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Friday, October 17, 2025

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About X (but were afraid to ask)


I always enjoy talking about XF-ULTRA, but it's especially gratifying when the interviewer really knows his X. And that's what we have here with the Radiant Creators podcast.

Monday, November 30, 2020

Let Me Be Frank about Millennium


Recluse and me went on a epic deep Millennium dive, which also acts as a comprehensive overview of early Internet conspiracy culture and parapolitical history in general. This is one you're not going to miss.  

Very much of "where we are and how we got here" kind of manifesto, using the series as a touchstone.


Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Next Dimension, Please: The OA - Season Two


Is there such an animal as the Theatre of Depression? If not, there should be. Online technology has converted most of the industrialized world into indoorsy introverts, even Instagram globetrotters (who seem to travel solely to snap selfies of themselves in front of exotic landmarks).

Which is to say online technology is depressing the shit out of the world.


Monday, February 18, 2019

X-Files: Old Black Oil, Keep on Rolling


Things are very, very hectic here but I didn't want to keep the Sunsters without some fresh grist for their mills. 


Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr. and the 17 Enigma


David Lynch and Twin Peaks return this May
It appears there will be 17 episodes in all, if the series clocks in at 18 hours and the first episode is two hours long. A cast list comprised of 217 actors has been announced.


Thursday, February 18, 2016

The X-Files: Babylon Working


Well, I've been saying it for years- since well before I started blogging- that The X-Files was basically a ritual drama based on the ancient Mysteries,the religions that arose in the Greco-Roman world during a time when the people had lost faith in the old gods and emphasized ecstatic experience over dogma.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The X-Files Revival Strikes a Nerve.


So after 14 years off the air, 11 months of waiting after the revival was announced and most excruciatingly, 20 minutes of contentless, post-game fluff and a mind-rotting avalanche of commercials, the new episode of The X-Files aired. 


Friday, January 22, 2016

What Year is This? It's SecretSun16


What an interesting year this has been already.

Last year during the New Horizon mission to Pluto (and points beyond), I speculated that the real purpose of this mission was not Pluto at all but was in fact about searching the murky reaches of space beyond the former planet, specifically looking for Planet X. 


Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The New X-Files Trailer is TOTALLY METAL


The trailer here doesn't show much, but what it does show seems to lock in with a leaked report on the first episode of the new series (titled "My Struggle").


Tuesday, March 24, 2015

On The X-Files Revival...


By now you've heard the news: The X-Files are returning to Fox for a limited series. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter have signed up. 


Thursday, October 16, 2014

First Born Unicorn


David Duchovny's long-running sex comedy Californication wrapped this past summer. We looked at some of the symbolism in the series in a Stairway to Sirius post a few years ago (and another here) but I thought this past season was worth a Picture Parade, y'know, just for the giggles and grins.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Nine Eleven Ten Thirteen, Revisited

Oopsy Daisy!

When rewatching Season Eight of The X-Files, I realized that the DVDs and Netflix don't reproduce the timeline, the world in which these episodes were airing. 


Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Sync Log: Fringe Division

I've had a strange relationship with Fringe. I thought the pilot was great but the first half of the first season had a particularly irritating corporate/team-building/authority-boosting vibe I found particularly galling. 

But it recovered beautifully midway through the first season and answered my prayers by picking up stakes and moving up to Vancouver.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Fringe, Political Kabuki and the Suspension of Belief

I was just reading that Fringe is not only in danger of not being renewed for a fifth season, but there is serious concern that Fox might cut its losses and cancel it before it ends its fourth. This doesn't surprise me.

 

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Fringe and the Hard Sci-Fi Paradox


This season I had only one wish for Fringe; I wanted it to give as much of that 90s/Vancouver X-Files vibe as it could possibly manage. The X-Files leaving Vancouver was as much as a shock to my fanboy worldview as The Clash going pop for London Calling was.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Astronaut Theology: SuperGod MasterForce


I always assumed that AAT vanished from pop culture when the original Battlestar Galactica went off the air and didn't really come back into vogue until The X-Files. The reason being is that I wasn't watching a lot of cartoons at that time.

 

Monday, October 04, 2010

AstroGnostic: The Event and 10.13

Strap yourself in, we're going for a wild ride...

The event in this past week's episode of The Event was the crash of the ill-fated jetliner in the Arizonan desert, after being diverted through some type of wormhole from its suicide run. 


Friday, September 24, 2010

TVOD: The Event


A lot of people have asked if I watched this, and I finally did. My opinions are a bit mixed

Thursday, April 01, 2010

TVOD: V jumps the lizard


We'd heard reports that V's long hiatus was due to ABC's unhappiness with the new scripts, so I don't know if this episode was written before or after the shutdown. 

Sunday, February 28, 2010

TVOD: Caprica gets hardcore


Some fans have been complaining that Caprica was taking too long with the exposition. Not any more.