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I completely forgot about A.D. Kersh. And about Wendy Malick being in an episode. Strange to see her in a show like this. Gibson Praise is in some part extra-terrestrial, so therefore all of us are. Hmmm.. I can't wait until I can read people's minds. I wish these dvds had a 'play all' function. Almost up to Dreamland Been years since I watched season 6. Haha - "We're with the FBI." "...Jehovah's Witness?" "...No, sir. Federal Bureau of Investigation." I made this.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Aww. I want my DVDs back, gorramit!
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Or, I could start a Ponzi scheme...
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Heh, I was gonna say that. Season 10, wtf?! Is that the one where Ashton Kutcher takes over the role of Mulder?
The second movie is okay if you don't watch it as a big hollywood movie and instead watch as if it's an extended MotW episode of the show. It actually feels like a restrained cerebral episode from Season 3 or 4.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Yes, it's all his fault. Arrogant bastard fancied himself a movie star. He was on a good thing. Should have stuck with it so it could end on a high note. If he was unhappy with it, he should have become a producer or something and gained greater creative control. We probably wouldn't have had the stupid Supersoldier arc then.
I mean... there's nothing wrong with being typecast if you're typecast as something cool.
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ilovebender.com
Professor
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I was finally getting in to this recently, this station used to show old X-Files reruns, I started watching them... Then the whole station went off air. This was recently, and I'm talking about Virgin's Channel One.
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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BBC America had an X-Files marathon over Memorial Day weekend, and I watched a few episodes (incidentally, one of them was "Tooms"). And Netflix lets you stream the entire series (and "Fight the Future") instantly, which is kind of nice. I really only remember the X-Files as that creepy show that my parents used to watch on Sunday nights when I was too young to know what the fuck was going on, but it always kind of repelled and fascinated me in equal measure.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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I liked the part where Scully got freaky with that octopus.
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AllEggsIn1Basket
Professor
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They didn't die in that episode; they were just hospitalized. That episode seriously scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid. On the farm where I grew up, my dad had a cinder block shed across the field where he'd skin animals he trapped. This is going to sound so gross, but we used to camp out in there sometimes because it was pretty big. My mom would want a break from us kids, so she'd send us over with sleeping bags to camp out in the "trapping shed" while my dad would stay up 'til the wee hours skinning and stretching the hides before the fur sale deadline. Well, we were not allowed to watch X-Files because it was too scary (I was like 9 or 10 at most and I'm the oldest of 3) but my dad, being otherwise occupied, left the TV on and we saw this episode. I cannot begin to say how terrified I was to fall asleep thinking those bugs were going to get us all!
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winna
Avatar Czar
DOOP Ubersecretary
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Everyone says that, but the show was always destined for doom. None of the people producing the show knew precisely what they were doing, which is the show's greatest strength and uninevitable weakness. All shows following in its wake, from CSI to LOST owe a great debt to a show, who unlike them failed to be cohesive.
In its incohesiveness, it could be whatever it wanted to be for a week or so if it pleased. It captured an audience of people who hadn't been born with the internet. Everything was a vague mystery, and it touched upon our past and our present at the time. It's silly to look back on it, but it nerves something transcendental precisely because nothing would err in its way to do what it would. Even every season was plagued with the abrupt destruction of the X-Files, but it pushed forward like salt across the river because it could.... and it would.
You might say David Duchovny was its demise.... but even Gillian Anderson's pregnancy couldn't wield a completely fruitful harvest for its opportunity. It's mythology got tangled its own lies, but most importantly... we grew out of the X-Files. Society died and no one cared. We weren't prosecuted for Napster, we just grew to pay our speeding fines and accept lights at all of our red light intersections. If the X-Files traveled through time on the night of the Superbowl, then Sunday was a bad choice for a Friday, and Dogget, whatever his name may be was not half the Brisco County Jr. to spark revival in what could've been the next generation.
Burn my bridges and give me two half lack-luster movies, and you'll find a child who wrote in his kindergarden journal the fears he liked to feed in a single parented home, and with that what preceded a man bent on the fire of the world because it lacked meaning anymore.
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