Author Topic: X-FILES (Read 7460 times)

Cerveza mas fina · « **on:** March 25, 2015, 06:20:49 AM »

no thread for this yet?

Time to rewatch the second best tv series ever, fuck the twin peaks comeback. This is the real deal.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:03:02 AM »

Will rewatch everything up till the black goo arrived, shit went downhill fast

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:37:52 AM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on March 25, 2015, 07:03:02 AM

Will rewatch everything up till the black goo arrived, shit went downhill fast

Thats like season 3/4? I think I stopped watching somewhere there too.

I loved the single case episodes, didnt care much for the overarching plot they shoehorned in.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:45:26 AM »

I think it's season 5 when it just got stupid. Right around the time they moved from Vancouver to LA I think?

thisismyusername · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:51:06 AM »

Quote from: JayDubya on March 25, 2015, 07:10:30 AM

Any series they do now is going to have to completely handwave the end of the previous series. Not a great place to start.

The series ended on confirming absolutely that the alien invasion / conquering of Earth was going to happen at the end of the Mayan Calendar. Maybe he hoped to do a big budget alien invasion movie but that never happened.

I mean, I guess they could go with, "Oh that? Yeah, Mulder and Scully totally stopped that, it was epic, you should have been there. Now let's go investigate a werewolf in Milwaukee."

But that's like, kind of frustrating.

Agreed. Which is something I very rarely do with Jay. Shocking.

toku · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:01:40 AM »

Quote from: pilonv1 on March 25, 2015, 07:45:26 AM

I think it's season 5 when it just got stupid. Right around the time they moved from Vancouver to LA I think?

s4 was the first kinda rocky season but s5 was the first one where I hit episodes I just couldn't really fuck with. Most of everything s6 onwards can be painful to get through.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:26:49 AM »

Who cares about the big story though dubya, people just want 6 episodes of mulder and scully looking for mermaids and carnival freaks

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:50:33 AM »

Quote from: Esch on March 25, 2015, 08:31:06 AM

Quote from: Premium Lager on March 25, 2015, 08:26:49 AM
Who cares about the big story though dubya, people just want 6 episodes of mulder and scully looking for mermaids and carnival freaks

People aren't that into monster of the week shows much anymore tbh

X files is going for that nostalgia dollar though, Im sure it will be watched by millions.

Also what Wrathami Vice said

Also: Grimm

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:13:25 AM »

Quote from: WRATH VICE™ on March 25, 2015, 08:39:06 AM

Quote from: Esch on March 25, 2015, 08:31:06 AM
Quote from: Premium Lager on March 25, 2015, 08:26:49 AM
Who cares about the big story though dubya, people just want 6 episodes of mulder and scully looking for mermaids and carnival freaks

People aren't that into monster of the week shows much anymore tbh

Supernatural is pretty damn popular and it uses the same formula.

And Fringe, although it had plenty of "big story" stuff, too.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:26:48 AM »

Yeah im sure there will be a 6 episode arch here too.

I love this show so much guys, i dont care of its nostalgia or whatever im really happy this is getting made

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:09:53 AM »

The sequel should just be Mulder and Scully retired and living in an apartment in Manhattan and dealing with wacky neighbors and hilarious hijinks.

Kara · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2015, 05:17:27 PM »

Hope it's cornball as heck still.

Mulder's comp password: trustno1.

king of the internet · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2015, 05:36:48 PM »

I watched Xfiles from time to time as a kid but I never consistently. I might have to give it a shot one of these days since it'd be p much all new and I need a long series to feast upon.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:42:58 PM »

I'm okay with them jettisoning much of the serialized story, hell the last movie did anyway.

building off the foundation of I Want to Believe is actually an excellent start, as I thought that threaded the needle rather well between a monster-of-the-week story and character building for Mulder and Scully. Hell, it was a better series finale then the actual series finale.

toku · « **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:48:39 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on March 25, 2015, 05:17:27 PM

Hope it's cornball as heck still.

