Yeah, that seemed weird. Just back in the ol' office, taking a case, no biggie.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
Gillian has so much more gravitas than DD these days that their scenes together are almost embarrassing
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Not watched it but
He is now an old unemployed white dude ranting about government conspiracies, which these days means racist right-wing lunatic.
is what I'd be looking for.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link
lol at casting McHale as "charming"
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
this seemed rushed but i'm along for the ride
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
It's not an X-Files episode unless Mulder spends half the episode earnestly convincing Scully to take his batshit crazy line of inquiry seriously and then once she does, follows her around cracking jokes.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
best thing about the debut was Annet Mahendru because
― akm, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
I just watched the first new episode, and it was OK, but it displayed some of Carter's worst tendencies in writing MythArc eps. Characters stating that someone or something is really important in some way, without convincingly showing how or why. Why exactly was this woman "the key to everything"? What about the multitudes of abductees M&S encountered throughout the series?
Anyway, I'm more looking forward to the Morgan(s) and Wong episodes.
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
second episode was good! a few pieces being moved around with the mytharc stuff but mostly felt like an enjoyable standalone episode
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
I couldn't make it past the first 15 minutes of ep 1.
"I have alien DNA" was the last line I made it though.
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it was moronic on every level. I suspect a psyop.
Glad to hear the next episode is better!
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
yeah the first episode was monumentally terrible. just a badly written piece of tv, and the acting wasn't much better.
episode 2 was better. episode 3 the best of the first 3 according to a few critics, nice traditional monster of the week, big lighter and more humorous too apparently. looking fwd.
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
first ep should've just gotten it over with and had a montage of mulder sharing 'jet fuel can't melt steel beams' posts on social media
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
haaaaaa
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
otm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
chemtrails!
― akm, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
episode 3 the best of the first 3 according
If anyone didn't expect episode 3 to be the best of the six, they hadn't looked at the writing credits
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 23:54 (eight years ago) link
truth. 'Humbug' is still one of my favorite episodes
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
oh god this is hilarious
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
Keith Uhlich has ranked all 201 pre-reboot episodes:
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/the-x-files-episodes-all-201-episodes-ranked
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
I guess I wouldn't be an ILXor if I didn't say that I disagree with those rankings in the strongest possible terms
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Can't check that list at the moment. Can someone just confirm real quick that number one is the episode where Deep Roy keeps crawling up people's asses? Thx.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
i have seen v few eps but the Peter Boyle one is great.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
(#2 on KU list)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
furious to see all of these season 1 and 2 episodes so low, though i suppose it's conceivable that what i loved when i was 13 wouldn't shine so brightly now
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
the guy loves the show, i wdn't be too hard on him.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Peter Boyle ep was another Darin Morgan (aka writer of last night's episode) joint.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
Rhys Darby in last night's episode manages to channel the Darin Morgan pathos almost as well as Peter Boyle did!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
have we polled the original X-Files episodes? that would be fun.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Mrs. Chachi pointed out, while we were enjoying the first one of these: "People forget that the X-files was often pretty bad. Enjoyable, fun, watched it every week, but often pretty bad."
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
Last night's was really great and it was fun to watch with my wife who hadn't seen any of the old ones and only saw the first two of the new season, and had no idea how fun and campy and sentimental the show could be. While I was like "oh yeah, I remember how this feels" she was just like "wtf!"
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
That was really outstanding.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
xxpost As someone who's generally a fan of the show, can I just say that Mrs. Chachi is OTM.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
very much so
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
There was stuff about it that I liked (generally self-contained episodes) but even those could be overly silly or boneheaded, the show was really erratic. and on for a long time!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
what the hell were those Lone Gunmen all about?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
Yeah he was as perfectly cast as Joel McHale was miscast
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Also I'm starting to think Fox wanted to pay Anderson half Duchovny's salary because she has half as many scenes
X-Files in its heyday was great in the way old Star Trek or Twilight Zone was great. It was often corny and there were always bad filler episodes but the good stuff was transcendent.
― Sissy SpaceX (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
X-Files is not even close to the quality level of either of those shows imo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Bullshit
― Sissy SpaceX (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
latebloomer otm
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
eh you guys are philistines, the production design alone on both those shows was way better/consistent/creative than the X-Files. Even the dud episodes (and I'm not denying that there's duds in both ST:TOS and TZ) have style.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
tbf I am one of those people who considers TZ to be one of the greatest TV shows ever, all-time top 10 material
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
I think you have your "it blew my mind when I was a kid" glasses on. X-Files at its peak is on pretty much exactly the level of those shows.
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
did X-Files blow any childrens' minds I sort of doubt it
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
are you crazy
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
yes
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
only the things we liked when we were kids have true value. these kids today don't understand. every generation says this, but for ours, it was true. right? srsly man that seem to be yr stance here and it's a real bad one
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
I admit I've been pretty glib but part of that's because I feel like the odds of me breaking down some kind of quantitative analysis of the shit:gold ratio of the three shows and convincing anyone is close to zero. In general (and I would have to look and trawl through all - ugh- 201 episodes and figure out how many of those are actually decent) X-Files has at least one entire season that is total garbage - which I don't think is the case with TOS or TZ. Throw in pretty much all the conspiracy/mytharc episodes (which really are terrible) and that's a significant chunk of the show. TOS was only on for three years and most of the garbage is concentrated in the tail end of the third season, when they really started flailing. Even then though, the design of the show is so consistent and strong and vibrant I can still enjoy watching it. I don't think you could ever say that the production aesthetic of X-Files is so great that it carries otherwise shitty material, but that is definitely the case with TOS. And I think that's by and large the case with TZ too. Aside from the episodes shot on video, which are just painful to watch, and some of the drearier hour-long episodes towards the end of the series run, the stylistic tics that TZ relied on - the music cues, the tilted camera angle, the aggressively modernist lighting, the penchant for abstract, minimalist sets - could carry weak material along nicely enough, and really make the stronger material shine with an intensity and strangeness that was remarkably groundbreaking at the time, and still resonates today. I don't think you can say the same for the generally grey-green washed out color scheme of X-Files or its crappy sub-Close Encounters/Dr. Who themesong. imho.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link