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Skinner's the tough dad who's a hardass because he knows that's what you need. Seeing that dad cry is scary.
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I just watched the one where Chinese immigrants gamble for their internal organs, and it stars a young DB Wong, which I remembered from when it aired--and a ridiculously young Lucy Liu, which I had never realized. She must be like 20 in it. In all the talk of now-famous actors doing day-player parts on the X-Files, nobody ever mentions her along with Ryan Reynolds and Giovanni Ribisi and everyone.
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Feb 9, 2015 23:38
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Jack Gladney posted:I just watched the one where Chinese immigrants gamble for their internal organs, and it stars a young DB Wong, which I remembered from when it aired--and a ridiculously young Lucy Liu, which I had never realized. She must be like 20 in it. Probably because everyone who watched the episode immediately wished they hadn't.
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It is however followed by "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," which is bar-none the best episode of the series and one of the finest, most tightly plotted, finely directed, immaculately acted episodes of television ever. It is Darin Morgan's masterpiece. There's not a wasted scene, not a word out of place, and nothing left to say. It's genius. It perfectly encapsulates what the show is all about, but more than that speaks to human experience in a way that I am sure resonates with people who don't know anything about it. It's just a good story that doesn't require you to know or care anything about the X-Files to get it. Why didn't that guy ever write for television again? That show was a nursery for this generation's best tv professionals, and the guy just drifts out of the business after putting them all to shame like it was nothing.
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Jack Gladney posted:Why didn't that guy ever write for television again? That show was a nursery for this generation's best tv professionals, and the guy just drifts out of the business after putting them all to shame like it was nothing. He wrote two episodes for Millennium, one of which was Jose Chung writing another book.
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Jack Gladney posted:Why didn't that guy ever write for television again? That show was a nursery for this generation's best tv professionals, and the guy just drifts out of the business after putting them all to shame like it was nothing. I read a couple of articles and the impression I got was that he just felt incredibly frustrated at the whole process of getting his scripts made. I dunno. Something something anxiety issues.
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kingturnip posted:I read a couple of articles and the impression I got was that he just felt incredibly frustrated at the whole process of getting his scripts made. I guess that makes sense, and if that's the case, it's a drat shame because Jack Gladney is absolutely right. According to IMDB, he recently wrote a couple episodes for something called "Intruders". Anybody watch this show? Here's the description: "A TV series centered around a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others." Sounds like it could be interesting, but I had never even heard of it until now. And Robert Forster is in a couple episodes! I might need to check this out.
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Just to pimp the podcast once again, next week Darin Morgan will be on the x-files files to discuss jose chung's. As far as not writing much, in a previous interview with the x-files files Darin Morgan seemed to be really down on his own writing (or at least on how the episodes he wrote turned out) and also completely hate the "notes from the network" part of writing a tv show.
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Exploder posted:I guess that makes sense, and if that's the case, it's a drat shame because Jack Gladney is absolutely right. According to IMDB, he recently wrote a couple episodes for something called "Intruders". Anybody watch this show? Here's the description: I tried watching that but it didn't grab me. Each episode was like a 45-minute X-Files cold open.
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Feb 12, 2015 16:29
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haveblue posted:I tried watching that but it didn't grab me. Each episode was like a 45-minute X-Files cold open. That sounds pretty great to me.
