So "Supernatural" has been on a break the last couple weeks (it's finally back!), so I decided I needed something else to obsess on. Before I got into "Supernatural", I was watching "The X-Files", but left it behind when I discovered the Winchester boys. I was on season 1 and had no time for it. So I decided to get back into it, and now am on season 3. I may or may not have watched 8 episodes in one day. Thanks Netflix. Here are my current observations about the show.
1) I'm 20 years too late. This show was made in 1993. I was 3. Basically my parents were the age I am now when this show was on. Which is kinda weird. It obviously is outdated in a lot of regards. (The cell phones and computers LOL) But it still is super relevant. The fact that these issues were being raised 20 years ago is awesome to me as someone so interested in the possibility of these things. A lot of the same themes and issues are in the more modern day shows I watch and love, such as "Supernatural" and "Fringe" so I do think it was a pioneer of its' time. I'm also quite sure that if I were watching this when it was first on, I would have a crush on Mulder. But knowing he is older than my dad in real life now really ruins it. And my mom told me he is a sex addict. Is that true? #liferuined
2) I ship the heck out of Mulder and Scully. I don't want it ruined for me- as in spoilers (20 years later and I'm asking for no spoilers haha)- but I want them to date. I hope they do. The sexual tension is real. Seriously, if the internet was then what it is today, there would be tumblr posts and fan fic about them no doubt. What would their shit name be? Mully?
3) Why is Scully so freakin skeptical? STILL? I honestly want to kick her sometimes. After ALL she has seen, the fact that she still always wants scientific evidence drives me nuts. I am much more like Mulder. (If anyone wants to remake the show, I will gladly be a female Mulder) If I were Scully, I wouldn't keep questioning everything. What more evidence do you need, girl?!
4) The fact that the government has so much control over the information and that that could literally happen/be happening freaks me out. I have absolutely no doubt there is stuff they keep from us, but to what level? I do believe in other life, but I'm really hesitant to believe they're little green men. I've said it before & I'll say it again, C-H-I-C-K-E-N, I like Chiiiiiiiiiicken (Remember when the mom sang that on Pepper Ann? I should blog at 4 am) Where I was going with this is, I think "aliens" look like us. Which would be so much easier to hide from us, too.
Also, the creepy mountain office where they stored super detailed files of abductees is disturbing. What if they did that with everybody? We wouldn't know. They could have all our info and DNA samples saved and we would really never know.
5) I'm not sure if I trust Skinner at this point. But the guy that chain smokes really grinds my gears (Family Guy, anyone?) And I seriously smell smoke every time I see him with a cigarette. It's psychological obviously, but I really hate the smell of cigarettes. Disgusting. SPOILER (if 20 years later still counts) And that Mulder's dad was in on the experiments and CHOSE Samantha to get abducted makes me SO mad. How do you do that to your kid? I hope she's still alive. The episode where they pretended to be her also made me mad. Mulder devoted his whole LIFE to finding the truth and the whole time his dad knew and was semi-responsible. How would neither of his parents told him by now?
I know this show is probably too old for a lot of people my age and younger, but I cannot stop watching. It gives me so much to think about and that's something I really like it a show. Plus, I think it is cool to see their theories and take on things of this nature from 20 years ago. Also, this means you can probably expect a lot of posts inspired by things I've seen in the show.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
The Truth is Out There
X-files reference FTW! So, if you know me, you probably know I am consumed with the idea that life isn't what we think it is. I'm not sure what it is, but I've heard enough theories to be convinced. (The Matrix, anyone?) If you really think about it, we can't be sure of ANYTHING 100%. And that's kind of creepy. But mostly intriguing. This is not going to be about that, but it will be along those lines. If I haven't mentioned this (which I have to have by now), I love science fiction. Fringe, Supernatural, Dollhouse, Sliders...just to name a few. I have seen every episode of these shows--most more than once---and I am fascinated by these ideas. Now The X-Files is obviously a little older, but it is the basis a lot of modern day shows are built on. I've been watching it lately since I was 3 when it premiered (just got to season 2) and it really makes you think. (But Scully's undying skepticism in the first season was really frustrating) I like to think of it as a more modern X-Files, without the extraterrestrial element. Badass FBI agents investigating things most people wouldn't believe in.
So I want to talk about some of the concepts brought up from this show and mostly the universe in general. Now from my college astronomy class (although it was NOT what I was expecting and was very disappointed...I'm NOT good at science no matter how much it interests me) I learned A LOT about space. Almost to the point where it terrifies me. How small and insignificant we really are. BUT all of what I'm going to say is on the basis that WHAT WE ARE LIVING IS REAL AND WHAT WE THINK IT IS. Which as I stated, I don't believe is the case. But for the sake of this conversation, we will act as though it is. (And ps, I'm not crazy. I think it's SO naive to believe everything we're taught. Not everything CAN be explained. We just like to rationalize everything so we feel better about our lives. And so self-involved to think we're the only people in the universe. Have you seen the size of the universe?!)
