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Timby posted:The Season 5 finale is usually what works for me. When the Smoking Man torches Mulder's office it feels like a death in the family, although I know it was done to facilitate the move to LA. Season 6 has some good MOTWs of too, so it's not too big a deal to get through. I also quite like the first X-Files movie, though I guess not everybody does.
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the old box set before the new movie had the old one.
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Oct 6, 2015 20:16
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sticklefifer posted:Does it include the movies? I'm not sure, but you can get both movies for $10: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-X-Files-Fight-the-Future-and-I-Want-to-Believe-Blu-ray/57476/ e: have a better look at the box art: 
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The Hollywood Reporter posted:Cynical industry journalists turned into gawking fanboys at the MIPCOM television trade fair on Tuesday night when Fox screened — in its world premiere — the first episode of the hotly anticipated return of The X-Files. 
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Oct 6, 2015 23:20
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Oct 6, 2015 23:22
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RIP weird falling Mulder face. I hope they just forget everything post-2000.
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Oct 6, 2015 23:46
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Ginette Reno posted:I also quite like the first X-Files movie, though I guess not everybody does. It has its moments. The best part is the scene with John Neville and Mulder in the limo; both of them absolutely kill it there.
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Oct 7, 2015 00:53
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Fight the Future is pretty cool. I first saw it only having seen a couple of MoW episodes of the show and it's amazing how well it works both stand-alone and the finale to season 5 (or the series).
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My favorite part of Fight the Future in the theater was when they almost kissed and a fangirl in the audience literally screamed.
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sticklefifer posted:My favorite part of Fight the Future in the theater was when they almost kissed and a fangirl in the audience literally screamed. that was me
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Oct 7, 2015 12:27
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According to Wikipedia, the first movie made money, so it must have been decently popular by itself, but it must be pretty unique as a theatrical film that requires audiences to have some knowledge of a TV series. Of course, I may be underestimating how popular The X-Files was when it was on - I'm too young to have followed it when it was new.
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At the time X-Files was exceedingly popular. It was kind of the only show of its type, it was so much more well-produced than other sci-fi shows like TNG, and with the burgeoning internet it had a huge dedicated fanbase. I remember seeing the first movie in the theater and it was pretty packed.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Of course, I may be underestimating how popular The X-Files was when it was on - I'm too young to have followed it when it was new. In season 5, X- files averaged 20 million viewers per episode. Those are Big Bang Theory/NCIS numbers.
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Fight the Future turned aliens into a childhood fear for me, so yeah, it's pretty good.
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Wheat Loaf posted:According to Wikipedia, the first movie made money, so it must have been decently popular by itself, but it must be pretty unique as a theatrical film that requires audiences to have some knowledge of a TV series. When FtF came out I went to see it with a friend who had never really followed the show, but he wanted to see the movie purely because of how many people were talking about it. He understood nothing that happened in it.
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Hell I must've seen that movie like 4 times and I don't remember anything about the plot except Martin Landau, bees, and some arctic spaceship. I love X-Files but I do not think that's a great film.
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The first movie is basically a long, pretty good arc episode. The second movie is basically a long, pretty bad MOTW episode.
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I remember when they filmed the second movie, they released false spoilers and set photos that made it look like the movie was going to be about a werewolf, and I really wish it had had that storyline instead. Actually I think that a big proportion of the best X-Files episodes were the comedy ones, and it would have been amazing to have an X-Files movie come out and all the casual moviegoers be completely floored to discover it was a comedy. I remember showing my best friend (who had never seen the show before, just knew of it through pop culture) Jose Chung, Bad Blood, and Hollywood AD and he was really surprised that X-Files wasn't just completely dark and serious.
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Oct 7, 2015 20:57
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Absolutely, whenever the show would do something comedic it would be some of the funniest stuff on television for its time. I think it's the episode with the Fiji Mermaid where someone is talking to Scully about Mulder and you see him in the distance standing with his foot on something looking like he stepped out of the cover of a romance novel, it kills me just thinking about it.
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All of Darin Morgan's episodes are standout episodes. Hell, even "Somehow, Satan got Behind Me" from Millennium was a really good episode with a lot of gallows humor.
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Oct 7, 2015 21:05
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Darin Morgan is a genius. His final episodes push past being interesting meditations on the themes of the show and become genuinely interesting meditations on the nature of existence. They will teach Jose Chung in schools one day.
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Oct 7, 2015 21:11
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I haven't really been keeping up with this new series, but why is it only six episodes? Are they just testing the waters? Do Duchovny/Anderson not wanna commit to more?
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Hakkesshu posted:I haven't really been keeping up with this new series, but why is it only six episodes? Are they just testing the waters? Do Duchovny/Anderson not wanna commit to more? Doing only six is cheaper, easier to sell to the network, easier to get the cast on board despite their busy schedules, etc. Plus they want to try to keep the quality of the episodes consistently high, something the show frequently struggled with in its original run. Carter has said they'll never go back to the 20+ episodes/season format; if they do any more of the show after this they will continue to use the miniseries style. Slate Action fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Oct 7, 2015 21:22
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The "short fat white Nazi stormtrooper" bit from Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is one of my favorite jokes of the funnier episodes.
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Hakkesshu posted:Absolutely, whenever the show would do something comedic it would be some of the funniest stuff on television for its time. I think it's the episode with the Fiji Mermaid where someone is talking to Scully about Mulder and you see him in the distance standing with his foot on something looking like he stepped out of the cover of a romance novel, it kills me just thinking about it. "Can you imagine going through life looking like - like that?"
