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
yep that's the one! totally did not realize that was monk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Light_%28The_X-Files_episode%29
and it's from season 2. I knew it wasn't season 1 cause I remember it had been on for a while and I hadn't been allowed to stay up to watch it.
― Roz, Thursday, 1 November 2007 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071101/tv_nm/xfiles_dc
The July 25 release date would put "X-Files" up against "Step Brothers," a comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, and an untitled comedy starring Ice Cube.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0838283/
mckay is directing, apatow is producing
― kingfish, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
hhahaha for a sec i was like "am apatow-produced x-files flick wtf"
― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Trailer filmed at recent convention, accompanied by screaming geeks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is7F0IgRj4g
― Duane Barry, Monday, 25 February 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link
some more tidbits
http://io9.com/360060/gillian-anderson-reveals-kinky-plot-of-x+files-3-movie
http://io9.com/360044/chris-carter-says-911-killed-x+files-but-america-is-ready-for-it-again
― latebloomer, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i25.tinypic.com/2s982tz.jpg
― Roz, Monday, 31 March 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
9/11 killed the X-Files?
Does that mean the Cold War killed AfterM*A*S*H?
― David R., Monday, 31 March 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
search "x-cops"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 March 2008 07:34 (sixteen years ago) link
episode filmed in the style of cops
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 March 2008 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
gimmicky but exceptionally well done i thought
and terrifying when i was in 6th grade
it's weird now to think there was a time when literally everyone i knew was obsessed with this. that hasn't happened since, even with Lost or Heroes, there are just plenty of people who don't care. And weirdly i don't know a single person now who would probably still sit down and watch the X Files in reruns. I'll probably see the movie but they're going to have to really hype this and it had better get GREAT word of mouth
― akm, Monday, 31 March 2008 07:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i watch the x files in reruns
― chaki, Monday, 31 March 2008 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i know a lot of people who've come to the show posthumously, through re-runs and dvds
― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 11:08 (sixteen years 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