tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27401912191841176732024-03-16T13:52:46.237-05:00The Conscientious ReaderA good book (and, what is a good book?) can change your way of thinking and being, good books have changed my way of thinking, my perception of people (oops! I can't help it, I judge you by what you read!) and my attitude.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.comBlogger703125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-11543453352011429632015-04-27T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-27T06:00:01.101-05:00W: The Writing<br />
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These are just some of the major writers for the show.<br />
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Just looking at my favorite episodes it would seem that I like Kim Manners, Chris Carter and David Duchovny...in that order. Of course, one of my top three favorite episodes isn't written by any of the people mentioned here, his name is Daniel Arkin.<br />
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I like anytime the writing is humorous and flirty, witty and tongue-in-cheek while still being an episode that I don't mind watching right before I go to bed.<br />
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For a list of "Best of..." <a href="http://www.imdb.com/list/ls008233666/" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br />
From <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/x-files-reunion-david-duchovny-520936" target="_blank">"The Hollywood Reporter"</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-46759233788496694292015-04-25T05:59:00.000-05:002015-04-27T05:59:37.944-05:00V: Viewers Choice...pick your favorites (A Google Form)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I teach high school English. I can't help, but analyze everything I read, see and hear. Below are some of my observations from "The X-Files".<br />
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<b>The Gold Cross that Scully wears:</b> faith, truth, Faith, the power of love and of family<br />
<b>Little Green Men (EBEs): </b>truth, governmental subterfuge<br />
<b>Samantha Mulder: </b>loss, the search for truth, lies, justice, peace<br />
<b>The Cigarette: </b>lies, manipulations, loneliness, evil, darkness<br />
<b>Mulder's Gun:</b> inability to get justice/find the truth, violence, loss of power<br />
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<b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_The_X-Files" target="_blank">Religion:</a> </b>for or against traditional religion, faith or loss of faith, finding a faith in the darkness<br />
<b>Life, Death and Transfiguration: </b>What does it mean to live and die? What is life and death? Acts of transfiguration are seen throughout several episodes in the earlier seasons, characters are resurrected, evil is cast out of them or they become possessed<br />
<b>Helplessness and Loneliness: </b>In the end we all die alone and we are helpless to it, we can only fight so much and we can only do so much alone<br />
<b>Alien abduction:</b> the main characters are both abducted and are changed because of it<br />
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<li><b>Having faith does not that you can't question or think for yourself.</b></li>
<li><b>Faith vs. Skepticism.</b></li>
<li><b>Chivalric quest and journeys always lead to the truth.</b></li>
<li><b>"The Truth is Out There"</b></li>
<li><b>"Trust No 1"</b></li>
<li><b>"I Want to Believe"</b></li>
<li><a href="http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2008/08/only-x-files-review-that-really-matters.html" target="_blank"><b>"Bad religion, bad politics, radical selfishness and the canonization of materialism have destroyed the heart and soul of Western Civilation"</b></a></li>
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And, if you want to go really crazy and, well, need enough information to write a dissertation there's all of the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheXFiles?from=Series.TheX-Files" target="_blank">Tropes you could possibily think of all in one place</a>. Enjoy!</div>
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And, if you need a fix...click <a href="http://www.whizzpast.com/20-surprising-facts-about-the-x-files-you-probably-didnt-know/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://xfiles.livejournal.com/2020856.html" target="_blank">The Definitive Top Mulder and Scully Moments</a><br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/list/ls008179953/" target="_blank">IMDB: X-Files Top Shipper Episodes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2014/11/18-times-xfiles-mulder-and-scully-ruined-us-for-all-other-tv-romances" target="_blank">"You're My 1 in 5 Billion": 18 Times The X-Files's Mulder/Scully Ruined Us for All Other TV Romances</a><br />
<a href="http://thetvmouse.com/times-mulder-and-scully-should-have-made-out-this-week/" target="_blank">Times Mulder and Scully Should Have Made Out This Week</a><br />
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Soooo, I was talking on a message board one time about my favorite X-Files episodes and one person commented, "Of course, you think that, you're obviously a shipper." I had no idea what that meant and I'm pretty sure I couldn't look it up on Urban Dictionary, so I asked the person and she told me and connected me to some great fanfiction (a link I have long since forgotten) and Stephanie the Shipper was born. For real, I ship all things...in all shows dating back to my Scooby-Doo days (who doesn't want Fred and Daphne to get together?). The fact that Mulder and Scully are together in the end doesn't really help this problem either. You know, frankly...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diuHzw4z0_k" target="_blank">I was also right about Felicity and Ben</a>! I am a Shippy Goddess!<br />
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OK, so when I started this month of X-Files I was in the midst of watching the show from the very beginning. It seems like a simple task, but really it's not, and here's why:<br />
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<li>Those first three seasons are so dark and the endings so dismal and the plots so scary that they are really hard to get through.</li>
<li>If you are really into the shippiness that doesn't really get any air time until late in the 4th season.</li>
<li>So many people around them die and then there's the cancer.</li>
<li>Um, Season 6 (my favorite season) isn't until um, approximately 100 episodes in.</li>
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Watching this show (and, it's two movies) again made me notice things I'd never noticed before.</div>
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<li>I don't think I'd EVER seen the episode with Lance Guest and the invisible elephant.</li>
<li>Doggett and Reyes are pretty amazing characters.</li>
<li>MOTW are way more fun than alien episodes and there are more MOTW epis than I thought.</li>
<li>EVERYBODY did a guest stint on 'The X-Files'...fo' realz...Jack Black, people!</li>
<li>There are some definite shifts...DPO is the first major one...finally a little laughter amongst all the death and then there's the definite shift out of Canada, after the first movie is another shift, Seasons 8 and 9 are also major shifts.</li>
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It took me three months to watch the whole series...using mostly Saturdays and Sundays, and frankly, now I'm feeling a little lost and I'm not really sure what to do with myself...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-60276767822998109032015-04-20T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-20T06:00:10.742-05:00Q: A Quick Trip through my favorites (MOTW, mytharc epi, season, episode)So, I found this great blog post (<a href="http://1thousandmadthings.blogspot.com/2010/08/30-days-in-day-or-love-song-to-x-files.html" target="_blank">"30 Days in a Day or a Love Song to the X-Files"</a>) and thought that I would do the same here on this blog. It's a great way to get a lot of information out and quickly.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 1: Favorite Season</span></b><br />
Season 6...I like to ship all the things and this season, while it ends in a whimper, starts out with a bang by taking place right after the movie. Seriously, with shippy deliciousness like "Arcadia", "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas", "The Rain King" and "Dreamland I and II", just great episodes like "The Unnatural" and "Monday", and trippy, gross episodes like "Field Trip", how could I not be in love with this season?<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 2: Least Favorite Season</span></b><br />
The first three seasons of this show are quite different than the next three (of course, there's another shift after Season 6, but we don't need to talk about that now)...the episodes are just so darned dark and scary and happy endingless, but the one that the biggest downer is Season 2. Sure it's got great storylines, but by the end I just needed a good laugh.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 3: First Episode You Ever Saw</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 4: Favorite Female Character</span></b><br />
Sooo...if I can't choose Scully as my favorite because that would be a given, I suppose, I don't know who else I'd choose. Sure, there's Monica Reyes, but isn't she also a given? Are there really a lot of secondary characters that are female? Monica, Marita, Susanne Modeski all appear in more than one episode, but do they work?<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 5 Favorite Male Character</span></b><br />
