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what's the next carriage they use the
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dark in a few places on the ship leaves
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the darkest as cover and of course yes
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this world the swirls around in the
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elevator or used to add a few points and
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and if it is it is stylish I i feel like
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the script is not as strong as the other
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episodes we watched but I feel like it's
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it's it's ambition and the look of it
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and the obvious cost is the reason why
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it's a good representative of this is
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when they've yeah you're absolutely
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right height of their powers can do
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anything and like I said they're making
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things more difficult for themselves
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because they can
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why not just to keep it fair even the
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dorky riding like because of the premise
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because this is a essentially the most
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plausible theory this is all in Mulder's
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head because I totally a wizard of oz
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that like it's it's dorky in a way that
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when you're again when you're the star
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of your own dream this is how things
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play out there are Nazis and the people
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you just like are the bad guys except
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for your boss who actually turns out to
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be a good guy and and your lady pals
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there and this is the time you actually
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kissed anyone who even like at the end
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of the episode when he wakes up in the
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hospital he finally says I love you like
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all the you know you know Scully and
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Mulder shippers are like oh they're
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gonna kiss and say i love you they do it
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both miss episode and she's like oh
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brother and rolls around and walk them
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because they don't stop
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remember you were drugged I was drugged
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I was one of those shivers I was
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punching the air
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I'm not gonna lie yeah now we should
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probably talk about what happened at the
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end of this series because ok
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it did it did kind of so that when nine
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seasons it did kind of fall off a cliff
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quality wise although I i would argue
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that there are good episodes in every
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season yesterday including some good
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episodes with you as so David Duchovny
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wanted to be less involved so you get he
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moves the production LA and then after a
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couple years is like yeah I'm kind of
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over it
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so rather than write them out completely
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from first moulder and then Scully had a
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reduced episode load as time went along
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they wouldn't come back from time to
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time Scully was kind of a mentoring the
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agents who were assigned to The X Files
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which were Doggett and Reyes who
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actually Annabeth Gish and robert
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patrick i think did a perfectly good job
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as as those character
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is I think in fact i believe i said this
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on one of our one of our previous
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episodes when we're talking about read
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about reboots of old shows I mentioned
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that I thought they could reboot the
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x-files I think the premise of the
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x-files is great i think the problem
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with with the Doggett and Reyes years
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was that the writers were tired
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not that they did that the characters
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and those actors didn't do a decent job
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but over time you know you lost Mulder
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and Scully in that dynamic you obviously
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we're working around their schedules to
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get them back you had this kind of
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played out mythology that they were
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still trying to kind of keep spinning as
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much as they could and it just you know
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nine seasons of 22 episodes each of a
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show like this it's just kind of crushed
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under its own weight and that's that's
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kind of the problem with the mythology
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to is that Mulder and Scully were so
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tied into it they were so central to
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what was going on with the mythology
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that you know in law and order yeah you
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can pretty much swap out detectives and
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you know it's just I like Jerry Orbach I
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like pollster do you know it's like
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that's how you watch the show if you
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just like the stories you watch the
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stories but this Mulder and Scully were
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so central to the overarching they were
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the story
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yeah and and so when they're not there
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yeah i mean Doggett and Reyes are fine I
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it's a fine show and there are some
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productive and efficient they're gonna
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have their own stories like that what
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you want to make a spin-off show with
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new people who are on The X Files that's
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fine but they need they're like they
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need to be if you only want to do that
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they need to be as tied into the to the
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new arc not a continuation of the old
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one but because the exact item they tied
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up so many loose ends bye-bye around
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season six
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they had a very natural ending to the
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series everything you really cared about
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had been either solved or are shown to
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be something you're never going to know
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everyone's like internal struggles and
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relationship and characters are pretty
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much nailed down and then just like well
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we just gotta kick start this sucker
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again and send them off on to New York
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since almost all blessing the leads left
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because there's no they had nothing left
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to give like regular people have you
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know one life to live or whatever that
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soap opera was like you don't get have
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17 different lives unless you know maybe
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your David Bowie topical but that with
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the new characters i thought they were
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good too and I was actually surprised by
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how they were able
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to construct basically a good x-files
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episode with these new people because
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they're good actors and they had
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interesting stories every once in awhile
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but but they never restarted an arc that
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I cared about and that's really what
