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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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71:15

The Tetsuo in the Room

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/08/22

We watched Tetsuo the Iron Man ahead of Salvage this week. Mostly because Salvage is an admitted version of the film. The experience was illuminating but did underscore how strange the idea of doing this idea as an X-Files episode and all the parts Salvage left out. At least we got to see all the things that inspired Tetsuo and all the things it seemingly influenced after...We also talk a fair amount about new film Alien: Romulus, but also pick at the parts of Salvage that are confusing. Like...

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63:55

Skinman Does Some Muldering

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/08/15

The premise and intent behind Via Negativa is really neat and interesting! The actual episode starts really strongly and then loses its way somewhat spectacularly and is found exceptionally wanting. Very confusing and not in a fun what is reality kind of way the episode is probably going for.We talk about Event Horizon a bit and how the episode seems to hand wave away the impossibility of the murder weapon, though at least we get a Doggett-Skinman team-up episode so that's fun.We get high-bro...

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65:16

Hey Tristan

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2024/08/01

That Doggett can go through the events of Invocation and come out the other side to dismiss anything happening in Redrum is nothing short of astonishing. Never did Scully get handed something so ardently impossible as the dark tale of child kidnap and apparent manifestation from beyond the grave. Fresh Bones was not this concrete with its impossible child.We get into how Closure from last season does provoke a lot of awkward questions for how the dark, dark backstory for this episode is even ...

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57:57

Worm Emperor

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2024/07/25

A decidedly odd start to Doggett's time on the X-Files. And we can't ignore that it would be more effective if Patience and Roadrunners was swapped in the episode order. And also that Patience feels a lot like a re-do of Squeeze just without actually re-watching Squeeze and apparently just working off the vague memories of the classic.We compare the monster to Buffy special effects, dwell on the nature of the show's Bible and wonder about man-bat breeding colonies. And also admire how no one ...

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56:25

Whatever Happened to Strughold?

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2024/07/18

New season and new character! With Within we welcome John Doggett to The X-Files and indeed, the X-Files. Our new hardened skeptic to Scully's abruptly much more open-minded version of herself. Which does feel a little odd as it feels like seeing the UFO at the end of Requiem would be more of a trigger for this, but here we are.Also Kersh is back!We discuss how Scully remains difficult for many X-Files writers to cope with and the implausibility of various spaceships within Earth's (or Earth-...

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75:16

Teens with Giger Counters

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/07/11

Is it ever possible to have a story wherein a character is granted three wishes and for them to not screw up immediately? Je Souhaite certainly paints none of the would be wishees in especially good light.Despite the inherent issues with humanity, the episode is a lot of fun. Scully gets to be giddy about autopsying an invisible man, while Mulder tries to rules-lawyer his way out of unwanted side-effects. As the penultimate episode of the season (and at one stage, possibly ever) its a fun tim...

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55:45

The Second Rule

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2024/06/27

Not sure if the first episode to receive the treatment, but it turns out Mythbusters specifically took down one of the central premises of this episode as being effectively impossible. So, no you can't listen to the Aramaic version of I am the Walrus on that pot your aunt made...Hollywood AD is a weird episode. Part religious struggle and part Hollywood wrecking the premise of The X-Files itself and reducing a Cardinal who cracks joke into a bizarre version of Cigarette Smoking Man in the for...

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61:53

Sinister Buddhas

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2024/06/20

The enduring question we were left with all things was what happened? The answer seemingly was Carter and Spotnitz who did things to the episode and fundamentally changed a few things about the directorial debut of Gillian Anderson.It is a shame as we would really like to like this episode but even now the details drift away. Except for a ship-baity start and deeply unsettling statues. And crop circles feels a really weird thing for Mulder to fixate on when he has actively talked to multiple ...

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66:38

Water Skiing Lessons

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/06/13

We are very much ignoring the future of En Ami. We know and we will get to it. Later.For now, we have questions about extraneous other angels and the complete lack of Lord Kinbote. And that man really does not live up to the code-name 'Cobra'. Still, the CSM and Scully road-trip has its moments though we are bewildered by the end as to what the point of any of it was - and speculate things might have been quite different on the first draft.Not quite an episode about nothing, but also not real...

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84:02

The Sexy Lamp Test

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/06/06

If you are at all convinced by the advertising, the promotional gimmicks, the press interviews for First Person Shooter, we are here to tell you in no uncertain terms how bad this game is. That said, you likely already played it during the press embargo and know of its absurd difficulty spike, its complete lack of cohesion and rumoured risk of permanent physical injury, death or removal from this plane of existence.We are not ultimately sure who is responsible for this mess. While William Gib...

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61:31

Nice Episode, Shame About the Plot

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/05/23

Send us a Text Message.And thus we learn the final fate of Samantha Mulder!Is it satisfying? No. Closure is very touching and quite beautiful and well acted. But as a capstone to a question that first appeared in the very first episode this is not what anyone wanted. We get into how this fails to make much sense with seven years of other conspiracy (we know the aliens habitually lie, but why bother to claim Samantha was alive back in End Game?) and why this is basically just Redux's solution ...

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67:15

Use the Snackle Remover on Paper Hearts 2.0

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/05/16

Send us a Text Message.Content warning: mentions of animal abuse, implied incest, child deathSigns and Wonders is somewhat diminished when we learned about the various animal cruelties on set during the filming of this episode.Getting past that, we are left with a succession of questions about what and why this episode happened. Its pretty fun though and we learn about how auditions were done for the episode and which members of the cast and crew were more than three blocks away whenever the ...

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53:14

Episode Hijack

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/05/09

Send us a Text Message.It is hard to watch Orison without immediately concluding that Scully is totally getting fired right after the climax of the episode. And yet - based on The Amazing Maleeni - somehow shooting an unarmed man, pointblank while he is being arrested by her partner is not enough.Weird how it was Scully who'd finally wind up killing someone like this. Mulder kept trying but never managed it. Still, we are supposed to have some empathy given the man in question is Donnie Pfast...

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60:25

Scratchcard Lore

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/05/02

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55:21

The Four Zombies of the Apocalypse

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/04/25

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49:24

Craig Willmore Simulator

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/04/11

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68:58

Zombies Stole My Spaceship

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/04/04

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70:38

Shooting Skinner

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/03/28

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58:35

The Ragamuffin

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/03/21

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79:30

Phonebooth of Hope

Things Are Getting Strange ·

2024/03/14

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