X16 ROLAND
ROLAND
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X16-1.23
1st category is
SNOW MACHINE:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
like Mark Snow, I also gave them a latin name.
I am not a Latin expert!
'Goodbye' is: Bonus
'Do the Math' is: Facio the Math
'Deep Freeze' is: Altus Congelo
INSIDE THE X:
Dr. Nollette:
"If I've seen further than other men,
it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
This quote is commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton.
But Newton was referencing an older quote of an 11th century monk
named John of Salisbury.
This quote is also referenced on the
British 2 pound coin.
All around the edge of the coin, the words:
"Standing on the shoulders of giants" are imprinted.
In one scene, Scully leans against a door with the number MP-214.
That number deals with a study on Schizophrenia.
She actually glances up at the number as she talks to Mulder, almost
making sure she is close enough for the camera to get it.
It must mean something.
Also, since when does a gum wrapper unlock a coded keypad lock?
If any of you other agents have ever used this method successfully
please let me know.
XANAGRAMS:
It's My X-File version of anagrams.
One Xanagram for Roland is: 'Ran Old'
'Roland' is too short of a word to get any real good anagrams from.
I can't wait until we get to season three's: '731'
MULDERIZMS:
In reference to Dr. Keats' head being frozen,
then shattered:
MULDER: I don't think they'll be performing this experiment
on Beakman's World.
Also Scully says:
Does this somehow end with a way for me to
lower my long distance charges?
SCREEN SHOTS:
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/FIREFLYcaptain/X-Files/
MYTHOMETER SCORE (0 to 3)
Measures how close the episode is to being a mythology episode.
3 = FULL MYTHOLOGY
2 = STRONG HYBRID
1 = WEEK HYBRID
0 = MONSTER OF THE WEEK*****
THE SEQUELIZER:
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
Roland had a medium potential for a sequel because they
saved Rolands brothers head from thawing.
I'll bet you'll never hear that sentence again in your life.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
I give Roland a 7 - it was ok.
Compared to other 'monster of the weeks' it's probably a 6
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably a 7.5
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X16-1.23
is filed:
CLOSED
ADDENDUM:
To all 'Reopening the X-Files' agents.
Here's a real life assignment for you:
Make contact with anyone associated with the X-Files,
i.e. producers, actors, writers etc.
and have them contact us here at Reopening the X-Files.
Our email addresses are:
SHADOWCAPTAIN@LIVE.COM , for me
X@XFILESPODCAST.COM , for Donald
or the website
HTTP://WWW.XFILESPODCAST.COM
There WILL be a reward.
Good hunting
and
DENY EVERYTHING
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X17 THE ERLENMEYER FLASK
Agent Donald is investigating the death of scientist
who was working on a secret project involving alien DNA, called
Purity Control.
Meanwhile, Agent Chelsea is walking back to FBI headquarters
from the parking garage below,
when she hears the sound of tires squealing.
A black limousine careens around the corner and blocks her path.
Two men in black jump out of the limo, grab Chelsea
and pull her back into the vehicle.
The limo speeds away.
Back in the parking garage, the small orange glow of a cigarette can
be seen in the shadows.
THE ERLENMEYER FLASK
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X17-1.24
1st category is
SNOW MACHINE:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
like Mark Snow, I also gave them a Latin name.
I am not a Latin expert
Today's clips are called:
House Call: DOMUS DICO
Purity Control: SANCTIMONIA IMPERIUM
Pentagon: QUINQUE LATUSERIS
The Water Tanks: AQUA LACUS
Freeze Fracture: CONGELO EFFREGO
Your Work Is Done: VESTRI OPUS EST PERFECTUS
Chase: FUGO
To see the Latin names I gave them,
go to MYSPACE.COM/AGENTSHADOWX
* New Category *
ZERO SUM:
(PLUSES AND MINUSES)
Pluses:
All the Mythology components:
Deep Throat
Alien DNA
Government cover-up
CSM at the end
Minuses:
No major minuses, unless you get picky about
Dr. Secare staying in the same area during the search for him, while
he's underwater -
even though he can breathe under water.
Why wouldn't he just keep swimming under water
for those 3 days and get far away.
XANAGRAMS:
It's My X-File version of anagrams.
THE ERLENMEYER FLASK
"Retaken Merely Flesh"
This is weird, considering you have to use ALL the letters in the
original phrase for it to be a real anagram.
So to get a phrase that is this close to the subject matter is...
well... spooky.
MULDERIZMS:
"My mother usually likes me home before the streetlights come on."
MYTHOMETER SCORE (0 to 3)
Measures how close the episode is to being a mythology episode.
