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on from the and-only-a-couple-of-years-to-late dept.
!Xabbu writes "Canoereports that "David Duchovny says corporate nepotism at Fox cost him millions and this is undoubtedly his final year on The X-Files"... Woe-is-me... for what shall we do if the X-Files goes off the air? "
Anybody watching Loveline on MTV last night (Mon.)? I keep it on in the background, so it's a radio show like it should be (and is). There was this chick whose husband had died, and since he looked a lot like Fox and they watched it together, she was obsessively watching it. Anyway, her question for Dr. Drew and the crazy Jew was if she should stop. I guess somebody was listening and had a good answer for her, eh?
(BTW: The Man Show kicks ass, and shows it off...)
Realvideo of the season premier (pirate)
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Anonymous Coward
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Apparently someone got a hold of the pre sale network affiliate copy of the season premier for next season, and encoded it in real video... you can get it at the following address:
Obviously there's no telling how long this will be available before fox shuts it down, so get it quick.
SPOILERS
Mulder suspects UFO involvement
Sculley cannot believe it
Their boss dissaproves of their investigation
the "cancer man" sayse some ominous stuff
I don't want to ruin it, so watch it now!!
This is a silly news story...
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Ferzerp
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This season will be the last season of the X-files anyway... There will be no X-files for him to quit, so this really isn't news.
Re:This is a silly news story...
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Zagadka
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UGH! They better not! If they did, the show would end up like Sliders. Just kill it, and use your highly-paid creative mind to come up with something new for a change.
Yeah, I could just see it... Fox Mulder is abducted by aliens, who make him look completely different, and then release him. Scully eventually believes that it really is him, but refuses to believe the alien part of the story. She thinks he just got a new haircut...
Re:This is a silly news story...
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whoop
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nah, he gets glasses. That makes people look totally different, like the SNL opening monologue when Terry Hatcher was hosting.
Re:What to do (get a life)
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Sun+Tzu
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As a computer hobbiest, programmer, gamer, webmaster (sorta), and a sysadmin, getting a life is not an option for me. What should *I* do??
It's been milked for all it's worth
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Cptn+Proton
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Have they not covered every single supernatural phenomena there is and made up a few along the way??? What is left??? I can't think of anything. Some point are they not going to run out??? Have they not killed off every character on there and brought them back to life twice each??? How many different ways can a viewer be grossed out??? How many species of UFO are there??? I'm not a couch potato-er-ok i'm in denial- but have you noticed that most series that are popular have a lifespan of about five to seven years anyway? Is that anything like a seven year itch you find in other relationships? To be honest, I liked the characters Scully and Mulder. They have endearing traits. Professional but approachable, fictional but completely believable. G-Men-er-G-Persons you could really trust. Not since the days of Eliot Ness have we seen anything so good.
Ok, they run out of spooks to chase. Have them chase something else, but keep the characters Scully and Mulder going. Have them chase ordinary criminals in a exotic locale ala Hawaii Five-O. No, I'm not grasping at straws-it could work. After the extraordinary becomes ordinary then the ordinary is extraordinry. They could reinvent themselves - how 'bout "touched by an FBI" Hey, it could work.
Re:Get ready for more of this
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Zagadka
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Well think about it... what kind of stupid name is "USA Mulder"?
I agree with many others that the X Files has run its course, and it is time to move on. However, it would make sense to do a related spinoff series focusing on some of the minor characters. Imagine having The Lone Gunmen every week!
I can replace him if...
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Alex+Belits
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..they will make episodes about:
Internet stocks rise is a bizzare side effect of perpetuum mobile, successfully(?) built in 1935. Mulder finds the author's granddaughter, she she shows him a glass bulb with something rotating within, and claims that this is the last device, left running for decades. When Scully meets author's granddaughter later, she finds the bulb motionless and has a long conversation with Mulder. Later Mulder finds his LCOS stock in a deep dive that started the day when he seen the device.
Pieces of FreeBSD -CURRENT and Linux odd-numbered kernels show strangely matching patterns of bugs being introduced and fixed in the same subsystem approximately at the same time. FreeBSD developers notice that and accuse Linux in stealing, Linux developers ignore that except having some minor flames at lkml, FreeBSD core team keeps itself out of this. Scully runs analysis of changes in FreeBSD CVS vs. Linux kernel patches (and makes some derogatory comments to Linux way of keeping the history). Mulder talks with jkh (in person) Linus (by email), Eric Allman and Paul Vixie (in person, both at the same time) and Theo de Raadt (also in person, Mulder meets him at some gloomy and desolate place). None of them make things any more clear than what we already know from them about bugs, however Paul Vixie suggests that bugs are obscure, and really anything can influence people to write them. Mulder talks to Scully, and she tries to match the moments of all kinds of significant events with moments when buggy code was written and fixed. Large amount of "events" fall into short timeframe after things like earthquakes, US military operations, mass shootings and other events, widely covered in the media, intensive flamewars in linux or freebsd mailing lists (however the effect is visible on both systems even if flamewar was limited to one list), and Jon Katz articles. However Scully fails to make any sense of relationship between subsystem affected and a kind of event -- say, TCP bugs to particular military operations, SMP cleanup to school shooting, drivers to media-related Katz articles, etc. Mulder suggests that it takes a non-human intelligence to understand the relation.
-- Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Get ready for more of this
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the+red+pen
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Duchovny is actually being very reasonable. There's an article in this week's Entertainment Weekly about it, with an interview.
