Teliko S4E3 - The X-Files Revisited

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  • Опубликовано: 16 янв 2025

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  • @marcusprows108
    @marcusprows108 6 месяцев назад +18

    "I have seen shit that would turn you white!" That got me good bro. Good edit, good edit 🤣

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +3

      I love that line from Winston and just had to add it.

  • @abadysam
    @abadysam 6 месяцев назад +14

    Finally Teliko. I’ve been waiting for this episode for so long. It's one of my favorites. Thanks, JB, for all these efforts.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +2

      Well I hope you enjoyed it and hopefully you weren't upset that I'm not the biggest fan of it lol.

    • @abadysam
      @abadysam 6 месяцев назад

      @@JBSpookyReviewit’s okay, keep up the good work.

  • @Onesixthdesign
    @Onesixthdesign 5 месяцев назад +4

    I hope everything is okay. Man, i really do miss your videos. 😢

  • @katiecook6006
    @katiecook6006 3 месяца назад +2

    I thought I had seen every episode of the show and I have no memory of this...perhaps my tape was EP instead of SLP that weekend 😂

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  3 месяца назад +1

      It's one of those episodes that is easily forgotten lol.

  • @kaykay2031
    @kaykay2031 5 месяцев назад +4

    I hope you are doing well. I hope that you will be back. Your video reignited my love for the xfiles!!! I love your style of videos and I hope to see more soon!!!

  • @AtticussAtticuss
    @AtticussAtticuss 6 месяцев назад +7

    Love this episode. One of my favs. The music really sells this episode for me. The chanting is really creepy and there are some great spooky moments in this one.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      I think those chants are from like a pledge drive or something like that, that mark snow decided to incorporate into the music lol.

  • @victorpratt9920
    @victorpratt9920 6 месяцев назад +4

    Its like watching the Sunday night movie when I was a kid! Thanks spooky!

  • @RaraPremium
    @RaraPremium 5 месяцев назад +3

    2:50 I'm Convinced the writers were trying to convert David into liking sunflower seeds at this point

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад +1

      It was pretty much a joke at his expense at this point.

  • @susanisilvasimassusi4082
    @susanisilvasimassusi4082 5 месяцев назад +3

    😢 hope everything is ok with you?, I miss your reviews, waiting for episode 4.😊

  • @viriathas9910
    @viriathas9910 6 месяцев назад +8

    While I do agree that this episode is a total reboot of Tooms and Encanto, I'd say Samuel is a really creepy character in this, and some of the imagery is pretty unsettling. In spite of the re-tread, I actually like this one precisely because of those creepy shots and that insturment he uses on people is horrifying. The actor did a great job I think, maintaining a sort of uncanny, slightly off demeanor when he's trying to act normal.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +3

      The actor definitely did a good job, I won't fault him for the episode being very similar.

  • @Wednesday.the.Wook.
    @Wednesday.the.Wook. 6 месяцев назад +6

    1000% agree that they should’ve cited an actual African folktale for this episode. Also, I wish they would’ve consulted actual experts on the culture and folklore as well as people from Burkina Faso. I think it would’ve really enriched the episode and made the story more authentic.
    Gillian’s bone structure is absolutely giving though. 💁🏼‍♀️ I’ll give Teliko brownie points for that lol.

    • @neftalithekushite4063
      @neftalithekushite4063 5 месяцев назад +3

      Exactly. It would've made the episode spookier as well. Those tales kept us up at night, growing up.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад +1

      The entire thing just felt rushed. There are so many fun stories from around the world they could pull from and they just kind of made something up for this.

  • @AtticussAtticuss
    @AtticussAtticuss 6 месяцев назад +2

    I wonder if I enjoy this episode so much because I saw it before Toombs and some of the other episodes it is similar to.

  • @MRGRIMZ89
    @MRGRIMZ89 6 месяцев назад +15

    ALRIGHT BABY!!! IT'S TIME FOR AFRICAN TOOMS.

  • @MRGRIMZ89
    @MRGRIMZ89 6 месяцев назад +5

    NW, I CAN'T PRONOUNCE UNRUHE EITHER. LOL GREAT VIDEO BUDDY! THANKS.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +5

      I can't pronounce half the titles in this series, but I try lol.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@JBSpookyReview I'm glad I'm not the only one!

