Den nya säsongen är efterlängtad. Detta fullkomligt osmakliga, geniala och banbrytande tv-drama som både avskräcker och inbjuder. Californication skildrar de mänskliga vuxna relationernas totala förfall i en värld där postmodernismens syn på vuxenheten gått in absurdum. Att vuxenheten kommer till uttryck i den här serien endast genom huvudkaraktärens unga dotter är ett flagrant uttryck för det sagda.

Ett Los Angeles som epicentrum för Nordamerikas och västvärldens förlikning med dekadensens och likgiltighetens substituerande av moralen och altruismen är seriens utgångspunkt. Att protagonisten författaren Frank Moodys bok heter "god hates us all" blir i detta ljus synnerligen talande. Man skulle kunna se serien som en provokation mot den nordamerikanska konservativa puritanismen driven till sin spets och alltså det ultimata uttrycket för USA:s moraliska polarisering.

Skildrandet av denna acceptans och invänjning av vuxenhetens stundande undergång är, om än inte lika tydlig, klart framträdande i exempelvis 90-talets stilbildande sitcom Seinfeld. Det materiella överflödet har i dessa nutidens "salonger" gett spelrum för vuxenheten att te sig onödig. Här i har visat sig erbjudas gynnsamma förhållanden för dråpliga och lysande komedier skildrandes vuxna människors ansvarsbefriade leverne. Många skulle nog kritisera serien för en förkastlig kvinnosyn och ja, kvinnosynen är infam. Men det är enligt mig inte främst fråga om en återspegling av en i vårt samhälle förkastlig kvinnosyn utan mer en återspegling av en förkastlig människosyn.

David Duchovny är med sin likgiltiga uppsyn så utmärkt i rollen som alkohol- drog- och sexmissbrukande succéförfattaren Frank Moody att Mulder aldrig mer kommer kännas trovärdig.

Seriously…read it again.

Thanks to a recent AXXO DVD rip, I saw the first X-Files movie from 1998 a few weeks ago and loved it which only made “I Want To Believe” even more frustrating. One thing that sticks out in my head when trying to make sense of what went wrong between the two films is that perhaps what is considered to be frightening or exciting has changed dramatically during their 10 year hiatus. Taking into account the gore of recent films, the parts of this movie that may have been intended to be shocking didn’t produce much more than a blank stare from me. Furthermore, the absurd plot is reminiscent of a cheap horror movie if anything which I felt left the characters of Mulder and Scully completely out of place the entire time. The final kicker is that David Duchovny has done great work lately which made it even more disappointing.

If you want to download this mess of a movie the torrent is here, but I think I’ll just keep watching Californication instead.

I find evidence for this to be extremely striking in the case of the psychedelic experience. Being able to explain a near-death OBE or a Dimethyltryptamine trip (same difference chemically) neuron by neuron is simply not possible yet, the type of ideas encountered on these trips are so profound when you boil them down to their metaphysical roots, a neuron by neuron approach to neuroscience will never be adequate. Users of the chemical compound dimethyltryptamine, and unwilling users of endogenous DMT in the near-death experience, both encounter other worlds, that are, reportedly, completely undeniably inhabited by other beings, by the user or near-death experiencee.

If you haven't boiled it down yet, I will make an attempt to explain what this means. Within the brain is the mechanism to generate an entire world, inhabited with beings, with it's own sets of physical laws and limitations, simply by adding a chemical that occurs naturally in the pineal gland. Perhaps the question has caught science a little out of character and spooked. To date, I have found no attempt to explain this ability that does the job adequately.

