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Mar
31
2016

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

!!!

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 #8, “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…

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Jan
31
2016

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

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Jan
22
2016

Social media archive: 2016 (part 2)

Archived from the Eat The Corn Facebook page.

Jan 15, 2016 15:41

Behind the scenes at , many revelations from Carter!
Carter “wrote a third movie—which has yet to see the light of day” ?!
On the CSM being back: “In Episode 6, you’re going to see exactly what the product of that failure to die [in the 2002 series finale] was.”
Season 11? “Carter hopes the hard-core fans are satisfied, and since much is left unresolved at the end of Episode 6, another miniseries is possible.”

TV Insider: Inside ‘The X-Files’ Revival, and the Surprises Mulder and Scully Will Face

Jan 15, 2016 18:35

Confirmation: has been written!!! It exists somewhere in Chris Carter’s laptop!
“Chris Carter wrote a third movie before Fox ordered the limited series”
@[96190405425:274:20th Century Fox], pick up that budget sheet and make it happen!

 

Jan 15, 2016 18:54

Another trailer, for #ΤCA16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_9YuMynW0

Jan 16, 2016 00:45

The “Story and visual influences on The X-Files” guide is being updated. Film, TV and literature inspirations, both story-wise and cinematography-wise, complete with visual comparisons! — here is Season 1.
D-9 days!

Story and visual influences on The X-Files : Season 1

 

Jan 17, 2016 21:15

We reenter the “Carter universe” in one week. On this occasion, EatTheCorn presents an original look on “The Obsessions of Chris Carter” than can be seen throughout his entire corpus: history and memory, loss, religion, trust, family. A very interesting article by French academic Séverine Barthes (Paris IV-Sorbonne).
D-7!

The Obsessions of Chris Carter

 

Jan 18, 2016 22:08

#mythXplained “NIHT”: And so the most controversial season begins. Carter went away during the summer holidays, leaving Spotnitz to develop what would have been the “Next Generation XF”, and Carter came back at the very last minute as a show-runner for season 9. Instead of making a clean break with Mulder, Scully and the whole mythology around them and focus just on the new faces, season 9 chooses to make Mulder the absent centre (again), make baby William into a mystery (again), make Scully the weeping caretaker (alas!), and add soap operatic drama making Reyes less interesting (introducing her ex Brad Follmer). Nevertheless, these two episodes are perhaps the season’s most interesting mythology episodes, with more mysteries around the Supersoldiers (governmental? alien?), more genetic experiments and more conspiracy theories (chloramine in tap water). It goes downhill from here.

9X01 / 9X02: Nothing Important Happened Today

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/943552282349172/

Jan 18, 2016 22:14

#mythXplained “Trust No 1”: NSA surveillance, constant paranoia, Terry O’Quinn, suspicions of experiments on babies: what could go wrong with such an episode? Yet this episode comes out as some of the most bitter experiences of watching The X-Files: not just the horribly out of place melodrama of the Scully and Mulder e-mails and love sickness, but also the focus yet again on whom we know we will not see, and the cheesiness of the kryptonite-like magnetite and the scene of destruction of a Supersoldier. Many interesting things, but not the XF we knew…

9X08: Trust No 1

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/945841692120231/

Jan 18, 2016 22:19

#mythXplained “Provenance/Providence”: The setting is familiar: religious cults, secrets buried underground, alien-as-God parallel, flashbacks revealing truths about the military, hints of greater forces at work (here, while Doggett is recovering at the hospital)… And yet it comes down to this: William is the object of an alien prophecy. The X-Files had gotten us used to more subtlety and more interesting storylines. Regardless, the decision has already been taken: The X-Files will be ending with this season and after these episodes everything accelerates to the conclusion.

9X10: Provenance / 9X11: Providence

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/947798358591231/

Jan 19, 2016 12:26

Sad news from our friends at @[109517928483:274:BacktoFrankBlack Campaign]: despite a very interesting five-issue special featuring the return of Frank Black and his dark/light universe, it seems IDW will not be producing more “Millennium” comics. IDW does have many plans for The X-Files though, so perhaps another crossover would not be impossible?…

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10154462798328484&id=109517928483

No matter what you are hearing, IDW has no plans to continue the Millennium comic unfortunately. Lots of rumors and speculation with no facts, we on the other hand have spoken to IDW.

