aged like milk
>>222874981Aged like fine wine actually, just like Scully.
>>222874981I'm in the middle of a rewatch and it mostly holds up. Just watched this kinosode with Bruce Campbell and a smokin' hot demoness.
>>222874981So it's cheesey?
>>222874981Yo I saw your thread earlier fuck yeah bro
>>222874981S1 is basically 20 amazing movies. The writing is better than everything today.>>222875435Good twist, maybe 2nd best to Bad Blood
>>222874981This, but the opposite
i must be the only person who isn't a fan of jose chung's, very meanspirited episode and felt like darin morgan had become bitter
>>222875789Its non linear and toys with unreliable narrators. Figuring out the real events is fun, though it is mean spirited
>>222875789Jose Chung is fun if you’re actually into the paranormal as it’s a crash course in ufo phenomenon in its entirety from psyop to high strangeness and the reality which is that we just can’t fucking know.
white people age like milk. Ryan Coogler's X-files will mog it once and for all
Season 2 Millennium coming through
>>222874981Yeah it's total shit. Uninteresting and boring. I'd rather just read real books about conspiracy theories, much more entertaining. >>222875018Gooner genocide now!
>>222875789I think it's a very over-rated episode, too. It probably seemed novel at the time and I imagine that's why it garnered fans and the hive mind continue to follow.
>>222877185Very underrated show, but the myth arc was a total clusterfuck.
>>222874981tried to watch season 1 and it sucks, had to stop after 4 or 5 episodes
>>222874981I think an old xfiles fan fucked op's mother. He's got some vendetta against this show.
>>222875435That looks amazin>Bruce Campbell appeared in "Terms of Endearment," the seventh episode of the sixth season of The X-Files, as Wayne Weinsider, a demon who abducts an unborn child. The episode originally aired on January 3, 1999.
>>222877252Hey boomer sir, does that book mention Israel?
>>222875453That was me, not OP, guess someone wants to keep the discussion going.
it's perfectly fine if you stop caring about the "plot" after the end of like season 6
The atmosphere is kino, it has weight and soul.
>>222879151Yeah it starts to falter after the movie came out. It's disappointing that the main arc went to shit but apparently they were making it up as they went along from day one, even Smoking Man was meant to only appear in the pilot as mysterious guy that's never seen again.
>>222879240>The atmosphere is kino, it has weight and soul.Good post. Articulated something similar that I was going to post in a more concise manner.
>>222879095So some xfiles fan fucked your mother?
>>222879151i'm on my first watch and skipping the mythology episodes entirely and only watching monster of teh week. enjoying it so far i just genuinely don't care about the ayylmao stuff
>>222879608Dumb fuck reddit cuck
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>>222875949Excellent book. Probably the best I ever read on the subject of anomalous phenomena.
>>222875435>mfw Stephen King wrote an episode>mfw it was shit
>>222879358I think it was shot in Vancouver or something that's why the whole feel.
Home is beyond fucked up, even for modern times
>>222874981it's still greatsome of teh episodes are better than a lot of/most of cinema
>>222879608you're a human waste of space watch the whole thing shitforbrainsanyone telling you it's bad is a retard
>>222874981>have mythos /long running conspiracy episodes>have monster of the week episodes Most people now agree what the stand alone episodes are much stronger than the king running conspiracy episodes>all future streaming shows decide to copy the mythos/long running conspiracy format Bravo modern writers ….BRAVO
>>222879151I check out of the plot when Scully finds the ayyy Auschwitz and that’s what, season 4?
>>222881097i will do what i want faggot. fuck off
>>222874981>the Cigarette Man survived getting blown to shit by missilesmodern medicine is miraculous
>>222874981Im rewatching it now.
>>222877185God this show was such a slog, the only good thing was is made me realize Chris Carter is a drooling retard that doesn't know what made the xfiles good.
>>222875789As far as the beloved gimmick eppies go, yeah, I'm not too big into Jose Chung. Also wasn't that into Post-Modern Prometheus though at least that one had more entertaining performances from the townsfolk.I did really like most of the other gimmicky 'sodes (Musings of a CSM, Bad Blood, and Triangle off the top of my head), though.
What are the best monster of the week episodes in your opinion, /tv/?
>>222882036beyond the sea. good scully-centric episode
>>222874981It really did. It was great when it was airing on television. It does not make a very good rewatch all these years later.
>>222874981I want to watch the X files.When exactly should i drop it? I know that at one point Mulder and Scully are gone and the guy playing the terminator becomes the mc.
>>222876015>BrownsFucking doubt.Then again, NOPE was unexpectedly pretty good.
>>222882036Flukeman
>>222882036SqueezeToomsIceHumbugSoft LightClyde Bruckman's Final ReposePusherHomeSmall PotatoesFolie a DeuxDriveDreamlandDreamland II
Every episode Scully is proved wrong but she still always thinks she's right. Hmmmmmm
>>222877283>>222881970I am convinced that First Person Shooter was an attempt at a comedic meta-episode. Plus any episode with the Lone Gunmen cannot be shit just by the grace of their presence.
>>222881348His only weakness was bullets
>>222882359>Plus any episode with the Lone Gunmen cannot be shit just by the grace of their presence.Well the episode they got killed off in sucked
>>222882036Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is my favorite episode of television. Boyle annihilated that fucking script.
>>222882391Alright you got me there.
