully, who by this time has seen so much weirdness that like it or lump it, she's got to take on the flaky "It could be paranormal" role that was filled by Mulder. This new relationship gets established over the second half, while searching for Mulder. Several episodes follow the flavour of Dogget uttering a variation on "I thought you were a scientist, Scully. How can you propose such a ludicrous idea?"
Season closer involves tracking down Mulder, probably in some high-risk situation. Carries on to next season via cliffhanger, which involves, of course, saving everyone's ass. Possibility of the New Coonspiracy dealt a nasty blow. Mulder decides he's done (or had) enough, and, what with the new possibility of a relationship with everyone's favorite bottled redhead in the works, retires from the FBI to write highly profitable paranormal literature or something, and (important) to finally let himself grow as a person. Show continues with Scully and Dogget.
This scenario or a similar one allows several things. 1) Carter to finally resolve the tension between Scully and Mulder without ending the show or making it the new focus. (Carter has always said that if they got together, what would they write about? The duo hunt down mutants, then shop for a new Volvo? ;P) 2) Duchovny can be written out of the show without removing the character completely... instead, he becomes a presence via telephone, or off-screen encounters referenced by Scully. 3) It allows Duchovny a way back "in" on either an episodic or renewed permanent basis, either on "X-Files" or "The Lone Gunmen" spinoff. That's good flexibility, particularly for ssomeone who's film career has been hit or miss.
Just some caffiene-induced musings. Not that this wouldn't suck as much as any other possibility, but it seems in keeping with what I know of the show's politics. Let me know what you think.
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I find it hard to believe the producers would give a "multiyear deal" to Robert Patrick. He's an unproven rookie heading into swarm of high expectations. Half the die-hard x-philes are likely to leave no matter who the replacement is, so the guy they send in has to prove himself before inking a cushy contract.
I thought Arnold was the T1000 and the T2000 was the Mercury guy.
Actually, Arnold would be pretty cool as Mulder.
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I think the perfect replacement for Mulder would be Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks (Kyle MacLachlan)!
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