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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.
Thank you for your attention.
Kero-chan: KEEEEKIIIIII GA DAAIIIISUUUUUKKKIIIIIII!!!!!!!
3 more hours ....
i repeat, worst episode ever.
chris carter, try harder next time... if there is a next time. like the lame ass movie you already writing.
bah.
Local FBI Agent Discovers Religion; Gets Laid
hot foreign sheep.
For not posting this article with "The series finale ends with XXXXXXXXXXXXX." It is much appreciated.
In Slashdot's neverending drive to reveal the plotlines of all your favorite shows before you get the chance to watch it.
I have been pwned because my
I don't know what is more amazing.
:-)
-Slashdot had an article about the end of the X-Files at EXACTLY 10:00PM
or
-I checked Slashdot for an article on the X-Files at EXACTLY 10:00PM
Looks like they left it open ended.
I drank what? -- Socrates
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I have one hour left....
Doh. I'll talk to you then.
(good luck modding this one)
HURD - Hurd's Under Research & Development
That chain smoking FBI guy is still alive hiding out in the desert. Gets blown up by some helicopters. Blah, Blah, Blah....
The episode isn't all that great. Just like any other. Not worth seeing.
Please, Please all the west coast people don't have to thank me
HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!
To be honest, I really liked the ending. It summed it up well for those of us who missed various large chunks. And make sure you set some time aside on December 22, 2012 to see the fireworks.
There are four boxes used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order.
No spoiler in the title? Why the hell does Slashdot post an X-Files story without a major spoiler in the title?!
*cries*
worst...finale...ever.
four-oh-four
Fox was found guilty.
The Lone Gunman are still dead.
May 2002
The Truth At the Mount Weatehr Complex at Bluemont, Virginia, a helicopter lands. Several men in suits exit the helicopter, including Fox Mulder. The men board a bus that takes them through a doorway into an underground complex. Inside, US Marine Corps officers meet them, but Mulder slips away. Using an electronic key card, he penetrates deeper and deeper into secure areas. In one room he activates a computer console and enters a password. The screen shows the text "December 22, 2012...Date for the mobilization of alien....." Knowel Rorer enters the chamber and finds the computer that Mulder was using. Mulder jumps him and they struggle, but Mulder breaks away and runs. At the end of a hallway, a figure opens a door, letting Mulder through, then locks it so Rorer can't get through. the figure is Alex Krycek. "No -- you're dead," says Mulder. Alarms sound and Mulder runs on. He is trapped on a catwalk and Rorer approaches him. They struggle again and Mulder manages to flip Rorer over a catwalk railing. Rorer falls several stories to electrical cables below and is electrocuted. As Mulder pulls himself back up onto the catwalk, Marine guards have their guns on him.
Mulder is in solitary confinement where is being brainwashed. He is abused and kept from sleeping by uniformed troops. They eventually get him to say that he entered the government facility illegally to find something that wasn't there and that he deserves the harshest punishment for his crime. Scully and Skinner enter the Marine Corps brig. They don't know how long Mulder has been there, but he is being held for the murder of a military man. When they enter his cell, watched by a Marine guard, Mulder is unemotional and it seems that the brainwashing has worked. He says they are treating him well and he is clear about the crimes he has committed. Scully is confused by his reactions. After Scully and Skinner leave, Krycek appears in Mulder's cell.
Doggett and Reyes talk with Scully and Skinner. Mulder is accused of killing Rorer, but Doggett saw Rorer killed earlier. They know that Rorer is a supersoldier and cannot really be killed. They won't be able to produce the body. Scully leaves the room, to beg for mercy with "the man upstairs." Kersh talks with a Marine Corps general. The general will allow the FBI to give Mulder a hearing in a military tribunal, but the general wants a guilty verdict. Mulder is a crusader but a lot of people don't like crusaders. Kersh reluctantly agrees. Scully and Skinner return to Mulder's cell. There is no guard present this time and Mulder makes a Hannibal Lector joke. Mulder says he has to put on an act because of what they do to him if he doesn't. Mulder and Scully engage in a long hug and an extended kiss. Skinner then tells Mulder that he is in big trouble. Mulder wants Skinner to represent him and says that they can't try him without exposing themselves. Doggett and Reyes enter and say that they have identified where Rorer's body is being held, at Fort Marlene. Later, Scully returns to Mulder's cell. She needs him to confide in her or they will lose. Mulder thinks he can't win. Scully is scared, but Mulder says he knows what he is doing. Skinner told him about William being given up for adoption. Scully is afraid Mulder will never forgive her, but he says he knows she had no chance. He has been in New Mexico, looking for the truth. When Scully asks what he found, Mulder smiles and says he cannot tell her.
The military tribunal is ready to begin in a spartan hearing room. The prosecutor is an FBI lawyer. The five judges are FBI executives. Kersh presides. The prosecutor will call no witnesses, but introduces the sworn statements of 30 scientists who witnessed Mulder killing Rorer. Skinner moves for dismissal or delay because he can't find his key witness, Marita Covarubius, but Kersh tells him that it is a military tribunal and he must proceed. Scully testifies first. As a scientist she came to believe in extra-terrestrial life and in a government conspiracy to hide the fact from the public. She believes that life came to Earth millions of years ago in a meteor from Mars, and along with it came an alien virus. It infected life on Earth, but that life died in the last ice age. The virus lay dormant in underground oil reservoirs. It resurfaced in contemporary times and signaled to other aliens who crashed at Roswell in 1947. The government captured aliens, obtained alien technology, and learned of alien plans to retake planet Earth. She also describes how she was abducted in 1994 by the military for experiments. The prosecutor demonstrates that Scully has no proof and accuses that she and Mulder were lovers and that she got pregnant and had Mulder's love child. Scully has no good response to that accusation.
Skinner calls Jeffrey Spender who testifies that his father led the conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrials. Spender and Mulder are half brothers. He describes how Bill Mulder was killed and how Samantha was abducted and experimented on. Spender didn't know of his father's crimes when he went to work for the FBI. The prosecutor counters with Spender's FBI written reports about Mulder, which are not complimentary. In Weed Hope, NM, a Native American youth rides his motorcycle up to a shack. Gibson Praise is inside. They have learned about Mulder. Gisbon will get ready to leave. Scully enters Mulder's cell. She wants Mulder to make a plea bargain but he refuses. This is about the truth. Scully then urges Mulder to take the stand and testify, but he refuses. Scully is not just fighting for Mulder - she is fighting for the two of them, i.e, their relationship. After she leaves, X appears in Mulder's cell. X asks what Mulder is doing and Mulder says he is putting the truth on trial. X says "they" have too much power to be afraid. He gives Mulder a piece of paper with Marita's address written on it. Doggett, meanwhile, is at home on the phone to Fort Marlene, trying to track down the Rorer's body, but he is getting the run-around. Reyes, also there, tells him that somebody is outside. They draw guns and discover that it is the Native American youth. He didn't want to endanger "him," meaning Gibson.