    • @muldrake
      @muldrake 6 месяцев назад

      "Un" is spelled kinda like "Oon" (like the "oo" in "Tooms"), it's a prefix mostly meaning "not". And "ruhe" is spelled like "roo-he" (the "he" like the "hea" in "head"). It means "rest" or "quiet" or "calm". So basically the translation would be "unrest" "not calm", "restlessness" or "disturbance" depending on the context.

    • @Bonez0r
      @Bonez0r 6 месяцев назад

      @@muldrake The first and last part are pronounced differently (last part sound more like "huh", and the first part I can't explain because I can't think of anything that rhymes with it in English). But if you type it into google translate and set the source to German and then click the pronunciation button, I think it does a decent job.

    • @muldrake
      @muldrake 6 месяцев назад

      @@Bonez0r i'm german :D

  • @Belzediel
    @Belzediel 5 месяцев назад +7

    Another long (for you) gap. As always, hope things are groovy, looking forward to your next one. Don't stress the small stuff. Live long with a porpoise. With grape responsibility comes fruity whatsit. There can be only Juan. All that jazz.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад

      I will not disappear again I swear.

    • @Belzediel
      @Belzediel 5 месяцев назад

      @@JBSpookyReview Nah, man, if you need time for more important things, take the time. I just figure it's probably good to know people notice such things :-)

  • @JohnoPedak_79
    @JohnoPedak_79 6 месяцев назад +1

    The last (new) X-Files episode that aired on a Friday night... 😭😭😭
    Excellent video, btw.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад +1

      Did you prefer Fridays over the Sunday slot?

    • @JohnoPedak_79
      @JohnoPedak_79 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@JBSpookyReview Definitely preferred the Fridays at 9 feel of those first three seasons. The show, while meteorically rising in the ratings in the third season, still felt like the scrappy underdog during that time.

  • @zoharracz1568
    @zoharracz1568 6 месяцев назад +5

    The wierdest name oriented fact about the x files is that fox's sister is named samanta which means everytime their parents wanted to call them they had to yell out "samanta, fox!"

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +2

      Haha how have I never put that together.

  • @schulzbrianr
    @schulzbrianr 6 месяцев назад +3

    Man, this just hammers home how much you need to do "Fringe" after X Files.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      The only issue is I've never seen fringe, so I wouldn't have the same insight like I do X-Files. I have thought of doing long series retrospectives for other shows, like one full length video, but those take a lot of work and would probably end up being a few hours long.

    • @schulzbrianr
      @schulzbrianr 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@JBSpookyReview honestly, it's so close to X Files if call it a ripoff if it wasn't so good. Check out just the pilot episode, and see what you think just based off that. I'm fairly confident you'll want to do the entire series (but that's a big ask, it's 5 seasons, so it'll definitely be a long time coming because I would want it AFTER X Files for sure, don't stop this or try to do both at once)

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@schulzbrianr Did it have a decent conclusion? Or was it either cancelled & left hanging, or declined in quality towards the end? I've always heard about this show. But I don't want to get burned. (Again.)

    • @schulzbrianr
      @schulzbrianr 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Yesica1993 I did read that the fifth season was known to be the last one, so it did have a finale.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@schulzbrianr Thanks. I can't stand being left hanging! I only got to know Robert Patrick as an actor through XF. (I'd never watched any Terminator movies.) I really liked him as an actor so I started watching his post XF show, The Unit. I loved it! It was cancelled and left hanging in the worse way imaginable! I'm still not over it.

  • @xeepers
    @xeepers 6 месяцев назад +2

    Now that's what I call a sticky situation.

  • @sebswede9005
    @sebswede9005 6 месяцев назад +1

    Hope you review the X-Files episode: The Springfield Files.

  • @pfoutsmn
    @pfoutsmn 6 месяцев назад +3

    Serviceable episode. Can't say more than you've already said. I like when they attempt to bring in other cultures but you are right that there must be some actual creepy African folklore they could have leaned on.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      The voodoo episode from season 2 was done much better in my opinion.