3 = FULL MYTHOLOGY*****
2 = STRONG HYBRID
1 = WEEK HYBRID
0 = MONSTER OF THE WEEK
THE SEQUELIZER:
The Erlenmeyer Flask had a HIGH potential for a sequel because of
all the obvious mythology reasons.
FAVORITE SEASON 1 CHARACTERS:
...coming soon
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
I give The Erlenmeyer Flask a 10
Compared to other Mythology episodes it's probably a 9.5
Compared to other shows on TV it's a definite 10
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X17-1.24
is filed:
OPEN
PODCAST MYTHOLOGY:
"Ok Agent Donald, I'm uploading My field report to you
via satellite up-link.
"I'm also transferring files from a disk I found in
a computer in the main control room here.
"From all the data I've gathered so far,
it looks like the group here is called
"The New Syndicate".
"It looks like they're monitoring our work on Reopening The X-Files.
"The disk is titled 'TERMINUS'
"I'm still underground in the tunnels of Misery Island so I hope the
file transfer is successful.
"Wait... I can hear people coming!
"It looks like they have..." ****STATIC*****
TRANSMISSION ENDS
[X17-1.24]
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X18 LITTLE GREEN MEN
Agent Donald is sitting in his basement office at night when he
looks up and sees a creature standing in his doorway.
The creature is about 4 feet tall and green.
Just then, 2 more creatures walk up next to the 1st one. - one short
and one tall, with long blond hair.
The 3 reach up to their heads and pull their masks off.
The blond one speaks - it's Langley.
"Hey Donald, we knew we'd find you here in that chair."
Byers chimes in:
"Hey Donald, is that a Coke on your desk?
Those things will kill you. Don't you remember the Great Coke
conspiracy?"
Then Frohihke, holding a folder in his hand, speaks:
"Hey 'Donster', we found this file on the ground in the parking
garage."
At that moment the phone on Donald's desk rings.
It's A.D. Solo.
He informs Donald that Agent Chelsea has just been kidnapped in the
FBI parking garage.
As the men run out of the office, Frohike tosses the file, labeled
The Erlenmeyer Flask, on Donald's desk, right on top of his current
folder labeled:
LITTLE GREEN MEN
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X18-2.01
1st category is
SNOW MACHINE:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
Today's clips are called:
I still have myself: 'Ego etiam fui mihi.'
trustno1: 'Fides haud unus'
Arecibo: 'Arecibo'
We ned to talk: 'Nos postulo ut sermo'
Abduction: 'Raptio'
ZERO SUM: PLUSES AND MINUSES
Pluses:
C.S.M's role becomes larger almost immediately.
He gets more lines in this episode than in all of season 1.
Senator Matheson also adds to the episode.
Minuses:
None come to mind
X-RAY: Inside the episode
X-ACHUSETTS
Massachusetts is mentioned for the 4th time in the series when
Mulder is having a flashback to his childhood home in Chilmark Ma.,
playing Stratego with his sister Samantha.
Then it's mentioned a 5th time when Boston is mentioned over the
P.A. system in the Miami airport when Scully thinks she's being
followed.
The voice says that "Flight 236 from Boston" is arriving.
In The Numbers:
1013 is again referenced here, this time on Mulders' computer when
Scully hacks into it and sees galactic latitudes and longitudes.
1013 is mentioned at least 18 times in the series and at least twice
in the 1st movie.
XANAGRAMS:
It's My X-File version of anagrams.
No good ones. The best one I could find was:
Retell Get Men In.
EPISODE INSPIRATION:
http://www.naic.edu/
SCREEN SHOTS:
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/FIREFLYcaptain/X-Files/
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/FIREFLYcaptain/X-
Files/TheWowsignal.jpg
We have a bit of real life conspiracy here at
Reopening The X-Files.
I tried to upload The 'wow signal' image a few times to my
Field Report but Myspace denied me permission each time.
So I put a link to it here in my Field Report.
If you view the printout, notice 2 things:
all the potential 1013's in the code on the left of the printout
and the 1st number in the galactic longitude column.
MULDERIZMS:
Mulder: Four dollars for the first hour of parking is criminal.
What you've got better be worth at least 45 minutes.
MYTHOMETER SCORE (0 to 3)
Measures how close the episode is to being a mythology episode.
Little Green Men gets a
3 = FULL MYTHOLOGY*****
2 = STRONG HYBRID
1 = WEEK HYBRID
0 = MONSTER OF THE WEEK
THE SEQUELIZER:
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
Little Green Men had a High potential for a sequel - like all
mythology episodes.
