As of right now, I am officially reopening the X-Files thread. Favorite monster?
>>217030015I liked the shapeshifter who said he was Luke Skywalker and fucked a bunch of women.
>>217030454Didn't all of his kids have tails?
>>217030541Oh yeah! Wasn't that a Vince Gilligan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLLBrh_PeT4
You've gone too far this time, Mulder!I'm re-closing the X-Files.
I'm at the end of S7 and this shit is really falling off. The Hollywood A.D. one sucks.
>>217030454The prison scene at the end is great.
>>217030015The vampire episode with the guy from Idiocracy and the fat kid from the Sandlot was incredible. The differing stories between Mulder and Scully are a great device for the framing. The whole episode is peak comedic X-Files.
>>217031301Uhhh, sweaty, it's actually about deconstructing the male gaze. You need to get some media literacy.
>>217031337Shut the fuck up.
>>217031337>sweatyDon't do that here. Don't embarrass yourself.
>>217031362>>217031465Uhhh, you chuds really need to check yourselves. The X-Files are definitely transcoded and you need to get on the right side of history.
>>217030015The ayys.
>>217030015the best episode was the Cigarette Smoking Man's backstory.
>>217031568>CSMalso the best "monster"
>>217030015Pusher.
Can someone tell me where and why The Smoking Man summoned a succubus to harass Skinner?
>>217031168I remember the night it originally aired.
>>217031629>*smokes*
>>217031168Season 7 was extremely close to being the last season and the writers really telegraphed that in the hopes that Fox would take the hint and cancel them. Most of the loose ends from the mythology get tied up, cast members get their token episodes to direct, everything is just getting thrown at the wall story wise, Reqiuem is basically a series finale without the closure. Yet there are a lot of stale boilerplate MOTWs too, so it's a really weird year overall. I kinda loved Hollywood AD though. I'm a sucker for the meta shitpost episodes.
>>217030572It was interesting rewatching the Vince episodes and seeing his signature style take shape. Whenever there was a tense standoff scene it felt right out of Breaking Bad.
>>217031301Was that a summer episode? I remember it was still light out and I debated whether to keep playing basketball or watch the episode. I know there was something about throwing sunflower seeds on the floor. I don't remember Luke Wilson, but I wouldn't see Bottle Rocket until '98, just months before Rushmore came out. I remember I was living in the city for college and I used the public library computers to get online. I wanted to know more about this Wes Anderson who Scorsese was calling the next Scorsese. I got to see Rushmore on the big screen almost all to myself. I felt so alive being out on my own for the first time. Those were the days.
>>217031886Yeah, scattering sunflower seeds is the one. S5E12 "Bad Blood" apparently. It's just fun.
Don't know it's name but the one that tunnels under the earth like a molerat and enforces home owner association bylaws
>>217030015>Favorite monster?Gillian Anderson's gaping vagina
>>217030015Skinner had the tightiest ass.
>>217032012Kill yourself faggot scum
not my favorite, but a memorable one
The guy that was using people's blind spots was pretty neat.
>>217030015The little glowing green niggers that web you up.
>>217031301‘Bad Blood’. Other awesome episodes include War of the CoprophagesHumbugHomeJose Chung’s From Outer SpaceClyde Bruckman’s Final ReposePost-modern Prometheus
>>217030015>Favorite monsterTooms
>>217032368Soft light. Classic. One of the scariest endings too.
>>217030015the sexy vampire that had mulder lick blood off her fingers. im a simple man
>>217032786Not scary but the large number of victims in this episode is noteworthy
>>217031629You got this all wrong.
when this guy appears on screen, Kino intensifies.
>>217032252It's funny how they put him on trial as if he was a normal person
>>217034407How is being locked up for the rest of your natural life being tested and experimented on before ultimately getting dissected in order to make a military superweapon out of you "not scary"? Do you even realize the implication for that scientist? That tear running down his face as it sinks in that he will never leave?That kind of shit is WAY scarier to me than some howling wolfman or some alien goo.