Mulder's comp password: trustno1.

If Chris Carter is behind it, it will be.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2015, 12:53:58 AM »

Quote from: Esch on March 25, 2015, 08:31:06 AM

Quote from: Premium Lager on March 25, 2015, 08:26:49 AM
Who cares about the big story though dubya, people just want 6 episodes of mulder and scully looking for mermaids and carnival freaks

People aren't that into monster of the week shows much anymore tbh

I watch The Blacklist and Person of Interest

Kara · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2015, 10:27:08 AM »

The leitmotif in S2 E22.

Mulder being forced to keep the truth quiet.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2015, 12:55:51 PM »

If it's set up as a 10-13 episode serial it could be killer. I don't trust Chris Carter to not lose the plot otherwise.

Of course the bigger story would still need to be woven between 8-9 MotW stories, which should be doable.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2015, 12:57:51 PM »

Wait, it's a reboot?

A loose continuation would be better.

Kara · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2015, 12:58:50 PM »

People whine about the monster of the week episodes but they really erode your suspension of disbelief for the money shot episodes.

They demonstrate (albeit without subtlety) how desperate the Syndicate is to stop the inevitable too.

Kara · « **Reply #20 on:** March 29, 2015, 02:57:32 PM »

Mulder "dies" and rises from the dead after 3 days.

It's the season 3 premiere too.

toku · « **Reply #21 on:** March 29, 2015, 06:00:03 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on March 29, 2015, 12:58:50 PM

People whine about the monster of the week episodes but they really erode your suspension of disbelief for the money shot episodes.

They demonstrate (albeit without subtlety) how desperate the Syndicate is to stop the inevitable too.

Hardest thing to buy in this day and age is how Mulder at least didn't just die and get buried under a parking lot. In the era of things like bullshit detainment for decades, fugitive hackers etc I don't know why the syndicate didn't just say fuck it and bury everyone involved at the FBI.

chronovore · « **Reply #22 on:** March 30, 2015, 12:20:48 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on March 25, 2015, 06:20:49 AM

no thread for this yet?

Time to rewatch the second best tv series ever, fuck the twin peaks comeback. This is the real deal.

The X-Files' lineage is pretty strongly tied to Twin Peaks. There would not have been the former without the latter.

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 25, 2015, 09:13:25 AM

Quote from: WRATH VICE™ on March 25, 2015, 08:39:06 AM
Quote from: Esch on March 25, 2015, 08:31:06 AM
Quote from: Premium Lager on March 25, 2015, 08:26:49 AM
Who cares about the big story though dubya, people just want 6 episodes of mulder and scully looking for mermaids and carnival freaks

People aren't that into monster of the week shows much anymore tbh

Supernatural is pretty damn popular and it uses the same formula.

And Fringe, although it had plenty of "big story" stuff, too.

Yes, the last two seasons were essentially all major story arc focused, but season 1 was almost directly an X-Files show.

Quote from: toku on March 29, 2015, 06:00:03 PM

Quote from: Vularai on March 29, 2015, 12:58:50 PM
People whine about the monster of the week episodes but they really erode your suspension of disbelief for the money shot episodes.

They demonstrate (albeit without subtlety) how desperate the Syndicate is to stop the inevitable too.

Hardest thing to buy in this day and age is how Mulder at least didn't just die and get buried under a parking lot. In the era of things like bullshit detainment for decades, fugitive hackers etc I don't know why the syndicate didn't just say fuck it and bury everyone involved at the FBI.

I never finished the series, but wasn't it more or less given that Mulder was untouchable for some reason?

Kara · « **Reply #23 on:** March 30, 2015, 12:43:10 AM »

His legal father was one of the architects of the Syndicate and his biological father was the CSM.

chronovore · « **Reply #24 on:** March 30, 2015, 01:29:31 AM »

Danke.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #25 on:** March 30, 2015, 06:11:20 AM »

Chrono: I know the shows are tied and I like Twin Peaks but X Files trumps it for me.

