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X-Files "NetPickers Guide"
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By: Kymberlee Ricke
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Well, here it is. The first draft of the ongoing "Netpickers Guide to The X- Files". Thanks to all who wrote in with
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their netpicks. For those of you who can't stand to see a wonderful and well-loved show picked apart mercilessly -
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abort now. Also, be warned! This Guide contains *SPOILERS* and this is the only warning you will get. As I
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alluded to before, the contributors love this show and we're doing this so that the show can improve. Call it,
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constructive criticism. Obviously we aren't out just to slam the show. People who hate it that much wouldn't be
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watching closely enough or often enough to catch most of these. For the most part, it looks like it will be hard to
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attribute a netpick to a single contributor, since many people are sending in the same thing in different wording.
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What will be credited are original explanations that the editor feels are...well..."plausable". Or at least worth
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getting input about.
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So, send in your netpicks and if you see one here you think you might be able explain - explain it. I'll update and
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repost this every two weeks or so, starting after the season 2 opener. Also, let me know if you want season 2 to
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be in it's own file or appended to this one.
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Here it is, making it's debut...
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********** The Netpickers' Guide to _The X-Files_**************
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Pilot:
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If Mulder lost nine minutes, and Scully lost nine minutes, and the car lost nine minutes, how come Mulder's watch
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didn't lose nine minutes?
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Deep Throat:
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In DT when one of the MIB's removes the magazine from Scully's gun , there is only one round in the magazine.
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Something tells me you would expect them to have more then 1 rnd in the magazine. Unless she had been
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shooting at street signs as they drove down the road :-)
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Shadows:
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Not only did Graves die on the 5th, and Scully journal in the next ep was the 4th, but in the security video where
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Lauren Kyte was attacked but the isphahan it was dated 09/22/93 (you guys even have the dates backwards:-)
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even though it was supposed to be about 2 weeks AFTER Graves had died.I can only guess they mean
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10/22/93.....
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Ice:
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When Mulder points the gun at the dog you hear his cocking the hammer on the gun. The Glock 19 has an
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internal hammer so unless it makes that noise when you depress the first stage of the trigger...(having never shot
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the glock before I can't say for sure.. Anyone???....)
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Darkness Falls:
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1. Spinney goes up the mountain to rescue his Mulder, Scully and the Ranger. No problems with his vehicle. Then
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when they go down the mountain, they get a flat because those spikes are in the road. If any terrorists are in the
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woods, the bugs are going to get them. So, where did the spikes come from? Did the bugs set them?
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2. Why did Spinney get killed by the bugs when he was standing in the headlights of the car in "Darkness Falls"
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My guess is that the bugs began to swarm on his unlit side, he panicked, and left the path of the headlights. The
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bugs did also seem FAR more aggressive when not in an enclosed space... hmm, this might have something to do
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with air currents allowing pheromones to spread more freely thus promoting swarming, or perhaps the breeze
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would remove waste byproducts faster...
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3. Why DIDN'T they build a fire?
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I could believe that this might never occur to an FBI agent, but the park ranger (or the ecoterrorist, or the
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loggers...) certainly SHOULD have thought of fire. Perhaps they feared burning down the forest?
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4. We may also want to mention strange special effects or anomalies. For example, when they are riding in the
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jeep down the hill it looks like there's another vehicle following them. I think this is a reflection off the camera
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lens and it looks pretty weird.
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Eve:
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1. Where did they put the blood they drained out of the bodies? And what was the point in the neck wounds? Was
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this a plot device to throw us off track?
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I think Mulder mentioned that the first murder occlude right before it rained and the blood was washed away. But
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if that was the case. why wasn't the body soaking wet? I'm not sure if there was a mention of the blood
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disappearing in the case of the second father. The neck wounds were the points from which the blood left the
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bodies.
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2. If Tina Simmons had the Eve-strength to get her father into the swing without leaving signs of a struggle,
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how'd Mulder manage to restrain her with one arm and Cindy with the other?
