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Weird how much they put into advertising castlemaine xxxx in the uk when it's nearly unobtainable here

it was big in uk pubs in the 90s iirc

c’mon man the x-files are right there

x-files yeah thats the stuff

scully: victim died of multiple stab wounds
mulder: *throws her a file* ever heard of the knife alien

— 𝔭𝔭 (@athleisure_monk) June 3, 2016

there’s an entire late gen x early millennial cohort who think the x-files were sexy and cool

every magazine article about the show or an interview accompanied by the hottest scully and mulder pics when they were too busy finding the knife alien or getting alien embryos implanted to actually do it

late gen x early millenial cohort otm tho

yeah i mean its a good show

its bad and you should all feel bad

ever hear of the its a good show alien

i’m in that cohort obviously
brb going to watch an x-file

Millennium was a much better show than The X-Files.

too creepy and no scully or aliens

welcome to Xfile's home of the Xfile may I take your order

Millenium was sponsored by Philadelphia cheese on Portuguese TV so it had that going for it.

its bad and you should all feel bad

Wait was x files about actual files

x number of files

actually bottomed out (in books) during the formative gen x era

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Google ngram viewer needs to incorporate back issues of Metal Edge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmYCM4CS8o

Millenium was sponsored by Philadelphia cheese on Portuguese TV so it had that going for it.

tweet fact

i’m early millennial but i unjustly disdain xfiles as nothing but corporate-processed twin peaks (yes i’m sure i’m not gen x)

I used to sneak into my parents room (at 9pm) as an eight year old to watch the X Files, show is and was legit though I stopped watching around s4 or so. The knife alien tweet is all time.

many xposts but Millennium was MAYBE good for two seasons, and that’s generous allowing that s1 was patchy.
s3 was a dud. but s2 legit great.
so it had one great season.

no way that eclipses xfiles! unless yr just being some contrarian rockist out here trying to love a show no one remembers well enough to argue with you :)

X-Files was legitimately good to great for five, maybe six seasons give or take. even the worst monsters of the week eps were just the vegetables you ate to get closer to another alien story arc, which WERE consistently fucking great tv and that was reliably true for a few years before it fell apart.

Tooms >>>

>even the worst monsters of the week eps were just the vegetables you ate to get closer to another alien story arc

rong, you put up with the incoherent mythos episodes to get the MOTWs

lol <3

I guess I've just never given a fuck about aliens. I assume extraterrestrial life is already here, and we just don't know it because it's in the form of, like, lichen, or a vapor, or those things that swim around in our eyeballs. Not little dudes who want to communicate with us/probe us/kidnap us back to their ship. There is no ship. So Millennium, which was all about all the fucked-up things we tell each other to justify/excuse horrible deeds, was inherently much more interesting to me.

There is no sense in which the X-Files isn't about that, though.

a show no one remembers well enough to argue with you

I've seen at least two articles on it in the last fortnight, due to the 30-year anniversary.

t's in the form of, like, lichen, or a vapor, or those things that swim around in our eyeballs

Octopii. Its Octopusseses.

The only thing wrong with that tweet is that Mulder would actually have a slideshow.

welcome to Xfile's home of the Xfile may I take your order

― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC),

irl LOLs

I like X Files just fine as a card carrying gen xer, but monster-of-the-week eps >>> storyline eps

i've literally never watched an ep of xfiles, though i obv recognize sculder and mosley. what season should i start, i'll have to find a streaming place

Also "The Postmodern Prometheus" episode is one of the finest episodes of television made in the 90s.

Great title, in any case.

I encourage all to watch it. Maybe “best” is the wrong superlative, “smartest” and “cheekiest”
better descriptors.

I've seen a few episodes here and there over the years but never watched it when it was on. Gotta say, it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about it, that most (American) TV shows typically had 22 episodes a season or whatever, let alone shows with location shoots and relatively high budgets. It's always so daunting when nostalgia directs me back to rewatch something I once enjoyed and I realize what a commitment it would require.

one episode that has always stuck with me as being fun was the one with Luke Wilson, a sort of rashoman where the story is retold a few times and each time Wilson's acting changes to suit how mulder and scully remember him.

"Bad Blood" - a classic.

The one that's on my short list of best TV episodes of all time is "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," from Season 3.

Re: the commitment of 22 episodes a season - most shows that do that have some kind of formula that makes it a little easier, but the really astonishing thing about the x-files is that it managed that without having much of a formula beyond "Mulder and Scully investigate something wacky." You never quite knew what you were going to get.

What was the one with the split screen thing going on? that was a good ep, I recall, and funny.

I liked the one with the mastodon.

I've been watching the X-Files straight through for the first time. Only caught them sporadically when they first ran, so I never really understood what was going on. I just finished season 2 and started season 3 and although there have been some fun episodes, I definitely didn't fully comprehend the melodrama I was in for. "You've been making reports on me since the beginning, Scully - taking your little notes!"

There's also a lot of stuff where my disbelief refuses to suspend itself. Not in terms of vampires or telekinetic abilities, but seeing something where I'm like, there is no WAY that's the correct FBI procedure for interrogating a witness or containing a biohazard or whatever. Maybe I'm just spoiled from having decades of police procedurals and gritty prestige TV laying it all out there.

x-files law&order crossover when

the truly absurd stuff is in later seasons when scully still refuses to believe in aliens even tho she was abducted and impregnated by them

Scully is a stand in for the MSM

x-files is the funniest version of a tv show not putting characters in protective gear because it makes it harder to show the actors responding to things

alien spores? virus spread by a sewage monster? parasite that just reappeared from the neolithic era? we’ll just tromp around in our normal fbi outfits like normal

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— jan (@janhopi) September 25, 2023

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elon did it

x-files law&order crossover when

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