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killed it better to have Mulder and
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Scully just be gone right yeah and say
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that someone is yelling for it's me i'm
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still here i'm missing you should care
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about finding me for some reason
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yeah right so the dog eraser just left
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left holding the bag go go off and do X
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Files New Orleans once in a while you
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might have a guest shot you know and
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then you have you know x-files Miami
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over here is my disappointment about the
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ring about the relaunch is a is that
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it's just bringing back
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Mulder and Scully for six episodes and
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and that'll be fun but I i am a believer
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in this as a premise and I'm kind of
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disappointed that they didn't instead do
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a new x-files with new characters and
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try to you know because i think there's
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so much power in this premise anything
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yet good yeah exactly they will one day
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yeah that's where they're not going to
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promote this as hey this is a whole new
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thing they're gonna promote this as its
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Fox and then Dana their back-to-back
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assists for d is an episode i want to
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mention from the last season's example
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like I think that's a pretty good
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episode and that is that's the parallel
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universe episode where there's like a
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killer but the killer is is going back
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and forth between the beach it's sort of
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like a pro fringe back and forth between
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our universe in a parallel universe and
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have to follow him to the parallel
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universe was actually kind of a really
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great great episode that is lost because
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it's in season 9 and who cares at that
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point but I have nobody did I i was i
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was kind of a defender of Doggett and
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Reyes mostly because Blake you guys said
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they they were fine characters i
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actually enjoyed them i thought the
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performances were really good i do agree
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that the stories were were less exciting
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it was it was it felt very very sort of
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wrote and by-the-book
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monster-of-the-week they didn't get
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there wasn't a whole lot drawing you
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back but everybody just got so rabid and
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just vile towards these poor actors and
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and these characters which I thought
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were just fine so I i found myself i
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think i like them extra much simply
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because all these people were bagging on
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them so hard and and I felt like like
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somebody needed to love them so that was
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well whatever
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there's um I story arc comes back then
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Mulder and Scully come back right so
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that it really is they I mean they
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really were left holding the bag they
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were filling in the episodes that if you
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were if you were there to see Mulder
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Scully in the ongoing story they their
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episodes did not provide those things
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and they're as I would get annoyed when
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when Scully and Mulder would come back i
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agree it just it felt so insincere at
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that point just didn't it just didn't
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work it was like oh ok well I'm supposed
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to care about these other characters and
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yet you keep bringing back i agree that
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the spin-off would have been it would
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have been a lovely think especially if
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they would have gotten a new stable of
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writers yes exactly right we should talk
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before we go to feature films were made
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one during the run of the show which was
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problematic because they essentially had
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to shoot the movie and then spend the
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next season riding up to the point which
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would lead into the movie
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yeah which I marvel nowadays are yeah it
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kinda it's exactly what agents of shield
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has to do actually and it kind of put
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the plot in a stall tactic mode for a
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season which is not good drama because
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they knew where they needed to be be
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they couldn't change their plan because
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they had just told the story that was
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going to be in the in the feature film
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so that was that was the the first one
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and then that was fight the future right
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right and then they did they did I want
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to believe in in 2004 words 2008 right
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much surprisingly a long time passed and
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they did I want to believe which I i
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have to admit i have never seen it
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me either you're not missing anything
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I've even the first movie didn't work
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that well like this show doesn't work I
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don't know if it doesn't work in movie
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form but into movies and neither one of
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them captured anything that I really
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loved from pretty sure I saw it and I
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cannot remember a thing i'm not even a
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hundred percent sure i did see it so
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there yeah yeah i did see it and
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I'm i don't remember much about it other
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than that i was bored and disappointed i
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don't know I i think it's telling about
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how this had this series ended and one
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of the things that I've liked about
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revisiting it it is it's actually got me
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excited about the about the the
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six-episode miniseries revival thing
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which by the way I think it's really
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cool that they're doing that because
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I've complained on this podcast actually
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numerous times that you get a good show
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and everybody loves it you know bring it
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back every now and then that happens in
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british TV all the time where they bring
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something back for a special or five
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episodes or something like that and they
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actually did it with like how how long
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can we get David Duchovny and Gillian
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Anderson because they're very busy with
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other things in the answer was they
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could do six episodes worth so they they
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ordered six episodes of The X Files how
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great is that
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having revisited these classic episodes
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the show was for a long time before it
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started to fall apart and for so many