ADA Skinner, I spent most of the series wondering if he was a good guy or a bad guy, questioning most of his actions and motives...in the end he proved himself and it's nice watching the episodes again with all of this in mind.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 6: Favorite Villain</span></b><br />
I love to hate this sexy, double-crossing SOB. I think he proves that it's better to choose a side, even if that side loses than to me all for ones self.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 7: Favorite Episode</span></b><br />
If I have to pick just one...um...<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 8: Favorite Monster of the Week</span></b><br />
Donnie Pfaster...sure he doesn't have any extra abilities, but that just makes him scarier and creepier and...well, I'm getting chills just thinking about him.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 9: Favorite Mulder Moment</span></b><br />
Any of those scenes in "Monday"...I sometimes watch this episode just so I can watch his facial expressions.<br />
"My damn waterbed sprung a leak...Yes, I do know that...it must have been a gift."<br />
"I endorsed my damn paycheck stub."<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 10: Favorite Scully Moment</span></b><br />
I prefer kick butt Scully over crying/moping/irrational Scully. I especially like her at the end of "Never Again"..."Not everything's about you, Mulder."<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 11: Favorite Skinner Moment</span></b><br />
When he gives Scully the coordinates in "Triangle" and she kisses him "the elevator doors open*<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 12: Favorite Doggett Moment</span></b><br />
The end of "Release". He'd been so full of rage for most of that episode, questioning and confused at the end we can see his pain and it, well, I teared up a little.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 13: Favorite Monica Moment</span></b><br />
When she's helping Scully deliver the baby...she just so sweet and awesome. Frankly, I have loved Annabeth Gish my whole life...ever since 'Mystic Pizza'.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 14: Favorite Lone Gunmen Moment</span></b><br />
Any in "Three of a Kind"...I especially like that Byers gets a bit of romance.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 15: Happiest Scene</span></b><br />
The end of Season 8.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 16: Funniest Scene</span></b><br />
"It wasn't even real cream cheese it was light cream cheese."<br />
or<br />
<i>"Talkin' bout Shaft can you dig it..."</i><br />
"I. DID. NOT."<br />
*Gets me every time.*<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 17: Most Dramatic Scene</span></b><br />
The ending of "Milagro"<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 18: Most Heartbreaking Scene</span></b><br />
Mulder crying at Scully's bedside *tears*<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 19: Favorite Mulder/Scully Moment</span></b><br />
"I'd kiss you if you weren't so ugly."<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 20: Favorite Mulder/Scully Phone Conversation</span></b><br />
It's a toss up between all of those convos in "War of the Corprophages" and the three-way in the bubble bath tubs in "Hollywood AD".<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 21: An Episode You Hate that Everyone Else Loves</span></b><br />
I do not get the love for "Jose Chung's From Outer Space". I've watched that episode more than once, during the day...at night...I've read the script and still...I don't think it's funny.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 22: An Episode You Hated at First, but Now Love</span></b><br />
I am sorry to say that I was one of those people that didn't watch an episode that didn't include Mulder and I was that person for a long time, then I bought the show on DVD and watched them and well, um, they are good...different than Mulder and Scully, but good. I am sad I didn't give them a chance. I especially like "4-D". WOW!<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 23: Favorite Mytharc or Recurring Storyline</span></b><br />
"Wet-Wired"/"Talitha Cumi"/"Herrenvolk"<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 24: Favorite Title for an Episode</span></b><br />
"2Shy"...I can't be the only one who thinks of that song...and then there's the fact that the killer is preying on the vulnerability of lonely women.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 25: Favorite Kiss</span></b><br />
That forehead kiss in the hospital...so touching.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 26: Favorite Season Finale</span></b><br />
Season 5...boy did that one have me going!<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 27: Favorite Scene, EVER</span></b><br />
"We just curled up like little baby cats, ain't that right honey bunch."<br />
"Sure is poopy pants."<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 28: Favorite FTF Moment</span></b><br />
"I had you big time."<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 29: Favorite IWTB Moment</span></b><br />
The first time we see Mulder and Scully and they're in bed. He appears beside her all scruffy and it surprised the whole theatre. Seriously, people clapped and cheered. My friend and I had gone to watch it opening night and I had to by the DVD just to know what I missed after that happened the cheering was so loud. It was an awesome experience.<br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Day 30: Favorite Quote</span></b><br />
"Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-42369690670711053012015-04-18T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-18T06:00:03.167-05:00P: Porn and Sunflower seeds...the making of a Post-Modern hero<b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mulder as Modern Hero:</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">1] He seeks merely to survive–to create a pool of light in a world of dark shadows.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2] The heroes, like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, have a code of behavior rather than a code of ethics - they portray men who are impassive, hard-boiled, never surprised by events.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3] The world is seen as having no internal order: anything goes–the hero is as likely to be debauched and depraved as the enemy.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4] The internal struggle is with addiction to drugs, liquor, sex, money.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5] The external struggle is with corruption in government, the military, schools - formal organizations.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6] There is no sense of community. The hero lives for a small, select circle which can be merely one woman or a few trusted friends.</span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Examples: </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Phillip Marlowe, Sam Spade</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Definition and examples taken from: </b><a href="http://www.fellowshipofreason.com/archives/4heroes.htm" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it works?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">That pool of light is working the X-Files against those who want them closed and those who wish he not know the truth about the alien conspiracy, definitely has an appropriate behavior that he follows, his addiction would be more with porn and sunflower seeds, his struggle is with the government (They Syndicate to be exact) and, until Scully he had no trusted friends.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it doesn't work?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">He is not really as debauched and depraved as most would believe (this has to do again, with his relationship with Scully), he has a community...Skinner, Scully and so on...to that end he seeks more than just to survive, he seeks truth.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Mulder as the Anti-Hero:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1] lacks the heroic virtues to a degree that cannot be overlooked</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2] selfishly motivated in his 'heroic' actions...could be a heroic incidentally while doing stuff for only their own gains.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3] opposite that of a conventional hero</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4] </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">outlaws or villains from the point of view of society </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5] audience is in sympathy with them </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6] they may win in the end over society’s corruption</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">7] rebels</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Examples:</b> Han Solo, Jack Sparrow, 'The Bride'</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Definition and examples taken from:</b> <a href="http://www.jsmorin.com/2013/02/7-types-of-heroes/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://literarydevices.net/anti-hero/" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.waunakee.k12.wi.us/faculty/lcarothers/ModernLiterature/LessonBeforeDying/Types%20of%20Heroes.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it works?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">He may not be fully heroic (following the <a href="http://www.thewritersjourney.com/hero%27s_journey.htm" target="_blank">Joseph Campbell's Hero Traits</a>), but does have some very distinct hero traits, he is different than the conventional hero in this sense, from the point of view of society and of his fellow FBI agents he is an outlaw, people call him 'Spooky', he is a rebel and he definitely wins in the end.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it doesn't work?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">He does not lack heroic virtues, he rescues the damsel, he is truthful and just, which, of course, makes him more like the conventional hero than the opposite.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Mulder as Loner Hero:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1] story begins with hero apart from society </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2] natural habitat is the wilderness </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3] natural state is solitude </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4] journey is one of re-entry into the group, an adventure within the group, then a return to
