X-Files

[numberthirty]

I think I agree. Anderson already said she’s not likely to come back. Carter is squandering his opportunity to finish the story l, and from the sound of it it won’t be finished this season. And if Scully and Mulder aren’t back for the next installment I know I won’t be watching

It's certainly an issue that will be hard to get around effectively.

Let alone if you should even try when a large component of your creative team feels like she is already gone.

[Beaubier]

Def didn’t expect this story with Langley.

[JBatmanFan05]

For some reason, I really enjoyed the episode. The theme of the song California Sun...going to this ideal place where you belong compared and contrasted with Langly's speech about his virtual heaven if he designed it (but it also being his hell) was effective. Ending was dark, but a bit fun.

Overall, I found it a good combo of action, dark, and comedy.

[Beaubier]

I liked it as well, it was a nice surprise. The alien killswitch on Mulder’s phone was a nice touch.

[JBatmanFan05]

Ron, Carl and Bill...Deep Throat, CSM and Bill Mulder. Mulder stumbles across Deep Throat’s grave and we finally learn his real name: Ronald Pakula (nod to the name of the director of All the President's Men and The Parallax View)

An X-Files wiki tells me that in confirming Deep Throat's name, that confirms "Ronald" being uttered in Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

[Ilan Preskovsky]

I finally got round to last week’s episode and, man, what an improvement over the premier. Hell I thought it was probably the best episode of the revival so far aside for Darin Morgan’s episode. It wasn’t great. Hell it was more than a little silly but it really worked for me. Duchovny and Anderson came across particularly energized here with tons of that great Mulder/ Scully banter that has always elevated even the worst episodes of the show.

I’m slightly worried that Chris Carter is handling the next episode but at least it’s a standalone, which he is still way better at than the mythology episodes, which really have become as bad as everyone always accused them of being but never really were.

[JBatmanFan05]

I've realized my ideal vehicle to end the show, series finale, is another movie. I actually really liked the added scale (budget) and time the Fight the Future (first X-Files movie) had to do the mythology arc some justice. Also, they hired a few decent "name" actors (Blythe Danner and Martin Landau).

Hell, it could just be a Netflix film (not in theater).

[BeastieRunner]

Yeah, it needs to go out in celluloid.

[Darkseid Is]

Is there an X-Files thread about anything X-files? I'd like to know what everyone's favorite episodes are.

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

The thrill is gone. Been gone. I can't believe anymore. I wish Gillian Anderson all the best.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

Is there an X-Files thread about anything X-files? I'd like to know what everyone's favorite episodes are.

I'm assuming this is it.

Some of my favourites:

Anything by Darin Morgan up to and including last year's ep - but Clyde Bruckman is probably my favourite
Pretty much all the mythology episodes from season 2 and 3
Bad Blood
Dreamland
Small Potatoes
Die Hand Die Verlitz (or however you spell it)
Triangle
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
The Post Modern Prometheus
Beyond the Sea
Quagmire

Clearly, I think the show was at its best when it played with its formula. This is why I actually think season 6 was one of its best. Most of its best monster of the week episodes were in the first couple of seasons. After that, it soeared with its comedy episodes, its more character-driven episodes and the better mythology installments.

[JBatmanFan05]

Some of my faves:

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Musings Of A Cigerette Smoking Man
Bad Blood
Triangle
Ice
Squeeze
Monday
Pusher
3 - this is case of me really liking this one for my own little idiosyncratic reasons
Folie à Deux

[Beaubier]

Some of my favorite episodes:


Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Small Potatoes
Duane Barry/Ascension (put it together since it's a 2 parter)
Never Again
Memento Mori
X-Cops
Improbable

I also liked '3' as I found it unintentionally hilarious.. and I have to give "Drive" an honorable mention for Bryan Cranston's great performance and overall good episode.

[Steven Ely]

My favorites are "Monday," "Quagmire," "Unusual Suspects," "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man," "Humbug," "Small Potatoes," "Dreamland" (parts I and II), "Squeeze," "Tooms," "The Postmodern Prometheus," "Arcadia," "Sunshine Days," "First Person Shooter," "X-Cops," "Je Souhaite," "War of the Coprophages," "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas," "Home," "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," "Chinga" and "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster."

I really liked that new "Plus One" episode... "Your not old, Scully. You still got it going on, you still got a little scoot in your boot."

[Jekyll]

Is there an X-Files thread about anything X-files? I'd like to know what everyone's favorite episodes are.

My favorite episode ever, I believe came in season 1. Mulder & Scully were in Alaska or Anartica and there was this parasite that infected these scientists that made them kill everyone in the camp.