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Social media archive: 2016 (part 4)

Archived from the Eat The Corn Facebook page here.


Feb 02, 2016 00:15

Darin’s episode airs soon… Enjoy our archive of interviews with Darin “Flukeman” Morgan, all the way back to “Humbug”, 1995!

https://www.eatthecorn.com/itw/tag/darin-morgan/


Feb 02, 2016 18:07

@[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records] will be reissuing @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]’s 4 CD @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] Volume 1 (2000 copies) – the first edition has been long sold out since its release in 2011. On Feb-9 is your chance!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1004970149575203&id=114444205294473

https://lalalandrecords.com/Site/XFiles.html


Feb 04, 2016 00:19

10X3: Mulder and Scully get their mojo back! — a review

10X3: Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster


Feb 04, 2016 00:57

10×06 “My Struggle II” synopsis

MULDER AND SCULLY UNCOVER A SHOCKING TRUTH WITH GLOBAL RAMIFICATIONS

The investigations that Mulder and Scully previously began with conspiracy theorist and web-TV show host Tad O’Malley (guest star Joel McHale) seem to have awakened powerful enemies. A widespread panic begins as people all over the country suddenly start falling gravely ill, and Scully must look within to try and find a cure. Meanwhile, Mulder confronts the man whom he believes to be behind it all, but another figure from Mulder and Scully’s past may prove to be the key to their salvation in the all-new “My Struggle II” Season Finale episode of THE X-FILES airing Monday, Feb. 22

Screen Spy: The X-Files Episode Guide


Feb 04, 2016 15:08

Marvel at the @[177204758982718:274:Iam8bit] “CONSPIRACIES, MONSTERS & MYTHOLOGY: AN X-FILES ART SHOW”! (Los Angeles, Feb 4 to 14)

io9: The Truth Is in This X-Files-Themed Art Show


Feb 04, 2016 18:05

Mark Snow interview: “It’s the same main instrument but a whole bunch of different libraries”

Musique Fantastique: Mark Snow: The Return of THE X-FILES


Feb 04, 2016 18:31

: science, conspiracy theories and populism – the point of view of the sociologist, a very interesting analysis (with an EatTheCorn reference!) – in Italian…

Massimo Polidoro: Torna X-Files: complotti e populismo, ecco perché piace sempre


Feb 08, 2016 22:32

10X1: My Struggle – UPDATED for readability & photos! Welcome UK philes!

10X1: My Struggle

 


Feb 09, 2016 18:20

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Feb 12, 2016 16:00

@[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]’s The X-Files Volume 1 reissue by @[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records] – now is your chance! LIMITED EDITION OF 2000 UNITS
And mark my words, Volume 3 is coming VERY SOON!

La-La Land Record: THE X-FILES VOL. ONE LIMITED EDITION RE-ISSUE


Feb 13, 2016 23:28

“Home Again”: Morgan strikes again – quite possibly the revival’s best!

10X4: Home Again

 


Feb 14, 2016 20:25

This article came right after “Founder’s Mutation” aired and before “My Struggle II” aired (obviously): is *very* topical!

The Guardian: British researchers get green light to genetically modify human embryos


Feb 15, 2016 16:27

Carter teasing “My Struggle II” + s11: “it’s hard to imagine that they wouldn’t come back to us”

EW: X-Files finale: Chris Carter previews the last two episodes of the revival series


Feb 18, 2016 00:27

Carter’s “Babylon” in review. More than meets the eye: an encapsulation of everything in The X-Files!

10X5: Babylon


Feb 18, 2016 21:29

Twitter poll: Would revival have been better as a 6-part mytharc mini-series?

 


Feb 18, 2016 23:55

10X2: Founder’s Mutation — UPDATED with photos, welcome UK philes! Also, what may be going on in the background here may underlay future mytharc developments: the creation of a new race to do what? Be a slave hybrid race to future alien colonists, or a mutated race of humans immune to alien viruses?

