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The Truth Revealed
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michael
on Sun May 19, 2002 09:00 PM
from the black-helicopter dept.
from the black-helicopter dept.
usermilk writes "Now that the X-Files has finally ended, I recommend you all check out The X-Files Timeline. It has a list of all the episodes, chronologically, and what happened when. A very good utility in figuring out what the heck happened, and when." If it hasn't shown in your timezone yet, obviously, don't click through.
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The ending, in a headline (Score:5, Funny)
Wow Right on Time (Score:4, Funny)
-Slashdot had an article about the end of the X-Files at EXACTLY 10:00PM
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-I checked Slashdot for an article on the X-Files at EXACTLY 10:00PM
2012=2003 (Score:4, Interesting)
It all has to do with the mayan calender which translates to 2003 june.
Theres alot of uh, lets call them, myths dealing with what will happen.
The rapture, the planet niburu and aliens coming for the choosen people, all kinds of crazy stuff.
Anyone who wants to see where the idea for this episodes ending or the so called truth came from, type "niburu orion group"
or "niburu 2003" into google.
You'll see all kinds of stuff about aliens taking over our government, and an invasion during june 2003, you'll see the mayan calender used as evidence, abductees claims, so called government officials claims, etc
Its worth researching even if its just myths, theres still a 10 percent chance that it might actually be true.
ex-files? (Score:5, Funny)
Mark Your Calendars (Score:4, Interesting)
So, anyone got plans for December 22, 2012?
Well, in all seriousness, now that it's all over - who's truth was out there? Did we learn anything new at all? Granted, I liked the extensive recap they gave us in the first hour. It refreshed my memory and got me caught up on a few things that I missed. The in the second hour we got a big chase and in the end nothing happened. What happened to Doggett and Reyes? Skinner? The rest of our players?
I guess what I'm getting at is: WHAT WAS THE POINT?!?
Re:Mark Your Calendars (Score:4, Informative)
Dear Mr. Tolkien (Score:5, Insightful)
Dear Mr. Tolkien:
I just wanted to say that I think the way you ended THE LORD OF THE RINGS was crap. You didn't provide any closure. Instead of spending time with the hobbits clearing out the shire (come on, urban renwal in LoTR? give me a break) and lots of goodbyes, you SHOULD have shown me what happened to Tom Bombadil, he was an important part of the story, and you just left his story thread there unresolved.
You made a big deal out of the elves going to the west, but we never SAW it! We never found out what was there, or what Bilbo found when he got there, or what happened to the dwarves, or what happened to Merry and Pippin....
You betrayed your audience by not resolving every single plot thread you introduced in your book, and as a result, it is never going to be of value to anyone, ever, and will never go past its first printing.
Re:huh? (Score:4, Informative)
Check out this page at Coming Attractions [corona.bc.ca] for the latest details.
Hope? (Score:3, Funny)
That's what I'm left with? Hope? WTF?
Yeah, hope that Chris Carter gets abducted himself.....and soon.
McK
what an amazing ending! (Score:5, Funny)
oh, wait...
timeline (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.themareks.com/xf/conspiracy.shtml [themareks.com]
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The series finale was pretty good. (Score:5, Insightful)
The first hour of the finale IMO was the weakest part. I was worried when Skinner was pulling past characters as witnesses for Mulder's trial that Carter did a lame character reunion finale. Thankfully, the show picked up in the latter half.
I did have some problems with the finale, however:
1. The reason behind Kurst's sudden aid was never explained. His sudden character reversal was unsettling to me.
2. I think they overdid the Smoking Man's demise. Sure, Carter probably had that shot of his face peeling away to the skull to appease all the fanboys who would claim he escaped death again. But the fanboys would say that anyway if Mulder shot him several times in the face then relieved himself on his dead body.
The ending seem to fit the feel of the show. The protagionists now know the truth, but a little bit more of the picture remains out there. I can definately see a movie revolving around the alien invasion comming from this finale.
Re:The series finale was pretty good. (Score:4, Insightful)
This finale is just all of the different characters focusing on one point. The male and female characters (Mulder/Dogget - Scully/Reyes) and the bosses (Skinner/Kerst) all coming together at the same point -- breaking Mulder out of prison.
There is no "explanation" for it. It's just an directorial attempt to bring all of the opposites from pre-Duchovny/post-Duchovny onto the same track so they can make some movies that start with all of the main characters on the same track.
(And, actually, I'm not an X-files fanboy. My wife is obsessed though, so I've had them shoved down my throat for years).
good episode, bad ending (Score:5, Insightful)
It was still a good episode though. As a series finale it could have improved, but since they have already stated that a movie is coming out, this definitely is NOT the last chapter.
Re:good episode, bad ending (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not sure he really switched - I think that the conspirators wanted Mulder to be killed while trying to escape from jail and not via a military trial, as that would be a much cleaner way to kill him when people go looking for him. ("Oh sure, the trial may have been unfair, but Mulder tried to run and was killed while escaping, so it really doesn't matter - stop looking into it.") After all, "they" knew where Mulder was anyway and it's not so much of a stretch to imagine that he would have been placed to try and get Mulder killed.
The other option is that he wanted Mulder out of the way, but not killed, and got cold feet after Mulder was sentenced to lethal injection.
But I dunno, I wasn't really paying too much attention to the episode, and may have missed some things (and may be completely off the wall since I never really watched the X-Files anyway).
Smoking man (Score:5, Informative)
Besides, he was looking cooler than ever, Anasazi-style.
2012 (Score:5, Funny)
lame (Score:4, Insightful)
The black oil came to earth on a meteorite. Fine, but how does that explain Roswell? The aliens crashed because of the magnetite? So the grays are the same as the super soldiers? That doesn't make sense. So we'll just ignore that...
So everyone in the galaxy except for humans and the renegades are infected with the black oil? Assuming that's true, how could selfdisfigurement keep the renegades from being infected, when they're made of the same green foam as the same as the alien bounty hunters?
And so what was The Big Truth? The Cigarette
Smoking Man teased us with revealing it, but
never did. Unless it was the invasion occurs
Dec 22, 2012. How is the Big Secret?
Last week's was far better.
The Lone Gunmen LIVE!!! (Score:4, Funny)
It sucked. (Score:5, Insightful)
2012 / 2112 (Score:5, Funny)
Military Tribunals (Score:5, Interesting)
Not a coincidence that it maps closely to the current "fry 'em in the dark" policy instituted by Bush and company. Detention in secret, no contact with relatives or lawyers, disposition a secret as well -- hell, Mulder got better treatment at his "trial" than someone held under the current "emergency".
I think Chris Carter was trying to not so subtly draw attention to our new system of "alternative" justice.
Re:Military Tribunals (Score:4, Informative)
Bad news, good news (Score:4, Funny)
Good news - If you're running linux on a 32 bit system you don't need to worry about the year 2038.