isolation </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Examples: </b>Indiana Jones, The Incredible Hulk</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Definition and examples take from:</b> <a href="http://www.waunakee.k12.wi.us/faculty/lcarothers/ModernLiterature/LessonBeforeDying/Types%20of%20Heroes.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it works?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">He does stand apart from, and prefers to stand apart from, society. He believes the conspiracy.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it doesn't work?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">He is not really part of the wilderness (of course, in the 2nd movie they are living in the remote wilderness). Of course, this could be a metaphorical wilderness, but what does that even mean? And, solitude maybe his natural state, but Scully changed all of that. Re-entry into the group is probably the last thing that he wants, especially if he has to re-enter on their terms.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Mulder as Postmodern Hero:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1] emerged amid the ruins and tribulations of postwar Europe and stems from a general disillusionment with 30s era modernism brought about WW II.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2] distrust of any entity or agency that tries to control or regulate what people can or cannot do</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3] distrust of any agent or element that tries to fixate the meaning that something possesses or can possess.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Examples:</b> <i>Pale Fire</i>, Sherlock </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Definition and examples taken from:</b> <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostModernism" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://angelmatos.net/2014/02/03/what-is-postmodern-literature/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it works?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">He spends many years disillusioned with the world, there's a definite distrust of the government and he makes his own meaning, even with others tell him that he cannot. However, he does live in an environment that and prefers not to have the world defined.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Why it doesn't work?</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">He has Scully. They create and make meaning out of the crazy world together.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>The truth is that, because Fox William Mulder possess parts of all of this heroes, he can be nothing, but Postmodern, and he definitely can't be a traditional hero as he is too flawed in all the perfect ways that make him human and relatable. </b></span></div>
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Below is a list of the places I go when I need an X-Files fix...some of these I've know about for years, some I just found in the last few months as I've been rewatching the series.<br />
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<a href="http://www.insidethex.co.uk/" target="_blank">Inside the X</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tor.com/features/series/reopening-the-x-files" target="_blank">Reopening the X-Files</a><br />
<a href="http://xfiles.wearehere.net/xfiles.htm" target="_blank">The X-Files Episode Guide</a><br />
<a href="https://musingsofanxphile.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Musings of an X-Phile</a><br />
<a href="http://www.avclub.com/tv/the-x-files/" target="_blank">The AV Club</a><br />
<a href="http://myx-filestruth.blogspot.com/?view=flipcard" target="_blank">My Truth...An X-Files Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://www.x-fileslexicon.com/" target="_blank">The X-Files Lexicon</a><br />
<a href="http://www.xfilesuniverse.com/forum/index.php?sid=fa405b2fcd53fe9c4f6cf8bf4f7c38af" target="_blank">X-Files Universe</a><br />
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There are other blogs I'll look at every now and again (I've even been known to go crazy on IMDB and join a group or two), but these are the definitive ones I always go to for all the information I need.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-71030446937309809232015-04-16T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-16T06:00:04.092-05:00N: The 90s<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBo454o_9klp6jpYCX1C045NBmNC_-CZS9fUPt8Ww2pfOTA-euDbF94qsnYpU-mIBy7B4Si_MUc8VI7xUweuBdP8iBtM9n9yhmUrX7H_ZaFIQPV2IzJru9qkynEvG1EWTJq7-S1Q_Gx4jg/s1600/Blank+Print+Document-page-015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBo454o_9klp6jpYCX1C045NBmNC_-CZS9fUPt8Ww2pfOTA-euDbF94qsnYpU-mIBy7B4Si_MUc8VI7xUweuBdP8iBtM9n9yhmUrX7H_ZaFIQPV2IzJru9qkynEvG1EWTJq7-S1Q_Gx4jg/s1600/Blank+Print+Document-page-015.jpg" height="247" width="320" /></a>I love the 90s. I miss the 90s. I feel lucky because I got to be in and graduate from high school and college in the 90s. I like reading about the 90s being compared to the Roaring 20s. They do have a lot in common including feminism, a heady time for music and literature and they were both decades that were wonderful followed by decades that were really quite the opposite of that. I could go into more detail, but I'd rather spend the rest of this post talking about my favorite pop culture references from each year of the decade. Feel free to add yours in the comments.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1990</span></b><br />
Favorite Song: "Ice, Ice Baby"...Vanilla Ice<br />
Favorite Movie: "Pretty Woman" (sadly, I didn't watch "Dances with Wolves" until college)<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Beverly Hills: 90210"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1991</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "Black or White"...Michael Jackson<br />
Favorite Movie: "Backdraft" (please don't think my mother allowed me to watch this...)<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Step by Step"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1992</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "The End of the Road"...Boyz II Men<br />
Favorite Movie: "A Few Good Men"<br />
Favorite TV Show: "X-Men" cartoon<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1993</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "I Will Always Love You"<br />
Favorite Movie: "Sleepless in Seattle"<br />
Favorite TV Show: "The X-Files" (seriously.)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1994</span></b><br />
Favorite Song: "Linger"...The Cranberries<br />
Favorite Movie: "Four Weddings and a Funeral"<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Friends"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1995</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "You Ought to Know"...Alanis Morrissette<br />
Favorite Movie: "Home for the Holidays"<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Sliders"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1996</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "Don't Go Away"...Oasis<br />
Favorite Movie: The English Patient<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Early Edition"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1997</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "If God Will Send His Angels"...U2<br />
Favorite Movie: "Titanic"<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Ally McBeal"<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1998</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "Torn"...Natalie Imbruglia<br />
Favorite Movie: "Armageddon"<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Charmed"...although, I like <a href="http://smhasty.blogspot.com/2013/05/felicity-spring-break-2013.html" target="_blank">"Felicity"</a> way, way, way more now.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1999</b></span><br />
Favorite Song: "Road Trippin'"...Red Hot Chili Peppers<br />
Favorite Movie: "The Matrix"<br />
Favorite TV Show: "Law and Order: SVU"<br />
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Boy, it was fun putting together this list...sweet, sweet, nostalgia.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-11587442675331014832015-04-15T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-15T06:00:11.889-05:00M: Mytharc and Monsters of the Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I prefer Monster of the Week episodes over Alien Mytharc episodes. The Mytharc episodes were hard to follow until the last few seasons when there were more of them back to back. The MOTW episodes give us some of the best characters in all of TV history. Below you'll find a list of my favorite MOTW episodes and my favorite Alien episodes...they're in order just in case you want to have some sort of fun X-Files marathon. Awhile ago you could just buy the Alien episodes and you can still find them (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-X-Files-Mythology-Vol-Abduction/dp/B0007ZEO7I" target="_blank">Abduction</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009NZ2RE/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=1944687602&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0007ZEO7I&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1QBPRW2F1GZNQ988FM74" target="_blank">Black Oil</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/X-Files-Mythology-Volume-Three-Colonization/dp/B0009X7646/ref=pd_sim_mov_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1ZKZV65C3Q3Y3SR5JNSE" target="_blank">Colonization</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-X-Files-Mythology-Vol-Soldiers/dp/B000AQ68X2/ref=pd_sim_mov_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1ZKZV65C3Q3Y3SR5JNSE" target="_blank">Super Soldiers</a>).<br />
