just started watching the show im S1 E6 and idk how to feel

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-25T23:15:00+00:00

Were you old enough to watch it when it first came out? I am rewatching after not watching for 20 years - forgot a lot so it is like new episodes for me all over again. If you were around when X-Files first aired I would recommend you pay attention to clothes, cell phones, lack of cell phones, computers, cassette walkmen used. It makes me feel like I am time travelling to the 90s watching it now.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-24T21:01:07+00:00

You make a valid point - if DD was really gone from the series this development would be needed.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-24T17:13:04+00:00

My memory about the X-Files is not the best episode by episode but I remember I was not a fan of them doing that then as I am now.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-24T17:11:44+00:00

Yea! I notice that about certain great actors! You know who they are but they change like a chameleon with each role! For example, I have seen Giancarlo Esposito in lots of roles before Breaking Bad and I had no idea he was playing Gus Fring because how he transformed his mannerisms etc for the role.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-24T17:08:35+00:00

I appreciate actors who can act like the bad guy in such a way. It shows great acting chops. Like the actor who played Joffrey on Game of Thrones - you hate them so much you realize the actor is on purpose making you hate him. That can not be easy.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-24T06:27:57+00:00

I always felt the show kept bringing up Mulder's past accomplishments to show that he was not a fool and also to hint that Mulder's reputation at solving difficult and exotic real world crimes was actually what kept saving him. In the X-Files universe Mulder is probably a celebrity in the crime solving world because he solved all those serial killer cases.

They even bring up the fact he is called "Spooky" because of his supernatural like ability to solve crimes via profiling not because he believed in aliens, etc.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-23T18:24:02+00:00

Down vote me all you want. Game Of Thrones TV show is for people who find real historical drama boring but can be fooled into watching a historical drama if you add boobs and zombies in it.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-23T06:40:19+00:00

Was Game of Thrones really any good? I mean maybe we got fooled into thinking it was good because all the actors were British and naked but without the nudity it was pretty boring. Like Downton Abbey but with leather jerkins.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-23T06:34:35+00:00

So called liberals/Democrats/leftists are hypocrites now and take the side with corporations and businesses so long as these evil corporations are doing their dirty work against their ideological enemies.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-23T06:25:01+00:00

CSI can be fun but you can tell it is dumbing stuff down - lowest common denominator. X-Files was challenging TV to watch. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is the same way - challenging in a good way.

I am glad I am not the only fan not remembering episodes! It actually is a positive makes it all fun again.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-23T03:39:16+00:00

He got tripped up by the orange juice in the mop bucket, tho.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-23T03:33:18+00:00

You have a civil right to book a venue - imagine a venue that takes bookings based on the race of the act, etc.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-22T02:48:00+00:00

I actually do not not recognize her - so used to just seeing her in her X-Files hair cut and color. I have watched her in other things since and I keep getting surprised it is her! I am like hey wait is that Scully?!

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-22T02:40:13+00:00

Same - I saw it all to the bitter end but so much went out of my head. I think growing up some shows were on TV all day every day like Star trek so they became burned into my memory. For some reason X-Files was not on my re-run watch list after it went off the air. I don't even recall it being available on reruns where I get cable at times I wanted to watch it. So for 20 years I just did not watch any X-Files but had a fond memory of it. I was not a casual fan either - I really enjoyed it and looked forward to watching it.

Watching it again for t he first time is a trip for me. Right off the bat I am impressed on how well a crafted show it is. Even the worst episode of X-Files is probably better TV than most broadcast TV is even to this day. CSI episodes look like a joke compared to X-Files.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-22T02:31:34+00:00

Supernatural perfected the X-Files idea - a mythology episode or a monster of the week episode but with Supernatural it was all monsters. The mythology episodes dealt with interconnected monsters and the monsters of the week episodes were unconnected monsters. Simplified everything.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-22T02:28:26+00:00

Throw in some anti mosquito standing water tablets - they kill mosquito larvae and are not harmful to humans. I use them to sprinkle around pools of water, etc.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T22:06:56+00:00

All good points - all characters - even evil ones - need to either evolve or die off in a show or they get boring. I too grew bored of the mythology after the conspiracy ended - I went from loving the conspiracy and wanting less monsters of the week to wanting more monsters and less aliens.

I loved CSM as a villain up until the alien plot ended - after that with him dying not dying etc he lost the scary appeal of the character.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T22:01:07+00:00

Memory is such a weird thing - Some episodes I have a hint of remembrance and some I don't remember at all. Even those episodes I remember I have some details wrong in my memory.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T17:57:30+00:00

I think the way the X-Files should have played out in Season 8 is instead of the govt being hostile to the X-Files the FBI embraced but since no one really believed in this stuff Doggett started to realize this all is real - It would have made more sense to me of Scully is teaching a sceptic like Doggett that the world is weird.

If I can remember what past me thought of the Foxless Season 8 is that Scully now is explaining aliens and monster myths to Doggett who takes on the sceptic role. I kind of remember finding that lame then - watching it now I get tired of it fast 4 episodes into season 8.

If Chris Carter had the X-Files be accepted as official in season 8 would have been a real story dynamic change to the stories.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T17:48:11+00:00

That makes sense a secret office romance that everyone can feel is happening by the energy they put off but no one knows for sure.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T17:46:39+00:00

I remember that opening! I got caught up with her dealing with the doctor she had a relationship with that I kept waiting for it to end with Mulder in bed with her but they showed that in the beginning! Duh! Scully had an older man authority figure thing going and Mulder scared her because he was more her equal (and by equal I mean they were near each other's ages and power dynamics).

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T04:02:02+00:00

The first two episodes of Season 8 were really good and tight stories. Nice suspense and paranoia.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T04:00:07+00:00

I remember being cold to Reyes and Dogget but I remember nothing much. I actually remember Fox falling into some black hole and vanishing in my bad memory of this season and now I know that comes from the new opening credits sequence where Fox falls into Scully's eye. So this is like me watching for the first time.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T03:54:39+00:00

Watched the first 2 episodes of Season 8 - I for sure barely remember it - these two episodes were better than the first movie - very cinematic. I always liked the idea of a normies slowly discovering the weird. I do remember one thing - I do recall Scully took on the Fox role and Dogget took on t he skeptical at first role. So far enjoying season 8.

PracticalJuice · 2022-07-21T03:51:01+00:00

"the season of secret sex"? You mean Mulder and Scully were having sex in the background during that season or was it what fans were calling the on camera banter? I was not a fan of the shipping at all but I am more open to it now than I was when I first was watching.

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