X-files

Topic 4 · 87 responses · archived october 2000

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~terry Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (22:36) seed

Scully and Mulder. This show has attracted more interest than nearly any other tv show in Internet newsgroups and discussion groups.

~terry Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (01:56) #1

Gillan "Scully" is going to be interviewed live on HotWired today. Info at: http://www.hotwired.com/poptalk/96/50/index3a.html

~terry Sun, Feb 9, 1997 (21:53) #2

What did you think of this weeks episode?

~aubrey Wed, Apr 9, 1997 (14:43) #3

well, "this week" is now ages ago. I just rented some first-season episodes (ok, I'll admit I was on a quest for The Red Speedo episode, which if anyone wants to know, is Duane Barry, airdate 10/14/94 or was it 10/7? anyway) and they were great, really filled in some things about Kruychek (sic) I needed to know. My first month or so on the net were devoted exclusively to David Duchovney searches. Save me!

~terry Wed, Apr 9, 1997 (21:14) #4

OK bring me up to date what happened last week. I hear I can get next weeks episode tonight on the satellite dish (it's the network feed they send out to stations in advance). They publish the wild feed schedule on http://www.tripled.com. So bring me up to date ok?

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (08:50) #5

Now, terry, we've discussed my poor memory and how it's a good thing I research Alzheimer Disease (maybe if I spent more time in the lab and less time here, we'd have a cure and then I COULD remember the plot to last week's episode!!!)--I'll confab with my sister and see what we come up with eh? (and now you're wondering how my memory came up with those endless ramblings about long-gone TV shows over on that other topic)

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (09:55) #6

Please understand, I rented 4 '94 episodes and watched them back-to-back right before I watched last week's episode, so it's no surprise I got a little confused after OD'ing like that (but what a beautiful way to go: Duane Barry, Ascension, and One Breath are truly the Big Kahuna trilogy). So ANYHOOO-- the plot I remember that's NOT the plot of any of those (& I checked "the official Xfiles web site's plot synopses") involved a teen faith healer who thinks he's become Satan because suddenly he's killing the very folks he once healed; it turns out *whatever alert you choose* someone's been administering some poison (you'd think as a doctor I'd remember a detail like WHAT poison) prior to his laying on of hands. I'm sketchy on the details (see excuse above) but he did die and then come back from the dead to haunt the bad guys doing the killing. Wish I could remember more!

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (10:30) #7

my server's messing up--will it transmit or not?

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (10:33) #8

my server's messing up--will it transmit or not?

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (10:34) #9

apparently my server will only transmit these "test" messages

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (10:37) #10

apparently my server will only transmit these "test" messages

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (10:38) #11

oooo, and it's even screwing THOSE up. I'll come back later and finish

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (10:55) #12

I seem to be transmitting better in the PI topic (you know I don't know anything about computers) so you may have to join me there. All I wanted to say was I checked the tv guide on-line, and they don't have plot synopses in their back issues on-line. But the plot for this week's show looks totally unrelated to what I think was last week's plot...if this doesn't transmit I'm gonna SCREAM

~aubrey Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (14:58) #13

And heyyyyy--exactly how stupid do I have to be??? If you were going to watch THIS week's episode "tonight" meaning Wed nite, and I'm only just getting back to you today, Fri...YOU ALREADY KNOW THE PLOT! I'll get the hang of this one of these days!

~terry Fri, Apr 11, 1997 (20:59) #14

Missed it this week, maybe I'll catch it this weekend. I think they do the feed on Wednesdays on one of the birds.

~aubrey Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (08:38) #15

I am reliably informed that I couldn't BE more wrong: the teen faith healer was 3 weeks ago; 2 weeks ago was a repeat from a previous season; this week was the copsicle/labsicle episode (and may I just say from personal experience that you don't thaw out all pretty like that. Cold burns. Of course, the whole point of the show is to suspend disbelief...). For more details--just ask!

~aubrey Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (08:57) #16

and may I just say that the room I am in right now is just about 2 degrees above freezing! I'm turning into some kind of 'sicle myself!

~terry Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (23:29) #17

What's the best x files website?

