These niggas would have been suicided before the end of season 1irl
>>217298278Their little department surely would have.
>>217298278That's explained in the show. Mulder is well known enough that making him a martyr would cause more trouble than he can cause by himself, and with a bit of direction he's also far too useful for tying up loose ends to be disposed of.
>>217298278Why would you think that?
>>217298546>making him a martyrNo martyr's suicide has ever changed anything. Even publicly inb4'ing your inevitable and obvious suicide wont stop the coroner from ruling "no foul play". Seeking official whistleblower protection just puts your name on the elites' shortlist of people to suicide. In the show, Mulder survives because his nominal dad was a spook and his biological father was an arch-spook.
>>217298931In early seasons, Deep Throat and X (and Senator Matheson) were interested in keeping Mulder and Scully alive. I always thought that, in the grand scheme of things, Mulder and Scully were of little consequence to The Syndicate's dealings. One man, and his chick, alone cannot fight the future, and stuff. It's like when CSM almost snipes Frohike (which was in the original script), but in the end he chooses not to because Frohike didn't get the whole story right.
The most unbelievable detail in the entire show is Mulder not knowing what the fucking Fiji Mermaid was.
>>217298546They'd just fire him and have a media smear campaign to discredit him IRL.I never cared for the overarching Syndicate plot though, I could never suspend my disbelief that aliens capable of interstellar travel cannot figure out a better way to conquer the planet than some goofy clandestine conspiracy bullshit, and that the government is capable enough to both be in on it and hide it from the public.
Are there any decent shots in the entire series of Scully's feet?
>>217300853>implying he wasnt playing dumb to get the psycho carnies to give an exposition dump so that the next scene can happen
>>217300914in either season 1 or 2 she walks around some tech-bro's mansion barefootgod I wish I was that floor
>>217298278Never saw the show which episodes should I watch to get a feel for the show?
>>217298278than good is not rl
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>>217300914yes
>>217298546But also later in the show isn't it revealed that he's really kept alive by his real dad the cancer man? Like one of the main guys behind all the conspiracies is mulders secret dad, so the guy keeps doing his shit but also doesn't want his son to get killed so he makes up reasons to explain why they kept him alive
>>217300957kek, this you?
>>217301006Honestly just start at the beginning. It makes most sense that way.Also, you can skip Space (S1E9).>>217301494This was a retarded retcon.
>>217298278Kek I think you are right
>>217301436>>217301463God Lord, the probes I would put in her if I was an ayylmao.
I have to say I'm enjoying this recent resurgence of X-Files threads
>>217298278Mulder is the son of the main hitman.
>>217298278Agent Fox would have disposed of, for sure. Agent Scully would have been taken as a concubine for one of the highest ranking Illuminati members.
>>217301562>>The structure of her feet, as you can plainly see, is really worthy of admiration.This man has killed women before and will do it again.
>>217301802>IlluminatiWhy didn't they ever mention the Illuminati though? You'd kind of expect Mulder to bring them up at some point.
Why is everyone talking about X-Files lately? I've seen a bunch of threads about it and my normalfag brother was talking about it too. Was some e-celeb promoting it or something?
>>217302421Dana Scully remains goonable in perpetuity.
I’ve got it on right now, half way through S2 first time viewingSomeone said the most flesh Scully shows is the pilotTell me it isn’t so bros
>>217302421I don't know but I like it
>>217301494Didn't they also reveal that most of the alien conspiracy stuff was done on purpose by the government and Mulder was allowed to find and "expose" this because they wanted him to?
I use the Conspiracy Theory (1997) Oliver Stone theory: if you know that much you have to be one of them. It's the same if you're too good at math, you're gonna have to be some kind of spook and choose your flag wisely
>>217302421nothing new happened, it's just timeless
>>217298931Bitch why did you spoil X-Files for me? It was on my bucket list
>>217302421current series: DEI, Trannies, gays everywhere.we're so tired.
>>217302421Kinda spooky how a bunch of us seems to have started watching it for the first time recently for seemingly no reason
>>217303964Wtf. I started watching it a month ago. Stop copying me.