A nice open ending with Mulder trying to find something on the
erased tape plus all the evidence back in the Arecibo facility.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
I give LITTLE GREEN MEN a 9
Compared to other 'Mythologies' it's probably an 8
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably a 9.5
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X18-2.01
is filed: UNSOLVED
PODCAST MYTHOLOGY:
*** groggy ***
Donald, I'm using the Coast Guard equipment on Bakers Island to
upload this Field Report. Bakers Island is an inhabited island close
to Misery.
The lighthouse keeper here, who calls himself Chapman, found me on
the beach and dragged me to safety inside the lighthouse.
I don't know how I got to the island, and the disk I tried to upload
to you back on Misery Island is gone along with all my equipment.
The last thing I remember is finding the group that has been
monitoring our work on 'Re-opening the X-Files. They're called 'The
New Syndicate'. But that's all I remember, when they knocked me out they must haveinjected me with something.
I think I heard them talking about shutting us down.
When I mentioned the words "New Syndicate" earlier,
Chapman turned around quickly and stared at me.
I think he's going to tell me something about that later tonight.
I have to go.
The power is getting low.
Shadow out.
[X18]
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X19 THE HOST
The next day, Agent Donald is back in his office with The LoneGunmen, when he hears a knock on the door.
It's A.D. Solo with Agent Amanda from Texas.
He tells Donald that Agents Emma and Sarah, from the FBI Field
office at Scotland Yardhave been assigned to finding Agent Chelsea,
and that Agent Amanda will be helping them.
He also tells Donald that he will be sent a temporary partner until
Agent Chelsea can be found.
As A.D. Solo leaves the room he says:
"Your new partner's coming in on a flight from Indiana this
afternoon. You may want to pick her up at the airport.
And leave the 3 stooges behind please."
Frohike looks up from his tabloid magazine with a picture of a
Flukeman on it and says:
"Chill out Skin-man."
Then he looks at Amanda and says:
"She's hot."
Donald says:
"Settle down Frohike."
THE HOST
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X19-2.02
1st category is
SNOW MACHINE:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
like Mark Snow, I also gave them a Latin name.
I am not a Latin expert!
Today's clips are called:
Extant (Opposite of extinct): Extant
Waiting: Exspecto
ZERO SUM: Pluses and minuses
PLUSES:
I liked this episode better on my re-watch of it.
The feeling of the Russian freighter and smell when the creature
strikes for the first time is captured very well.
X makes his 1st appearance here also.
MINUSES:
None come to mind.
X-RAY: Inside the episode
I think I will leave this category to Donald.
He always covers "inside information" in the podcast, so I think
this category just repeats the same type of info.
EPISODE INFLUENCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
SCREEN SHOTS:
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/FIREFLYcaptain/X-Files/
MULDERIZMS:
Well, that's good. I didn't want to have to tell Skinner that
his murder suspect was a giant bloodsucking worm...
MYTHOMETER SCORE (0 to 3)
Measures how close the episode is to being a mythology episode.
3 = FULL MYTHOLOGY
2 = STRONG HYBRID
1 = WEAK HYBRID*****
0 = MONSTER OF THE WEEK
I give The Host a .5 on the Mythometer,
just because of the appearance of X,
but there's no more Mythology references.
THE SEQUELIZER:
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
The Host had a HIGH potential for a sequel because the creature was
hermaphroditic and could reproduce itself.
This episode was begging for a sequel.
The Host had a classic X-files ending, showing another creature
already floating in the water in Newark NJ.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
I give The Host an 8.5
Compared to other 'Monster of the Weeks' it's probably still an 8.5
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably a 9, so if I was channel
surfing, this would have high surf-stopping potential.
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X19-2.02
is filed: UNSOLVED
PODCAST MYTHOLOGY:
[BACKGROUND SOUND - WATER, BIRDS AND WIND]
Ok Donald, I'm back at the Bakers island lighthouse to upload another Field Report.
The Keeper here - Chapman, wanted to tell me something last time but
he had to wait to make sure we were not being overheard.
He says that he was a member of the original Syndicate, and was
placed here on Bakers island by a "Cigarette Smoking Man" many years
ago to monitor a project that was being performed on the inhabitants
of this island.
The New Syndicate still monitors the project from the tunnels of the
neighboring island of Great Misery, along with many other projects.
The Keeper says that the Syndicate chose this area to perform their
experiments because of it's proximity to medical and technological
facilities.
He also says that it's impossible to leave this island.
I find that hard to believe, although I haven't seen any docks yet
or any boats coming or going.
