#up to FTF

[randomfoggytiger]

CC has spoken.

X-Files: Fight the Future Hidden Track

In case y’all don’t know how fuckin EXTRA Chris Carter is, lemme tell you. On the X-Files: Fight the Future soundtrack (I’m old school, I still have my CD from 1998), if you let the final track from the Dust Brothers keep playing, after minutes and minutes of silence, at exactly 10:13, Chris Carter himself (yes, his droning, monotone voice, which will scare the shit out of you if you’re not expecting it) lays out what is probably the most coherent explanation of the first five seasons of the show’s mythology I’ve ever heard in my life. And yeah, it’s in the form of a stream-of-consciousness, hidden aside to the fans and is very much an info-dump. But it’s shockingly similar to Mulder’s ridiculous ass monologue for Tad and Sveta’s benefit in front of a seething Scully in the Unremarkable House in My Struggle I. And honestly, after watching Season 10, I have to believe that some of this is going to come into play again. 

He can’t completely retcon his own damn mythos, can he?

Anyway, here’s the monologue for you. It’s pretty great.

“The method, as they call it, though it was more so a germ-line procedure of singular meta-scientific complexity, had been given to them by the alien colonists as a quid pro quo. The Syndicate would help them to create a population of alien hybrids who would hide in plain sight, cloned from human ova and alien bio-material, so there would be a clone race immune to the effects of the black oil when the return to the planet began. For this, the Syndicate would be sequestered, granted a sort of immunity or asylum, given a place in the grander scheme.

“They were the Vichy government to the German “Final Solution”: collaborationists whose motivation was simple, self-directed survival. These cloning operations were spread across the country, the cataloging and record-keeping done through a complex intra-institutional system that connected to every branch of government, from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Defense.

“The operation, under the working title “Purity Control,” had been launched in 1948, its original conception the brainchild of German scientists given immunity themselves for war crimes, and allowed to continue the eugenic experiments that were Hitler’s dark legacy.

“The Syndicate had begun as a subset of a shadow intelligence agency whose original orders were to create plausible denial and an effective cover-up of Purity Control. But through 50 years, numerous U.S. and U.N. administrations, the principals began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders, such that - by 1990 - the operation ceased to have a member accountable to any one government and whose only orders would be taken from a man named Strughold, a German industrialist who had fled his homeland to northern Africa.

"These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of a foreseeable future, had, in spite of this, everything to lose. Their secret work, the cloning preparations and the cataloging, constituted their greatest vulnerability: exposure. Their detection would ensure not just their own demise but a far-reaching dissolution of social and religious order around the globe.

"To protect against this, the Syndicate employed methods of disinformation, using covert government programs that had been regrettably discovered, as a kind of smokescreen - a dodge or blind where the transgressions of Congress-accountable agencies served to hide their own more odious undertaking.

"They had even at times used the UFO phenomenon to create a hysteria that science and the intelligentsia denounced, so completely, as to make belief in believers seem ridiculous and completely discreditable.

"They had also, in a crisis, used a tool of the colonists themselves - alien bounty hunters who policed the cloning operations and enforced rule on the countdown to colonization. A double-edged sword whose cold-blooded tactics had helped to stem a leak or threat, but who also kept a watch on the Syndicate. A threat in itself, as the Syndicate had something to hide that not even the colonists knew of: a vaccine against the black oil, an inoculant against the substance in which the alien life force was held - in fact, the very medium of the life force itself.

"To guard this secret was perhaps even more critical than the truth of the existence of alien life, and of colonization. If the Syndicate’s own secret vaccine were discovered, the vaccine that would make themselves immune from the effects of the black oil, they would certainly be destroyed and the timetable for colonization stepped up. They would protect this secret with their lives. They would kill to protect it, as it symbolized the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the planet was overtaken.

"That they had been able to, over decades, conduct their work on the vaccine undetected was the result of a code among the Syndicate members that put honor and the future above personal politics. But now this code was beginning to break down, an incipient scramble for power beginning to develop. A threat from within that doubled the threat from without: from agents Mulder and Scully, and the X-files.”