david duchovny/gillian anderson/amanda peet/xzibit--dir. chris carter

Daca te astepti de la filmul asta la aceleasi lucruri care au consacrat serialul, ei binem, o sa fii tare dezamagit!! Degeaba cauti din nou aceleasi concepte gen "Adevarul e dincolo de noi", rapiri extraterestre, aparitii misterioase pe care le vezi cu coada ochiului si apoi o viata intreaga te intrebi ce ai vazut, comploturi guvernamentale, agentii secrete...SANCHI! poate doar melodia aia inconfundabila a lui Robert Miles, pe care te luau fiorii cand o ascultai, aia e singura care iti mai aminteste de serial. Si dupa parerea mea este bine asa, filmul asta e mult-mult mai profund, pune din start cu totul alte probleme,(desi baietasii aia cu cosuri pe fatza, care inca mai asteapta venirea extraterestrilor in fatza calculatorului la ei in camera--nu le-au inteles), probleme mult mai profunde, acentul se pune acum mai mult pe relatiile interumane dintre personaje, pe studiul comportamentului uman uneori psihotic alteori plin de remuscari, pe delimitarea atat de subtire uneori dintre bine si rau. Nici Mulder nici Scully nu mai alearga dupa extraterestrii acum, ei au alte probleme de rezolvat, mult mai realistice, mai introspective. Filmul de fatza este un thriler mai mult decat un SF, dar unul extrem de bine realizat.Si mai violent, intr-un mod mult mai vizual decat in serial. Intr-adevar poate sunt unele clisee, ca peste tot de alfel, dar le treci repede cu vederea. Deci, REPET, fanii OZN, care spera sa afle aici daca a gasit-o Mulder pa sorsa, pot sa se abtina. In rest, eu il recomand, merita vazut!!!!...BONUS: Xzibit, intr-un rol in care nici chiar el nu cred ca se vedea vreodata, adica agent FBI :))))))                      VIEW TRAILER

This disc has had a "Long Wait" for months now and it's preventing my trek through the world of Mulder and Scully. I am not happy about this. With Halloween around the bend, there is nothing I'd rather do than continue my quest to find the truth.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE....except it's probably sitting on someone's fucking coffee table or under their bed. Not being watched.

Dammit.

Y pareciera como si esta frase hubiera sido escirta para mi.....

SCULLY: Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.

Esta quote es de X-files, serie de la que sido fan desde que salio!!! es de la 4ta temporada.. capitulo Home

Imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443701/
Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_files_2/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5HrxAXvQ6A

mFacts:

01. You can be wanted from a military court conviction and stay of the grid by hanging out at your girlfriends house who happens to be your ex-partner in the FBI.
02. Mulder wasn't exactly Miss popularity at the FBI himsel.
03. An out of work forensic pathologist can always make a few bucks as a neurosurgeon, after all it's not exactly brain surgery- except, oh yea it is.
04. In order to prepare themselves to perform an untried and experimental form of neurosurgery, all a doctor needs to do is google "stem cell research" and print off some medical papers from websites a few days before the scheduled operation.
05. Things end badly for buxom brunettes who try to come between mulder & his girl
06. Things end badly when you call Mulder, "Fox".
07. If you are looking for a suspect, randomly stop at a store, he will show up.
08. If you are looking for your partner, randomly drive down a road and look at post box addresses.
09. If you want to cover up serial amputations dispose of them in ice, no one will find them.
10. Pedophilac priests make good psychics.
11. Don't worry if your head is about to be chopped off, someone will be right there to save you even though continuity leads you to believe they are minutes away.
12. Search teams with FBI coats and poking sticks, line up and search a frozen lake for a missing person and not a snow bank because it makes a better camera shot.
13. If you push an FBI agent over a tiny cliff in his car which land in snow you make sure he is dead.. Unless he is the lead.
14. If you get stuck after 60 minutes of theories, start doing real police work as checking the place which sells animal tranquiliazer, and in 10 minutes its solved.
15. If the badguys truck breaks down blocking the road to the evil hideout it will magically disappear when people need to drive to the hideout.
16. A mad scientist who is determined to keep his bizarre and unethical transplant operations a secret will let a two-headed dog wander round in the open air to guard his property.
17. If you're an FBI agent and you are putting a psychic to the test by taking them to a perfectly innocent house and pretending it's a crime scene, it's not a good idea to just take them to the house across the road from the actual crime scene, which is visibly cordoned off with bright yellow police tape.
18. Sticking pencils in the ceiling is a habit hard to get rid of.

Ah! C'è anche Scully in costume da bagno che fa ciao ciao con la manina, che tenera.

