Ah well we'll see. Only on season 1 now. Will report back when I get to that point.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
Watched this front to finish about two years ago. Surprised at how much I liked the Doggett seasons. Once you get past the idea that Chris Carter was going to do anything significant with his mythos or that Ducovney and his baseball episodes were not indispensable, or that Robert Patick was not awesome then it is much easier to take.
― President Keyes, Monday, 27 June 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
lol I am watching this again start to finish and searched for a thread specifically on which to complain about the way they dressed poor Scully. SO SO BAD.
first season is hilariously brutal in terms of bad 90's fashion
― latebloomer, Monday, 27 June 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
But I was surprised at how much better the monster of the week eps held up in comparison to the increasingly-unwieldy conspiracy eps!
this is kind of the standard line now, and it's true of season 4 and afterward. but during the first three seasons the conspiracy eps were the heart and soul of the show!
― latebloomer, Monday, 27 June 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
this show basically doesn't exist for me past the first movie.
― latebloomer, Monday, 27 June 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
Funny, my wife and I just started watching this (unprompted by this thread), and one of the first things she said, midway through the first episode, was basically "when people dressed like this in the '90s they though their fashion would never look dated, but their clothes look horrible!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 June 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
Their clothes and hair looked bad even in '94.
― President Keyes, Monday, 27 June 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol JiC - funny. I mean it really is THAT BAD though. Also - Scully's hair! She couldn't have been that old when these were taped but her blown-out news anchor helmet hair is just so awful.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
iirc the clothes starting getting a little better around the same time Mulder and Scully started regularly using cell phones
― mh, Monday, 27 June 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
I've also been slowly rewatching from the beginning. Beyond the clothing issue, it's also been hilarious to watch how bad they treat Scully each ep. She's constantly kidnapped, tossed in car trunks, drugged, etc. Every episode it's something new and horrible!
― andrew m., Monday, 27 June 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
mid 90s fashion probably at its nadir til some couturier revives badly cut boxy pastel business suits in 2k14ish
― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 June 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
x-post At the beginning she always had to miss the paranormal event, so they had to knock her out or put a bag over her head.
― President Keyes, Monday, 27 June 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like Scully starts dressing nice in season 5 maybe? but yeah, it's horrible up to that point.
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
duchovny's hair looks adorable in that first season, though
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
why do women love david duchovny
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I too am watching x files all the way through, everyone's prob doing it because of netflix, but like I feel like I have met a startling number of women, throughout my journeys on this planet, who love david duchovny
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
so cuet!
xp he was a formative crush i was p young when x-files started and i watched it from the beginning
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC wasn't Scully intentionally a frumpmonster at the beginning of the series, because they wanted her to look "real" or sth similar?
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know, but i feel that that is unfair considering how smoking duchovny was
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
― horseshoe, Monday, June 27, 2011 10:03 AM (17 minutes ago)
we have discussed this on another thread, have we not?
― sarahel, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
yes you were the one who reminded me!
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
awwww <3
― sarahel, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
i guess in those early seasons when they were dressing her badly and duchovny out-prettied her gillian anderson could content herself with the knowledge that she could actually act.
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
omg lol:
David Duchovny had worked in Los Angeles three years prior to The X-Files, at first he wanted to base his acting career around films. But in 1993 his manager, Melanie Green gave him a script of the "pilot episode" of The X-Files. Green and Duchovny were both convinced it was a good script, so Duchovny auditioned for the lead.[35] When Duchovny was auditioning for the part of Fox Mulder, he made a "terrific" audition, but talked rather slow. Chris Carter thought that he was a "good judge of character", and thought that Duchovny wasn't rather "bright". So he went and talked to Duchovny and asked him if he could "please" imagine himself as an FBI agent for the "future" weeks. The casting director of the show, was very positive towards him. While according to Carter, Duchovny turned out to be one of the best-read people he knew.[36] After getting the role, Duchovny thought the show wouldn't last for long or that it wouldn't make as much impact as it did.[35]
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
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Seriously though. He is so damn cute in this series I'm p much fawning over him in every ep. He had his shirt off in one of the ones I watched over the weekend. It was awesome.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Like - I don't know that I've ever realized just how handsome he is until starting this again. Wonder how that whole sex addiction recovery is going for him. He's in some other show now right? I may have to start watching that now too.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
yes, i hear that californication is kind of okay and presumably he takes off his clothes in it sometimes
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
sweet
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
do you guys remember that david duchovny why won't you love me song? that song otm.
whaaat?
no!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOP5wsSXY8w
um this is a fan video for david duchovny, but the song is playing behind it.
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
um this is a fan video for david duchovny a couple years ago, but the song is playing behind it.
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― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
now i feel like i genuinely am not sure what year it is out there. this nostalgia is a dangerous thing.
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
DAMMIT I FUCKED UP
Should have said
um this is a fan video that I made for for david duchovny a couple years ago, but the song is playing behind it.
:/ I suck.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahaha busted
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Californication is basically a show about David Duchovny's character being a semi-washed up writer who is also a sex addict, so I can't imagine that has been especially conducive to his real life issues.
I definitely have a non-sexual intrigue for Duchovny, but I think it's more one of those "women want him, men want to be him" cliches.
― mh, Monday, 27 June 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
But is it a show about being a semi-washed up writer who is also a sex addict that is worth watching?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
depends, do you like looking at Nakedovny?
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
because from the 2 episodes I saw, the show seems to be mostly about showing dude's ass at different angles moreso than actually telling any kind of story
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Have I not made that clear already? Hell yeah I do!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
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woah - nice
HS are you hearing this?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Tbh I like his face mostly but the other stuff doesn't really hurt so . . .
oh man, i wish i had accidentally clicked on the jizzbox instead of this thread
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 27 June 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
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so, a four-star review, basically
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 June 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
i don't remember whether the duchovny-in-the-bathtub episode was in season 1 or in the next couple.
― sarahel, Monday, 27 June 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I found most episodes to not have that much Duchovny ass, but they do include a fair number of topless women in their 20s. The main ongoing characters are Duchovny, his character's on-again, off-again girlfriend, daughter, and his literary agent and that guy's wife.
― mh, Monday, 27 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
like I said, I only saw 2 episodes!
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Monday, 27 June 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
The specially-catered-for-Dan all-ass eps
― mh, Monday, 27 June 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link