Unknown Facts • The Dying Fields

Date: 03/31/2004
From: SynthIA_2

• PhantomDennis wins the Nazis' prototype laser gun guitar!
• baysbabe wins a hilarious "AOL 4 AmerricNs" pamphlet!
• Recall317 wins a Slayerfest '98 commemorative T-shirt!
• ThomasMalthus wins a DRILL 187 commemorative drill!
• Callie21V wins Anderton's eyeball, which was still accepted by the retina scanners 300 years after his death!
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins a pet split-faced border collie! [http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/HalfWhiteKatie.jpg]
• Celestial7 wins a pet killer whale!
• Grizzlor wins a bowl of the Kromagg Soup Nazi's finest Cornea Bisque!

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BLINKER: Uh... where's MissingAISynthia?

SYNTHIA II: Beats me. Anyway, if you need me, I'll be over here playing Freecell.

BLINKER: Well, seeing as the show is starting, I kinda *do*...

SYNTHIA II: Great. Then like I said, I'll be over here playing Freecell.

BLINKER [sighs and turns on camera, leaving the posters to wonder how they read the previous exchange]: S4 has terrible flow. You've got three goofy, lightweight eps (OBWAT, JSY, and TAH), and then you've got four heavy, dark ones (Slidecage, Asylum, California Reich, and The Dying Fields.) Today--

SYNTHIA II [in background]: Four aces! Yes!

BLINKER [grumbles something about useless backup modules and union interference]: All right, my fact is that the redheaded, leather-jacket-wearing corpse at the beginning is Peck's idea of a tribute to Wade.

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Over the edge

Date: 03/31/2004
From: Recall317

At just about the time this episode was being written, producer Marc Zicree discovered Civilization II. Even though the game was now a few years old, the addiction set in. The next time Zicree looked up from the computer screen, the fourth season was over.

"And I got all these great alt-history ideas..."

R317

WADE!!!!!!!

Date: 03/31/2004
From: ThomasMalthus

Beginning Text must be demeaned.

Did you know...? "The Dying Fields" was originally supposed to be the Wade resolution episode, with Ira Wheeler slated to reprise his role as Ambassador Wade from The Killing Fields. Apparently, he would be billed as Wade Welles' older, maler double. (Un)fortunately, Wheeler had a previous engagement, playing "Old Man" in The Thomas Crown Affair. And then, a year later, we got "Requiem" instead.

ThomasMalthus

The only good that came out of this was that the definition of "Ambassador" from this proposed episode lived on in Joss Whedon's Firefly.

Maggs to the Max

Date: 03/31/2004
From: PhantomDennis

When the human/Kromagg hybrids were introduced, There was debate over what to call them. Some favored Kromans, but Peckinpah nixed this, saying "If we called them Kromans, they'd expected to act like Romans. I had enough trouble getting rid of that Asian business Torme saddled me with."


Around this time Kari Wurher approached Peckinpah asking why they continue to call the Kromagg "'Maggs". She thought that since Maggie had spent most of her life battling Soviets, that she could call them "Krommies".

Peckinpah explained to Kari that there was still a sizable portion of the fan base that hated the character of Maggie, and that by calling the bad guys Maggs it mollified on a concsious level and subliminally kept them watching.

"One of my regrets, is that when I left to do 'Turks' Dial, Damron et al let this fall by the wayside. I mean if you're going to change Kromaggs into Vikings, at least call them VolMAGGS, not Volsaggs. No wonder we got canceled."

Yes. No soup for you, Humagg!

Date: 03/31/2004
From: Grizzlor

It's a fact, Charlie O'Connell was allowed to have more than one scene alone with a guest star.

I didn't know

Date: 04/01/2004
From: DieselMickeyDolenz

Beginning Text must END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A follow-up to this episode was scratched, but a future episode was planned where it would be explained that the 'Maggs had abandoned their captive breeding program due to the fact that the hybrids couldn't be stopped from eating their *own* eyes. So much for genetic engineering.

DMD

What you didn't know....

Date: 04/05/2004
From: MissingSliderLogan

BT what's your dream? Do you dream?



MULDER: At times, I almost dream.

I, too, have spent a life the sages' way and tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago... and in that act, a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so... instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely... but scattered wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories... as now... when seems once more... the goal in sight again.
~~~ The Field Where I Died


Peck was intrigued by this episode and remarked, "So Mulder and Scully knew each other in a past life and died. I don't get how this other chick could be Mulder's soulmate instead of Scully, but hey, she's hot. I was thinking we do a past life episode... maybe jump into the future and show that Kyra was really Wade reincarnated or something like that. Okay, this is confusing, someone explain to me how we're going to do this."





Logan

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