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Vogon Poet posted:By my reckoning, from season four onward Gilligan was responsible for almost all of the really top-tier episodes. Others to go on that list that you didn't mention include "Paper Hearts," "Field Trip," and "Folie a Deux" (the latter is an utterly brilliant look at the two main characters and might be the most under-appreciated episode of the whole show). Field Trip is probably my favorite episode, and I love Folie a Deux, too. I also like Wetwired because it has does something similar, but with the roles reversed. I loved Agua Mala, too, just because of how ridiculous it was. I thought Theef and Lord of the Flies (especially for the Jane Lynch cameo) were some other late greats in terms of MOTWs. One of my favorite "funny" episodes is Arcadia, the one where they go undercover in the gated community. Pure Mulder and Scully  ness.My best friend does freelance film work, and ever since she pointed out that the scene in Triangle where Scully runs through the FBI and has like three long conversations was one cut, it's been one of my favorites. The cinematography in that episode is gorgeous, and it's such an awesome concept. As much hate as the later seasons get, season 6 is like primo MOTW for me. So many of those episodes are just fun as poo poo. An episode that I rarely see mentioned that freaked the poo poo out of me when I saw it was Sanguinarium. It's unusually gory for an X-File and just something about getting put under anesthesia and having your doctor drill through your face with a loving laser or stabbing the poo poo out of you with a liposuction needle because they're possessed by witches is creepy as poo poo.
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Jan 24, 2014 10:08
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WarEternal posted:I think "Detour" is one of the better X-Files episodes that I don't hear people talk about much. My vote for worst episode goes to a tie between "Lord of the Flies" and "The Field Where I Died". Detour is awesome. I think my candidates for worst episodes would be "3" and "all things," although I haven't watched either of them in years. "First Pirson Shooter" is a special kind of hilariously bad. That's the one where they get trapped in the video game and there's an evil glitchy hot woman with a gun. I unironically love that episode though. Really any time there are computers as more than just a search or word processor, it's pretty hysterical; "Kill Switch" comes to mind.
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Jan 24, 2014 22:24
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Oh man, speaking of legendary authors, Stephen King wrote "Chinga," which is a horrible episode about a little girl with a killer doll.
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Jan 24, 2014 22:34
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escape artist posted:Ugh. Is "3" the one where Mulder falls in love with a vampire? beanieson posted:There was a great one, War of the Coprophages with all these cockroaches killing people in a small town... The local entomologist happens to be studying cockroaches and is also a crazy hot redhead named Bambi (I think). I don't remember specifics but Mulders interactions with her were hilarious. War of the Coprophages is awesome. There's a point where a "roach" crawls across the tv screen, and I was living with a small roach infestation at the time, so that episode freaked me out a bit. Great episode.
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Jan 24, 2014 22:52
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haveblue posted:My first exposure to the show was the episode "Syzygy", which has as part of its plot Mulder and Scully's personalities being distorted by the supernatural whatever and making them get angry with each other over dumb reasons. I found them unpleasant without realizing they weren't normally like that and it wasn't until I saw some different episodes that I really got into it. Yeah, "Syzygy" is a really fun episode if you already understand the characters, but it's definitely not a great one to start out on, haha. Stare-Out posted:War of the Coprophages is also one of my (many) favorite episodes for all the weird poo poo Scully is shown to get up to in her free time whenever Mulder calls her about killer buuuuugs scully What was the episode where Mulder's doing something with an X-File and the whole time, Scully is eating pizza in an abandoned house staking out what turns out to be a drag queen?
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Jan 24, 2014 23:03
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Oh man, I just remembered Soft Light, the episode with Tony Shalhoub playing the scientist whose shadow can disintegrate people. That is a phenomenal episode.
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Jan 25, 2014 18:38
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The actress who played Nick's wife on Six Feet Under was the blind girl who could see through that serial killer's mind. I'm pretty sure a young Shia Laboeuf showed up in one of the later episodes, too. There are a crazy amount of cameos on this show.
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Jan 26, 2014 01:35
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I tried to watch Twin Peaks and it just never grabbed me. I had heard it being compared to the X-files, so obviously I was interested. After the first few episodes, I felt like it was way too melodramatic and I didn't care at all about any of what was happening. It felt like a really slow, bad soap opera. I'm going to give it another shot now, though, if only to see David Duchovny cross-dressing. The movie-length pilot episode has also been barring me from re-attempting to watch it.