Marita takes the stand. Her former position with the United Nations allowed her to further the interests of the conspirators, who called themselves The Syndicate. They were working to develop a vaccine against the alien virus, tracking subjects in the human population through their vaccination scars. She saw people in Russia actually amputate their arms to keep from being tracked. She came to hate the Syndicate but was found out and made a test subject. The Syndicate was trying to save only themselves but a group of renegade aliens who avoided infection by self-mutilation destroyed the conspirators. She resisted testifying before the tribunal because the conspiracy continues, conducted by others. The supersoldiers, like Rorer, are alien replacements. Krycek appears to Mulder, but nobody else in the room can see him. Krycek tells Mulder that "they" will kill Marita if she testifies further. Mulder insists that Skinner dismiss Marita, just as Skinner is beginning to press her for more details on the identity of the supersoldiers. Doggett enters the tribunal room and confers with Skinner, telling him that Gibson Praise is there to testify. Gibson testifies that he has been hiding Mulder in the desert for the last year. Gibson asserts that he can read minds. He looks around the room, reading the minds of everyone there. He says that one of the judges is an alien. Mulder jumps up, shouting that he wants the judge examined. Mulder struggles and is forcibly removed from the room. (End of the first hour of this two-hour episode.)
Marine guards deliver Mulder to a conference room to talk with Doggett, Reyes and Skinner. Gibson is with Scully and is safe. Gibson feels that three of the judges are wavering. They encourage Mulder to testify. When he again declines, Doggett and Reyes say they will testify. Doggett goes first. He testifies about the supersoldiers and says that Rorer was one of them. Mulder couldn't have killed him because the only way to do that is with a rare metal, magnetite. On cross examination, the prosecutor points out that it is the basis of Mulder's case tat these supersoldiers are aliens. Doggett is unable to swear that he believes that the supersoldiers are aliens. Reyes testifies. She describes how Scully was surrounded by aliens as she was giving birth, including one that was shot at point blank range but didn't die. Scully was one of many women who were used as surrogates. The child was important to the supersoldiers because of his powers. William, of course, cannot be produced to demonstrate these powers. When the prosecutor dismisses Reyes, she offers an outburst - what is the point here? To find the truth or to destroy the truth so nobody can find it? She looks directly at Kersh and says, "either way, you lose."
That night, Doggett and Reyes rush up to Scully's apartment. Doggett finally found somebody at Fort Marlene who didn't know he was supposed to give Doggett the run-around. The alleged body of Rorer has been moved to Quantico and Scully needs to examine it. Doggett will stay with Gibson. Scully and Reyes go to Quantico where they see the burned body. Scully sands Reyes to get Rorer's military medical records. Scully goes to the tribunal and testifies that based on her tests, the body isn't Rorer. Kersh orders her removed from the tribunal because she examined the body without authority. The room erupts and Kersh shouts that the trial is adjourned. Later, the five judges reenter the room. They have a verdict - guilty of first-degree murder. Mulder is allowed to speak before the sentence is passed. He congratulates them on succeeding where so many others have failed. Liars do not fear the truth if there are enough liars. No one lie can be buried forever. As much as they try to bury it, the truth is out there. Mulder sees the spirits of Krycek and X standing behind the judges as he speaks. Mulder tells the judges that they are getting rid of their headache, but only at the expense of cutting off their own heads. Scully, Doggett and Reyes wait at Scully's apartment for the news. Skinner phones. The sentence is death by lethal injection. Scully cries.
Rorer drives up to the Marine Corps brig and is admitted. Doggett and Skinner enter Mulder's cell - they are breaking him out. Skinner has keys and they run through the hallways. Rorer enters Mulder's cell, and finds him missing. The alarm is sounded. As the three fugitives try to escape, the meet Kersh who tells them that they will never get out the way they are trying. Kersh says he is doing what he should have done all along. He helps them get through a cut in the chain link fence of the Marine base and into a waiting vehicle. They drive to where Scully, Reyes and Gibson ware waiting with another vehicle. Kersh tells them to drive north to Canada and get an airplane. They must get off the continent to be safe. Mulder and Scully drive off, but Mulder heads south. He is going to see a man about the truth. Doggett and Reyes take Gibson to the X-Files office, but the file cabinets and furniture have been removed. Skinner knows and he is trying to get to the bottom of it. They all go the Kersh's office and are met at the door by an agent previously shown to be a supersoldier. Only Skinner is allowed to enter. Gibson says that the agent knows where Mulder and Scully are going and "they" are going to kill them.
Mulder and Scully are on the Texas-New Mexico border. Mulder stops the car, kissing Scully as she sleeps. He gets out of the car to urinate. The spirits of the Lone Gunmen greet him. They ask him why he would risk perfect happiness. Mulder needs to know if he can change the truth. He gets back into the car and drives on. Mulder and Scully arrive at an ancient Anasazi pueblo. They see smoke from a fire - someone is living on an upper level of the pueblo. Mulder and Scully climb the ladders. A Navajo woman is cooking. Mulder says he was sent a message and a key to the Marine facility by a wise man who lives in the ruins - the Keeper of the Truth. Doggett and Reyes are in a helicopter, flying across the desert, looking for Mulder and Scully. Mulder and Scully are ushered into the presence of the wise man - it is the Cigarette Smoking Man, with long gray hair and still with a tracheotomy device in his throat. He says that Mulder now knows the truth, which he found in the Marine base, but Mulder refuses to speak it, even though it could save his life. Indian wise men hid in this pueblo as their own culture was destroyed by the aliens. The pueblo contains magnetite, which makes it safe against the aliens. Those wise men were the first "shadow government." The Cigarette Smoking Man wants to tell Scully his story - a story that has terrified every President since Truman. The Mayans were so afraid that their calendar stops on the date of the final alien invasion, December 22, 2012. Mulder saw the date at Mount Weather where our own secret government will be hiding when the invasion happens. The Cigarette Smoking Man protected Mulder all those years, waiting for this final moment. Broken and afraid, now you can die, the Smoking Man says.
As two black helicopters fly through desert canyons, Doggett and Reyes are dropped off from their own helicopter. As they approach the pueblo, Rorer drives up in another vehicle. He approaches them and Doggett fires at him. Rorer is not affected by the gunshot to the chest, but as he continues forward, the magnetite affects him. He zooms into the rock and explodes with a puff of dust. Doggett and Reyes run on and meet Mulder and Scully, running out of the pueblo. They know you are here and you have to get out, Doggett tells them. Mulder and Scully won't get into their own vehicle, but grab Rorer's and drive off. Doggett and Reyes leave in Mulder and Scully's original vehicle. The black helicopters arrive and use rockets to destroy the pueblo. One rocket impacts directly on the room where the Smoking Man sits, exploding the chamber in a ball of flame.