>>217301006Episode 1, you mong. >heres the sceptic >heres the schizo >they go on paranormal adventures >I want to believe
>>217302421>>217303964>X-Files threads every day for over a decade.>You watch X-Files.>I can't believe everything is about me, that's so interesting.
>zoomers watched every rizzler tiktok>never watched X-FilesWhat a fucking mess
>>217303964>>217302421you zoomers should learn about something called "collective consciousness"
>>217304114>scully’s feet? >OR A DOUBLE CHUNK CHOCOLATE COOKIE?
>>217304083ay
Agent Scully is a medical doctor, a scientist, a professional law enforcement officer and a government employee. She is NOT a sex object!
>>217302421It's on Hulu and free on PlutoTV. So people have more access to it I guess.
>>217301006Season 1, Episode 17. "E.B.E."It's not my favorite episode, but it neatly encapsulates the whole feel of the show and the general alien coverup culture in the early 90s.
>>217304224It's even still broadcast OTA on Comet to this day. They play 3 or 4 episodes back to back every night.
Is Monday a comedic episode or a tragic episode?
>>217304052It was peculiar the aura the show had about it in the 90s. I knew I would be in for a shock if I watched an episode and it felt so heavily ominous, but I rewatch it now and it seems lighter.
>>217302421ITS A CONSPIRACY ANON THEYRE AFTER 4CHA
what are the comfiest and most rewatchable episodes?>Arcadia>Darkness Falls>Irresistible>Die Hand die Verletzt>Quagmire>Bad Blood>The Host>War of the Coprophages
>>217305172>>Die Hand die Verletztlol i watched that one having no idea what it was about, craziest tonal change
>>217305199It's pretty simple. The people running the town were lapsed Satanists. Some stupid kids opened the gate and either Satan himself or some minion came through to collect his dues from his worshippers and their kids.
>>217303711bro, shows been out for 33 yearsbet you don't know about snape yet either
>>217298278Mulder's family was well connected and part of the conspiracy, so he essentially got a pass all the time to keep going (all unknown to him for quite a while though). It's also why every time he got really close, he'd get fucked over at the last minute or be misdirected somehow. He was somewhat of a puppet to them but also went outside the boundaries from time to time, especially as people in the conspiracy started dying off from the alien rivalry shit.
>>217305436I knew you were going to say that.
How does this Fox network show from 30 fucking years ago so utterly and completely humiliate all the "prestige" TV of today?
>>217305558Right place, right time. Like The Twilight Zone or Star Trek.One thing that's striking about The X-Files is how good it looks. It's easily as well-directed and well-shot as almost any celebrated show in the last 15 years. Other than some of the cliffhangers you wouldn't even know it was a network show.
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>>217304087You're as if scully was an ugly bitch!
>>217305172Quagmire has me wanting to read Moby Dick
>These niggas would have been suicided before the end of season 1irl
>>217305612>Like The Twilight Zonetwilight zone/outer limits were both extremely hit or miss. Most often miss as far as I am concerned.
>>217305396its just the contrast from >silly frogs falling from the sky>satanic town,>demon teacher snake lady>child rape, or is it?
>>217305558Vince Gilligan and Darren Morgan
>>217300890>They'd just fire him and have a media smear campaign to discredit him IRL.Well that’s why they put Scully with him to debooonk all his cases in case they ever needed to do that. >>217298278It was a little different in the 90s, before the internet, conspiracy-minded weirdos were easier to marginalize.
>>217298278Naw. Back then, early 90s, being a conspiracy theorist was kooky and funny and kind of cool. You could say crazy shit and people would just nod and go "True that" and nobody gave a shit. We were just going from 12 years of Republican leadership to a democrat that was "hip and cool" and a lot of formerly taboo stuff was no longer seen as taboo.Shit, me and my friends were edgy as fuck back then and nobody cared. We fit in with the zeitgeist. It's different now. Social media was too hyper leftist, too pro government for so long that fringe beliefs were seen as "schizo". We still call them that here on this fucking board, in fact.
