― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 2 October 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 2 October 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 2 October 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 2 October 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm dreading watching the season 6(was it?) move to California; we live in vancouver, and half the fun is identifying the locations (that's the rogers tower in burnaby! that's in gastown! it's the art gallery! stanley park!).
― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
As for the story arc I have a feeling Chris Carter originally had a rough plan or idea of where he wanted it to go, (I think I even remember him around '95 or so saying he wanted the show to last about five years and then do movies or spinoffs after that). But as the show got more popular, there was pressure to keep it going and drag it out, so the conspiracy-arc episodes started becoming more labyrynthine and covoluted.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I actually didn't watch the show all that much but always liked it whenever I caught it, so maybe I lucked out with the episodes. And the movie was all right.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
First episode I ever saw was called Revelations, I think and it scared the holy hell out of me. I didn't watch the show for a couple of years because I kept thinking of the tagline, "the truth is out there..." and then thinking, "but hell if I want to know what it is!" Eventually I was pulled into it, though.
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― taco freebie (mike h.), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Search: Seasons 1&2, particulary the three parter at the end of season 2 and the start of season 3. All epsiodes written by Darin Morgan: Humbug, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, War Of The Coprophages, Jose Chung's From Outer Space (or, the Freaks one, the Psychics one, the Cockroaches one, the Alex Trebek one)
Destroy: the rest of it, more so as it goes on.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Have yet to buy the DVDs but when I moved in with my boyfriend he made me THROW AWAY my dozens and dozens of carefully recorded and labeled seasons 1-4 VHS tapes. *sob*
S-I liked the tooms episodes and pretty much any of the earlier ones written by morgan/wong
D-any later eps with those other two agents. I don't even remeber their names that's how much I hated them.
― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Also a question for die-hard fans: is it necessary to watch all the mythology episodes before watching the movie?
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I really liked the COPS crossover where the tv crew following some cops around LA walk slap bang into the middle of an X File.
And my heart still belongs to Gillian Anderson who, judging from her turn in Bleak House, has aged like a fine wine...
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I loved the episode where the Jim Rose Circus starred as a freak show. Mulder has so many great one-liners.
Who's been to an X-Files convention? *raises then puts down hand in shame*
― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I hated him on the x-files only because I kept wishing he'd turn into the T1000.
― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Omg, i totally forgot about Monica Reyes. Nggghhh. I was about to defend those last few seasons (memory's pretty hazy but I remember liking a few episodes) but now I'm thinking they really did suck something awful.
― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I do remember enjoying the moment where the audience discovered OMG there are TWO different races of aliens!
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I second the endorsement of everything involving Darin Morgan. I think he might have had something to do with Blood, the one involving people being sent into homicidal rages through messages in their microwaves and cell phones. That one was great.
Duchovny's episode about baseball was a totally silly, sentimental classic. Gillian Anderson's new age bullshit episode was crap (and also had Moby).
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Thursday, 20 July 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 21 July 2006 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I wish we could've seen more Kryeck/Covarrubias action - a spin-off 'evil' version of the show!
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Second movie en route.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
This show was really great sometimes. This movie will probably be shitty like the first one.
― 31g, Thursday, 1 November 2007 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm excited but how exactly are they going to pick up from the show's (admittedly rather lame) finale? mulder & scully weren't even in the fbi anymore! also there was/is an impending alien colonization in 2012! i seriously doubt they're gonna reboot the mythology and *fanboy meltdown* WARNING! SMOKE DETECTED! CHECK CIRCUITS
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.utsystem.edu/ohr/neo/graphics/Risk%20Managment/RiskManagmentGraphics/FireExtinguisher.gif
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Well it's going to be a monster-of-the-week so they'll probably just sweep as much of that stuff under the rug as they possibly can. I didn't know that Mulder and Scully weren't in the FBI anymore but I guess there's no reason they can't be seeking the truth in their retirement, right?
― 31g, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Also search this episode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.P.O.
