100 AUD. I'm happy!

I remember seeing a post earlier (a month ago maybe?) about starting a group rewatch in January, one episode per week, and weekly discussion here on reddit. Is this still a thing? I need something uplifting and nostalgic to drown out the dystopian nightmare that 2025 brings. Please and thank you. 👽🛸

I only watch the good seasons of shows. Dexter 1-4, Game of Thrones 1-4, The Office 1-7 (with the end), etc. I just don’t like to taint shows for myself.

I asked a question of when I should stop watching the X Files and got dogpiled with a million “stop watching when you stop liking it”, etc. I think I annoyed people and should rephrase myself, sorry.

What would you say is the golden age of the show? When would you say there the drop off is quality?

From what I understand 1-4 is golden, but I genuinely have no idea what the consensus is after that.

Some love 1-6, some think the drop off is at 5, some think it’s at 6, some think it’s at 7, some think it’s at 8. From what I understand 9-11 is not well regarded.

I was thinking about watching 1-6 and the first movie. I will DEFINITELY watch 1-4.

Got a buddy that sells random things and had this, so I had to pick it up

In this episode Scully, Skinner, and Doggett are tricked by a man named Haskell who turns out to be CIA. At the end of the episode Scully mentions that Haskell walked in with a plan to to deceive all three of the agents. But why? Why would he nudge the agents towards investigating the clinic which seems to be covering up abductee women delivering alien foetuses? Why would they require Scully to bring that girl Mary Hendershot to them, when she was basically already at the Zeus Clinic? If you argue that it became too risky for the clinic to detain Mary since Scully saw her there, Scully was there only because Haskell put her on this path.

The prime mover of the episode, being Haskell who pushed the agents towards investigating this makes absolutely no sense to me. Or am I being an absolute idiot by having missed something very obvious in the plot?

Everyone else remembers Terry O'Quinn from Lost.

But for me Terry O'Quinn is the guy who finds a bomb in X-Files Fight the Future Movie.

I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy new year, and just it hurts how bad of steward Chris Carter held the wonderful mythology of the Government and Aliens having a secret pact.

That still to me to this day is one of the greatest intellectual property idea ever. And yet the movies and later seasons were awful.

Have a nice day.

Rewatching the X-files again after almost 8 years of re-watching it last time. Created this back in 2016 when I initially re-watched it

Getting the inspo to do some x-file type of tattoo designs 😂

Just showing off my find while antiquing/thrifting this past weekend. As someone just now watching the X files and loving it, I was so stoked to see these sitting on a lonely shelf just waiting for me!

When I was a kid I remember seeing this scene from the xfiles that really stuck with me where some person got disintegrated I think? I can’t seem to find the scene or episode anywhere though. I don’t recall much except for the image of some part of a persons body turned into like sand or ash or something.

It's not a scratch on the original but Glen Morgan continues some ideas from his X-Files work in the film. Lots of stalking and squeezing through tight spaces like Tooms and a disturbing inbred murderous family like Home. Even has Karin Konoval as the incestuous mother. I'd recommend it for X-Files fans who aren't squeamish. It's pretty brutal.

I don't have anything interesting to say about the actual plot of this episode, but every time the Lone Gunmen boys are on my TV I have a big ol smile on my face so this was a delight for me. I love those goofy nerds so much. Byers is such a sweetheart 🥺 To be honest, I kind of preferred the idea that they were already an established publication by the time they met Mulder, but the episode was such a fun time I can forgive that it steps on the toes of my headcanons lol.

Also shoutout to the fact that almost every time I have finished an episode thinking "man I loved that", I look it up and see it was penned by Vince Gilligan. Thanks Vince. Maybe I will finally watch Breaking Bad after I finish this show.

(And speaking of TLG, is the spin-off worth watching? I know it had a short run so even if it's bad I might end up going through it anyways lol)

So, they run DNA on the hair strands twice (or three times if you count the 12 years ago run) and it comes out that they're from a different (yet not so different) man - but then Scully approaches Dogget with the fact that the evidence had been planted all along on the initial investigation.

First, that tidbit doesn't really amount to anything other than a confrontation between Dogget and his hereto unseen former partner. But also, Scully basically just brings it up and it's never actually properly explained. No one could point it out during the initial trial, or during any of the exonerating procedures, but suddenly it's just established fact? Am I missing something?

Watching the show for the first time, and I gotta say, this show objectifies Mulder more than any other male TV show character I've ever seen. Not complaining, just an observation. 😉🍿

With a name like "Luther Lee Boggs", did he have a chance to be anything but a death row inmate?

Hope you like it!!

I’m currently on s9 ep19 and both Mulder and Scully make references to Mulder being William’s father. I don’t understand this since the original artificial insemination didn’t work. I’m not sure if they got a DNA test off-screen, or whether they just deduced that somehow Mulder’s sperm was used. (I’m also aware that later on smoking man states that he’s William’s father, but I’m gonna completely ignore that).

(Side note: I’m enjoying this nicer side to Kersh. I always liked him somewhat because he was completely no nonsense and did his job by the book completely.)

I've been watching the X-Files off and on for the last few years but just recently got serious about it around season 4. I've been watching frequently and just finished season 5 and obviously wanted to hustle on and watch the opener of season 6 to find out what happens next. Pretty soon in the previouslys, I'm seeing things that I know I haven't seen before and quickly pause it, but not before some pretty major spoilers.

Then I had the dilemma of how to figure out what the fuck was going on without getting even more spoiled. Parenthetically, while I was thinking about that I also had the thought that if I'd been watching this live on Fox in 1998, I wouldn't have been worried that there was a streaming error or some bonus episode that wasn't listed because the control of what I was watching was out of my hands. Ok back to the rant.

So yes as you obviously all know and I soon learned, I had completely missed that between seasons 5 and 6 was the first movie. I guess I had an awareness that there were some movies out there, so sure, a bit of that is on me for not looking up the years they came out I guess? But as a casual viewer but still someone that wants to get the full and correct experience, how the fuck was I supposed to know that there was a movie to be watched containing some major plot points?

On the other hand, the bits I had spoiled probably weren't anything more than what was shown in the trailers that I'm sure were all over the place in 1998, but I'm really adverse to spoilers of all kinds and try to even avoid watching previews if I can help it.

Addendum: I just watched the trailer for the movie and confirmed my above hypothesis. Also don't really appreciate that the channel it's on is called "HD Retro Trailers" as I feel 1998 is fairly contemporary RIGHT DON'T WE ALL

/endrant

And...that's right...I've hit season 4...episode 2...just grim lol absolutely grim.

Let’s talk about season 3, episode 3, D.P.O.!

From Wikipedia: “The original concept for the episode was a one line concept card stating "Lightning Boy" that had been tacked to a board in series creator Chris Carter's office since the first season”

We’ve got Giovanni Ribisi, we’ve got Jack Black, we’ve got Mrs. Kiveat! The music in this episode is on point. Writer Howard Gordon described this episode as, Beavis and Butthead electrified.

Honestly, I think this is one of the quintessential X-Files episodes. Also, I still to this day yell “Mrs. Kiveat!!”

Written by: Howard Gordon Directed by: Kim Manners

So I just watched the end of the under the bed episode from the 95 outer limits show and the episode seemed like it would fit right in with something that Scully and Moulder would be involved with...

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