@@wilkeseyberry26 I’m not OP but it was just a great episode that really humanized CSM.

That’s cus it’s propaganda and it was intended to do that

@@gdigital13 propaganda of what? Aliens you dumbass

me too.

It's all matter of taste. Honestly speaking not one of my favorites but I like it.

That's a good point but I'm cracking up thinking about some clueless Fox executive wanting to go in the complete opposite direction. "CSM? We got to show that he's cool! Give him some shades and make him talk like a suffer! He's the ruthless personification of post war government deceit...with attitude! Also make him a smoker!...Oh, he already smokes?"

“A man sentenced to go back to being one of the most powerful men on the planet.” One of the finest descriptions of the character. Ironically at some point he accepts that’s all he is and truly becomes a frightening monster by the series end.

There is a parallel with Hitler, the rejected artist

@@MNA__383 "Hitler...there was a painter! He could paint a whole apartment in one afternoon..two coats"! One of my favorite movie lines ever.

Also it is authentic. A lot of fairly high-up ex cia/fbi/spies come out with fiction novels, or supposed true stories where they paint themselves however they want.

Hey, buddy... Did you see a bright light?

You're no poet, please stop. One of, one of, one of, surely everything is one of a series of something?

He touched my heart when that intern said he was working on the Oscar nominations and CSM said he couldn't care less.

Why can't he just be a writer? So he stops bothering Mulder hahaha... Anyway, this episode is awesome, It shows that even a monster has a heart, desires and ambitions. This make me sorry for him.

@@elisagiambartino3483 Why can't Hitler just be a painter? :=D

@@martinm.1967 Ahhahaha lol

@@elisagiambartino3483 I agree this is probably one of the few times I felt genuinely bad for such a purely evil character ironic ain’t it

Yeah this made me sad too

he really loves to make books, that brings him little joy, but enough to keep him going.

yeah...in the same way Isis does it, you think those fuckers got any self actualization=

Reginald Greene I wrote what I thought was one of the greatest stories of all time once. 'Girl of the Favelas' whereby a lonely man who loses his partner travels to Brazil for the purposes of teaching English. An unnamed 'favela girl' he notices being picked up by street scum, her mother forcing her onto the streets weekly or daily to 'turn tricks' and make money. He decides to pick her up offers her a hot shower, a meal and some comfort. For the 'first time' someone actually 'asks' her what her name is 'Gabriella.' She takes him for a creep takes the usual street money and leaves, and he's crestfallen. Later in the week he sees the same girl being aggressively bullied into a car by a weirdo and honks his horn and she decides to go with him instead. She then realizes this educated manhas no sexual interest or malintent towards her, so she continues to be picked up by him weekly, so as to never be abused and to satisfy her mother's financial 'needs' They form a very close father daughter bond, and overtime plan to leave the Favela's together forever and get her into a proper schooland forge a normal life. As this is ongoing there is a serial killer in the Favela's whom kidnaps rapes and kills young girls. Their need to 'leave intensifies, but as they reach the point of escape it is revealed the killer is actually the police chief's son, and he can't accept a scandal like that so they look to frame someone for the crimes. When they pack their car up for her first trip 'anywhere' with food, books, radio and all they'll need to leave they get excited it will genuinely happen. She leaves her mother for what she thinks is the last time well dressed like any normal school girl, with her books and her bags and curses her mother for being 'Madre Diablo' the devil of mothers she no longer needs. Yet as he drives to pick her up he is falsely arrested as the patsy for the serial killings and taken into custody, she waits until nightfall and accepts 'this was just fantasy all along.' The story ends with him brutally beaten in prison, and her sitting on the edge of the bed of a creep who's picked her up. Their heads both raise and they briefly, simultaneously imagine the life they could've had together him picking her up from school and being happy. Then their heads bow and they realize they'll never be free from their respective cells again. (I wrote a happy ending to it also, whereby they escape because the serial killer picks her up as his last 'victim' she stabs him he is shot dead and the two get away in the car, she takes one last look back at the Favelas' knowing she'll never return, cries, and then looks forward with her hair blowing optimistically thinking about the future.) That story passed 7 stages of usage for a film and failed at the last hurdle. BREAKS your heart

More like an "anti-hero..." 💡🤔🤨 🤝

I agree he was a hero.

