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scully was in the last two seasons plenty, but more as a upporting character. but yeah, the show was just almost impossible to watch by then. it was really sad, like seeing a family member die slowly to some horrible disease.
― latebloomer, Monday, 14 July 2008 07:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked Robert Patrick, though. He tried his best.
― latebloomer, Monday, 14 July 2008 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome cant wait to watch these... i was a watcher when it was on but not really that faithful and i'm pretty sure i missed a ton.
i did see that HORRIBLE last episode tho :( :( :(
― s1ocki, Monday, 14 July 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I really hate what they did to Scully in the last two seasons. She was always sobbing and crying her eyes out. Robert Patrick was the best thing about the last two years, despite how inconsistent his character was (all the writers' fault, obviously).
thew alien mythology arc shit went south after season 3 but they dug that hole so they might as well wrap it up somehow. it might work in a movie form, who knows. i liked the first movie ok.
There is a later mythology episode, "Tempus Fugit/Max" which harks back to the really early UFO epsodes, that's definitely worth checking out.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 14 July 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Slocki otm that final episode was ridic, especially that pukesome final scene where they were in bed, wth was that all about.
I like an ep I think is called "Hiding in the Light"? About a creepy telemarketing company that was mind-controlling its staff and customers. I guess I related to it being on a helpdesk at the time.
― Trayce, Monday, 14 July 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
The episode's named Folie a Deux ("a madness shared by two") - the manager was a giant insect.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
So, this movie's out in a couple of days? No buzz whatsoever?
― StanM, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Talk to my Dad. He's psyched.
― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 24 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
scifi xfiles marathon today. now i am mildly psyched for the movie. mission accomplished.
― adam, Thursday, 24 July 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I am kind of excited about the movie, but this may be due, in part, to my longtime crush on David Duchovny.
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 24 July 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
this is really coming out in two days? it's getting dumped, it seems. maybe they're hoping for word of mouth.
it's kidn of weird to think that this show had such a grip on popular culture for as long as it did. I didn't see any of the last few years either, they really squandered their good will. I'll only go see this if people tell me it's great.
― akm, Thursday, 24 July 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
well i just watched the trailer and that turned me right off
― akm, Thursday, 24 July 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i would really like it if they'd repackage and sell separate box sets of the mythology episodes and the standalone episodes
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Four sets of mythology eps, but no standalone sets. I think this series is best served by Greatest Hits compilations. I recently rewatched the series up through season 6 or so, and, although there was a lot of good stuff that held up well, an awful lot of it was lackluster.
― Deric W. Haircare, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, that almost worked. Super job, bbcode!!!
― Deric W. Haircare, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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― max, Friday, 25 July 2008 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Although, in retrospect, it might've seemed lackluster in the same way that The French Connection seems lackluster to me now: it was such a trailblazer that all of its good stuff has been pilfered and done better in the years since, leaving the original work looking a bit like a cliche-riddled husk.
― Deric W. Haircare, Friday, 25 July 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_en_tv/people_david_duchovny
― latebloomer, Friday, 29 August 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
mulder stalks a murderer on a moving train!scully meets the remnants of a leper colony!
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Nisei/731
― OTM Level III (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
<3!!!!!!!!
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
excellent pair of mythology episodes imo
― OTM Level III (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
the dude with the garrote was pretty badass. does he reappear in any other episodes?
― we like cars, we like cartoons (dyao), Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
"a place where society sent its monsters to live in shame and isolation."
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Always thought it was hilarious/awesome that the masters of the conspiracy all had prominent Canadian accents.
― OTM Level III (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Nope. *spoiler* he dies in the explosion at the end iirc *spoiler*
Played by Stephen McHattie, who was Hollis Mason in the Watchmen movie.
― OTM Level III (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 September 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, i was just watching that one! I like the conductor, it's nice that he survives.
― clotpoll, Sunday, 6 September 2009 06:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Bits of the 1st season was just re-shown over here. Re-watching there are so many awful things about it and yet so watchable and easily stands as reliable TV for me.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"Maybe we can solve the mystery of the horny beast!"
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
"You can't carry a loaded firearm down the street, sir, it's against the law.""Not if I'm hunting it's not--hunting SATANISTS!"
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Syzygy is so awesome. Especially the psychic who won't help them until their credit card clears.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 7 September 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Though the most shocking thing I've noticed is how horribly dressed Scully was in the whole first season.
Funny you should say that:
http://scullysuits.tumblr.com/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2011 15:57 (thirteen 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.
Also, so much microfiche!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 26 June 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
You will be disappointed, Erica. I tried the same thing not so very long ago. I think it's still tolerable through season 5 or 6, but very tiresome from there on out. But I was surprised at how much better the monster of the week eps held up in comparison to the increasingly-unwieldy conspiracy eps!
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 27 June 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
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
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