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Lork
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I was recently (as in about a year ago) introduced to The X-Files, and I discovered that I love elaborate conspiracies in my entertainment. Particularly the ones that real crazy people will bug you about. Every few episodes, they would expose a tiny bit of information about their convoluted mashup of popular theories about aliens and the government or whatever, and I would eat it all up. I loved it so much that I kept watching the show even after it jumped the shark, and after that shark in turn jumped over another, smaller shark. I saw it through to the end, and when that didn't satisfy me, I began to look for other shows that would. I found absolutely nothing.
So I ask you, D&D: Where are the men in black on TV these days? You'd think this kind of thing would be popular given the current US administration. Am I just not looking in the right places?
PS: Don't you dare try to peddle your "real" conspiracy theories in here. I have no desire to read your poorly written thesis about how the government is putting chemicals in the water to make us forget that 9/11 was staged in order to kill Elvis. I just want to watch a few quirky but charismatic investigators slowly chip away at an adapted, highly expanded version of it.
So I ask you, D&D: Where are the men in black on TV these days? You'd think this kind of thing would be popular given the current US administration. Am I just not looking in the right places?
PS: Don't you dare try to peddle your "real" conspiracy theories in here. I have no desire to read your poorly written thesis about how the government is putting chemicals in the water to make us forget that 9/11 was staged in order to kill Elvis. I just want to watch a few quirky but charismatic investigators slowly chip away at an adapted, highly expanded version of it.
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Big spoilers here:
Edit: Because someone mentioned Millennium, there is the X-Files spin-off The Lone Gunmen. It lasted only one season, and half of those episodes were kinda bad, but the season finale showed huge promise. And then they canceled it.
The real Question is where aren't the men in black?
I gave an American tech firm the keys to refining the gratzel solar cell design to the 42.8% efficency, the largest performance increase in the short history of the device. I also outlined a cheap solar cell manufacturing technique based on ink jet printers.
http://www.physorg.com/news104501218.html
http://www.physorg.com/news103997338.html
I never recieved a response from my contact company following our few initial contacts and the suggested changes.
A year and a half later, the DARPA funded consortium of about a dozen universities, labs and private companies all announce their latest joint creation, a gratzel cell complete with my suggested changes, an apparent product of the virtual lab environment built with the $13 million provided by DARPA as part of a solar cell initiative. However, the changes I suggested were made in January of 2006, two months after DARPA announced the funding and long before the money was invested in building the 'virtual lab'.
One week before this was announced, the New Jersey Institute of Technology announced they'd developed the solar cell printing technique that I'd included in the email.
I'd hoped my suggestions would provide a benefit for all mankind, but right now the prime investors are the military as they search for ways to unburden their soldiers to make them more efficent killing/policing machines.
Not only that, but DARPA just pissed away $13 million of American taxpayers money on an idea that was thought up over two cups of coffee and handed to them for free.
Believe it... or not?
specifically.
Also, although the first episode of Millennium didn't really grab me, I'll probably end up watching the whole thing simply because it takes place in the same "universe" as The X-Files. Yeah, I'm weak.
I love the premise of that show, but the execution is way too dated for me. I think I'll just pray that the remake that's supposed to be in the works ends up good.
I vaguely remember him going on about his solar cell design here almost a year ago, so he might actually be serious, too.
Try Nowhere Man. You can thank me later.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I didn't say it was a real conspiracy.
Maybe I just made it up. 8-)
Lork -> For reals? I don't remember that.
for better or for (much) worse: DaVinci Code
It definitely had potential.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
One thing though - Wikipedia says that it was cancelled after the first season. Did they have enough of an advance warning to tie everything up, or does it just end abruptly? That kind of thing really bugs me.
They more or less wrapped things up. I mean, the ending leaves a lot of questions open, but deliberately so.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
DARPA hasn't been the same ever since their chief was replaced with Decoy Octopus.
Some of the X-Files episodes with them were great (Three of a Kind), some were absolute shit (First Person Shooter).
At the very least, on their own show, we got to see more of how they interact. On the X-Files, all too often they were written as a single character. FPS is the worst example of this, where all three of them drool over a scantily clad chick in a video game. Langley, sure. Byers would be disgusted, and Frohike would just be perplexed. FPS gets a bit of a pass, it was written by William Gibson, and Gibson can't do believable characterization for shit... but it wasn't the only time it happened. Jump the Shark was another example...
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's great conspiracy writing, with a nice Cthulhu twist. Better than the X-Files, in many ways.
I'm struggling a little for a fix to satisfy me completely... But:
Lost - (I really dig the whole "what the hell is tha Dharma initiative?" thing. I'm not sure how this will play out.)
24 - seriously, everyones in on it - ALWAYS. I like the twists.
Da Vinci Code - fun read, very good at being just that - just dont get dragged into the whole "is it well written and thus deserving of our adoration" debate.
But really - I am finding it hard to find a reallygood conspiracy story to sink my teeth into.
Also... New X-files movie.
Is he related to Revolver Ocelot?
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Also Deus Ex.
also, heroes is assy.