Digested Digest #3 ~ The X-Files: Fight The Future Special (6-21-98) Contents 1.) OMEGA's Ramblings 2.) Digested Digest FAQ. 3.) The X-Files: FTF News 4.) TXF: FTF Movie>ToTO Subject: [XF] Movie/Book **Spoilers** Just saw the movie again and I think what scully said was I saw it, what is it? Also I was just wondering something that was posted on the official site was that character called the Black Haired Man----who was this character in the movie and what did he do? His he the driver/guy coming out of the vending machine room/ambulance driver guy?? Also I was thinking about how Mulder got to see Scully naked, but more likely CSM got to undress her (someone had to) I just picked up the book by CC that tells the story of the movie and was adapted from the screenplay. There are a number of things included in the book that were apparently cut from the movie. Of the most interest so far is what else WMM tells Mulder's excerpt from book follows: The Well-Manicured Man nodded grimly. “Imagine our surprise when they began to gestate. My group has been working cooperatively with the alien colonists, facilitating programs like the one you saw. To gain access to the virus, in hope that we might secretly develop a cure.” “To save yourselves,” broke in Mulder. The Well-Manicured Man Shrugged, “When war is futile, victory consists of merely staying alive. Survival is the ultimate ideology.” He hesitated, then gave Mulder a cool smile. “Your father wisely refused to believe this.” “My father sacrificed my sister!” cried Mulder angrily. “He let them take Samantha—“ “No.” for a moment the Well-Manicured Man looked almost sorrowful. “Without a vaccination, the only true survivors of viral holocaust would be those immune to it: human/alien clones. He allowed your sister to be abducted to be taken to a cloning program for one reason.” “So she'd survive,” Mulder breathed in sudden understanding, “As a genetic hybrid...” The Well-Manicured Man nodded, “Your father chose hope over selfishness. Hope in the only future he had: his children. His hope for you, Agent Mulder, was that you would uncover the truth about the Project. that you would do everything you could to stop it---That you would fight the future.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5.) THE X-FILES ACTION FIGURES Date: 20 Jun 1998 01:41:29 -0000 From: Laura Witte Subject: [XF] Toy Information Some of the toy stores in my area got the X-Files Action Figures and the X-Files Barbie dolls today. For those who are interested, here is the breakdown of the action figures: Series One Suit-Mulder with Alien Pod Suit-Mulder with Dead Body Suit-Scully with Alien Pod Suit-Scully with Dead Body Series Two Cold-Gear-Mulder with Alien Pod (rare - 1 per case) Cold-Gear-Mulder with Alien Cold-Gear-Scully with Alien Pod (rare - 1 per case) Cold-Gear-Scully with Alien Attack Alien with Caveman Fireman with Transport Case (rare - 1 per case) Basically, there are 2 Mulders (a suit and a cold-gear) and 2 Scullys (a suit and a cold-gear), but they each come packaged with 2 different things (that's McFarlane Toys for you). The ones I marked as rare are according to the guy at the toy store, not any official release, so if he was wrong I apologize (although someone else confirmed that the Fireman figure was hard to find). A different toy store employee told me that the Barbie dolls may be hard to find shortly. He said that the dolls had been recalled so they could re-sculpt Mulder's hair. I hadn't heard this before, and I was able to find the dolls at another store, so I can't vouch for the validity of this rumor. Laura Visit the X-Files Inside Jokes List at: http://www.nashville.com/~subterfuge/xfiljoke.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6.) THE X-FILES: UNRESTRICTED ACCESS Last issue I Reviewed THE X-FILES INTERACTIVE GAME. I must say that game is very rewarding, and it has a nice ending. If you don't know: there are three possible character types Agent Willmore can turn into through the coarse of the game. If you need any help. There is a $19.95 Strategy Guide. Or you can just go to this web site for help…. http://inimation.com/xfilesgame/ (It has the Walkthrough, Spoilers for Each Disk, Hints for Each and discussion and Whats new Section check it out ) Now The Review of March's THE X-FILES: UNRESTRICTED ACCESS [Stolen from customnews.cnn.com.] ‘X-Files' CD-ROM Is Clunky, Cumbersome Reuters 25-MAR-98 By Gene Emery PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - OFFICE OF SPECIAL AGENT FOX MULDER—FBI headquarters in Washington. Enter Special Agent Dana Scully, Mulder's partner. “What are you doing at the computer, Mulder? Found another conspiracy?” “Look at this, Scully. It's ‘The X-Files: Unrestricted Access' for Windows 95 from Fox Interactive ($35, http://www.foxinteractive.com).'” “It looks like they've taken all our case files and put them on a CD-ROM. It has videos, catalogs of evidence, and detailed summaries of our cases. From the description on the package, it looks like this should give us easy access to our information.” “That's what they WANT you to think, Scully.” “What do you mean?” “Try something simple: get a complete chronological list of our cases.” “OK. I'll select the ‘chronological' listing and activate the ‘Go' button.” “See? It doesn't work, Scully. ‘Unrestricted Access' only gives chronological lists of different subsets of cases like ‘Human Enigma' or ‘Extraterrestrial' or ‘Conspiracy.”” “So you don't get the whole