the x-files s/d

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Finished season one!

- Drags on a bit
- Far more monster-of-the-week episodes than I remember there being.
- Running around the states playing The Avengers with J. Edgar Hoover's uranium card is grade A wish-fulfillment fantasy.
- I've always dug conspiracy culture, but I think what I relate to most are the hours spent driving anonymous rental sedans.
- I've always maintained that desolate office parks in the great exurbs are just as sinister as the moldiest haunted-looking house. Thank you show for supporting my belief.
- The more experimental an episode gets in technique, the worse it usually is.
- Skinner is only in one episode. That constant antagonism source is missing

And exact twentieth anniversary is this Tuesday.

haha. i like the x-files.

evidence that actors are not geeks about their own cultishly adored work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwcolBwBxU0&feature=youtu.be

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/193364jj3iji2jpg/ku-medium.jpg

Duchovny/Anderson AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1oad13/gillian_anderson_here_ive_brought_david_duchovny/

(Ok is the formatting for that post as weird for everyone else as it is for me? Sorry, typing on phone.)

Last night my wife, having come home from a choir rehearsal and starting to pack for a business trip, began a sentence, "My 14-year-old self would be so happy..."

I figured she was going to say something about having a productive, well-adjusted adult life.

"...that Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are together."

They are?

Well, they haven't come out and said it, but there's lots of evidence. I think Anderson admitted that they share an apartment in Manhattan; they've been spotted together being affectionate, etc.

After everything HE'S done she must think the therapy worked.

that AMA was pretty entertaining... they do seem very couple-like.

I think you just want to believe they're a couple

These monster of the week episodes in s3/4 (I've been watching from the beginning on netflix) are being played for laughs too much for my liking, it's quite annoying, a lot of mugging and gurning from the actors that isn't there in S1/S2, a lot of local yokel characters with funny looking faces who can be killed off without it mattering very much.

I like the ongoing story arc episodes though, they keep the right tone. Kryceck getting locked in the silo with the captured ufo, cancer man creeping around with his cigarettes, skinner like a big sad mole

watching the episode where skinner is accused of killing a call girl.

Oh yeah that's the one where he's being protected by his guardian angel/succubus. Also we find out he has an estranged wife (who iirc we never hear about again).

is that the same one where he's all covered in blood or a rash or whatever?

http://deadline.com/2015/01/x-files-reboot-talks-fox-1201352465/

And boom.

http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/no-conspiracy-fox-resurrects-the-x-files-for-6-episode-run

awesome! hope they can swing darin morgan to write one of 'em.

http://i.imgur.com/yzwiZqr.jpg

Some more info:

http://tvline.com/2015/04/28/the-x-files-spoilers-fox-revival-chris-carter-mulder-scully-sex/

Per io9's summary as well: "Glen Morgan and James Wong will return to write and direct an episode each. Morgan will also executive produce."

best URL ever

There’s “a big chance” the Lone Gunmen will join returning X-vets Mulder, Scully, Skinner and The Smoking Man.

I guess they're going to act like the T-1000 seasons were just a dream

They're apparently going to act like The Lone Gunmen's series was a dream, too.

btw, Netflix has X-Files season one in HD and full-frame, and it looks like they shot it full frame. It doesn't look half bad!

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2015/jun/15/gillian-anderson-self-portrait-difficult-for-me-in-relationship-where-man-boss-video?CMP=share_btn_tw

i didn't realize she has been going around doing a posh accent off set since she set up in the uk

Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months, then to England, where she lived until she was 11 years old. She lived for five years in London's Crouch End and 15 months in London's Stroud Green,[7] so that her father could attend the London Film School. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School.

When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan.[8] She attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities, graduating in 1986.[7] She is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, she was mocked and felt out of place in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwestern accent. To this day, her accent depends on her location

code switching!

this only makes her hotter</lone-gunmen-voice>

it's a little-known fact that half of the lone gunmen were from new zealand

one and a half of them?!

no, all three of them were kiwi from the waist down

http://www.xfilesnews.com/news/latest-news/783-exclusive-more-casting-news-for-xfilesrevival

reyes in too

Dean Haglund moved five mins walk away from me recently, and thus announced to 30 people in a cabaret bar in Marrickville that the Lone Gunmen are going to be in the new show.

interlocutor: [inaudible question about them being dead]

"Ah! Shows you haven't been reading the Season 10 comic book from IDW, co-written by Chris Carter"

different interlocutor: "but is that really canon?"

apparently it's more canonical than the Lone Gunmen tv show!

rip you horrible lost classic of cheesy tv

Kumail Nanjiani has a small role. He talks a little about it on this week's X-Files Files podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1K0e2Juvf0

First minute of the new episode: http://doyoustillbelieve.com/

I felt right at home with the monologue

Anyone watch the first two episodes? First one seemed pretty bad. I dunno. Watching on my phone, holding baby on lap.

we've been posting about it over here: Oh look the last ever episode of the X-Files is on!

Going through the entire library at the moment, (thanks free Prime trial!)

Up to season 6 currently.

Generally gotten bored of the extra terrestrial story too, started to prefer the stand alone eps now.

Really enjoyed the Peter Boyle episode, that's my S choice so far

D's though, there are so many I haven't decide yet.

X-Files is probably the most mediocre (on average) show that I'm genuinely fond of. The highs are great but so much of the rest is just not good.

I have always preferred the standalone monster of the week episodes, that's the x files for me

A certain distance into the run f the show every episode felt like fan fiction

And especially the latest season

I love how the motw episodes sometimes completely contradict anything that might be happening with the 'real' story.

The genie episode for instance, just lol

I'm slowly working through the series on Netflix from the start. Being a fan of the series, I'm really surprised how few of the early episodes I have seen. 'Blood' with William Sanderson was a really great one that I don't remember seeing.

Mark Snow's music is really great, even though I think a ton of people knicked his style later on. I think the stripped down version of the title theme is much better than the later more ornamental version.

Blood was the first episode with Darin Morgan involvement.

also helped by William Sanderson being awesome

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/arts/television/the-x-files-in-a-familiar-groove-review.html

this makes me happy:

In the five episodes of the new season made available to critics, the winner is the fourth, “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.” It was written and directed by Darin Morgan, who also provided the best hour of the show’s revival season in 2016, “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” and authored celebrated old-school episodes like “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’” back in the 1990s.

“Forehead Sweat” guest-stars Brian Huskey (“People of Earth”) as either a madman or a fellow F.B.I. agent from an alternate dimension who is intimately familiar with the show’s heroes, the alien-chasing feds Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Mr. Morgan uses this premise to provide the ultimate in fan service — constructing an elaborate meta-story that recapitulates the history of the series, with a cracked version of “The Twilight Zone” as a framing device, and wallows in specific references to past “X-Files” installments (including “Clyde Bruckman’s”).

DELITE

honestly I might only watch the Morgan episode this time out