exchgr,
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watching x-files and they “as you know bob”’d origami. like:

a: look at that, it’s beautiful.
b: it’s called origami.
a: yeah, japanese paper folding

was origami just largely unknown in the west in the early 90s? i can’t remember a time when i didn’t know what it was

mrcompletely,
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@exchgr I'm pretty sure that was a groaner to most of the audience at the time. X-Files always loved clunky expository dialogue

godzero,
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@mrcompletely @exchgr
Tbh, I don't remember that, it was a long time ago after all.

mrcompletely,
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@godzero @exchgr it's my wife's favorite show, or one of them certainly, we catch reruns fairly often. Both Mulder and Scully get fairly regular infodump monologues that are often actually quite amazing in their own strange ways

danblondell,
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@mrcompletely @exchgr
There must have been a regular worry that viewers would be thrown off by something “strange” that has nothing at all to do with the plot.

exchgr,
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@danblondell @mrcompletely i’d think if you’re watching x-files, you’re kind of already in for something out of the ordinary

danblondell,
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@exchgr @mrcompletely
I’m thinking something like they don’t explain the origami and a viewer thinks “so this alien leaves behind folded paper birds”

exchgr,
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@danblondell @mrcompletely 😂

mrcompletely,
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@danblondell @exchgr I suppose it's also true that Mulder and Scully are both, canonically, know it all smartasses. So dialogue like that is natural to them. Not like either of em seems like a great hang IRL

exchgr,
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@mrcompletely @danblondell what, you don’t want to talk about conspiracy theories and cryptids until the day is done?

mrcompletely,
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@exchgr @danblondell generally I love people who can hold forth on nerdy passion topics but they're kind of a lot. Could be fun for like an hour maybe

danblondell,
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@mrcompletely @exchgr
Don’t forget the sexual tension. That dynamo could power Times Square.

exchgr,
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@danblondell @mrcompletely ah but it’s refuted at every turn

glennf,
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@exchgr sushi was in big cities and exotic. Origami was taught by substitute art teachers. Japan was soon to own the entire United States and we should all be learning Japanese, but few studied the culture.

glennf,
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@exchgr Amusingly, my older child just came home from a trivia night at a cafe, and one of the questions involved a picture clue, which was a still frame of the X-Files opening. Nobody in his team got it.

exchgr,
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@glennf i would’ve gotten it, the theme is a no-skip for me

glennf,
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@exchgr children now mainline TV through neural interfaces

exchgr,
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@glennf now that you mention it, that’s probably how i heard of origami lol

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