Vor gut sechs Jahren endete eine Fernsehserie, die es wie kaum eine andere verstanden hat, ihre Zuschauer Woche für Woche vor die Fernseher zu zerren - und dies immerhin 9 Staffeln (= 9 Jahre) lang. Das ist schon eine beeindruckende Leistung (auch wenn sich im letzten Jahr ein Qualitätsverlust nicht mehr leugnen lies). Der Name dieser Serie: "Akte X".

Auf dem Höhepunkt des Serienhypes erschien der erste Kinofilm, der seinerzeit (für den deutschen Zuschauer fatalerweise) zwischen dem Ende der Staffel 5 und dem Beginn der Staffel 6 spielte. Fatal deswegen, weil das Ende der Staffel 5 in Deutschland seinerzeit noch unausgestrahlt gewesen ist - aber gut. Um diesen Film und die Serie soll es in dieser Besprechung denn auch nicht gehen.

Nein - hier geht es um den zweiten Kinoableger dieses Franchise, der Ende 2007 plötzlich angekündigt, sehr schnell realisiert und zur Freude der Fangemeinschaft Mitte 2008 bereits den Weg in die Kinos gefunden hat.

"Akte X - I want to believe" - oder "Akte X - Jenseits der Wahrheit" - so der deutsche Titel.

Wir blenden mal kurz zurück... und wer die Serie nicht kennt, aber noch die Absicht hat, sie sich anzuschauen, der sollte jetzt besser nicht weiterlesen!!!

Am Ende der Staffel 9 schien die Situation der Hauptfiguren Mulder und Scully recht aussichtslos. Um den guten Fox daran zu hindern, weiterhin in Regierungsgeheimnissen rumzukramen, hatte man ihm einen Scheinprozess wegen angeblichen Mordes gemacht und zum Tode verurteilt. Gemeinsam mit Scully konnte er sich so gerade eben noch nach Mexico absetzen - und die Serie war zuende. Schwer vorstellbar, wie es überhaupt weitergehen könne.

Nun denn... natürlich geht es weiter. Scully arbeitet mittlerweile relativ unbehelligt als Ärztin in einem (seeeehr) christlichen Krankenhaus, während Mulder sich versteckt hält. Als eine FBI-Agentin verschwindet und ein mysteriöser Wahrsager auftaucht, kommt man(n) beim FBI sehr schnell auf die Idee, dass diesen Fall nur Fox "Spooky" Mulder lösen kann. Also wird ebenjener flugs begnadigt und kann wieder in Aktion treten.

Was dann kommt... tjaaaaaa.... wie soll ich das nennen??? Konfus??? Dürftig??? Schlecht???? Erbärmlich???? Schnulzig???? Dumm????

Jaja - es ist alles das - aber es ist NICHT "Akte X", denn dazu fehlt - wenn man mir das Serienwortspiel mal verzeiht - der "X-Factor". Da ist nichts übernatürlich (außer vielleicht dem Wahrsager oder sollte ich Hellseher sagen??? - aber hey... schon die Wahrsager-Serienfolgen waren lahm - mal abgesehen von der, die wenigstens noch Scott Bairstow zu bieten hatte). Aber sonst??? Das könnte irgendein Pseudo-Mysterie-Streifen sein... mit irgendwelchen FBI- oder BND-Agenten.

Vielleicht war die Idee, nicht die übergreifende Handlung weiter zu spinnen, sondern vielmehr eine überlange "Monster-of-the-Week-Folge" zu bringen doch nicht so gut. Wer entsinnt sich nicht jener furchtbaren Lückenfüller, die da schon in der Serie mit dabei waren... dieser Film toppt sie alle (und ich noch schlimmer als meine persönliche Tiefpunktfolge "John Doe" aus Staffel 9.

Ach so, ja... John Doe... wie John Doggett... jenen gibt es ebenso wenig zu sehen wie sein Pendant Monica Reyes. Was aus ihnen geworden ist, erfährt der Zuschauer nicht (es interessiert einen aber auch nicht wirklich). Immerhin hat sich Mitch Pileggi in seiner Rolle als "Skinner" zu einem Gastauftritt hinreißen lassen - vielleicht brauchte der aber bloß ein bisschen Bargeld.

Einziges Highlight (und da stimme ich mit fast allen Freunden und Bekannten überein, die dieses "Werk" gesehen haben) ist der Soundtrack.

