the x-files s/d

I was laid off last summer and decided to rewatch this show with all my spare time. I had the same experience with season one duds, but then I combed the net for lists of good episodes and it helped immensely. Only made it to Season 5 though.

Recently I watched this show again from season 1 through 6. I think Season 5 was the high water mark, maybe the first half of that season and the whole of the 3rd and 4th season are def. some of the best television made in the 90s. There are various lists of episodes to watch if you just want to catch the mythos/conspiracy subplot but I like them how they were aired - interspersed between scary one-offs.

Just watched "Beyond the Sea". Very Silence of The Lambs.

did horseshoe really make that youtube because I walked into a room last week and some girls were obsessing over it

haha no!

what do you people think i am

this is kind of the standard line now, and it's true of season 4 and afterward. but during the first three seasons the conspiracy eps were the heart and soul of the show!

― latebloomer, Sunday, June 26, 2011 10:36 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

this is otm btw, in terms of skipping the mytharc episodes. don't skip them!

yeah if you dont watch the mytharc episodes in the first few seasons you dont really "get" the x-files

btw duchovnys guest stints on larry sanders are great. apparently him and garry shandling are close friends irl too

lol HS I wanted to let you address that question yourself :)

Twenty years on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scnPMpDHmrM

damn those are some pretty government employees

I think they are even hotter now.

I think they're hotter now too.

Been shotgunning two episodes a night for the past week. Never did see much of the first season (didn't go all-in until S3)

Ugh. Empty drink anytime Scully does a voice-over with the close-up of the computer screen and everything goes Sex And The City for a few moments.

they have Mulder do it sometimes too!

Also watch Anderson in that miniseries the Fall... she is amazing and gorgeous in it. Although I still can't buy her as English, even if she grew up there. Mostly because she is Scully, not because she sounds funny.

I watched it. Can't wait for the second series.

her character is such a total badass!

Just wait till you get to the later seasons, with those pretentious, lethargic voiceover monologues that usually turn up in "important" episodes. DD and GA deserve special awards for getting through those things without stopping for breath.

I was all-in with the series in season 3, so I'm know of those dreary voiceovers. Here's an experiment: create your very own "More Sixth Extinction" - a synchronized viewing of "The Sixth Extinction" (the season 7 opener with Scully digging out that spaceship on the African beach) with Pink Floyd's More.

If it works, you heard it here first.

Worth mentioning to everyone to check out The Fall - it's a noir-ish detectives-vs-serial-killer story set in Belfast. GA is great in it.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6ecf76eda849fd2eddbde376754e759a/tumblr_mr5p66jYFE1qbo6leo1_1280.png

Finished season one!

- Drags on a bit
- Far more monster-of-the-week episodes than I remember there being.
- Running around the states playing The Avengers with J. Edgar Hoover's uranium card is grade A wish-fulfillment fantasy.
- I've always dug conspiracy culture, but I think what I relate to most are the hours spent driving anonymous rental sedans.
- I've always maintained that desolate office parks in the great exurbs are just as sinister as the moldiest haunted-looking house. Thank you show for supporting my belief.
- The more experimental an episode gets in technique, the worse it usually is.
- Skinner is only in one episode. That constant antagonism source is missing

And exact twentieth anniversary is this Tuesday.

haha. i like the x-files.

evidence that actors are not geeks about their own cultishly adored work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcolBwBxU0&feature=youtu.be

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/193364jj3iji2jpg/ku-medium.jpg

Duchovny/Anderson AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1oad13/gillian_anderson_here_ive_brought_david_duchovny/

(Ok is the formatting for that post as weird for everyone else as it is for me? Sorry, typing on phone.)

Last night my wife, having come home from a choir rehearsal and starting to pack for a business trip, began a sentence, "My 14-year-old self would be so happy..."

I figured she was going to say something about having a productive, well-adjusted adult life.

"...that Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are together."

They are?

Well, they haven't come out and said it, but there's lots of evidence. I think Anderson admitted that they share an apartment in Manhattan; they've been spotted together being affectionate, etc.

After everything HE'S done she must think the therapy worked.

that AMA was pretty entertaining... they do seem very couple-like.

I think you just want to believe they're a couple

These monster of the week episodes in s3/4 (I've been watching from the beginning on netflix) are being played for laughs too much for my liking, it's quite annoying, a lot of mugging and gurning from the actors that isn't there in S1/S2, a lot of local yokel characters with funny looking faces who can be killed off without it mattering very much.

I like the ongoing story arc episodes though, they keep the right tone. Kryceck getting locked in the silo with the captured ufo, cancer man creeping around with his cigarettes, skinner like a big sad mole

watching the episode where skinner is accused of killing a call girl.

Oh yeah that's the one where he's being protected by his guardian angel/succubus. Also we find out he has an estranged wife (who iirc we never hear about again).

is that the same one where he's all covered in blood or a rash or whatever?

http://deadline.com/2015/01/x-files-reboot-talks-fox-1201352465/

And boom.

http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/no-conspiracy-fox-resurrects-the-x-files-for-6-episode-run

awesome! hope they can swing darin morgan to write one of 'em.

http://i.imgur.com/yzwiZqr.jpg

Some more info:

http://tvline.com/2015/04/28/the-x-files-spoilers-fox-revival-chris-carter-mulder-scully-sex/

Per io9's summary as well: "Glen Morgan and James Wong will return to write and direct an episode each. Morgan will also executive produce."

best URL ever

There’s “a big chance” the Lone Gunmen will join returning X-vets Mulder, Scully, Skinner and The Smoking Man.

I guess they're going to act like the T-1000 seasons were just a dream

They're apparently going to act like The Lone Gunmen's series was a dream, too.

btw, Netflix has X-Files season one in HD and full-frame, and it looks like they shot it full frame. It doesn't look half bad!

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2015/jun/15/gillian-anderson-self-portrait-difficult-for-me-in-relationship-where-man-boss-video?CMP=share_btn_tw

i didn't realize she has been going around doing a posh accent off set since she set up in the uk

Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months, then to England, where she lived until she was 11 years old. She lived for five years in London's Crouch End and 15 months in London's Stroud Green,[7] so that her father could attend the London Film School. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School.

When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan.[8] She attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities, graduating in 1986.[7] She is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, she was mocked and felt out of place in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwestern accent. To this day, her accent depends on her location

code switching!

this only makes her hotter</lone-gunmen-voice>

it's a little-known fact that half of the lone gunmen were from new zealand