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Cornwind Evil posted: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'. Just don't do the soap opera parts. The myth arc being a clusterfuck is fine and leads to some extremely good stuff (the hostage taking but also aliens) but has some incredibly weird and confusing bits (the one episode where the narrative tension is entirely based on them not answering their phones at the right time, repeatedly.)
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Dec 10, 2023 07:26
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You Are A Werewolf posted:Monster of the week episodes were pretty dope. I remember the kid who played Ham in The Sandlot was a vampire. I remember in sixth grade my friend was telling me about an episode with a fat vampire and I was like "yeah the one with the fat kid from the sandlot I've seen it". He was like "huh?" and went on to describe a totally different episode about a vampire that preys on overweight women through aol chatrooms who subsequently eats their fat when they meet up with him. And he was played by the bad guy from Beverly Hills Cop 3.
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Dec 10, 2023 07:31
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Suspekt Device posted:I remember in sixth grade my friend was telling me about an episode with a fat vampire and I was like "yeah the one with the fat kid from the sandlot I've seen it". He was like "huh?" and went on to describe a totally different episode about a vampire that preys on overweight women through aol chatrooms who subsequently eats their fat when they meet up with him. And he was played by the bad guy from Beverly Hills Cop 3. the best part about it is the heaviest one is like, 165 at best. they barely even look overweight, what a world the 90s was half the loving town in the Cher episode is fatter!
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Dec 10, 2023 07:39
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Scully should relax a little
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Dec 10, 2023 07:51
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I found it weird that Cher did not appear in the Cher episode. I guess in hindsight it was for the best since I can just see fans zeroing in on that episode and unfairly turning it into the show's jump the shark moment based entirely on "remember when they got motherfucking Cher in an X-Files episode?" But that episode seemed to be leading up to it the whole time, and it already featured her likeness and songs so presumably they had her blessing, so why not just go the whole shebang?
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Dec 10, 2023 08:35
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I think it's funny, and by funny I mean depressing, how in the 90's we were all like, yeah man, aliens are real and the government is covering it up, and if they're willing to cover that up, who knows what else they're hiding from us!" and today, the government told us "so yeah, UFOs are real" and nobody even cared because we've all seen how blatantly everything is corrupt and manipulated right out in the open and nothing is done about it because there are no consequences for those responsible. But yeah I did love those monster of the week episodes as a kid, but couldn't ever follow the overarching plots.
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Dec 10, 2023 09:35
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I think it's funny, and by funny I mean depressing, how in the 90's we were all like, yeah man, aliens are real and the government is covering it up, and if they're willing to cover that up, who knows what else they're hiding from us!" nihilism loving owns yeah
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Dec 10, 2023 09:42
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The myth arc is pretty good from season 1 to like 6 and a 1/2. Then it's pretty bad. But there's good monster of the weeks from start to finish.
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Dec 10, 2023 10:06
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I think it's funny, and by funny I mean depressing, how in the 90's we were all like, yeah man, aliens are real and the government is covering it up, and if they're willing to cover that up, who knows what else they're hiding from us!" ufos were always real, saying so changes nothing though because we don't know what they are. the shift in "swamp gas" to "I don't loving know," doesn't ultimately change anything. even if you announced tomorrow that we have solid evidence that at least one UFO was an alien probe, proving intelligent life exists somewhere- what does that mean, to you and me, right now? nothing really, it's just really loving cool. It is however representative of a loss of faith in the state itself. In 1992 society viewed the state as hyper-competent enough to run a vast conspiracy involving alien entities which is both preventing the public from finding out about them, and secretly trying to stab them in the back after making a deal with them. you can't do that after trump won. President Trump, 1993, would have mumbled about the Project on Fox News and gotten us all killed immediately.
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Dec 10, 2023 10:14
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Cornwind Evil posted: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'. Both Scully and Gillian Anderson rule. 
