Wasn't sure whether to start a new topic or not - found a few old ones, but they're rather old.
Anyways, completely missed this series when it was on, but recently picked up the complete DVD set quite cheap, and its quickly becoming one of my favorite shows. I'm still only partway through Season 3 (of 9), so please no spoilers where possible, but I just thought a bit of discussion on the show and its mythos couldn't hurt, especially with Duchovny and Carter starting to talk about getting Fox to let them make the third movie that wraps up the alien invasion - due to occur on December 22, 2012, in their own version of the mayan calendar myth.
For those who are interested, I've also been posting first impressions of each episode over on X-Files Forum (http://www.xfilesforum.net), for more in-depth discussion.
So far my favorite eps have been the Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip 3-parter and One Breath. Thoughts? Opinions? General grousing about how you hate when people bring this show up?
I used to watch X-Files as a kid when it was on. But I lost interest in it because it became too confusing when you skipped a couple of episodes every now and then. I'll probably get the series on DVD some day and watch the whole thing as well. I did watch I Want To Believe in the theatres though. It was a decent movie, the lack of aliens didn't bother me.
Been watching on Netflix since november starting with the first season, already on Season 4, ep 3. I have to say, it is one of my favorite shows ever, no question.
The Erlenmeyer flask was an amazing episode, and a fantastic way to cap off the first season. I really liked Duane Berry and Ascension from the second season and Nisei/731from the third season. The Anasazi three parter was really captivating too. I just love how the show can go from dead serious one episode, to comical the next. For example, Hell Money was a very serous episode, while the next episode, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, was veyr comical.
You just can't help but love the way Duchovny and Anderson took their characters and just ran with it. They really made the characters something special. And Skinner is a badass.
I watched it off and on as a kid, and plan to watch it on Netflix this summer when I have the time. I remember zoning out after the first movie, because the Alien similarities bothered me. I heard it ended on a high note though, and can't wait to watch them all.
Yeah, I'm saving the movies for after i finish the show.
Well, the first movie actually takes place in-betwixt seasons 5 and 6, chronologically.
And if you really want to get nitpicky, The X-Files Game for PC and PS1 takes place between the season 3 episodes "Avatar" and "Wetwired", and The X-Files: Resist or Serve for PS2 takes place at a nebulous time during Season 7. I'm intending to play both of these at their recommended times to experience the entire franchise in order, similar to what I'm doing with nuBattlestar, having watched Caprica, and waiting on Blood and Chrome before watching Battlestar.
Watched it religiously for a long while, but somehow lost track of it a few series before the end. Always meant to catch those last few serieses.
I'll definitely watch the first movie in order then. I didn't even know there was a game :-\
Quote from: Mr. Domino on Feb 06, 2011, 08:12:03 PM
Wasn't sure whether to start a new topic or not - found a few old ones, but they're rather old.
Anyways, completely missed this series when it was on, but recently picked up the complete DVD set quite cheap, and its quickly becoming one of my favorite shows. I'm still only partway through Season 3 (of 9), so please no spoilers where possible, but I just thought a bit of discussion on the show and its mythos couldn't hurt, especially with Duchovny and Carter starting to talk about getting Fox to let them make the third movie that wraps up the alien invasion - due to occur on December 22, 2012, in their own version of the mayan calendar myth.
For those who are interested, I've also been posting first impressions of each episode over on X-Files Forum (http://www.xfilesforum.net), for more in-depth discussion.
So far my favorite eps have been the Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip 3-parter and One Breath. Thoughts? Opinions? General grousing about how you hate when people bring this show up?
I'm one of the biggest fan of X files, I have all the seasons and the movies!!!!
Nice topic:)
-alienhunter14
What makes the show so great is the wonderful chemistry between the two leads. Throughout the 90s, when the show was airing, you couldn't help but have Duchovny and Anderson's likenesses shoved down your throats on magazine covers, tv ads, and trailers around the time of the first movie, among other things - but I always got the impression that Mulder and Scully were more or less cyphers - just archetypal characters designed to appeal to a mass demographic without any real personality.
Needless to say, I've been very pleasantly surprised with actually watching the show at just what great characters they are. A lot of the episodes (the "Monster of the Week" features that take up about 2/3 of the show) are essentially twilight zone-y standalone plots, and many of them simply wouldn't work if not for the saving grace of these two people who quickly become like old friends who you can return to every week (or twice a day in my case) and have some grand, icky new adventure.
Also, how badass is Skinner? I mean, seriously, the guy's probably second only to Jean-Luc Picard in the "Bald and Badass" category.
This entire shows is pretty much the absolute awesomeness. I f**king loved it back when i started watching, and I still love it today. I am too grateful for this show, it made a part of who I am today. There's honestly so much that i can say about The X-Files, that I don't even know what I can say that will make this post my definitive position on the show.
i love the X Files too, great show, i grew up with it, made me fascinated with aliens, mythology and crypozoology as a kid, and i always thought that David Duchovny was the most awesome/cool guy ever.
i even like the Lone Gunmen spin off series.
This show has so many memories for me. Came on when I was about 10 and I grew up with it watching it for almost a decade. Never did finish the last season fully though. Wife got addicted to it a few years ago and we watched the first half of the series. Seasons 1-3 are the best, imo. The new movie was an epic disappointment for us, but I liked the first one quite a bit (even when we watched it again recently). It's very much just like a long traditional episode with a bigger budget.
I think there are rumors of a new movie in the pipeline that dives into the alien mythos again. Could be cool, but it got pretty convoluted towards the end.
Yeah, with any luck movie 3 will be hitting the day after the world ends, as the alien invasion is supposed to be December 22, 2012.
So basically, Chris Carter's saying that even if the world doesn't end like the mayans thought, we're still f**ked.
I remember watching the X-files when the first came on TV back in the 90's. but i soon lost track of it because i was a teenager, and partying and raves made me miss the show. Anyhow i went and watched them all from season 1 to the last season not that long ago, and i was very disappointed on how the main story turns out with the aliens. The first few seasons are awsome, but the plot just gets very silly after that. The were too many side plots with the alien parts of the xfiles making it hard to follow.
I wish the shows main plot just stuck with the small grays and not bring loads of other types of aliens in to the mix. I mean one minute we are following Mulder hunting his sister that got abducted by what we belive are the grays. then the next thing the is a terminator type of alien dude that cant be stopped, then we see some black stuff that controls people and some aliens that look like people but have no face... i was like WTF is going on.
bought the whole seasons collection 2 years ago.great show
Quote from: Mr. Domino on Feb 09, 2011, 03:17:27 AM
What makes the show so great is the wonderful chemistry between the two leads.
I couldn't agree with you more and like yourself I discovered the series years after it was over. When I posted on it here a couple years back Darkness himself sent me some links to forums.
I now have almost the entire run of comics...some action figures & books.
Quote from: Mr. Domino on Feb 09, 2011, 03:17:27 AM
Also, how badass is Skinner? I mean, seriously, the guy's probably second only to Jean-Luc Picard in the "Bald and Badass" category.
Not only that...down right sexy in a specific episode which title escapes me ;) :D
You are in for some great series viewing!
Just finished the third season. Visions of an X-Files/Alien or X-Files/Predator crossover that will never happen are dancing about in my head.
