Please see my other blog for my take on the new X-files movie, coming to Philippine cinemas on August 13. Update: Why you should ignore the critics, show faith, and go watch the film.
I was watching one of the classic episodes (War of the Coprophages, Season 3 Episode 12) of the acclaimed TV series and thought to share some memorable quotes that reflect why the cult following of this show is probably made up of geeks and nerds and the dour and seriously serious individuals. Beautiful geeks, though, if I may surmise.
Mulder: The development of our cerebral cortex has been the greatest achievement of the evolutionary processes. Big deal. While allowing us the thrills of intellect or the pangs of self-consciousness, it is all too often overruled by our inner, instinctive brain - the one that tells us to react, not reflect, to run, rather than ruminate. Maybe we have gone as far as we can go and the next advance, whatever that may be - will be made by beings we create ourselves, using our own technology. Life forms we can design and program not to be ultimately governed and constricted by the rules of survival. Or perhaps that step forward had already been achieved on another planet by organisms that had a billion years head start on us. If these beings ever visited us, would we recognize what we were seeing? And upon catching sight of us, would they react in anything but horror at seeing such mindless, primitive, hideous creatures?
Dr. Bambi Berenbaum: Eat, sleep, defecate, procreate. That’s all they [insects] do. That’s all we do, but at least insects don’t kid themselves that it’s anything more than that.
Mulder: It took forever for me to realize that it was no leaf.
Scully: A praying mantis?
Mulder: Yeah, I had a praying mantis epiphany and, as a result, I screamed. Not, not a girly scream but the scream of someone being confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet I inhabited. Did you ever notice how a praying mantis’ head resembles an alien’s head? The mysteries of the natural world were revealed to me that day but instead of being astounded I was repulsed.
Scully: Mulder, are you sure it wasn’t a girly scream?
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