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Dec 10, 2023 12:39
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It was OP. I'm on season 4 in my rewatch. The monster of the week episodes are miles better than the mythology episodes, and I'm not sure if it's because I'm watching the show in 2023 when "the government hides the truth and does a ton of shady poo poo, actually" isn't in any way shocking. But I don't think it's entirely that, because I never cared for the mythology stuff, and there's more and more of it as the seasons go by and as you say they just start getting so loving convoluted. The Darin Morgan episodes (Humbug, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, Jose Chung's From Outer Space and War of the Coprophages) are still incredible. SRQ posted:David Duchovny is unironically hot. They both are. Good lord. Back in the late 90s when the Internet wasn't really a thing and certainly not on mobile phones, a friend and I were in a video rental store and they had several X-Files movies. We were pretty sure there was only one movie but couldn't check anywhere and there they were, so maybe they made sequels and we didn't realize? So we rented one, and then it was a two-parter TV-episode on one VHS tape and we felt ripped off. That's my X-Files story. E: Are the new episodes any good? I would assume not since the show turned to poo poo in the last few seasons anyway, and I have zero faith that they were able to bounce back from that years later but who knows? Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 12:42
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SRQ posted:No but I feel it's become somewhat lost to history. It's probably because Mulder & Scully arrested pedophiles rather than building a utopian society for them. Trekkies can't get on board with that. Shaman Tank Spec posted:
There are good ones in there, but a high miss ratio. Same as the last couple of seasons in that regard. Anyway, the show is so fundamentally about the 90s, they should leave it be, or any reboot/remake should be a period piece. Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 13:10
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I really enjoyed the early seasons, with the various interesting monsters-of-the-week, but it seemed like they started to run out of monsters and urban legends and then just tried to pad everything out with the government-alien-conspiracy stuff which just got very samey and dull.
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Dec 10, 2023 13:29
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There's this broadcast channel called Comet that I didn't even know existed before this year and I swear half their entire lineup is the X-Files.
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Dec 10, 2023 13:29
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this was the best episode
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Dec 10, 2023 14:59
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:There's this broadcast channel called Comet that I didn't even know existed before this year and I swear half their entire lineup is the X-Files. Bro! I can't get cable, only have an antennae, and Comet is my jam! Here's the Monday through Friday lineup: 10 - Farscape 11 - 2 - Stargate SG1 3 - 6 - Grimm (A fun weird show, like a supernatural soap opera, or also "Boy Buffy") 6 - 9 - Buffy The Vampire Slayer 9 - 12 - The X-Files I usually turn it on and rip off the knob.
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Dec 10, 2023 15:05
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redshirt posted:I usually turn it on and rip off the knob. Consider using lube.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:46
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Enfys posted:this was the best episode The man with no arms who played the ringmaster of the troupe in that episode came to my highschool back in the day and played rock music drum solos with his feet.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:50
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The mytharc episodes feel the weakest NOW But the show wasn't made for now. Those were the most exciting by far at the time If they're all stand-alone you can miss one, but you had to watch in case CSM CGB was going to show up
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Dec 10, 2023 17:52
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Suspekt Device posted:I remember in sixth grade my friend was telling me about an episode with a fat vampire and I was like "yeah the one with the fat kid from the sandlot I've seen it". He was like "huh?" and went on to describe a totally different episode about a vampire that preys on overweight women through aol chatrooms who subsequently eats their fat when they meet up with him. And he was played by the bad guy from Beverly Hills Cop 3. Ah, I see where you got confused. He was talking about a fat vampire, you were talking about a vampire fat. Anyway, x-files is great. I've watched the first few seasons like a dozen times, although I've only ever finished the whole series once and never watched the reboot. fake e: correction. I watched part of the very first episode of the reboot on tv but the only thing I remember is scully and mulder meeting up and the first line is one of them going "Uber?"
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Dec 10, 2023 18:06
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Deepthroat, LOL!