Ah ja... ich muss ja noch ein Wort zur Synchronisation verlieren... schließlich war jene zentrales Thema in vielen Vorberichten: Mulder hat 'ne andere Stimme! Wer nun wie ich stets den Versuch unternimmt, sich FIlme und Fernsehserien im Originalton anzuschauen (so wie meinereiner bei der Serie) der hat in der Regel nicht das Problem mit den Synchronstimmen.

Bei Akte X indes ist das anders, da ich die Originalstimmen für so langweilig halte, dass ich mir die kompletten neun Staffeln von DVD in deutsch angesehen habe. Und nun kommt dieser Film und bietet eine neue Stimme für Mulder. Ich weiß ja nicht welche Forderungen Benjamin Völz (Sohn von Wolfgang und Mulder-Standardsprecher) aus dem Ärmel geschüttelt hat. Offenbar war sie unverschämt genug, dass man ihn kurzerhand rausgeworfen hat - ein Fehlentscheidung, wie ich anmerken möchte. Nicht, dass die "richtige" Stimme, diesen

Film gerettet hätte - aber ein wenig verbessert hätte sie ihn mit Sicherheit.

"I want to believe" - ja - ich möchte auch glauben, dass die gute "Akte X"-Welt wieder aufersteht. Aber wie heißt es so schön: Glauben kann man in der Kirche - und aus der bin ich schon vor Jahren ausgetreten.

Da bleibt nur ein halber Trostpunkt für den Soundtrack und ein weiterer halber Punkt dafür, dass man sich zumindest Franziska Pigulla (deutsche Stmme von "Scully") geleistet hat.

Irgendwie hab' ich das kommen sehen....

El video es un audio de Facundo Cabral con imágenes de nuestros otorongos.

Es un mate de reisa chequeen:

But that scene wasn't nearly as unexpected as seeing the creepy Nina Sharp among the suits Broyles is updating with the latest case and bios of his new team in the second episode of J.J. Abram's latest thriller.

We are only two weeks into this new series, but it's already clear that Nina isn't someone to be trusted.  Last week the Chief Operating Officer of Massive Dynamics was almost threatening towards Olivia.  The two met when Olivia was looking for the man who released the nasty toxin.  That man turned out to be a former MD employee.

Anyone else wonder how Nina defines "former?"

Add the fact that the yet unseen founder of MD, William Bell, is Walter's former lab partner and you have to admit that Nina is pretty suspicious.  So why on earth is Broyles briefing her?

All I could think of was the X-Files' Cigarette Smoking Man.  He appeared to work with Mulder and Scully while secretly getting briefs on their work and himself working for the force that is behind much of the phenomenon the agents were investigating.

Sounds like Nina.  But instead of chain smoking, she's got that creepy robotic arm.  We've yet to see who she works for and she's suddenly very helpful to Olivia.

Interesting that Nina is so helpful when she was so verbal in that briefing that she didn't think that Olivia, Walter and Peter were the appropriate people for Broyles' new team.

Also, pretty fascinating that Massive Dynamics just happens to hold the patent on the experimental piece of equipment that Walter and Peter need to identify the killer in this week's mystery.  Exactly what does Massive Dynamics do?  And what are they using this equipment for?

And when Olivia returns the equipment, Nina tries to insert herself as a confidant, pumping Olivia for information about the case, even offering her a job.  Now that's one way to get Olivia to stop pursuing the Pattern.

But Olivia saw through the ruse.  And apparently Broyles isn't all that taken in by Nina either, offering Olivia a warning about the MD executive.

Still I'm left wondering who that committee was that Broyles is briefing and why Nina has a seat on it.

What do you think?

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Lo mejor de todo:

"Yeah" xDDD

Flesch Reading Ease: 63.93
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9.00
Automated Readability Index: 9.00

For more info about readability tests, check out my post about those here.

