Does anyone else miss the X FILES?

[Kid_Icarus 0]

Man I use to love this show. I'm not sure it's even on in reruns and more. Some of the more interesting plots in a tv show ever i personally feel.

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[kelel01 1]

I'm pretty sure Wingi does.

[Kid_Icarus 0]

That's what made me think of them again. I love wingie. BVut seriously. Mulder is HOT

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[kelel01 1]

Please tell me that a) you mean Scully, or b) someone hacked into your account.

[mailin 0]

I have 10 seasons on VHS...

... I was only a bit obsessed



Jen

Arianna Frances

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Every Sunday night I'd curl up in front of the phosphorescent glow of the television, turn off the lights and settle in for a good ghost story. Or at least our modern equivalent of one.

The thing I liked about the X-Files was that it was like a box of chocolates; ya never knew what you were going to get. Ya didn't know if it was going to be funny or conspiratorial or just flat out scary.

As for Scully being "hot", ya really had to love the way the character changed from the early episodes to the later ones. Does anybody remember a PBS series called something like "Math Police"? It always struck me that Scully in the early days was dressed and even acted a bit like that.

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[JoeBobinNC 0]

My favorite episode was the one when some shit happened with some aliens and the gov't covered it up.

Oh nevermind that was every episode

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

[outlawphx 1]

Yep.. Damn those silly actors for thinking they could actually have a movie career! Hey, I also thought they were going to do a second movie.

[livendive 8]

Yup. I've been waiting for them to continue the story on the big screen, but that's starting to look unlikely.

Blues,
Dave

"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!"
(drink Mountain Dew)

[skycat 0]

It's still on re-runs, I know one weekend I got sucked into a marathon and was up till like 2 am watching it. I loved the episodes where you didn't know what kind of creature/bug/slime they would run in to. The last few seasons when it was just alien stuff was when I quit watching originally, it just got kind of old.

Fly it like you stole it!

[IFallFast 0]

After that song from the Bare Naked Ladies where they said "watching X-files with no lights on" I had an X-Files party at my place every week, with no lights on. Yes I was a dork. (am)

J

I like Beans

[Avion 0]

I miss the word play and chemistry between Scully and Mulder. The alien conspiracy did get a old after a while. One of my favorite episodes is the one where Scully and Mulder go into the haunted house on Chrismas Eve and get tricked into thinking they shot each other.

[outlawphx 1]

That was a good episode. Yeah, I just really liked the interactions between those two. I actually avoided the show for the first few years because I thought the whole alien premise was lame. Luckily a couple weekend marathons got me caught up.

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After that song from the Bare Naked Ladies where they said "watching X-files with no lights on" I had an X-Files party at my place every week, with no lights on. Yes I was a dork

Bloodhound Gang's "Bad Touch" is better with the lyric "we can do it doggy style so we can both watch X-files."

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[gravitysucks 0]

Mostly I miss Agent Scully.....

Now I have to get my weird alien supernatural freak out fix from listening to late night AM radio on road trips.

[wingnut 0]

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Bloodhound Gang's "Bad Touch" is better with the lyric "we can do it doggy style so we can both watch X-files

i swear that's not what the x-files refrence in my sigline is about.........

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[vmsfreaky1 0]

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Every Sunday night I'd curl up in front of the phosphorescent glow of the television, turn off the lights and settle in for a good ghost story. Or at least our modern equivalent of one.

The thing I liked about the X-Files was that it was like a box of chocolates; ya never knew what you were going to get. Ya didn't know if it was going to be funny or conspiratorial or just flat out scary.

As for Scully being "hot", ya really had to love the way the character changed from the early episodes to the later ones. Does anybody remember a PBS series called something like "Math Police"? It always struck me that Scully in the early days was dressed and even acted a bit like that.

I remember that show! they had calculators instead of guns! and it was very Dragnet with the music as well....great show!

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No

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

Nope.

I like creepy science fiction, but that show, to me, was about the WORST WRITTEN SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN ON T.V.

-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[Calvin19 0]

Almost done with the first season.

I must say, the idea is awesome, character development excellent, effects are ok for the time of the show, historical references are good, but the writing, yeah. terrible.

-SPACE-

[riddler 0]

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Mostly I miss Agent Scully.....

Gillian Anderson is cute, but that little facial tick around her eye always makes me think that she huffs insect repellent in between takes.

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makes me think that she huffs insect repellent

You people in CO are just plain weird...

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makes me think that she huffs insect repellent

You people in CO are just plain weird...

Now who among us has never dug up a 5 year old thread before?

(Oh, and I watched the entire X Files series on DVD a couple years ago.)

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[MikeJD 0]

Since the thread has already been exhumed...

I used to love The X Files. It was a bit patchy, and like most shows of its kind they dragged out the underlying 'mystery' for too long and it got tedious (see also Twin Peaks, Lost et al). It was also highly derivative (plots were lifted wholesale from movies like The Thing) - but at its best, it was great.

I don't think people realise how groundbreaking it was in terms of production values. Around that time most TV shows looked cheap, but with The X Files they made an effort to film every episode as though it were a mini movie.

Oh, and the title sequence and music were a bit cheesy, but that was part of the appeal.

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(Oh, and I watched the entire X Files series on DVD a couple years ago.)

I don't know if it's that we have better shows now, or that I am older and have higher standards, but I watched a re-run of X-files at a hotel in Atlanta once, and I thought it was pretty lame. Or maybe it's that I don't have television at home, so I've not been conditioned to mind-numbing writing.

Edit - I used to love watching the X-files, when it was in production.

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