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<li>"Pilot"</li>
<li>"Ascension"</li>
<li>"End Game"</li>
<li>"Paperclip"</li>
<li>"731"</li>
<li>"Piper Maru"</li>
<li>"Apocrypha"</li>
<li>"Wetwired"</li>
<li>"Zero Sum"</li>
<li>"Demons"</li>
<li>"Biogenesis"</li>
<li>"The Sixth Extinction I and II"</li>
<li>"Closure"</li>
<li>"This is Not Happening"</li>
<li>"Deadalive"</li>
<li>"Three Words"</li>
<li>"Essence"</li>
<li>"Existence"</li>
<li>"Nothing Important Happened Today I and II"</li>
<li>"Trust No 1"</li>
<li>"Provenance"</li>
<li>"Providence"</li>
<li>"The Truth I and II"</li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">FAVORITE MOTW EPISODES</span></b><br />
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<li>"Squeeze"</li>
<li>"Eve"</li>
<li>"Gender Bender"</li>
<li>"Blood"</li>
<li>"3"</li>
<li>"Aubrey"</li>
<li>"Irresistible"</li>
<li>"Humbug"</li>
<li>"Soft Light"</li>
<li>"DPO"</li>
<li>"Clive Bruckman's Final Repose"</li>
<li>"War of the Coprophages"</li>
<li>"Grotesque"</li>
<li>"Pusher"</li>
<li>"Home"</li>
<li>"Paper Hearts"</li>
<li>"Kaddish"</li>
<li>"Synchrony"</li>
<li>"Small Potatoes"</li>
<li>"The Post-Modern Prometheus"</li>
<li>"Kitsunegari"</li>
<li>"Schizogeny"</li>
<li>"Bad Blood"</li>
<li>"Folie a Deux"</li>
<li>"Drive"</li>
<li>"Triangle"</li>
<li>"Dreamland I and II"</li>
<li>"How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"</li>
<li>"Terms of Endearment"</li>
<li>"The Rain King"</li>
<li>"Tithonus"</li>
<li>"Agua Mala"</li>
<li>"Monday"</li>
<li>"Arcadia"</li>
<li>"Trevor"</li>
<li>"Milagro"</li>
<li>"The Unnatural"</li>
<li>"Field Trip"</li>
<li>"The Goldberg Variation"</li>
<li>"all things"</li>
<li>"Je Souhaite"</li>
<li>"Redrum"</li>
<li>"4-D"</li>
<li>"Sunshine Days"</li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-90381985558242386702015-04-14T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-14T06:59:34.003-05:00L: The Lone Gunmen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Lone Gunmen</b></span><br />
<i><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Edited from Wikipedia</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Lone Gunmen</b> are Richard "Ringo" Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers.Their name was derived from the lone gunman theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Described as counterculture patriots, they are ardent conspiracy theorists, government watchdogs and computer hackers who frequently assist central <i>X-Files</i> characters Mulder and Scully, though they sometimes have their own adventures. The Lone Gunmen author a news publication called <i>The Lone Gunman</i> (once referred to as <i>The Magic Bullet Newsletter</i>; a pejorative reference to the single bullet theory and, like the group's name, a reference to the Kennedy assassination), to which Mulder loyally subscribed. None of them have day jobs; they rely on financial backers who believe in their cause, and the revenue generated by the subscriptions to their paper. They shared a loft apartment where they also work, and use a 1974–79 VW Transporter to commute.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Skinny</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Frohike</b> has this strange crush on Scully (well, I guess it's not really strange Dana Scully is pretty amazing). It seems that she is aware and treats him with the utmost kindness. Of course, he's also the one that's the most paranoid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Langly</b> is the most computer game, geeky of the three and they joke around often about his need to cut his hair and be respectable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Byers</b> seems to be the most grounded of the three and talks the others off the ledge often. At one time I wasn't really sure that he was truly with the rest of them, but then he didn't run away when he could have and I knew deep down that he was truly like the others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Episodes of the X-Files in which they appear</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Lone Gunmen" seem to always be there just when I'd prefer that the episode move on in a faster manner, or when I don't want to laugh and things just get too intense. I think they work best in episodes that are enhanced by their "Three Stooges" act (those episodes are highlighted in red below) or when they're being geeky and adorable (those episodes are highlighted in green).</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 1</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"E.B.E."</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 2</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Blood"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"One Breath"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Fearful Symmetry"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Anasazi"</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 3</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"The Blessing Way"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Paper Clip"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Nisei"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Apocrypha"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Wetwired"</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 4</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Memento Mori"</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 5</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Redux"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Redux II"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Unusual Suspects"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Emily"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Kill Switch"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"The End"</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The X-Files: Fight the Future</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 6</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Triangle"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Dreamland II"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"One Son"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Three of a Kind"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Field Trip"</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 7</span></b></div>
<ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"First Person Shooter"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"En Ami"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Requiem"</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 8</span></b></div>
<ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Within"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Via Negativa"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"The Gift"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Deadalive"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Three Words"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Existence"</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Season 9</span></b></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Nothing Important Happened Today"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Nothing Important Happened Today II"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Provenance"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Providence"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"William"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">"Jump the Shark"</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">"The Truth"</span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>That being said....</b>I don't really like "The Lone Gunmen". Maybe I should watch the series, but more than likely I'll just re-watch X-Files episodes, I can only take so much from crazy conspiracy theorists hiding in the dark stumbling over themselves. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-76702656730341403992015-04-13T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-13T06:00:06.874-05:00K: Killer Bees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">What are the bees</span></b><br />
They are first used to spread the smallpox virus and when The Syndicate finds that successful, they plan to use it to spread The Black Oil...Purity...or, as I like to say so the scary, baby clawed aliens can then nest and gestate in your body.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why the bees</span></b><br />
First there's this:<br />
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And, then...The idea that one could farm and use bees as a means to carry a virus that could wipe out humanity is scary, only because it could happen. Right now someone, somewhere could be keeping bees just for this very purpose.<br />
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I don't believe the FBI currently has an investigative unit qualified to pursue the evidence in hand."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Where you can find the bees</span></b><br />
<b><i>In person</i></b><br />
"Paperclip"<br />
"Herrenvolk"<br />
"Zero Sum"<br />
<i>The X-Files: Fight the Future</i><br />