>>217304269I know a lot of people complain about the Myth-arc, but that’s why I love it. It nails the FEELING of ufo conspiracy theories so well. The threat is malevolent, unspecified, and always looming but never quite here.
>>217305978It's strange how much the evolution of conspiracy theories and their believers have changed. A good amount of theories pre-2000 had some pretty good reasoning or at least a little evidence to back them, but now it's just genuine retards and schizos believing just about any object is part of some big conspiracy.
>>217305990>lot of people complain about the best partwut
>>217306039Yeah, that too. I remember being on the old ATS website in the late 90s, early 2000s and prior to 911, there was real dialog and a real community. After 911, it was just the same kind of political pissing matches you find on /pol/
>>217306066NTA but people complain about the main arc for the later part of the show where it becomes very clear the writers hadn't planned the arc out that far, so it gets confused with itself and has some really shitty plot points. The early part was excellent but it starts to really have trouble around the season 6 or season 7 mark.
>I believe there's a cabal of powerful individuals steering government activity at all times.>NO THEY'RE NOT JEWISH YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHITJesus, Mulder.
>>217306082I can't even post my reply since it thinks it's automated kek. My tl;dr was that the world got suddenly and quickly worse after the millennium.
>>217305172Jose Chung is peak. It covers every aspect of ufo mythology from the psyop to high strangeness with the reality of the conclusion that we don’t fucking know.
>>217302421Zoomers are discovering it for the first time and actually enjoy it
The show’s aliens were an allegory for the deep state elite pedo cabal,
>>217305172Agua Mala is the comfiest episode of the later seasons. There are too many comfy episodes in the early seasons to even bother naming them.
>>217306522Any episode that takes place in a big forest in the winter is automatically kino, I don't care how tacky the plot is.
What was the point of the revival seasons? They bring it back and they still couldn't properly resolve the ending.
>>217306998It was during the beginning of revivals, so X Files was one of the first to get the treatment. I don't think I ever rewatched any of the newer seasons, I watched them just once on TV and never again since it seemed like even Duchovny wasn't even enjoying being there. The only episode I remember is one about their kid and another about some robots at a sushi restaurant.
>>217302421because its the winter/fall season. this show is perfect for staying indoors and get comfy.
>>217306440>suplexes you >VENUS >leaves
>>217306893add Skinner episodes to that list, kino guaranteed
>>217306893based. from immediate memory, Darkness Falls, Our Town, Detour and Firewalker meet that criteria.
>>217306998A failed attempt to set up a spinoff about Scully's angsty alien teenage son.
Doggett got done dirty. His son should have been kidnapped by some shit like the Finders and he'd have an obsession with tracking down cultist faggots and kicking them in the balls with steel toed boots until they puked blood and gave up names and places. As it was, he was just keeping the seat warm for Mulder to come back even though you could tell Duchovny was checked out and just didn't care anymore.
>>217308629What are some of the best Doggett episodes? Any where he kicks ass and actually wins? I get a little tired of episodes where the cult or whatever wins in the end.
>>217302421Im not sure, but it got to me to rewatch the show. Im in the middle of season 4 rn
>>217308645the usual x-files episodes are stupid in the regard that they are paranormal tourism but they cannot really close the file
>>217305950>conspiracy-minded weirdos were easier to marginalize.Yes and no. Sure they were marginalized, but at the same time they would get invited to TV shows all the time for the sake of sensationalism. Even after 9/11, it was allowed to criticize the official narrative on TV. It's mostly after COVID that there has been a strict ban on "conspiracy theories" on TV.
>>217305908bravo Vince
>>217309945Western regimes progressively hardening with the combined effect of "smart"phone devices/internet connection around the clock.
>>217305172>Tempus Fugit>MaxI like this 2-parter. Pretty comfy ufo/govt cover up story and i liked the whole ntsb plane crash reconstruction angle
>>217311000Checked. It's been a slippery slope since 9/11.
