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Things Are Getting Strange

A Garth Marenghi"s Darkplace rewatch podcast. Join us for nerve-shredding horror!Music Credits: "Envision" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/We have a Patreon! Sign up to see out Let"s Play of The X-Files Game at: https://www.patreon.com/thingsaregettingstrange

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62:47

The Episode We Forgot

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/03/20

One of them anyway... Audrey Pauley feels more like a Twilight Zone episode, but is an interesting contrast to Steven Maeda's previous season 9 episode of 4D. And yet, somehow we end up talking about Dark Souls and Die Hard during the course of this episode. And how familiar the villain is. Underneath is an episode we really did completely forget existed. And this despite it being the most The X-Files episode this season! A shame that Doggett is completely correct in this episode for a succes...

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62:36

Kim Manners Was Right

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/03/06

...mostly about the current state of the conspiracy here in Season 9... Providence, wait, Provenance. No, Providence. Dammit, its Provenance! Provenance has the Lone Gunmen for hilariously, almost futile inclusion and seems to want to hark back to one of the series more startling reveals - a half-buried ancient UFO off the coast of Africa. Except not we have one in Calgary, Canada. We complain at length about what has been done to Scully's character and how weirdly certain people are tha...

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55:51

Flayed Corpse Specific Sheets

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/02/27

Vince Gilligan has failed us! And apparently only us as the critical reception to John Doe is strikingly positive. We speculate how much of this is due to snobbishness around sci-fi/fantasy/horror and how much is because we're well acquainted with Gilligan's later productions. Also a waste of a memory vampire... Hellbound is not The X-Files take on Hellraiser, but that film inevitably comes up as a point of comparison given such focus on skinned corpses. And also ask high-brow philosophical q...

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60:16

Insect Boy Biology

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/02/20

With Lord of the Flies, we wonder why The X-Files is now about a group of British school-children trapped on a desert island- Wait... We actually get curious as to whether the show's allusion to Jackass makes any sense anymore and the horror of body lice as a concept. At least we have an unscrupulous entomologist in the form of Rocky to provide entertainment in an episode reminiscent of Rain King but... Well, things are different now. Trust No 1 demands the question of did Chris Carter actual...

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56:38

Rubber Mask Reality

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/02/13

Daemonicus is Kim's most hated episode of the entire run of The X-Files. Fun times! A good start leads into an increasingly dissatisfying experience and we once again discover how different intent was to how we wound up interpreting the episode on both watch and re-watch. Inevitably we also end up talking about Hannibal and also Hannibal. Also; its clear the writers don't quite know what to do with Reyes... 4-D is better though bleaker and depressing and should probably have shown up in the s...

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68:22

Saw Trap Mobiles

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/02/06

We're not entirely sure if Scully buys Jigsaw brand mobiles for her baby or the foley-artist made a strange choice for season 9's opener, but when baby William seems to use telekinesis to make his mobile move... It does sound like something out of Saw... Welcome to Season 9! It all looks and sounds and feels a lot better than another series we've been struggling through. And in a possible bid to get more viewers both episodes involve Lucy Lawless not wearing anything. We discuss how the tone ...

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83:29

Walk Without Rhythm...

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/01/30

...it won't attract the worm!Weapon of Choice used (for no particular reason) in All About Yves is one of the high points. We get into why even with the writers throwing every trick in the bag to get a second series, even the revelatory answers were never going to be exactly great by way of Star Wars and Twin Peaks.Plus, Kim has a far better plan to capture Yves than anything Morris Fletcher has dreamt up and its really hard to overlook how much simpler and effective and quick her suggestion ...

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66:20

Better

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/01/27

We were told these two episodes were an improvement... and that was not wrong!The Lying Game impressively avoids a gigantic pitfall that would have made the episode incredibly uncomfortable and lowered our impression of the characters still further. It also boasts a guest appearance from Mitch Pileggi who does a stellar job of impersonating Jimmy when events call for it.We'll even overlook how the reasons the LGM get into the plot aren't exactly meant to be their thing, the plot does revolve ...

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66:40

Doldrums

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2025/01/16

It is hard to muster energy for The Lone Gunmen at this point...Diagnosis Jimmy feels stitched together from discarded parts of other episodes and continues to call into question how Jimmy is able to exist in the real world. Meanwhile the other LGM-centric plot feels so poorly justified for its inclusion.Unprofessional nurses and weirdly ineffective bear-traps abound...Tango de los Pistoleros is a better episode but has so many question marks hanging over it that its still hard to enjoy. We w...

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47:50

Watching the Skis!

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/12/19

We've reached episode 100 and so... are taking a break from The Lone Gunmen for this week.Instead we have taken a trip to Springfield to witness the reasonably inexplicable crossover of The X-Files into The Simpsons. Which remains a lot of fun and is an extremely highly rated episode even now.A lot of jokes and only a little threat of fear, famine and pestilence...We also talk about the spec script, Flight 180, that went on to become Final Destination. We talk about the differences between th...