>>217031979Arcadia I think. That was a good one
>>217031113/thread
>>217031568Musings of a cigarette smoking man or something. The best part is it was a book and it was all true but the publisher was like fuck this nobody will believe this
>>217034541Chudsassin always just wanted to kill people
>>217034879Yeah it's arcadia. The monster is cheesy, as is the plot, but the episode is cozy as fuck with them undercover as a couple
>>217035352without having seen the episode:>If we're posing as a couple we should make it believable and have sex, Mulder.>Real couples don't have sex all the time, Scully, but if you insist we can make some noises at night, you know, go through the motions without doing anything.>Noises? Nobody will fall for that, Mulder, we need to do it for real.
>>217032252Bet he gives phenomenal head
>watch The Sex-haver Files>can't understand what is going on
>>217034706Imagine the courtroom artists sketch
Killer for hire episode
>>217035352I want one of those wood chopping weather vanes.
>>217030015Started watching this recently and its getting on my nerves. Do they ever use their guns or are they fake. I know its not that kind of show but the amount of times they let a bad guy get away, or a civilian get killed, or even get themselves captured without firing a single shot is maddening. Often times they’ll pull the gun on a bad guy and he’ll just walk away or walk up to them and beat the shit out of them cus lol, he knows they’re not gonna shoot.
>>217031979>Don't know it's nameIt's the Tulpa.
>>217031886
>>217037394>FEDERAL AGENT>I'M ARMED
>>217035020>The best part is it was a book and it was all true but the publisher was like fuck this nobody will believe thisthe best part was the look on his face when he was told that.
>>217037394>that episode where they shot a car and it blew up immediately Anyone remember that one?
>>217037394>not enough shooting and killing wtfYou're an idiot. Maybe this isn't the show for you. It's not supposed to be action. The FBI doesn't need to shoot their weapons all the time.
>>217037394I'm currently in the middle of S2, and the one thing that gets me is just how many times the following happens.>They are about to reach the actual spooky supernatural shit>They find an excuse for Scully to NOT be present while Mulder witnesses the whole thing, so they can keep her being the skepticEither that, or they (usually just Mulder by himself for some reason) rushes in without care and easily gets knocked out to give the bad guy an excuse to escape.
>>217034541Just saw the first episode with him, glad he's recurring and not a one off.
Did Skinner solve how to defeat the Norwood reaper?
>>217037394Both Mulder and Scully shoot and kill dozens of people by the end of the show.
>>217038868When you watched week to week and waited all summer for new episodes, that sort of thing wasn't so annoying. People binging streaming shows experience it in a way unintended when it was made.
SKIN MAN
>>217039154Wayne Federman?
>>217039165>I think Téa Leoni has a thing for you.
>>217039145They still had home video releases and box sets back then for people to binge, it's just lazy writing to keep churning out monster of the week content and not actually advance the plot.
>>217039189The X-Files gets a pass because it was made on the old network television model where they had to come up with 22 to 24 episodes every season. You’re bound to have some clunkers.
>>217039189Box sets were for people who had already experienced the show on TV. No one was buying them to binge for their first viewing.
Achtung! Ich habe geöffnet die X-dateien.
For me it was this one, top 10 episode imo
>>217039239Same deal with Lost. Nowadays it would probably only be around 10 episodes per season like Severance or Pluribus.
I prefer...Millenium
>>217039487>And still nothing would happen.
>>217039331This. It's like you can have knowledge of the past but if you didn't actually live then the knowledge doesn't make sense.
>>217039504Is that something you can torrent? I remember it being hard to find years ago when I wanted to see it. I had to watch The Lone Gunmen on Youtube.
>>217039528What is it you people expect to "happen" that isn't? You're just flabbergasted that shows don't all have a quick resolution or the same attributes as a movie.