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the end-of-season what they just made so
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many episodes it was that they turned
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was an hour long line of grid and two
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episodes like this let's do feature
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it's amazing how you know chris carter i
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actually i would actually file chris
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carter along with Gene Roddenberry and
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George Lucas is somebody that I think
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perhaps had some luck involved in
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creating this amazing thing and and now
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has has control over it and I've heard
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through people in in well how do I put
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this like talking to Tim Goodman on on
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the TV time machine I definitely get the
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impression from him that there is a
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feeling like that that one of the
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impediments to bring back the x-files is
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chris carter because chris carter wants
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to be intimately involved with it and
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that's problematic because he is
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infamous for making some bad decisions
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deadlines and all sorts of things so I I
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I hesitate to say that anybody is in the
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same category as george lucas and Gene
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who ends up being an impediment
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to their own thing that they created but
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i feel that way about him a little bit
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because in the end I don't think that
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the most memorable episode of the
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x-files were done by Chris Carter but
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what I like about this revival is Chris
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Carter is doing his episodes but he
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brought back James Wong he brought back
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Darren Morgan he brought back lynn
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morgan and apparently they asked Vince
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Gilligan and they asked um uh who's
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doing the the man in the high castle
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Frank spot it's a asked they asked them
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to come back and there and they're too
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busy basically with their other
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successful shows that they're doing but
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I like that it's not just that this
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thing is not just an ego trip a lot of
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the other great kind of team members who
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came out of that show are coming back to
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do this thing and i hope its I hope it's
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worth the time and energy that they're
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putting in it it'll be interesting to
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see a show coming back after 14 years
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almost exactly because he was actually
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does work since years
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we're not gonna talk about that we've
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been 10 years since she was a lot of
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fingers in my ears and now here's six
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episodes of The X Files is kind of like
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the force awakens already lawrence
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kasdan to come back to get the old cast
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to come back the addy creator I guess
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the credit still involved with the
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episode or whatever but I I feel like
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every two hours talking to his car i
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would say have faith that the show the
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premise the style of television making
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that you created back then that the
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people who are going to make these new
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six episodes understand that they are
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students in the school of the thing that
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you made and like it that these cases
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the actual same writers like that if if
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you establish something some as iconic
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as Star Trek Star Wars of the x-files
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and you make either like a reboot of it
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or continuation or whatever like and you
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get the right people on it have faith
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that they understand their bones the
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thing that you made it's not as if I
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need to be involved is on the only
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person involved X also the whole
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generation of
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of television writers in television
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viewers to understand the x-files you
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just get the good ones and talented ones
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they will take care of your baby in in
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the way at the very least in the way
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that the people who love the original
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show also love i said is having not seen
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these new six episodes tomato blow it
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but I am cautiously optimistic
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alright so so the x-files returns to
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television haha i cannot believe that
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I'm saying that on the January 24th
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while he created as mine alone
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yeah it's a it's cool i hope it does
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well because bringing back shows that
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people like and doing short runs of them
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i think it's a good idea so i will be
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interested to see if because there are a
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lot of people who never watch the
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x-files or didn't see much of it who
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will probably be watching this just
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because of all the hype surrounding it
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and i will be interested to see how it
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plays to those people if they're able to
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hit the balance kinda like they did with
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with new Doctor Who bringing it back
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where you can make the classic fans
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happy enough and make it accessible
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enough that the new breed of audience
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member can come in and get it as well so
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up completely because i think that you
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made a good point there
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we've mentioned four episodes that
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people can watch on and in passing of
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men mentioned a few more before we go if
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there are particular episodes that you
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would recommend that people watch other
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than the ones that we've already
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mentioned i would be interested in
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hearing those I guess I'll start and
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give you time to think since I didn't
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have you prepare this
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yeah i really i really like squeeze
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which is episode 3 which I feel is and
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it's got a sequel later on the first
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season called tombs these are it's like
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the x-files episode squeezes it's about
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a guy who eats people's livers and can
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squeeze in between into really narrow
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that's what it's about that's all it's
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about but it's kinda great
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all of the Darin Morgan episodes i think
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are fantastic I think I think red museum
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is an amusing episode because it's about
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it's about cows
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I believe it said in Wisconsin Erica and
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and there's mysterious a mysterious cow
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related murders and it was meant to be a