The premise: a problem

It has been said over and over again, as a defense or even as a backlash, by religious men and women that religion has a curative and comforting utility to humankind like no other. It has also been said over and over again by secularists and rationalists that however comforting some belief or idea is, it nevertheless adds nothing to the truth value of the belief or idea. That secularism offers nothing more than a skinny comfort blanket amidst the cold and pouring rain at best. That may well be true, and indeed it leads me to believe that it all boils down to what we really want: happiness or the truth. Happiness may not necessarily be true or what's really happening, and having the truth may not necessarily make one happy. This conflict reminds me of the doggedly proverbial "The truth hurts" and The X-Files' "The truth is out there". This conflict also reminds me of the struggle in the movie The Matrix, wherein to know the truth, one has to be 'removed' from the confines of the complacency brought about by the virtual reality of the machines who have taken over. Once one has learned the truth, which involves living as a fugitive or freedom fighter wearing mostly ragged clothing near the center of the Earth, one is left to wonder if it would have been better to have stayed in the fantasy reality, even though it's all make-believe. I guess it wouldn't be so surprising considering the fact that human beings, like almost every other animal, are predisposed to follow what is certain to help in the continuation of its species. After all, speaking in a geological time scale, homo sapiens are but cells that have just fertilized, and are beginning to undergo cell division to form a larger animal.

The question

So then, if you will humor my ponderings, what could secularism possibly offer as an answer to one of the most profound questions we humans have asked since the dawn of our consciousness: What is death or what happens when we die? Do we survive death in some form or is there nothing after it?

Setting the mood

Quite a mouthful of questions, and ones that have plagued thinkers or philosophers for centuries upon centuries. But I think before I even begin to give my answer to those questions, a little 'mood setter' is in need. Some questions are too frank or too blunt in manner, which sometimes has the effect on the listener or the questioner of making one lose focus on the more relevant and apparent details. The mood setting quote is from the book Unweaving The Rainbow by prof. Richard Dawkins. It's his reply to people who keep on ranting or complaining or fussing about their deaths. Everytime I read it, especially when I watched and heard prof. Dawkins read it with emotions in a talk at UC Berkeley, I cannot help but be moved by it's message, wrapped around in romantic scientific prose:

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people
are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The
potential people who could have been here in my place but who will
in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of
Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than
Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set
of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set
of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I,
in our ordinariness, that are here.

And continuing this passage in his talk:

We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state, from which the vast majority have never stirred.

Makes one (or at least myself) wonder if we even have the right to feel anger or guilt or even sadness by our undeniable demise.

Physics on death

An episode of The X-Files has agent Mulder talking to agent Scully about starlight. He says that starlight as we see it here on Earth is already billions of years old, and has traveled unimaginable distances (light-years). Stars that are now long dead, but whose light is still traveling through time. Mulder continues that perhaps that's where souls (our souls, after we die) reside. Today, we know from physicists that the premise is correct (that starlight is very old and still keeps on traveling), but we can't be certain (or perhaps not at all) about the succeeding statement of Mulder (about souls). Scully, Mulder's partner, continues Mulder's statements by saying that the light doesn't die, and that maybe that's the only thing that never does. Speaking in a purely Einsteinian fashion when dealing with spirituality and such, perhaps our 'souls' do reside in starlight, and in that sense our 'souls' do continue on forever.

Mulder's statement

Taking the first statement into consideration, that 'souls' do reside in starlight, to be technical about it, we can probably say that it's actually not starlight in our case but 'planetlight'. We know that in order to see an object we have to shine light on it, after which the light bounces back, illuminating the object, back to our eyes. In the same sense, the Sun illuminates Earth at daytime, and at nighttime the Moon or our electrical/electronic devices light us up and our surroundings. In that sense light is shined on us, and so it is reflected back, which eventually reaches outer space and into the vast cosmos. In this way our 'souls' which in this case means our whole lifetime under some source of light, is 'framed' in a 'wave' of light cruising the universe. If there are intelligent lifeforms out there in the universe and they can't come here due to technological constraints (same as our case), once they try viewing our part of the universe, what they'll be seeing is planetlight (which is reflected starlight, the star being our Sun or light from some other source) containing us, our lifetimes, and our history. What they'll be seeing of course depends on many factors such as how far they are from us, how sensitive their viewing instruments are, what time they tried viewing us, among other things.