In Roswell, New Mexico, Mulder and Scully are in a motel room. It isn't said, but the implication is that the government thinks they are dead, killed at the pueblo. Scully, in a bathrobe, is on the bed. Mulder sits on the floor. Mulder recalls sitting in a motel room like this when they first met. He wanted to convince her of the truth and he eventually did, but he has been chasing after monsters with a butterfly net. He didn't tell her what he had learned because he didn't want to accept defeat. He was afraid it would crush her spirit. She asks why she would accept it if he won't. You only fail if you give up and Scully knows Mulder won't give up, even now. If this is the truth he has been looking for, what else is to believe, she asks. He replies that he wants to believe that the dead are not lost to us, and if we listen to them they can give us the power to save ourselves. Scully says, "we believe the same thing." Mulder moves to the bed and they hold each other. "Maybe there's hope," he says as the episode and the TV series ends.
Am I the only one that thought that that was a horrible way to end the series?
Wow. I watch the X-files for years, and the best ending they can come up with is filled with Christian dogma. I want that 15 minutes of pillow talk stricken from my mind forever.
let's not lonegunman the thing.
some people haven't seen it yet.
I'll just say... the ending works for me.
too bad I have this empty longing feeling. all the years having x-files by my side, and now...
... ~sniff~ alas...
Why don't you dumbasses wait 3 hours till everyone gets a chance to see it.... then post..
Nah.. that'd be too logical....
I always said "10-files". Damn you Steve Jobs and your MacOSX.
I watched the show tonight for the first time in 4 years. I didn't understnd 80% of the references or plot. Is there a guide I can read somewhere that will clue me in on the last few episodes so I can know what this horrible truth is? Dec 22 '12 or whatever. Why were they so afraid of that date?
After watching X-Files for 6 years, I'm glad it's over. Too bad we have to wait for the movie to find out what happened!
Josh
for the REAL ending via a movie. not going to reveal anything for teh folks who are waiting, but let's just say you aren't going to come across much truth tonight.
-rt
The ending was a bit disappointing, but it's about time the series came to an end. The final message of hope was a bit cliche, but it was well acted. But then again, cliche often have a grain of truth. It's just that we are jaded these days, so such a simple thing as hope feel lacking. Some where along the line, the show lost it's freshness.
You fucking idiot slashdot editors, dont you know there are timezones BEHIND YOURS!?
This is the fucking long gunmen all OVER AGAIN!
BITE ME
Skinner and Dogget help Fox get out of the military prison where he is awaiting the death penalty.
This was the worst two hours of my life. Nine years worth of waiting and this is the crap that I. I mean they try to make this show so scientific and they end with a cross. In Roswell for gods sake could they get any more stupid. Yeah lets just go to where this all started. The bounty hunters wont think of looking for us here. The /. community should hunt Carter down and break his knee caps. And the next movie acording to TVGuide woont be about the conspiracy. What the hell is that all about. I hope they dont make a 2 hour long episode about about a NJ shit monster. This sucks.
Hey Ed.
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?!?
Seems like they're setting up for a new movie, but as far as I can tell, there's nothing in the works (imdb search on david & gillian). Afterall, wasn't gillian recently quoted that the series should have ended a while ago?
Some of the recaps were appreciated since I haven't followed closely, but I guessed the occupant of the ruins (no spoilers here!).
That's what I'm left with? Hope? WTF?
Yeah, hope that Chris Carter gets abducted himself.....and soon.
McK
He's been hiding out in an Anasazi hut to escape the shadow government.
Oh, yeah, and he smokes through a tracheostomy.
Worst episode ever.
OMG! That ending was CRAP! Okay, I liked how they basically did a summary of the whole series. But, the last 30 minutes was nothing that I already didn't know. Yes, they did have an open ending, maybe Dana's baby is the savior (ie Christ Child) and Dec 22, 2012 will be the day of reckoning. But, I still hated the ending. Didn't they learn anything from the ending of Seinfeld??
The Lone Gunman are STILL DEAD.
Comment accordingly.
Kero-chan: KEEEEKIIIIII GA DAAIIIISUUUUUKKKIIIIIII!!!!!!!
Anybody want to take some guesses as to what "12-22-12" means?
122212
011101..... Whats that in binary?
...that was fantastic! Yoda totally kicked ass!
oh, wait...
Could someone with Tivo or who recorded it post up the computer read out in the beginning? I think it would be interesting if there was any info contained on it that may hint to future movies etc reguarding alien invasion Dec. 22, 2012 and what "End Game" project is about.
Frickin' weak. We've been watching this show how many years, and The Truth was just a friggin' date? Friggin' frigg-it. I feel like Chris Carter just pulled me over, said "hey, close your eyes, open your mouth, and I'll tell you The Truth" and I actually fell for it...
Wise men say, "Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."
hoping to see an new xfiles movie. terribly enjoyed the first one, hope they make another to finish the saga....hope they have much more aliens in the new movie, i just had enough of bees and black oil.
Me and lunchbox here are going to kick your ass.
It sure must suck to live on the west coast, knowing you are the last people to see prime time shows.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
...or some date like that.I forget. That was Mulder's "ultimate truth".
I haven't watched the show (except by accident), since the '95 season. And after watching the finale, I'm glad I didn't. Cuz I didn't miss a thing. You poor fuckers that have been watching it all these years, pretending it's good, hoping for a payoff, got what you deserved. Godo riddance.
This is... um... in Baka Binary. Yeah.
Kero-chan: KEEEEKIIIIII GA DAAIIIISUUUUUKKKIIIIIII!!!!!!!
They missed one major revelation: Agent Dogget was the T-1000 -- an evil, shape-shifting , time-travelling terminator!
perlgolf: the only place where shorter is better
the actual timeline is under the conspiracy link, it has all the episodes and ties the movie in as well:
http://www.themareks.com/xf/conspiracy.shtml
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Considering how stale the last two season had become, I was worried that the finale would have been half assed just to finish off what was once one of the greatest dramas airing of TV.
The first hour of the finale IMO was the weakest part. I was worried when Skinner was pulling past characters as witnesses for Mulder's trial that Carter did a lame character reunion finale. Thankfully, the show picked up in the latter half.
I did have some problems with the finale, however:
1. The reason behind Kurst's sudden aid was never explained. His sudden character reversal was unsettling to me.
2. I think they overdid the Smoking Man's demise. Sure, Carter probably had that shot of his face peeling away to the skull to appease all the fanboys who would claim he escaped death again. But the fanboys would say that anyway if Mulder shot him several times in the face then relieved himself on his dead body.
The ending seem to fit the feel of the show. The protagionists now know the truth, but a little bit more of the picture remains out there. I can definately see a movie revolving around the alien invasion comming from this finale.
You mean it's over? Done? No more X-Files?!?
