History Quotes / AuthorFilibuster

-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFJ04c2OYs Bowser's Theme WITH LYRICS [CHANNEL ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL] - Super Mario 64 Cover]]''

-> '''Robert A. Heinlein''': Blah blah blah POLITICS blah blah blah ORDER blah blah blah PHILOSOPHY blah blah blah MILITARY ORGANIZATION blah blah blah I HATE THE MILITARY OF MY DAY blah blah blah WAR blah blah blah CITIZENSHIP blah blah blah VOTING blah blah blah MORAL PHILOSOPHY blah blah blah MATH RULES blah blah blah -- Story? We don't need no steenking story!

->''"Everybody is feeding Carter’s ego at this point and just getting through his yawnsome script so we can move on to something more interesting... I’m not sure which bugs me more; that this {{info dump}} is lumped together right in the middle of this episode where you desperately need something to happen, that Chris Carter has abandoned the show-don't-tell approach and fallen into [[ConspiracyTheorist full on paranoia lecture mode]], that the dialogue is absolutely hideous and would trip up a sophisticated performer let alone [[MrExposition the cardboard cut out who has to get this mouthful out]], or that there are germs of good ideas in this everlasting speech (such as the government using aliens as a cover for getting on with something even more hideous, or the UsefulNotes/ColdWar being one long PR stunt to allow the government to continue spending money on weapons research) that are wasted because after a few minutes you switch off and stop listening and just let the pretty flashbacks wash over you. Had Mulder discovered all of these facts through a well paced and plotted narrative, with the revelations having personal consequences for him and Scully, then the effect would be quite different... This is so appallingly handled I’m surprised an insulted audience didn’t abandon the show in droves (they hung around waiting for the next {{monster of the week}} episode)."''

-> ''[small RecordScratch] [[HaveAGayOldTime "Gay" as in the synonym for "happy."]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall I see you people typin' in the comments section!]] Besides, even if I DID mean it the other way, there ain't a PROBLEM with it. Love who you wanna love, you know? Anyways, back to stompin' Mario."''

->''Eventually, the [[ArcWords question you ask]] stops being "[[Literature/AtlasShrugged Who is John Galt?]]" and becomes "When will John Galt shut up?"''
-->-- '''Anonymous'''

->''"Now is the perfect point in the story for a 2000-word ideological manifesto from your thinly-veiled fictional stand-in.""'

->''"Everybody is feeding Carter’s ego at this point and just getting through his yawnsome script so we can move on to something more interesting... I’m not sure which bugs me more; that this {{info dump}} is lumped together right in the middle of this episode where you desperately need something to happen, that Chris Carter has abandoned the show-don't-tell approach and fallen into [[ConspiracyTheorist full on paranoia lecture mode]], that the dialogue is absolutely hideous and would trip up a sophisticated performer let alone [[MrExposition the cardboard cut out who has to get this mouthful out]], or that there are germs of good ideas in this everlasting speech (such as the government using aliens as a cover for getting on with something even more hideous, or the ColdWar being one long PR stunt to allow the government to continue spending money on weapons research) that are wasted because after a few minutes you switch off and stop listening and just let the pretty flashbacks wash over you. Had Mulder discovered all of these facts through a well paced and plotted narrative, with the revelations having personal consequences for him and Scully, then the effect would be quite different... This is so appallingly handled I’m surprised an insulted audience didn’t abandon the show in droves (they hung around waiting for the next {{monster of the week}} episode)."''

->''"Everybody is feeding Carter’s ego at this point and just getting through his yawnsome script so we can move on to something more interesting... I’m not sure which bugs me more; that this {{info dump}} is lumped together right in the middle of this episode where you desperately need something to happen, that Chris Carter has abandoned the show-don't-tell approach and fallen into [[ConspiracyTheorist full on paranoia lecture mode]], that the dialogue is absolutely hideous and would trip up a sophisticated performer let alone [[MrExposition the cardboard cut out who has to get this mouthful out]], or that there are germs of good ideas in this everlasting speech (such as the government using aliens as a cover for getting on with something even more hideous, or the ColdWar being one long PR stunt to allow the government to continue spending money on weapons research) that are wasted because after a few minutes you switch off and stop listening and just let the pretty flashbacks wash over you. Had Mulder discovered all of these facts through a well paced and plotted narrative, with the revelations having personal consequences for him and Scully, then the effect would be quite different...This is so appallingly handled I’m surprised an insulted audience didn’t abandon the show in droves (they hung around waiting for the next {{monster of the week}} episode)."''

->''"Everybody is feeding Carter’s ego at this point and just getting through his yawnsome script so we can move on to something more interesting...I’m not sure which bugs me more; that this {{info dump}} is lumped together right in the middle of this episode where you desperately need something to happen, that Chris Carter has abandoned the show-don't-tell approach and fallen into [[ConspiracyTheorist full on paranoia lecture mode]], that the dialogue is absolutely hideous and would trip up a sophisticated performer let alone [[MrExposition the cardboard cut out who has to get this mouthful out]], or that there are germs of good ideas in this everlasting speech (such as the government using aliens as a cover for getting on with something even more hideous, or the ColdWar being one long PR stunt to allow the government to continue spending money on weapons research) that are wasted because after a few minutes you switch off and stop listening and just let the pretty flashbacks wash over you. Had Mulder discovered all of these facts through a well paced and plotted narrative, with the revelations having personal consequences for him and Scully, then the effect would be quite different...This is so appallingly handled I’m surprised an insulted audience didn’t abandon the show in droves (they hung around waiting for the next {{monster of the week}} episode)."''

-->-- '''Anonymous'''

->''Eventually, the question you ask stops being "[[Literature/AtlasShrugged Who is John Galt?]]" and becomes "When will John Galt shut up?"''

->''Eventually, the question you ask stops being "[[AtlasShrugged Who is John Galt?]]" and becomes "When will John Galt shut up?"''

->''Eventually, the question you ask stops being "[[AtlasShrugged Who is John Galt?]]" and becomes "When will John Galt shut up?"''

-->-- '''Sam Tanenhaus'''