From: daniel47@eternal-september.org
Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
> Daniel60 posted this via news:p4pa08$qar$1
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>
>> Alexander Shofner-Geidt wrote:
>>> Avon posted this via news:3905661888
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>>>
>>>> On 01/27/18, Travoltron pondered and said...
>>>>
>>>> Tr> On 1/26/2018 11:36 PM, Avon wrote:
>>>> Tr> > I think have been really great.
>>>> Tr> >
>>>> Tr> Yeah. First two made me depressed and I just wanted the series to
>>> end.
>>>> Tr> These two reminded me how good the show works when they really
> try.
>>>>
>>>> me too... i wish they had more episodes to play with in a season as
> these
>>>> short seasons are really only tasters compared to the main course (20
>>>> episodes per season) of old...
>>>
>>> I'm loving it! My favorite stand-alone episode (so far) was S03-E20's
>>>
>>> "Jose Chung's from Outer Space"
>>>
>>> I love the double entendre of the title and even more the brilliant way
>>> they exploited all the different perspectives of essentially the same
>>> story.
>>>
>>> I still get goose-bumps thinking about the ending:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> (There is another rattling on the window. She goes to it
>>> and opens it to reveal Harold standing outside.)
>>>
>>> CHRISSY GIORGIO: Oh, it's you. What do you want?
>>>
>>> HAROLD LAMB: I just wanted to tell you I still love you.
>>>
>>> CHRISSY GIORGIO: Love. Is that all you men think about?
>>>
>>> (She closes her window. Harold's eyes tear up. Chung keeps talking.)
>>>
>>> JOSE CHUNG: Then there are those who care not about
>>> extraterrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings.
>>> Rare or lucky are those who find it.
>>>
>>> (Harold starts to drive off.)
>>>
>>> For although we may not be alone in the universe,
>>> in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all... alone.
>>>
>>> [THE END]
>>>
>>>
>>> I am also loving the new tension between Scully and Mulder...
>>> The seasons of the old run I sort of viewed Scully as pant-suited
>>> bureaucrat, sort of like Hillary Clinton.
>>>
>>> After the movies, the short season, and now, I believe she's gotten
>>> even more "fucky" with age. A lot going on with facial expressions
>>> in this newly revised version of my favorite series of all time.
>>>
>>> The truth is out there.
>>>
>> Here, in Australia, we haven't seen these new X-File episodes on any of
>> our free-to-air channels .... yet!!
>>
>> Are Scully and Mulder the original (now 50's-60's y.o) actors or have
>> they been "re-imagined"/re-cast??
>
> That's what makes it even more great. They're both the original actors:
> David Duchovny as Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Scully and also Mitch Pileggi
> as Skinner, with William B. Davis as "The Smoking Man".
>
> You know when the show ended in the 90s it was basically over a real-life
> feud between Duchovny & Anderson. She kept winning Emmy's but he *knew* he
> was the reason for the show's success. Anderson was able to leverage her
> awards for bigger paychecks, but Duchovny didn't have the leverage so he
> gambled by playing coy for a season while Chris Carter wrote him out. As
> Duchovny faded out of the series, the ratings perportionatly tumbled and
> the addition of Robert Patrick did not help with the ratings tumble. I
> guess the show's producers weren't going to give in, so they let it cancel.
>
> I enjoyed both the movies too, but I can see why some people were
> disappointed. The movies did not have the addictive qualities of the
> series.
>
> It was that tension between Muldar and Scully as well as them becoming
> intertwined in the mythology sub-plots that was the sublime attraction most
> viewers had for their addiction to the series.
>
> In the 3 episode teaser/tickler (mini-series) they released last year they
> introduced a young couple, male & female apparent counterparts to Mulder
> and Scully, but they haven't developed them yet. They showed enough of them
> to reveal that the counterparts each have personalities like their
> predecessors; however, it seems the female is more like Muldar and the male
> is more like Scully... we'll have to see how that shakes out... I might be
> over-thinking it. (*(^:
>
> The "Conspiracy" or "Mythology" sub-plot has been updated, but it's not
> completely revealed yet. The tension between Muldar & Scully has matured
> and is very evident deep in the storyline, but it's not overbearing or the
> predominant element of the overall plot (so far). It develops in bits and
> pieces in each progressive episode.
>
> Like I say, I'm as hooked as I was from the very first episode when I was a
> kid.
>
> I know you guys will enjoy when it finally comes to your neck of the woods.
> I wish someone would upload DivX or MP4 rips of the entire series from the
> beginning in the binary group, because this is one of those stories that I
> believe will stand the test of time - perhaps into the next century.
>
Thanks for that, Alexander, seems I've got something to wait for!!
Are Mulder and Scully still single, or have they got back-story
suggesting they're married/divorced/got kids/whatever??
--
Daniel
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