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Field Trip has always been my favorite episode, I remember seeing it as a rerun one late night less than a decade ago and loving the slow but steady reveal, the alternate reality with the wake. I wish it was in more "Best of" lists Just started season 6 and it starts out STRONG. Triangle is amazing, too bad some people take it literally, if taken as a character study and the "Nazis" interpreted as Mulders feelings towards the FBI it's fantastic, you really get how he views various people around him. The move to LA in Season 6 is not as bad as fans think imo. The Wikipage for Season 6 has a bunch of this stuff about fans being upset at the move and the end of the rainy pacific northwest era. Vancouver was comfy as all hell most of the time, sure, especially as a kid not knowing it was shot there I always liked the rainy/foggy/small-town feel of episodes. Even so in a re-watch occasionally I can very obviously see it's Vancouver. Oh god Kill Switch, great episode, but "Fairfax County".... I live here and its all suburban and no swampy pine-forests, was so distracting but they tried their best! Not that LA-doubling is any better often, NCIS often is cast in the DC area and the episodes I've seen they have a case near DC and it looks like an arid ranchland. Either way without rambling I think SoCal has its own X-files comfiness to it. The entire US southwest has an x-files feel to it, being the birthplace of Roswell, the place where Area 51 is, all the craziness. When I think of UFO's and alien crashes I think of that area. So I don't really feel the same as some of these fan protests I read at the time of the move. Season 5 review: Prometheus a tad overrated. Unusual Suspects was golden. All Souls underrated, the imagery and cold opening were spooky. Schizogeny is claimed to be the worst episode ever, just seemed average to me. At least the monster was a creative and risky idea, which is admirable. Kitsunegari didn't need to be made. Travelers never explained the spider monsters, xenografting with what? Alien tarantulas? The Emily arc is a bit of an omen towards the (imo) dreadful William arc season 9. Pine bluff should have been a 2 parter, was great. Detour was nightmare-inducing as a kid, average as an adult. The rest of the episodes are about what the critics thought, imo.
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I might pick up and watch a few s7 episodes this week, anyone got a few good ones? I think I've seen the first couple or so. X-COPS I know.
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Zesty Mordant posted:I might pick up and watch a few s7 episodes this week, anyone got a few good ones? I think I've seen the first couple or so. X-COPS I know. Good non-mythology episodes are Je Soulhaite (one of my overall favorites) The Amazing Maleeni Theef Brand X Holywood AD
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I really like The Goldberg Variation from season 7, but there seems to be a lot of dissension with that episode. It's more of a fun, lighthearted episode with a little bit of dark humor thrown in for good measure. Some people love it, some people hate it.Basket of Kittens posted:Field Trip has always been my favorite episode, I remember seeing it as a rerun one late night less than a decade ago and loving the slow but steady reveal, the alternate reality with the wake. I wish it was in more "Best of" lists Field Trip has been mentioned a few times as being one of the more underrated episodes. I don't think you'll get much disagreement there. And the only geographic gripe I ever had with the X-Files was with this lovely map they had of Northern California in "Sein Und Zeit". It bothered me as a kid, because I live in Sacramento, but I just looked at it now and it's not as bad as I remember, but still pretty bad. The foothills are way too close to Sac, and it has "highway 74" where highway 49 should be. Immersion broken.
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marktheando posted:That sounds pretty great to me. I mean that there was too much time spent on spooky lingering establishing shots and too many people acting creepy and mysterious for too little reason.
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A little closer to bringing everything back!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBdy9SzJoAo http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/d...paign=thexfiles quote:David Duchovny on 'The X-Files' revival: 'It's looking very good'
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Old Boot posted:He wrote two episodes for Millennium, one of which was Jose Chung writing another book. Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense is one of the best episodes of any show I've watched, and it's still relevant today due to Scientology still being a thing.
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I just watched "The Amazing Maleeni" and its is a total by the numbers X-Files episode that is simply really entertaining. It could be an episode of anything, CSI, whatever though.
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Feb 19, 2015 05:40
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Zesty Mordant posted:I just watched "The Amazing Maleeni" and its is a total by the numbers X-Files episode that is simply really entertaining. It could be an episode of anything, CSI, whatever though. Considering where CSI takes place I'd be amazed if they haven't done at least one story like The Amazing Maleeni.
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steinrokkan posted:Good non-mythology episodes are 'Hungry' ought to be in your list.
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I dont know how im going to do it but just finished the insect episode of S9 and this is a loving slog, loving TERRIBLE!
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Vintersorg posted:I dont know how im going to do it but just finished the insect episode of S9 and this is a loving slog, loving TERRIBLE!
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Improbable is good.