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crossover with the day
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d kelly series picket fences and that it
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was across network crossover so they a
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candidate but uh it's uh it's still kind
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of a kind of cool episode already
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mentioned for the complications that
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Darin Morgan episode and hose from outer
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I i would say don't watch the ones with
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that were written by William Gibson as
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much as I love him as a writer because
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they're not very good
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small potatoes is a very good episode
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written by Vince Gilligan and starring
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Darin Morgan I believe
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yeah he's this he's the star of that
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episode the writer Darin Morgan is the
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star that episode so those are some that
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i think are worth are worth watching
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John do you have any that we haven't we
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have initially I looked up one cuz I
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thought you might have a segment and I
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have vague memories other ones maybe you
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can tell me which episodes there that
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the first one that that is one of my
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favorites that always sticks in my mind
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it's very similar to all the episodes
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that we looked at even though it's a
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mythology episode because it relies on
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you having watched many seasons of this
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very interesting character to it's a
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payoff to say now we can do a different
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story with this character and some
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musings of a cigarette smoking man i
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love yes mmm i love that actor i love
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how they used him i love that he smokes
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a cigarette I love everything about him
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and in one episode they take you back to
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how to have you end up with this guy how
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does this guy yea he's all creepy and
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everything but how you know it's it's
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what the stars people could never do how
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do you end up a cigarette smoking man
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and it reveals him to be a you know a
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flashback and the show all the terrible
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things he's done in the past but that he
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has other ambitions and he wants to be a
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writer and genre fiction which is not
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taken seriously right and yeah you know
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he's always wanted to do that and he's
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writing tales that sounds stupid an
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unbelievable it's like pop trash but
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they're basically based on real things
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you might call them romana clay of what
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he's actually done in his life and they
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get rejected as ridiculous and
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eventually gets gets a reply from you
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know from a magazine saying yes we're
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going to publish your stuff is a
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serialize story he's so excited he's
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ready to resign as the most terrible
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villain in the entire xbox universe is
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finally gets his dream and it turns out
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to be a nudie mag and he is disappointed
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and he tears up his resignation and goes
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back to be serious moment that is like a
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little my idea of like a perfect
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mythology connected character-based
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payoff reward episode the other episode
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that I can't find the title of one of
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you can tell me maybe it is Ho Chunk
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myspace what's the one with long
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government play Dungeons and Dragons of
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the convention does like a different
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name of it but I second your FB pic and
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there's managers computer dragons but
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right I can't think of the name of the
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episode with the final thing that this
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is not a particular purpose of this is
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the one thing that struck me watching
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these four episodes again i don't i
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don't think i was in the camp that had
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like a super mega crush on Johanna
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Anderson for me there's Dana Delany
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china beach aforementioned but not
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watching these episodes again and all
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watching across the entire time David
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company's fine i like him like his
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character I cannot stop looking at her
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I don't know what it is about her as an
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actress when she is on the screen doing
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her acting thing I cannot stop looking
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at her face she is just the most
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entrancing actress i love the episodes
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when she would sound better she was sad
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where she / bad things would happen to
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her when she would get upset when her
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dad died when she finds out she has
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cancer where she's she just I don't know
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if she's really this great an actress or
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maybe she's I haven't seen her many
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other things but she always just draws
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my eye and I don't know what it is about
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her it you know it just that she is
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magnetic and I for me and you know it
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her in this series is what it's like I
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forgotten about it like I don't put it
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behind me or whatever but she's up on
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the screen and I just can't take my eyes
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off her so thats i'm going to endorse
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every episode with her in it
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three-of-a-kind is the name of the
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episode you were thinking of and it's by
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Vince Gilligan and Joshua band and it is
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that's the one where they play Dungeons
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and Dragons it's a goofy funny one
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David you have episodes I have episodes
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I again wholeheartedly recommend all of
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the Darin Morgan ones
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yeah because I mean again if if you know
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what I do
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funny spooky writing is right up my
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again going back to Vince Gilligan and
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the seeds of breaking bad i would say
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the episode drive with bryan cranston
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which is season six
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it's kind of a and X Files version of
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the movie speed where Bryan Cranston has
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to keep moving or his head will explode
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and remember that one of course he winds
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up in a car holding Mulder hostage
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making motor drive west and it's amazing
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and he is not at all you know if at this
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point people knew him as either
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Seinfeld's dentist or the dad from
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Malcolm in the Middle rent and you know
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this this was the episode that Gilligan