10X2: Founder’s Mutation


Feb 19, 2016 9:32

“It seems clear, today, that there won’t be a third film. Fox isn’t interested. Why not, on the other hand, and depending on the success of these new episodes, engage into another mini-season?” – Gillian Anderson (re-translated from French)

Le Figaro: Gillian Anderson : «Dana Scully est une des premières figures féministes de la télévision»


Feb 19, 2016 12:26

Behind the scenes of with special make-up effects designer Bill Terezakis! Lizard-Man, Roswell alien and…spoilers for CSM

Makeup Mag: The X-Files Returns with a New Group of Monsters


Feb 20, 2016 11:03

Back Gallery Project owner Monica Reyes (yes, that’s who the character is named after) presents exhibit in Vancouver, “all the original scripts, props and objects that are included in this exhibition were used during the last summer’s production in Vancouver. The material comes directly from director, producer and writer Chris Carter”.
Art gallery website: http://www.backgalleryproject.com/

Canadianart: X-Files Storyboards and Props on Exhibit in Vancouver


Feb 21, 2016 3:24

finale preparation: 7 things Carter says influenced him for the revival. 2 things haven’t surfaced yet:

Mycelium Running: The Paul Stamets book, subtitled “How Mushrooms Can Save the World,” looks at how certain fungi could be bred to decompose toxic waste, stop viruses and protect humans from nerve gas.

Crispr-Cas9: This new genetic technique enables DNA to be easily edited. Those tweaks would then be inherited by the person’s offspring, making permanent changes to the human gene pool and potentially altering the nature of humans. In December, a group of scientists called for a moratorium on proceeding with such changes.

–> Both of these could come into play in how we might all have alien DNA activated in ourselves, in how the apocalyptic plague is released, and in how a cure against it might be found…

TV Insider: Edward Snowden and 7 More Things That Inspired ‘The X-Files’ Return


Feb 21, 2016 22:04

“X-Philes: They Wanted To Believe”: an all-new 90min documentary on X-Files fandom, from the 1990s to today, including certain interviews with cast! [in French]

https://www.facebook.com/2BeXP/posts/928324437235597


Feb 23, 2016 00:39

mythology in Chris Carter’s words. Will tonight’s “season 10 finale” make true on the promise held by these sentences? I want to believe…

Fight the Future : The Album : The Truth Revealed


Feb 24, 2016 20:46

 


Feb 27, 2016 20:58

finale: “My Struggle II” reviewed: a hard sell, to say the least! A rush to the credits, likely inconsistencies abound. But a story worthy of a feature film, and surely the world of The X-Files will never be the same.

10X6: My Struggle II

 


Mar 02, 2016 10:26

“The beginning of an abduction scene”…

 


Mar 08, 2016 00:12

https://www.tumblr.com/plaidadder/139941638104/my-struggle-ii-and-chris-carters-daddy-issues


Mar 09, 2016 19:30

A summary of possibilities long discussed by fans for a return of Frank Black! The IDW Joe Harris comics went the “MM: Apocalypse” way (@[109148669162593:274:Millennium Apocalypse Season Two\: The Dark Inside You]). However, probabilities that this will happen are wearing thinner and thinner every year.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10154569673863484&id=109517928483

https://www.blumhouse.com/2016/03/08/first-x-files-now-millennium/


Mar 14, 2016 19:07

XF: The musical, a top quality production! by @[476772695667640:274:Loot Crate]

 


Mar 15, 2016 18:39

Interview with Dr. Margaret Fearon, Chris Carter’s advisor on medical issues in IWTB & My Struggle!

Canadian Blood Services: Helping put the science fact in science fiction


Mar 24, 2016 19:16

https://www.doggettscully.com/sale/


Mar 28, 2016 20:42

Interview with James Wong by XF Lexicon – could this be an EatTheCorn reference? If so, very humbled and *cool*!
“surprisingly, or not surprisingly, there’s a whole website devoted to the mythology of The X-Files. So, knowing that I wanted to deal with William, the baby, for me that was a very emotional , interesting connection that they have that hasn’t been dealt with. So, knowing that, I went onto a website where a lot of fans have written about things that have happened, about the mythology, which episode that occurred, and all of that. So, I went through that and had a basic understanding of what’s happening. That’s how I approached it.”

http://www.x-fileslexicon.com/exclusive/wong.html


Mar 28, 2016 20:42

Confirmed: coming Summer 2016: Mark Snow’s 4-CD Volume 3 by La La Land Records!