Quote from: Esch on March 29, 2015, 01:11:02 PM

Quote from: seagrams hotsauce on March 26, 2015, 12:53:58 AM
Person of Interest

keep waiting for this to show up on netflix

It is here in the EU

Kara · « **Reply #26 on:** March 30, 2015, 11:36:46 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on March 30, 2015, 01:29:31 AM

Danke.

It's also alluded to that killing him will make him a martyr and that eroding his credibility is a much more effective way of handling him.

When shit goes bad for the Syndicate in "Anasazi" there's no qualms about trying to kill Scully and Mulder though.

toku · « **Reply #27 on:** March 30, 2015, 06:14:19 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on March 30, 2015, 11:36:46 AM

Quote from: chronovore on March 30, 2015, 01:29:31 AM
Danke.

It's also alluded to that killing him will make him a martyr and that eroding his credibility is a much more effective way of handling him.

When shit goes bad for the Syndicate in "Anasazi" there's no qualms about trying to kill Scully and Mulder though.

martyr to whom? the lone gunmen? the probably half a dozen other dudes who frequent whatever irc chat room/usenet forums he frequented at the time?

Yeti · « **Reply #28 on:** March 30, 2015, 08:26:00 PM »

They should bring back The Lone Gunmen, that was a better show than X-Files

toku · « **Reply #29 on:** March 30, 2015, 08:30:23 PM »

I always liked the one dude who was in a suit all the time.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #30 on:** March 30, 2015, 08:34:39 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on March 29, 2015, 02:57:32 PM

Mulder "dies" and rises from the dead after 3 days.

It's the season 3 premiere too.

you guys really hate that shit, huh?

Kara · « **Reply #31 on:** March 30, 2015, 09:17:53 PM »

Quote from: Yeti on March 30, 2015, 08:26:00 PM

They should bring back The Lone Gunmen, that was a better show than X-Files

Uh.............. they're dead, Jim.

Yeti · « **Reply #32 on:** March 31, 2015, 12:34:32 AM »

They could easily "X-Files" their deaths away

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #33 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:02:00 AM »

Mulder and Scully come back from so many nigh fatal injuries, and spend so many episode ends in hospital beds convalescing that death itself really shouldn't be a big issue for them or any other X-Files characters. They all have Wolverine's healing factor. That's not even an exaggeration for the late series 'super soldier' characters, like when Adam Baldwin got effing decapitated(!) and came back.

or when Mulder...

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had a broken femur and didn't even limp later on, or had both his lungs eaten up by insects from the inside and was basically fine by the end of the episode, or when he nearly died of old age...

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and so on.

Kara · « **Reply #34 on:** April 05, 2015, 07:57:12 PM »

oh my GOD the roach episode in season 3

Kara · « **Reply #35 on:** April 05, 2015, 08:13:47 PM »

Holy shit the episode after that one.

Rye Rye Reynolds is in it too.

chronovore · « **Reply #36 on:** April 05, 2015, 08:16:36 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on April 05, 2015, 08:13:47 PM

Holy shit the episode after that one.

Rye Rye Reynolds is in it too.

Is he, like, 12?

StealthFan · « **Reply #37 on:** April 05, 2015, 10:09:50 PM »

I saw that ep last year. He's a high schooler.

Kara · « **Reply #38 on:** April 08, 2015, 05:20:24 AM »

Mai husbando B.D. Wong is in this ep.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #39 on:** April 08, 2015, 05:33:01 AM »

It annoys me to no end this isnt on Netflix here

chronovore · « **Reply #40 on:** April 08, 2015, 06:58:36 AM »

It annoys me to no end that there is no Netflix here.

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There is Hulu, but the selection is shit. Japanese content distribution contract holders are death-gripping their hold, kicking and screaming against progress.

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Kara · « **Reply #41 on:** April 09, 2015, 03:55:05 AM »

The Body Ventura and Alex Trebek are men in black in this episode.

