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 The X-Files mythology episode by episode analysis |
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The X-Files Revival 2016Introduction: Revival |
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This Lego set based on The X-Files is very, very cool, filled with in-jokes, is made up of 2000+ pieces, and it has a high chance of being officially commercialized, if fans vote for it. And if rights issues get resolved — but Lego already produces Disney-licensed products.
Lego takes ideas for certain new sets among submissions. This creator, Brent Waller / WetWired, submitted a TXF-themed set to Lego before (set, promo video, on the set of the revival with Duchovny & Anderson). But at the time Lego did not choose it, justifying this by saying it was considered too violent and not on-brand for the company. Times have changed, and now this updated set is up against just four other submissions in a specifically 90s-themed competition.
Now, I’m not much of a fan of “collectibles” — Funko Pops, figurines, and other creative ways capitalism consumes more plastic — but… I *am* partial to Legos! I mean look at it!
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Since we are on the topic of The X-Files music, here is a fun piece. This electro funk tune from the UK uses samples from the series: the main theme, Mulder from the 1X79: Pilot and Mulder from 1X09: Fallen Angel.
This is Jedi Knights (a collaboration between Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton), it’s from their 1996 album “New School Science”, track “The Truth”, and it is very 90s. Enjoy!
Today, an analysis video of some of Mark Snow’s score for The X-Files. Now this is something that there should be more of! Such soundtrack breakdown videos have become more common, especially on monuments like John Williams or Howard Shore, but it’s rare that video-makers take the time to delve into the music of episodic television.
This musician, Darren Rampton, did a transcription of some tracks, music sheet and all, recreates it on his synth, and provides commentary.
What are the exact elements in Snow’s music that create the series’ unique melancholy atmosphere? There’s all the instruments-on-synths — strings, harp, piano — and there’s the technical vocabulary of musicology — keys, minor scales, chords, chromaticism, dissonance, atonality, Penderecki plucking, figures and motifs, etc.
The video examines the main theme as well as music from 1X01: Deep Throat, 1X20: Tooms, 1X22: Roland and 2X07: 3. He even identifies a reference to the main theme in “3“!
He promises for more but there’s only been this video for now. Plus, this video where he recreated a track from 3X14: Grotesque. Enjoy!
Interview with Jonathan Levit, courtesy of Sammensværgelsen, the Danish XF podcast. He was Billy LaBonge in The X-Files’ season 7’s “The Amazing Maleeni” — the young magician alongside the more experienced Ricky Jay.
New interview with Larry Musser, an actor that appeared in no less than four episodes of The X-Files during the original Vancouver years! Courtesy of the Fandom X Archive podcast.
“In heaven, everything is fine.” / “I hope I see all of you again. Every one of you.”
Goodbye David Lynch, right at the top in my personal film pantheon. Now you know what lies on the other side of the curtain, like his purple quantum foam sea. From first to last, from “Eraserhead” to “Twin Peaks The Return“, imagery and soundscapes that have lived in my dreams from an early age.
In particular, “Twin Peaks” (1990-1991), largely the result of the collaboration between David Lynch and Mark Frost, was a big influence on The X-Files: from its sense of weird and mystery, its out-there male FBI agent, its Pacific Northwest setting, its ambition to bring cinema photography and directing to television… all documented in the influences page — to which must be added a revival many years later. The Twin Peaks revival aired in-between the two X-Files revival seasons, and the two projects have different legacies. Twin Peaks gave us a wildly different approach on how to make a continuation while also subverting fans’ expectations, a project of unique artistic ambition that commented on the passage of time and consisted in a sort of synthesis of Lynch’s entire career.
