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    I never watched the show. I know it has something to do with aliens. But I didn’t know that the alien was Ziggy Stardust.

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        I loved the monster of the week early seasons but never made it past the later seasons where Anderson and Duchovny were replaced. Is there anything worth watching past that?

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          A third season came out a few years ago.

          I had to watch it, but it was hard work.

          I think season2 lost its way towards the end.

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              I will never get over that the pilot episode of Lone Gunmen, released in March 2001, featured a government faction hijacking a commercial airliner via remote control to crash it into the World Trade Center as a false-flag operation.

              It’s pretty wild.

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          Pause for info dump: Season 3 lost two of the main writer-producers, who returned in seasons 4-5, and then were gone again after Duchovny insisted on moving the show to the US. You can tell the distinct tonal shift between the seasons, and also in how Mulder is written. Season five was also intended to be the series finale, but Fox renewed it. That’s a big part of seasons 6-9 being a nothing burger that often contradicts earlier canon.

          With all that said, I’ve been watching the later seasons fully leaning into critiquing it like Statler and Waldorf. From that angle, it’s been fun.

          As for the reboots, I think a similar thing happened where season 1 was a successfully nostalgic bit of fan service, and then they wound up with more seasons than they knew what to do with. Watch with low expectations when you want something to fill the time, but don’t want to commit full attention.

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          Swine! Viper!

          You challenge my autocorrect skills??

          If I were fifty years younger I’d have the butler throw you out!

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    The sex sells bit of these kind of makes sense for Duchovny since he recently did the Red Shoe Diaries (Showtime softcore porn) right before being cast for X-Files.

    Still hyper-90s, if you all like this watch literally any music video around that time as well.

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      These photos were taken by David Lachapelle. This is his style, and I’ve found that a lot of his shoots are not about the subject, but about the fact that Lachapelle is shooting them. Celebrities seek him out more often than not.

      These images are actually rather mild for him. In 2002 he shot a campaign for Lavazza coffee, and one of the images was a nude woman being driven on by toy dump trucks as they poured sugar and beans on her privates. Another involved a woman humping the air while grasping two rockets with the coffee brand on them, as an oiled bodybuilder flexed in the background.

      It’s not my cup of tea (or coffee), but he’s gotten pretty darn famous for doing what he loves, so more power to him.

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      Those never worked for me and I just found out that’s a thing. They just don’t work with certain people

      Edit: Magic Eye images don’t work for some people because of visual impairments like strabismus or astigmatism, which affect how the eyes work together, or because the brain can’t process the visual information correctly. Conditions like cataracts can also hinder stereo vision.