>>217039487People say that shorter seasons mean every episode can be better, and how those 20+ episode per season shows usually had like 15+ that were filler trash. But honestly, I feel like even with the shit episodes, you at least got to spend more time with the characters and cared for them/knew them better. Always felt comfy to return to your favorite crew chasing a new mystery or whatever.
>>217038143Leonard Betts
>>217030015Surely they'll fear this laughingstock in the basement making outrageous claims.
>>217039605Agreed, and it’s why X-Files has so many comfy comedic episodes that became fan favorites.
>>217031168I think season 8 is much better than season 7, but stopping at season 7 is understandsble.
>>217039189The first DVD boxset was released when The X-Files was on its seventh season. There were VHS boxsets before that, but those only included 12 episodes per season, 2 boxes for seasons 1-3 and 1 box for season 4 (3 tapes per box, 2 episodes per tape).
>>217032771same, creeped me the fuck out
>>217039632Thanks. Did they say that the car was rigged to explode or not? I seem to recall not, which is why I remember it for being so absurd, but I could be wrong.
>>217039605If you can actually produce ten great episodes and no filler the shorter season can make a great deal of sense. especially if you have a single coherent story you want to tell.The problem is the people who make the new series take what would have been a single episode, stretch it out over ten episodes, and fill it with garbage filler.They people in charge of "prestige" television are trying to sell garbage as if it were something great.
>>217039955Yeah, the whole idea with Lost was that they could have it be a bunch of different genres in the flashback episodes. Kate on the run, Sawyer being a conman and so on.
liked it as a kid but doubt I'd watch it again 2bhit didn't have any memorable 'monsters' either as they were mostly implied to suit the tone of the show
>>217039901I don't think it was explicitly said, but it seems to be implied that he rigged it to blow up like that to throw them off his trail.
>>217030015
>>217030015>its a grandpa transforms into a ghost to rape his nurse episode
what was his problem??
>>217039485uhh what's happening to Skinner here?
>>217040727Smoking man bugged his office
>>217039424>6 million Scully? You don't seriously believe that.
>>217040183>her name is Bamby?
>>217040310>guy who believes in aliens doesn't believe any of itHilarious
For me it’s the Bruce Campbell episode that’s like reverse Rosemary’s Baby.
>it's another Mulder is a coomer reference
>it's a someone from Breaking Bad shows up in X-Files episode
>>217041385Or Supernatural
>>217040440unironically, wtf was going on in this episode?>mulder and scully called out to middle of nowhere texas to investigate a death>guy is drained of blood, was drugged to sleep so the guy could drain his blood>another body is found, same thing>mulder gets attacked by the suspect>chases him into the woods and kills him>dude's body sent back, but when the stake is removed he's fine>he gets back to texas somehow>scully and mulder return>oops the whole town is vampires>they all just skedaddle instead of killing mulder and scully So why did they kill those other two people?? Do they even need blood to live? They all just leave.
>>217041438or Monk >>217032368
>>217041472
>>217039485>SOULLESS MINIONS OF INSECTOXY
>>217041472I think the pizza delivery guy was bringing too much attention to their little vampire community so they had to leave town.
>>217041438Deadwood. I can't believe someone would refer to Jim Beaver from something other than Elsworth. Fucking teenager CW scifi soap opera bullshit.
>>217042183Yeah but Supernatural is the direct successor to The X-Files and Bobby is a great character.
>>217042242You probably like Smallville. I was too old for all that WB type shit.
>>217041472Basically vampires are real but they don't drink blood, don't have fangs and don't fear sunlight or crucifixes. They do sleep in coffins, hang around graveyards, they seem to have some kind of psychic powers and are extremely autistic/OCD.They keep a low profile, aside from the pizzaboy who larps as a classic vampire, using fake fangs and killing people to drink their blood. All the local people are vampires too and once Mulder gets too close to exposing them they ko him and Scully and leave town.