~aubrey Tue, Apr 15, 1997 (09:00) #18

Well, it depends on your needs. I must see David Duchovney wearing nothing but a tea-cup at least once a day or my life is meaningless. (and hey! it's a BIG tea-cup so let's not have any sniggering) So I go to (and don't rap my knuckles for not rising to your html challenge; I had a rough insomnia-wracked night) www.scibernet.com/xfiles/david and gaze to my heart's content at endless photos of The Man in various stages of undress. On the other hand, a good place to start is www.writer.yorku.ca which has lots of jumping-off places, one of which is www.thex-files.com which is labelled "the official x-files web site" or some such rot; it's where I get plot synopses and so forth. And what about next week's episode where they sneak in some Fox-n-Dana hooochey cooochey under the guise of "oh! it's actually an alien who can transmorgify to LOOK like Fox"--kind of cheap, I think. That's the kind of creative genius that keeps me miles from the Star Trek crap.

~aubrey Tue, Apr 15, 1997 (09:01) #19

Not that Star Trek is crap, if you're a trekkoid.

~terry Tue, Apr 15, 1997 (22:32) #20

I'll stick with Gillian Anderson and a teacup any day.

~aubrey Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (10:05) #21

And I'm sure YOUR teacup is a ten-gallon hat! Well, you're in luck, because there are just as many GA jumpoffs as DD jumpoffs available at the aforementioned scibernet site. I haven't looked at the GA stuff much (between DD and The Spring, I barely have time to get any work done as it stands!), so I'm not sure what sort of photos/info they have. I do know there's an actual hot nekkid photos site if you look up David Duchovney on hot-bot; I did not sign in there, tho, since this IS a departmental comput r and I'm in enough trouble already!

~aubrey Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (10:08) #22

I've also been mulling over how I'll cut Xfiles so much slack for their scientific inaccuracies (not that I'm a stickler, and not that I actually expect a TV show to be in any way accurate) but there are other shows that I will just tune out if they start any gobbledygook. Not really important, just musing.

~terry Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:27) #23

Whatever happened to Dark Skies, the latest X Files knockoff?

~aubrey Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (13:28) #24

You know I never even watched it? Maybe I'll try to catch repeats if it was any good?

~terry Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (23:40) #25

It was ok for a knock off. They must have moved it to another slot.

~aubrey Fri, Apr 18, 1997 (08:23) #26

On the other hand, I watch a lot of the shows that are knockoffs of the mood, rather than the plotline, of XF: Millenium, Pretender, Profiler, etc. They're pretty good but sometimes it just all gets too dark for me and I skip a week or so to refresh my psyche. Then I lose the plotline! Such is the life of a tv addict. Have you ever seen Sliders? I flipped past it once and it seemed like you'd need to have watched from the beginning of the season. Or maybe I'm just dim!

~terry Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (00:53) #27

Haven't seen Sliders.

~aubrey Mon, May 5, 1997 (09:35) #28

So what is with Scully's brain tumor? Doyou see a miracle cure/spontaneous remission via CancerMan? Or kill em all off? My sister sez Chris Carter is serious about stopping the XFiles (rumors have abounded thereunto). Do you have the scoop (do you even watch any more?)? None of my XF web sites seem to deal in rumor-mongering. Is that one word or 2? Anyway--if they quit the Xfiles I must protest. I am the Kiss of Death for TV series!

~aubrey Mon, May 5, 1997 (13:49) #29

let's see if a telnet response shows up in the website, shall we?

~terry Mon, May 5, 1997 (22:20) #30

X Files is way to popular for them to give it up. What's the current day and time of the x files... I have a wild feed listing now.

~aubrey Tue, May 6, 1997 (07:47) #31

For D/FW it's Sundays at 8.

~terry Tue, May 6, 1997 (09:18) #32

On the satellite, it's Sunday at 5:32 am on E2/8. It's also on Sunday at 10:20 am on T4/5. These are the "wild feeds" that the networks use to send the program to their stations.

~aubrey Wed, May 7, 1997 (08:17) #33

Gotta get a satellite! So you're voting for them NOT cancelling a wildly popular show...gutsy move, that. I guess that means you're also voting for a surprise remission in Scully's cancer? Even tho every other woman who got it died? Of course, she could get leverage over CancerMan that none of them ever could....

~aubrey Wed, May 7, 1997 (14:09) #34

I haven't visited the ol' XF websites in a while...either something is up with my computer or they've gone to hell in a handbasket: NONE of the links work anymore. Where do I go to see hot nekkid photos of DD? I didn't write down the urls b/c I always got there ok before by hotbot. Boo hoo.

~aubrey Thu, Jul 24, 1997 (14:26) #35

I can't get the fave TV shows topic to load fast enough so I am switching horses midstream and giving 3 CHEERS for the return os DUE SOUTH!!! Paul Gross is THE MAN!!!

