Posted on 06/26/2016 11:59:22 AM PDT by V K Lee
When Fox Television ran the “reboot” of the X-Files this winter I will confess that I was completely enthralled. Yes, I was a fan boy. I loved the original series, even in the seasons when Duchovny had grown sick of his job and disappeared for extended periods, ostensibly having been abducted by aliens. (Sorry for the spoilers to any of you tuning in after emerging from a time machine.) I even liked the movies. And the six part mini-series (now known as “Season 10”) back in January and Februrary was a great trip down memory lane which they clearly pumped a lot of resources and effort into. At least one of the non-canonical, Monster of the Week entries was a bit on the hokey side, but I still enjoyed it. (I don’t hold it against Allahpundit that he has no taste in television entertainment.)
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I was the youngest intern on the X-Files set in Vancouver the first 3 seasons. Every script was well written until season 5 when it started jumping the shark but I immigrated to the US so who cares. And Cris Carter is a moonbat lib.
Have you forgotten the global warming psa where they blew up anyone, including school children, who had the temerity to question the alarmist orthodoxy? They buried it pretty quickly after the public outcry, I’ll admit. Too late for me to ever forgive Gillian, though.
“Then it introduced a gay character, and the ‘funeral industry’ trying to take over the family business. Then it was all gay, all the time, and I just couldn’t watch it anymore.”
that’s how all Alan Ball shows go: interesting at first, then he runs out of interesting ideas or gets bored and morphs the shows into homo-fests. He did that with True Blood too.
Wow I forgot about that.
What else could one possibly “get” out of that episode?
Do YOU even remember it?
Yes. It was called “Home.”
It was about a family that protects its own against an oppressive federal government.
And it was creepy as hell.
And, finally, it is often in the list of the top five episodes.
So, yeah, I’ve watched it.
What I got from that episode was this: The Old Woman, who
was kept in the trunk of a car, was carted around by her
two inbred, crazy sons. The sons were violent & murdered
people right & left, incidentally stealing as they went.
The “mother” had sex with her retarded offspring & stayed
pregnant with their offspring, thus insuring future retards.
- It was a very transparent reference to the Old South &
“her” unruly offspring spreading secession & mayhem all
across the South. (The “Southern” accents were part of what
gave it away.) Don’t doubt me. It certainly was NOT at all
flattering to the “ignorant” South. If you were flattered,
then you are a Pollyanna.
You have no imagination.
And that is really sad.
(You went back and looked that up, didn’t you? You just remembered the old woman in the trunk of the car. But they really hid her under the floor.
I don’t lie to myself either.
The old woman was the Confederacy. Her inbred “boys” were
the Southern boys. My great-great grandfather was a Rebel
at Shiloh; so it’s close to home for me. - That was the ONLY
episode of that turkey I saw. After they dissed Dixie, I
said, “No more.”
It’s “close” to you? Dude, it was 150 years ago.
And it was a TV show that you saw one time.
I know you are free to comment on whatever you want. But, you saw one episode 20 years ago and you feel the need to post how you hate that series?
You might want to get that in check. That’s the kind of mindset that ends up with you on a porch yelling at kids to get off your lawn.
Don’t get your bowels in an uproar over nothing. :o)
My people suffered during the Civil War. My great-great
grandfather was a Confederate soldier; fought in the
Battle of Shiloh for one. He had no slaves; but YOU ALL
were down here & that’s why so many who had no slaves
fought. - I was raised NOT to deify Lincoln. Daddy always
said that Lincoln did not have to have that war; he WANTED
that war & it gave him power to do as he pleased. New
inventions were on the way in that would have brought about
the end of slavery anyway. - Now, we have generations of
largely black “gibsmedats” who think they are OWED & by
dam*; they gonna GIT what they is owed! Even “reparations”
will not satisfy them. Their sense of inferiority and
entitlement is now a bottomless pit. (A “black” President
has only served to enrage them further. Hussein has
benefitted; but that black woman who thought Hussein was
going to gift her with loads of benefits; free gas, free
rent, etc. was badly fooled.
You need to relax. No one wants to come in to your town and burn your houses.
That was a long time ago. And we are talking about a TV show.
How was that episode a reference to the old south? It was titled, “Home,” and set in the town of Home, PA where the family had lived since the Civil War. They were inbred yankees.
I’m sure you & I would see any number of t.v. shows
differently. It’s fiction.
I’m relaxed. Who said anyone wanted to come into my town
(I don’t live in a town) and burn my house? (It WAS a
long time ago; but I don’t think you Yankees have any
realistic idea of how the South suffered under your
“reconstruction”.) Ya’ll started it with your attacks on
MY understanding of that old weird tv show. It meant WHAT
IT MEANT - to me.
I'd prefer to see him renew "24" and beat up some Islamic Terrorists.
Remaining upset about how Dixie is dealt with today is crazy.
YOU, and no one you have met was personally affected by reconstruction. Unless you are 90. And if so...stop discussing things on the Internet. There is not much time left for you to waste.
Your culture is homogenized America. Just like mine.
Your hanging on to the CW would be akin to me thinking that blacks are inferior, just because my great great grandfather did.
We have evolved just a little, I hope.
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