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Hakkesshu posted:At the time X-Files was exceedingly popular. It was kind of the only show of its type, it was so much more well-produced than other sci-fi shows like TNG, and with the burgeoning internet it had a huge dedicated fanbase. I remember seeing the first movie in the theater and it was pretty packed. Yeah, what made it a gamechanger was that it was one of the first big mainstream scifi shows that wasn't just for geeks--it was cool for anyone to watch and talk about at the watercooler the next day. It was like Lost, except that show played coy about being scifi for years.
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Slate Action posted:
I don't mind eschewing the 20+ episode/season format, but I hope if they do more, they give us 10-12 episode seasons. 6 is just too drat short. Also, let's ignore the fact that, assuming this revival is a resounding success, the next mini-season is sure to include younger proteges for Mulder & Scully to kick-off a "X-Files The Next Generation" spinoff series that will probably be crap.
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Didn't they already kind of try surrogate Mulder and Scully with Robert Patrick and What's-Her-Face in seasons 8-9? I tuned out near the end of 7 and really didn't start watching again until I heard that the series finale was definitely coming, and it was weird as gently caress to tune in and see two people who weren't Mulder or Scully as the focus points while Scully just kind of mulled around in the background as a support character.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember when they filmed the second movie, they released false spoilers and set photos that made it look like the movie was going to be about a werewolf, and I really wish it had had that storyline instead.
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So, I'm inviting some folks over for two X-Files viewings/parties later this month. Basically everyone coming has never really seen the show, but are excited because I'm so excited to show it. In theory, I will get at least one person hooked enough to comb through the series before January. The format is going to be two nights, two episodes a piece. The first night will be mytharc episodes, and I've already settled on Pilot + Deep Throat for those. The second night will be MotW episodes. The first is definitely going to be Beyond the Sea, since it's an excellent episode and also big character development for Scully. I'm not sure what the second one will be, but here are some options: 1) Home: Top candidate right now, simply because it will be the week of Halloween and it just seems like a great, hosed up way to end the evening. I don't see any cons to showing this. 2) Paper Hearts: Another good one, fits as a Mulder development episode to compliment Beyond the Sea. The big con is that it's a later series episode, and I think a lot of the weight of the episode comes from fully understanding Mulder's obsessiveness with his sister, which doesn't come through fully in just Pilot/Deep Throat. 3) One of Darin Morgan's episodes, either Bruckman or Chung. I would feel bad about not showing a Darin episode, but I'm also not sure if they would be good intro-to-X-Files episodes, since they are brilliant but also break the mold a bit. Same thought process for Prometheus. 4) Drive, just because it's awesome. Biggest con is there's not much Scully. Any other suggestions? What would you show to folks to introduce them to the show?
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Honestly, you could just stick with season 1 and show them Squeeze. If I was introducing the show to someone (and I have before) I would just show them the first three episodes in order, and maybe also Conduit since it explain's Mulder's whole deal so well. If I'm recommending the show to people, I feel like I'm also recommending the process of watching the show evolve over time. So showing them the first couple episodes of the whole show and then a hand-picked one from a later season wouldn't fit into that. But that's just a personal perspective, you should show them whatever you think they would like the most. Slate Action fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Oct 9, 2015 03:26
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First, can I come? Second, I like Nesei/731 or Tunguska/Terma for mytharc eps. You could probably watch the former without too much knowledge of the show and enjoy it. Lastly, show Bad Blood.
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Slate Action posted:Honestly, you could just stick with season 1 and show them Squeeze. If I was introducing the show to someone (and I have before) I would just show them the first three episodes in order, and maybe also Conduit since it explain's Mulder's whole deal so well. I hadn't thought about Squeeze. It's creepy enough to be great for Halloween week. I'll go back and watch it again and see how it feels for this. Gravitee posted:First, can I come? Yea, I'd love to show the Anasazi/Blessing Way/Paper Clip arc, too, but that's just way too steeped in the mytharc by that point. X-Cops was another serious consideration. 
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I feel like showing Paper Hearts or Bad Blood would be a disservice to folks who are just being introduced to the series. Both are obviously exceptional episodes, but both also rely on being very familiar with the journey that Mulder has taken (Hearts) or the chemistry between the leading pair (Bad Blood). Die Hand der Verlezt is my straight up horror episode of choice. I also think DPO is an extremely underrated episode that would serve as great paranormal MotW offering.
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68k posted:Any other suggestions? What would you show to folks to introduce them to the show? Pusher is one of my favorites of the whole series. For mytharc, I always liked the Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip trilogy, mainly due to Skinner finally standing up to Cancer Man.
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If you can fit in a random comedy episode, consider Bad Blood.
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sticklefifer posted:Pusher is one of my favorites of the whole series. This is a good answer too.
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This Spender guy is a real piece of work.
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Astroman posted:Yeah, what made it a gamechanger was that it was one of the first big mainstream scifi shows that wasn't just for geeks--it was cool for anyone to watch and talk about at the watercooler the next day. It was like Lost, except that show played coy about being scifi for years. Yeah I remember my grandpa loved season 1 of lost because it was like a survival show to him, the bunker antics didn't really interest him.
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68k posted:Any other suggestions? What would you show to folks to introduce them to the show? Another vote for Pilot, Deep Throat, Squeeze, Beyond the Sea. Hmm... The Host is another really good, early MOTW too. Feedbacker fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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