Now the way it essentially works is that we can only see as far out as how old our planet is. The whole light year situation. And the farther things in space are, the older back we see them, because it takes so long to get to us. So if someone was on a faraway planet, looking at Earth, they could see it WAY in its' early years. We're talking dinosaurs, here. (Not that we can be sure they ever existed, but I'm getting off track) From what we can see of the universe around us, we can estimate the earth to be 4.5 billion years old. That's the observable universe. And it's a lot more years than we can really even comprehend.
This video shows just how small the earth is in comparison to the universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IVqMXPFYwI
It's beyond crazy to me to think about this. As far as we have come with inventions and languages and everything could be SO basic compared to what others in the universe have come up with. There could be people like us (or other intelligent species) that we will NEVER be able to know about because of how far away they could be. It almost gives me anxiety to think about how much we don't and never will know. It kind of makes me feel like nothing I do is important. And in reality, what we do doesn't matter. We will die and eventually nobody will remember us or anything we did.
Don't even get me started about parallel universes. (Which by the way, sciences do believe exist, we just can't get to them. But if that day comes, I'm so game to participate in that experiment)
Back to the universe. It's so possible, and I'd even go as far to say definite, that there is other life somewhere out there in the universe. And we don't have answers. Now I don't want to get into government conspiracies, but I'm certain there are people that know more than the general public. I'm not sure what experiments they do/have done and they probably wouldn't divulge that information anyway, but it's scary to think we may be so uninformed about the universe around us. Even aside from extraterrestrial phenomenon, there's plenty on earth that we don't know about. It makes my brain run wild with all the possibilities. Thinking of all the possible other people out there and how different life could be for them. Different species we never would think of. Or super evolved humans--or even animals. It's fascinating to me.
Sorry if this seems scattered. My mind is going a million miles an hour and I tried to wrangle my thoughts in. But space.. it's a crazy thing.
So I want to talk about some of the concepts brought up from this show and mostly the universe in general. Now from my college astronomy class (although it was NOT what I was expecting and was very disappointed...I'm NOT good at science no matter how much it interests me) I learned A LOT about space. Almost to the point where it terrifies me. How small and insignificant we really are. BUT all of what I'm going to say is on the basis that WHAT WE ARE LIVING IS REAL AND WHAT WE THINK IT IS. Which as I stated, I don't believe is the case. But for the sake of this conversation, we will act as though it is. (And ps, I'm not crazy. I think it's SO naive to believe everything we're taught. Not everything CAN be explained. We just like to rationalize everything so we feel better about our lives. And so self-involved to think we're the only people in the universe. Have you seen the size of the universe?!)
Now the way it essentially works is that we can only see as far out as how old our planet is. The whole light year situation. And the farther things in space are, the older back we see them, because it takes so long to get to us. So if someone was on a faraway planet, looking at Earth, they could see it WAY in its' early years. We're talking dinosaurs, here. (Not that we can be sure they ever existed, but I'm getting off track) From what we can see of the universe around us, we can estimate the earth to be 4.5 billion years old. That's the observable universe. And it's a lot more years than we can really even comprehend.
This video shows just how small the earth is in comparison to the universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IVqMXPFYwI
It's beyond crazy to me to think about this. As far as we have come with inventions and languages and everything could be SO basic compared to what others in the universe have come up with. There could be people like us (or other intelligent species) that we will NEVER be able to know about because of how far away they could be. It almost gives me anxiety to think about how much we don't and never will know. It kind of makes me feel like nothing I do is important. And in reality, what we do doesn't matter. We will die and eventually nobody will remember us or anything we did.
Don't even get me started about parallel universes. (Which by the way, sciences do believe exist, we just can't get to them. But if that day comes, I'm so game to participate in that experiment)
Back to the universe. It's so possible, and I'd even go as far to say definite, that there is other life somewhere out there in the universe. And we don't have answers. Now I don't want to get into government conspiracies, but I'm certain there are people that know more than the general public. I'm not sure what experiments they do/have done and they probably wouldn't divulge that information anyway, but it's scary to think we may be so uninformed about the universe around us. Even aside from extraterrestrial phenomenon, there's plenty on earth that we don't know about. It makes my brain run wild with all the possibilities. Thinking of all the possible other people out there and how different life could be for them. Different species we never would think of. Or super evolved humans--or even animals. It's fascinating to me.
Sorry if this seems scattered. My mind is going a million miles an hour and I tried to wrangle my thoughts in. But space.. it's a crazy thing.
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