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I'm also doing a rewatch, I just finished One Breath. Why is the Flukeman episode so well-remembered? Sure, the monster design is great, but the show blows it's load halfway through the episode. It goes from just showing us glimpses to full out showing the entire monster just staring at the characters going "bloop glub im the flukeman stuck in your poop chute here". It's so mediocre.
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I haven't watched most of these episodes since I was a kid, but the show as a whole so far has held up remarkably well. The physical effects were well done, the writing (even in the mediocre episodes) is competent, and I love the general atmosphere. The only weak point is the music, but for me it just adds to the nostalgia. Someone earlier mentioned that as a kid they identified more with Mulder but upon rewatching started to side with Scully more, and I have to agree. Especially in the first season, when Mulder routinely makes such enormous leaps to connect cases to the supernatural.
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Octy posted:What do you dislike about the music? I'm curious because I posted earlier that I'd forgotten just how good it is. It's perfect atmosphere music. I don't notice it most of the time, but when I do, I enjoy it.
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I'm on season 4 and in one of the episodes I watched last night, Scully says something along the lines of "Mulder, if you had to go 2 minutes without your cellphone, you'd go insane." Mulder is a millennial, apparently.
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Feb 24, 2014 01:52
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Goddamn, Small Potatoes is a great episode. With the exception of Home, Musings..., and Small Potatoes, season 4 has been really goddamn grim. I don't like this.
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Feb 27, 2014 16:36
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Man oh man, season 5 is real improvement over season 4. The only real clunkers I've run into so far are the Christmas Carol/Emily two-parter. I've heard bad things about the upcoming Chinga, though.
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The movie was an attempt to clean up the arc and shoot the show in a new(ish) direction, right? I just started season 6 last night, and even though the Syndicate and Gibson and (I'm assuming) Crycek are all still there, the new mythology bits the 6 premiere adds don't feel like more poo poo on the pile. It feels streamlined. I'm also not immediately hating the change of scenery, possibly because these are the episodes I consistently followed as a kid. The Mulder/Scully dynamic is aces right now too. I'm sure later episodes will ruin this once they get together. Drive was pretty good though.
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Mar 5, 2014 18:32
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Season 3 has to be the peak. Or at least the route to the peak. All of the mytharc episodes are actually good, you have 3 Darin Morgan episodes, and you have sweet-spot episodes like Syzygy and Pusher where you have this good mix of creepy and funny.
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Mar 23, 2015 16:59
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Wasn't the last movie a mostly normal serial killer case with a fake psychic? I remember almost nothing about it.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:51
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Now gimme Vince Gilligan and Darin Morgan episodes and we can forget how badly you screwed up that last season, Carter.
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Mar 24, 2015 17:57
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I actually like Doggett quite a bit, he just had the misfortune of being in Mulder's shadow. I would have watched an X-Files season 10 with Doggett and anyone other than Reyes.
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Mar 24, 2015 19:22
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poo poo, it hadn't occurred to me that this might finally be the push we need to get blu-ray seasons rolling.
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Mar 24, 2015 22:33
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Fire also establishes that Mulder has a fire phobia. You know, like most human beings.
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Mar 30, 2015 19:18
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Castle Radium posted:Whenever I rewatch Fallen Angel I always expect to hear "Unmarked Helicopters" by Soul Coughing playing in Max's trailer, and I'm always a little disappointed when it isn't there(it's replaced with generic radio noises.) I guess either the band or the publisher withdrew permission to use it, I don't know. But it's kind of weird that except for off-air recordings from the time, there's no version of that episode with the song still in it. It wasn't on the VHS release, DVD or Netflix. Somehow they managed to clear every other song featured in the show apart from that one. Are you sure about this? Last year I rewatched the whole show using the original DVD box sets and I'm almost positive I heard that song in that episode.
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I hate everything about that announcement.
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They confirmed the Morgan Bros and James Wong already, so the article is just poorly written.
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Isn't that the week of comic-con? My guess is they'll show footage or a trailer at a panel.
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Vintersorg posted:I forget where I saw it but some news place did a picture analysis of Mulders new office and there was something about a VHS player showing his addiction to old porn. This month's EW.  Their site is awful and full of ads, so here's this: EW posted:The X-Files I'm finally getting around to season 9, but man is it a slog. I like Doggett, but Reyes and her dumb psychic powers are so painful to watch. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Basebf555 posted:One thing I noticed when I recently re-watched the series is that Scully's a dead-eye marksman. When she shoots at something she almost always hits it. The only reason I haven't bought any of the X-Files Pop Vinyls is because they gave Scully a flashlight and Mulder a gun, instead of vice versa like it should be. It's a ridiculous thing to complain about, but it bugs me.
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 Apparently the Lone Gunmen are coming back!http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/x-files-lone-gunmen-returning-810450
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I'm whatever on Reyes, but hopefully this means Robert Patrick is back too.
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Season 1's a little uneven and the last season is whatever, but Walter Bishop is one of the best characters in genre TV. He's a goddamn treasure in every episode.
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SwissCM posted:Season 3 was incredible television, making every other episode set in the alternative reality took balls, complete with alternate intro and little in the way of explanation too. So good 
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Fringe also has an episode with Peter Weller that will make you cry like a baby.
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He may just be around for flashbacks. AFAIK no one's seen him filming scenes with Mulder or Scully.
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pahuyuth posted:Oh man, I wish but I don't think so. I hope I'm wrong though, even if it's just a quick shot like that (that we can see clearly). Are you talking about the Observer looking guy? Because black suit with fedora was a pretty common G-man look in the 40's/50's/60's. I want a Fringe reference too, but this is probably reaching.
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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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Hell Money isn't too bad, it's just incredibly boring. You get one cool visual in the cold open and everything after is just a big wet fart.
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Doggett is awesome, the problem is Reyes.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Just not really interested in the FBI fighting monsters tbh. New thread title right here
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They actually left space in the box set for the new season
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Jan 4, 2016 01:11
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Black oil can't melt steel beams.
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FYI Best Buy has the first season blu set for $15 and seasons 2-9 for $18 each. It's probably the cheapest they'll be for a while.
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I just watched Ghost in The Machine and Space because I hate myself. TECHNOWIZARDS AND ELECTROANARCHISTS
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Jan 23, 2016 21:12
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Are Darin Morgan's Millennium episodes accessible for someone who's only exposure to Millennium is the crossover episode?
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cenotaph posted:I read something yesterday about a free stream with minimal commercials if you watched a deadpool trailer. Talk about a sophie's choice.
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Jan 24, 2016 22:59
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Small Potatoes is a cool and good and funny underrated episode
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So Mulder is a right wing breitbart reader now Why
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That has got to be one of the worst episodes in the history of the show. Just give me the episodes written by people named Morgan or Wong and let me forget about Chris Carter's idiotic mythology twists.
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BlackJosh posted:This is a "real" conspiracy that's actually out there (also involving Josef Mengele working with Stalin) and is one of my favorite crazy bullshit theories out there. Wasn't that book discredited like a month after it came out?
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