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3. Sally Kendrick, the adult Eve said she had *extra* chromosomes (aneuplody) of normal chromosome sets (I
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forget which ones she said... but it doesn't matter) which is absolutely FATAL (in higher animals) except for X,
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13,18 and/or 21, all of which lead to severe retardation. Multiple extra chromosomes would result in spontaneous
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abortion of the fetus very early in development... long before birth.
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I don't know about you all, but that jives with my genetics class. Not only should they have not been super-
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intellegent, they shouldn't have been born!
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Ghost in the Machine:
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How did the Eurisko computer turn on Scully's machine? It takes a mechanical switch to turn on a computer.
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Well, actually, as far as Scully's computer turning itself on in The Ghost In The Machine (while I thought the
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episode was rather hokey, and I must admit I complained about this myself), I have seen devices that you can
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hook up to your computer that will turn it on (or off, presumably ) remotely. I suppose this is for travelling
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corporate-types, or people who are running a BBS (so that they can reset it if it locks up) or some such
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thing. Anyways, such devices _do_ exist (although ominously, I can't find any in the catalogs I have on hand),
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though I find it difficult to believe that Scully would:
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(a) have one on her system, and
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(b) have her machine autoboot to a terminal-esque program anyways.
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(Then again, maybe _PC Anywhere_ would do the trick -- a computer would have little problem trying all
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permutations of a password).
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Opinions?
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(Much other speculation not included. If you want to continue on this one take it to comp.* :)
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Space:
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1. If Dr. Scully is able to tell the paramedics to give Belt 10 mg of something-or-another, and warns Mulder of an
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aneurysm, how come when they first find Belt she just stands there instead of giving first aid?" She should have
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been authoritative before and after the break.
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2. Why did Mulder call for a Doctor with Scully present in Space?
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3. Aren't hospital windows made so that people *can't* jump out of them?
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Young at Heart:
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1. Why did Mulder, a trained psychologist, and another psychologist confuse Multiple Personality Syndrome with
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Schizophrenia in Young at Heart. (That was Young at heart wasn't it?)
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2. The Kidnappers use Scully's Cellular phone and Mulder says they can't trace it.
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Wrong. :) They can easily triangulate the call fairly quickly. The NSA maybe but not the FBI agents. I mean have
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you ever tried fox hunting :-) someone ?? Maybe if they were on the phone for a few hours you could send the
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agents out with a scanner type device, plus you need the freq its operating on.. I wasn't to into tech babble but its
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not that simple. Plus the signal is oh.. however the signal is relayed though those towers so maybe the phone
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company could tell you where it travelled though(the signal) but I find it unlikely...
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3. When Scully is trying to convince Jack to be Jack and not Dupree, she reminds him of his birthday - Feb 23,
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1957. Then, when she is looking at the "Happy 35th" watch, she says that she gave it to him 3 years ago, which
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would be 1991. If Jack Willis was born in 1957, he would have only been 34 in 1991, not 35. Did I do the math
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wrong or did anyone else notice this?
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4. If Jack was a diabetic then why did it take so long for him to go into a coma without insulin. I didn't keep track
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of the number of hours/days since he was "revived", but it was several days. And there was a brief bit of dialogue
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that he had passed his medical and psychological tests with flying colors. How can you pass without the results of
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blood and urine tests? If this was a "FBI approved" doctor who had the agent's history, wouldn't s/he have asked
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Jack how his diabetes was getting along which would have been a clue to the dude inhabiting Jack's body that his
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new body had a problem he had to deal with?
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5. "Dupree" cut the fingers off his old body in order to get his wedding ring. Why did it perfectly fit his "new"
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body?
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Roland:
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Can a human being really hold onto a grill by the fingertips for as long as a few seconds in a thousand-mile-an-
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hour wind?
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Erlenmeyer Flask:
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Did anyone do a freeze-frame on the sign glimpsed briefly during the opening car chase of The Erlenmeyer Flash?
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It says: "Vancouver Drydock Company Ltd." Oops!
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And then there was the CN (Canadian National) engine pulling the train, also seen during the chase...
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############
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And there it is! Send any additions, solutions etc... to kkaricke@delphi.com.
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See you in a couple of weeks!
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Kymberlee
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