I got hooked on this show in college a couple years ago: TNT ran four or five on weeknights starting at midnight I think.
[quote]Freaky Styley wrote:
I got hooked on this show in college a couple years ago: TNT ran four or five on weeknights starting at midnight I think. [/quote]
That’s where I first saw it at all. Had never seen one episode and on a whim watched one on TNT in the middle of the night. Thought it was kinda cool and saw a few more in the next several days. I had no idea about the ongoing story at all. I found some forums somewhere with no registration and left a comment saying What I just said here and was immediately assaulted by about 5 girls in a row telling me to stop right where I was and find a way to start at the beginning or I would forever damage my experience of how the show was intended.
I took their advice and have never been sorry. The box set is on my list of things to buy, but in the meantime some very heroic chap took it upon himself to create a torrent with every single episode of all nine seasons in pristine DIVX format. I’ve done plenty of digital video encoding and that was one BIG job. Since I use a computer with TV capability instead of a DVD player it worked out jist peachy keen.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Freaky Styley wrote:
I got hooked on this show in college a couple years ago: TNT ran four or five on weeknights starting at midnight I think.
That’s where I first saw it at all. Had never seen one episode and on a whim watched one on TNT in the middle of the night. Thought it was kinda cool and saw a few more in the next several days. I had no idea about the ongoing story at all. I found some forums somewhere with no registration and left a comment saying What I just said here and was immediately assaulted by about 5 girls in a row telling me to stop right where I was and find a way to start at the beginning or I would forever damage my experience of how the show was intended.
I took their advice and have never been sorry. The box set is on my list of things to buy, but in the meantime some very heroic chap took it upon himself to create a torrent with every single episode of all nine seasons in pristine DIVX format. I’ve done plenty of digital video encoding and that was one BIG job. Since I use a computer with TV capability instead of a DVD player it worked out jist peachy keen.[/quote]
Like you couldn’t just add a dvd player to that Frankenstein super computer you hand made? I mean, shit, it’s not like it isn’t already illegal.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
Freaky Styley wrote:
I got hooked on this show in college a couple years ago: TNT ran four or five on weeknights starting at midnight I think.
That’s where I first saw it at all. Had never seen one episode and on a whim watched one on TNT in the middle of the night. Thought it was kinda cool and saw a few more in the next several days. I had no idea about the ongoing story at all. I found some forums somewhere with no registration and left a comment saying What I just said here and was immediately assaulted by about 5 girls in a row telling me to stop right where I was and find a way to start at the beginning or I would forever damage my experience of how the show was intended.
I took their advice and have never been sorry. The box set is on my list of things to buy, but in the meantime some very heroic chap took it upon himself to create a torrent with every single episode of all nine seasons in pristine DIVX format. I’ve done plenty of digital video encoding and that was one BIG job. Since I use a computer with TV capability instead of a DVD player it worked out jist peachy keen.
Like you couldn’t just add a dvd player to that Frankenstein super computer you hand made? I mean, shit, it’s not like it isn’t already illegal.[/quote]
Oh that machine had a DVD drive and Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound and 400 watt Klipsch Promedia speakers, great for movies, but this one is in the living room. It’s just a junk box with an old Geforce 4 that has TV out. What was really cool about that is during the NHL playoffs I could use Sopcast on that machine and watch out of market games on my TV’s that I have wired all over the house.
So I would be watching Comcast digital San Jose for instance streamed over the internet and though that computer using a sopcast feed and VLC then onto my TV’s. Very cool. I could even see the guy on the other end changing channels during commercials. All on a machine my wife found in somebody’s garbage. Oh well, don’t know how I got on all that.
I was just watching the Ronnie Coleman Relentless video from last year and at the end when he’s posing in his bedroom The X-Files is on on his TV.
For those who haven’t seen the trailers:
OK, I saw it last night.
No spoilers here, but suffice it to say that it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped, but definitely not as bad as I’d read. It was pretty depressing actually.
Mulder and Scully back together again is cool. They slipped back into the roles well though I read that Anderson had more trouble than she thought she would.
I would’ve liked more AD Skinner.
The plot was OK.
The movie is worth seeing for fans, but will do nothing for most people who weren’t already quite familiar with the series.
It’s an inexplicable combination of being faithful to the original MOTW episode formula and totally different at the same time.
Strangely, it mostly made me sorry the series ended. If felt a bit like a strained attempt at the old glory.