  • @Grinsbert93
    @Grinsbert93 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for another great video. I really enjoy your videos and you actually made me watch the x files for the first time ever. Didn’t liked that episode that much tbh. I actually slept in the first time watching it wich isn’t really a good sign 😅.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад

      I don't blame you. There's a few episodes that I have to fight myself to stay awake through.

  • @thehackmusician
    @thehackmusician 4 месяца назад +1

    Chamone

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  4 месяца назад +1

      Exactly. (I don't know what that means)

  • @neftalithekushite4063
    @neftalithekushite4063 5 месяцев назад +4

    I have to disagree with you JB, I liked this one. Though, I do agree with you that they should've used actual African folklore like Pinky-pinky (which might've actually worked when I think about it).

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад +1

      I don't hate it, it just feels like wasted potential.

  • @triforcewielder8500
    @triforcewielder8500 6 месяцев назад +4

    I can’t wait for Max. That episode is the shit.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад

      Yeah that's a good one. I always feel so bad for Max.

    • @triforcewielder8500
      @triforcewielder8500 6 месяцев назад

      @@JBSpookyReview right, poor guy. From the episode that Mulder met him and beyond.

  • @movieforge01
    @movieforge01 6 месяцев назад +3

    Been a minute

  • @jeff196330
    @jeff196330 6 месяцев назад +2

    The best part of this episode... Instead of ' Trust No One' the opening tag is Deceive Inveigle Obfuscate

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      I was going to mention it, but I can't even say half of those words hahahah.

    • @jeff196330
      @jeff196330 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@JBSpookyReview Scully uses these words during the episode
      dee seeve
      in vay gull
      ob few skate
      :-)

  • @donovanbradford8231
    @donovanbradford8231 6 месяцев назад +1

    I remember liking this one as a kid for reasons of it being different. As far as everything goes I would imagine Mulder was on to something a lost tribe or group that do to their medical condition had to prey on neighboring tribes of people to survive. The reason we see only this one is for the same reason you brought up this defect isn't an advantage it's a big disadvantage and chances are this is the last of that tribe as he is the only one we see. Given how often he has to feed I would imagine that's why even with hormone replacement he still can't survive because the loss is very drastic.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      I think you're right. Samuel was most likely the last and had to do whatever he could to survive.

  • @MRGRIMZ89
    @MRGRIMZ89 6 месяцев назад +2

    MY FAV WAS BARB AND NECRO!

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +2

      Barb was always fun too, until they nerfed whirlwind.

    • @MRGRIMZ89
      @MRGRIMZ89 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@JBSpookyReview I still play D2:LOD online.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      I was almost tempted to stream it on here before, but I don't have the setup for anything fancy.

    • @MRGRIMZ89
      @MRGRIMZ89 6 месяцев назад

      @@JBSpookyReview IT'S FULL OF EUROPEANS NOW....

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад +7

    After all these years watching this show & being involved in fandom, how did the similarities between this and Toomsie never once occur to me?!
    "racial overtones" - Oh, for goodness' sake. I never heard anything like that back in the day. So silly.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +5

      It's mostly white university folk that were doing the complaining, but they'll complain about anything.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@JBSpookyReview Ayep.

  • @ruination775
    @ruination775 6 месяцев назад +1

    Yesssssssssss!!!!!

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      Hope you enjoyed it!

    • @ruination775
      @ruination775 6 месяцев назад

      @JBSpookyReview as always. Another top notch Video 📹

  • @jarlwhiterun7478
    @jarlwhiterun7478 6 месяцев назад +1

    This era of X-Files was modern and classic somehow. Maybe the haircuts or something? 🤔

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад

      The hair was definitely getting better.

  • @luther1546
    @luther1546 6 месяцев назад +5

    I would be a horrible partner for Fox Mulder. I pretty much automatically believe any and all conspiracy theories. I wouldn't be able to provide the calm and reasoned counterweight that the brilliant doctor Dana Skully does.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      hahaha I'm right there with you.

  • @AtticussAtticuss
    @AtticussAtticuss 6 месяцев назад +3

    Spooky African albino vampire.

  • @jojotheswede8444
    @jojotheswede8444 6 месяцев назад +4

    Sucked the black right out of them, feels kinda racist but i ain't no expert.
    Nice to see doge again though.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +3

      I don't think it's racist, but what do I know. I was always called Casper because I'm so white.