~terry Fri, Jul 25, 1997 (09:36) #36

Time and day?

~terry Sat, Nov 29, 1997 (22:40) #37

From Reuters today Anderson's Alien Theories "X-Files" star Gillian Anderson says she believes extraterrestrials have definitely landed -- and the authorities are covering it up. According to the New York Post, she told Allure magazine that "It would shock the hell out of me if the government had never been involved in a UFO cover-up and if there was not life on other planets." She also said she believes aliens seem hostile became they are projections of our own negative vibrations. She also concedes, "This is going to make me sound like a complete nut."

~KitchenManager Wed, May 20, 1998 (22:35) #38

wonder why Wolf never came in here to drool over David... maybe that should be an episode!

~autumn Thu, May 21, 1998 (19:56) #39

I don't think I ever saw her in the TV conference, wer....

~KitchenManager Thu, May 21, 1998 (19:59) #40

guess we should tell her when she gets back, huh?

~autumn Thu, May 21, 1998 (20:07) #41

We got a chat thang going, huh?

~KitchenManager Thu, May 21, 1998 (20:16) #42

sumpin like dat...

~Wolf Thu, May 21, 1998 (20:16) #43

OK, i'm here. i adore david duchovny. there.

~KitchenManager Thu, May 21, 1998 (20:16) #44

oh, there's more to it than that!

~Wolf Wed, Jul 1, 1998 (23:30) #45

ok, i'm obsessed with david duchovny *blush*

~riette Thu, Jul 2, 1998 (01:27) #46

I like the way he moves . . .

~Wolf Thu, Jul 2, 1998 (17:56) #47

you too?

~riette Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (00:43) #48

Well, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Connery are the ones who give me the hot shivers, but David, he has the beautiful surname, and he has those pucky lips, and, boy, the way he moves!

~Wolf Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (15:03) #49

luv sean connery too...anthony hopkins is gooooooood. it's david's eyes.....

~riette Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (17:13) #50

I've never managed to look that far up.

~Wolf Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (21:34) #51

well, you really oughta...i know i'm gonna get dogged out for this, but that is the FIRST place i look (eyes/face)

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (00:21) #52

No, me too. I just find David's face too pretty pretty for my taste. But his moves make up for it, of course . . .

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (00:22) #53

if they're facing you, anyway...

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (00:23) #54

now my response makes even less sense, thanks!!!

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (00:25) #55

Don't thank me now - wait till the day you look me up; I might even get nervous.

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (00:34) #56

might?

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:33) #57

might not

~wolf Fri, Feb 5, 1999 (08:08) #58

the answers will be revealed in a two part story beginning sunday, 7 feb at 8 pm central time. the conclusion will be shown 14 feb. not the end of the show, as x files is contracted through the year 2000.

~stacey Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (17:24) #59

woo woo! did ya see part 1?

~wolf Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (17:43) #60

no and i was upset. our fox station has been down for awhile. and even after they placed a notice in the paper that it was back up, it wasn't! so i missed the whole thing.

~stacey Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (17:53) #61

*frown* sorry.

~ratthing Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (21:50) #62

that sucks, wolfie. it was a great ep.

~KitchenManager Tue, Feb 9, 1999 (22:03) #63

so, what are the answers so far?

~ratthing Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (08:55) #64

Cancer Man's name is C.G.M. Spender. the Evil Old Men have been working with an alien race to prepare the earth for an invasion and takeover. these aliens are going to use the black oil to turn the human race into a slave race. the Evil Old Men have been working on this since the crash at Roswell. They are also working to develop a vaccine to protect themselves from being turned into slaves. also, they have been working to develop an alien/human hybrid, but i am a little unclear as to why. Spender's mom (Veronica Cartright) is the first successful alien human hybrid and she has gone to Mulder for help. all of this was pretty much known so far. the entire episode was narrated by Cancer man, and he was asking someone for help in rescuing the project. it turns out that the person he was taling to was Mimi Rogers, so next week we shall see how he tries to execute cancer man's plans.

~ratthing Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (08:57) #65

oh, forgot to mention that there is another alien race that is fighting the first one. this other alien race are the Fire Starters, the ones with their faces all sewn up to protect them from the black oil. in this ep, they killed off some scientists working for the EOM, as well as one of the EOM. they have the ability to make themselves look like others.

