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I enjoyed it greatly, especially the MoTW-episodes but later on in the show the "main plot arc" started to get fairly tiresome, I think that SuperNatural suffers from the same disease.
Worst things in X-Files :
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Worst things in X-Files :
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Scully's very insistent scepticism even after Mulder&Scully have seen countless of things beoynd human imagination. Not really "bad writing" or anything, it just bugs me.
Doggett and Reyes. No particular reason, I just don't think they had anywhere near the chemistry Mulder and Scully had.
Scully's alien pregnancy arc.
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I dug the T-1000, but yeah, most of that stuff wasn't so hot. I never super-followed the continuity stuff.
When they blow up cigarette smoking man with a missile
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I found the monster of the week episodes to be more interesting than the myth arcs. I think season 8 was when the series kind of lost a lot of steam.
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I like the standalones a lot better than the arc episodes. The one with Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black is one of my favorites.
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Favorite monsters? I quite liked the tulpa or the "ubermonster" in that suburban town that had to follow strict rules.
I think it's universally agreed that the Flukeman is the scariest. That fucker is the reason I was afraid of going to the bathroom at night.
I think it's universally agreed that the Flukeman is the scariest. That fucker is the reason I was afraid of going to the bathroom at night.
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Brad Dourif deserved an Emmy for Somewhere Beyond the Sea (then again, Brad Dourif usually deserves an Emmy). That is far and away one of the best episodes of the series.
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This just in, X-Files will be getting a new 6 episode season sometime this Summer.
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I'm certainly not a big fan of the show or anything, and I've never really sat down and watched it through, but the episodes I've seen have been generally enjoyable.
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I binged The X-Files last summer and I was hooked from episode one. I have to agree with @Hellblazer that the long episode arcs get pretty tiresome and predictable. The single-shot episodes, like "Ice" (stranded in the arctic with the anger/paranoia parasite) are waaay better and have more interesting conclusions than the "IS SCULLY GONNA DIEEEE HERE SHE IS IN HER HEAD FOR TWO EPISODES".
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Wow I just finished the x files and man was I hooked I even got all the tie in comics afterwards, something I rarely do. The show does an excellent job mixing so many genres from horror, mystery, action, sci fi, and even comedy into a coherent and interesting package. I also liked how varied each episode could be, while some plot points could be repetive you could go from a dark gritty serial killer drama to a forest hump parody or a Cops crossover. I also quite liked season 8 despite it not having Mulder as Robert Patrick did a great job as Agent John Dogget (he also reminded me of Frank Black which is always a plus), and season 9 was also still pretty good bar some questionable writing choices (cough cough William). I thought I’d just rank the seasons from order of worst to best though I still think all the seasons are worth watching:
11. Season 1
10. Season 10
9. Season 9
8. Season 7
7. Season 6
6. Season 8
5. Season 2
4. Season 11
3. Season 3
2. Season 4
1. Season 5
11. Season 1
10. Season 10
9. Season 9
8. Season 7
7. Season 6
6. Season 8
5. Season 2
4. Season 11
3. Season 3
2. Season 4
1. Season 5
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I loved the show in my teenage years. I've got the first nine seasons and the two movies. Yeah, it started to go downhill around season 8, but I still enjoyed Dogett (Reyes was just kinda meh) and season 9 had a handful of decent episodes.
Based on what I've seen and heard, I plan to avoid the newer stuff like the plague. The idiots seem to be targeting the woke crowd, quite a few ORANGE MAN BAD!!! lines, and I'm not even a Trump supporter. It's just obnoxious as fuck.
The trend of reviving shows that should have stayed in the past is pathetic as well. They almost always end up horrible, or a shadow of what they once were. Twin Peaks revival sucked, Roseanne's reboot caused a huge shitstorm, and The X-Files should have stayed finished in the early 2000s.
Based on what I've seen and heard, I plan to avoid the newer stuff like the plague. The idiots seem to be targeting the woke crowd, quite a few ORANGE MAN BAD!!! lines, and I'm not even a Trump supporter. It's just obnoxious as fuck.