    • @jojotheswede8444
      @jojotheswede8444 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@JBSpookyReview lol, and I thought I was white.

  • @phoebep4688
    @phoebep4688 6 месяцев назад +1

    Not the best episode, but I loved the climax.

  • @Elora445
    @Elora445 6 месяцев назад +2

    I must have thought this one was boring, since I didn't remember it at all, and I rewatched this series fairly recently. So I'd probably rate it quite a bit lower than you did. So many African myths they could have used and yet... So disappointing. Written in five minutes-quality on this episode.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah they could have done so much more.

  • @Phil_Burton
    @Phil_Burton 6 месяцев назад +1

    Interestingly enough this episode apparently has a number of academic papers written about it do the themes of race and identity, which is kind of weird, they should be writing papers about good episodes rather this pot boiler.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад +2

      LOL! People fixated on skin tones don't care about the quality of an episode. All they care about is their obsession with skin tone.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад +2

      I just call those race baiting weirdos grifters.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@JBSpookyReview It's tiresome. So glad this show and its fandom existed long before all this current nonsense!

  • @Belzediel
    @Belzediel 6 месяцев назад +2

    Woohoo!
    Maria Corvidambulancetipoppadominicanrepublicos!
    I like her.
    Teliko is a skipisode, for me, it feels like it really needed a lot longer in the cooker. I mean, it starts saying this is an african myth, and whenever anyone says things like that my brain pipes up demanding to know which part of africa, because africa is, like, frickin' HUGE man, and there's very little cultural homogeny even now. To me, it comes across as 'africanny' and I don't like that much.
    Don' get me wrong, I'm not a huge africa nut, it's just irritating when the same people will hand-wave away generic stuff are also usually the people telling you you're the raciest.
    There are areas in northern africa where lightness of skin is associated with evil, by some, it's a somewhat funky theory about… stuff. I can't find anything that suggests this is a real thing. Not that X-Files things HAVE to be real things, that's fine, it's when they do that but then…
    Oh you just got here too. Yeah, all that jazz, man, it sits upon my dish a poor and feeble fish.
    Naw, this is derivative and tedious. Can't win them all. I'd have preferred they did one about those goats that break everything in a house. You know, goats. I like goats. Or sharks. Sharks are cool. Now I wonder if the voodoo shark from Jaws: El Nemesisso could have worked in TXF.
    A Sharks don't take things personally, Mulder.
    M They don't usually come to the bahamas either, at least not pointy bruces, how do you explain that?
    A Illness, most likely. Sharks navigate mainly by magnetoception, if this fish became injured, it might follow the Earth's magnetic field and could conceivably have ended up here.
    M Well, then how come it's only eaten people from this one family?
    A It hasn't, it also ate that woman off the banana boat.
    M Yeah, but she was sat right behind Thea Brody, it's obvious it intended to eat her.
    A Obvious to you, Mulder, not to me.
    M Well, either way we've got to stop it, and quickly.
    A What are you planning on doing, you going to swim down there with your badge and arrest it?
    M Why not? My name ain't Brody…
    Do not look up what happened to the girl who played Thea Brody by the way, unless you enjoy feeling really sad. I did, and now I feel really sad.
    I went and bought some peanut butter and now I feel less sad.
    Sasquatch PI would have solved this case much quicker, he'd have smelled the trail of pituitary goo and tracked it back to the wherever it was. Come to think of it, he'd probably have solved that shark thing too. He'd have carved a Brody shaped lure and long-lined the damn thing from the shore.
    Now I am forced to imagine what would happen when the aliens do their cow abduction thing but on a tiger shark and it's both amusing and hilarious. I have visions of this being the reason why the Roswell saucer crashed and why everyone was so damned surprised when they opened it.
    G Well? Who's flying this kookamary flying machine?
    M I.. I don't quite know how to tell you, sir…
    G Spit it out, son, I've seen some things.
    M It's a goddamn shark, sir!
    G It's a goddamn what, son?
    M A goddamn shark, sir, with teeth and fins and all that.
    G These damn things been flying over all our nuculier bases and you're telling me they're goddamn sharks?
    M I don't know sir, but that, sir, is a goddamn shark!
    G Son of a beach, you're right, that's a goddamn shark!
    M Are we gonna tell the President, sir?
    G I don't see how we could do anythin' else, son…
    There's a film or two in there somewhere. Just when you thought it was safe to take up recreational flying, Jaws 5: This Time, It's Airbourne!
    Fly, you son of a bitch, FLY!
    You're gonna need a longer runway…
    This was no helicopter accident, it was a shark, and a big one, in a Cessna!
    I just found out. You knew there was a sharkplane up there and you let people go flying anyway, and now my boy is dead.
    I'll pick him up on radar for five, but I'll wing 'im, and land 'im, for ten, for that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn plane.
    What's this thing?
    Anti-shark balloon.
    Anti-shark balloon? You get in this basket, go up in the air? Shark's in the air. Our shark. Farewell and adieu to you macho sky-pilots, farewell and adieu to you barnstormin' lads…
    Then again, there's room in the sequels for a cross-over with Airforce One. I could see Harrison Ford having to punch out a great white that's climbed aboard through the undercracker hatch.
    What? Oh, yeah. I mean of all the things that are silly, killing people for their melanin? People survive just fine without melanin, and you can synthesize it simply, we do that all the time. It's just, when Eugene eats livers it's meant to be because otherwise he will die, and we can work with that because we know if your liver falls off you die. No one really dies of melanin deficiency unless you count people who bucket out due to skin cancer from exposure to Flame Ball One, so the evil one in this episode must be evil because he was presented with a couple of options…
    A - Murder a bunch of people to eat their pituitary glands or
    B - Move to Scotland.
    I'm not trying to say moving to Scotland isn't a tough option. Half my family are Scottish and I avoid them like the damned plague, I'm just saying, the Scots have zero melanin and they mostly die by getting glassed in the neck by other Scots.
    So, yeah, no, Teliko is a skip, just like Glasgow.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад

