the x-files s/d

scifi xfiles marathon today. now i am mildly psyched for the movie. mission accomplished.

I am kind of excited about the movie, but this may be due, in part, to my longtime crush on David Duchovny.

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.

well i just watched the trailer and that turned me right off

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.

Well, that almost worked. Super job, bbcode!!!

o sweet haircare thanks

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_en_tv/people_david_duchovny

mulder stalks a murderer on a moving train!
scully meets the remnants of a leper colony!

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excellent pair of mythology episodes imo

the dude with the garrote was pretty badass. does he reappear in any other episodes?

"a place where society sent its monsters to live in shame and isolation."

Always thought it was hilarious/awesome that the masters of the conspiracy all had prominent Canadian accents.

the dude with the garrote was pretty badass. does he reappear in any other episodes?

Nope. *spoiler* he dies in the explosion at the end iirc *spoiler*

Played by Stephen McHattie, who was Hollis Mason in the Watchmen movie.

Hey, i was just watching that one! I like the conductor, it's nice that he survives.

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.

"Maybe we can solve the mystery of the horny beast!"

"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!"

Syzygy is so awesome. Especially the psychic who won't help them until their credit card clears.

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/

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!

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!

Ah well we'll see. Only on season 1 now. Will report back when I get to that point.

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.

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

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!

this show basically doesn't exist for me past the first movie.

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!"

Their clothes and hair looked bad even in '94.

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.

iirc the clothes starting getting a little better around the same time Mulder and Scully started regularly using cell phones

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!

mid 90s fashion probably at its nadir til some couturier revives badly cut boxy pastel business suits in 2k14ish

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.

i feel like Scully starts dressing nice in season 5 maybe? but yeah, it's horrible up to that point.

duchovny's hair looks adorable in that first season, though

why do women love david duchovny

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

so cuet!

xp he was a formative crush i was p young when x-files started and i watched it from the beginning

IIRC wasn't Scully intentionally a frumpmonster at the beginning of the series, because they wanted her to look "real" or sth similar?

i don't know, but i feel that that is unfair considering how smoking duchovny was

duchovny's hair looks adorable in that first season, though

― horseshoe, Monday, June 27, 2011 10:03 AM (17 minutes ago)

we have discussed this on another thread, have we not?

yes you were the one who reminded me!

awwww <3

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.

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]

duchovny's hair looks adorable in that first season, though

― horseshoe, Monday, June 27, 2011 1:03 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't know, but i feel that that is unfair considering how smoking duchovny was

― horseshoe, Monday, June 27, 2011 1:19 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

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.