Damnit! And in the subject, too! Right on the bloddy front page even!
Why'd you have to tell me that?!?!?!?!
Sig? What sig? Do I have to have a sig!?!?
... it is very appropriate in this case - worst. episode. ever.
sic transit gloria mundi
For all o fyou who are gettin X-Files withdrawal, I would suggest that you watch the best Sunday night show (and possible overall show) that is on now, Six Feet Under. It is a show that has a few things that are sorely lacking on most shows. 1) Plot. 2) Emotion. 3) Interesting (understatement) characters. I don't know if HBO is going to be doing reruns, as the final episode for the season is showing in two weeks. But I highly recommend watching this show if you can.
Come play Heroes of Might and Magic Mini online.
Yes! It was the best X-Files ever! I can't believe it! There was no conspiracy, it was all a dream Mulder had. That part when Doggett pulls off his face to reveal that praying mantis head thing. And when Scully morphs into that horse and rides away with her child, who was miraculously returned by six gray aliens, nine supersoldiers, four rabbits, eleven muskrats, and Cancer man. Wow, that was cool! And when the Lone Gunmen were RESURRECTED BY JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF. Neato!
Oh, sorry. You weren't supposed to read this yet.
Looks like The X-Files producers are planning on a blockbuster movie in 2003....I wonder what movie that will be...gee. ;-)
I guess I might be against the river flow on this one, but I thought that that was a very good episode. I mean, it had the classic X-Files struggle between the conspirators and the truth, along with the normal dosage of action and science fiction. The only major weaknesses I found were that the deputy director (the guy Skinner reports to) switched, since I would deem that highly unlikely after all he went through, the smoking man returning (he was a good character but I think if anything his coming back raised more questions than answers). Also, the end scene with Mulder and Scully was cheesy, and a couple of explanations were not very good.
It was still a good episode though. As a series finale it could have improved, but since they have already stated that a movie is coming out, this definitely is NOT the last chapter.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
What did it really sum up though? After watching it I'm just as confused as when the episode started. Is the lame ending leaving open more movies with Scully and Mulder or was it just supposed to be an ominous doomsday ending saying that there's no point in even trying to go on? The way CSM described 12-22-2012 it would be the end of human civilization. Can it be changed? Is Mulder going to try or is he content that he failed to convince people because the deck was stacked against him?
December 22, 2012 seems like a great movie-release kind of date, leaving plenty of time for the writing of said movie.
And if it's about an alien invasion...well, I'll say it'll probably be better than Independence Day, and leave it at that..
Tried going to thexfiles.com, but kept getting 403s. This is partially because Fox put the address on the screen with the heading "The Conspiracy Continues" or something to that effect. This would probably be one of the few times the core Slashdot audience raped and pillaged a site before it was even posted on Slashdot.
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
Why the hell would you read this line if you haven't seen the movie... errr.. I mean finale yet. ;)
Nothing's been given away man, no one said anything
For those of you who are in line w/me (and never saw more than 3 or so episodes) this is the spoiler you should read.
:)
Start -> End (Boring).
You're welcome
Enjoy your Sunday.
I can't believe the lone gunman were actually alien boumty hunters. And who could have guessed that "Cancer Man" was really the father of Scully's love child.
At least the West Coasters can't compain that /. gave anything away in the article - they don't have to click on the links if they don't want to.
Video Game cheats, hints a
That's it. No kiss, no blowjob, nothin'. Just an embrace and they touch noses.
I heard Darth Vader is Luke's father and Leia is Luke's sister!
Based off rinkwork.com's book-a-minute.....
Mulder
I see dead people!
Cigarette Smoking Man
I'm not dead!
THE END.
In 3010, the potatoes triumphed
He's takin' a piss, and the Gunmen try to talk some sense into him. Scully interrupts (the hallucination, not the pissin'), and they disappear.
Lol, after last time, do you really think anyone on the West coast is going to be checking Slashdot until after the ending? I mean, it was rather obvious that Slashdot was going to write an article about this. They have learned their lesson about this by now though. The only thing that surprised me was that article about The Lone Gunmen being possibly alive, based on a picture of them in the movie. Given the number of flashbacks in these episodes I doubted that they would be alive to begin with. Plus, how would they have survived that? It was very clear how they died, as opposed to other characters who died in more mysterious fashions, thus leaving it possible to bring them back.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
Fade in text bearing the date "12-22-2012"... Scene fades in with a sunrise and huge obelisks that have been mysteriously placed in every major city. They have no markings on them save for the label "DO NOT PUSH RED BUTTON. GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR ANNIHILATION WILL RESULT." There'll always be one moron who just HAS to press the red button to see if it's just bullshit. Bingo, humanity destroyed, aliens move in and take over. Who needs viruses?
Once again Chris Carter has screwed over his fans. Every year he claims that all will be revealed in the season finale, and of course it never is (except for that one time alot was revealed), after a few seasons I ignored it but I actually thought all would be revealed on the last episode, EVER. But no, nothing whatsoever is revealed and infact nothing happens. The first hour and half is pretty much a "best-of-x-files" thingy. A bunch of people testify about the x files while showing clips of older episodes. In my opinion Chris Carter just used this episode to let people who stopped watching catch up so they will know where they are in the future movies. Carter knew everyone would watch that episode and he's created a huge market or people ready to watch x files movies. he could of atleast given us one last good episode. fuck.
Some of us live in very poor countries and still on episoide 1....
thank to you we know how many episoides are!..
(sorry people anther lame spoiler joke)
8 months and 10 years until the alien invasion that will spell doomsday for humanity. :-)
Heck, we barely dodged the August 29, 1997 Judgement Day, but somehow Sarah Connor prevented it. Can Scully and Mulder do the same?
Cave, wreck, and deep diver.
Cinescape has an outline of the upcoming so-called "X-Files 2," due sometime in 2004.
The coolest voice ever.
The last episode would be perfect for an appearance on Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen. Half way through I started making comments and ad lib dialog and my wife and I were cracking up -- the only way we could enjoy the show. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. The writers must have been let go before the script was written.
... like it would destroy her mind or something. It was just a date of the alien invasion. Lots of useless, meaninless pseudo-philosophy that was completely out of context.
2 hours long, most of it a secret trial, which was meaningless. A secret truth, which he held back until he finally asked Sculley, "Are you sure you want to know?"
The show was just hot air. Very very very lame.
If nothing else, the final episode will at least keep us from missing the show.
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and in Sculley's arms no less!
What tragedy!
What brilliance!!
(WARNING: the above contains spoilers!)
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
You know, after all those episodes about "the truth," we can know see what Mulder was after! The source code! His alternate persona: Linus Torvelds
Consider the following:
Mulder wants information to be free. He doesn't want the government to cover up the information, or "source code," about the aliens. The aliens attempted to give the humans the source code, but the government intercepted it and kept it closed!