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Jan 28, 2014 19:52
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Octy posted:What do you dislike about the music? I'm curious because I posted earlier that I'd forgotten just how good it is. It's perfect atmosphere music. I don't notice it most of the time, but when I do, I enjoy it. Ugh, I forgot how gross that episode is. The blisters and whatnot are so nasty looking and well done. I remember watching that episode and thinking, due to the name, that there would be a reveal that it only affected men for whatever science reason, Mulder would get it and Scully would have to find a cure. I think in the episode, too, only men got infected, but they never actually say that so it was probably just a coincidence. I dunno. I got pretty  -y while I was watching it last time.Gotta do a rewatch. I might only do MOTW episodes, since they were always my favorite. I remember the mytharc getting really good around the time when the psychic chess kid shows up, though, and I liked the Scully in Africa episodes even though I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority on that. We'll see.
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Feb 1, 2014 22:15
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joepinetree posted:But I think the discussion of "when" isn't a very interesting one. To the extent that it exists, as others have mentioned I prefer when it is left in the background and not really discussed. My point about the retcon, as well as stuff like trust no 1 and all things, is that in those instances they make the story entirely about the relationship, even if they don't provide any answers. And they are terrible. I totally agree. I'm just gonna say that I think people that watch the X-Files trying to figure out precisely when/if Mulder and Scully consummate their relationship are entirely missing the point of the show. There are so many other awesome aspects to the subject and the way the show is presented, and even their relationship, that it's kinda depressing to see someone's takeaway be "they totes bang in season 8." I think overanalyzing it kinda cheapens the great chemistry between them and the obviously deep relationship they end up having for each other, and that's why the episodes that bring it front and center don't work. But shippers will be shippers, I guess. I just started rewatching and remembered how great "Ice" is. That was my favorite episode for a long time. Also the girl in "Shadows" has a really goofy name. "LAUREN KYTE." They keep saying it, first and last name, over and over, too.
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Feb 4, 2014 22:49
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Vintersorg posted:Oh, apparently SATAN exists in this universe? Or is it a SATANIC ALIEN. Holy poo poo this episode was insane - "Die Hand Die Verletzt". It sure was something to watch before bed. I am surprised it didn't feature Scully freaking the gently caress out since she really holds onto her beliefs.  I love that one, Mrs. Paddock is one of the creepiest MOTWs in the series. The whole episode is really well done, especially since she ends up not even being the real monster compared to the motherfuckers she's exacting revenge on. You're pretty much on her side by the end of it.e: In addition to LITERALLY SATAN, doesn't Bruce Campbell play a demon trying to make a half-demon baby in a later episode? QuickbreathFinisher fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Octy posted:^ Incidentally, I was reading about this on Wikipedia last night. I don't remember the Squeeze sequel, Tooms, being that bad, although I haven't seen it since I burned through the whole thing like 3 years ago. Orison and Kitsunegari are pretty bad though, compared to the originals.
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Mar 2, 2014 01:08
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All this worst episode chat and no one mentions the mummy urn that summons swarms of house cats? Or the Stephen King Chuckie knockoff? Or the one where the two Kathy Griffins cause fights everytime they get near each other? First Person Shooter is shameful though. I actually like a lot of the late season MotW episodes, although I'm pretty easily entertained. Like I always liked that one with Doggett in the Boston subway system, even if it was a little bit of a rehash of Darkness Falls.
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Mar 31, 2015 08:05
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haveblue posted:I'd put it at the end of season 6, when the Syndicate is mostly killed off. The following three seasons have their moments but the extended mythology is aimless and has no reason to exist. Yeah, around season 6 is when the mythology starts getting completely incomprehensible, but there are some really solid MOTW episodes from then on, which was always the best part of the show for me anyway. YMMV of course but I really love some of the later eps.
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May 5, 2015 03:17
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I really want Kumail to be a member of the new Lone Gunmen. He's perfect. He could run the Lone Gunmen podcast!
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Jun 5, 2015 05:50
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Slate Action posted:Oh my god, if this is a real episode title I hope it's an animated Scooby Doo crossover.
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Jul 10, 2015 19:48
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I couldn't get into Fringe or Supernatural, and it makes me think I'm missing something.
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Did anyone mention that X-Files Files is back from hiatus?  First episode he's back with Rhea Butcher, who is objectively amazing, taking about Sanguinarium, and the newest one is also great. I love this podcast so much.