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76:58

Weird Linux Joke

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/12/12

...which was probably more baffling on release, but now we have to ask why the LGM don't actively use Linux for like paranoid reasons...Back off hiatus! And despite the episode title being Planet of the Frohikes, the episode is more about Jimmy and chimpanzees and not really about Frohike at all. We get into the episode tipping its hand way too early, the The Murders in the Rue Morgue inferences and are somewhat floored by Yves actually being in-character.Why does the series have a running ga...

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72:16

Pixellated Wife

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/11/14

Stuff happened between watching Three Men and a Smoking Diaper and when we recorded this episode and made it somehow even less fun than the first time around when we were merely severely annoyed by every little thing in it.Quite apart from the Lone Gunmen apparently getting into Gonzo Journalism rather than their normal style, the continued reliance on Jimmy as the "presentable" member of the gang (and not, say, Byers), the apparent lack of using Jimmy for his intended purpose (explain techni...

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71:28

Wilhelm (Doesn't) Scream

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/11/07

Somehow the third episode of the series is Eine Kleine Frohike, an episode of The Lone Gunmen which feels like it should come from a hypothetical season 4 when the writers have well and truly run out of ideas. That it's also taking inspiration from The Ladykillers is just an additional bizarre twist to the whole mess.We return to wondering if this series is just supposed to be an unauthorized Mission Impossible reboot or it just somehow has amazing rubber masks for some other reason. Jimmy's ...

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77:31

Bertram's Blood

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/10/31

We swap from the bureaucratic FBI to a low-circulation newspaper office run by three familiar characters. Welcome to The Lone Gunmen. The one series spin-off of the popular trio into their own show!Second time we're discussing an episode titled Pilot...For the most part the series starts strong with a plot more Lone Gunmen like than The X-Files provided for quite a time. There's some Mission: Impossible, some unfortunate correct guessing at events that occurred less than a year from broadcast...

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45:40

Could Have Ended Here...

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/10/24

The X-Files could genuinely have ended with Existence. There's room for a future version of the series, but a lot of plot is resolved and the current alien threat is so nebulous. But Season 9 looms. But before that: The Lone Gunmen.And before that: We get hung up on all the Biblical imagery in this episode, none of it subtle. Including the UFO/guiding star thing. We are increasingly unsure on how any of the conspiracy works or what this means, but the Sculder shippers are presumably very happ...

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76:11

Billy Miles: Weakness: Doors

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/10/17

Not to The Doors slightly sadly. That would be a bit too surreal. But certainly, closing and not even locking a door is enough to deter the new villainous version of that kid from the pilot episode of the series from attacking Doggett or killing Mulder. Useful stuff.But before that Essence stuff, there's Alone:Scully leaves the X-Files (the department) but remains in The X-Files (the show)! Doggett gets a new partner! Slightly inexplicably transferred from accountant to field agent. We like L...

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62:18

Passing the Time as the Black Oil

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/10/03

Its never bad to have an episode where Reyes shows up. Though Empedocles does stress this attitude. For the main plot, Reyes herself prompts all kinds of questions about her existence within the FBI and her complete non-crossing paths with the X-Files. For the subplots, we do have to increasingly stress the question no one wants to ask: just who is Scully's baby-father?But that gets side-lined in favour of Doggett's tragic backstory. Alluded to back in Invocation and then ignored. Until now!V...

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69:27

Punching Krycek in the Face

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/09/26

So Krycek's back in Deadalive. What has he been doing? Did he tell anyone he killed CSM off last season? Why does he want Skinner to prevent Scully from giving birth? We get no answers.But Mulder is definitely dead. Totally. 100%. Just pay no attention to him being first in the opening credits again.We get very confused about why Theresa (the other abductee returned last episode) doesn't factor into events, also how this weirdo new alien scheme works and how Scully used to think Mulder had mo...

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67:58

Alien in Nikes

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/09/19

It is hard not to question Scully's decision-making ability in Per Manum. Not least because she figures the best place to hide out while conspiratorial stuff is going on is with the army. Who have never, ever been involved with anything shady and conspiratorial.We discuss how ultrasounds tend to look a tad on the alien-side of things no matter what one you look at, Scully's lack of questions at multiple points, our confusion over what the latest twist of the conspiracy even is, and why it is ...

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48:13

Worse Than the Mayor from Jaws

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/09/12

We're back! After injury and illness, we return to watch Doggett die in The Gift!It is perhaps not as big a spoiler as you might imagine given he's perfectly fine and in the rest of this season despite this slight complication. This is a weird episode though and features an entity which we are repeatedly told is a soul eater despite not acting anything like one.A shame the episode starts well and has a really good setup that fails to pay off come the ending.Medusa continues a sporadic trend o...

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