You hear what they want you to hear. The government kept it a secret. Mulder took the red pill.
don't forget some of us in other countries.
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You couldn't wait till it's over on the West Coast?
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They did the best they could, I really enjoyed the recap during the first hour, I had missed the last 2-3 seasons and it was very helpful.
I don't have the slightest idea if they will ever continue the conspiracy, but this finalé at least made me wish that the show wasn't over. It actually felt very much like the show wasn't over. I hope the second movie will be more conspiracies and not a stand alone movie.
Sure they could have tried and pieced together every mystery and conspiracy, but did they have to? I like it being left open a little.
I mostly agree, and especially about smoking man returing. Was I supposed to feel some long overdue sense of closure to see him die in a super inferno slow-motion death scene? I had already written him off.
Besides, he was looking cooler than ever, Anasazi-style.
hahahahaha....
this is really funny.
CMOS technology stops improving. Alien invasions. I think it's beginning to look like a really good year to skip out on.
Wow I had no Idea... Was it a good last episode?
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Man, that was CRAP!
Having given up on the X-Files a long time ago, I thought I'd at least the ending would feature some deep conspiracy, or meaning to life. BUT NOTHING!
Any of these endings, no matter how overused, would have been better than what the X-Files had:
- we all live in the Matrix.
- God does exist.
- all elected representatives in government are aliens!
- there's a UFO behind the moon waiting to take us to our home planet.
They might as well have ended it with a dog with shifty eyes (like in the Simpson episode with Mel Gibson).
Two hours of my life wasted! Two hours of my life that I will never get back! NEVER!
dude, people are messing with you, chill
the X-Files was a great TV series when it first started, it took off like a band, i loved it, but it seems like the last two or three seasons the writers & producers were running out of good ideas for shows and the series got kindof wierd...
"were gonna spend 90 minutes rehashing the previous 9 years(and give them no new answers) then spend the last 30 giving them a date that a archeologist or historian would recognize anyways...."
I still liked it though!
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wow, great episode. i think that was 2 hours?
one thing you'll notice for the people in the pacific time zone... after mulder gets into the ford at night with his jail outfit, the next day he's wearing something else....
but what IS the truth? they werent really clear about it... mulder didnt really talk about it. the smoky guy didnt talk about it....
someone please explain?
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If you think you're pissed now, wait'll you shell out the 10 bucks to see the 2nd movie when it comes out...
"Just tell him ya did it! That's what he wants to hear anyway..."
all that main characters are alive...the conspericy lives on....the good guys are still fighting to win.....that equates to at least 2 movies
I can't wait
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First of all, i-95 doesn't go to texas. It probably wouldn't have hurt the producers, writers, and anybody else involved, to pick up a map and take a quick look.
Besides that slight innacuracy,can anybody explain how Mulder is suddenly able to communcate with dead people now?
Seriously, I'm not very impressed by this finale. It was poorly written, and the trial scene was simply a cheap way out for the writers to explain "the big picture" without putting much effort into it.
Guess there are plenty of holes left for the next movie.
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I realized this show jumped the shark over a year ago in the episode in which they electrocuted some killer fungus using the 3rd rail of the Boston subway system.
But this used to be one of my favorite shows so I thought I'd watch the last episode. If I still liked the show I'd be pretty pissed about the big ending being a low budget clip show. But I thought it was pretty funny... especially that line:
"then let's shove it up their ass"
I must have laughed all the way till I changed the channel to watch cops...
The episode sucked. There was no truth. It was just a clip show. Fine the black oil is an alien virus that causes aliens to grow inside you and then bust out. But WAIT! That was only for a few episodes, then we go back to the black oil just taking over your body.
The black oil came to earth on a meteorite. Fine, but how does that explain Roswell? The aliens crashed because of the magnetite? So the grays are the same as the super soldiers? That doesn't make sense. So we'll just ignore that...
So everyone in the galaxy except for humans and the renegades are infected with the black oil? Assuming that's true, how could selfdisfigurement keep the renegades from being infected, when they're made of the same green foam as the same as the alien bounty hunters?
And so what was The Big Truth? The Cigarette
Smoking Man teased us with revealing it, but
never did. Unless it was the invasion occurs
Dec 22, 2012. How is the Big Secret?
Last week's was far better.
oh wait, no they arent... sorry...
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A beowulf cluster of Mulders spawned by Scully.
Sure, it was better than the last half dozen. It still wasn't the X-files I remember. They didn't even leave you hanging. The writers should have kept smoking whatever it was when the series started, cause it was working. Oh well, time to see what else is on. There is a new program that I found interesting called CSI, I will have to see how that one turns out.
Someone do me a favor and tell me what Mulder and Scully said at the ending..the pillow talk. I missed that part.
There is a spoiler here. Not even a warning! Damn it! It doesn't start for another 2 hours here.
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Aliens came to Earth pre-Ice Age and brought with them a virus that makes other aliens into aliens but the original aliens died in the ensuing Ice Age and the alien virus bubbled up to make aliens out of humans who will be wiped off the Earth by the other aliens when they invade the Earth except for the secret government who will fight the aliens with alien/human hybrid super-soldiers? Can't wait for the next season!
No shit sherlock!
I guess you just posted this so someone would mod you up to +5, informative.
I got some news for you little buddy, you damn karma whore... someone mod this guy to hell, -1, fudgepacking ass-pirate!
More was revealed than you realize. The truth is out there and it's been put forth for the wise and well read to find. You must read between the lines and connect the dots. If I might suggest - begin by researching the date and its place in certain literature. Then connect referrences there to others within the final episode.
I concur.
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Wow, so the whole series was Mulder's fever dream! How original!
What does the /. crowd think of shows like.... Angel & buffy ? .. I personally like them, what do the fellow geeks think?
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12/21/2012
the ancient maya, hindu and chinese calendars all stop counting on this date
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really i do.
I stopped watching the x-files two years ago but I did watch the last episode tonight, because I was a huge fan. Apparently I didn't miss anything the last two years. Cool.
*****SPOILER********
They had to have left it open. The date on the screen Mulder was looking at said 2065 or something but the date smoking man said was 2012. Mulder just gave that "look" when smoking man said the date.
I spent the last few hours watching Attack of the Clones instead. I had no idea X-Files was even around anymore. X-Files was great before the movie, but the after that, it was about as entertaining as a punctured colostomy bag.
- 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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Didn't Grant Morrison already use that date to better effect in his _The Invisibles_ comic?
Although, come to think of it, his narrative fell apart at crunch time as well.
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man.. I don't understand the fanboy geeks ranting about the all the things wrong in the finale. All Mulder's character was looking for was an answer, "the truth" and thats what he got. No one said that it'd be good or bad.
