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.

  • Soot [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    In fairness, you need to give recognition to the prominence and date of the show - a fair few X-Files episodes are what made that theory a common cliche. (Same reason Halo 1 comes across nowadays as a bland generic shooter despite being full of original ideas - because all following shooters are clones of it.)

    Either way, the middle seasons are best in my opinion, they do a better job of taking themselves less seriously, some goofy fun, and having fun with weird ideas.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This true, along with a bunch of other TV firsts or tropes it created. Moody atmospheric electronic scores. Filmic shooting style with actual dark scenes broken through by those xenon torch beams. Doing actual science and testing on camera. A mythology arc that runs through weekly adventures before being the focus for a couple of episodes at a time. Etc etc.

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

      My example is always the OG Halloween - It seems cliche now because everyone since then has copied it so much.