      I need to know more about these goats.

    • @Belzediel
      @Belzediel 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@JBSpookyReview They're like, like, they are to sheep as muscle cars are to sedans.
      Faster, musclierer, crazier. If KITT was an animal he'd be a goat.
      You get all these shows about them, Goatwatch, Goathunters, the Goats of Somewhere or other. People claim to see goats all the time but there's little to no evidence, but that just means goats are masters of stealth. There could be a goat in your room right now and the only way to tell would be the gentle rumbles of a barely audible bleat. They're a lot like ninjas in that regard, but ninjas can't be milked. At least not easily.
      I like an animal that starts at 'f*^k you' and only gets angrier if there's anyone actually there.
      The chihuahua of the capric legions.

  • @Charles_Anthony
    @Charles_Anthony 4 месяца назад +1

    Weakest episode in a while but not because of any "racial overtones" or whatever nonsense the "academics" claim it to feature. It had potential, but there's just something missing. It's forgetable; I never can remember it, that's one thing I can say for sure.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  4 месяца назад +1

      It needed more time in the writers room.

    • @Charles_Anthony
      @Charles_Anthony 4 месяца назад +1

      @@JBSpookyReview : Without a doubt. They could've had something here but as it stands currently, it just bares too many other similarities to better episodes and that's it's only true "sin" in my book.

  • @BennysBenz
    @BennysBenz 6 месяцев назад +3

    I'm not a fan of this episode it wasn't entertaining.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад

      I'm not the biggest fan of it either.

    • @BennysBenz
      @BennysBenz 6 месяцев назад +1

      @JBSpookyReview what's worse is it keeps getting played late night on this channel where I live. I honestly think when these rerun channels buy shows, they buy the least watched episodes.

  • @God-k5b
    @God-k5b 6 месяцев назад +1

    I feel like I’m the only X-files fan that doesn’t find Scully attractive. Maybe cause my personality is like Mulders and I find her a boring egghead. The actress however seems more fun in the gag reel, almost complete 180 from Scully.

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  6 месяцев назад +1

      Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

    • @elizabethr.110
      @elizabethr.110 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@JBSpookyReviewheyyy...have you ever heard a song by Bree Sharp called Why Don't You Love Me, David Duchovny?

    • @JBSpookyReview
      @JBSpookyReview  5 месяцев назад

      I actually have heard that song.