Back in February, I started watching X-Files for the first time.

Bucky

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Fri May-15-09 03:48 PM
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Back in February, I started watching X-Files for the first time.

I've been renting them on DVD from my local shoppe (not Blockbuster) and gorging myself on cheeseball sci-fi horror all spring. I watched the series in chronological order, skipping nothing except that one episode that Stephen King wrote that was so goddamn boring I couldn't take it. This week I finished up season nine and last night I watched the second movie. Ask me anything.

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bigwillq

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Fri May-15-09 03:49 PM
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1. What was your fave episode?

:shrug:

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Bucky

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Fri May-15-09 03:57 PM
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2. Too many, too many. Leonard Betts (the paramedic who ate cancer) was cool

Tooms, the dude who stretched through air vents to eat peoples' livers was also great nightmare fodder. But among the early episodes, I think I like the Jersey devil one best.

Among the later shows, the one with the elephant man dude who had a thing for Cher is the most memorable. They needed more Krycek episodes--maybe involving him losing more body parts.

I truly hope they end up making one more move for release in 2012 and include Agent Dogget in the plot. But my absolute favorite X-File of all has to be the last movie. It was just nice watching Scully & Mulder growing old together. It really made up for a fairly weak final episode.

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bigwillq

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Fri May-15-09 04:03 PM
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3. I've only seen a few episodes.

I never really got into it.

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msanthrope

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Fri May-15-09 04:29 PM
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6. "Home" is the best. Watch the uncut version. n/t

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Swede

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Fri May-15-09 04:16 PM
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4. I had my vcr on taping them every friday.

It was a truly memorable series.

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Bucky

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Fri May-15-09 04:22 PM
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5. What I noticed most was the cinemaphotography - the DP

The DP really worked to frame powerful, iconic camera shots. They really add a lot of narrative power to the stories.

Another thing is the casting - it's a technical detail, but the show consistantly cast real looking people, not just pretty Hollywood types. It helped root the stories by making the ordinary a place where horror sprang out.

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kentauros

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Fri May-15-09 05:21 PM
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7. Have you watched Millennium yet?

(another Chris Carter production)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(TV_series)

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Jamastiene

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Fri May-15-09 05:26 PM
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8. Bunghoney! was a good episode.

You know it is blasphemy to say that Stephen King's episode was boring, don't you? :spank:

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