Jan 19, 2016 22:54

201 episodes, 2 movies = 205 references! The illustrated guide into the story and visual influences on The X-Files has just been updated.
From “The Mothman Prophecies” to “Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography”, from H.P. Lovecraft to “Alien”, from “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” to Semisonic’s “Closing Time”, and many many more…
I tried to hit exactly 203 references, but then I figured this list can only grow, so why bother?

Story and Visual Influences on The X-Files: Updated

Jan 21, 2016 17:24

Chris Carter himself on revival:
“In this context, it seemed like a perfect time to rattle some cages and shine a light on the dark and distrustful mood toward government that polls tell us pervades our country.”
“Over the past ten months about 500 people came together to make six episodes of the best TV we know how.”
“Mulder and Scully, colleagues who developed a tempestuous affection and intimacy, have a child together, William. He was put up for adoption when they feared for his life, due to the same conspirators Mulder so believes in. This becomes a very personal story that is explored through the course of these six episodes.”
via @[183227235893:274:YahooTV]

Yahoo: Chris Carter on Reviving ‘The X-Files’: ‘I Knew We Had Stories to Tell’

Jan 22, 2016 9:54

Vancouver on display

Vancouver Is Awesome: 10 Vancouver landmarks in the original X-Files TV show

Jan 22, 2016 11:02

teases from Anne Simon:
Genetic modification technology will play a major role, she said.
CRISPR-Cas9 makes it possible for us to alter the DNA of living cells, including human cells. And this science will tie into a “really big” plot twist, that will “kind of explain the whole conspiracy theory and what the cigarette-smoking man was doing.”
From 2X08: One Breath:
BYERS: The Thinker reports the protein chains are a result of branched DNA.
MULDER: Branched DNA?
LANGLY: The cutting edge of genetic engineering.
BYERS: A biological equivalent of a silicon microchip.
LANGLY: This is way beyond cutting edge. This technology fifty years down the line.
MULDER: What’s it used for?
FROHIKE: Could be a tracking system.
BYERS: Developmental stages of a biological marker.
MULDER: You mean a high-tech identity card?
LANGLY: Or something as insidious as grafting a human into something… inhuman.
(The computer beeps again.)
BYERS: Good theories, gentlemen, but all for naught.
(He points at a protein data map.)
This branched DNA is inactive. It’s waste product. Whoever was experimenting on Scully is finished. Now it’s nothing more than a biological poison.

BuzzFeed: Genetic Engineering Will Be A Big Part Of The “X-Files” Reboot

Jan 22, 2016 11:41

The world’s most original marketing is in Madrid! A 400 kg Roswell UFO! Details: https://t.co/lYI0ecXFnu

https://www.facebook.com/foxtves/photos/a.230148732610/10153246993537611/

Jan 22, 2016 16:20

Congratulations to Chilean fans, who after the 2008 XF Expo are coming back with a convention throughout this weekend!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1506334549669209/

23 JAN 2016 AT 15:00 – 25 JAN 2016 AT 00:00 UTC+01
VII Convención The X-Files
Sala Auditorium Telefónica

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Jan
14
2016

Social media archive: 2016 (part 1)

Archived from the Eat The Corn Facebook page.

Jan 02, 2016 23:17

3 weeks left! A round-up of the latest news, general pre-launch feeling and tie-in products around in this busy and exciting time for XF fandom!

Three weeks and counting…

 

Jan 03, 2016 16:10

Carter doesn’t like spoilers, no surprise here!

The Hollywood Reporter: Chris Carter on Rebooting ‘The X-Files’ in a Spoiler-Obsessed Culture

Jan 07, 2016 9:56

The airing order of is revealed to be the following (via producer Gabe Rotter, via XFilesNews – http://xfiles.news/index.php/news/latest-news/1045-txf-season-10-founder-s-mutation-will-air-on-01-25):

“My Struggle” – 01/24/16 – 10PM (Aprox.)
“Founder’s Mutation” – 01/25/16 – 8PM
“Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster” 02/01/16 – 8PM
“Home Again” – 02/08/16 – 8PM
“Babylon” – 02/15/16 – 8PM
“My Struggle II” – 02/22/16 – 8PM (Season Finale)

