the x-files s/d

the vampire ep in season 2 is so bad/goofy, but i wonder if it influenced blade down the line b/c they both have nightclub scenes... i suppose 'people who can only go out at night' and 'people who go to nightclubs' is an easy connection to make maybe there is a long history of nightclubs/vampirism i am not very familiar with the vampire mythos?

the clock tower ep is pretty corny but i like it as a riff on THEY LIVE

Season 6 is such a riot, so many great episodes

Just watching Arcadia now

Into Season 7, and starts heavy with the alien story with a three parter. Also, wondered how long it would be before they needed an excuse to show Mimi Rogers's cleavage.

Skipped a few to get to 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'

But two more details from the Duane Barry two parter I enjoyed were the OTT and perhaps CSI-inspiring use of Enhance on the footage showing Scully in Barry's trunk.

And what with the aliens being kids in suits, as they observe Barry being tortured with unanaesthetized laser-precise dentistry one of them is doing a delightful bobbling of their head looking around the set as tho understandably bored of this nonsense already.

Far less good ofc Scully's 'welp I remember nothing so back to the bureau for me shalala'. Having the abduction so early in the season and be moved on from so abruptly always jarred in what is otherwise a show that's hit its stride by this point.

scully's abduction is because gillian anderson was pregnant irl iirc

S4 Ep23 “Blood” is really great (Mulder wakes up in hotel covered in blood & no memory of the past couple of days) … kind of a combined mulder-aliens + mixed with some monster-of-the-week psychological phenomena … kept me guessing almost the whole time

Oh yeah - “Demons” I think? Wild episode - I don’t think it’s ever explained how Mulder ended up with other people’s blood on him, he’s just cleared of killing anyone and they leave it there? Also amazing that Scully is like “yeah you blacked out and woke up covered in blood because you got a doctor to give you ketamine and drill a hole in your skull” and Mulder’s immediate reaction is “I need to do that again ASAP.”

Watching 'End Game' and suddenly wondering if a prequel series about a younger 'Mr X' might be a blast.

xp also amazing that "Demons" is the second episode that season where a killer gets Mulder's gun while he's asleep/hallucinating, and he still has his job.

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

latest offender: D.P.O.!

Well, Mulder, it looks like this turned out to be a local matter. Let's head back to Washington.

I dunno, Scully. I kinda like it here. I might stick around for a few days.

Mulder, don't tell me you still think there's something to that theory of yours!

the way mr veg and i groaned when his “sister” shows up again for the thousandth time in S5 ep2 and we just yell at the tv MULDER YOU N00B

yeah at some point the villains figured out that mentioning his sister was the equivalent of jangling keys in front of a baby.

i think the season 5 opener was one of the first mythology ones i saw as a kid after catching random MOTW episodes and it was so baffling and dreary - I'm sure I've watched it since then but I just think of it as the one with nothing but Mulder wandering through warehouses and Scully giving a monologue while dying of cancer.

the Lone Gunmen backstory ep is pretty fun

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

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

byers always looks like a kid pretending to be a grownup

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

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

He was playing his Lone Gunman character?

Was Richard Belzer there too?

til People on Youtube make trailer for old tv episodes

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

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

For as much as Mulder complains about being straitjacketed by the Bureau, surely no other agent gets to just cherry pick the cases they're interested in like he does. Especially since so often they originate from random news articles he read, not something that has been referred to the FBI.

The show should have devoted one of their occasional comedic episodes to showing the aftermath of an X-File, as government lawyers hopelessly attempt to prosecute one of Mulder and Scully's cases based on their absurd theories and shoddy evidence, perhaps in a mock Law & Order format.

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

The S5 opener Redux truly is the nadir of the mythology. It's been a while since I watched it, but I remember finding it hilarious when Mulder dramatically announces the true culprit of whatever they're talking about is... some FBI director we might have seen once or twice before in the series. OK then.

I remember there was a very mixed reaction to the blank-faced torch guys (who turn up later in S5) at the time, but I liked them. On one hand, it's yet another element added to the confusion; but it felt like they actually brought a sense of urgency and horror back to the Mythology, which was sorely needed by that point.