The trend of reviving shows that should have stayed in the past is pathetic as well. They almost always end up horrible, or a shadow of what they once were. Twin Peaks revival sucked, Roseanne's reboot caused a huge shitstorm, and The X-Files should have stayed finished in the early 2000s.
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Wasn't there, like, a couple of movies? I remember the first one came out in '98 or so. I thought it was allright at the time, but after watching it more recently, I thought it was kind of dull. Also, the ending seemed really implausible. (Do you know how long you live when you're wet outside in an arctic climate? Not too fricken long.)
I recall one episode of the original series when Mulder and Scully were holed up in a logger's camp trying to keep a lightbulb lit, because if it went dark, flesh eating bugs would get them. I remember watching it and thinking: why don't they just light a fire? I suppose the justification was that it was raining and all of the wood was too wet, but they could've torn up some of the furniture they had and start burning it...
I recall one episode of the original series when Mulder and Scully were holed up in a logger's camp trying to keep a lightbulb lit, because if it went dark, flesh eating bugs would get them. I remember watching it and thinking: why don't they just light a fire? I suppose the justification was that it was raining and all of the wood was too wet, but they could've torn up some of the furniture they had and start burning it...
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While 10 was meh 11 had a couple really good episodes. Don't remember if there was ever any actual digs at Trump, the only thing I ever saw was Movieblob bawling about how it "legitimized conspiracy theorists".
The first one was tied to the series's main plot and thus entirely skippable since it never really went anywhere. 2nd one was made after the original run and was basically just a longer MotW episode that resolved a couple things from the season 9 finale. It was decent enough that it's worth watching imo, if only to tie season 9 into 10.
As for the 2nd paragraph I'm pretty sure that episode was Darkness Falls which was 1st season I think? It's one of the more unmemorable ones. Not bad enough to be one of the outright worst but not good enough to bother rewatching unless you plan on going through all of them.
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Loved the X-Files as a kid. Not gonna lie, I may have been in love with 90s Gillian Anderson.
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I loved the X Files back in the day, but I have to admit that after a while, I really stopped caring about the main alien conspiracy plot. It just went on and on and on and it got to a point where I felt like not even the people working on it knew how it was supposed to end.
Personally, I always enjoyed the "monster of the week" episodes alot more. They were more creative, more fun, and allowed Mulder and Scully to kind of bounce off of each other and treat each case as a blank slate.
Personally, I always enjoyed the "monster of the week" episodes alot more. They were more creative, more fun, and allowed Mulder and Scully to kind of bounce off of each other and treat each case as a blank slate.
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X-Files should just come back with a very small overarching plot with the vast majority being MotW episodes.
Carter is weird because he got his fame when TV was transitioning from being serialized episodes with no connections to a series that had an overarching story where you had to watch everyday.
So I feel creatively he is stuck in that middle era, and the X-Files tried to balance that with middling success. I think Carter would be more successful if he started fresh with a new series or just make X-Files solely MotW episodes.
Carter is weird because he got his fame when TV was transitioning from being serialized episodes with no connections to a series that had an overarching story where you had to watch everyday.
So I feel creatively he is stuck in that middle era, and the X-Files tried to balance that with middling success. I think Carter would be more successful if he started fresh with a new series or just make X-Files solely MotW episodes.
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That's pretty much the general consensus. They never really seemed to have any idea what they wanted to do with the main plot so shit like the Samantha clones are brought up and never mentioned again and the alien bounty hunters just stop appearing halfway through the show (eventually replaced by the super soldiers). It's a bit of a shame considering some of the best characters were pretty much confined to the non-MotW episodes (CSM, Krycek, Deep Throat, X) but there's only a couple episodes involving the main plot that are good enough to be watched on their own (Vienen for example). All the very best episodes are MotWs.
Anderson has said she's done so it's hard to imagine them finding a way to bring it back again sans pretty much everyone except Mulder (no Scully, Doggett, possibly Skinner, probably CSM for good this time) unless she changes her mind.