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<i><b>By reference</b></i><br />
"War of the Coprophages"<br />
"Small Potatoes"<br />
"The Beginning"<br />
"Dreamland"<br />
"One Son"<br />
"The Unnatural"<br />
"Hollywood AD"<br />
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If you want to know more about the bees <a href="http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Bee" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br />
<i><br /></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-32023038096273228982015-04-11T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-11T07:10:48.059-05:00J: John Doggett and Monica Reyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">John Doggett</span></b><br />
<i>From Wikipedia</i><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">FBI Special Agent<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">John Jay Doggett</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> is a </span>fictional character<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> in the </span>Fox<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span>science fiction<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">-</span>supernatural<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> television series </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The X-Files</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. With his FBI partners </span>Dana Scully<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (season 8) and </span>Monica Reyes<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (season 9), they work on the </span>X-Files<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> office together, which is concerned with cases with particularly mysterious or possibly supernatural circumstances that were left unsolved and shelved by the FBI. John Doggett is played by </span>Robert Patrick<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. Doggett was a main character from the eighth to ninth seasons (2000–2002), replacing </span>David Duchovny<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">'s character </span>Fox Mulder<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. Doggett appeared in the opening credits and every episode from the season eight premiere to the </span>series finale<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Doggett made his first appearance in the 2000 episode "</span>Within<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">". Doggett served in the </span>United States Military<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> from the 1970s to the 1980s. Later he started working for the </span>New York Police Department<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, he was eventually promoted to </span>detective<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. After his son's death, he got a job in the FBI. He started to work for the Criminal Investigations Division. In 2000, he was assigned to the X-Files office, after the disappearance of Mulder. The introduction of Doggett was met with mostly positive reaction by critics, while getting more mixed response from longtime fans of the series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Monica Reyes</b></span><br />
<i>From Wikipedia</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">FBI Special Agent <b>Monica Julieta Reyes</b> is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series <i>The X-Files</i>. Monica Reyes is portrayed by Annabeth Gish. A Special Agent with the FBI, she works with her longtime friend and partner John Doggett in the X-Files office, which is concerned with the investigation of paranormal cases, dubbed "X-Files". Introduced in the series' eighth season, Reyes would become a main character throughout the entirety of its ninth and final season, last appearing in the finale, "The Truth".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reyes' first appearance in the episode "This Is Not Happening" was intended to add another character to the series who would readily believe in the paranormal, after the departure of David Duchovny and his character Fox Mulder. The character, and Gish's portrayal of her, have since received a mixed response from critics. She later appears in the canonical comic series <i>The X-Files Season 10</i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">In "The X-Files"</span></b><br />
After Mulder's absence, Doggett and eventually Reyes come in to help with the X-Files. I don't really care about the real reason all of this happened (we can talk about contracts, and studio execs at a later date and time), what I do care about is how they integrated this two characters into the show. Reyes, as a new-age, mystic and Doggett as the hardened agent breathed life back into the show and I truly like their MOTW episodes.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Their relationship to others</b></span><br />
I love the way that Monica and Scully compliment one another. I'd hate to be the villain against each of them individually, but together they are two pretty amazing, albeit, different women. I also love the way Monica and Doggett interact with one another, they are more than friends from their first introduction to the show and if Doggett hadn't been so overcome with grief at the loss of his son he would've seen that.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Conclusion</span></b><br />
I've also learned, over time, to stop comparing them to Mulder and Scully. They are not meant to be the same, I would even say that they aren't meant to be foils, even. They are meant only to be an extension of an already richly characterized universe. I am sorry that I didn't give these two characters the chance they truly deserve. I hope that they can make it to the 6 part mini-series somehow.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-27963854406528669902015-04-10T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-10T06:00:09.672-05:00I: I Want to Believe (Movie Two)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Reasons why I think people didn't really fall for this movie:</span></b><br />
1] They wanted answers about the end of the series. This movie did not provide answers about anything concerning the ending of the series or the MythArc at all. They forgot that this movie was going to be a stand alone movie from the very beginning.<br />
2] Um...I here there was this other movie that came out around that time...it was some sort of Action Adventure movie...OK, fine, I watched "The Dark Knight Rises" opening night at midnight and then again about 2 weeks later. I watched this movie on opening day, but only once in the theatre.<br />
3] It was billed as a Summer Blockbuster and some people who went to see it (people who were not die-hard X-Philes) wanted more big effects, more CGI, more guns, more tanks, more blood...<br />
4] It was a summer movie full of plot and theme and thinking and snow for Pete-sakes!<br />
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or, they were like my friend, who said after we got up and were heading out the theatre<br />
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5] "Seeing David Duchovny was nice, seeing Mulder with Scully was nice, but what the heck was the rest of that? It was just too disturbing and creepy. Maybe they'll do aliens next time."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why I love this movie:</b></span><br />
1] It's a MOTW episode and, well, those are my favorite! While it has elements of the supernatural it also has the worse kind of monster of all: the monster that could actually exist in society.<br />
2] It reminds me of the first few seasons of the show when I didn't want to watch episodes alone and I jumped out of my seat with terror a lot of the time. There were few happy endings and things were rarely tied up in a neat little bow, and it was creepy as heck!<br />
3] It talks about our inability, but desire, to understand science and faith and know when they intertwine into one. We want to have both together at the same time, most think that we cannot.<br />
4] The ending after the credits. *adorbs*<br />
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or, as Roger Ebert, God rest his soul, said so long ago:<br />
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5] <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The movie is insidious. It involves evil on not one level but two. The evildoers, it must be said, are singularly inept; they receive bills for medical supplies under their own names, and surely there must be more efficient ways to abduct victims and purchase animal tranquilizers. But what they're up to is so creepy, and the snow-covered Virginia landscapes so haunting, and the wrong-headedness of Scully so frustrating, and the FBI bureaucracy so stupid, and Mulder so brave, that the movie works like thrillers used to work, before they were required to contain villains the size of buildings."</span></span><br />
