X-Files Musings
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You know what I think would be fun? XD A crossover story or RPG with the new TMNT and the X-Files. I know it probably sounds absurd at first, but think of this angle. Bishop and CSM could form an alliance to try to stop alien colonization. On Saturday I was watching some more of the tape Aubrie recorded for me during the time when I didn't have access to the TV (I've been watching some every Saturday), and I found an episode that opened with a flashback of Bishop being abducted by aliens and tested on, and it showed how that was largely influencing his obsessiveness over getting the aliens stopped. I don't know, I've always found Bishop to be a very fascinating character and one of the best TMNT antagonists. Same with CSM on the X-Files.
I've been thinking a lot about the things I would change in the X-Files storyline in general. As I said, I think it started going downhill as early as season 5, but there always have been good things in each season. I even like Doggett and Reyes. I don't think they were the downfall of the show, per se; I think it was more Chris Carter's writing angles in general and his arrogance that it could continue for years no matter what happened to the cast.
Anyway, of the main things I'd have happen (or not happen), there would be these:
---The Lone Gunmen would not die.
---Admittedly, I probably wouldn't have Krycek die either. I never have liked him, but eh, he is a good villain.
---I'm debating over what I'd have happen to CSM. XD; Part of me wants to say that I wouldn't have him get thrown down the stairs by Krycek at all, but another part thinks that maybe he did but he'd made a deal with someone (like with Jeremiah Smith in the past) and that person healed him (he'd been pretty sick before being pushed at the end of Requiem). In any case, I'm figuring that what happened in the show's finale never happened.
---Actually, I figure that nothing in the show's finale happened at all. ;) I think that was a crummy way to end everything.
---Doggett and Reyes would be around, but I wouldn't have Mulder get fired from the FBI. Maybe I'd have it be a temporary suspension, and things would get resolved.
---I don't know that the events of season 9 would happen at all, at least not in the same ways. XD; Mulder wouldn't flee at the beginning of it, for one thing.
---I don't know what I'd have happen with William, either. On the one hand I'm thinking that Scully would not adopt him out. On the other, I'm thinking that she might never have had him at all.
---I do know that I would have Jeffrey survive being shot, but he would not have ended up horribly deformed due to being experimented on, as was shown in season 9.
I love how dark and gritty the Dead End Kids' films are. XD; They're certainly a far cry from how they ended up a decade later as the Bowery Boys, and it's really neat that they can pull off both comic and dramatic acting so well. My favorite DEK film by far is Hell's Kitchen. It's very, very powerful and poignant. Bobby Jordan's character dies, but I think it had to be that way in order to have the full effect of things. It's about a shelter for wayward boys and the way Mr. Krispan runs it with an iron fist, forcing the boys to go without meals for days or even locking them in the walk-in freezer when they've done something he doesn't like.
I was briefly talking about the film with Lizzie the other day, when she was mentioning that she liked Matilda. I never have cared for it myself, and I mentioned that I thought the subject matter wasn't handled in a serious way and that I thought the way they did it was silly. I said that if one wanted to see a cruel schoolteacher handled in a serious way, Hell's Kitchen was definitely the way to go. Actually, now that I think of it, both the villain in Matilda and Mr. Krispan are more like principals/superintendants, but eh. XD;
You know what I think would be fun? XD A crossover story or RPG with the new TMNT and the X-Files. I know it probably sounds absurd at first, but think of this angle. Bishop and CSM could form an alliance to try to stop alien colonization. On Saturday I was watching some more of the tape Aubrie recorded for me during the time when I didn't have access to the TV (I've been watching some every Saturday), and I found an episode that opened with a flashback of Bishop being abducted by aliens and tested on, and it showed how that was largely influencing his obsessiveness over getting the aliens stopped. I don't know, I've always found Bishop to be a very fascinating character and one of the best TMNT antagonists. Same with CSM on the X-Files.
I've been thinking a lot about the things I would change in the X-Files storyline in general. As I said, I think it started going downhill as early as season 5, but there always have been good things in each season. I even like Doggett and Reyes. I don't think they were the downfall of the show, per se; I think it was more Chris Carter's writing angles in general and his arrogance that it could continue for years no matter what happened to the cast.
Anyway, of the main things I'd have happen (or not happen), there would be these:
---The Lone Gunmen would not die.
---Admittedly, I probably wouldn't have Krycek die either. I never have liked him, but eh, he is a good villain.
---I'm debating over what I'd have happen to CSM. XD; Part of me wants to say that I wouldn't have him get thrown down the stairs by Krycek at all, but another part thinks that maybe he did but he'd made a deal with someone (like with Jeremiah Smith in the past) and that person healed him (he'd been pretty sick before being pushed at the end of Requiem). In any case, I'm figuring that what happened in the show's finale never happened.
---Actually, I figure that nothing in the show's finale happened at all. ;) I think that was a crummy way to end everything.
---Doggett and Reyes would be around, but I wouldn't have Mulder get fired from the FBI. Maybe I'd have it be a temporary suspension, and things would get resolved.
---I don't know that the events of season 9 would happen at all, at least not in the same ways. XD; Mulder wouldn't flee at the beginning of it, for one thing.
---I don't know what I'd have happen with William, either. On the one hand I'm thinking that Scully would not adopt him out. On the other, I'm thinking that she might never have had him at all.
---I do know that I would have Jeffrey survive being shot, but he would not have ended up horribly deformed due to being experimented on, as was shown in season 9.
I love how dark and gritty the Dead End Kids' films are. XD; They're certainly a far cry from how they ended up a decade later as the Bowery Boys, and it's really neat that they can pull off both comic and dramatic acting so well. My favorite DEK film by far is Hell's Kitchen. It's very, very powerful and poignant. Bobby Jordan's character dies, but I think it had to be that way in order to have the full effect of things. It's about a shelter for wayward boys and the way Mr. Krispan runs it with an iron fist, forcing the boys to go without meals for days or even locking them in the walk-in freezer when they've done something he doesn't like.
I was briefly talking about the film with Lizzie the other day, when she was mentioning that she liked Matilda. I never have cared for it myself, and I mentioned that I thought the subject matter wasn't handled in a serious way and that I thought the way they did it was silly. I said that if one wanted to see a cruel schoolteacher handled in a serious way, Hell's Kitchen was definitely the way to go. Actually, now that I think of it, both the villain in Matilda and Mr. Krispan are more like principals/superintendants, but eh. XD;