Fox Announces They Will Reboot 'The X-Files': Mulder And Scully To Return
QuoteFox has announced that due to the popularity of 24's return to air that they plan on bringing back another series: The X-Files. This was confirmed by Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman, who says that they're in talks to bring back Chris Carter's supernatural drama.
However, fellow chairman Dana Walden stated that they are in the logistics phase, basically seeing when everyone can line up for this return. That means they're waiting on Carter, David Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson, who is currently set to appear in Season 3 of NBC's Hannibal.
So, right now there is no confirmed date but it sounds likes Fox wants to do this the right way and bring back everyone and everything that made the show so special and something that the fans love.
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3328506/fox-announces-will-reboot-x-files-mulder-scully-return/ (http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3328506/fox-announces-will-reboot-x-files-mulder-scully-return/)
I loved this series as a kid growing up in the 90's and I remember the TV series ending kinda suck when it ended back in 2002 or 2003. I remember hating the second movie because I waited so long for another movie in the series and see the cast return after five or six years after the show ended. The second movie was so boring and forgettable that I hardly remember what happen. Rumors for a third movie talked about Aliens coming to Earth on 12/21/2012 but that never happen.
I like the first movie but it been ages since I watch it though. I also remember the video game on the PC and PS1. I remember that game had horrible loading times that would go on forever.
Mulder and Scully should be recurring characters. Younger Agents should be the mains so they can carry the show again in case Duchovny and Anderson end up wanting out later on.
I'm all for this idea. But would it be considered season 10?
I still remember being upset that there was no follow up episode to that one with that bug guy. I really wanted them to catch him.
I forgot about that guy. During the second movie, I don't remember them ever mentioning what happen after the show ended.
Quote from: Godzillakuj94 on Jan 19, 2015, 04:23:19 AM
I still remember being upset that there was no follow up episode to that one with that bug guy. I really wanted them to catch him.
The bug guy that would make it's office workers into zombies? Loved that episode.
Quote from: xeno-kaname on Jan 19, 2015, 10:48:56 PM
Quote from: Godzillakuj94 on Jan 19, 2015, 04:23:19 AM
I still remember being upset that there was no follow up episode to that one with that bug guy. I really wanted them to catch him.
The bug guy that would make it's office workers into zombies? Loved that episode.
Yup that one!
Quote from: ace3g on Jan 18, 2015, 07:17:49 PM
Fox Announces They Will Reboot 'The X-Files': Mulder And Scully To Return
QuoteFox has announced that due to the popularity of 24's return to air that they plan on bringing back another series: The X-Files. This was confirmed by Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman, who says that they're in talks to bring back Chris Carter's supernatural drama.
However, fellow chairman Dana Walden stated that they are in the logistics phase, basically seeing when everyone can line up for this return. That means they're waiting on Carter, David Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson, who is currently set to appear in Season 3 of NBC's Hannibal.
So, right now there is no confirmed date but it sounds likes Fox wants to do this the right way and bring back everyone and everything that made the show so special and something that the fans love.
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3328506/fox-announces-will-reboot-x-files-mulder-scully-return/ (http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3328506/fox-announces-will-reboot-x-files-mulder-scully-return/)
Nice! am stoked if they get all three back.
Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Jan 19, 2015, 06:45:27 AM
I forgot about that guy. During the second movie, I don't remember them ever mentioning what happen after the show ended.
Nothing much is mentioned in the second movie only a vague mention of scullys baby William,that's about it.
http://comicbook.com/2015/03/21/the-x-files-revival-closer-than-ever/ (http://comicbook.com/2015/03/21/the-x-files-revival-closer-than-ever/)
So they really want to focus on unresolved plot points and stories from the series. This is what I wanted the most! Getting excited for this. Hopefully Mitch Pileggi agrees to return as well.
Confirmed!! 6 episodes.
http://comicbook.com/2015/03/24/the-x-files-officially-returning-to-television/ (http://comicbook.com/2015/03/24/the-x-files-officially-returning-to-television/)
Well I'm definitely looking forward to it. The last movie they did was absolute crap and there wasn't anything supernatural about it. I hope the episodes will be one off episodes rather than some kind of alien arc.
Quote from: Darkness on Mar 25, 2015, 11:46:22 AM
Well I'm definitely looking forward to it. The last movie they did was absolute crap and there wasn't anything supernatural about it. I hope the episodes will be one off episodes rather than some kind of alien arc.
I think it will be more of an arc if they want to go back and answer unanswered questions as they stated.
Makes me wonder if the will cast baby William as a preteen and finally have him meet his parents. I think that's the saddest part of the series. Scully didn't get to see her child grow, and oh how she wanted a kid. The latest movie only mentions their child briefly. But it's clear they never reconnected with him. And now in total it's been 13 years at least since they put him up for adoption.
As cliche as it is, the whole thing with kids finding their biological parents would fit in perfectly in this situation. If William actually searches for them and shows up at their doorstep unexpectedly.
Really happy with the news that X-Files will back, will be dusting off the DVD set for a refresh.
Quote from: xeno-kaname on Mar 25, 2015, 01:52:29 PM
I think it will be more of an arc if they want to go back and answer unanswered questions as they stated.
By the sounds of what Chris Carter said, he implies it's going to be six separate stores. I always enjoyed those episodes more than the arc. I think they wrapped everything up nicely in the series finale.
Quote from: Darkness on Mar 26, 2015, 07:54:36 PM
Quote from: xeno-kaname on Mar 25, 2015, 01:52:29 PM
I think it will be more of an arc if they want to go back and answer unanswered questions as they stated.
By the sounds of what Chris Carter said, he implies it's going to be six separate stores. I always enjoyed those episodes more than the arc. I think they wrapped everything up nicely in the series finale.
Yeah it does kinds sound like that too so I guess it'll be a bit of both?
Darkness it appears they are going to do both styles of episodes.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/artsbeat/2015/03/27/david-duchovny-on-the-new-x-files-and-why-mulder-was-a-terrible-f-b-i-agent/ (http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/artsbeat/2015/03/27/david-duchovny-on-the-new-x-files-and-why-mulder-was-a-terrible-f-b-i-agent/)
It's interesting that he doesn't straight up say that CSM is dead, so he might return? That would be something.
Quote from: Darkness on Mar 26, 2015, 07:54:36 PM
I think they wrapped everything up nicely in the series finale.
The series finale was wrapped up pretty well, except for the fact that there was still an Alien Invasion due on 21 Dec 2012.
Quote from: AvatarIII on Apr 08, 2015, 09:44:12 AM
Quote from: Darkness on Mar 26, 2015, 07:54:36 PM
I think they wrapped everything up nicely in the series finale.
The series finale was wrapped up pretty well, except for the fact that there was still an Alien Invasion due on 21 Dec 2012.
That's what I thought the second movie would cover :-\
Anyways, Skinner and CSM are confirmed to return! From what I've read.
I'm puzzled how they're going to bring Smoking Man back unless it's via a flashback.
Quote from: Darkness on Apr 08, 2015, 12:29:28 PM
I'm puzzled how they're going to bring Smoking Man back unless it's via a flashback.
That is what I hope. Some people are saying he cloned himself though ::) Just speculation though.