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maybeadracula posted:The mytharc episodes feel the weakest NOW  Everything we know about  Prestige TV begins with the X files. The idea of a season-spanning story in an era that effectively pre-dates physical media for television* was completely revolutionary. The vast majority of TV at the time was designed specifically for syndication - any episode could be played in any order (preferably from any season). In retrospect the mytharc is not good, but it was culture-changing at the time. *I seem to remember the boxed DVD set of the x-files was over a hundred dollars at Sun Coast. It def. wasn't available for rent at Blockbuster or any local shop, and   at buying it across 8 VHS (or however many it was)
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Dec 10, 2023 18:40
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Vampire Panties posted:*I seem to remember the boxed DVD set of the x-files was over a hundred dollars at Sun Coast. It def. wasn't available for rent at Blockbuster or any local shop, and I definitely remember renting x files tapes from video stores that would make blockbuster look high brow. Die Hand die verlezt ftw
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Dec 10, 2023 18:52
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My brain keeps mixing up cigarette man and a Simpsons joke and creating GBM Spender
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Dec 10, 2023 18:58
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Vampire Panties posted:
Twin Peaks is more revolutionary I think, but I first saw TP and the first 5 seasons of X-files back-to-back a few years ago and had to supress an incredible urge to set up a pirate radio signal in the middle of a forest. Nightmare Cinema fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 19:00
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maybeadracula posted:The mytharc episodes feel the weakest NOW Nah, maybe it was my perspective as a kid, but the mytharc episodes were the weakest then too, especially after the first couple seasons when it became just conspiracies within conspiracies filled with nonsense. Monster of the week was always where the show shined. Seasons 1&2 hooked people so hard right away because they were mostly monster of the week with an occasional story arc, but as the ratio started shifting in later seasons, it started becoming less interesting over time.
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Dec 10, 2023 19:01
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Twin Peaks is more revolutionary I think, but I first saw TP and the first 5 seasons of X-files back-to-back and had to supress an incredible urge to set up a pirate radio signal in the middle of a forest. Yeah Twin Peaks really is the beginning, and the X-Files owes a lot to it. Hard to believe that first season of Twin Peaks was a phenomena. It's so weird!
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Dec 10, 2023 19:02
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Enfys posted:
Sure no one will argue with that I don't think The rarity was part of the appeal (also the appearance that it was going someplace meaningful)
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Dec 10, 2023 19:03
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redshirt posted:Yeah Twin Peaks really is the beginning, and the X-Files owes a lot to it. David Lynch not guest directing an X-Files episode was a missed opportunity.
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Dec 10, 2023 19:08
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I think part of the issue was that, as the larger arc escalated into governmental conspiracy, they had to make excuses as to why mulder and scully were still able to just be weirdo fbi agents most of the time in between. Just led to some weird tension shifts between episodes. "Kill mulder and he will become a martyr of a new movement" as if anyone outside of the people everyone already assumes are crazy would care.
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Dec 10, 2023 19:09
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redshirt posted:Bro! I can't get cable, only have an antennae, and Comet is my jam! Here's the Monday through Friday lineup:  They also show a lot of OG Godzilla movies and ‘60s/‘70s/‘80s B-movie horror, schlock, and sci-fi. It’s like reliving a local UHF channel in the ‘80s. And Tales From the Darkside on weekends! Fuckin’ love me some Comet. Yeah, they’re owned by Sinclair Broadcasting which sucks doodoo poo poo, but there is no indication of who they really are on the channel.
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Dec 10, 2023 19:12
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i remember seeing some thing pop out a dudes neck as a kid and being scared
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You Are A Werewolf posted:
Hell yeah Comet Bro! Yesterday they played schlocky Xmas horror movies. Today its all B Greek movies. Jason and the Argonauts, etc.
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I'd be hard pressed to think of a sillier episode of the X-Files than the one about the house haunted by the spirit of the Brady Bunch house featuring David Faustino.
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Dec 10, 2023 20:17
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Pretty sure they just got recommended to me on Spotify.
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Vakal posted:I'd be hard pressed to think of a sillier episode 
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