― 31g, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post
well in the last ep they were on the run from the alien conspiracy which now solely consists of "supersoldiers" preparing the way for the invasion (which was revealed to be in 2012).
though i guess skinner and robert patrick and that other chick are still around. i just hope that if they're gonna do another movie, at least make a nod to those events or something.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean since they spent so much time dragging the show out past its peak they might as well, right?
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Been enjoying it from the start this year, only halfway through Season 2 now... I remember seeing the movie and hating it though when it came out.
Wat I want to know it, why was it never repeated (here).
― S-, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I need to pick up some boxsets I think. I can still remember the first episode I ever saw when I was 9 or 10, the one where a guy's shadow kills people. I don't think it's a first season ep - anyone know what I'm talking about?
― Roz, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that's a first season ep...i think the guy was played by tony shaloub? maybe i'm wrong
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Interesting to compare to DS9 which I'm watching for the first time now. You get that similar excitement at the start when you're wondering, "is it gonna be a standalone, or part of the big story". And the twist episodes are especially fun, when the latter comes in disguise as the former
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 26 January 2024 16:48 (four months ago) link
In terms of things you can't get back -- I miss that "hey, I didn't know TV could do this!" feeling that blew my nerdy teenage mind multiple times in the 90s
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 26 January 2024 16:49 (four months ago) link
Mid-way through S3 and - with some exceptions - I'm generally finding the arc stories more compelling than the standalones at present. Maybe it's just a function of how very little prestige TV does 24-episode seasons these days, but when you watch on a compressed ("binge") schedule you do realise just how much dreary filler there is. Maybe in the 90s this stuff felt more like a world that you could check into for an hour a week half the year, vs a tightly drawn narrative.
― bamboohouses, Friday, 26 January 2024 17:27 (four months ago) link
When seasons were longer, it was just par for the course for every show, as a I remember. Every show was patchy. Even a good seasons of Cheers is patchy If there were three bad episodes of Magnum PI in a row, that was just the way it was, nobody (I knew) got angry about it. Often the hangout was enough.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 26 January 2024 17:35 (four months ago) link
The alien bounty hunter story in S2 is really good, but it does feel like the point when they went straight-up "sci-fi" instead of taking inspiration from UFO mythology/folklore
― Duane Barry, Friday, 26 January 2024 22:25 (four months ago) link
my mom refuses to watch the x files because david duchovny was her ta for a class and he apparently “lounged about in a whorish manner”— Ivy (@tomfordblues) December 2, 2023
― 龜, Monday, 29 January 2024 14:48 (four months ago) link
the vampire ep in season 2 is so bad/goofy, but i wonder if it influenced blade down the line b/c they both have nightclub scenes... i suppose 'people who can only go out at night' and 'people who go to nightclubs' is an easy connection to make maybe there is a long history of nightclubs/vampirism i am not very familiar with the vampire mythos?
the clock tower ep is pretty corny but i like it as a riff on THEY LIVE
― 龜, Monday, 29 January 2024 14:50 (four months ago) link
Season 6 is such a riot, so many great episodes
Just watching Arcadia now
― Ste, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:49 (four months ago) link
Into Season 7, and starts heavy with the alien story with a three parter. Also, wondered how long it would be before they needed an excuse to show Mimi Rogers's cleavage.
― Ste, Friday, 2 February 2024 15:38 (four months ago) link
Skipped a few to get to 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'But two more details from the Duane Barry two parter I enjoyed were the OTT and perhaps CSI-inspiring use of Enhance on the footage showing Scully in Barry's trunk.And what with the aliens being kids in suits, as they observe Barry being tortured with unanaesthetized laser-precise dentistry one of them is doing a delightful bobbling of their head looking around the set as tho understandably bored of this nonsense already.Far less good ofc Scully's 'welp I remember nothing so back to the bureau for me shalala'. Having the abduction so early in the season and be moved on from so abruptly always jarred in what is otherwise a show that's hit its stride by this point.