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Aug 21, 2015 03:49
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sticklefifer posted:What are some good non-American folklore episodes? The ones that immediately spring to mind are Hell Money, Teso dos Bichos, and Teliko, but I know there are more. I always found those interesting because they use mythology in other countries I never would've known about otherwise. Yeah, Teso, Hell Money and Teliko are all kinda horrible to me, especially in the way they treat the cultures they're taking about. I like Arcadia as an even further westernized version of the Nepalese tulpa. Fresh Bones is cool if you consider voodoo non-american. Je Souhaite is pretty great for a later season comedy episode. A lot of eps about non-western mythology are very much a product of their time and feel kinda wtf as a viewer in 2015. Lots of casual stereotyping and weird Mulder witticisms.
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haveblue posted:Which is the one where terminally ill people get eaten and barfed out healthy by some kind of Native American spirit? This is The Gift.
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Oct 27, 2015 19:05
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I think season six is one of the worst seasons. Like, worse than at least one of the Doggett seasons. It's been a while since I watched any in order, though. I just remember having really bad reactions to more of season six than season eight or nine. Six is definitely where the mytharc should have just died. Some of the MotW episodes are actually pretty fantastic though. Arcadia, Monday, Triangle, and Field Trip are all season 6.
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Nov 24, 2015 05:38
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bobkatt013 posted:You forgot Drive, Terms of Endearment, Unnatural, and Three of a kind. Whoops. True. Also Rain King. And How the Ghosts Stole Christmas, which will always be the only Christmas episode of anything that doesn't make me violently ill. I kinda love season 6.
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Nov 25, 2015 14:44
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Is this going to be streamed on fox's website or anything tonight? I want to watch it legally without having to go to my parents' house.
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Jan 24, 2016 22:02
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PBS Newshour posted:Too many X-Files! For some reason I'm imagining this as the title/premise of a bottle episode where they get stuck in Mulder's office trying to clean out their filing cabinets and I'm loving it.
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Feb 14, 2016 18:46
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Can we all agree to stop loving using that lovely Lumineers song everywhere?
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Feb 16, 2016 14:39
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PBS Newshour posted:People def have ideas of doing a TNG X Files with them while doing Mulder and Scully miniseries. You can bet that is being pitched. Please let it be called the Y files
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Feb 16, 2016 18:49
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I think the reason that episode is getting such a positive response is more based on the overall concept, a creature with no self awareness, suddenly (and traumatically) gaining it, along with becoming a human and gaining spontaneous understanding human problems, and the opportunity that that poses as a means of discussing mortality, death, consciousness, futility, etc. Rather than "lol he has a funny name, best ep ever." That said, I totally get how someone could not be a fan of that ep; this whole season has, as someone already said, been hugely different in tone from the original run.
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Feb 19, 2016 22:28
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vseslav.botkin posted:I think this episode would have been a lot better if they had used the phrase "alien DNA" a lot less and made it two hours: it would given them time for Mulder to have an actual plot and the pandemic to actually start spreading. What, was "ITS SPREADING"  not enough exposition for you?
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Feb 25, 2016 08:36
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Byers Wait, was Byers with them in the trip sequence? I was sad when i saw the other two because I didn't see him there, I thought they couldn't get him and replaced him with Skinner or something. He was always my favorite for...definitely not beard reasons 
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Feb 25, 2016 20:06
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MisterBibs posted:Is the X-Files Files defunct? Last I read was a year or so (maybe?) from the dude saying that he was busy but he'd be back sooner or later. I think it probably is, or at least on an indefinite hiatus. I dunno if Kumail said anything directly, but he hasn't released a new episode since February. 
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Dec 3, 2016 07:46
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Season 6 is just so good. This has to be X-Files at it's peak in many ways. So impressive to go from really creepy episodes like Terms of Endearment to an episode like The Rain King. The Rain King was super People think I'm crazy when i say this is my favorite season but i just love season 6. Drive, Triangle, Arcadia, Monday, Field Trip, Dreamland, the Christmas ghost episode, unghhhhhhhjh There are some stinkers but when it's good, holy gently caress is it good.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:55
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GutBomb posted:Dexter season 3, 5, 6, and 7 too. Yeah dexter was loving poisonous after Rita died. And yet i kept watching. I would say it was worse than the last season of X-Files solely because the WereMan episode was legit fantastic and the trashboy ep was ok.
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Aug 12, 2017 03:02
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Loomer posted:Drop him and replace him with Tom Noonan playing an Art Bell analogue. Holy poo poo, please.
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Acer Pilot posted:I recently read that Gillian wanted out after this season, do you folks think they'll kill Scully off and leave us with Einstein (terrible name)? God, Fuuuuuuuck I keep forgetting and then subsequently remembering that they saddled Lauren Ambrose with this loving stupid gimmick name. She's a good actress, like, why.
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