🤣 He was a person like any other who became pure evil.

@@davidstalley384 the things Mulder saw were true. He changed the narrative. When he gives his story they changed it. Everything here was deserved

By itself, it means nothing...even if someone read it etc

@3D Modeller Start with Season 1 and just go through all the episodes. Forget if the mythology makes sense or not. The journey was AWESOME. There are the highest of highs (Episode Home.😈) and the lowest of lows (Series Finale). Overall the series DEFINITELY worth experiencing.😊

Well said. They did wonderful things until Season 6, and it all started to unravel

Lol you ok, bro? Should we call FBI?

Are you okay or do I need to call you an ambulance?

Me too bro, damn, we should see a therapist or something.

Hope things are better for you now.

@@Melody_Raventress Therapists are a stupid idea and their profession is an ad hoc reflection of societal norms. What you should do is meet each other and conquer the world with others like you. If we who want to kill ourselves only knew how to meet each other we would be unstoppable for we already barely if at all fear death

Pretty true! Look at the Well-Manicured Man. He knew he was toast after helping Mulder in the first movie. Waited until Mulder was a clear distance from the car, closed the door, and *boom*. Pretty sure that's about the kindest form resignation takes with that bunch!

Unless he has some kind of dead man's switch that will drop enough dirt on everything the group does to the public. Even then they might still risk taking him out.

his life would be taken? by whom? he is the ultimate boss.

I thought so too but then again, he could have had, at the time, a very important position at the CIA or NSA as CGB Spender. Resign from.that position and then slowly retreat from making decisions from the Syndicate. Take a step back, as it were.

@3D Modeller I can get that for a little less at certain places today.

@3D Modeller Can of soda was 75 cents about a year ago at this chicken restaurant

There were 2 bills there. One was folded over the other

@@tonynotaro3654 Ok so even $10 for pack of Cigarettes and a magazine And in DC!!!!!

@3D Modeller - I remember when a can of coke cost a quarter.

You want his job? He's coach at Arsenal today.

Yea

CleFesse haha looks like Wenger yes

What job? He's just a writer.

@@Victor-fw5md no idea what ur taking about,hes just a lonely writer

yeah

I'm sorry... But I hope that not because you failed in something you will be a monster like him lol

@@elisagiambartino3483 i failed in many things am afraid. Unfortunately

@@johngamache7 It's okay, everybody failes in many things, me too.

finally, a relevant comment

His asking for a pack of cancer sticks was the ultimate moment where he knew he was never turning back.

I'll choose not

Good ole krycheck

I went to college in Montreal, smoked Players and Exports but in the late 60's I have heard of Marley's but never tried.Of course Balkan Sobranie made the finest in those tin boxes of 10.On this scene,one of the best, without CSM the show wouldn't work.

@@richardmaier28 I was a Number 7 guy when I smoked

@@chrisxavier3147 I tried a lot of brands,this was 68 for 2 years before I transferred but I loved the ambience, couldn't believe 25 in a pack, I read CSM had just quit and smoked flower cigarettes (my edit) he was the glue.Thats a long time ago but I think I'm in good shape approaching 72, take care friend

Someone probably intercepted and edited it

If you've ever had your writing published and had the ending or complete sections changed, it would make sense to you. It was like he was facing his failure at writing, the one thing that brought him joy, only to have it weakened by mediocre minds who changed the ending to appease the mediocre masses.

There was No shite loose.

As long as he's alive

@@ericstosius2508 I wonder what he has against them

@@mr.peanutbutter6969 CSM was an aspiring writer, and he was trying to get his first writing published by "The Buffalo Publishing Company" and they rejected him.