~wolf Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (11:31) #66

cool. well, fox was up and running last night. guess we'll find out what happened to mulder's sister on sunday. (so what does the vaccine and black oil have to do with corn and bees?)

~ratthing Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (13:07) #67

AFAIK, the bees were to be used as a vehicle for spreading the virus associated with the black oil, to help create the race of human slaves.

~wolf Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:44) #68

so didja see part 2? i did, and i still have questions. when they all went to el rico afb for the (bad?) aliens, with spencer's mother, and the good face-changing aliens showed up and burnt them all to chards, what was the tip off? how come they all thought if they went there they would be saved and instead, a bunch of the EOM were snagged (with innocent victims)? i think spencer has fox snowed as to who the "good" guys are, using mulder's sister as bait. and why was mimi rogers kissing fox? hmmmm.....s meone want to tell me about that?

~KitchenManager Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:47) #69

she got tired of me?... (I know, "as if!")

~wolf Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:48) #70

didja see your response #? coinkydink? i think not......

~KitchenManager Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:50) #71

I do what I can...

~wolf Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:51) #72

heard that.... night!

~KitchenManager Mon, Feb 15, 1999 (21:53) #73

g'night... (rolling over and going to sleep on me I see...)

~wolf Mon, May 17, 1999 (13:38) #74

alright, anyone catch the x-files season finale? no? well, i DON'T get it. why do they have fox in an insane assylum and what did mimi do to him when they were in his apartment? hmmmm???? now i have to wait allllll summer to find out!

~ratthing Mon, May 17, 1999 (15:23) #75

i caught it and really thought it was overall kind of lame. i cant really say why. i was just unimpressed with the plot, and i am not really all tha t anxious to catch the season opener because it does not seem to hold anything new or exciting.

~riette Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (13:43) #76

I hate it when the writer of X-files, whoever he may be, and bless his dark little soul, tries to do something 'deep'. That's not what we watch it for, is it?? We want inbreeding, mutilation, cannibalism, GORE!

~aschuth Sat, Jul 24, 1999 (08:03) #77

Oh Sun of my equinox, not romance? Tragedy? Oh. Silly me. "Male Logic (tm)" again.

~riette Sat, Jul 24, 1999 (13:11) #78

Of course!! Whatever gives people (and men) the idea that all women like romance on tv??? It has worked for a few films, and for many theatre production, but on tv I want blood and gore all the way!

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 24, 1999 (15:29) #79

looks like the tv and violence culture extends outside the U.S....

~riette Sat, Jul 24, 1999 (16:15) #80

ha-ha! We were great He-man fans as kids, you see - that's where it comes from, no doubt. I HAVE THE POWER! He-man, he-man-he-man-he-man!!! (Sonja only got to be Skeletor though...)

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 24, 1999 (16:30) #81

and your little brother had to be She-Ra, Princess of Power?

~riette Sun, Jul 25, 1999 (01:28) #82

ha-ha!!! NO! He was Leach - do you remember Leach? The one who sucked everything.

~aschuth Sun, Jul 25, 1999 (03:21) #83

Well, if I ever watch something through, I sure don't want all-violence and all-gore. I want there to be suspense, romance and a good, convincing storyline and then - KABOOM! the hammer of fate smashes the lovers. Dooms their future. Whatever it takes... Yeah, I guess I'm just an olde fashioned fella, Riette. Sorry 'bout that.

~riette Sun, Jul 25, 1999 (09:22) #84

OOH! You've really got it in for me now after that Italian business!! ha-ha! But don't worry, I can take it!! Okay, okay, so it doesn't have to be ALL violence. But if it's going to be 'Hollywoodie', then it has to be - it's what they're best at. The kind of non-violence programmes I like are normally BBC productions - they're great. The English, I find, are a bit more down to earth about romance and happy endings - they've not yet reached the stage of clich�s. The same goes for their films - it's so much more believable, because the endings are usually not perfect.

~infospryte Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (13:26) #85

My apologies. This is not completely on topic, but at least the first part is! Mulder may be leaving "The X-Files," "Farscape" is due for some surprises, Patrick Stewart may play "Doctor Who," Whedon's "X-Men" rewrite is axed, and more. http://www.scifiweekly.com/issue128/news.html

~riette Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (01:35) #86

Mulder leave the X-Files??? Mulder IS the X-files!!!!!

~wolf Sat, Oct 9, 1999 (15:28) #87

what??? then where am i gonna get my dose of david duchovny? hmmmm?????

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