A press release is also up for the second episode (http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/01/the-x-files-episode-1002-founders.html)
This order is production order 1-5-3-2-4-6, so very different compared to what we naturally thought would be the airing order — especially since the second produced “Home Again” sounded like a natural choice for the a second episode. Mulder and Scully are said to follow an emotional arc throughout the six episodes, with each episode evolving from the previous one and significant elements of the past we believe are revealed in the two “My Struggle”s but also in “Founder’s Mutation”.
Whether the exact airing order was determined beforehand, with production order following actor or other constraints, or whether it was decided in post-production once executive producers Carter and Morgan saw the whole 6 and how they flowed, we do not know (https://twitter.com/Annealiz1/status/684814044767883265). Perhaps this whole business shows that episodes are more independent from each other than Carter would like to admit, perhaps not.
Some more thoughts on the reordering, including some spoilers on actors appearances and re-appearances around the episodes, can be found here: https://twitter.com/DemijanOmeragic/status/684879670450491394

Jan 08, 2016 19:00

All the writers room and much more is here! An excellent history from inception success twilight and revival!…

The Hollywood Reporter: When ‘The X-Files’ Became A-List: An Oral History of Fox’s Out-There Success Story

Jan 11, 2016 17:19

#mythXplained “Within/Without”: The main shortcoming of Season 8 is that…it exists! that the story was not wrapped up properly with the two leads at the end of season 7. Otherwise, these episodes launch one of the most interesting periods of the show, with a solid new lead in Robert Patrick, a great sense of purpose and a welcome return to the darkness of earlier seasons. But these episodes are not free of flaws: mainly the ret-conning of Mulder’s illness, and long scenes in the desert as if material for a bit more than one episode was spread over two episodes.

8X01: Within / 8X02: Without

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/933971366640597/

Jan 11, 2016 17:25

#mythXplained “Per Manum”: The plot thickens, with some great material — experiments in fertility clinics, double agents and general paranoia — and some less so — the unnecessary “who’s the daddy?” plotline. Still, in hindsight, this episode shows how well the season as a whole had been plotted in advance, possibly the only XF season where this happened! (Despite the feature film at its end, season 5 was much more loosely plotted/interlinked.)

8X08: Per Manum

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/939314089439658/

Jan 11, 2016 17:28

#mythXplained “This Is Not Happening”: Everyone will agree that this is one of the best X-Files mythology episodes. The Mulder missing/dead drama at its height, the introduction of Monica Reyes (back when her character was still quirky and thus interesting), the return of Jeremiah Smith, alien cults and great performances overall!

8X14: This Is Not Happening / 8X15: DeadAlive

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/939803929390674/

Jan 11, 2016 17:44

#mythXplained “DeadAlive”: …and then things get more complicated. A dramatic time jump — to allow for the launch of The Lone Gunmen spin-off series — and Mulder very literally returns from the dead. While the episode tries to mix older mythology elements (Krycek, the vaccine against the Black Oil) with new mysteries, it really fails to clearly explain the central mystery: why were these replicants-to-be dumped randomly, and why Mulder’s replication failed. The tense mysterious atmosphere and production values still make this a success, but at this point the mythology starts challenging suspension of disbelief seriously.

8X14: This Is Not Happening / 8X15: DeadAlive

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/940255056012228/

Jan 11, 2016 22:53

“My Struggle” 1st minute. See a decade of X-Files unfurl before your eyes!

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheXFiles/photos/a.371920819512324/946509298720137/

Check out the opening minute of The X-Files before it airs January 24! DoYouStillBelieve.com.

Jan 11, 2016 23:04

Do you still believe?
D-13 days.

Jan 12, 2016 10:30

X-Files Files podcaster and guest star Kumail Nanjiani’s much-awaited chat with Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny, one late night during the shooting of Darin Morgan’s episode, “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”!…

FERALAUDIO.COM: 55 – Kumail Talks To David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson on the set of The X-Files

Jan 13, 2016 00:19

Approx. 2 more minutes of “My Struggle” are now online!…

SpoilerTV: The X-Files – Episode 10.01 – My Struggle – Sneak Peeks *Updated*

Jan 13, 2016 00:23

DailyMail stardom!…

“The two may watch now that they will be shown in flashbacks on the reboot. They will appear in episodes two and four.”
“Founder’s Mutation” and “Home Again”? Surely this is wrong. I guess more like “Babylon” and “My Struggle II”.

Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: The twins that played Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny’s baby on The X-Files are now teens and work as models… as they confess they’ve NEVER seen the series

Jan 13, 2016 10:41

Jimmy Kimmel, Mulder, Scully and the Mystery of the 1990s Nostalgia. Epic! And let’s hope that the will be more than that.

 

Jan 14, 2016 00:21

More Premiere press from Carter and the cast, old and new.

