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   Sean Carroll to WGRG3@webtv.net   
   Re: "Fringe"----X-FIles Rip Off!!   
   10 Oct 09 23:30:20   
   
   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
    wrote   
      
   > Could they be anymore obvious with their rip off of the X-Files "Super   
   > Soldier" concept? Those Shape Shifters, are just  "Super Soldiers" in   
   > disguise. Last night was just like an X-Files episode,   
      
   This is extraordinarily old news. Everyone knew that it would be very   
   XF-like even before the first episode aired. And those who had their doubts   
   were surely dispelled of them completely the first time they saw the opening   
   sequence and heard the theme. Since then, fans have picked out dozens of   
   details in every episode that were unmistakable XF homages. Where have you   
   been?   
      
   Also, FWIW, when 'The X-Files' itself started out, it was essentially a   
   combined ripoff of 'Twin Peaks' (Dale Cooper = Mulder), 'The Silence of the   
   Lambs' (Clarice Starling = Scully), and 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker' (the   
   monsters and aliens, right down to a proto-Tooms character). Everything in   
   art is a rip-off of something else, to a greater or lesser degree. So what?   
      
   > only "Boring"!   
   > The acting was more like sleep walking, and that is what I felt like   
   > doing while watching the episode.  LOL!   
      
   Sounds like time for you to stop watching and posting about a show you   
   clearly get no enjoyment from. Why waste your time? Let those of us who   
   actually *like* the show put forth the effort to continue paying attention   
   to it.   
      
   I don't watch 'American Idol' every week and then get online and bitch about   
   how boring it is. And why not? Because ... *it's boring*.   
      
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