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I think I need to get the book.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-79152479690467187362015-04-09T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-09T06:00:06.247-05:00H: Human hybrids...Alien-human hybrids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>What is an alien-human hybrid?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">A </span><b style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hybrid</b><span style="line-height: 22px;"> is the genetically manipulated product of </span>alien<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and </span>human<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>DNA<span style="line-height: 22px;"> as part of the </span>colonization<span style="line-height: 22px;"> project run by the </span>Syndicate<span style="line-height: 22px;">. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some humans became hybrids via gene therapy while others were conceived through a hybridization process.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Emily</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">The biological daughter of </span>Dana Scully<span style="line-height: 22px;"> conceived as part of the </span>Syndicate<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>Project<span style="line-height: 22px;"> to create an </span>alien<span style="line-height: 22px;">/</span>human<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>hybrid<span style="line-height: 22px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">He was an alien/human </span>hybrid<span style="line-height: 22px;"> who worked at the Prangen pharmaceuticals company and provided special medical service to </span>Emily Sim<span style="line-height: 22px;"> as part of the </span>Syndicate<span style="line-height: 22px;">'s hybridization experiments.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">They were Human-Alien </span>hybrids<span style="line-height: 22px;"> cloned after two hybrids originally created by the </span>colonists<span style="line-height: 22px;">. These original visitors had come to Earth in the 1940's in order to have a part in colonization. The Gregors' plan and actions were not sanctioned, but they still pursued hybridization experiments using human fetuses obtained in abortion clinics where they worked. These clinics were scattered around the </span>United States<span style="line-height: 22px;">. The Gregors participated in the creation of a </span>Samantha Mulder <span style="line-height: 22px;">clone </span>series<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and these female hybrids, who considered the Gregors their fathers, became their partners on this project. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">She was the daughter of </span>William<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and </span>Teena Mulder<span style="line-height: 22px;">, as well as the sister of </span>Fox Mulder<span style="line-height: 22px;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">They were a series of </span>hybrid<span style="line-height: 22px;"> clones produced from female </span>abductees<span style="line-height: 22px;">' ova. They were employed by the </span>Syndicate<span style="line-height: 22px;"> in the colonization project. The individual they were cloned after is unknown, but it is possible he was the son of a Syndicate member. </span><b style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kurt Crawford</b><span style="line-height: 22px;"> was the name of one man in the Crawford series, but since the rest of them are not named, this name is also used as a reference to the whole group, similarly to the </span>Gregor<span style="line-height: 22px;"> or </span>Samantha Series<span style="line-height: 22px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">He was a </span>hybrid<span style="line-height: 22px;"> clone and a member of the resistance against the </span>Syndicate<span style="line-height: 22px;"> who exhibited healing and shapeshifting abilities. He gained public attention after saving the lives of several people following a shooting in a fast food restaurant. It would seem that this Jeremiah Smith was one of six clones who all worked at the </span>Social Security Administration<span style="line-height: 22px;"> in different states.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">He was a chess prodigy who first met </span>FBI<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>Agents<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>Mulder<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and </span>Scully<span style="line-height: 22px;"> in 1998. For reasons unknown, he carried within him </span>alien<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>DNA<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and was capable of reading others' minds. During this time, he was targeted by the </span>Syndicate<span style="line-height: 22px;"> because of his ability. After an assassination attempt on Praise failed, the Syndicate sent the </span>Cigarette Smoking Man<span style="line-height: 22px;"> to kidnap him. While guarding Praise, </span>Diana Fowley<span style="line-height: 22px;"> was intentionally shot and the Cigarette Smoking Man took Praise away. He was then seen getting into a car with the </span>Well-Manicured Man<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and </span>Alex Krycek<span style="line-height: 22px;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">She was a </span>repeater<span style="line-height: 22px;">, or a multiple </span>abductee<span style="line-height: 22px;">, critical to the plans of the </span>Syndicate<span style="line-height: 22px;">. She was the ex-wife of the </span>Cigarette Smoking Man <span style="line-height: 22px;">and mother of </span>Special Agent<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>Jeffrey Spender<span style="line-height: 22px;">, as well as "</span>Patient X<span style="line-height: 22px;">," the primary test subject in the project to develop an </span>alien<span style="line-height: 22px;">/</span>human<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>hybrid<span style="line-height: 22px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">He was the son of </span>Detective<span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span>Miles<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and a resident of </span>Bellefleur<span style="line-height: 22px;">, </span>Oregon<span style="line-height: 22px;">. He claimed to have been under temporary </span>alien<span style="line-height: 22px;"> control several times in his life</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">. After one final abduction, Miles was genetically altered into a human/alien hybrid, and became a </span>super-soldier<span style="line-height: 22px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b style="border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Super-soldiers</b><span style="line-height: 22px;"> are </span>human<span style="line-height: 22px;"> replacements that look human but are actually a type of </span>alien<span style="line-height: 22px;">. Fearless and virtually unstoppable, these aliens are not directed by anyone and are answerable to no-one except their own biological imperative to survive. </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">They want to knock out any and all attempts by humans to survive the alien </span>colonization<span style="line-height: 22px;"> of </span>Earth<span style="line-height: 22px;"> and were created to aid in the extraterrestrial repopulation of the planet. </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Their collective name, "super-soldiers," derives from the aliens themselves, but was often used cynically by humans. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">All information taken from the <a href="http://x-files.wikia.com/" target="_blank">X-Files Wiki</a>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-69933693195266911062015-04-08T05:33:00.000-05:002015-04-08T05:33:16.570-05:00G: The G-Woman...Agent Scully<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">OK, so a couple of years ago I wrote this post about <a href="http://smhasty.blogspot.com/2012/01/female-role-models-on-tube.html" target="_blank">Female Role Models on the Tube</a>. In it I describe the reasons why two female characters became my foundations growing up. Here are my reasons if you don't want to click:</span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1] <span style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">How you dress does not determine how you are perceived</span><span style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">2] </span><span style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Nice girls finish first</span></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">3] </span><span style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Girls are powerful in body and mind</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">4] </b><b style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Less is More</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">5] </b><b style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Girls with Brains Rule</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">6] </b><b style="line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Strong, Smart Girls Don't Always Have to Win</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While Laura Holt and Wonder Woman are definitely the core of me...Dana Scully is me all grown-up and sassy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And, what have I learned from her:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><b>1] Stand up for yourself and be your own person</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I'm not a part of any agenda. You've got to trust me. I'm here just like you, to solve this." ~"Pilot" S01 E01</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><b>2] Be skeptical, don't doubt the science of things, but have faith</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">But you saved me! As difficult and as frustrating as it's been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over! You've kept me honest. You've made me a whole person. I owe you everything... Scully, and you owe me nothing. I don't know if I wanna do this alone. I don't even know if I can. And if I quit now, they win." ~The X-Files: Fight the Future</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><b>3] Listen to others and allow them to have their stories, allow them to be who they want to be</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MULDER: I would've never seen you again. But you believed me.