[freckleslikestars]

THE X FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE + letterboxd [1/2]

[katebeckets]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [42/?] ⤷ The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)

[anglerflsh]

lonely games for lonely children

[belleski]

bunch of sailor moon looking mfers

(based on that one bit from the trailer)

[Image description] A digital illustration of all the coven heads from the owl house except Terra. They are in their puppet forms from the ‘For the Future’ trailer - and are facing the viewer in an antagonistic manner. Raine is standing in the center and pointing forwards while glaring. To their left is Eberwolf, Mason , Adrian and Vitimir. On their right is Orsan, Hettie and Darius. All the coven heads except Raine have spell circles drawn. The background is a gradient of purples with light purple stars scattered across it.  [End ID]    

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

Also if ftf was a Normal film you know damn well that when scully repeated mulder's "if i quit now they win" line at the end to parallel the hallway scene they would have gotten a SECOND CHANCE to kiss before the credits and it would have actually HAPPENED and it would have been GREAT but nooo instead we were left with platonic handholding and eternal Suffering

[lollytea]

Huntlow situationship gives me such intense brain termites you don't get it

[pespillo]

booboo buddy

[muzarry]

"Cool, happy to help"

[carefulfears]

the scully of fight the future who doesn’t want a career in the bureau at all if she can’t do it with him. who debated even telling him that she’s quitting in person, and feels like her loss won’t even make a difference: he doesn’t need her, she only holds him back. the scully who doesn’t even make it to the elevator. the way that as soon as he starts speaking, she goes silent. she can’t even respond. this is not a debate. tears just pour down her face, as he tells her that she owes nothing. that she has made her favorite person, a “whole” person. that she has saved him “a thousand times over.” and she stays completely silent. all she can do is cry, and hold him, and kiss his forehead. how small she must feel sometimes…being dragged from one spot to the next, following along. the way her face just collapses as she moves from holding onto his shoulder to pull him down to her. he breaks her open sometimes.

[anistarrose]

After rewatching the Thanks For Watching trilogy, I actually have to double down on my controversial opinion: Hunter never having to directly face off against Belos again after Thanks to Them is actually super satisfying and cathartic in an understated, underrated way. He said everything he needed to say after the worst thing that Belos ever did to him, and from then on, he didn't know it yet but he was free. I'm so happy for him.

[theprinceandthewitch]

Hollow Mind really did that thing where it like, presented itself as a "Luz and Hunter vs Philip" episode, but added in romantic subtext by paralleling Luz and Hunter with past lovers AND did a whole thing where Hunter and Luz find out they've been hurt by Philip's lies...

And they made sure it was only Luz and Hunter in Philip's mindscape ... a mindscape that features paintings where you can see Evelyn and Caleb... the two most important people from Philip's past...

... And they made Luz wear a jacket with a big ol "E" on it and they made Hunter wear Caleb's symbol on his cloak [which is the bird - symbol of Caleb's home town, Gravesfield.]... in an episode where Luz and Hunter are 2vs1ing Philip.

... Interesting, I'm sure that was just an oopsie teehee accident. [this is sarcasm btw]

[freckleslikestars]

I owe you everything, Scully, and you owe me nothing.

Acrylic on canvas, A3

[divinemiracles]

Remember when Willow was the strong, independent one of the group who didn’t need saving or a lover?

I miss that time.

[luisleyyaoi]

I WAS JUST COMING TO TELL YOU THAT HUNTLOW REMAINED AMBIGUOUS! GOOD NEWS ALL AROUND! I FEEL LIKE A WINNER!!!

YALL DO NOT UNDERTSAND HOW HAPPY I WAS SO SEE IR STAY COMPLETELT AMBIGUOUS, THEY DIDNT EVEN TALK THIS EPISODE IT WAS AMAZING

[agrebel18]

🕯️manifesting Gus gets an epic moment in the finale 🕯️