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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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hot foreign sheep.
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
or
-I checked Slashdot for an article on the X-Files at EXACTLY 10:00PM
I always said "10-files". Damn you Steve Jobs and your MacOSX.
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 was fantastic! Yoda totally kicked ass!
oh, wait...
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.
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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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.
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...
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
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.
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.
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.
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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