Mitch Pileggi Returns to "The X-Files"
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3340875/mitch-pileggi-returns-x-files/ (http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3340875/mitch-pileggi-returns-x-files/)
Quote from: ace3g on Apr 21, 2015, 02:18:33 AM
Mitch Pileggi Returns to "The X-Files"
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3340875/mitch-pileggi-returns-x-files/ (http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3340875/mitch-pileggi-returns-x-files/)
Yaaaass
Confirmed for a January 2016 premiere. There also talk of the Lone Gunman returning too.
http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/378757-fox-sets-x-files-january-2016/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fox-sets-x-files-january-2016 (http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/378757-fox-sets-x-files-january-2016/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fox-sets-x-files-january-2016)
Quote from: Darkness on May 11, 2015, 09:21:54 PM
Confirmed for a January 2016 premiere. There also talk of the Lone Gunman returning too.
http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/378757-fox-sets-x-files-january-2016/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fox-sets-x-files-january-2016 (http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/378757-fox-sets-x-files-january-2016/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fox-sets-x-files-january-2016)
The only blatant retcon I can accept with open arms 8)
as much as I'd love to see them back, this scene
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was so powerful, I would hate to see it not have mattered.
Quote from: AvatarIII on May 12, 2015, 10:56:52 AM
as much as I'd love to see them back, this scene
http://www.revolutionsf.com/images/tv/xfiles/jumptheshark/glassdoor.jpg
was so powerful, I would hate to see it not have mattered.
True. And when they came back as "ghosts" talking to Mulder in one of the later seasons. Was it in the series finale? That was a cool scene.
By the way that series finale was one of the most unsatisfying ever. It didn't feel like one it felt like it was just a cliffhanger to another season.
Guess they knew they'd come back some day :P
Interesting casting news 8)
http://edit.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/x-files-joel-mchale-guest-799884?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews&utm_campaign=THR+Breaking+News_2015-06-03+12%3A15%3A00_kstanhope
http://collider.com/the-x-files-reboot-starts-filming-monday-pictures-tease-reunion/
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Quote from: ace3g on Jun 06, 2015, 03:38:18 PM
http://collider.com/the-x-files-reboot-starts-filming-monday-pictures-tease-reunion/
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGhC6jLUYAIXz1b.jpg
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It's happening! ;D
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@GillianA
And so it begins...
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Quote from: ace3g on Jun 09, 2015, 12:42:28 AM
Gillian AndersonVerified account
@GillianA
And so it begins...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHBNZxeVAAAYdgu.jpg:large
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more set photos
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/markcassidycbm/news/?a=121556
Quote from: ace3g on Jun 10, 2015, 11:56:14 AM
more set photos
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/markcassidycbm/news/?a=121556
I think I'm the only one here just super psyched about every single piece of news about X Files.
I'm excited. Not sure about the possible return of the lone gunman. Unless they use the characters as a hallucination. Such as one of the main characters (mulder, scully, skinner) having a mental breakdown and seeing visions of them agreeing or disagreeing with the actions being taken. I could see mulder having so much mental stress on him he starts to make a bad judgement call and frohicky (cant remember spelling) showing up saying I wouldn't do that.
That would be pretty cool. Or maybe just a few flashbacks.
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http://www.ew.com/gallery/x-files-season-10-first-look-photos/2226458_david-duchovny-and-gillian-anderson (http://www.ew.com/gallery/x-files-season-10-first-look-photos/2226458_david-duchovny-and-gillian-anderson)
Wow. Gillian looks great!!
Close to 50...wow, good genes i guess. She looks superb in Hannibal as well :)
Quote from: Never say no to Panda! on Jun 26, 2015, 06:38:07 PM
Close to 50...wow, good genes i guess. She looks superb in Hannibal as well :)
And in "The Fall". She even has a sex scene in that one haha nothing too revealing just some cleavage but she's so fine nevertheless :o
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Hottie.
First video footage at the end of this promo:
It's gonna be great
Spoiler
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QuoteX-Files filming at 'UFO crash site' in Ashcroft
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Files+filming+crash+site+Ashcroft/11128635/story.html (http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Files+filming+crash+site+Ashcroft/11128635/story.html)
Lone Gunman are definitely coming back: http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/464317-the-lone-gunmen-will-return-to-the-x-files#/slide/1
Started watching the X-Files the other day. Maybe I can catch up before January. assuming I stick with it.
I only ever watched the first 3 seasons - which I loved - I just never got around to buying the rest. I really must because I'd like to watch these.
My personal favourites:
'Darkness Falls' - about the colonies of green insects that only ever come out at night.
'Ice' - Superb 'The Thing' tribute
'X-Cops' - Probably one of the very first examples of the found footage/shaky-cam experience. This was about an entity that appeared to you as your own worst fear. Came out well before the Blair Witch Project made such things popular.
'Home' - Very disturbing episode about the incestuous Peacock family
The mythology episodes were really good until the end of season 4. Then it just went completely off the rails and was stupidly hard to follow.
Quote from: TheBATMAN on Jul 23, 2015, 11:13:51 AM
My personal favourites:
'Darkness Falls' - about the colonies of green insects that only ever come out at night.
'Ice' - Superb 'The Thing' tribute
'X-Cops' - Probably one of the very first examples of the found footage/shaky-cam experience. This was about an entity that appeared to you as your own worst fear. Came out well before the Blair Witch Project made such things popular.
'Home' - Very disturbing episode about the incestuous Peacock family
The mythology episodes were really good until the end of season 4. Then it just went completely off the rails and was stupidly hard to follow.
I agree with all the above. And add "our town" episode about members of a community that resort to cannibalistic rituals started by the founder of the Chaco chicken plant. Always liked that episode.
The finales of the first two seasons were both great.
F. Emasculata is definitely up there as one of the most tense episodes of the show's run. Some pretty nasty FX in places and great use of music.
The Piper Maru/Apocrypha and Two Fathers/One Son two parters are personal favourites. The series never quite hit the same heights after the latter. No coincidence that Krycek featured heavily in both...
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Another great episode.
Just watched "Ghost in the Machine," and it actually managed to make an AI scary in a way the Terminator series hasn't been able to since the first movie.
"Ice" was pretty awesome, as well. :)
Gillian Anderson
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That's a wrap on The X-Files Season 10! See you on January 24th! David Duchovny Robbie Amell The X-Files
Gillian Anderson's photo.
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Ice was frigging awesome.
Another fave of mine was "Triangle" - more a comedic episode but awesome nonetheless.
Quote from: ace3g on Sep 03, 2015, 11:19:46 PM
Gillian Anderson
7 hrs ·
That's a wrap on The X-Files Season 10! See you on January 24th! David Duchovny Robbie Amell The X-Files
Gillian Anderson's photo.
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Season 10. That's surreal. I don't think they had called it that until now have they? I always saw "X Files revival" or "miniseries" .
Did you ever read the recent comic series? That was marketed as Season 10.
Quote from: Darkness on Sep 04, 2015, 06:26:47 PM
Did you ever read the recent comic series? That was marketed as Season 10.
Yeah I knew about that. But like you said I felt like it was a marketing thing so people knew it was "canon" and after the series. Now we actually have a season 10.
I doubt it. Makes no sense to call it Season 10. They'll think of some fancy subtitle.
Looks like a new trailer will show during the season premiere of Gotham tomorrow.
Here is the promo they showed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaMXTK6DUI&feature
Quote from: Darkness on Sep 04, 2015, 06:26:47 PM
Did you ever read the recent comic series? That was marketed as Season 10.