Variety: Chris Carter and Cast Explain Why ‘The X-Files’ Revival Is ‘a Trip Down Memory Lane’

Jan 14, 2016 11:44

Duchovny being very candid about Fox’s (non)promotion of IWTB — very different from what we are seeing now for the promotion of the revival from Fox *Television*. , why not?

HitFix: David Duchovny on the second ‘X-Files’ movie: Fox botched the release

Jan 14, 2016 12:07

Darin Morgan’s episode Press Release & Synopsis!

Cast: They managed to bring back the two stoner kids from “War of the Coprophages” and “Quagmire”! + Alex Diakun, another 1013/Darin familiar!

“When a dead body is found in the woods, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate whether it was an animal attack, a serial killer or just maybe a strange creature as described by eyewitnesses. Meanwhile, Mulder is able to confront some of his own demons about feeling disillusioned with his life’s work”

SpoilerTV: The X-Files – Episode 10.03 – Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster – Press Release & Promotional Photos *Updated*

Jan 14, 2016 22:00

#mythXplained “Three Words”: By now The X-Files is a fully serialized show, with an ensemble cast and storylines unfolding on a week-to-week basis. These are episodes of transition between the old guard, chief among them Mulder, who feels awkward, and the new. A good, classic, efficient episode that recalls many previous ones, notably the Lone Gunmen-aided infiltration of a facility in “Memento Mori”, and a meetup with an informant in a running field like in “Deep Throat”…

8X18: Three Words

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Jan 14, 2016 22:04

#mythXplained “Vienen”: The buddy action adventure of Mulder and Doggett! “New” writer Steven Maeda resurrects the Black Oil, last seen (in this form) in the movie 3 years before, and has the obvious idea to link it…to the oil drilling business. A solid episode, that hints at story developments that could have been followed around the Black Oil virus and immunity that were not exploited fully…

8X16: Vienen

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Jan 14, 2016 22:11

#mythXplained “Essence/Existence”: Season 8 ends and like with the previous season it could have been the end of it all. Same issues as with “Within/Without”, too many scenes in a single setting (here, underground parking lot). Confusing happenings with who hunts the baby and why. An oddly directed ending for a beloved character that should not have been. A “who’s the daddy?” that is unnecessarily drawn out to beyond the end. And, in retrospective, a very interesting season that ultimately raises too many questions for this to be the end, making a season 9 necessary (as opposed to last year)!

8X20: Essence / 8X21: Existence

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Dec
31
2015

Social media archive: 2015 (part 5)

Archived from the Eat The Corn Facebook page.

3 Dec 2015, 10:47

Good Fox marketing, continued…

Reminiscent of “THE FOLLOWING STORY IS INSPIRED BY ACTUAL DOCUMENTED ACCOUNTS”

EW: The X-Files uses footage of Los Angeles missile test in new promo

7 Dec 2015, 19:21

#mythXplained Sein&Zeit/Closure: In the mythology-lightest season ever it certainly looks like is heading towards its end — and here comes a double-parter like no other, introspective and elegiac, that even if it doesn’t fit well with the rest of the mythology, it never fails to generate some strong emotions. Thank you David Duchovny, Kim Manners and Moby, among others, for those life-defining moments in Mulder’s life.

7X10: Sein und Zeit / 7X11: Closure

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8 Dec 2015, 19:53

The X-Files comics continue! Lowdown for S11 #5! Can’t say more, not even the title, without spoilers…

S11#5: The Lowdown

14 Dec 2015, 17:09

XFBD is out

Tweaktown: Remastering ‘The X-Files’ in HD, Q&A with Jim Hardy CEO of Illuminate

18 Dec 2015, 15:13

“The series will return as part of a two-night special event across all licensed territories within the international FOX portfolio starting on January 25th, and will reach audiences throughout Latin America in markets such as Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina; in South East Asia including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia; and markets in Europe including Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Africa.”

Fox International Channels: The X-Files Getting a Day & Date Release Across FOX International Channels Markets

21 Dec 2015, 14:18

#mythXplained [catching-up!] “En Ami”: WBDavis writes so he can share some scenes with Gillian A, and CCarter & FSpotnitz take the opportunity to seamlessly incorporate this into the s7 mythology: the CSM’s cynical resignation, hints that Scully oculd have been manipulated, further parallels of the alien and the divine

7X15: En Ami

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26 Dec 2015, 02:15

#mythXplained Requiem: s7 ends, and with it a certain life of the show. If there’s any novelistic quality to the overall story of the X-Files, a story with beginning middle and end, then Requiem could very well have been the end! The fates of the characters, tragic or open-ended, are appropriate for a show like XF. Not the end of the series, mostly due to non-XF issues at Fox, but still, this is a memorable and landmark episode.