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looked back and said I know who to cast
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in this is breaking bad thing he could
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pull that off because he is a horrible
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person in this and yet you still feel
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sympathy for him because Bryan
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Cranston's that could i would also say
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the postmodern Prometheus sure you know
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that's it's just it again it breaks the
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formula enough and that is the subtitle
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of Frankenstein yeah that's you know
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it's it's much as young frankenstein as
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a is just a pitch-perfect spoof of the
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original Frankenstein films this does
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the same the same kind of thing and i
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had as i recall it uses the same props
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from both those the original movie and
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young frankenstein which is kinda cool
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the episode ice in the first season
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which that might be the one that hooked
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me fully
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that's a great episode it is a great
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episode it is a beautiful riff gardening
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the thing but the original and who goes
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so that is just that that was the one
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where I went okay these guys know what
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they're doing and even then they're kind
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of showing off because it's not just you
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know he will trap them in things like no
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we're doing the thing we're doing who
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goes there and i'll translate that seeds
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of do everything very same thing I was
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like the truly great science-fiction
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shows do a thing episode to have you did
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yeah yeah and then i'm actually going to
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pick a season 9 episode which kind of
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breaks break some of what we were saying
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because it's got a big-name guests
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started 4d was good yeah that was really
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good to this one
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a big-name guests are it's it's a little
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beard it's it's called improbable and it
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has Burt Reynolds oh yeah might be God
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and what I really like about it is the
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dog it stays back in the office and it's
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Scully and Reyes teaming up to to solve
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this problem which that was that was
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something we haven't seen this before
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either and that's a that's a little
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weird episode that you don't expect that
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late in the Royal Erica well as I said
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I'm terrible with with names and even
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remembering specific episodes but as
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we've been talking about it some things
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have come back to me i will i will say
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that i do love the lone gunman so many
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of my favorite episodes where there's it
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just looking it up I didn't realize just
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how many episodes they were in thinking
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yeah so the one that i will point to
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they do kind of remember is unusual
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suspects which deals with sort of
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origins of love origin stories
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especially with quirky wacky characters
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like those guys so that that's a good
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one and if you like them and their
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series jump the shark is the episode
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that that office them which may be
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rewritten now exciting and I also i also
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second the the Jose Jones from outer
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space that's another one that I
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definitely remember liking a lot and the
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michael mckean to partner which you
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actually mentioned dreams and Greenland
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and dream land to which dreamland to has
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the lone gunman in it so it's you know
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lots of bang for your buck
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yeah and I have one more than i'll throw
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in there which is an episode called
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pusher from season 3 written by vince
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gilligan directed by rob bowman by the
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way who is the best Star Trek The Next
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Generation director and he became an
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x-files director which was pretty cool
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because he he did like the first episode
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with Borg and to get a really good
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director and i was very happy to see his
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name start popping up on The X Files
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pusher is about a guy who can make
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people see or not see things and the
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reason that i mentioned it is because
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when i used to be a commuter i would
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have to cross a freeway on-ramp in order
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to get to my bus stop every morning and
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every morning when I cross the on-ramp I
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thought of the episode pusher where
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because the most terrifying thing it is
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that he he made somebody not see an
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oncoming truck
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and that's how they died is a step in
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front of the truck because they didn't
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see it and I thought about that every
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time I cross that freeway on every
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single time so just one that's you're
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safe i guess so i guess you're getting
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paranoid so good job is Gilligan alright
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the x-files returns it in very very soon
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very soon so i would like to thank my
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guests for revisiting this classic
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series a lot of fun to to dip back in
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here David lower thank you for being
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I I want to believe what's just want to
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that's true Erica and sign thank you
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thank you
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now i'm just excited to see buyers
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Langley and froakie again we don't ya
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and John syracuse that the truth is out
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there how we forgot to mention that I
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think like Brooklyn especially gets her
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little dog her little dog that all
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getting my mold in evergreen forests in
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a later episode but after that the state
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to the coastal blue snow globe thing
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we're really they're still trapped
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underground with that law stuff to sell
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cereals we're saying that we're here and
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the rest of the series of dissolution
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anyway yeah Buffy Muffy is also just a
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girl in a mental institution
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it happens so anyway I think of episodes
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and a little dog
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yeah and thanks everybody for listening
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if you haven't uh you know if you've got
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access to netflix they're all on there
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there in HD
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it's pretty great so you know watch some
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episodes of The X Files and thanks for
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listening we'll see you next time
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