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I've been a big fan of this show for years, but only ever watched the odd episode or two in a row here and there, and those tended to be from the early to middle seasons. It's only very recently that I've started properly watching things in order, from the pilot, and there are a few things that really stuck out to me as I watched the first few episodes. First was the abundance of synth music, which I don't remember appearing at all later in the show. It manages to be very atmospheric, which I guess is the intention, but it does make the episodes feel very much of their time. Secondly, Scully's character seems a little more playful and a little less reserved than she is later on. Neither of these things is bothersome, I'm more interested in seeing how long they'll last before things start to change.
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Are you sure about that? I think that in the first two seasons or so she's basically loyal to Mulder, but quite reserved. They really tried to push her as a sort of clinical character, even visually. Both of them became way more relaxed around each other as the series progressed, and started having way more "moments".
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Octy posted:'Hungry' ought to be in your list.
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Read an article lately observing that Gilligan's said he'd be keen to be involved in a revival of the show if it got off the ground. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I didn't make a note of the website's address. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Read an article lately observing that Gilligan's said he'd be keen to be involved in a revival of the show if it got off the ground. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I didn't make a note of the website's address. That popped up in my facebook newsfeed a couple days ago, but I also didn't take note of the website's address.
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steinrokkan posted:Are you sure about that? I think that in the first two seasons or so she's basically loyal to Mulder, but quite reserved. They really tried to push her as a sort of clinical character, even visually. Both of them became way more relaxed around each other as the series progressed, and started having way more "moments". After getting more than a few episodes in I think you're right, it was more a couple of moments in the first two episodes that gave me that impression. I'll put it more down to the actress finding her feet in the role than anything else. Also, I'm running into less synth music as I'm going on - very disappointing.
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All I really remember from the last two seasons is the terrible episode episode with the butt genie and then the episode where Burt Reynolds is god. Still slogged through them because I really like Robert Patrick.
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steinrokkan posted:Are you sure about that? I think that in the first two seasons or so she's basically loyal to Mulder, but quite reserved. They really tried to push her as a sort of clinical character, even visually. Both of them became way more relaxed around each other as the series progressed, and started having way more "moments". Even from the start, she doesn't act like he's full of poo poo, like everyone else. She doesn't just dismiss him out of hand, she asks for proof. And then sees time traveling aliens or whatever.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Read an article lately observing that Gilligan's said he'd be keen to be involved in a revival of the show if it got off the ground. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I didn't make a note of the website's address. quote:Matt: Now there’s a lot of media attention about Fox television in discussions to do an X-Files revival / mini-series with David, Gillian, and Mr. Carter; if asked, would you want to be involved?
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Veeta posted:After getting more than a few episodes in I think you're right, it was more a couple of moments in the first two episodes that gave me that impression. I'll put it more down to the actress finding her feet in the role than anything else. Also, I'm running into less synth music as I'm going on - very disappointing. I hope you like the oboe, my friend.
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So in the one where Skinner gets visited by that sex ghost, was the ghost supposed to be some kind of psychic projection from his wife, or was there just a ghost that periodically saves Skinner from death just because? And if it was his wife, is his wife just psychic or is she some eternal magical entity who can do anything? Because if she could control it at all, maybe magically spinning the smoking man's head around in his sleep would have been useful.
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Gillian Anderson was on Top Gear on Sunday, and she was absolutely stunning. I didn't know that she speaks with a British accent in real life!
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evobatman posted:I didn't know that she speaks with a British accent in real life! She actually shifts her accent depending on where she is.
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evobatman posted:Gillian Anderson was on Top Gear on Sunday, and she was absolutely stunning. I didn't know that she speaks with a British accent in real life! I wish she would do a comedy so I could listen to her laugh and swear for two hours, in either accent. 
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Gravitee posted:I wish she would do a comedy so I could listen to her laugh and swear for two hours, in either accent. According to IMDB, she's got you covered.
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X-files might be off Netflix on April 1st.
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bobkatt013 posted:X-files might be off Netflix on April 1st. Oh son of a bitch, I only recently started watching the series from the top and I'm only a couple episodes away from the end of season 2 so far. 
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