7X22: Requiem

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26 Dec 2015, 02:30

Full documentary on the ! D-30 days…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Z2iinBwdc

26 Dec 2015, 20:43

Three years ago was Dec-22-2012, a most significant date for X-Files fans for over a decade. Some years after the lukewarm reception of the second movie and before the IDW comics were announced, interest on XF was on an all-time low and its future was at stake. At the time I wrote:

“Would Carter accept anything less than a theatrical release? Actually, sometimes it feels like the unlikelihood of an X-Files feature film is linked to the desire for it to be a theatrical feature, which is inherently more expensive. As if Carter and the X-Files wanted to “graduate” from TV to the big screen, while top-rate directors do not stop at the opportunity of doing the opposite (the Martin Scorcese-directed pilot of Boardwalk Empire reportedly cost $ 18 million) and many recognize that the 1970s kind of inventivity that existed in movies has now shifted to television. In a shifting environment for movie-making, the X-Files could take advantage of new means of release, distribution and funding, such as an exclusive television event, direct-to-video with special theatrical screenings, Japanese-inspired V-Cinema, Video On Demand pre-orders, iTunes premiere or YouTube premiere, funding from multiple sources (see 2012’s Cloud Atlas), international sale bundled with an HD remastering of the entire series, the economies on special effects and on-location shooting using full-greenscreen”

…and here we are some 3 years later barely one month from the release of not a third film but truly one of these alternative solutions mentioned above! D-29 days.

Notes beyond the world’s ending

31 Dec 2015, 18:11

The lowdown on Season 11 X-F X-Mas Special: an integral part in Joe Harris’ on-going X-Files mythos. Reflecting on Christmas Eve on New Year’s Eve.

S11 X-mas Special: The Lowdown

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Nov
30
2015

Social media archive: 2015 (part 4)

Archived from the Eat The Corn Facebook page.

2 Nov 2015, 19:12

#mythXplained Bonus! Since FOX-TV does not promote FOX-feature films, we’ll add this to #201daysofxfiles. “Fight the Future”: XF goes BIG summer blockbuster with this Rob Bowman-helmed conspiracy thriller-cum-alien horror flick! Everything XF is here, with added explosions and action pieces. Colonization, the corn, the bees, and strong emotions: much is revealed here. “Multiply your fears by X”

The X-Files Movie: Fight the Future

5 Nov 2015, 14:50

#mythXplained Fight The Future bonus: Chris Carter himself explains the entire mythology in a hermetic hidden track of the film’s album!

Fight the Future : The Album : The Truth Revealed

9 Nov 2015, 16:49

An excellent and detailed history of the X-Files fandom by Matt from @[8273206453:69:The X-Files Lexicon] is now published at @[139191826118516:274:Den Of Geek]! (with a mention of @[413368385523727:274:The X-Files\: Eat The Corn])

Den of Geek: The X-Files: A History of the Fandom

9 Nov 2015, 23:08

Watch writer-producers be themselves: Carter’s long ponders before giving answers, Glen Morgan’s quick as a flash abrasive comments, and Darin Morgan’s dodging characterizing his work as genius

EW: EW Fest: X-Files video with Chris Carter

11 Nov 2015, 09:19

#mythXplained The Beginning (catching up!): Opening shot: a big Californian sun! XF moves production to Los Angeles, changes a big part of its crew, and has to deal with less “free mood” from the rainy Vancouver and higher production costs all around. Still manages to transition from both s5 and the movie in this second pilot of sorts. The closing scene ties everything back together in the alien life cycle.

6X01: The Beginning

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11 Nov 2015, 09:22

#mythXplained SR819: After The Pine-Bluff Variant @[147409421937269:274:John Shiban] creates another tense thriller and brings back Senator Matheson in one of his too rare appearances. Follow the link for musings on WTO/GATT rules and the Tunisian connection!

6X10: S.R.819

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11 Nov 2015, 22:42

New promo photo – in HD. What is that cigarette-handling android back there?…

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19 Nov 2015, 10:12

1993-2016

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20 Nov 2015, 13:53

New teaser, epileptic montage… MASSIVE spoilers in these screen captures http://imgur.com/a/ivFoO

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YOU DID IT! Because of your tweets, you unlocked exclusive content! Go here: http://findthex.tumblr.com, password: XPhiles. Good job!

