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#mulder moments ⤷ 2.20 — “Humbug”

Imagine going through your whole life looking like that.

I wonder how much Mulder thinks about all the weird mutant people who he'll never meet because they DON'T commit crimes.

how to say "I love you" in x-files [157/?] ⤷ 3.02 — “Paper Clip”

#this looks sick i have to read

Something strange's going on up on that mountain…

Quintessence, the comic book chapter I wrote with @leslekieuart for their horror western comic Dust & Dread, is starting to be released now!

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Watching the first season of The X-Files and seeing all of these supernaturally menaced women is giving me a burning need for Normal Women Characters Who Can Just Deal With Supernatural Shit. Like suburban moms who know how to throw salt at ghosts.

I watched a video about how Lost suffered from being a network tv show and I think a lot of the same issues can be applied to the X-Files. The point of the video was that to write a good mystery, you really need to know the conclusion going in because everything about a mystery should be leading to the conclusion. But on a network show where the executives won't let the writers clearly define how long it's going to be, you can't plan a conclusion. Lost kept being extended, which forced the writers to constantly add new twists and elements to the show without really being able to actually answer the questions raised, ultimately leading to an unsatisfying conclusion.

I think this is exactly the same reason I like the X-Files monster of the week episodes but don't really care about the myth arc. The alien invasion plotline had the same problem as Lost in that they constantly had to draw it out as the show kept getting continued and newer, poorly thought out plot points had to be constantly added instead of answering question (for example, the like 7 different answers about what happened to Mulder's sister). The monster of the week episodes, being mostly self-contained, didn't have that problem. The writers knew where the mystery would conclude: at the end of the episode. This ended up making the monster of the week episodes often much more satisfying to watch than a myth arc episode whose questions just wouldn't be answered.

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