Mar 30, 2016 15:22

Out today: @[362989843738755:274:The X-Files] Season 11 , “Endgames, Part 3”, the last issue of @[8473603278:274:IDW Publishing]/Joe Harris’s Season 10/11 series — the culmination of 35 issues and a nearly 3-year journey! It’s been a great ride since June 2013. EatTheCorn Lowdown coming soon…

10X6: My Struggle II

The X-Files 2016: Introduction | 10X1: My Struggle | 10X2: Founder’s Mutation | 10X3: Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster | 10X4: Home Again | 10X5: Babylon

This is the final of the six episodes of this revival. In all the promotion by FOX, it was billed as the “season finale”, implying there will be more even if negotiations have not started. Accordingly, the episode ends with a huge cliffhanger: Carter had written this cliffhanger into the story months ago, gambling it all in hopes that the audience would be there and that more episodes will be made — after all, if FOX was interested to revive the show after all these years, why not more than once? So far, ratings are such that a season 11 seems only to be a matter of time.

In that context, the episode’s tagline, “This Is The End“, is ironic! It also introduces us to what presents itself as the most important episode of The X-Files mythology, but ends up being the most frustrating.

10X6_ufo

Obviously, spoilers after the jump.

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10X5: Babylon

The X-Files 2016: Introduction | 10X1: My Struggle | 10X2: Founder’s Mutation | 10X3: Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster | 10X4: Home Again

This episode was written and directed by Chris Carter. And this episode could only have been spawned from Carter’s mind. “Babylon” is “Fight Club” mixed with “Improbable” mixed with “The After” mixed with post-9/11 political commentary! It also introduces two new characters which will be, for lack of a better word, recurring…(at least) in the one last episode that is left out of this 6-episode revival.

"How to reconcile the two? The extremes of our nature.

“How to reconcile the two? The extremes of our nature.”

Shroomy spoilers after the jump.

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10X4: Home Again

The X-Files 2016: Introduction | 10X1: My Struggle | 10X2: Founder’s Mutation | 10X3: Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster

This episode was written and directed by Glen Morgan, who is also the executive producer of the entire “season 10” alongside creator Chris Carter. Glen, the brother of last week’s Darin, was of course the writing partner of Jim Wong, of the previous week, in three seasons of The X-Files and two seasons of Millennium. This is the first time Glen directs for The X-Files — actually his only other directing credits were  two remakes of 1970s horror movies that Glen and Jim did, Willard and Black Christmas.

10X4_badges

Bloody spoilers after the jump!

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10X3: Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster

The X-Files 2016: Introduction | 10X1: My Struggle | 10X2: Founder’s Mutation

This episode is written and directed by Darin Morgan. With only four-and-a-half episodes (4 + 3X22: Quagmire) written previously but all of them in people’s “best of” lists, he is known for how his comic episodes expanded what the show could be and made fun of its codes and characters while managing to present a good X-file investigation.

10X3_MS

Blood-squirting spoilers after the jump!

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Social media archive: 2016 (part 3)

Archived from the Eat The Corn Facebook page.


Jan 23, 2016 12:16

Gosh, Mr.Carter no–you will make me blush! “It wasn’t until the second movie that we actually saw them in what I would consider a provocative intimacy, in the same bed together.”

TV Guide: The X-Files’ Chris Carter Is Already Preparing for More Episodes


Jan 23, 2016 12:19

“Are 51” inspiration for revival confirmed:
“It was from scratch… But that’s not exactly true because I had written another script that had nothing to do with the X-Files that had certain elements in it that my wife had remembered and she said “What about this this and this?” and that became some of the raw material that I used to do the pilot episode of this limited series.”
Plus, what to make of this? “Glenn Beck is someone I have a relationship with, same with Alex Jones and his site on the internet. I find it to be fascinating.”
Bonus: “The Lone Gunmen returned so there’s no reason Krycek can’t!”