>>222880718>I thinkShit yeah it was filmed here for the first 5 seasons. Part of the fun is recognizing places they've filmed at.Taking a girl to Scully's house on 1400 block Pendrell Ave is also a good date move if she likes the show.
>>222879296God I fucking hate it when writers don't plan their mythology. You always manage to write yourself into a corner.If the creators don't care why should the audience?
scully is the most beautiful woman on television
>>222875916>>222875949i plan to give it another shot because i really liked clyde bruckman's and humbug, and the basic idea is funnya minor point but it already felt off when scully was eating out the hand of morgan's donut steel 'writer' character at the beginning, i seriously doubt scully reads shitty paperbacks that's more a mulder thing
>>222880218Stephen King is a horrible writer, goosed up on the fact that his books are completely batshit fucking insane due to all the coke he did, and the constant underage sex and nudity scattered about them.
>>222882972Not really. Scully is a foid who is going to read genre fiction and probably has a casual curiosity since her job is hunting aliens now. Mulder is too much of a freak. He only buys bootleg vhs tapes of Bigfoot advertised in the back of comic books.
>>222874981This series came out post-Schindler's List and post-Waco/Ruby Ridge, so the obsession with Nazism and right wing militias looks silly in retrospect. It's still pretty well-written, though.
>>222883165yes because no one is obsessed with nazis today
it absolutely does hold up
>>222883189Yeah but like every other episode had some reference to Nazis, no matter how ludicrous. Quagmire even had a line about a "frog holocaust." And the whole insinuation that Nazi scientists would be involved in creating alien-human hybrids when the whole point of National Socialism was to prevent race-mixing is absurd.
>>222874981>seasons 6-whateveryes>seasons 1-5 + movienope
>>222883230>/pol/tranny meltdown over frog death hyperbole
>>222883189Even the most Nazi-obsessed loons of today don't act like there are massive right-wing militias developing WMDs in the US, they just claim that Nazism is insitutionalized in the government which is at least abstract/harder to disprove.
>>222882036I kind of liked Hell Money. Same with the killer cats episode.
>>222879608In the earliest seasons you're missing out, I can't imagine skipping eps like One Breath or LGM.
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>>222874981AM GONNA SUCK DAT SPOOKY DICK
>>222882181There should've been far more episodes where Scully's scepticism was justified and Mulder was running into blind alleys. I can't even think of a single one off the top of my head which is a shame.
>>222882190Bros, please help me out!
First season is a time capsule. But from season 2 onwards has aged pretty decently, Darin Morgan and Bravo Vince episodes are consistently great and better than 99% of the so called prestige tv. mythology episodes before 9/11 were hit and miss but many of them still work. even the middle of the road and bad episodes have some charm watching stars having their first roles. Also Mitch Pileggi made me think for a while that I may be a repressed homosexual, but I digress. You are wrong
>>222882190Thats a good point to drop it, when Mulder himself drops it. But tho you can watch the whole thing, is not that painful and it has some interesting episodes. Same with the revival, at least watch the Darin Morgan episodes. Also the first movie is pure kino, don't miss it
>>222874981nah it's timeless
The plot should have never revealed anything more than hints of clandestine government activity like the frozen alien embryo or that the Air Force fakes UFO sightings to fuck with Russia even though that itself would be just as unsatisfying as the actual lore we got. It’s just that it’s damn near impossible to make aliens on earth real without it being retarded.
>>222884985>First season is a time capsuleThe second episode is very close to modern events
>>222884205I falsely remembered season one being like that, with ambiguity as to whether or not the case really was supernatural and Scully never personally witnessing the paranormal until like season three.
>>222885640In the earliest seasons there were a lot of cases of Scully not being a direct witness (usually by way of cheesy convenient TV timing) or seeing things with ambiguous explanations.There was also the long Kritschgau arc in the later seasons, although I wasn't a fan of it.For me, if Mulder is wrong in a lot of circumstances, if he was way out in crackpot territory, it enhances both Mulder and Scully as characters. A mundane, forensic explanation for some of the MOTWs would've went a long way to giving them complexity and depth. In hindsight the series had a vein of anti-intellectualism in that sense.
>>222885640If The X-Files premiered today it would be like that:>the audience isn't sure whether the paranormal really exists until the final scene of S1>Mulder never personally witnesses anything paranormal until the final scene of S2>Scully never witnesses anything paranormal until the final scene of S330 episodes over the course of 5 years, of course.
>>222874981Gillian made this show. It would have been cancelled after five episodes if they hadn't cast someone who looked like a young Eva Green. LMAO @ them slapping old Gillian on the cover.
The Simpsons ep was kino.
>>222884902It takes a nosedive after season 6 imo, but you may disagree. Just watch it, it's a great show.
>>222885877Just the nature of TV. I'd imagine an exec would oppose regularly doing an episode without either a paranormal threat or government conspiracy because they feel that's what people tune in for (even though it was really Mulder and Scully).
>>222874981Mulder being a sex-deprived volcel gooner actually makes him more relatable to the men younger than the show than the viewers at the time.
>>222874981most of the episodes are so weak they literally wouldn't be allowed to broadcast today.a lot are just rip offs of other films and books too.
>>222874981Definitely a product of its time.The UFO/Crop Circle/Cattle Mutilation meme of the 90s was really big and then it just kinda vanished when everyone realised it was all bullshit.They even changed the term UFO to UAP or something to try and distance themselves from the UFO weirdos.