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SCULLY: In your dreams. Mulder, I want you to close your eyes and I want you to think to yourself "there's no place like home."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MULDER: Mmm. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MULDER: Hey, Scully. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SCULLY: Yes?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MULDER: I love you.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SCULLY: Oh, brother...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~"Triangle" S6 E03</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><b>4] Be willing to change your mind when presented with new facts and new situations</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">SCULLY: He's not dying. He is more alive than he's ever been and what's causing it may be extraterrestrial. ~"The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati" S7 E02</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><b>5] Laugh at yourself, laugh with others</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MULDER: And I can neither confirm nor deny agent Scully's version of events, but, um...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SCULLY: Anyway... I was drugged.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MULDER: That is ... essentially, exactly the way it happened.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SCULLY: Essentially.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~"Bad Blood" S5 E12</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><b>6] 7 years isn't a long time to wait if you know, that in waiting, you are making the right choice</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-- the ones that last-- are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with." ~"The Rain King" S6 E07</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>And, you can raise your kiddos to be just like her. <a href="http://legacy.nerdywithchildren.com/how-to-raise-the-next-dana-scully-from-x-files/" target="_blank">Check it out here.</a></b></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-83902954013599874952015-04-07T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-07T07:01:47.976-05:00F: Fight the Future (movie one)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>71 Thoughts While Watching "X-Files: Fight the Future"</b></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The black oil, coupled with the theme song revamp makes cold chills run up my spine</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">North Texas 3500 bc...what!? What an amazing intro!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How many children (people under 18) are killed or maimed or become killers in the X-Files?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, so watching the show all the way through up to this point and then hearing Bronschweig talk about the ‘impossible scenario’ just shows me how brilliant Chris Carter is </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘I had you big time.’ ‘You had nothing.’ *cute*</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I didn’t realize that the movie was made before season 5...it explains why they look so darned good during season 5...well, when they’re actually in an episode during season 5.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How many people sacrifice their lives to maintain the secret? Why do they do it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I remember when they showed the making of this scene during an X-files movie preview...fun stunt. *understatement*</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I like that Mulder would go from the city to Georgetown to wake up Scully in the middle of the night and she is questioning, but not upset or surprised</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That Mulder has balls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I learned so much science from this movie. ‘I’m saying it wasn’t the Henta Virus’...goes to look up the henta virus…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Kill Mulder and we take the risk of turning one man’s quest into a crusade.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I miss Oldsmobile...well the Intrigue...anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Five years together and how many times have I been wrong *pause* never *incredulous look* not driving anyway.’ ha!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Giant jiffy pop poppers’...in ‘98 all people got this...now...who get’s this?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, and their cellphones are really out of date too, are those Nokias?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Watching this movie makes me want to write papers or grade papers</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I want Scully’s pant suit</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, and that skirt suit she was wearing at the beginning of the movie</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Duchovny has the best lips ever</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Salt Lake City, Utah...what!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sexiest non-kissing scene EVA! ‘You saved me...You’ve kept me honest. You’ve made me a whole person...I owe you everything and Scully, you owe me nothing’ kiss dammit. i say this everytime and everytime...there’s a damned bee. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What are David Duchovny’s arm muscles doing? What are they doing?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So weird to see him run into his apartment to call someone for help…cellphones...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Hey, I know you...’ face</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love the leather jacket</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘it’s the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, Toto...’</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Strip Byers naked.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Well-Manicured Man is so…precise</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why introduce Kurtzweil to kill him...how many are there?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, so there’s this big alien people field instead of an alien spaceship</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">...does the vaccine save them all?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is it with sliding down long slippery places?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nice boots</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Was that his gun or his cellphone?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Matrix" totally copied this whole scene</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He gets to kiss her after all</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gee whiz those aliens are effing scary and there’s a whole green room of them</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ohhhh the alien hand and sharp claws and...gah, the suspense!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gosh, Scully always misses all the good parts...that alien spaceship is amazing</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love that he gave her his nice warm coat...she still has to be pretty darned cold though</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Scully, you gotta see this.’ um, I can’t I’m too busy freezing to death and did I mention the fact that I had one of those in me...inside of me...what!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">...and, then she hugs him and it’s cold, but she’s the protector</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘I don’t believe the FBI has an investigative unit qualified to pursue the evidence in hand.’ I love when Scully gets mad and uses her facts to throw things in the face of others. Suck it, Trebek.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Not unless your story can be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘If I quit now, they win.’ this is also what I say to get through teaching…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘He is but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future.’</span></span></div>
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The best thing about being a teacher is sharing my thoughts and experiences with my students. I love <br />
incorporating the things that I love (especially my love of Pop Culture) into my teaching. Over the years I've been able to use a couple of episodes of "The X-Files" in my classroom.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"Field Trip"</span></b><br />
<b>Class: </b>Applied Communications (a remedial class)<br />
<b>How it was used: </b>To talk about the various modes of communication (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and to show the difference between hearing and listening. While there are several episodes that show great communication and what happens when communication lacks, this one is one of the best because it's only when they truly listen that they can get away from the mushroom. Things keep getting repeated, but no one is listening.<br />
<b>What we did: </b>Watched the episode, there was a handout to go with it with the four modes of communication, students were to note these and then there were questions on the back talking about listening specifically.<br />
<b>CCSS: </b>SL.9-10.1; SL.9-10.3<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"The Post-Modern Prometheus"</span></b><br />
<b>Class:</b> AP Literature and Composition<br />