IGN: The X-Files Creator on Reuniting Mulder and Scully and the Show’s Continuing Appeal


Jan 23, 2016 12:21

Lots of interesting Carter, but oddly not direct quotes:
“Talking about additional episodes, Carter said there were a few he had written that he think could still be used today, and even more interesting, admitted he’s had an episode in his story vault that he’s wanted to bring to air for more than 20 years.”
“Besides the miniseries, however, Carter also said that he was open to making a third X-Files movie, but had a very specific set of rules that would have to be met in order to do so. Unlike the second movie, which Carter admitted was full of problems, the creator said he would have to be given the same kind of freedom and tools he and his team received while working on the first film.”

Polygon: X-Files creator talks show’s future, possibility of a third movie


Jan 23, 2016 23:41

#mythXplained “William”: Here it is, the XF episode that singlehandedly badly tarnished the reputation of the entire series and casts a long dreadful shadow to this day! (Not to mention the entirely unnecessary resurrection of a certain character.) The adoption was perhaps necessary, in the mind of Carter, in order to clear the complications and have Mulder & Scully ready to jump in the movie franchise still hoped for at the time. However since then this plan backfired somewhat — and hopefully the upcoming revival will start making amends.

9X17: William

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/950818294955904/


Jan 23, 2016 23:52

#mythXplained “The Truth”: what’s been called the “series finale” for the past 13 years…is no more! A highly frustrating ending to a disappointing season, only bits of this episode are memorable. As a cry to the world, Carter spends most of this episode summarizing the mythology, to *prove* that this whole enterprise is not as non-sensical as most reviewers/fans were accusing for years — but simultaneously turns the big finale into a clip show. Another unnecessary return and re-death of a dead character later… the Mulder-Scully couple reunite in a scene recreating the motel scene from the Pilot; whatever truths they will seek, they will seek together.

9X19/20: The Truth

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/952210421483358/


Jan 23, 2016 23:57

Today, January 23, is a full moon. I think revival ep.3, Darin Morgan’s “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”, takes place today!
Oh, what a moving tribute to director Kim Manners and assistant director Jack Hardy — among the chief Ten Thirteen people who have passed away over the past decade — in Darin’s episode!

https://images.spoilertv.com/The%20X-Files/Season%2010/Promotional%20Episode%20Photos/Episode%2010.03%20-%20Mulder%20&%20Scully%20Meet%20the%20Were-Monster/XF_sc55pt_0013DJ1_hires2.jpg.php


Jan 24, 2016 00:09

D-1 for revival–yet also D-30 for “My Struggle II”! In barely one month it will all be over. It’s been a wild ride for a year since last January when serious declarations started being made for a revival — let us hope it will have not only been worth the wait but that this revival will be worthy to take its place next to some of the best work of one of the best series of the past 20 years. See you after the premiere!

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/952147748156292/


Jan 25, 2016 23:46

10X1: an epic review for an epic episode!

You can skip to the parts that interest you most. In short, a great return to form, although some story directions are odd but we will refrain from passing quick judgment before seeing episode 6 as well.

What are your first impressions?

10X1: My Struggle

 


Jan 28, 2016 11:12

10X2: a return to s1 general paranoia and expertly shot scares + an unprecedented insight into Mulder & Scully’s feelings

What are your first impressions?

10X2: Founder’s Mutation

 


Jan 29, 2016 20:16

Excited about this one!

THE POWER TO BELIEVE TURNS OUT TO BE THE STRONGEST FORCE THERE IS ON AN ALL-NEW “THE X-FILES” MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, ON FOX

Episode Written and Directed by Creator Chris Carter; William B. Davis, Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose Guest-Star

When an art gallery that’s showing potentially offensive artwork is bombed, Mulder and Scully seek some way to communicate with the comatose bomber in order to prevent a future attack. Meanwhile, a pair of younger FBI agents on the case (guest stars Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose) push Mulder and Scully to examine their own beliefs as Scully seeks answers from neuroscience and Mulder from mysticism in the all-new “Babylon” episode of THE X-FILES

SpoilerTV: The X-Files – Episode 10.05 – Babylon – Sneak Peeks, Promo, Press Release & Promotional Photos *Updated*


Jan 31, 2016 9:44

Interview with Garfield Whitman, Production Manager in The After and revival

https://www.facebook.com/groups/8273206453/posts/10154024902461454/

http://x-fileslexicon.com/exclusive/whitman.html