but yeah starting with season 5 it gets pretty rough
― latebloomer, Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:58 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i just say the same shit over and over
― Bradolf Pittler (latebloomer), Monday, 13 July 2009 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
The Gillian Anderson-directed and written episode from S7, "all things" is sloooo00w.
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Saturday, 24 August 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
season 6 is very silly
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 September 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
the 2 part body-swap story featuring michael mckean & nora dunn
wherein michael mckean's character, in mulder's body, tries to seduce scully on a waterbed, among other zany mishaps
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 September 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
also the dang time-travel bermuda-triangle episode where the cigarette smoking man is there and so is krycek and agt spender except they are NAZIS speaking german phonetically
what is this, i can't even
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 September 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i love that episode!
― clouds, Friday, 13 September 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
it has some pretty neat camerawork iirc -- the scene where scully is racing around the fbi building trying to get information in a continuous extended shots was p impressive -- but the whole time travel interlude was hilariously bad imho
still entertaining tho
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
S6 definitely had a lighter tone than before, but the overall quality of the episodes was better than S5 imo. S7 on the other hand....
― Duane Barry, Saturday, 14 September 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the time travel one is fun and flashy and very well-edited but boy is it ever stupid. Didn't Carter write it? You'd think he'd know his characters well enough that he wouldn't have Mulder say "Sorry, I don't speak Nazi."
― JoeStork, Sunday, 15 September 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
that tattoo one is dumb too but the parts with Mulder & Scully are actually really good in depicting people who have been working together for way too long and can barely stand each other. Been a while since I've seen it but I remember the last scene being really uncomfortable and passive-aggressive in a way that the show usually isn't.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 15 September 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
this christmas haunted house ep with lily tomlin and ed asner, what is even happening with this show
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Monday, 16 September 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
oh my god the one where jack black's bff is this hot dumb kid who can call up lightening and stuff and he loves the vandals and they also play "hey man nice shot" while he is looking at the teacher he wants to bone from under a car and he blows these guys up because they play his special video game at the arcade and then you see that he has ALL the top scores
― ehkarl, Monday, 16 September 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
actually that's the best one
― ehkarl, Monday, 16 September 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
this damn show
alien baseball jerkoff bullshit
no
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― andrew m., Tuesday, 8 October 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
the one w/ giovanni ribisi and jack black was pretty dumm
― clouds, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha every time I'm scrolling through xfiles on Netflix and see that baseball episode pop up just think no thx.
Not sure when it happened but whenever they moved away from the 100% spooky scoring is when everything started going downhill.
― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
saw this one again recently, so bad
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
COPS crossover episode, good gravy
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Monday, 11 November 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
I liked that one!
― JoeStork, Monday, 11 November 2013 03:29 (ten years ago) link
ugh yeah i hated that shit so much. Season 6 and onward = http://24.media.tumblr.com/e93d670c97ff937c205ed4744657c683/tumblr_mjri88Daev1qdwxz5o2_1280.png
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
honestly when they moved production to LA it became a different show
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
a much sunnier, shittier show
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeHZ-GEpVnwthis was best. well tied for best with alex trebek and jesse ventura MIB episode.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
are there any worse than this one?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_Shooter_(The_X-Files)http://www.txf.net/ecards/large_fpsmulder.jpg
― slam dunk, Monday, 3 March 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
it's sad, because the first gibson-scripted one is pretty cool
― have a nice blood (mh), Monday, 3 March 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
haha i saw his name on the end credits and was like "...surely some other william gibson..."
― slam dunk, Monday, 3 March 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
there was a period where anything he wrote about real-world virtual reality and/or games was highly suspect
it dovetails nicely with his highly suspect screenplay work
― have a nice blood (mh), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
The Kathy Griffin one might be worse but it's not as embarrassing for the leads.
― JoeStork, Monday, 3 March 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
I was having such a good day - cleaning the house, old X-Files episodes from Netflix playing in the background. Suddenly I'm confronted with this:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSHstykUsAAxIKc.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 26 October 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
― clouds, Monday, 26 October 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
That's a good episode tho
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 October 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
just re-watched "The Blessing Way" for the first time since I was a teenager, holy shit, who told Chris Carter he could write Wise Native characters?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b3TrLpwxMxU/VU3y93Iu6xI/AAAAAAABDx8/ktQWlC98dMQ/s1600/xfiles050.jpg
― JoeStork, Sunday, 13 December 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
can't wait to revive this brave new ways in the new year
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/x-files-2016-reboot-review
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 14 January 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
s4e11 "el mundo gira" -- worst fucking acting in the whole series (so far, haven't seen the whole thing yet) "SOY CHUPACABRA!!!!"
― clouds, Friday, 19 February 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
been rewatching most (not all) of the series and just watched this one from season 8 where a weird cult worships a slug, it was bad but it made me like john doggett
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
that chupacabra one is literally the first episode i ever saw when i was like 9. it is indeed terrible xp
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:08 (eight years ago) link
doggett was an ok character that was killed by being in a show that should have been cancelled and scripts that made him a third wheel at best.
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
another s8 one i just watched called "salvage" in which a dude's turning into a metal man or some shit - pretty bad
at one point doggett says something like, "so we're looking for a man made of metal, that sort of thing only happens in the movies" and comes THIS CLOSE to spiking the camera afterward, like, YA GET IT Y'ALL?. can't decide if i love or hate that moment
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Monday, 29 February 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
did you get to the ass genie one?
― JoeStork, Monday, 29 February 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
skipped that one after seeing the description of it on vulture's recent ranking of all the episodes. but if it's hilarious-bad, might circle back to it
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Monday, 29 February 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
It's at least more entertaining than the metal-man or the garbage soap opera one around that time.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
s9 ep. 5 - "lord of the flies": yung aaron paul pretending to be johnny knoxville! which is not without its appeal.
otherwise this is the hottest of garbage. there's a dumbass dude entomologist who's intended as like the dude parallel to dr. bambi in "war of the coprophages," puberty emotions causing the ability to control bugs, wayyyyyyyyy too many syd barrett posters
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
I bought the complete series a while back and we've been working our way through, a few bumps in the road but mostly more solid than I remembered, but now we're into season 5 and I'm recalling how my attention started to flag around then when watching these as they aired, and I'm starting to wonder whether I really needed to own the entire series after all.
This revive was triggered, by the way, by seeing 'Postmodern Prometheus', which always made me feel like I was missing something because it's so feted, but I think the stylization of the episode is maybe just camouflaging the fact that it's a suck-ass rapey shit episode.
― Milkwalker's World (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 March 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link
lol and the "cher" concert
― clouds, Thursday, 16 March 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Up to that point I was all like, why were Carter's episodes of the recent revival so frikkin bad when most of his OG episodes were, while often a little purple dialogue-wise, pretty solid? And then I saw this and remembered what fame apparently did to his brain.
― Milkwalker's World (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 March 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
his ideas got more grandiose, but his budget didn't
― mh 😏, Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
they should have switched to an animated series around Season 7
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
machinima imo
― mh 😏, Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link