A teenage boy with a 'Firefly' T-shirt just ran up to the lighthouse
and told the Keeper that:
"It's happening again."
Then they both ran off.
I'll try to find out what that means.
Until then, I'll be sending you My Field Reports with this Coast
Guard equipment when I can.
[X19]
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X20 BLOOD
Agent Donald leaves to go pick up his new partner at the airport,
leaving the Lone Gunmen in his office.
A minute later the phone in his office rings.
The Lone Gunmen look at each other as Donald's machine picks up.
"Hello, this is Agent Donald. Just leave a message."
A female voice comes through the machine - it's Agent Chelsea.
"Donald, this is Agent Chelsea.
I've been taken to the desert by a group called The New Syndicate.
They've let me contact you... just to say that I'm alive.
I don't know where we are or where we are going"....[noise]
...The call ends abruptly.
Frohike looks up again from his new tabloid on mind control and
says:
"Oooh, She also sounds..."
Langley cuts him off:
"Shut up Frohike."
Byers Adds:
"She sounds like she's in real trouble."
Frohike looks at Byers and says:
"Narc."
He looks at Agent Donald's computer screen.
It says: BLOOD
He looks at Looks at Langley's Metallica T-shirt.
It says: Kill'em All.
He looks for a sharp object.
BLOOD
X-FILE # UNKNOWN
MY FILE # X20-2.03
1st category is
SNOW MACHINE:
Mark Snows music that was in this episode,
but was not on the sound track.
like Mark Snow, I also gave them a latin name.
I am not a Latin expert!
Today's clips are called:
There's Blood: Illic est cruor
No Air: Haud Aer
ZERO SUM: Pluses and minuses
PLUSES: I like how the sight of blood, triggers the madness.
I also like the 'subliminal message through electronics' theme.
MINUSES: Nothing major.
EPISODE INFLUENCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK-ULTRA
SCREEN SHOTS:
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/FIREFLYcaptain/X-Files/
MULDERIZMS:
Frohike: So, Mulder, where's your little partner?
Mulder: She wouldn't come. She's afraid of her love for you.
Frohike: She's tasty.
Mulder: You know Frohike, it's men like you that gives perversion a
bad name.
MYTHOMETER SCORE
Measures how close the episode is to being a mythology episode.
FULL MYTHOLOGY
STRONG HYBRID
WEAK HYBRID*****
MONSTER OF THE WEEK
1 note on the MYTHOMETER for 'The Host':
Last week Agent Donald made a good case for The Host to have a
higher rating on the MYTHOMETER. He mentioned how they carried over the fact that The X-Files had been closed, and that this was part of the mythology.
Based on that, I'll raise the Mythometer score to a 1.5 out of 3.
I will also change the scoring from the 0 to 3 scale,
and just score each episode as a
"Monster of the Week"
"Weak Hybrid"
"Strong Hybrid"
or
"Mythology"
I think The Host is still a weak hybrid, but stronger than most of
the weak hybrids.
...So I guess it's a 'Strong weak Hybrid'... Oh no.
THE SEQUELIZER:
[The potential the episode had for a sequel]
Blood had a HIGH potential for a sequel because the chemicals where
still in the town and could still be used.
Finally,
MY 1-10 RATING:
I give Blood an 8.5
I love the concept of the chemicals and
electronic equipment controlling people.
Compared to other 'Monster of the Weeks' it's probably a 9.
Compared to other shows on TV it's probably a 9.5.
Blood had HIGH Surf stopping potential.
So...
Pending any further evidence, this case,
My file # X20-2.03
is filed: CLOSED
PODCAST MYTHOLOGY:
[BACKGROUND SOUND - WATER, BIRDS AND WIND]
Donald, I've followed the Keeper and the teenage boy to the other
side of the island where there was a group of people standing around
what looks like a body lying near the shoreline.
It looked like his shirt had blood on it.
I also noticed a high pitched sound on that side of the island,
though no one else seemed to hear it.
As soon as someone saw me, some men ran over to me and escorted me
back to the Keepers house and told me to wait for him there.
He returned to his house a few minutes later and told me to stay on
this side of the island - the west side, where the Lighthouse and
General store are.
Then he said:
"I've just received word that my old friends - what's left of them -
have abducted one of your associates from the FBI to initiate a new
project.
If anyone finds out I've told you this, I'll deny all knowledge."
Then he walked to the small kitchen and brought me some food.
"Here, eat. I grew them myself on THIS side of the island."
Something's happening here Donald.
I'll send another report when I can.
DENY EVERYTHING
X
Denego panton
[X20-2.03]
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