Here's the problem: a hot property (like X-Files) goes into syndication. Despite the fact that USA Network offered more money, the syndication is granted to Fox Network... which is owned by the same people who own the show. Fox (the global entity) reaps the rewards and stakeholders, such as Duchovny, get screwed out of market potential for their work.
Alan Alda already won a similar lawsuit involving syndication of M*A*S*H.
The only thing I liked about the last few seasons was the baseball episode. There wasn't any of the super-conspiricy crap. There wasn't any of the "we'll give you another hint to what the question you should be asking is" crap. It was an alien playing baseball, plain, simple, and really funny.
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-matt
Re:Space:Above and Beyond
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_Sprocket_
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What, were they fighter pilots, or ground troops?
D'oh! OK. Yea. I did forget that little annoyance.:)
I would have much preferred it if the show followed numerous groups. Maybe flyboys and groundtroops. The concept of highly trained pilots being tossed into ground conflicts (requireing completely different training) was... ahem... silly.
By far the two best reasons to get HBO. It's starting to be worth it, it's soo nice to watch a show without commercials (and occasional nudity). "Mr. Show with Bob and David" is sketch comedy to the nth, they've got a pretty sweet line-up.
Well we all can start making predictions about how the show ends. Will Fox and Scrumptious Sculley finally, ah, em, have breakfast together? Will the Cigarette Smoking Man stop smoking and start jogging? Will we see Fox's sister? Will SETI@home find the aliens? Will we find out that the head of the Justice Department is an alien? (cheap shot, sorry). Will the aliens really look like JarJar? What if they look like penguins?
So many questions, so little brain cells.
And now for the ubiquitous comment. Damn it! It is the X-File System, not the X-Files System.
Finally, my suggestion for a replacement for David, is Kramer from Seinfeld (image his reaction when he sees an alien).
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Anybody watching Loveline on MTV last night (Mon.)? I keep it on in the background, so it's a radio show like it should be (and is). There was this chick whose husband had died, and since he looked a lot like Fox and they watched it together, she was obsessively watching it. Anyway, her question for Dr. Drew and the crazy Jew was if she should stop. I guess somebody was listening and had a good answer for her, eh?
(BTW: The Man Show kicks ass, and shows it off...)
+&x
Apparently someone got a hold of the pre sale network affiliate copy of the season premier for next season, and encoded it in real video... you can get it at the following address:
pirate copy of 1999 season premier
Obviously there's no telling how long this will be available before fox shuts it down, so get it quick.
SPOILERS
Mulder suspects UFO involvement
Sculley cannot believe it
Their boss dissaproves of their investigation
the "cancer man" sayse some ominous stuff
I don't want to ruin it, so watch it now!!
This season will be the last season of the X-files anyway... There will be no X-files for him to quit, so this really isn't news.
As a computer hobbiest, programmer, gamer, webmaster (sorta), and a sysadmin, getting a life is not an option for me. What should *I* do??
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Have they not covered every single supernatural phenomena there is and made up a few along the way??? What is left??? I can't think of anything. Some point are they not going to run out??? Have they not killed off every character on there and brought them back to life twice each??? How many different ways can a viewer be grossed out??? How many species of UFO are there???
I'm not a couch potato-er-ok i'm in denial- but have you noticed that most series that are popular have a lifespan of about five to seven years anyway? Is that anything like a seven year itch you find in other relationships?
To be honest, I liked the characters Scully and Mulder. They have endearing traits. Professional but approachable, fictional but completely believable. G-Men-er-G-Persons you could really trust. Not since the days of Eliot Ness have we seen anything so good.
Ok, they run out of spooks to chase. Have them chase something else, but keep the characters Scully and Mulder going. Have them chase ordinary criminals in a exotic locale ala Hawaii Five-O. No, I'm not grasping at straws-it could work. After the extraordinary becomes ordinary then the ordinary is extraordinry. They could reinvent themselves - how 'bout "touched by an FBI" Hey, it could work.
Well think about it... what kind of stupid name is "USA Mulder"?
I agree with many others that the X Files has run its course, and it is time to move on. However, it would make sense to do a related spinoff series focusing on some of the minor characters. Imagine having The Lone Gunmen every week!
A better link (IMHO) about what's happening is at
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~fleming/
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Here's the problem: a hot property (like X-Files) goes into syndication. Despite the fact that USA Network offered more money, the syndication is granted to Fox Network... which is owned by the same people who own the show. Fox (the global entity) reaps the rewards and stakeholders, such as Duchovny, get screwed out of market potential for their work.
Alan Alda already won a similar lawsuit involving syndication of M*A*S*H.
The only thing I liked about the last few seasons was the baseball episode. There wasn't any of the super-conspiricy crap. There wasn't any of the "we'll give you another hint to what the question you should be asking is" crap. It was an alien playing baseball, plain, simple, and really funny.
-matt
D'oh! OK. Yea. I did forget that little annoyance. :)
I would have much preferred it if the show followed numerous groups. Maybe flyboys and groundtroops. The concept of highly trained pilots being tossed into ground conflicts (requireing completely different training) was... ahem... silly.
By far the two best reasons to get HBO. It's starting to be worth it, it's soo nice to watch a show without commercials (and occasional nudity). "Mr. Show with Bob and David" is sketch comedy to the nth, they've got a pretty sweet line-up.
+&x
So many questions, so little brain cells.
And now for the ubiquitous comment. Damn it! It is the X-File System, not the X-Files System.
Finally, my suggestion for a replacement for David, is Kramer from Seinfeld (image his reaction when he sees an alien).