I've collected all 4 volumes so far. Its very Good! It mainly explains how certain characters who we saw die in the TV show can still be around (in one form or another). It also furthers the mythology along and revisits the more famous monster of the week episodes. I'm not sure if the new miniseries will takes the events of the comic into account but since chris carter wrote the comic i'm hoping so.
The continuity is a f**king Kojimesque nightmare to decipher. Anyone know of a good recap video?
Gillian Anderson looks pretty damn good for her age. Mulder looks quite old. And looks like the smoking man is returning.
Quote from: Darkness on Sep 29, 2015, 06:02:00 PM
Gillian Anderson looks pretty damn good for her age. Mulder looks quite old. And looks like the smoking man is returning.
Yes after he has died what...3..4 times now?
Needless to say that this is the most psyched for a TV show I have been in a long time! Three more months!
Quote from: FiorinaFury161 on Sep 30, 2015, 01:19:19 AM
Needless to say that this is the most psyched for a TV show I have been in a long time! Three more months!
Yup ;D
X-Files is finally coming to bluray:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/X-Files-Collectors-Box-Set-Blu-ray/21609
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Quote from: ace3g on Oct 27, 2015, 01:20:07 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5QoleWRKuw
"It has a monster in it." f**king love that. Specially coming from Scully. Glad to be getting some monster of the week episodes.
Story arc episodes headed by Carter (that will hopefully resolve some of the whole 'alien invasion' thing) AND some classic Monster of the Week type episodes. Needless to say, still very hopeful about the revival. :)
Mulder cleaned up nice. He looked pretty homeless in the initial promos lol glad he's looking more like his older self.
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Hype for this!! ;D ;D
I haven't looked at one second of new footage, so I can go in knowing absolutely nothing, But I have been rewatching my favourite episodes of the show to get into gear and I can't wait. I wonder if it'll continue the super-soldier plot from seasons 8 and 9 or deal with the Syndicate stuff that was resolved in season 7...
Chris Carter Has Written a Third 'The X-Files' Movie
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3376819/chris-carter-has-written-a-third-the-x-files-movie/
Season premiere tonight, definitely will watch after Cardinals/Panthers game on Fox.
To bump my original post, since I really feel like I need this before watching.
Quote from: Sabby on Sep 29, 2015, 05:58:44 AM
The continuity is a f**king Kojimesque nightmare to decipher. Anyone know of a good recap video?
Just to clarify, I've seen all the episodes, just not for a few years.
Quote from: ace3g on Jan 24, 2016, 04:08:19 PM
Season premiere tonight, definitely will watch after Cardinals/Panthers game on Fox.
Great day of NFL Conference Championship games and then the X-Files. AWWW YEAHHH!
Finished the season 8 finale last night and I always thought it was the best spot to end the series. Can't be arsed with season 9. Canne wait for the new episodes,
First time ever watching X-Files on tv tonight! :) so pumped!
https://twitter.com/deadpoolmovie/status/691447929970688000
I look forward to catching this on demand later this week!
Omg. NFL shut up!!!
I'm gonna be honest I thought that was f**king terrible lol
I felt like they rushed the reunion between Mulder and Scully.
Everything else seemed on par for me.
It was great.
Smoking man ftw
promo for next week's episode
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DAYDo3UyRg
Finally got to watch last nights ep. The beginning was a little rushed, but blended very well. Tonight's ep was great, the ending left a lot open... Finally, the promo for next week looks interesting, a classic X-Files tribute imo.
Episode 1 was wonky but 2 was back to classics. Love it and can't wait for Darin Morgan's episode.
Rewatching all of X-Files.
Remember that episode of X-Files about the face on mars? They found a face on mars, and the guy was like 'that's not a face on mars', so he goes home and goes to bed and looks up at the roof and there's the face on mars, and then the face on mars takes over his face and he dies because his face was possessed by the face on mars.
Quote from: Sabby on Jan 29, 2016, 02:52:19 AM
Remember that episode of X-Files about the face on mars? They found a face on mars, and the guy was like 'that's not a face on mars', so he goes home and goes to bed and looks up at the roof and there's the face on mars, and then the face on mars takes over his face and he dies because his face was possessed by the face on mars.
Classic episode
Quote from: WIZARDSxNEVERxDIE on Jan 29, 2016, 01:04:48 PM
Quote from: Sabby on Jan 29, 2016, 02:52:19 AM
Remember that episode of X-Files about the face on mars? They found a face on mars, and the guy was like 'that's not a face on mars', so he goes home and goes to bed and looks up at the roof and there's the face on mars, and then the face on mars takes over his face and he dies because his face was possessed by the face on mars.
Classic episode
Classic only in that it's widely regarded as one of the worst episodes ever. That and the one with the possessed cats in season 3.
As for Darin Morgan, I didn't mind Humbug but I have to admit I never enjoyed any of the 'comedy' X-Files episodes. I don't get the love for Clyde Bruckman's final repose and Jose Chung's From Outer Space at all.
Quote from: TheBATMAN on Jan 29, 2016, 01:49:49 PM
Classic only in that it's widely regarded as one of the worst episodes ever. That and the one with the possessed cats in season 3.
As for Darin Morgan, I didn't mind Humbug but I have to admit I never enjoyed any of the 'comedy' X-Files episodes. I don't get the love for Clyde Bruckman's final repose and Jose Chung's From Outer Space at all.
Oh god, the cat episode was hilarious (in the worst possible way).
I love Humbug, Jose Chung's... great thing about The X Files is it can accomodate many tastes: sci-fi, horror, comedy, mystery etc.
I looked up skippable episodes, laughed a lot.
Quote from: WIRED.com Binge Guide for X-FilesSeason 4: Episode 3, "Teliko" This episode, about an African immigrant who lacks a pituitary gland and kills other black men to literally suck out their skin pigment for himself as a result, is actually surprisingly relevant in its portrayal of institutional indifference towards the suffering of people of color. However, it's also an episode made by a bunch of white guys about the dangers of xenophobia, and ends up dehumanizing the characters anyway. (Plus, composer Mark Snow's score acts like a racism detector, its panflutes going on high alert every time a non-white person is involved in a case.) "Teliko" is just one of a handful of embarrassing episodes that exoticized the cultures and personalities of non-white characters. Other subjects unfortunately butchered include Native American werewolf folklore (Season 1, Episode 19, "Shapes"), el chupacabra (Season 4, Episode 11, "El Mundo Gira"), Haitian voodoo (Season 2, Episode 14, "Fresh Bones"), Japanese WWII doctors (Season 3, Episodes 9 and 10, "Nisei" and "731"), and Chinese gambling (Season 3, Episode 19, "Hell Money").
Oh no, they made something exotic seem exotic, damn white men.
Between when I first watched X-Files and now, I've learned a lot about skepticism and critical thinking, and it's kind of ruining the show for me. Well, that's hyperbole, but it is hard not to notice how irrational Mulder and Scully can be. Even if Mulder/Lone Gunmen end up being correct, they still think like paranoid conspiracy theorists. You can be irrational and correct at the same time.
