X Files!

egon spengler

Theyre showing the early episodes on living. Great show, it got absolutely terrible when they introduced the t1000 dude and the random chick. But before that, especially in the early years, it was top quality imo. Brilliant characterization, excellent story lines, idiosyncratic acting, amazing!!

humanji

I always loved the stand alone episodes. The ones that were about the larger alien conspiracy, I thought, kind of ruined it. But still, I'll have to check it out again. Might even get the DVD's if I'm in town.

Mainstay

It fell apart after season 5 in my mind when the Fox network just kept dragging it out, though there were some good comedy episodes in the later seasons, the one involving the magician was great.

I'm currently watching Season 7. While the later seasons were nowhere near as good as the first three seasons there were still some great episodes. Closure being a particular favourite of mine.

Like Millenium the decline of The X-Files can be traced to the departure of Morgan and Wong.

lostexpectation

scully looks so young and (chubby) and them Im a scientist fox here to scrutinise you, I only believe what i can examine X 1,000

there is actually a few dodgey alien epsiodes at the start where you actually see ufo but mulder just misses them which a similiar to the later episodes but you don't notice them so much with the great scary standalone about fireman and stretchywolfman and electricity boy.

anybody see taken on bbc2 the other night... very run of the milll account of roswell etc

I wonder what the chris carter is doing now, oh sit still living off the xfiles and doing voice over for video games, and other guy wrote the classic eps are wrtiing for 24 numbers, inside and the blade series

_Kaiser_

Ah the X-Files.. I always felt let down by the ending. And like someone said, the later seasons were't great at all.

Still, that episode where we get the whole backstory on Cancer Man was excellent TV!

Kaiser2000

Kaiser2000 wrote:

Ah the X-Files.. I always felt let down by the ending. And like someone said, the later seasons were't great at all.

Still, that episode where we get the whole backstory on Cancer Man was excellent TV!

Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, a truely exceptional piece of television.

Reptileboy

I always remember a journalist claiming around the end of season 6 that the only way the audience will be able to understand the X-Files the producers and writers would have to get them in a giant auditorium and using a slide show and presentations, explain what the hell it was all about.

The finale kinda felt like that. It is the only series I know that had a clip show finale. And where does it lead! Oh, the aliens are coming to take over the earth in 2020 or something. Kinda a downer to know that all it boils down to is a date on the calendar.

That said the series has some spectacular highs and some derisable lows. Even the later season have some good episodes. But I will never forgive the writers for killing off the Lone Gunmen in such a stupid fashion.

Although I do not agree that Morgan and Wong are pivotal to the X-Files success. Sure they wrote some of the best episodes of The X-Files and Millennium, they only really did a few. And most people tend to remember the big story arc episodes and series cliffhangers.

But watching it on Living has been fun, although I have most of the early series on DVD I still stop and watch them when I'm channel hoping. Can't wait until to get to some of the later seasons. Haven't seen them in a while and I would like to revisit them.

Johnny Storm

lostexpectation wrote:

scully looks so young and (chubby) ........

.... and very short too. Especially in the very 1st ep which I saw on Living the other day. Still hot, though. Obviously they had her made-up and dressed a different way in later eps.

X-files was definitely great in its first 4 or 5 series. Innovative and not dumbed-down. I loved the occasional comedy eps too.

Cake Fiend

egon spengler wrote:

it got absolutely terrible when they introduced the t1000 dude and the random chick

I disagree, I thought they really went back to basics with the couple of seasons with the new investigators - back to what got me into the X-Files in the first place, i.e. fairly standalone episodes that didn't constantly turn into ridiculous, winding conspiracy theories spanning several years of the show. It was a refreshing change from the monotony of the previous few seasons.