There was nothing he could have done to change 'the situation' (well, maybe not at least till the next movie if there is one). Carter appealed the finale to a lot of viewers, filling in the holes for the late boomers and tieing everthing for the fans. Sure there were other options. Thing that could've been depicted differently but as it is often said, some things are often best left unsaid. I liked the open ending of the show and the way it ended.
Of course, a lot of people would want to see aliens attack and Mulder coming out with a virus to upload to the mothership and save the day (don't worry, this didn't happen) but you can't please everyone. IMO this is a good ending to an almost perfect show (minus the last 3 seasons or so).
Our own calendars ended Dec 31st 1999... and no alien invasions happened then. Here's to hoping the aliens are now using UNIX systems with a 64bit time_t.
Terrance McKenna had developed a way to map out the flow of entropy and novelty as it ebb'ed it's way though history. Under his calculations.. he says novelty hits an infinate spike in 2012. He states his research was done with no knowledge of the Mayan Calandar that ends on the same date. (which kept track for 5000 years before that.). Some suspect that there is another planet out there on a 3,500 year orbit named "Niburu" which is set to return at that same time.
w00t! -- 2012 could be very exciting..
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I hope you are not all that naive to think he would have ended a series in this day and age not to make anymore money or continue writing stories which will no doubt have you all standing in line once they hit the theaters. Please wake up! If none of you watch or will watch didn't for a second think what would happen at the end you are just fooling your self.
it wouldnt be the x-files style if they fed the whole damn thing to you. Think about it yourself and u decide, thats why the series was so great, it just adds more questions.
I've been a big fan of the X-files for years, and I feel cheated by that last episode. I feel manipulated having watched this entire season, thinking they were going to make something of themselves. Instead all we got was THE BRADY BUNCH EPISODE. Burt Reynolds should have shown up at the end to slap everyone silly.
Am i the only one? Or did i know the truth way before mulder?
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thatll give you an idea...
You guys have some nerve... First you ruin the Lone Gunmen thing, now you tell me what I can and can't do? Oh, yeah? Well, I'll click through anything I like! ;-)
First of all, i-95 doesn't go to texas.
I see you've never driven from Texas to DC. First you go south on I-95, then west. At least I have.
It helps to actually watch the show, and *shock* maybe even look at a map,
Yeah, we wont get it till bloody 2003.
So, 2012 may be the end of the Mayan calendar, but the real date to remember would be 2112, since that's when the Solar Federation is going to get overrun by the returning ships of the true human race.
oh, wait...
you're not funny at all!
You're just a stupid motherfucking fuckhead. Please fucking die!
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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.
Apologies to JMS.
Dear Mr. Tolkien:
I just wanted to say that I think the way you ended THE LORD OF THE RINGS was crap. You didn't provide any closure. Instead of spending time with the hobbits clearing out the shire (come on, urban renwal in LoTR? give me a break) and lots of goodbyes, you SHOULD have shown me what happened to Tom Bombadil, he was an important part of the story, and you just left his story thread there unresolved.
You made a big deal out of the elves going to the west, but we never SAW it! We never found out what was there, or what Bilbo found when he got there, or what happened to the dwarves, or what happened to Merry and Pippin....
You betrayed your audience by not resolving every single plot thread you introduced in your book, and as a result, it is never going to be of value to anyone, ever, and will never go past its first printing.
Cave, wreck, and deep diver.
Your a fucking loser.
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The whole thing was eerily familiar, and then I realized why:
The plot was pretty much the same as the Seinfeld series finale, right on down dragging assorted past characters into a trial that the star(s) can't possibly win.
I guess no Kramer was a clue.
But seriously, how much difference was their between Doggitt and the Soup Nazi?
Oh well, at least Mulder ended up better than Jerry: He gets to get personal with Scully, whereas the best Jerry could do was Elaine.
Unless, of course, he wanted to consider George.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Fact - The vehicle Mulder escaped in was a recent model Ford Expedition.
Fact - This episode is heavy with Ford commercials advertising the Expedition.
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1. What's with the religious thing now...
My viewing slowed the last few years and I don't think I watched any shows this year, until the final one. I figured they'd wrap things up, reveal some news, secrets, something, and leave a nice little hole for another movie in a few years. Instead it was 2 hours of crap.
The whole first hour could have been condensed into 15 minutes and the second into 10. An hour and a half was wasted on beating a dead horse and filling screen time with useless chatter. It was about as interesting as the last Seinfeld was funny.
Lexx's final episode a few weeks ago blew it away.
I do not know about you, but I really wanted the last episode to be beutiful, inspiring and completely inconclusive. Sure, it sounds cheesy but the whole series (never mind the last 2 seasons) was about searching for the truth, not FINDING the truth. In the end, it seems that Mulder found something that fit into all the plot lines and stopped there. That completely violates everything that the show has come to stand for. I understand that "the search" was ideal for writing more and more episodes and "the truth" is ideal for abrupt ending of the series, but it just makes me feel bad. I would much rather have something liek the black and white episode as the endgame. Of course, it has nothing to do with aliens but I would know that Mulder's quest is not over and never will be.
thorough...
It's too bad people can't really speak when they have a tracheotomy. I suppose it would have crimped Carter's style too much to use one of those handheld talking devices real world cancer patients get when they have their trachea removed.
If Carter hadn't tried to stretch the show past 5 or 6 seasons, people would probably still care -- making the jump to a Star Trek-like franchise possible. Now, the next XFiles movie will be a nostalgia player like the new Miami Vice movie.
Scully?
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The last to seasons have killed The X-Files for sure. And the final episode today has put the final nail in the coffin. It was just plain terrible. The real final episode was 2 years ago when Moulder disappeared and it was an open ending and it was right.
Aging actors, stupid plot, a lot of talking and no action. I feel sorry for the good actors (Dukhovny/Andersen) having to ruin everything they created in first 7 years because of the greed of the network.
Obviously, Mulder is being set up to be the first Jedi. Chris Carter is George Lucas's illegitimate love child, and is tying his own fanboy-friendly universe into his father's.
With as many seasons as there were, the "truth" should have been far more complex and mindblowing.
It's kind of hard to draw together an entire body of pop culture kookiness and make it work. It's even harder when you've never really had a long term plot.
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Bad news - The aliens take over the world on Dec 21 2012.
Good news - If you're running linux on a 32 bit system you don't need to worry about the year 2038.
The world's ending! But there's still hope. Gee thanks, that's where we were at the start of the show, except we didn't know the world was ending. We knew that by Season 3. Ah well, perhaps the upcoming movie (and it is coming, see Cinescape) will resolve things.
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If anyone owns the X-Files: Key of X soundtrack, the whole dang conspiracy is explained at the end of the CD's final track (around 10:13 or so). Some of us are already ahead of the game (and time zones I guess). :)
Here's some more info on it.
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I'm actually glad they didn't wrap everything up. I don't care if they end the best TV show of all time as long as they keep making movies. How long after ST:TNG ended did we wait for the first movie?
