X Files (2 Viewers)

[7 - No tomorrow]

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i kinda just want to watch all the Monster of the Week episodes and none of the alien mythology ones

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I'm gonna watch the second film tonight

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

This is a good read

Duchovny Goes Electric «

From my boyfriend Alex Pappademas

 

[therealjohnny]

This is pretty awful though

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[Lili Marlene]

This is a good read

Duchovny Goes Electric «

From my boyfriend Alex Pappademas

lasted as far as them bonding over Steely Dan

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Here's the X-Files bit

for seven-and-a-half seasons — plus guest-star turns thereafter — he was Fox Mulder on The X-Files, vibrating on the wavelength of every weirdo in the world and turning to his collection of analog pornography when it was quittin’ time.

That show made him a cult figure. Women wrote songs about him; so did men. As a movie franchise, The X-Files petered out after 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe. But the original show keeps finding new fans on Netflix and new torch-carriers for the Mulder-Scully relationship on Tumblr. In June, Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will start shooting a new X-Files“event series” for Fox. It’s six episodes. (“There’s no way I was ever going to do 23,” Duchovny says.)

By the contemporary standard that all serialized TV shows must constantly progress in an orderly fashion toward a satisfying conclusion, The X-Filesblew it. The show vamped too long, adding far too many layers to an alien-invasion mythology I challenge you to explain in fewer than eight paragraphs. But there was a freedom in that narrative aimlessness; Mulder and Scully could charge off into the dark, chasing chupacabras or extraterrestrial super-soldiers or liver-eating mutants, and if instead of “solving” one of the show’s many dangling mysteries they ended up discussing Moby-Dick while stranded on a rock in the middle of nowhere or holding hands in an ambulance after tripping balls on alien spores in a cave, critics and bloggers and vultures didn’t freak.



Apart from what he cheerfully describes as “pure greed,” this was part of why Duchovny thinks it’s worth another shot. “It was a great strength of the show,” he says. “The flexible frame. It could be comedy, it could be drama, it could be a thriller, it could be a horror movie, it could be a conspiracy movie, it could be a love story.”

Right, the love story. My grasp of late X-Files continuity and specifically the status of Mulder and Scully as a will-they-or-won’t-they TV couple is foggy. I ask Duchovny to remind me where they left things, sexwise.

“I mean, we had a baby,” Duchovny says. This is true, although neither Duchovny nor I can remember if it was a real baby or some kind of alien trick-baby made through nonstandard means.

“I don’t know,” Duchovny says. “We didn’t know. We’d be like, Are we married? What are we? In the last movie, we were married.”

This is actually not true. But at the end of the second film, I Want to Believe,2 we saw them in bathing suits, riding off in a speedboat to a tropical island, a sexy place where they might well have had sex. Or had it again, depending on your interpretation of X-Files canon.

Mulder and Scully were far more interesting as platonic colleagues than they’d be as a couple, but ’shippers gonna ’ship; the portion of X-Filesfandom that wants this relationship consummated is almost as fervent as the portion that longs for Anderson and Duchovny to hook up in real life. “I’ll get back to you on that,” Duchovny says of the latter scenario. “I don’t see it happening, but, y’know, I’ve been wrong before.”

He can’t tell me anything else about the new X-Files.

 

[chris d]

the best two were the bugs from the cut down tree logger episode and the ice station worms one. deadly episodes.

 

[pete]

This was great

Steadishots.org : Steadicam Shot by David Luckenbach from X-Files, The

Steadishots.org : Steadicam Shot by David Luckenbach from X-Files, The

 

[george mcfly]

the best two were the bugs from the cut down tree logger episode and the ice station worms one. deadly episodes.

Yeah, Darkness Falls & Ice were great. I loved The Calusari and The Host from Season 2 as well. Season 2 had a real Kolchak feel to the stand alone episodes, which I really liked.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Look what I'm watching!

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I was obsessed with the show during the first three seasons. Lost interest during season 4. Bowed out in season 5.

Exact same boat here. My granny and I used to watch them together. I remember when season two started on Sky, I had a horrible gastric flu and still find that particular episode hard to watch because I associate it with a fever.

I liked the folk horror or unexplainable phenomena stories better than the "aliens" plots.

Totally. The alien ones went totally up their own hole. My favourite episodes were the Tooms two-parter, the one with the carnies and Jose Chung's "From Outer Space".

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

The alien ones went totally up their own hole.

There's a probe joke there for anyone who wants it.

 

[Cormcolash]

i kinda just want to watch all the Monster of the Week episodes and none of the alien mythology ones

Monster of the Week X-Files = Good, sometimes Great

Alien Mythology X-Files = Load of gash

 

[Cormcolash]

the best two were the bugs from the cut down tree logger episode and the ice station worms one. deadly episodes.

Also the one in the volcano crater

 

[pete]

OMG

Photos from the set of the 'X-Files' revival

 

[David Kronenbourg]

So I watched the second movie last night. It's alright. The plot is pretty daft, even for the x files

 

[george mcfly]

So I watched the second movie last night. It's alright. The plot is pretty daft, even for the x files

It's way better than the first, but still a bang of fan fiction off it.

 

[Unicron]

Is modern Scully blonde or ginge?

 

[therealjohnny]

What does the Aphex Twin logo mean?
"isn't it an A made to look 'alieny', because aliens were cool in 1992?"


Ha

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