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The Truth Revealed
usermilk writes "Now that the X-Files has finally ended, I recommend you all check out The X-Files Timeline. It has a list of all the episodes, chronologically, and what happened when. A very good utility in figuring out what the heck happened, and when." If it hasn't shown in your timezone yet, obviously, don't click through.
So, anyone got plans for December 22, 2012?
Well, in all seriousness, now that it's all over - who's truth was out there? Did we learn anything new at all? Granted, I liked the extensive recap they gave us in the first hour. It refreshed my memory and got me caught up on a few things that I missed. The in the second hour we got a big chase and in the end nothing happened. What happened to Doggett and Reyes? Skinner? The rest of our players?
I guess what I'm getting at is: WHAT WAS THE POINT?!?
Well, at least we know for sure that Fox and Dana knocked booties and had a love child.
1) why would they leave you hanging in the last show ever to be made?
2)there was plenty unresolved for many movies to come.
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- Thanks to CIHF, a Global affiliate in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, I saw the finale 3 hours before most people did...
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Anyone notice Carter's demonstration of the insanity of "miltary tribunals" in which the accusers are also the judges?
Not a coincidence that it maps closely to the current "fry 'em in the dark" policy instituted by Bush and company. Detention in secret, no contact with relatives or lawyers, disposition a secret as well -- hell, Mulder got better treatment at his "trial" than someone held under the current "emergency".
I think Chris Carter was trying to not so subtly draw attention to our new system of "alternative" justice.
It's a lousy book indeed. So happy that some people see it for what it is.
The first four seasons of X-Files were excellent and then the series turned to rubbish. In my opinion, the best episode ever was the season finale of the fouth season called Gethsemane. If you don't remember, what they believe to be an alien is found on the top of a mountain, Mulder murders someone monitoring him in his apartment, Scully goes in the hospital with cancer, and ends with Mulder apparently committing suicide.
The season finale to the seventh season with Mulder being abducted and Scully being pregnant was obviously intended to be a series finale when it was filmed and would've been a better finale than the rubbish tonight. Certainly not on my list of best episodes, though.
And another of my favorite conspiracy episodes was called Duane Barry, which aired toward the beginning of the second season. Duane Barry believes he's been abducted by aliens and takes hostages and Mulder goes in to negotiate, disguised as an EMT. He negotiates with Barry and later Barry gets shot, apparently dead. Upon medical examination, they find bits of metal in him, implanted in his teeth if I remember right, and with strange markings that make a supermarket barcode scanner go crazy. And he's on his death bed, when he suddenly awakens and the episode ends with him outside Scully's apartment and her phone dead. It's a prelude to her getting kidnapped and abducted. Great episode if you ask me.
Anyways, X-Files was so much better when Mulder and Scully were on the outside of a vast conspiracy looking in and trying to deciper it. But it shifted to Mulder and Scully the objects at the center of a vast conspiracy. And that ruined it for me.
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I found it ironic that Mulder once again shunned Canada (when he ignores the advice of Kerst to go North) -- although it's probably a bit of an inside joke by Chris Carter. The show's downturn is widely held as simultaneous to when production moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Talk about the thing "going south". Apropos for the final episode to follow the same pattern to it's ultimate conclusion.
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It all has to do with the mayan calender which translates to 2003 june.
Theres alot of uh, lets call them, myths dealing with what will happen.
The rapture, the planet niburu and aliens coming for the choosen people, all kinds of crazy stuff.
Anyone who wants to see where the idea for this episodes ending or the so called truth came from, type "niburu orion group"
or "niburu 2003" into google.
You'll see all kinds of stuff about aliens taking over our government, and an invasion during june 2003, you'll see the mayan calender used as evidence, abductees claims, so called government officials claims, etc
Its worth researching even if its just myths, theres still a 10 percent chance that it might actually be true.
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So in the end the real truth and hope turned out to be linked to the Cross.
When Scully asked Mulder at the very end "You say you want to believe, What is it that you want to belive?". Mulder answered something like "That the dead are not lost to us, that they can tell us something, that there is hope". With this he examined the Cross on Scully's necklace.
Amazing. The Cross is our only hope. Why? Because God himself became a man and suffered on the Cross to bear our sins and to show us that ultimately it's not power and might that will win, but true humility. He showed us that God isn't into a power trip, that He doesn't sit around keeping accounts of our wrongs so he can punish us - no, the Cross shows that God cares for us humans. It shows that He cared enough to suffer and die for us. He showed us that real leadership is servanthood, that we find our true strength when we're weak.
Jesus said, "I am the way the TRUTH and the light, no man comes to the Father but by me".
And on the Cross as he breathed his last he said
"It is finished!"
Think about it. Try to see it in a new light - some so-called Christians have given Christianity a bad name. Don't reject it on their account, look into it for yourself. Think about why you're laughing this message off.
The comment was written by (hance my reference to) Joe Michael Strachinski (creator of the SF TV show Babylon 5) in response to the numerous complaints and whinings posted on newsgroups at the end of his series. The basic idea is that one cannot bring together all the little plot threads and dangling ideas and please everyone.
Here is a qote from Orson Scott Card that seems quite fitting;
"...if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of
ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package but then it's not your birthday that I know of, so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift."
I am sorry if you missed the irony of the point. I had not seen the series very much in probably 2 years and feel that things were placed together nicely. The point of the show isn't to find the end-all-be-all timeline of every little plot point, but to be able to turn off the TV at the end and say to yourself "that was a good story". If that happened, then the author did his job..if not, then pick up the remote and move onto something else.
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