[ SECRET POST #3330 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3330 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers)]


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03.
[Roald Dahl]


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04.
[X-Files, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"]


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06.
[Agnus Dei/Les Innocentes]


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07.
[Whitechapel, DC Emerson Kent]


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08.
[Undertale]


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09.
(Tales from the Borderlands)


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10.
[Steven Universe]


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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/EYy44Rf.jpg
[X-Files, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"]

[kaijinscendre]

Really??? That has been my favorite new episode so far. It was hilarious and I recommended it to my sister who has only seen episodes of X-Files here or there.

[sabotabby]

Same. I keep looking for reasons to like the show and be glad it's back, and not really finding any.

I liked the one with the trash monster though.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked it, but I'm not sure it will rank up there with "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "Humbug" or "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" for me. I'm so glad Darin Morgan came back to write an episode, though!

[(Anonymous)]

Those were among the best eps from a show that ran 9 years, so it's hard to measure up. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is my all time favorite.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw people squeeing over Kumail Nanjiani getting a part in this episode. I don't follow his X-Files podcasts and maybe he's an awesome person, but... he really wasn't all that. His acting was rather hammy, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this secret entirely. *sigh*

[hands4healing]

I've adored this new run. Except for the first episode. But this one was the one that made me the most pleased because it felt like an old episode.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked this episode, although it was so heavy handed I found it more amusing than funny. The weird transphobic joke (no, not a tumblrina, just really tired of 'Well, she used to be a man!' lines) combined with the tired 'this guy is a closeted gay man, as found out through a gay misunderstanding' thing in an earlier episode (Scully's line about 'It's hard to believe in 2016...' was my thought exactly re: that plotline (not to imply that closeted gay people Don't Need to Exist Anymore, but it just felt very outdated)) left me meh.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw the uproar over the "transphobic joke", but honestly, I don't see it that way. Mulder, an uncool middle aged white dude, is trying his best to explain it to another uncool middle aged white dude who is actually an ancient lizard creature to whom ALL aspects of humanity are completely foreign concepts. Mulder isn't doing a great job, but considering the circumstances (i.e. ancient lizard creature), he's trying the best he can. There's nothing dismissive or "hur hur hur look at the tranny" about the conversation, he's just trying to explain the biology to a creature who is not familiar with human biology or concepts of gender.

You know what?

[(Anonymous)]

The MOW one disappointed me too...it felt like it was trying to hard, piling gag after gag with no breathing room.

But the one the week after that? Blew me away. It felt the most like an old episode of any so far.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

I wasn't much of a follower of the X-Files in the day-- and haven't been watching the show now.

But as a bit of a bad film geek... is the lizard monster supposed to look like the one from The Hideous Sun Demon? 'Cause if so, that's hilarious.

[(Anonymous)]

That one guy from flight of the conchords is Rhys Darby and New Zealand is weeping rn. Plus my senior film project was this exact premise (human bites monster) and it was a gory comedy and I feel awesome that I'm not alone in thinking that up.

I sadly have to agree.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the show was a little too self-conscious about itself. I liked the concept (though if they were going for giant horny toad, there should have been a tail that could have dropped off), but the execution fell flat. It just didn't strike the right tone, for me.

[dahli]

Iirc this script was intended for the old series but never got done?

I never saw the original run because I was a wee baby who got scared with the opening song (that FUCKING HAND WAS DISTURBING AND REMINDED ME OF UNSOLVED MYSTERIES WHICH SCARED THE BEEJESUS OUT OF ME) but I found this episode kind of amusing. Not exactly hit, but definitely better than the ones that had aired. Same with the one about the garbage man. It made me want to see the old series, too.

[i_paint_the_sky]

The episode didn't really work for me that well either, certainly not to the point that it did for most people. I just found it seemed to be trying a little too hard, especially when it comes to being the X-Files in a modern world.

That said, there were still some good moments, and I liked Mulder's character development ... but I feel that would have fit better if it had been episode 2 of season 10, rather than episode 3 (which apparently it was originally going to be, or so I've heard).

So far, having seen all the episodes that have aired to this point, the actual episode 2 is my favourite. But I've been re-watching the show and realized that the ones that turn out to have a more science/fact-based explanation often are the ones I like best. Guess I'm more of a Scully than a Mulder.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I loved this episode! As a stand alone, I thought it was endearing and reminded me of Ursula Le Guin's "The Wife's Story."