I’ve heard a lot of high praise but it’s such a weird fucking show. It’s like as if Alex Jones made a TV show with all the cliche conspiracy theories.

I don’t know if I want to continue.

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly it's a fun watch when I want to turn off my brain and see Mulder deal with something stupid (like there's a Midwestern vampire episode that's pretty awesome), the overall metaplot is fuckin' weird though but I prefer it over Supernatural that just defaulted to Christian mythology

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I gotta hand it to Supernatural though that they went super hard on christian mythology. Also I think anything else would've felt way out of place to culturally disrespectful since it's basically US Midwest People: The Show.

      Charming as they are, Sam and Dean shoot Buddha in the face or something would've felt wrong

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly I've always favored the "all the mythologies are true" type of new weird cosmology (i.e. it's all true but humans are unable to fully grasp it) instead of how Supernatural had a lot of other culture's deities as subservient (Kali having a fling with Michael and then most other Hindu gods getting punked on by Satan) or just outright beneath the main Christian styled antagonists. Good series though, especially with Sam and Dean being a great brother relationship captured on TV.

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          2 years ago

          One quote that always stuck in my brain was having Odin make some quip about "I'm supposed to get eaten by a big wolf!"

          And like come on dude thats your fated destiny in your mind, you cause so much bullshit trying to avoid that fate it shouldn't be a joke to you! Just lazy and bad writing.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        In fairness I'm pretty sure they also fought a war with the angels and won in a later season. It leaned hard in to Christian mythology but iirc their conclusion was that god was absent, evil, or both, and that at the end of the day the agendas of heaven and hell were the same as far as normal people are concerned.

        But yeah, the "not-white people dieties and archaic white people dieties are all the same and actually they're cannibal fairies or something" was a very woo boy slow down a moment episode.

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          2 years ago
          spoiler

          they go full JRPG and kill Christian God at the end, yeah.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It really is part of my top 10 X-Files episodes. Also the Leech Man, anything with the hacker nerd guys, as well as the crazy ghost episode were all really fun.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I gave up on Supernatural like the 8th time Dean had personal growth and started to become a well rounded functional person and they were like "Shit we got renewed for another season better kill all the women in his life so he can go back to being a nomadic man-child!"