mementomori
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Leaning Into Impermanence
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Post by mementomori on Sept 13, 2013 22:02:55 GMT -4
Agreed on the mythology eps being a snooze. I think they peaked with the season premiere of season 3. Always preferred the MOTW eps as they usually provided insight into Mulder & Scully as opposed to it being all-about-Mulder's-quest. I admit that the season 7 ep where it's revealed that Samantha was murdered for sure as a child (as Moby's "My Weakness" plays) always brings tears to my eyes convoluted as it was. Speaking of Moby's Gillian Anderson wrote one shitty ep of The Files using his music as a recurring theme. And as awesomely egalitarian as it was to allow both stars to write eps of the series one of them went to Princeton/Yale to pursue a degree in English...and the other didn't (and it really showed).
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Apr 30, 2024 2:39:45 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2013 22:39:37 GMT -4
Agreed on the mythology eps being a snooze. I think they peaked with the season premiere of season 3. Always preferred the MOTW eps as they usually provided insight into Mulder & Scully as opposed to it being all-about-Mulder's-quest. I admit that the season 7 ep where it's revealed that Samantha was murdered for sure as a child (as Moby's "My Weakness" plays) always brings tears to my eyes convoluted as it was. Speaking of Moby's Gillian Anderson wrote one shitty ep of The Files using his music as a recurring theme. And as awesomely egalitarian as it was to allow both stars to write eps of the series one of them went to Princeton/Yale to pursue a degree in English...and the other didn't (and it really showed). I know, right? All things gets some points with me for that nice long lingering shot of nekkid Mulder, but otherwise I was not impressed. The fact that she hasn't written or directed anything since then and Duchovny has tells me she wasn't really all that into it to begin with. I did love that scene with "My Weakness," as ridiculous as the premise was. It was beautifully shot and the music worked perfectly with it.
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Post by kostgard on Sept 13, 2013 22:43:41 GMT -4
Oh, yes. "All Things" - great for lingering shot of naked Mulder and giving us the first concrete evidence that Scully and Mulder were Doing It. I also like the apple green sweater Scully wears.
But too much Moby, too much tapping, and too much Scully acting out of character just so she can explore Gillian Anderson's interest in Eastern/alternative medicine and religions.
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Sept 13, 2013 23:13:10 GMT -4
"Never Again" was good, just because we got to see Scully go off the rails and listen to Jodie Foster's awesome voice.
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Post by kostgard on Sept 13, 2013 23:34:13 GMT -4
"Never Again" was good, just because we got to see Scully go off the rails and listen to Jodie Foster's awesome voice. I was trying to think of that one, because that's the other episode where Scully gets tired of Mulder's shit. In that one she takes off and hooks up with a random dude, who unfortunately is driven crazy by tattoo. Then Mulder was all sad at the end because Scully totally took off and did it with another dude and Mulder just didn't know what to do with that. Then she gets sick of Mulder's shit again in "All Things" and refuses to go on his little crop circle trip to England, but then after her vision from Buddha and the spiritual lesbian couple I guess she decided that putting up with Mulder's shit was her destiny and she decided to donk him in his sad little apartment. Did he still have the waterbed from "Dreamland" when he and Scully finally did the deed?
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Post by hamhock on Sept 14, 2013 7:16:57 GMT -4
Home was creepy as hell but the Flukeman still scares the crap outta me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2013 7:41:33 GMT -4
Did he still have the waterbed from "Dreamland" when he and Scully finally did the deed? It broke in season six in Monday, so presumably he got a replacement. Honestly though I was far too distracted by the Naked Mulder to notice what kind of bed it was. Never Again was pretty cool, it was one of the episodes I saw before I was a regular viewer. I had no idea that was Jodie Foster's voice until much much later. Season 4 was pretty kick-ass overall now that I think about it.
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Post by prisma on Sept 14, 2013 17:05:27 GMT -4
How do you guys remember the names of all the episodes? I'm impressed! Home, Flukeman, Tooms, that episode with the bugs/cockroaches (gah!) ... This show creeped me out like no other. Good times. I can't get over the fact that the guy that played Tooms is Mr Courtney Stodden. It just seems so....appropriate. I was late to XF, so I watched all the early ones on tape. (Yes, VHS tapes. From the video store. How quaint!) I distinctly remember watching the commentary with Chris Carter and someone else on the first Tooms episode and Chris Carter explicitly said what a weird guy Doug Hutchison was. I think he really got into his saliva nest making or something to that effect. I instantly recognized him as Tooms when he hit the scene with Courtney, although I didn't recognize him in Lost.
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Post by kateln on Sept 14, 2013 17:40:09 GMT -4
I also skip the mytharc episodes. There are some that touch on the mythology slightly, but are ultimately creepy MOTW episodes that are good (Red Museum) but I just liked the creepy "here's a killer bug" episodes. I'd given up the show somewhere around Season 5, except to occasionally check-in, but didn't watch at all after they moved to LA, I thought Duchovny's ego took over too much.
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mementomori
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Leaning Into Impermanence
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Feb 3, 2013 0:34:44 GMT -4
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Post by mementomori on Sept 14, 2013 18:09:42 GMT -4
Duchovny's ego changed the direction of the show. The L.A. move came on the heels of the series first movie & at that point the height of its success. Rather than take the series to creative heights the creators got caught up in working in Hollywood. The little-cult-show-that-could became the guest spot du jour place. Telling smart, scary stories was no longer priority. It's funny how times have changed. The actors & creators of The Vampire Diaries and The Walking Dead, respectively, love working in a bubble on location (Georgia). Duchovny felt the bustling metropolis that is Vancouver was too remote. Imagine.
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