I'll watch 'em but I won't listen to the crap
Wow! I can't believe that after all this time, Vecepia is final Survivor! What twists, what drama, what a show!
Oh....I must have watched the wrong thing.....
Ok, so I was pretty bombed at the time, but didn't the skeleton which Smoking Man burned away to look a bit... alien? I'm honestly not a fanboy, but the briefest glimpse...
What I want to know is why an alien civilization that is so well-organized that it can know that it will be invading Earth in 2012 over a thousand years ago hasn't invaded in the meantime. The biggest outstanding question for me is what were they doing in the interim that took 1000 years, but was sufficiently planned and specific that they knew the day they would be ready to wrap it up and invade.
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The ending sucked. It was a clip show that brought back nearly every character save the original Deep Throat, who they eluded to several times during Scully's testimony.
As a smoker, I praise Carter for his reluctance to have the smoking man die due to lung cancer, but bringing him back every other season doesn't exactly seem reasonable.
After all, nearly every season of the X-files had either Mulder, Scully, Smoking Man, or another character disappear/die. For the series to end with not a single main character dying and the supposed alien invasion date set in 2012, I smell a GD reunion episode already in the works.
With our luck, and Carter's creative insight, we can expect the reunion show to be a clip show too.
12212012... if the 2s are converted to 0s, is 10010010, which happens to be the letter A.
Now if only Scully had finished her binary classes, clearly she'd have realized that all the aliens were after was a little ass.
I have to say I was expecting more. I mean it was more like a Seinfeld style ender really, basically just a recap. Whoopdie doo. I've watched the series since the beginning, most of this was just filler to 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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unlike humans, female aliens have their "time of the bimillenium". however, these intergalactic cycles can be predicted accurately, so they picked a date when pms would be over. beyond that, the specific date was arbitrary, but they needed to pick soemthing to get a cheap ticket to earths solar system.
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Isn't it obvious, they are clearing way for a new hyperspace bypass. It has been filed in the local planning office for 1000 years, and you didn't even bother to look?
You really need to start taking a more active role in your gov..
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Maybe they're on a tight schedule? A thousand years ago, they probably charted out all the planets they wanted and set an itinerary of invasions.
December 12, 2012 just happens to be when they're scheduled to invade us (weather permitting).
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I'm from Halifax, too. It was also shown on the cable-equivilent Global station (what used to be MITV; channel 6) 3hrs early.
Last time I watched X-Files regularly Was right when Mulder and Scully went somewhere in Africa and found a giant ship on the coast. I was hoping they'd mention that during the finale, since I remember it being a season finale and (apparently) a pretty big deal. What on Earth-Mars-whatever was the story behind that?
That's the punchline?? The aliens are coming? Well thanks for the clue Paul Revere, no one saw that coming. Oh but wait, their arrival coincides with the end of the Mayan calendar. Ooooo! That's creeeeeepy! Hit the creeeeeeepy music Mark Snow, gotta get the folks at home in a twist so they'll come see the movie and PAY us for giving them blueballs! Genius!
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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It takes hundreds of years to travel between distant star systems (with current technology), so what would happen if the aliens live on the other side of the galaxy?
Even traveling at light speed it would take a very long time (though I don't know if light speed matters in the X-files' universe).
I actually researched this conspircy theory long before the Xfiles knew about it. Its been around for THOUSANDS of years and it traces back to the mayan calender.
Which claims, 2012 in MAYAN years but our calender it is 2003 June.
We use the gregorian calender.
A guy by the name of Zecharia Sitchen
This theory for the first time was backed up by evidence, in 1982 when planet X was discovered.
IF any of this WAS true, our government would never tell us anyhow.
So for now its still a rumor, myth, etc, wait until June 2003 (December 2012 on Mayan Calender)
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For the third time! lol.
The myth uses the MAYAN calender not the gregorian calender.
2012 on the MAYAN calender is 2003 JUNE on the Gregorian calender which we follow.
This means its 2011 right now, and it makes perfect sense for Xfiles to end their series here considering the whole myth of aliens that all abductees and stories have claimed ENDS at 2003.
I mean what can they use for an ending after June 2003 that fits in with all the myths?
I admit Chris Carter did his research, he just screwed up on the year translation.
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By the way this isnt from the Xfiles.
Aliens want earth and have taken over the government using the governments greed in an exchange Technology for freedom to abduct people.
The Aliens could easily plan down to the date they'd invade considering how much simplier we are than them its not like we can stop them.
The Myth claims the planet niburu enters our orbit in june 2003 (mayan calender 2012 december)
Niburu is (planetX) rumored to have alien life on it.
SO yeah it makes perfect sense to take over right when your planet enters the solar system.
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Yes thats next year.
But everything else you said is on target.
Niburu returns in 2003 June.
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Someone was watching the episode. I came in just after half-way. He couldn't follow it, since he had never watched the series. I explained all the "references" to him. So, he summarized the entire series (alien storyline) in one sentence, and said how stupid it was. I mentioned that it was interesting if you watched how was slowly played out, but, I agreed.
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June 2003 not december 2012.
Unless you use the mayan calender instead of the gregorian and in that case the year is 2011
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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.
...although the newer ones are getting a bit depressing. I don't laugh out loud as much as I used to, and they seem to focus a lot more on emotions than on actual real life like they did in the first season.
However, with that said, it's still one of my favorite shows. I am archiving every episode to VCD and trying to get my friends hooked.
Doesn't the Great Pyramid have some reference to that time as well? Either the bottomless pit, or the King's chamber. I can't remember where I heard it.
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X-Files really started to go downhill after they developed a plot for the show that built off the previous weeks episode instead of the general "Aliens too my sister and I'm trying to the find the truth". Does anyone else agree with me?
Chris Carter has done it again. He answered nothing except perhaps Kirsch has a conscious.
It was a bunch of bull if you ask me. I can't belive I even watched.
Instead of "watering a cactus" or "draining the lizard", you can now say:
"I'm talking to the lone gunmen."
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Did this remind anyone else of the last episode of "Seinfeld", what with a trial and a the contrived parade of characters from past episodes? Giddyup! But this wasn't supposed to be funny. I think.
When I heard of the trial as the basis for the show, I thought, it's the much maligned Seinfeld series end. And sure enough, lots of old characters trotted out, many clips and at the end of the spectacular, charcters are basically holed up in a room talking to themselves. No real closure. And judging by the negative comments, the same Seinfeld backlash. And am I a bit crazy, but wasn't Seinfeld also about two seasons passed its prime when it closed up shop?
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Interesting... I never thought I'd talk about it here. Well, I'm a scifi fan, and I started watching xfiles about 3 or 4 years ago, though not consistently. The outer limits, star trek voyager, and some of those shows were my favorites then.
/. had these stories about the attempt to get a new audience for the next 7 years of star trek.
