watched the Chair last night and Duchovny gamely making a fool of himself in it was absolutely hilarious
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
X-Files reboot with him and Sandra Oh would be fucking amazing
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
The lines on his face in that scene gave him a bit of a Walter Matthau look.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
the scene has a X-Files callback as well! won't spoil it but it's unmissable
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
Perhaps I’ll just find a "best of" the last few seasons and condense the entire back half into one "season”.I posted recs in hidden tags a few months ago if that’s helpful
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
I think “Via Negativa” is very much worth watching, really atmospheric dream-horror episode, but a lot of season 8 is kind of a drag. The first half is at least trying to change things up but there’s a lot of middling, grim MOTW episodes. Also there’s a really dumb and pointless retcon about Mulder at the start of the season that makes no sense in the context of Mulder and Scully’s relationship, which is used to drive the plot of a single MOTW episode and then handwaved away.
Once Duchovny returns it just feels weird, Duchovny’s subdued performance at least works for the character but the whole show seems lost and low on energy.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
yeah, plus iirc there's a very weird awkward offness to all of Mulder and Scully's interactions, a bit like Season 6 but worse because of everything that's happened in the meantime. It's hard to find any of their scenes believable when you're just wondering why the hell they don't talk about the fact that Scully is pregnant with a mystery baby that might be an alien or might be Mulder's, and I get the impression the actors feel the same way.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 26 August 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
Saw another one for the first time last night and got to say 'The Pine Bluff Variant' episode does seem a bit more topical in 2021 than it probably did in 1998. It has a couple of guest stars that you definitely know from other places too like Lost and Malcolm in the Middle/Seinfeld.
― earlnash, Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
that movie theater scene has really stuck with me over the years
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 August 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
impressive that it's their take on The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and they manage to fit a pretty faithful and coherent adaptation of the plot into 45 minutes.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 26 August 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
Season 10 - whoooo boy this is rough. Interesting that it starts with a credible Alex Jones impression but the show still plays it down the middle on right-wing conspiracy seasoned with just enough left-wing criticism to not seem like Alex Jones was in the writer's room.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 28 August 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
Special effects looked great, though, Roswell '47 & the cloaking ship.
Episode 2 could have been a great MOTW episode if it had spent more time with the siblings.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 28 August 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Much as I love the Darin Morgan eps, and some of the Gilligan comedies, I think the show actually got a bit too light and comical in general throughout S6 and S7 (with some exceptions). Despite its flaws, I kinda like the dark, gloomy tone of S8 for that reason.
That first S10 episode is such a mess, but I can kinda see what Carter was going for; I find the idea of powerful people experimenting with aliens and their technology scarier than invasion overlords (see Paper Clip, Nisei, etc)
― Duane Barry, Saturday, 28 August 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
omg Tim Armstrong monologue
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 30 August 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
My Struggle II is cringe on top of cringe
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 September 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
Cutting between Mulder’s foot stomping on the gas, revs climbing and then zoom-zoom is so funny in this context.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 3 September 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link
I'm surprised that you have no comment on 'Babylon'. Particularly the shroom trip.We're verrrrrey slooooowly rewatching, in season two rn, enjoying the casual stroll. I may actually eventually make it through those late season episodes I still haven't seen and I guess even rewatch the reboot, god help me.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:43 (two years ago) link
Oh, yeah, that whole episode was a mess. I have a soft spot for Lauren Ambrose because of Six Feet Under but the millennial version of Mulder was a void + ripped from the headlines terrorist plot (Garland Muhammed exhibition), Mulder line dancing while tripping balls was the only saving grace.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:55 (two years ago) link
It's hard to believe this show (by which I mean pretty much anything after S6E1) is from the same team that created "Home" and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
I picked up season 8 from the library cos it was free. Didn't notice it was 8 until after I took it home. Has no outer cover just the sleeve the dvd fit into.Did wonder if that was too late.Not tried to watch any yet. Imdb rates individual episodes anyway.
― Stevolende, Friday, 3 September 2021 06:04 (two years ago) link
Not seen season 8 but just started in on 9. It's not the fault of the new (to me) leads but yeah the writing sure is a significant step down from where I left it in season 7, jarringly cliched and corny at times. I'm liking the mythology stuff more than the MOTWs so far. Very awkward weird what they're doing with Scully, as much as I love the character and actor.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 3 September 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, September 3, 2021 5:57 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Well, the writers chiefly responsible for those episodes had long moved on by then. It was pretty much just Vince Gilligan left delivering the goods, basically any of the handful of worthwhile episodes you can name from seasons 6 - 9 was probably one of his. Drive, X-Cops, Je Souhaite, etc.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Friday, 3 September 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link
xp might have skipped over s7 as well, looking at the episode titles.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 3 September 2021 10:34 (two years ago) link
What was the season and episode name of that one where it was mainly flashback cuts to previous eps but with the bloke inserted into the scenes, it was a comedy episode pretty much.
― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Friday, 3 September 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
Season 11, "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat." That season's Darin Morgan episode.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 3 September 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
Well, the writers chiefly responsible for those episodes had long moved on by then. I agree that Gilligan is responsible for nearly all the good eps from 6-9, but milo has just watched S10, in which the only writers apart from Carter are the writers of Home and Clyde Bruckman. (The Darin Morgan ep in S10 is great though.)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 3 September 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
S11 Black Mirror episode was pretty good. Most of the season feels like they're doing Skinner dirty, though.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 September 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
They always kind of do Skinner dirty, don't they? He spends his life cleaning up Mulder's messes, and in return Mulder periodically accuses him of murder.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 13 September 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
one of the wildest moments in x files pic.twitter.com/OtAqikhnr9— dangerous man with a gun (@dgahk) December 11, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 December 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
S2E2 The Hostgod what a great monster of the weekthat makeup looks SO fucking good even now, they shot it so percectly
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 07:04 (two years ago) link
Something must have worked because I haven't seen that episode since it aired, and I can still perfectly picture the monster and his disgusting ring mouth
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link
so gross!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
yeah that episode was some top tier body horror, everyone barfing up flatworms in the bathroom and shots of them slithering into the drain!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
same, thats one of the first images that comes into my mind when i think 'the x files'
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
He's definitely one of the better XF monsters. I love Tooms, Flukie, and the critters from "Ice" and "Darkness Falls", as they're vaguely believable in a pseudo-scientific kind of way, and more effective than traditional werewolves, vampires, etc
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
there’s some great shots where its like Nosferatu yknow, the monster emerges from darkness but only the head is fully lit from imdb trivia performing the monster sounds like hell, 20 hrs in the suit etc (darin morgan, brother of glenn, also writer of some great eps himseld, was in the suit) & this is wild, the materials of the suit itself were i guess water soluble in some way & it would deteriorate & they had to recraft it every day !? … you like to think its longevity on screen, and how great they made it look on film, kiinda maybe makes up for all the trials & tribulations (somewhat)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
fuck that “Duane Barry” S2 E5&6 two parter w Steve Railsback is so fuckin GOOD
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
i really wish they hadn't given away that Krycek was a villain in his first episode - it would have made that second part even better if he just seemed like a normal agent up to the moment he knocks out the cable car operator.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:17 (two years ago) link
anyone that handsome is always a villain
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:35 (two years ago) link
watching S6 ep15 "Arcadia" haha love this one
― Ste, Friday, 12 August 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
30 years old tonight!
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 September 2023 01:55 (seven months ago) link
we’re still rewatching - just heading into s3 nows3e4 clyde buckman’s final repose Weirdly had no memory of this one despite Peter Boyle, awards, etc but wow, yeah total BANGER
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 September 2023 02:06 (seven months ago) link
i just realized how old i was when i saw the first airing of "home." i have to assume my folks were on a dinner date that night.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 11 September 2023 02:56 (seven months ago) link
Have a vivid memory of babysitting, putting the kids to bed, watching the episode by myself and being terrified as I waited for their parents to come home. Also wanna say it was a Friday 9-10pm, and I think the local Fox newscast that followed the episode led with something about X-Files and aliens, which was also terrifying. IIRC the show got a lot of hype early on but barely anybody watched it on Friday nights, then maybe they moved it to Sunday nights?
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Monday, 11 September 2023 03:09 (seven months ago) link
I watched from the beginning, but I was initially fake-annoyed by the show's early marketing that claimed the stories were taken from true tales of the paranormal. I had just graduated from college, but still sharing a house with my college friends so it was the perfect show for us to dig into since Twin Peaks. Somewhere in the middle of season 1 I started taping it so I could get my Friday nights back.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 September 2023 03:25 (seven months ago) link
it was on crazy late at night in Australia iirc, started airing in 1994 when i started unione of the resident tutors at our dorm was a night owl & her and a couple other students were watching i think the Bigfoot ep? and i was hookedwe always kept all the the lights off in the common room for added vibesonce my friend decided to do a drinking game where he had to drink shot of tequila every time they said “agent” he was so wasted it took four of us to carry him to bed
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 September 2023 05:14 (seven months ago) link
unless wiki is b/s they didn't re-air it for a spell. which would make sense, because i remember catching it on tv a few years after and being amazed it was on air again.
there are very few "tough" episodes of a series i would put up against with this, the sheriff's bedroom scene in particular hit me hard.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 11 September 2023 05:33 (seven months ago) link
I was a kid when it premiered - was not allowed to stay up late to watch it during the first season, but did watch pretty regularly from around halfway through s2 onwards (my older brother would tape episodes so we could watch them together in daytime). think i mentioned upthread one of the earliest episodes I remember watching was the one with Tony Shalhoub, that one messed me up for a bit.
also just remembered that when I was about 11-12, I used to go over to our neighbour's house to play with their kids and we would come up with elaborate scenarios involving Mulder, Scully, alien abduction/torture, that would also somehow involve Disney princesses/villains lol
― Roz, Monday, 11 September 2023 05:54 (seven months ago) link
Glad I didn’t know Gillian Anderson was only like 22 when the first season filmed until I rewatched it during the pandemic, saved me from a complex about levels of accomplishment. Scully was on the Doogie Howser track, medical school by 15, Quantico before she could drink.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 September 2023 07:54 (seven months ago) link
There's different versions of the drinking game, but I always remembered "Drink once when the Cigarette Smoking Man smokes, drink twice if he's smoking in front of a No Smoking sign"
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 September 2023 08:43 (seven months ago) link