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Continuing a series watch with friends. It's such a fun ride, watching as the series slowly morphs from its uncertain and experimental start to getting more confident (and higher production value) as time goes on. What it loses in simple and engrossing stories with fear of the unknown it gains in a depthful and fun dramatic soap opera as the monsters of the week go up in quality drastically. It does amuse me though as that happens. First season myth stuff is like "They follow a truck, it turns out to be empty" 4th season myth stuff is "Mulder's dad actually knew the bad guy all along and the family drama is spilling over into governmental conspiracies." anyway thread for x-files. David Duchovny is unironically hot. also lol @ them having to one up fluke man with the season 4 opening monster of the week, good lord.
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The x files is a p good show ya
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As someone who lived in Vancouver in the 90's, it is very hard to suspend my disbelief while watching the X-Files. I used to drive past the house from Home every day on my way to work. https://www.google.com/maps/@49.095...i8192?entry=ttu McGavin fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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I miss the old highly specific internet quizzes for shows like The X-Files with questions like "how many times did agent Scully pull her service weapon without firing it in seasons one through three?" and then when you answer wrong its all "do you even watch the show??" those were psychotic.
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Were people bad mouthing the X-Files OP? Agent Scully was a hugely influential character.
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I liked how the main characters addressed each other by their last names at least six times per episode.
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pre:The truth is out there
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Winkle-Daddy posted:I miss the old highly specific internet quizzes for shows like The X-Files with questions like "how many times did agent Scully pull her service weapon without firing it in seasons one through three?" and then when you answer wrong its all "do you even watch the show??" those were psychotic. That was a psychological exam. You actually passed
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Monster of the week episodes were pretty dope. I remember the kid who played Ham in The Sandlot was a vampire.
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It was like 35% interesting, 65% filler. Do love me some Gillian Anderson tho.
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Chicken Butt posted:I liked how the main characters addressed each other by their last names at least six times per episode. "Mulder. Scully." "Wrex. Shepard."
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Milo and POTUS posted:That was a psychological exam. You actually passed this is a bigger relief than that time the dead guy a genie brought back to life finally stopped screaming in agony
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McGavin posted:As someone who lived in Vancouver in the 90's, it is very hard to suspend my disbelief while watching the X-Files. I used to drive past the house from Home every day on my way to work. When the episode came on for the first time and it had a content warning I knew I was about to get some amazing poo poo
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It's good for like 5 seasons then it gets real bad then Mulder leaves and its terrible , then I heard it gets good briefly for a little while, then lovely again.
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McGavin posted:As someone who lived in Vancouver in the 90's, it is very hard to suspend my disbelief while watching the X-Files. I used to drive past the house from Home every day on my way to work. maybeadracula posted:When the episode came on for the first time and it had a content warning I knew I was about to get some amazing poo poo I told my watch party "Trigger warning: Yes" and gave them all PTSD it was great. Hollismason posted:It's good for like 5 seasons then it gets real bad then Mulder leaves and its terrible , then I heard it gets good briefly for a little while, then lovely again. The reboot loving sucks, I liked it for a bit and then realized actually I was just craving what it used to be and this was nostalgia bait.
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redshirt posted:Were people bad mouthing the X-Files OP? No but I feel it's become somewhat lost to history. Not quite as influential as Star Trek outside of its time period. Probably because it's harder to follow up on and not the sort of franchise you can set spinoffs in very easily. I'd be up for a complete remake myself.
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Whenever I get asked my favorite color I answer "Cerulean Blue"
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Watching X files with no lights on...
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redshirt posted:Whenever I get asked my favorite color I answer "Cerulean Blue" I occasionally say "cerulean blue is a gentle breeze" when I see a blue truck and no one knows what the gently caress I'm on about
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maybeadracula posted:I occasionally say "cerulean blue is a gentle breeze" when I see a blue truck and no one knows what the gently caress I'm on about lol I do!
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maybeadracula posted:I occasionally say "cerulean blue is a gentle breeze" when I see a blue truck and no one knows what the gently caress I'm on about do you follow it up by asking people if they have stairs in their house.
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where did you get my drivers license photo.
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SRQ posted:do you follow it up by asking people if they have stairs in their house. Never have Well once but I was really asking
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SRQ posted:where did you get my drivers license photo. THE FLUKEMAN LIVES
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Stretchy cancer cocoon man was scarier than flukeman
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I hope the Smoking Man is in this one
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redshirt posted:I hope the Smoking Man is in this one I really liked his performance in HalfLife 2: Lost Coast "Mr. Andersoon..."
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JetSetGo posted:It was like 35% interesting, 65% filler. Do love me some Gillian Anderson tho. The filler, I growl through gritted teeth, was the best part
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You Are A Werewolf posted:Monster of the week episodes were pretty dope.  First season has a monster of the week episode that is just a low budget “The Thing” rip-off that actually holds its own
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Was re-watching and noticing that it's episodes were like a who's who of really solid character actors. Like half the cast of Deadwood makes appearances. And also Ashyln Gere the pornstar!
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actually it was v. good
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I think about 40% of the late 90s internet was pictures of Gillian Anderson.
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i liked when gillian anderson went on a talk show and said she would like to be anal probed by aliens and everyone cheered
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Philthy posted:i liked when gillian anderson went on a talk show and said she would like to be anal probed by aliens and everyone cheered *tugs on collar*
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Suspekt Device posted:Was re-watching and noticing that it's episodes were like a who's who of really solid character actors. Like half the cast of Deadwood makes appearances. And also Ashyln Gere the pornstar! We ended up accidentally tracing Amanda Tapping's career: We watched a goosebumps around Halloween that had her, then came across her in an X-files, just before we started SG1. "Hold on, your train is coming."
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I think if Chris Carter could go back to the start of it and do it again, I think he might have just decided to abandon the series long conspiracy arc and just do Monster of the Week episodes. They hold up a lot better than the 'making it up as he goes along, ends up a tangled mess of like seven different plotlines which eventually involved Mulder's missing sister having been rescued by angels or something like that'.
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