And Scully is no better. She's presented as the more rational one, but she's just as unflinching when presented with valid evidence. Hell, I just saw an episode where a poltergeist tried to control their car and kill them, and after ruling out sabotage (thoroughly, at a garage), she puts her foot down and insists the car was sabotaged when a spooky explanation shows up. The rational response would have been "I have no idea whats going on right now". She KNOWS it's not sabotage, and she doesn't think it's a ghost, so she shouldn't side with either, but she has a bias that makes her stubborn and irrational when pressed. And that's even more irritating when you realize that in the heat of the moment, she DOES follow the evidence to the conclusion, since in that very same episode, she ends up asking that same ghost for help, but only in a stressful, heat-of-the-moment situation.
She'll believe in the spooky explanation (which is the most rational at times) internally, but externally she'll stubbornly cling to what she believes the more rational conclusion should be. Both her and Mulder are terrible at skepticism.
https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/693874403256332289
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/breaking-bad-x-files-references/
Somethings bugging me. In Season 3, Paperclip...
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Mulder and Scully are in the medical records, a UFO shows up, what looks like a bunch of aliens go loping past them like a bunch of goblins, a door closes behind them, and then the UFO leaves.
As far as I can see, no one addresses this. What the hell was that?
that scene in the phone store :o
Lol the drive thru
Quote from: ace3g on Feb 02, 2016, 01:50:09 AM
that scene in the phone store :o
That was hilarious. The only thing he lied to Mulder about LOL
Quote from: Sabby on Feb 01, 2016, 08:09:53 AM
Somethings bugging me. In Season 3, Paperclip...
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Mulder and Scully are in the medical records, a UFO shows up, what looks like a bunch of aliens go loping past them like a bunch of goblins, a door closes behind them, and then the UFO leaves.
As far as I can see, no one addresses this. What the hell was that?
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Wasn't this the Bounty Hunters coming back to Earth after leaving in End Game (season 2)? The Syndicate mention getting them involved a few scenes earlier. They pop up again throughout season 3 working for the Syndicate I'm sure
Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 03, 2016, 08:05:42 PM
Quote from: Sabby on Feb 01, 2016, 08:09:53 AM
Somethings bugging me. In Season 3, Paperclip...
Spoiler
Mulder and Scully are in the medical records, a UFO shows up, what looks like a bunch of aliens go loping past them like a bunch of goblins, a door closes behind them, and then the UFO leaves.
As far as I can see, no one addresses this. What the hell was that?
Spoiler
Wasn't this the Bounty Hunters coming back to Earth after leaving in End Game (season 2)? The Syndicate mention getting them involved a few scenes earlier. They pop up again throughout season 3 working for the Syndicate I'm sure
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If that were true, those aliens were already in the building, and ran to hide when they saw the other aliens show up, which sounds... silly, for some reason. I dunno, I always find it a bit strange when aliens intervene in the show, since they were established in such a mystical, God-Tier way. Time just disappears, and their will is done. You can't fight an enemy that literally wave its hand and make things happen. But majority of the time the aliens show up to do something, it's a bunch of dumb goblins running around. Seems silly.
Quote from: Sabby on Feb 04, 2016, 01:46:46 AM
Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 03, 2016, 08:05:42 PM
Quote from: Sabby on Feb 01, 2016, 08:09:53 AM
Somethings bugging me. In Season 3, Paperclip...
Spoiler
Mulder and Scully are in the medical records, a UFO shows up, what looks like a bunch of aliens go loping past them like a bunch of goblins, a door closes behind them, and then the UFO leaves.
As far as I can see, no one addresses this. What the hell was that?
Spoiler
Wasn't this the Bounty Hunters coming back to Earth after leaving in End Game (season 2)? The Syndicate mention getting them involved a few scenes earlier. They pop up again throughout season 3 working for the Syndicate I'm sure
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If that were true, those aliens were already in the building, and ran to hide when they saw the other aliens show up, which sounds... silly, for some reason. I dunno, I always find it a bit strange when aliens intervene in the show, since they were established in such a mystical, God-Tier way. Time just disappears, and their will is done. You can't fight an enemy that literally wave its hand and make things happen. But majority of the time the aliens show up to do something, it's a bunch of dumb goblins running around. Seems silly.
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I rewatched the episode in question as well as a few others. I'm sure the ship arriving are the Bounty Hunters, as for the little aliens we see there already, they look like the hybrids that were gassed in the train car in The Blessing Way. But I'm not sure. I like these mysteries!
The portrayal of the aliens is somewhat inconsistent. Sometimes they're child-like and small, other times they're large (as they are in The Unnatural, and the Bounty Hunters) and in the movie and S6 they're large and bestial though they later molt into large greys.
Really liked tonight's episode.
I think Were-Monster is my favorite so far.
The Trashman.
^ Great episode btw.
Just watched this weeks ep. Twas decent, seems like Agent Einstein was such a bitch tho.
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The "mushroom" (placebo) trip of Mulder's was hilarious!
Season finale looks big. Like maybe another season big.
I finally watched all 9 seasons of X-Files and I just finished the first episode of season 10. I am really confused...
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Why is Mulder a skeptic again? After everything that happened, he's right back to the 'I was manipulated' angle. That, and where the f**k is this new interpretation of the Colonists coming from? They seem to have retconned the Government as the sole bad guys and the aliens as misunderstood messengers
Am I just misunderstanding, or are they really retconning the Mythology?
Quote from: Sabby on Feb 20, 2016, 02:02:50 PM
I finally watched all 9 seasons of X-Files and I just finished the first episode of season 10. I am really confused...
Spoiler
Why is Mulder a skeptic again? After everything that happened, he's right back to the 'I was manipulated' angle. That, and where the f**k is this new interpretation of the Colonists coming from? They seem to have retconned the Government as the sole bad guys and the aliens as misunderstood messengers
Am I just misunderstanding, or are they really retconning the Mythology?
No idea at all. I think the New Syndicate wants to confuse Mulder. He never exposed them at the end of season 9. It would be absolute nonsense to retcon the Colonists and about 9 seasons of TV. Maybe CSM will reveal stuff in the finale.
I hope so, because what it looks like to me is downplaying the Colonists in favor of some generic NWO conspiracy.
So anyone seen latest episode?
Spoiler
Can't say I'm very happy with it's ending. If the there is no season 11 then this cliffhanger seem lack of half of episode.
Quote from: Master on Feb 24, 2016, 06:57:28 AM
So anyone seen latest episode?
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Can't say I'm very happy with it's ending. If the there is no season 11 then this cliffhanger seem lack of half of episode.
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Or the leading point of a movie?!?! :D It was a good episode to end on, really thought of it as a reference to the Zika virus ???
Well, I finally finished watching the new episodes this week and I have to say I'm pretty disappointed by the whole thing. The mythology episodes were pretty boring. The third episode was just too way over the top and comical. The Trash Man episode was actually the most interesting but that story took a backseat to Scully's mother which seemed so out of place. Then they never even bothered to end the episode as to who the trash man was or why he was killing people. The fifth episode wasn't even x-files related and was more or less just a parody of the show. Just a bit of a waste of time. Six episodes just isn't enough for a show like this.
They explained the Trashman, it just wasn't a very good explanations. When it comes to supernatural/horror shows, the Tulpa has become a bit of a cop out.
Quote from: Sabby on Feb 25, 2016, 10:10:35 PM
They explained the Trashman, it just wasn't a very good explanations. When it comes to supernatural/horror shows, the Tulpa has become a bit of a cop out.