― nashwan, Thursday, 8 February 2024 22:50 (four months ago) link
scully's abduction is because gillian anderson was pregnant irl iirc
― 龜, Saturday, 10 February 2024 20:02 (four months ago) link
S4 Ep23 “Blood” is really great (Mulder wakes up in hotel covered in blood & no memory of the past couple of days) … kind of a combined mulder-aliens + mixed with some monster-of-the-week psychological phenomena … kept me guessing almost the whole time
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2024 21:44 (four months ago) link
Oh yeah - “Demons” I think? Wild episode - I don’t think it’s ever explained how Mulder ended up with other people’s blood on him, he’s just cleared of killing anyone and they leave it there? Also amazing that Scully is like “yeah you blacked out and woke up covered in blood because you got a doctor to give you ketamine and drill a hole in your skull” and Mulder’s immediate reaction is “I need to do that again ASAP.”
― JoeStork, Sunday, 11 February 2024 02:10 (four months ago) link
Watching 'End Game' and suddenly wondering if a prequel series about a younger 'Mr X' might be a blast.
― nashwan, Monday, 19 February 2024 23:29 (three months ago) link
xp also amazing that "Demons" is the second episode that season where a killer gets Mulder's gun while he's asleep/hallucinating, and he still has his job.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 19 February 2024 23:55 (three months ago) link
gotta say, it bothers me when there's nothing in the episode that establishes why the FBI has jurisdiction over the case
latest offender: D.P.O.!
― 龜, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:11 (three months ago) link
Well, Mulder, it looks like this turned out to be a local matter. Let's head back to Washington.
I dunno, Scully. I kinda like it here. I might stick around for a few days.
Mulder, don't tell me you still think there's something to that theory of yours!
― peace, man, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:19 (three months ago) link
the way mr veg and i groaned when his “sister” shows up again for the thousandth time in S5 ep2 and we just yell at the tv MULDER YOU N00B
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 01:46 (three months ago) link
yeah at some point the villains figured out that mentioning his sister was the equivalent of jangling keys in front of a baby.
i think the season 5 opener was one of the first mythology ones i saw as a kid after catching random MOTW episodes and it was so baffling and dreary - I'm sure I've watched it since then but I just think of it as the one with nothing but Mulder wandering through warehouses and Scully giving a monologue while dying of cancer.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:01 (three months ago) link
the Lone Gunmen backstory ep is pretty fun
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:02 (three months ago) link
I just watched an episode of MacGyver featuring a young Lone Gunman (Byers)!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:33 (three months ago) link
The actor Bruce Harwood I mean, it was not the coolest crossover episode in the history of television
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:34 (three months ago) link
byers always looks like a kid pretending to be a grownupeven with a beard he looks like a 15 year old lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 02:51 (three months ago) link
it was not the coolest crossover episode in the history of television
He was playing his Lone Gunman character?
― Ste, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:00 (three months ago) link
Was Richard Belzer there too?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:09 (three months ago) link
til People on Youtube make trailer for old tv episodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuEnNqrR8q4
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:14 (three months ago) link
For as much as Mulder complains about being straitjacketed by the Bureau, surely no other agent gets to just cherry pick the cases they're interested in like he does. Especially since so often they originate from random news articles he read, not something that has been referred to the FBI.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:09 (three months ago) link
The show should have devoted one of their occasional comedic episodes to showing the aftermath of an X-File, as government lawyers hopelessly attempt to prosecute one of Mulder and Scully's cases based on their absurd theories and shoddy evidence, perhaps in a mock Law & Order format.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:15 (three months ago) link
that trailer is about 1000x more exciting than the episode was
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:42 (three months ago) link
The S5 opener Redux truly is the nadir of the mythology. It's been a while since I watched it, but I remember finding it hilarious when Mulder dramatically announces the true culprit of whatever they're talking about is... some FBI director we might have seen once or twice before in the series. OK then.
I remember there was a very mixed reaction to the blank-faced torch guys (who turn up later in S5) at the time, but I liked them. On one hand, it's yet another element added to the confusion; but it felt like they actually brought a sense of urgency and horror back to the Mythology, which was sorely needed by that point.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 7 March 2024 23:01 (three months ago) link