The X-Files 2018

[milanfahrnholz]

When I want to hear Morrisey say stupid stuff I go on the internet.

[Someone]

@milanfahrnholz

I have satellite in fact. And I get a couple of boring news stations from around the world including the UK. But most others are encrypted.

Yes, if you align the dish to the “normal” Astra 1 satellites. If you move the dish over to the Astra 2 satellite system, you are able to get several (not encrypted) UK channels. The most interesting channels are in the so called Astra 2 UK beam. If you are able to receive it, you can even watch the BBC. But that isn’t possible in all parts of Germany and I haven’t tried it for myself (because I don’t own the satellite dish on the roof).

[milanfahrnholz]

Yeah I can´t really move mine all too much. Besides in times where most tv is streamed over the net it really isnt worth the effort.

[Someone]

@milanfahrnholz

Yeah I can´t really move mine all too much. Besides in times where most tv is streamed over the net it really isnt worth the effort.

Depends on what you would like to see. Streaming isn’t a great solution because there is this region blocking thing and you can’t record a lot of things/streams (to watch it later). The X-Files is a good example: We got the show later than the others, dubbed and some parts were cut (if I understood that correct :)).

[milanfahrnholz]

Yeah and on prime you can watch it even without commercials. They had it in germany two years ago, but only the german version.

@PiecesOfKate

Edith’s th birthday

I looked up who she was, then found out that in no point in her life was she married to Richard Pryor and was severly disappointed.

[PiecesOfKate]

I made that up!

[milanfahrnholz]

@PiecesOfKate

I made that up!

Then how come an Edith Pryor from North London turned 100 on december 25th?

Coinkidink?

Do you have the ability to make things you write retroactivly come true?

[PiecesOfKate]

@milanfahrnholz

Do you have the ability to make things you write retroactivly come true?

I hope not. I don’t want any baked beans on my chair. (Yes, that’s the worst one I could think of.)

[milanfahrnholz]

@PiecesOfKate

that’s the worst one I could think of.

Well, what a relief!

[milanfahrnholz]

So the finale had a few cuts, too.

https://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=762723

One actually confused me while watching since I couldn´t understand how you instantly kill somebody with a shot in the cheek. Turns out that was the second shot after the headshot.

The late night repeat was uncut, but I don´t seem to have missed that much this time.

[PiecesOfKate]

@milanfahrnholz

One actually confused me while watching since I couldn´t understand how you instantly kill somebody with a shot in the cheek. Turns out that was the second shot after the headshot.

Oh blimey I don’t know how you watch some programmes in Germany without being hugely confused.

And those cuts with William where he made the agents explode are pretty important too!

It says they cut a scene where Reyes was lighting up - do they always do that too, then?

[milanfahrnholz]

@PiecesOfKate

It says they cut a scene where Reyes was lighting up - do they always do that too, then?

No, I don´t think so.

The worst thing with cuts done by third parties is when they don´t care about continuity or pace. You often get sudden jumps in the soundtrack when music was playing during a scene they cut out.

Funnily enough, browsing your the UK amazon yesterday, I found that you don´t seem to use a protection code for the highest rated movies. When I want to watch something that is an “18” in the german store I have to put in a four digit code always. It´s a child protection that you cannot switch off even if there is no children in your house.
And you don´t have that, while you actually have quite a lot of former video nasties on prime. Many of which you still can´t aquire uncut legally in germany. Though it´s getting better with The Evil Dead now rated 16 after having been completly banned for the longest time.

[PiecesOfKate]

@milanfahrnholz

And you don´t have that, while you actually have quite a lot of former video nasties on prime.

Yeah that’s a good point actually. On Sky Box Sets we have to put in a code (although that might depend if childlock is left on by default or something).

[milanfahrnholz]

@milanfahrnholz

Just when I was about to envy you that you have 10 seasons of the show on amazon prime while we don´t, I found out that I in fact can watch the UK version of Prime that also has a few other shows and movies we don´t have in germany.

Awww, crap. Why do I even write things like this?

So made myself a big list of stuff I wanted to watch on the UK Prime and now it doesn´t work anymore.I just get a message about region blocking.

[PiecesOfKate]

@milanfahrnholz

@milanfahrnholz

Just when I was about to envy you that you have 10 seasons of the show on amazon prime while we don´t, I found out that I in fact can watch the UK version of Prime that also has a few other shows and movies we don´t have in germany.

So made myself a big list of stuff I wanted to watch on the UK Prime and now it doesn´t work anymore.I just get a message about region blocking.

Oh no, boo I wonder why that happened. Did you access it from a different place the second time?

[milanfahrnholz]

No, same place, same device. I guess it just took them a bit longer to find out my exact location or something.

[Someone]

The region blocking thing is most based on IP addresses (your smartphone uses the same technique if you deactivate GPS). In a private household the IP address changes once a day. Maybe you had luck and got an IP address that is/was originally originated in the UK.

But the simplest reason would be that Amazon deactivated the region block for a short period (for example for maintenance reasons).

[milanfahrnholz]

Last one seems most likely. Yes, I was aware that might have been an oversight and it wouldn´t last long. Should have watched as much as possible on the day I discovered it, but didn´t have the time.