I saw it as a riff on season 6's Milagro: it's almost the exact same 'device', though with a street artist rather than a novelist. So I'm fine with the explanation. And I'm sure they did it in season 6's Arcadia as well, though that manifestation used physical objects to form the monster's body, whereas this one and the thing in Milagro were conjured right from the mind and into being.
Maybe I'm just burned by Supernatural, because the entire time I was watching the Trashman episode, I was just like "It's a Tulpa it's a Tulpa it's a Tulpa"
The question is when season 11 will be up on us.
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Mytharc at this point is a mess. Where is Colonisation? Where are the Colonists? Super Soldiers also dissappeared. I want some answers damn it.
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Colonists? You mean the thoughtful neighbors who came to check on us, and we shot them and stole their shit?
Yeah thats the ones.
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Endig of My Struggle ll gives hope. Unless it's aar from the first one. I miss Super Soldiers, Bounty Hunters etc.
So what was the deal with the graffitti then? Was the trash man actually coming out of it?
Quote from: Master on Feb 26, 2016, 03:33:17 PM
The question is when season 11 will be up on us.
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Mytharc at this point is a mess. Where is Colonisation? Where are the Colonists? Super Soldiers also dissappeared. I want some answers damn it.
People have been saying that for years :laugh: It's messy, but I really enjoyed the mytharc stuff while rewatching. It helps to cut out the dross and just watch the essential episodes. I do miss the Bounty Hunters, last seen surrounding Mulder in season 8. Brian Thompson is such a distinguished face.
Quote from: Darkness on Feb 26, 2016, 04:20:16 PM
So what was the deal with the graffitti then? Was the trash man actually coming out of it?
Yes, I think so. Did you see Milagro? I'm just assuming it was like that.
Yeah, I like that episode although that was a guy writing about what would happen. The graffiti actually reminded me off that scene in "Sinister" where the guy moves in a still picture. Very creepy.
Quote from: Darkness on Feb 26, 2016, 04:43:41 PM
Yeah, I like that episode although that was a guy writing about what would happen. The graffiti actually reminded me off that scene in "Sinister" where the guy moves in a still picture. Very creepy.
I think it was the same principle. At the end of Milagro the 'emanation' or whatever it is begins to go AWOL, as the Trash Man has.
Very creepy, I loved the imagery in this episode :D It's still a bit weird watching the X Files in 2016 rather than as a throwback to the mid-90s.
I hope it gets picked up as a new season.
Not a fan of Einstein though.
It probably Will. You see what I did there :D
That ending was ridiculous.
I hate when tv shows build up to "The End" and then leave it on such a massive cliffhanger in the "hope" that they get picked up for another season.
If it does get picked up I will of course watch it but it needs to END.
I don't think that the previous mythology has been retconned.
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What I think is happening with the mythology is that the Alien colonization was averted through the efforts of the faceless aliens. Then the Super soldiers were dealt with through the machinations of the CSM who survived their attempt to kill him.
I think that, after the destruction of the syndicate in season 6, CSM was the last man standing. He was able to take advantage of the framework (small pox vaccine, human/alien hybridization, man-made UFO, etc) that was put in place for the Alien colonization that never happened. Now he's implementing his own agenda and pursue his own interests (spartan virus & depopulation).
Quote from: marrerom on Mar 02, 2016, 04:16:50 AM
I don't think that the previous mythology has been retconned.
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What I think is happening with the mythology is that the Alien colonization was averted through the efforts of the faceless aliens. Then the Super soldiers were dealt with through the machinations of the CSM who survived their attempt to kill him.
I think that, after the destruction of the syndicate in season 6, CSM was the last man standing. He was able to take advantage of the framework (small pox vaccine, human/alien hybridization, man-made UFO, etc) that was put in place for the Alien colonization that never happened. Now he's implementing his own agenda and pursue his own interests (spartan virus & depopulation).
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No, they clearly say that the aliens were checking on humanity due to our invention of the atomic bomb.
You can't reconcile that with what happened in the show.
There are many groups of Aliens in X-files.
I liked the Trashman episode, but other than that, season 10 was pretty atrocious. Trashman was really good because it felt like a proper, isolated monster story, separate from the main story arch. It's really those one-off monster episodes where X-Files properly shines and is most memorable IMO.
The new conspiracy arc is interestingly very much in line with what we saw in Season 1's Fallen Angel and Season 4's Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man Episode with the execution of the crashed alien.
Quote from: Master on Mar 02, 2016, 07:53:44 AM
There are many groups of Aliens in X-files.
This wasn't another alien species, it was the iconic grey. In the iconic flying saucer. At Roswell. We took it's technology and body and did stuff with it. It's a Colonist. Or, what used to be a Colonist. Sorry, but until I see an official source stating otherwise (which would still point to incredibly confused writing), this is blatant retconning of the Colonists intentions.
Quote from: stephen on Mar 02, 2016, 03:03:33 AM
That ending was ridiculous.
I hate when tv shows build up to "The End" and then leave it on such a massive cliffhanger in the "hope" that they get picked up for another season.
If it does get picked up I will of course watch it but it needs to END.
The X Files have done this repeatedly, with one season even ending with Mulder's supposed murder and another finale in season 5 being called 'The End' (and it was meant to be.)
Quote from: Sabby on Mar 02, 2016, 04:20:19 AM
Quote from: marrerom on Mar 02, 2016, 04:16:50 AM
I don't think that the previous mythology has been retconned.
Spoiler
What I think is happening with the mythology is that the Alien colonization was averted through the efforts of the faceless aliens. Then the Super soldiers were dealt with through the machinations of the CSM who survived their attempt to kill him.
I think that, after the destruction of the syndicate in season 6, CSM was the last man standing. He was able to take advantage of the framework (small pox vaccine, human/alien hybridization, man-made UFO, etc) that was put in place for the Alien colonization that never happened. Now he's implementing his own agenda and pursue his own interests (spartan virus & depopulation).
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No, they clearly say that the aliens were checking on humanity due to our invention of the atomic bomb.
You can't reconcile that with what happened in the show.
How does that conflict with the mythology already established? It doesn't. We know that the Colonists were wary of our nuclear weapons. The syndicate brought the Colonists to the bargaining table by threatening to devastate the planet with nuclear weapons unless plans for colonization included the human race surviving as hybrids.
Quote from: Sabby on Mar 02, 2016, 12:49:37 PM
Quote from: Master on Mar 02, 2016, 07:53:44 AM
There are many groups of Aliens in X-files.
This wasn't another alien species, it was the iconic grey. In the iconic flying saucer. At Roswell. We took it's technology and body and did stuff with it. It's a Colonist. Or, what used to be a Colonist. Sorry, but until I see an official source stating otherwise (which would still point to incredibly confused writing), this is blatant retconning of the Colonists intentions.
Not different species. Different group. Alien Rebels are also grey aliens just as Bounty Hunters
The two narratives are entirely different. They took a malevolent force who wanted our planet and made them a more ambiguous force with arguably benevolent intentions, who were met with hostility by humanity. I mean, this is Roswell. I'm pretty sure that was the Colonists involved in that, not another peaceful faction.
I get that they wanted to make the focus more on a Govt empowered with alien advancements, but they didn't need to castrate the Colonists in order to do that.
