The X-Files

[needsaname]

I just felt kinda bad that one of my favourite shows ever doesn't have its own thread, although it will always have a special place in the Disturbing TV Moments thread.

But still, I think it's time to share the love elsewhere. So, um, yeah!

[laconicchick]

So far I have managed to buy three seasons on DVD. I got season 1 for about half off, season 5 for about $10 more than that, and season 4 for full price (anywhere from $109 to 129 CDN. !!). But I used my evil grandparents' birthday money for season 4. Heh heh heh.

I love this show so much. I have my next DVD purchases planned out in order: season 6, season 3, season 7, season 2, and if by that point I am a millionaire (because there's no way I'd buy the next ones otherwise), seasons 8 and 9.

The one thing I am finding is that it's a lot scarier than when I first watched it (when I was in Grades 9 to 12). I think back then I was just blinded by the MSR and UST (oh, that takes me back).

Channel M (multicultural channel in Vancouver/Victoria/possibly elsewhere) is showing one episode every weekday and I am so excited. I usually forget to tape them (we can't afford a PVR even though laconicboy works for the cable company), but I bought a package of tapes at Costco so that when I do, I can record to my heart's content. They're in season 3 now. No, I don't know why the X-Files is on the multicultural channel.

I have so much love for this show.

[marywebgirl]

I still get freaked out a little whenever I see a person who looks like stereotypical X-Files villian to me (white, male, expressionless eyes). I currently work with two such individuals, who I have affectionately named "X-Files villian" and "the other X-Files villian."

[needsaname]

laconicchick said:

Channel M (multicultural channel in Vancouver/Victoria/possibly elsewhere) is showing one episode every weekday and I am so excited. I usually forget to tape them (we can't afford a PVR even though laconicboy works for the cable company), but I bought a package of tapes at Costco so that when I do, I can record to my heart's content. They're in season 3 now. No, I don't know why the X-Files is on the multicultural channel.

Ooh, that's Omni2 in Toronto! That's how I've gotten properly hooked on The X-Files, and as tempted as I was to run out and buy the DVDs after the first week, I've decided I need to watch it on TV first, and then buy them off E-Bay.

[laconicchick]

Guys, check this out.

It looks like they're re-releasing the seasons, but in regular cases instead of fold-out boxes.

Those bastards. Do I continue getting the boxes in order to have everything matching, and pay twice the price, or do I get the thin ones because I'm a student and really shouldn't be spending ANYTHING on DVDs?

Oh yeah, and of course they've also released the mythology episodes in a series of DVDs by themselves, which -- I don't care about those at all. Now if they released the MOTW episodes by themselves, that is something I'd CONSIDER buying (maybe). I still like some mythology episodes, because, let's face it, I'm really only in this for the shippiness.

[january]

I loved this show so much in its day! Total obsession, starting from the first season all the way to the end. I took pride in the fact that I had seen every episode, until the last season came along and then it became such a chore. "Jump the Shark" (the one where the Lone Gunmen bit the dust) was the first episode I ever turned off because it was too bad to watch. Sooooo horrible. I've since seen it in re-runs and it was just awful. Maybe because I never watched The Lone Gunmen spinoff, so I couldn't have cared less? I don't know.

I kind of try and pretend Season 9 never existed. I bought the Season 8 DVDs because I'm one of those people who truly liked Agent Doggett -- Robert Patrick is totally hot, and I thought he put in a good effort considering what he had to work with. There's such an anti-Doggett sentiment on many message boards, which makes me sad because I don't think he ever really stood a chance. It helped that I was completely annoyed with David Duchovny by the time he left so I didn't miss Mulder all that much, despite the fact that I was a hardcore 'shipper.

I really feel like the 'shippers were gipped because all the good action happened off-screen. So unfair. After all we went through, we deserved an M/S love scene, dammit!

[Ripley]

I never really watched this show religiously, though TTMR loved it. He got most of the seasons through Netflix, and while re-watching, I was surprised to see how many episodes I remembered and loved.

I have to be careful watching X-Files, though, because I'm the kind of person who gets freaked out by scary stories, and if I'm not careful, the right X-Files episode can keep me up all night.

My favorites are the one where the guy has good luck, but everybody else around him gets bad luck; the one with Tony Shaloub; the one with the creepy kid who likes Cher and Mulder & Scully dance at the end; and the one with the scary substitute teacher who comes to punish this scary cult whose members aren't following the rules.

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I have to be careful watching X-Files, though, because I'm the kind of person who gets freaked out by scary stories, and if I'm not careful, the right X-Files episode can keep me up all night.

*Raises Hand* Ooh, that's me too. The only way for someone to scare me is by making me watch X-Files after 10 pm jazzed on some coffee.

I love watching some of the episodes now and looking back at all the guest villians/victims who I now recognize from their other works.

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My absolute favorite episodes are the ones that are sort of funny. I'm a fan but I can't remember the titles. Both had that old guy in them who was writing a book:

1) Alien abduction and they go to investigate and they see the Men in Black and the alien from inside the earth and they do an alien autopsy like that crappy fox show.

2) The vampires and both Scully & Mulder tell their sides and in the Scully version the town sheriff (played by Luke Wilson) is sexy and dashing but in Mulder's version he's a total bumbling country idiot. Heh.

Of course you can't really beat the all time creepiest episode of Home. Or the one where the doctor from ER eats people's cancer and at the end we find out Scully has cancer. I remember screaming on my couch when we found out about that. Soo many good eps.

I have them on VHS but I don't have a working VCR anymore so I need to invest in the DVDs.

As for Agent Doggett---that was kind of a losing battle. Honestly when David Duchovny pulled out they should have just ended the show. Because even if Doggett was good and the show was good---so many of the hardcore fans didn't give it a chance. I sort of got sick of it by then and stopped watching it.

[laconicchick]

Oh man, is it bad that I know the episode names of all but one mentioned above (one I don't know because I don't know who Tony Shaloub is)?