the x-files s/d

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.

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.

Also a question for die-hard fans: is it necessary to watch all the mythology episodes before watching the movie?

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...

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*

I hated him on the x-files only because I kept wishing he'd turn into the T1000.

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.

I do remember enjoying the moment where the audience discovered OMG there are TWO different races of aliens!

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).

I wish we could've seen more Kryeck/Covarrubias action - a spin-off 'evil' version of the show!

Second movie en route.

This show was really great sometimes. This movie will probably be shitty like the first one.

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

http://www.utsystem.edu/ohr/neo/graphics/Risk%20Managment/RiskManagmentGraphics/FireExtinguisher.gif

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?

Also search this episode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.P.O.

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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.

i mean since they spent so much time dragging the show out past its peak they might as well, right?

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).

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?

yeah that's a first season ep...i think the guy was played by tony shaloub? maybe i'm wrong

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.

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

hhahaha for a sec i was like "am apatow-produced x-files flick wtf"

Trailer filmed at recent convention, accompanied by screaming geeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is7F0IgRj4g

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

http://i25.tinypic.com/2s982tz.jpg

9/11 killed the X-Files?

Does that mean the Cold War killed AfterM*A*S*H?

search "x-cops"

episode filmed in the style of cops

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

i watch the x files in reruns

i know a lot of people who've come to the show posthumously, through re-runs and dvds

no not dead people, after the show's run, wiseguys

anyway, it's cool that this is a standalone movie and all, i just hope the monster or whatever isn't some lame angry ghost or an evil psychic.

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.!

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!

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

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.

the Lone Gunmen backstory ep is pretty fun

I just watched an episode of MacGyver featuring a young Lone Gunman (Byers)!

The actor Bruce Harwood I mean, it was not the coolest crossover episode in the history of television

byers always looks like a kid pretending to be a grownup

even with a beard he looks like a 15 year old lol

it was not the coolest crossover episode in the history of television

He was playing his Lone Gunman character?

Was Richard Belzer there too?

til People on Youtube make trailer for old tv episodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuEnNqrR8q4

gotta say, it bothers me when there's nothing in the episode that establishes why the FBI has jurisdiction over the case

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.

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.

that trailer is about 1000x more exciting than the episode was

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.