Scully's statement

As for Scully's statement, that starlight doesn't die, technically speaking that can be true, since as long as photons don't get smashed or absorbed, they keep on travelling in space, most likely till the edge of the universe and (our) time itself. However there is a limit to how long light can travel for one to be able to 'reconstruct' the data (in this case our 'souls') it carries with it. This is because as light travels, similar to a wave, it spreads across time and space. As the light spreads, at some point in the universe very distant from the light source, it will be nearly to absolutely impossible to know what information that light brought with it. In a word, the light will be too 'stretched' to make any sense out of it. This is similar to research being done on the Big bang. We are in an epoch of the universe where we can still study 'cosmic background radiation' (electromagnetic radiation, same as light) leading back to the Big bang. If we were a few millions of years late, we might not be able to analyze the data that comes along with the cosmic background radiation. And so Scully is partially correct since light can possibly not die, but the information in the light may become lost to us or someone viewing us.

Finally, physics on immortality

In essence, our 'souls', most of our memories, achievements, feats, and other things in our light-stricken lives continue to propagate into inter-stellar space. The propagation duration many orders of magnitude longer than any of our lifetimes combined, which could be treated as practically infinity, and in some ways, immortality.

I've never watched Lost so I don't know anything about the creator of this show J.J. Abrams. Looking at his write up in IMDB, it look like he has done a bit, but again I have never seen anything he's done. He's seen the X-Files apparently. His creation seems different enough to work but alike enough to garner a huge fan base from the X-files fans. Clever man.

Episode 1. It fully had my attention the whole show, feat #1. Nothing made me grimace until Massive Dynamics entered the picture. Big bad corporation with more money and power than god, with an evil scientist owner. I sure hope it does not go that direction. Be original make the owner a good guy unable to control his corporation.

Anna Torv, whether because she is a good actor or had a good director was as low key as she needed to be. Time will tell, I am not familiar with her work. She played her part well here. Though I will forgo the orgasmic descriptive I know too well some watchers would have in describing her. We do love our blond of the week don't we?

Olivia Dunham is a really great name. Classy, graceful as the character was. The character had love driving her to be passionate this episode. I wonder what will drive her from there as intensely? I was a little put off she was so love with her collegue yet having definite connection moments with Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), while her lover is dying a hideous death, usually feet away from them.

Peter Bishop was likeable, a bit high strung, but charming none the less. Even with the fact he'd break someone fingers to get what he wants.  I am sucker for the intelligent character on TV, from Mulder and Scully to Frasier and Nils, Wiley E. Coyote. So I liked the father Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) and son combination right off. Walter will be a tricky character to play, Noble, to teetered a bit in the presentation, over all pulling it off. Maybe it was just editing of the scenes that gave me the impression.

The rest of the cast, the X-file's Walter Skinner like boss, Philip Broyles (Lance Reddick). Is he a bad guy or a good one? Hope that question does not go on forever, it was annoying never knowing and watching the contrived ways they tried to stay confusing about the Walter Skinner character on the X-Files.

Waiting in the wings to for their parts to grow where the colleague in arms Charlie Francis  (Kirk Acevedo), the assistant Astrid Fransworth (Jasika Nicole ). Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) they need to work on. She is a cardboard cut out of I will do anything for my boss, even kill you. Her expressions of kindness to Dunham did not serve to help her character or make her intriguing.

 The special effects were well done. Agent Scott's body succumbing to the unknown agent and turning into  transparent, crystalline structure was  fascinating to look at. Location titles look great, but they are distracting in their own way. So much is hinted at, that will be explored, it sounds interesting. I have a lot hope for the show. Beginning with the hope it does not let me down.

Coincidiendo con el estreno de la película de Expediente X el productor de la serie Chris Cater ha decidido recopilar los que para él son los mejores ocho episodios de la serie.

Además de los ochos episodios dividios en dos discos la selección contiene material adicional:

• Introducción a la serie por parte de su creador Chris Cater y del productor ejecutivo Frank Spotnitz.
• Introducción a los episodios. Un breve comentario antes de la reproducción de cada uno de los episodios.
• La ponencia que los actores principales de la serie David Duchovny y Gillian Anderson junto con Chris Cater dieron en la WonderCon de San Diego.

La verdad es que yo no era un seguidor fiel de Expediente X, aunque si que me gustaba la trama de algunos de sus episodios, por lo que para mi ha sido una alegría ver esta recopilación.

