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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.
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I don't know what is more amazing.
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-Slashdot had an article about the end of the X-Files at EXACTLY 10:00PM
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-I checked Slashdot for an article on the X-Files at EXACTLY 10:00PM
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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.
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Dont click the link moron. It gives away nothing about the episode, unless you ignore the warning to not click the link
then its your own fault
I always said "10-files". Damn you Steve Jobs and your MacOSX.
Why don't you just not click through the link until you've seen the finale? There, was that so hard now?
No statement is true, not even this one.
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?!?
That's what I'm left with? Hope? WTF?
Yeah, hope that Chris Carter gets abducted himself.....and soon.
McK
what part of 'people still have to wait 3hrs to watch the show' dont you get?
...that was fantastic! Yoda totally kicked ass!
oh, wait...
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're suggesting that one skip the entire discussion as well?
Oh God forbid if you skip a discussion this time! Oh, the humanity!
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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.
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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.
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Why do you think they did that.
With such a good show, you cant meet the viewers expectations. Seinfeld didnt even try.
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Well, at least we know for sure that Fox and Dana knocked booties and had a love child.
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
I agree that it was the worst X-Files finale ever. Of course, it was the only X-Files finale, so it couldn't be the best. And it definitely wasn't the worst episode ever, given all those cheesy ones a couple years ago with zombies and genetic weirdos. Still, it wasn't really a finale, given that they will bring the show back in the theatres. Plus, given all that has happened with the X-Files, what good way was there to finish it? The only comparable thing I can imagine was that time they had all the cars and people meeting together when they were attempting to get away from the aliens, and the aliens killed them. That episode could have been the finale if something different happened. Also, that episode where Mulder found someone who knew his father was quite good.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
If you are suggesting that you're a West coaster, you wouldn't have really checked with Slashdot before watching it, would you? I think after last time it was doubtful that they would do the same again. That thing has been beaten to death by now.
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How did they "lone gunman" the thing? They told nothing of the plot, just a link to the timeline. Move along, nothing to see here.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
don't forget some of us in other countries.
yeah, also there's this great new band. they're brand new, they're called KISS, and they rock!
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.
CMOS technology stops improving. Alien invasions. I think it's beginning to look like a really good year to skip out on.
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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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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/. didn't reveal any information about the episode, and people who ahven't seen it yet won't click through the link. There are plenty of good reasons for criticizing slashdot, you should wait till those happen, instead of making up excuses.
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.
12/21/2012
the ancient maya, hindu and chinese calendars all stop counting on this date
the history of the world
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
Would it really be The X-Files if there was closure?
What?
You make a good point; maybe they knew that many of us stopped watching the show a few years ago (seems so from the comments), and so they used the first hour to catch us all up on what we missed. It helped me follow along a lot better.
What?
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.
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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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.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
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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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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..
I live in a giant bucket.
I'm from Halifax, too. It was also shown on the cable-equivilent Global station (what used to be MITV; channel 6) 3hrs early.
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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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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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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Coincidizing with the 35th Anniversary....
Five words: Star Wars Holiday Special Rebroadcast
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Hmm... I didn't even bother to watch it (yet).
I guess I'll get around to it, since I'm sure someone I know taped it. The last few seasons have gone downhill to the point where I lost interest in the whole show.
This series went from "the best thing on TV!" to completely lame. Personally, I think Chris Carter just started running out of ideas after the first 3 seasons. The things that made X-Files great started slipping away, and things weren't revealed because Carter himself wasn't even sure how he was going to explain some of it yet.
It used to be, every "mystery" ended up with a scientific explanation, or at least tied into the deep UFO conspiracy web somehow. When episodes started talking about astrology, psychics, devil worshippers, and so on - it fell into the abyss of B-rated horror films. I mean, anyone can create a show where people get eaten alive by some gruesome "half man, half monster". It's only really interesting if they come up with good reasons why the guy got that way. X-Files started failing to do this half the time. Episodes where these things tied into a complex, larger picture became scarce.
No, I think sometimes you need to know when "enough is enough" and put an end to something before it dies off of its own stagnation.
Carter has been working on several other projects, so it's not like X-Files is his only bread and butter. He could have been respected as one of the great sci-fi TV writers of all time if he had the common sense to bring X-Files to an exciting conclusion after it ran for 3 or 4 seasons.
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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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....