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Rachael Bahl wrote:
> In article <35A02393.A17693E1@orgo.cad.gu.edu.au>, "$teve2"
> <stephend@orgo.cad.gu.edu.au> wrote:
> >Rachael Bahl wrote:
\> >> In article <3593B27B.1B33@orgo.cad.gu.edu.au>,
stephend@orgo.cad.gu.edu.au
> >> wrote:
> >> Hey $teve, this was *really* good... almost completely spot on as far as I
> >> could tell. :-)
> >Hotdamn I'm obssessed.
> No, $teve, *focussed*. :-)

Obssessed :-) [That there's a reference son.]

> >  You see Rach, I LOVE the science angle of the
> >X-files.
> There's a *science* angle to the XF? :-)

The angles as I see them are:
Science - the experiments like I've listed
Religion - Calrisari<sp?>, the jewish golem, um, the one with the witch
Angst - Scully Cancer
Shadowy Dealings - Pine bluff?
Supernatural - um, that one with the ghost ;-)
Supertechnical - GITM, Kill Switch 
Alien - Fallen Angel, Max, Firewalker, Flukeman, the one with the bugs
in the forest, 

I may even get around to writing up each of these subgroups.

> > Hence why I found all that bloody Scully angst unbearable.  It
> >was taking screen time away from the science projects.
> >Bring back the X-periments! Bring back the X-periments!
> Which ones have you found most interesting?

I found the timetravel one absolutely hysterical in parts
"Our research is secret."
Uhuh. You guys have a laboratory funded by ARC large grants.  Everything
you're doing on this Uni funded project is not secret. And even if it
was secret, one of the very interesting almost $tevelinkish things about
university life is the fact that multiple university can be working on
identical projects, without having collaborated with each other.

In terms of the science projects in the XF I've liked, I do have a soft
spot for the mindcontrol work done in Blood and Wetwired.  Wetwired was
fascinating from a marketing point of view, given that I work in mind
control and teach advanced social manipulation.

Well, marketing and social marketing, but I don't have an illusions as
to what I really teach people.

The ideas generated in Blood was that chemicals and technology could be
combined to influence a population.  The delivery mode of the chemicals
was more crude than expected, using a crop duster, although that did
have the advantage of minimizing the target zone.  If successful, the
Blood chemical technologies could be adpated for a RedMuseum style
delivery.

Following that up in Wetwired was the idea of using cable television
reception for manipulation of specific sections of the population.  What
was never really explored was whether one or all of the channels was
'contaminated' by the signal.  If all of the channels were 'infected',
then cable TV owners would be indiscriminately affected (excluding the
Red/Green colourblinded and Mulder).

However, if the influencer was able to be channel specific, the power
for control is fantastic.  Wire the little magic box to influence people
who watch CNN.  Target certain television shows and channels.  The power
and control that could be influenced is truely awesome.  Terrifying and
alluring at the same time.

I think those two episodes, in conjunction with Red Museum make for a
nastier conspiracy than the Colony project.  Face it, you can shoot what
you can see, and even MMBH is still vulnerable.

You can't stop what you don't know is happening.  For me, that's more
frightening than any alien colony project - somebody else giving your
mind instructions.

> >> >[2] I swear the boxcar thing is an analogy to Nazi Germany and the
> >> >transporting of Jewish people via trains to the death camps
> >> As was confirmed by DD in the "inside the XF" special.
> >Score another one for the $teve2. That makes a grand total of....one.
> But it's a beginning. :-)

The end is the beginning

> Rachael.


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