Los episodios contenidos en los dos DVD son los siguientes.

• Piloto. Temporada 1. Episodio que sirve de introducción a los personajes principales de la serie y a la trama de la misma.
• Más allá del mar. Temporada 1. Para atrapar a un asesino en serie deben investigar la videncia de un preso condenado a muerte.
• El huésped. Temporada 2. Los dos agenes del FBI siguen a una criatura a través del sistema de alcantarillado de Nueva Jersey.
• El descanso final de Clyde Bruckman. Temporada 3. Persiguen a un fugitivo con la ayuda de un vidente que predice la muerte de Mulder.
• Memento Mori. Temporada 4. A Scully la detectan un cáncer inoperable y Mulder tratará por todos los medios de ayudar a su compañera.
• Post-Modern Prometheus. Temporada 5. Los agentes se topan con un experimento genético mientras investigan una criatura en un localidad rural. Rodado en blanco y negro.
• Bad blood. Temporada 5. Mulder y Scully se enfrentan a un culto vampírico en un pequeño pueblo de Texas.
• Milagro. Temporada 6. Un vecino de Mulder cuya ocupación es la de escritor es el principal sospechoso de unos crímenes.

Ahora sólo queda apagar las luces y comenzar a buscar la verdad junto con Mulder y Scully.

Ieri sera, per accontentare il mio amore, sono andato a vedere "X-files: voglio crederci". Premesso che odio X-files in TV, odio le storie di alieni, fantascienza e fantacalcio, eccone una sintesi:

TITOLO: "VOGLIO CREDERCI" (che fa cagare - è il sottointeso del regista).

CAST: Gli alieni devono aver sottoposto Lui ad esperimenti di ringiovanimento mentre lei ad una banale liposuzione degli zigomi (stile Taylor di Beautiful dopo l'ennesima resuscitazione)

RECITAZIONE: Sparita, vittima di un rapimento alieno anche lei

TRAMA: Omofoba, anti-repubblicana, antisovietica: insomma, Veltroniana - nel senso che diceva di si e di no a tutto

FOTOGRAFIA: Vagamente fetish: sembrava che da un momento all'altro tutti iniziassero a praticare bukake e/o spanking

CONCLUSIONE: da NON VEDERE. Tanto vale restare a casa a sentire i peti del vicino: capire come facciano a superare la barriera del suono è un vero X-File.

No caso, o produtor Frank Spotnitz. "Estamos segurando o fôlego para ver se teremos mais um filme. Apesar da bilheteria decepcionante nos cinemas dos EUA, ainda acho que a questão está aberta. No mundo inteiro devemos fazer uns 70 milhões, o que é lucro. E eu acho que os fãs gostaram do filme, apesar da mídia não ter se empolgado muito", disse em entrevista ao Comic Book Resources.

Spotnitz comenta também a recepção do filme: "O que é interessante é a forma como as pessoas aderiram às decisões que fizemos sobre a relação de Mulder e Scully. Achamos que era uma coisa arriscada. Os dois tiveram um envolvimento romântico fora da tela quando a série terminou, mas nunca havíamos mostrado. Eu sentia que estávamos mexendo com o DNA da série, mas os fãs aceitaram isso, e aceitaram rápido, o que foi recompensador".

Há algumas semanas circularam rumores do que um terceiro filme poderia ser produzido direto para DVD, informação que os realizadores rapidamente negaram. Por enquanto, portanto, o futuro ainda é incerto.

"Produtor quer acreditar que Arquivo X ainda tem futuro no cinema"

03/09/2008 Marcelo Hessel

O segundo longa-metragem da série Arquivo X não foi muito bem nas bilheterias, o que torna mais difícil a chance da franquia ganhar mais filmes, mas, como diz o slogan, ainda há gente querendo acreditar. No caso, o produtor Frank Spotnitz. "Estamos segurando o fôlego para ver se teremos mais um filme. Apesar da bilheteria decepcionante nos cinemas dos EUA, ainda acho que a questão está aberta. No mundo inteiro devemos fazer uns 70 milhões, o que é lucro. E eu acho que os fãs gostaram do filme, apesar da mídia não ter se empolgado muito", disse em entrevista ao Comic Book Resources.