GOAT cameo show

Kara · « **Reply #42 on:** April 11, 2015, 07:26:35 PM »

The unsub in this episode is turning young black men white.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #43 on:** April 11, 2015, 10:33:45 PM »

This isn't Blossom

Kara · « **Reply #44 on:** April 11, 2015, 11:23:23 PM »

I get 12-15 hours a week to myself until tax season is over; Blossom is currently a luxury I can't afford atm.

Kara · « **Reply #45 on:** April 27, 2015, 05:15:13 AM »

Scully got a lower back tattoo... of an ouroboros.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #46 on:** April 29, 2015, 04:20:54 PM »

FUCK YES!

Morgan and Wong are coming back to write/direct/produce (along with Carter, but still). Things are looking up.

toku · « **Reply #47 on:** April 29, 2015, 05:31:06 PM »

Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on April 29, 2015, 04:20:54 PM

FUCK YES!

Morgan and Wong are coming back to write/direct/produce (along with Carter, but still). Things are looking up.

It's gonna be terrible don't do this to yourself.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #48 on:** April 29, 2015, 06:06:16 PM »

No, you shuddup, get on the hype train with ME!!!

Its gonna be the BesT ThiNG EVaR!!, THe SaMe SkiLl that was BrouGht tO the CineMatiC CLASSics lick DRAgoNbalL and THE ONE wilL SaVE X-FIles frOm itS CreatOR's VisioN.

I just know it will...
it will...
it will be good...

(begins sobbing uncontrollably)
(barely discernible typing through heavy tears)

I... Want... To... Believe...

chronovore · « **Reply #49 on:** April 30, 2015, 12:52:08 AM »

Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on April 29, 2015, 04:20:54 PM

FUCK YES!

Morgan and Wong are coming back to write/direct/produce (along with Carter, but still). Things are looking up.

Morgan and Wong were tired of beating the deceased, equestrian form of “Bring back Space: Above and Beyond.”

pilonv1 · « **Reply #50 on:** April 30, 2015, 03:55:24 AM »

Hyped for the return of Frohike

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #51 on:** August 28, 2015, 09:38:50 AM »

chronovore · « **Reply #52 on:** August 28, 2015, 09:39:49 AM »

So has anyone been re-watching the old series? How does it hold up?

Kara · « **Reply #53 on:** August 28, 2015, 10:46:49 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on August 28, 2015, 09:39:49 AM

So has anyone been re-watching the old series? How does it hold up?

I have. I was posting my impressions in the last X-Files thread.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #54 on:** August 28, 2015, 11:23:29 AM »

Still would.

Reb · « **Reply #55 on:** August 28, 2015, 01:25:40 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on August 28, 2015, 09:39:49 AM

So has anyone been re-watching the old series? How does it hold up?

Yes, pretty good.

toku · « **Reply #56 on:** August 28, 2015, 04:06:16 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on August 28, 2015, 09:39:49 AM

So has anyone been re-watching the old series? How does it hold up?

Just like how it was in the 90s. Good and silly in equal amounts.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #57 on:** August 28, 2015, 04:49:55 PM »

time has made the mythology/serialized/conspiracy stuff seem much worse then it did at the time, back then it was acceptable to have a half-formed mishmash of nefarious/mysterious shit and call it a day. Fortunetly that really makes up only about 15% of the show, most of the time its the best science fiction-cop show ever made.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #58 on:** August 28, 2015, 05:03:54 PM »

I actually think that stuff isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I rewatched it recently, and the last few seasons do drag a bit, and the conspiracy stuff is kind of a slog, but it isn't nearly as awful as I expected it to be.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #59 on:** August 29, 2015, 12:17:07 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on August 28, 2015, 09:39:49 AM

So has anyone been re-watching the old series? How does it hold up?

Scully's sister in a black choker will never age

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Author Topic: X-FILES (Read 7460 times)