Quote from: Master on Mar 02, 2016, 02:54:22 PM
Not different species. Different group. Alien Rebels are also grey aliens just as Bounty Hunters
There is lots of evidence to suggest this. There appear to be many sub-groups within the Colonists with the bounty hunter's being the enforcers for their race.
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Its also interesting to note that the Alien we saw at the Roswell crash was a Grey that DIDNT have green toxic blood (like the bounty hunters), Nor did it have the black oil. Just another example of diversity within the Colonist's race.
Quote from: Sabby on Mar 02, 2016, 03:01:06 PM
The two narratives are entirely different. They took a malevolent force who wanted our planet and made them a more ambiguous force with arguably benevolent intentions, who were met with hostility by humanity. I mean, this is Roswell. I'm pretty sure that was the Colonists involved in that, not another peaceful faction.
I get that they wanted to make the focus more on a Govt empowered with alien advancements, but they didn't need to castrate the Colonists in order to do that.
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All they showed was the government killing a Grey and stealing the UFO technology. Nothing in season 10 stated that the Grey's are good guys or have benevolent intentions (although some Grey's are good and are working to prevent colonization: Jeremiah Smith, the Faceless rebels, Josh Exley).
https://twitter.com/thexfiles/status/855198805150416896
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Mulder is looking so old these days. He is looking 60.
Scully still looks hot even in her late 40s.
I'm excited about this!
I was wondering what was going on with this today, actually. Weird.
I want some Skinner episodes!
Huge fan of the X-Files but the last "series" was a complete mess, especially the finale. Hoping for a big improvement, but not overly optimistic...
Wonderful news!
I enjoy the franchise and I'm glad it'll return, but they need to let Chris Carter contribute ideas while leaving the actual showrunning to someone else.
Good news everyone. Hoping for more mytharc episodes this time, like 50/50.
More Darin Morgan, and get Vince Gilligan aboard. Sold!
I would love another Darin Morgan episode. Trouble is, I just don't know how easy it will be to top the last were monster episode which had been "brewing" creatively for quite a long time.
I must have rewatched that episode about 5 or 6 times since last year. Such a delight. If Shangela starred last time, I want Willam next time please. :-)
https://twitter.com/GeekTyrant/status/895042096398204932
Awesome news!
That moment when Skinner is gonna be back
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Quote from: genocyber on Aug 10, 2017, 02:52:59 AM
That moment when Skinner is gonna be back
https://geeksout.org/sites/default/files/blog-images/Skinner.jpg
t3h s3x
Huge fan of The X Files, why not. More episodes with better pacing could be good.
Quote from: genocyber on Aug 10, 2017, 02:52:59 AM
That moment when Skinner is gonna be back
https://geeksout.org/sites/default/files/blog-images/Skinner.jpg
That picture comes with this song:
https://twitter.com/thexfiles/status/913862713947734016
Wonder what will happen with Skinner, as he is mentioned to become more shady again in the coming season.
2018? Man, I was hoping sooner. :( Worth the wait I suppose.
Duchovny looks strange. Anderson looks phenomenal. :o
I... can`t wait.
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One month to go :D
A Rog!!!
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If only the writers could take a hint from True Detective (which in essence is really an x-file), you'll realize what they should do togive this show a great story. Unfortunately its ringing in an old storyline and less thriller and more romance and drama. Which may be a bad thing since its an old show with varying degrees of success based on the effect of not going that route in it's entirety.
Unless we get a frightful tale from the get go, its going to lose it's core fanbase.
It was potentially a thriller horror situation drama, which worked. I can't really take the multiple episode story arch.Its too much IMHO. Any one else feel the same way?
Otherwise, the success of The Fringe pretty much tells us that we've forgotten about X-files.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VV5-vvNPnLo
I'm interested to see where they will go with a longer season than the previous one. It was cool to see them back, but it was very much fan service too.
One huge blunder the last season had was an episode called Home Again but having no ties to the famous episode Home many fans remember as one of the best.
Quote from: genocyber on Dec 23, 2017, 12:58:01 AM
One huge blunder the last season had was an episode called Home Again but having no ties to the famous episode Home many fans remember as one of the best.
Ohhhh Home was amazing !!! One of my favorite ! With this unforgettable music... Wonderful wonderful... By the way, the version used in this episode is unique, i was never able to find it anywhere, but i know it's based of the Johnny Mathis version.
Season premiere tonight.
I forgot to record it!!! ZCRY
Well this episode might divide the opinion of long time followers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiCxtmkopSs
So the season finale of 10 got retconned as Scully having a seizure dream/prophecy?
Quote from: genocyber on Jan 05, 2018, 04:02:07 AM
So the season finale of 10 got retconned as Scully having a seizure dream/prophecy?
I'm not sure it was a retcon, because the beginning of the season 10 finale has this zoom-in on Scully's eye just as everything goes down while she's at Mulder's desk. What was retconned, I think, were most of the events going down.
Honestly, everything Chris Carter touched these last two season has been muddled, chopped to bits and pretty nonsensical (even for him). The days of Carter episodes like The Post-Modern Prometheus and The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas are long, long gone, I think his time on this show is done; virtually everyone else, old and new alike, pulls off great episodes.
https://twitter.com/thexfiles/status/1039294313862066177
Happy birthday, I guess. The new seasons have been disappointing, especially the Chris Carter episodes. I am glad Gillian Anderson refused to do anymore. She gave it her best but the writing was just bad.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/global/the-x-files-cast-reunites-music-video-1234741457/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mGbNrlTS9o
https://www.gamesradar.com/x-files-reboot--ryan-coogler/
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Hmm. Yes.
Quote from: Rankles75 on Mar 29, 2023, 05:04:57 PMhttps://www.gamesradar.com/x-files-reboot--ryan-coogler/
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https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1640860354883252225
Oh boy, 😅 hopefully I'm wrong but I have a bad feeling about this ..
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Hoping for the best of course 8)
The X-Files is probably my all time favourite show, but it got really bad towards the end of it's original run. Then they brought it back years later and made it even worse, I can only imagine how bad this will be. The Two Fathers/One Son two parter back in Season 6(?) was the finale as far as I'm concerned...
Yeah, no thanks. Between the original series, Millennium and Fringe there's enough of this flavour of content to rewatch for a lifetime already.
https://twitter.com/GeekTyrant/status/1737583662093185025
Why? Why would they do such a thing?
Disney Imperium tactics; they suck them like leeches until they've gotten every last drop of the marrow from their IPs bones.
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Didn't Gillian Anderson say she is very much done with the series?
Might have had something to do with the bad quality of the scripts of the revival series.
Maybe it's with a younger cast with Mulder being a smaller cameo.
I saw probably at least half of it when it first came out and couldn't remember much except for Mulder dealing covertly with other operatives and some of the monster-of-the-week episodes. I tried it a second time via DVD and then thought of following one episode guide that focuses only on the main story arc leading to the end of the series, which included any episodes, good or bad, that are needed to avoid missing key details about the story arc. I'm trying it a third time now via Blu-Ray but not skipping anything, and so far it's average. I even got some notable reactions to some episodes, like the one taking place in a research base in Alaska, i.e., it looks like an episode with an exotic setting, but the production design would not have been expensive if they shot the episode mostly indoors, i.e., in a studio, and kept the base small. Similar could be seen in the episode involving the observatory in South America.