<b>How it was used: </b>As part of the unit when we read <i>Frankenstein</i>, it's just too good not to add this 2nd layer to the book. We talk about Modernism (according to Shelley and according to our modern definition) and Postmodernism. We pull out all the allusions they can (some don't get the geekier stuff) and then we relate it to the novel and its themes and symbols and motifs. We also watch 'Blade Runner' and then compare all three. Good stuff.<br />
<b>CCSS: </b>RL.11-12.1; RL.11-12.2; RL.11-12.3; RL.11-12.5; RL.11-12.6; RL.11-12.7<br />
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<i><b>What episodes would you suggest are good for the classroom?</b></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-29063006622026360352015-04-04T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-04T09:27:10.057-05:00D: David Duchovny, why won't you love me?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's Sunday night, I am curled up in my room<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The TV light, fills my heart like a balloon<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I hold it in as best I can, I know I'm just another fan<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But I can't help feeling I could love this secret agent man<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And I can't<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Wait any more for him to discover me, I got it bad for David Duchovny<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Duchovny why won't you love me, why won't you love me</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-67051356069259118292015-04-03T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-03T06:00:05.309-05:00C: Chris Carter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, let's talk a minute about the guy who made all of this possible...Chris Carter.<br />
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He knows what makes a hero:<br />
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He understands the truth and what's at the heart of the X-Files:<br />
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He likes strong women:<br />
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And, we all know this to be true:<br />
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And, finally...<a href="http://38.media.tumblr.com/5ad2a643772c702299258fc77e1d1c11/tumblr_nc77qrVpaE1slrlreo1_400.gif" target="_blank">The Speedo</a> <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/x-files-reunion-david-duchovny-520936" target="_blank">was a smart, ever so smart, choice</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-68474715290239879832015-04-02T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-02T06:16:29.240-05:00B: The Books<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr93_NHt5dGOrwkMNzcvhc8mbCd7xvxTFK4rnxEJwYPFqKD0y638UYwCf4UnxE-zW07O3wXoKUw9Xgj9KD92-UOSYx-48ICNRULKjmncGlpV0E54O7RSHWmNkI5sorUa7mG2ZKn2SvhfGm/s1600/Blank+Print+Document-page-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr93_NHt5dGOrwkMNzcvhc8mbCd7xvxTFK4rnxEJwYPFqKD0y638UYwCf4UnxE-zW07O3wXoKUw9Xgj9KD92-UOSYx-48ICNRULKjmncGlpV0E54O7RSHWmNkI5sorUa7mG2ZKn2SvhfGm/s1600/Blank+Print+Document-page-003.jpg" height="247" width="320" /></a>Ok, so I haven't read all of the literature out there, but I have read all of the novels.<br />
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I enjoy movie tie-in novels, I always have. But, what I like about the X-Files novels themselves is that they aren't episodes of the show, but have plots and characters on and introduced in the series. My favorite one is <i>Whirlwind</i>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling. There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were the victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain and most hideous death.... </b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X."</span></b></i></span><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Skin</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">by Ben Mezrich</span></span></li>
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To find a full list of literature click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_literature" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-65441144496241387152015-04-01T06:00:00.000-05:002015-04-01T17:38:55.561-05:00A: At the very beginning, a very good place to start<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I can't exactly remember the first time I ever watched "The X-Files". I know I watched it on Fridays when I was in high school (when my mother would let me) and there are some episodes (mostly from that first season) that I remember quite well. I remember watching it on Sundays when I was in college, my roommate and I wrapped in blankets in the dark on either end of our garage-sale couch. You have to remember those first few seasons were creepier and scarier than subsequent seasons.<br />
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I am writing this while watching the finale of the 6th season...a finale I remember quite well, a finale that didn't tie in with the wonderfully, lighthearted episodes that makes this season my favorite season. This finale devastated me. Frankly, I think it did many people as it added another layer to the alien myth, put Mulder is some strange, unexplained danger and gave me at least 3 more reasons to really want to punch Diana Fowley in the gut.<br />
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<a href="http://tvline.com/2015/03/24/x-files-revival-reboot-six-new-episodes-fox/" target="_blank">With a new series in the works</a> and my head full of this show and the memories it evokes I look forward to spending the next month talking about my love/obsession with Agents Mulder and Scully, AD Skinner and the various monsters, myths, aliens and conspiracies that really are much of the background noise of my favorite decade.<br />
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<a href="http://www.turning-pages.com/xf101/xf101_glossary.htm" target="_blank">Click here</a> if you need any help with abbreviations.<br />
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<b>Note: </b>I'm only talking about things that interest me or that I remember being integral to the show and its characters. If there's something you think I should comment on or talk about feel free to comment below.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-49508574147396968222015-03-23T18:24:00.000-05:002015-03-23T20:47:18.174-05:00Blogging from A to Z 2015 Theme Reveal<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For those of you who know me I'm sure you understand how I came to this logical conclusion.</td></tr>
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Every year since I've started blogging I have joined that A to Z Blogging Challenge (if you want to join there's still time sign up <a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-to-z-challenge-sign-uplist-2015.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Last year I did not finish the challenge...I made a mental note to chose a topic that was not only interesting to me, a topic that I not only knew a lot about, but also a topic that ENTERTAINS ME! It just makes sense that I would choose "The X-Files". <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/entertainment/x-files-series-return-feat/" target="_blank">A new series is in the works</a>, and, well, I couldn't be happier. Stranger still...I've been re-watching the series and I'm on Season 6.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;">MY THEME:</span></b> All Things X-Files<br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;">WHY IS IT EXCITING: </span></b>David Duchovny, aliens, SF, Gillian Anderson and all that shippy goodness. I miss the 90s and I miss this show.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;">WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT:</span></b><br />
A: At the very beginning, a very good place to start<br />
B: The Books<br />
C: Chris Carter<br />
D: David Duchovny, why won't you love me?<br />
E: Education...or, how I use my favorite show in the classroom<br />
F: Fight the Future: movie one<br />
G: The G-Woman...Agent Scully<br />
H: Human hybrids...Billy Miles, Samantha, Gibson Praise, Knowle Rohrer, that Blonde boy and Lucy Lawless<br />
I: I Want to Believe: movie two<br />
J: John Doggett and Monica Reyes<br />
K: Killer Bees<br />
L: The Lone Gunmen<br />
M: Mytharc and Monsters of the Week<br />
N: The 90s<br />
O: On the interwebs (blogs to follow)<br />
P: Porn and Sunflower seeds...the making of a Post-Modern hero<br />
Q: A Quick Trip through my favorites (MOTW, mytharc epi, season, episode)<br />
R: Re-watching the series from the beginning<br />
S: Shippers and all that shippiness<br />
T: The Truth is Out There<br />
U: Unidentified Flying Motifs and Symbols<br />
V: Viewers Choice...pick your favorites (A Google Form)<br />
W: The Writing<br />
X: X and Deepthroat<br />
Y: Year 10...or how I'm now begging everyone I know for Season 10 (the comic book series)<br />
Z: Zippity-doo-dah...Monday, Monday, Monday<br />
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I look forward to hanging with you all the month of April!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10156573651587644699noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740191219184117673.post-85634649332960263602014-12-09T16:16:00.000-06:002014-12-09T16:16:06.432-06:00Holiday Confession #9<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I watch <a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/pillow-talk-tour-the-new-york-apartments-of-doris-day-rock-hudson/" target="_blank">Pillow Talk</a> just for the set pieces.<br />
I want everything in <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/kitmer/mid-century-kitsch/" target="_blank">this Pinterest board</a>.<br />
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With furniture that looks like this:<br />
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