20 Nov 2015, 21:38

Official synopsis: 10X01: My Struggle

“My Struggle”
THE X-FILES HAVE BEEN RE-OPENED!! THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE TWO-NIGHT SEASON PREMIERE OF “THE X-FILES” AIRS SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 ON FOX SUN JAN 24 7/8c

Thirteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of the thrilling series THE X-FILES has arrived. FOX MULDER (David Duchovny) and DANA SCULLY (Gillian Anderson) have been contacted by TAD O’MALLEY (guest star Joel McHale), a popular conspiracy theorist web-TV show host who believes he has uncovered a significant government conspiracy. With the assistance of FBI Asst. Dir. WALTER SKINNER (Mitch Pileggi), O’Malley seeks to enlist the help of former X-Files agents Mulder and Scully, who have since severed ties with the FBI. Through O’Malley they are introduced to SVETA (guest star Annett Mahendru), a possible alien abductee who shares shocking information with them that will challenge everything that Mulder has ever believed about the existence of aliens and the government’s role in covering them up. “My Struggle,” the premiere episode of THE X-FILES, airs Sunday, January 24 (7:00-8:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

SpoilerTV: The X-Files – Episode 10.01 – My Struggle – Press Release

21 Nov 2015, 22:20

@[108381559187017:274:Frank Spotnitz]’s @[1600262146899838:274:The Man in the High Castle] — Philip K Dick’s novel adapted into a “TV/web” series — just came out! Find no less than 90 interviews with Frank in Eat The Corn’s Interviews Database!

https://www.eatthecorn.com/itw/tag/frank-spotnitz/

22 Nov 2015, 20:03

“Home Again”: Lowdown for the X-Files comics Season 11 issues #2-3-4

S11#2-3-4: The Lowdown

23 Nov 2015, 22:58

#mythXplained “Two Fathers”/”One Son”: after not much of a build-up in the first half of the season, it’s time for the big reveal! The adding of layers to an ever-complexifying mythology stops, the cards are all laid on the table and the pieces are ranked in chronological order. It’s the end of the mythology that was developed over five and a half years, the quality of which the X-Files will try to imitate afterwards. After this, it’s a different show. The andswers are here

6X11: Two Fathers / 6X12: One Son

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24 Nov 2015, 21:46

#mythXplained “Biogenesis”! The mytharc leaves the abysmally tangled web and moral tale of the Syndicate years, and heads towards a magnificently elegiac exploration of religion, science and spirituality. This results in EatTheCorn’s longest review by far:

6X22: Biogenesis / 7X03: The Sixth Extinction / 7X04: The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati

SCULLY: It began with an act of supreme violence–
a big bang expanding ever outward, cosmos born of matter and gas,
matter and gas ten billion years ago. Whose idea was this?
Who had the audacity for such invention? And the reason?
Were we part of that plan ten billion years ago? Are we born only to die?
To be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth before giving way to
our generations? If there is a beginning, must there be an end?
We burn like fires in our time only to be extinguished. To surrender
to the elements’ eternal reclaim. Matter and gas… will this all end one day?
Life no longer passing to life, the Earth left barren like the stars above,
like the cosmos. Will the hand that lit the flame let it burn down?
Let it burn out? Could we, too, become extinct? Or if this fire of life
living inside us is meant to go on, who decides? Who tends the flames?
Can he reignite the spark even as it grows cold and weak?

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24 Nov 2015, 21:54

After the Spanish version a few months ago, EatTheCorn is proud to present its Mytharc Primer, the definitive chronicle and explanation of the X-Files mythology (until further notice in barely a few months’ time!…) — in German!
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Wir begrüßen unsere Besucher aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz und anderen Ländern!
Hier finden Sie eine Zusammenfassung und eine detaillierte Erklärung über die X-Files Mythologie finden.

Mytharc Primer : German edition

26 Nov 2015, 00:10

EatTheCorn turns 10 years old today!

Looking back at what has been achieved, looking forward to the future…

10th anniversary!

27 Nov 2015, 09:43

10X01: My Struggle in Courmayeur Festival on Dec-11 (Italy). Length: 52min?

Courmayeur Noir Festival: The X-Files: My Struggle

27 Nov 2015, 18:47

Artist Miran Kim (cover artist on the 1990s XF Topps comics) on recreating the iconic cover for IDW Season 11 !

http://mirankimart.blogspot.com/2015/07/idws-x-files-season-11-variant-cover.html

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