picture.” “Exactly.” “What's this about ‘The Elders', Mulder?,” “In the opening animation, there was a reference to a group of men identified only as ‘The Elders.' They looked important, so I told the program to search for them. Nothing came up. Either someone deleted the file, or it was never there.” “Or the method for searching in this program doesn't work very well. Look, Mulder. I've tried searching for all the cases where there has been some involvement with the CIA. But nothing comes up.” “That's because the CD-ROM only searches for the titles of files. It doesn't look at the content.” “That's not going to help us, Mulder.” “Maybe that's the point. Here's another example, Scully. In the ‘Evidence' section of the program, here's a picture of a UFO.” “But there's no link from the picture to the case. Unless you read every case summary, you'll never know where the photograph fits in.” “That's right. A good computerized database would cross-link everything. For example, if you called up Alex Krycek's file, it should list each encounter we've had with that scumball. It doesn't do that.” “Look, Mulder. When I call up one of those files from the ‘Evidence' section, it appears behind the existing window instead of in front of it the way it should. And that repetitive music is driving me nuts.” (Scully scratches microchip implanted in her neck). “It's probably designed as a negative reinforcement so people won't spend too much time exploring the files. Or maybe it's been doctored to contain subliminal messages.” “'Unrestricted Access' gives you a new X-File fact every day or every time you start up your computer. This one says ‘President Jimmy Carter reported having seen a UFO in 1969.”” “Technically, that's accurate, Scully. But it's another example of the disinformation campaign in the UFO and paranormal fields, where the UFO ‘experts' only tell the public half the story and make things seem more mysterious than they actually are. In President Carter's case, it was documented years ago that he mistook the planet Venus for a UFO.” “Are you saying that Fox Interactive made an intentionally bad product?” “Don't you get it, Scully? If you tell people you're giving them all the information we've been collecting since 1993, but make it impossible for them to sort through the data efficiently, it helps guarantee that the conspiracy we've been tracking for five years will remain secret.” “And, Mulder, if you can't find what you're looking for, there's not much point in having unrestricted access. Maybe it's just ineptitude on the part of Fox.” “I don't think so, Scully. Remember, the Fox network gave us three -- count ‘em, three—‘Alien Autopsy' specials based on some black-and-white movie footage that UFO experts and skeptics alike quickly dismissed as a hoax. Coincidence?” “You mean Fox is involved in the cover-up?” “I've suspected that for years. Look at the network's supernatural ‘specials' that hide the truth by ignoring key facts.” “You sound pretty bitter, Mulder. Is that why ... “ “Sure. Why do you think I hate it when people call me by my first name?” “Maybe the screen saver and Windows wallpaper make it worth the $35.” “The wallpaper is pretty unattractive. Personally, I'd rather use the ‘South Park' picture I got from the Internet.” “You mean the episode where the fat kid gets abducted by aliens?” “Cartman's not fat. He's big-boned. Anyway, the screen saver shows small, jerky movies from inside our apartments, our office, or some nondescript UFO lights flying around. You'd think they'd use some interesting pictures instead.” “Mulder! How did they get pictures from inside my apartment?” “I must have kept a copy in my files. Don't worry, Scully. The ones I took of you in the shower are still under lock and key. I refer to those as my XXX-Files.” “Mulder, that's the last time I give YOU unrestricted access.” - - - - (Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is gene.emery(at)prodigy.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.) Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7.) WIZARD's Top 10 (5/13/98) Top Ten Signs your Neighbor is a Super-Villain 10. The neon “WELCOME TO LATVERIA” sign on the roof (Really4rob@aol.com) 9. Sudden appearance of interdimensional rift in backyard (jwh171@psu.edu) 8. He's always coming over to borrow a cup of plutonium (TackoBob@aol.com) 7. That manical laughter from next door keeps you up all night (DABRAGUY@aol.com) 6. Henchmen come and go at all hours of the night (ScaryMoose@aol.com) 5. You live next to the White House (LoganColt@aol.com) 4. You see him jog by wearing a “Property of Arkham Asylum” sweatshirt (MATodd3@aol.com) 3. The '73 Pinto parked in the driveway with a bumper sticker that reads Evil Rules (jschwar1@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu) 2. Always steals the morning paper to see if he made the front page (Lunette@aol.com) 1. Wears a shirt that says “I Tried to Hurl the Earth into the Sun and All I Got Was This Stupid T- shirt” (SWINGKIDD2@aol.com) BONUS: Every so often we get such a “unique” answer, we feel compelled to share it with you... “my next door nieghbor is a super-villain because she is mean and she likes to capture cats and bring them in her house (ROCESNJ112@aol.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please send me some feed-back on Digested Digest. I am interested in what you think (this and the issues before it). Thank you for reading. Adam “OMEGA” Arnold Ablarnold@msn.com