Meanwhile, some of the content involved derivatives of the same set of stories and depicted in various B-movies but compressed in only an episode. That reminds me of Sapphire and Steel, which would deal with the same but across several shorter episodes, but overall still linked with the main story arc of the show.
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1774918252184883593
Quote from: Rankles75 on Mar 29, 2023, 08:26:54 PMThe X-Files is probably my all time favourite show, but it got really bad towards the end of it's original run. Then they brought it back years later and made it even worse, I can only imagine how bad this will be. The Two Fathers/One Son two parter back in Season 6(?) was the finale as far as I'm concerned...
Oh I remember growing up on X-Files. The early seasons, it was a family affair sitting in front of the TV screen. Those early seasons had that cool mystery vibe with a touch of horror, the alien conspiracy, the supernatural element and shady men in suits were all fun to watch. After about season 5 or 6 however, the series started to stagnate. And the show really went downhill after David Duchovny left the series as a regular.
The series just got too convoluted for its own good, the mythos became too unwieldy and the audience just tuned it out.
Season 8 actually had cool monsters of the week episodes, and Robert Patrick as John Doggett was surprisingly endearing. My favorite season still has to be either number 4 or 6 though.
Robert Patrick really was a saving grace, and often makes things better with his presence.
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Apr 02, 2024, 12:49:24 PMMy favorite season still has to be either number 4 or 6 though.
Agua Mala from s6 is a favourite of mine. It's not even that great tbh, I just love hurricane/flood settings.
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Apr 02, 2024, 08:54:23 PMQuote from: BigDaddyJohn on Apr 02, 2024, 12:49:24 PMMy favorite season still has to be either number 4 or 6 though.
Agua Mala from s6 is a favourite of mine. It's not even that great tbh, I just love hurricane/flood settings.
Love the body horror stuff
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Rediscovered a stack of X-Files comics in a box the other day. I have a faint recollection of liking them at the time. I must've since I bought a stack.
I never really had access to many, but I remember liking the few I got my hands on.
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Apr 02, 2024, 08:54:23 PMQuote from: BigDaddyJohn on Apr 02, 2024, 12:49:24 PMMy favorite season still has to be either number 4 or 6 though.
Agua Mala from s6 is a favourite of mine. It's not even that great tbh, I just love hurricane/flood settings.
It's a cool episode, it was nice to see a change of environment, an uncommon one like that was memorable. And it has some humor in it, which is something season 6 excelled at.
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Apr 02, 2024, 12:49:24 PMSeason 8 actually had cool monsters of the week episodes, and Robert Patrick as John Doggett was surprisingly endearing. My favorite season still has to be either number 4 or 6 though.
Yeah, there were still the odd decent episode worth watching in the later seasons, I agree. But overall, you can't help but notice the decline in quality of the show. That was disappointing.
I absolutely love The X-Files! It's one of my highest rated TV Shows. But I'm not sure how I feel about a reboot. The truth is, the format just doesn't work in a modern day setting; 'I want to Believe', season 10 and season 11 proved this. In a modern age of technology where everyone has HD phone cameras, CCTV is everywhere, and the internet is mainstream, the UFO/government conspiracy/sighting thing just doesn't work at all.. you need the blurry photos, ruined film, tapped landlines etc, all the things that worked great in the early 90s, in a time where people were still debating the Roswell Crash footage, when newsagents were full of UFO and Alien Sighting magazines and people bought into it; in the UK, the X-files inspired a "real-life" magazine colllection called The X-Factor which came in binders and occasionally included vhs tapes with footage of paranormal activity, the magazine itself covering everything from spontaneous combustion, aliens, big foot, the Loch Ness monster etc.. I loved all that stuff as a kid. It just doesn't work in the modern day sadly.
If anyone has ran out of X-files to watch and needs an alternative, I definitely recommend the 1996 TV series 'Dark Skies' - released during the height of X-Files craze and set in the 1960s, following a couple on the run from a government agency known as Majestic 12, as well as trying to get proof out to the public regarding M12s assassination of Kennedy due to him going to blow the lid off their covering up of Alien abductions etc..it's deffo got that x-files vibe. 😃👍 Intro here: https://youtu.be/WOQPsmgJIwo?si=CO_jmVj5uF3evUqc
Some of my favorite
'Monster of the week' episodes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVIewOebigsThere was an episode of the same k8nd that begins with a frightened old man inside a cabin at night, ready with his shotgun, when a reptilian-like monster attacks him from behind while the man is sitting in a chair preparing to fire his gun... then the intro
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I don't remember the name of the episode or the exact season. :'(
Quote from: SM on Apr 02, 2024, 09:15:26 PMRediscovered a stack of X-Files comics in a box the other day. I have a faint recollection of liking them at the time. I must've since I bought a stack.
Dark Horse? I remember they had some tie-in books as well.
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 03, 2024, 03:33:45 AMSome of my favorite 'Monster of the week' episodes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVIewOebigs
There was an episode of the same k8nd that begins with a frightened old man inside a cabin at night, ready with his shotgun, when a reptilian-like monster attacks him from behind while the man is sitting in a chair preparing to fire his gun... then the intro
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I don't remember the name of the episode or the exact season. :'(
These are all great ! The one you mention at the end, is it part of the older seasons or not ?
I think it might actually just be the bat creature one? If so, it's a later season.
Before the intro you only see a small glimpse of the creature (it jumps on the man to kill him). I remember that the creature...late in the plot...was a reptilian-like humanoid.
https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1775598626632294904
Quote from: Wweyland on Apr 03, 2024, 06:56:12 AMQuote from: SM on Apr 02, 2024, 09:15:26 PMRediscovered a stack of X-Files comics in a box the other day. I have a faint recollection of liking them at the time. I must've since I bought a stack.
Dark Horse? I remember they had some tie-in books as well.
Topps. This was mid 1990s. Don't know if the license changed.
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 03, 2024, 09:08:15 PMBefore the intro you only see a small glimpse of the creature (it jumps on the man to kill him). I remember that the creature...late in the plot...was a reptilian-like humanoid.
https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1775598626632294904
That sounds like the bat creature episode indeed. It's from early season 8.
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 05, 2024, 02:00:46 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qmj7taW_4
This one is really good !
My favorite monster of the week episodes :
1x3 - Squeeze
1x19 - Shapes
1x21 - Tooms
2x4 - Sleepless
2x13 - Irresistible (creepy as f**k)
2x20 - Humbug
3x5 - The list
3x17 - Pusher
3x20 - Jose Chung's from outer space
4x2 - Home
4x6 - Sanguinarium
4x12 - Leonard Betts
4x13 - Never again
5x4 - Detour
5x5 - Post modern Prometheus
5x8 - Kitsunegari
5x12 - Bad blood
5x19 - Folie à deux
6x2 - Drive
6x3 - Triangle
6x4 - Dreamland part I
6x5 - Dreamland part II
6x14 - Monday
6x15 - Arcadia
6x19 - The unnatural
7x3 - Hungry
7x4 - Millennium
7x7 - Orison (creepy as f**k)
7x12 - X-cops
7x13 - First person shooter
7x19 - Hollywood A.D
7x20 - Fight club
8x3 - Patience
8x4 - Roadrunners
8x6 - Redrum
8x8 - Surekill
8x9 - Salvage
9x3 - Daemonicus
9x4 - 4-D
9x13 - Improbable