É mesmo, 70 milhões é definitivamente lucro para um filme que praticamente não foi promovido pela mídia.

Spotnitz comenta também a recepção do filme: "O que é interessante é a forma como as pessoas aderiram às decisões que fizemos sobre a relação de Mulder e Scully. Achamos que era uma coisa arriscada. Os dois tiveram um envolvimento romântico fora da tela quando a série terminou, mas nunca havíamos mostrado. Eu sentia que estávamos mexendo com o DNA da série, mas os fãs aceitaram isso, e aceitaram rápido, o que foi recompensador".

Frank, darling, onde você esteve nos nove anos de X Files no ar? O DNA da série SEMPRE foi Mulder & Scully, até mesmo quando eles não estavam mais juntos na tela! Envolvimento romântico fora da tela quando a série terminou? OMG, então William era mesmo alienígena??? (¬¬) Pára né... não precisa ser shipper pra saber que entre aqueles dois rolava muuuito.

Quanto aos fãs aceitarem rápido... bom, se fosse colocar em números, acho que teríamos uns 80% de shippers (entre enrustidos, moderados, animadinhos e loucos-varridos), 15% de half-shippers que só eram assim porque gostavam da tensão sexual mal resolvida, e uh... 5% de Noromos, grupo bastante extremista mas que obviamente estava errado. Ou se-jaaaaa..: claaaro que a aceitação seria massiva!

Há algumas semanas circularam rumores do que um terceiro filme poderia ser produzido direto para DVD, informação que os realizadores rapidamente negaram. Por enquanto, portanto, o futuro ainda é incerto.

O futuro é sempre incerto quando se trata de X Files. Nós, no fundo, adoramos isso. Igual mulher de malandro. Se sair um terceiro filme, seja pra cinema, seja em DVD, estaremos lá. Se não sair, bom, a cena do barquinho já deixou a gente bem feliz, pode acreditar.

Mais uma vez o velho clichê de que a vida imita a arte dá as caras: David Duchovny, o ex-Mulder de "Arquivo X" e que em "Californication" vive o garanhão Hank Moody, deu entrada em uma clínica de reabilitação de sexólatras - em outras palavras, pessoas viciadas em sexo.

"Eu me internei voluntariamente. Peço por respeito e privacidade para minha esposa e filhos enquanto lidamos com essa situação como uma família", disse o astro através de seu advogado, Stanton Stein, ao site da revista People.

David Duchovny está casado há dez anos com a atriz Téa Leoni e o casal tem dois filhos: Madelaine, de nove anos, e Kyd, de seis.

Segundo o site da revista Best Life, em maio deste ano Duchovny confessou ser fascinado por "observar outras pessoas fazendo sexo". Naquela época, já havia rumores de que ele era viciado em sexo. Que coisa...

Fonte: Séries etc.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "X-Files" star David Duchovny, who currently plays a womanizing writer on the cable television series "Californication," said on Thursday he has entered a facility for treatment of sex addiction.

He has been married since 1997 to actress Tea Leoni, with whom he has a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.

"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction," he said in a statement released through his lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein. "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."

(funny....who would've thought that Fox Mulder, lover of porn, would truly be a sex addict.)

"Hey Scully."

"Yeah, Mulder. What is it?"

"I think I really saw one this time. An alien."

"Maybe you did."

/pause

"Hey Scully."

"Yeah, Mulder."

"I wanna fuck it."

"What?"

"The alien. I wanna fuck it."

"What's wrong with you?"

"You don't think it's hot?"

"I didn't even see it."

"But if you did, do you think you would think it was hot?"

"Are you on drugs, Mulder?"

"No, I'm just saying that if you saw what I think I saw, then maybe you wouldn't be so dead set against the idea that the alien was fuckable."

"Um, OK."

/pause

"Hey Scully."

"Oh God, what now?"

"You know that little taco stand on Vine Street, across from the bowling alley?"

"Yeah. What about it?"

"They have awesome pico de gallo."

"Yeah, they do."

"I wanna fuck it."

David Duchovny Enters Rehab for Sex Addiction [US Magazine]

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