Well, I just moderated in this story, so I hope the system won't kill me in some way by posting this. I don't really care, so here goes!
In the past year and a half, I learned a bit about buffy but school never let me get into it. I stayed away from angel because I didn't know Buffy enough and had this creepy feeling that the shows must be on parallel universes in order to be two different tv shows.
Now, to the shows I do watch: Charmed, for one, where there's magic all over the place. Enterprise, because of Scott Bakula and his role in Quantum Leap, which I watched for years in Spanish and then here in sci fi. Then, I started to watch Smallville (Superman's youth, for those who watch even less tv and do more computer stuff at home). I hadn't noticed till this year, but the shows have a soap opera feel to them... There's something about the POP music they play, and this feeling in the back of my head that they want to appeal a broader audience and mix reality a lot with their magic or whatever.
Startrek doesn't quite fit in but I like the opening theme, since it's the first one with a singer and a timeline plot, and
PS: I do like shows that try to merge sci fi and adventure with pop culture and therefore try to not alienate their viewers. On one hand, I've always had a problem getting people to watch even a single episode of Star trek because they think the guys in prostetics and weird costumes are stupid. Same thing for x-files: they are talking aliens all the time, and my dad, for example, would never watch it with a serious interest.
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hello??? the lone gunmen are not alive. they are dead. mulder is seeing ghosts. (anyone have any reasons why? is he psycho now?)
Who would have figured that Elvis was behind it from the beginning?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Hehehe!
That's a good one.
- NaveWeiss
Offtopic? Are you fucking stupid or did you just not watch the episode? December 22, 2012, your ass is grass hoooomans.
Coincidizing with the 35th Anniversary....
Five words: Star Wars Holiday Special Rebroadcast
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Ia Ia Cthuhlu ftagn!
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
that that last season sucked... ...this site done in perl ...Enlightenment 17 is being worked on
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the truth is Redhat 7.3 is out
the truth is OS X is a great desktop
Please study and learn from the final scene. Mulder laying in bed next to Scully. Mulder, sad, depressed, and a bit down and out. Scully, supportive, caring, and sort of helpless.
What can Scully do to lift Mulder's, ummm, spririts? What can any woman do? If you can't figure out the rest, then well, the human species will somehow continue without you.
Mulder is a lot smarter than I thought. Cool move, dude! I know what you are hoping for.
They broke Mulder out of prison at 11:30pm. He and Scully then hopped on I-95 in Quantico, VA and arrived at the Texas/New Mexico border at 5:00am. Last I heard, it took a day to drive across Texas by itself.
Other than that slip-up, I thought the show was pretty good. Now that we have only ten years left for the human race (December 22, 2012 is the date of infamy when the aliens colonize the planet), better start planning for that party of all party's!!!
I watch 3 shows on TV, of which X-file is the only FOX network show I watch. It is (except for last night) usually on at 8 PM. Since this is probably my fault for not watching all the other super-cool (not) shows on Fox and seeing their teasers for the *7* o'clock showing of the series finale, how might I have known that the show was going to be on an hour earlier? I really expected they'd run starting at the usual time.
It was still a great series finale. Too bad they couldn't make enough profit to keep the series going.
Now I only have 2 TV shows to watch, and one is really my wife's show that I watch with her: Star Trek: Enterprise, and 7th Heaven
Vortran out
Knowledge is like ignorance.. too much can be just as bad as not enough.
I don't feel like sitting down for two hours so just give me the goddamn summary.
Thank God.
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2012 on the Mayan calender is 2003 in the gregorian calender, release date for this is 2003(tentative)
moster of the week, you mean like night stalker?
a tv series I loved as a kid.
Of course XFiles has always been a night stalker clone.
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EFC ended Saturday night. I wonder if there was anyone still watching the show besides me?
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Man am I ever glad I never got into this series. I did try to watch it at first and I even saw the movie they put out. But hell I guess I'm not that interested in wasting my time in front of the mind numbing boob tube. I even checked out the link for the last episode and had to laugh at the lame ass conclusion to the series that they came up with. Not the part about the aliens taking over the earth. That is at least somewhat interesting. But give me a break all the key players that know the truth get killed off and the series ends with Mulder & Scully on the run only to finally jump into the sack together. That is not withstanding that they "My have had a love child together".
So were are we at the series starts off with Mulder is trying to get to the bottom of this mystery and wants to convince Scully that he is not nuts while at the same time he wants to jump into Scully's pants & of course she thinks he is nuts but wants his big shlong none the less as well.
You know when it comes right down to it TV really Sucks.
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Okay okay, so you take the 66 until you see the cow with the large black spot. There should be a short gravel road that leads to 81. 81 turns into 40, but only after the white "Rosewood Meadows" sign that Mr. Pickett put up after his wife died from that horrible disease that stung her unmerciful. Take 40 over to the Basingstoke Roundabout, which leads to Houston and all points east. After that, you'll see a white farm house with a guy holding a gun on the porch. That's my cousin Bob. Tell him Frank sent you and he won't shoot you. Bob'll tell you the rest of the instructions.
Have a nice day and DRIVE SAFE!
I thought that the whole thing was pretty hokey.
One of the judges was an alien, but what of it?
near the end, Skinner was called into his boss' office. So what?
As others have mentioned, the trial was a waste of time.
Muldur is left to continue seeking the truth. And they didn't even kiss!
The only place where there was any real closure was with the CSM. I guess that he's really dead this time.
But they left lot's of room for another movie. Hmm....
Skinner would've known that, since he was in the military before he joined the FBI. I was wondering how he could just sit there and accept this "military court" without having a few questions of his own.
Well then, even if a new series doesn't start in time, we'll know whether or not it comes to fruition in June 2003 by what the season finales next year for the three Law & Order series are like.
Some of you seem not to have understood the ending of the series. The "Truth" is that we will be invaded by aliens, and that there's nothing we can do to stop it, and that this will happen in the year 2012. Resistance is futile and all that.
WWJD? JWRTFA!
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"The more you know, the less you understand."
"Which claims, 2012 in MAYAN years but our calender it is 2003 June."
I turn 40 in June of 2003.
I need to plan my midlife crisis.
similarities to the end of Seinfeld
in a courtroom
many characters from previous shows appear
crappy story
everybody made a ton o money
I kept hoping mulder would turn into the bug from
men in black' and eat every 'monkey boy milk suckker'
in sight.
anderson is much much hotter than dreyfuss!!
He has the sixth sense, or perhaps his mind has turned beautiful.
Dude, just because I posted a link to a cel of a hot bishonen doesn't make me gay. I'm actually bisexual, so screw.
Kero-chan: KEEEEKIIIIII GA DAAIIIISUUUUUKKKIIIIIII!!!!!!!
With the parade of character from the past in a court trial, did anyone think of the last Seinfeld episode?