I'd seen quite a few episodes of The X-Files in the past, but recently thought I'd make an effort to watch it all from the start. I'm up to the season 4 episode Home. It was quite unpleasant.
The teaser might just be the most horrific thing I've ever seen. And I've seen Alien: Resurrection. That's the only other thing I've seen though.
The wife and I are in early season 2 of our rewatch now. Gillian is SO pregnant, and it's quite annoying watching the show's obvious attempts to hide it.
I always enjoy watching how TV shows handle that particular situation. I love all the random shit they make actresses hide behind.
Well, is it? Just seemed to be an excuse for a load of gruesome to me. The Peacocks were a bit too unreal to be convincing in my view. If I were to list the episodes that have stood out for me from the first three seasons thus far, I'd say: Ice Eve Beyond the Sea E.B.E. Darkness Falls Roland Little Green Men The Host Duane Barry Die Hand Die Verletzt Humbug Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose The Walk Nisei/731 Hell Money Jose Chung's From Outer Space Quagmire But it's pretty much a consistently good show. There's probably less than half a dozen episodes I would really call bad. I have seen episodes later than these in the past, but that's where I am at the moment.
Home is one of the scariest and most awesomely scary episodes of TV I've ever seen. My favorites from the first 3 seasons: Beyond the Sea Eve Squeeze/Tooms Roland The Erlenmeyer Flask Little Green Men Duane Barry/Ascension One Breath Irresistible Colony/End Game Humbug Soft Light Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip D.P.O. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Nisei/731 Grotesque Piper Maru/Apocrypha Jose Chung's From Outer Space Talitha Cumi Top 20 episodes of the show: 1. Beyond the Sea 2. Gethsemane/Redux/Redux II 3. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 4. Humbug 5. Home 6. Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" 7. Nisei/731 8. Duane Berry/Ascension 9. Milagro 10. Paper Hearts 11. Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip 12. Small Potatoes 13. The Post-Modern Prometheus 14. One Breath 15. Two Fathers/One Son 16. Tithonus 17. Folie a Deux 18. Irresistible 19. Grotesque 20. Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man or How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Just for the record, I realized I didn't answer my own questions, my favorite character is A.D Skinner (I'm sorry, is he not badass? ), with The Lone Gunmen close behind(every episode involving them minus 'Jump The Shark' is too awesome) and my favorite episode is either 'Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man' or 'The Unnatural'(X-Files and baseball, um hell to the yes!), and if not those two, definitely Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space', or, Beyond The Sea...gotta give props to Brad Dourif
The X-Files is my second favorite show behind DS9. The 90's really were the golden age of television - at least compared to the dreck that is on today. I thought that the show was beginning to lose it's steam during season seven, but was revitalized during season eight - which is a better season than it gets credit for. There were a few problems with season eight though. While I liked agent Doggett, he lacked the chemistry that Mulder had with Scully. Also Mulder injected a great deal of humor into the series which was sorely missed in the episodes that he was absent from. By season nine the show was running on fumes and was painful to watch for an X-phile like myself. At this point the show seriously needed some new blood on the writing staff and Doggett and Reyes were uninteresting Mulder and Scully substitutes. And don't even get me started about the deaths of the Lone Gunmen. I hope that we get a resolution to the 2012 alien invasion storyline. Though I fear at this point that a movie would lack the budget to do the concept justice. It probably will never happen, but I would love to have it all wrapped up in an epic novel.
Really? I thought Duchovny had some of his best episodes that season: Amor Fati, Closure two-parter and Requiem.
The X-Files! My first geeky obsession.<3 I can't tell you ONE favourite character. There is no choosing between Mulder and Scully. I love them both, and I love them TOGETHER. At least in the series. In the last film, I think they sort of ruined the relationship... and I don't think I'm the only one that feels that way. Ahem. Favourite episodes. Here goes... One Breath Squeeze Ice Beyond the Sea Tooms Darkness Falls War of the Coprophages Irresistible Wetwired Home Unruhe Leonard Betts Never Again Memento Mori Small Potatoes Redux Redux II Detour Christmas Carol Emily Bad Blood All Souls Folie a Deux Dreamland Dreamland II How the Ghosts Stole Christmas Agua Mala Monday Arcadia Milagro The Unnatural Field Trip Biogenesis The Sixth Extinction The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati Millennium Closure All Things Requiem I end it there. I loved some of seasons 8 and 9... but I can't be bothered to add anymore.
Thus my qualifier; he looks bored in almost every episode. Yes, he has a few moments to shine, but the season is filled with a lot of monster-of-the-week stories, and Duchovny doesn't bring the enthusiasm of earlier seasons to them.
The X-Files is a great show. Ever since it's gone off the air Fox has been trying to get a sci-fi show as big as it was. That's one reason why they've done so many sci-fi shows over the last ten years. Maybe one day they'll find one.
I revisited the series about a year ago and overall quite enjoyed it. Here's what I thought in summation: I now find myself wanting to revisit the first feature film and thinking about revisiting the whole series again.
Any love I may have had for The X-Files died at the end of the second movie's credits, when the camera panned to show Mulder & Scully on a vacation, wavin' to the camera. Made me glad I had one of those movie bucks coupons to see it in theaters, haven't watched the movie since, and only one episode, 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space', on Netflix. Guess that makes it my favorite episode of the series.
That scene after the credits. My sister and I were huge fans and saw it in the cinema straight away. We... cringed. It's awful. No idea where it came from. Didn't fit in any sort of way. Funny how such a short scene at the end can have that kind of effect.