The X-Files

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Duchovny didn't "bail," he fulfilled his contract and decided not to renew it because he saw the direction the show was heading. He gave them eight years, which seems more than fair to me. I actually blame everyone else for going on without him, since it's clear in retrospect that they had nowhere left to go, no intention of wrapping things up in any logical, satisfying way, and were all just in it for more $$.

And Robert Patrick? Most boring actor ever. And friggin UGLY. His micromouth scared me.

But I maintain that during its glory years, XF was the best show on TV, and to this day, nothing has beaten it.

[ladymadonna]

I might just have to ask Santa for the DVD's this year. Count me in as a "Monster of the Week" fan. Most of the mythology episodes after Season Two just bored me to tears.

"Home" was probably the most disturbing, gross, captivating, train-wreck, can't-stop-watching-the-sickness episode of TV ever produced. I need to own it! ;D I couldn't get enough of Flukeman, Lightening Boy, Giant 'Gator, Vampire Serial Killer, etc. Because I am a sick, twisted individual, lol.

Plus, DD used to be so hot.

[iceblink]

I personally was scarred for life by Fat-Sucking Dude Who Picked Up Chicks Online. Bleah!

P.S. Skinner is hot.

[kateln]

jensational said:

Oh, another one that I liked was Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose with Peter Boyle. He could see how people would die. I love it purely for the line that he says after Mulder pisses him off: "Autoerotic aphyxiation is a horrible and lonely way to die." and Mulder says something like "Why would you tell me that?"

Heh. I love whenever they paint Mulder as perv.

Hee! I saw one on TV recently which had a scene where you see Mulder watching a video and it sounds like porn...it turns out that it's the video of bigfoot walking through the woods...

I loved the first few seasons of this show--though I prefer the MOTW to the mytharc episodes, as well--and the "funny" episodes are my favorite. I love the one where they're in the town made up of sideshow performers--The Sheriff is "Jim, Jim the Dogface Boy".

[tamaradixon]

Luke Wilson was so hot as the vampire Sherriff (for some reason I think I'm spelling that wrong??). I loved that episode. Season 5 rocked.

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"Clyde Bruckman" is incredible! "Small Potatoes" (fertility clinic babies born with tails) is another gem. "Humbug" might just be my fave. It's the freakshow ep with the Fiji Mermaid, Vincent Schiavelli's detachable parasitic twin, Jim Rose, the acerbic Michael Anderson [later of "Carnivale"] and, of course, "Jim-Jim" the Dogfaced Boy. So many wonderful lines, including the classic, "We're exhuming your... potato" and the one on my avatar.
I also have a great fondness for "Home" (yeah, I know: sick, sick, yadda, yadda...) I adore the uniquely-mobile, mutated Ma Peacock, with her little mechanic's rolling platform under the bed. For years, all my friends have had to do to put me into hysterics is imitate her speech about family values: "Ah kin tell you ain't got no chirrun. Thuh praaaaaaahd... thuh luuuuuuuhv... "
"Squeeze" and "Tooms" are special, because I actually got a phone call from Tooms himself, actor Doug Hutchison. I had formed a group within an X-Files fan board: "The Bile Brigade," devoted to Doug, Tooms and all things mutated, dark and squicky. Our existence was brought to Doug's attention and he called me at home after "Tooms" aired and we had a lovely chat. *SQUEEEEEEE!* (Fangirl scream, in spite of the fact that I'm ages older than Doug. What a sweetheart and cutie and quite naughty to boot!) While I never actually wrote any fanfic, "The Bile Brigade" speculated about possible causes for Tooms's mutations and came up with some fairly complicated theories.
I also "founded" a fan group called "Straight Women In Love With Scully," which acronymed into "SWILS" (hee!)
And, last but not least, I met Mr. Noir through that X-Files board and the rest is history. So yeah, I'm a bona fide "X-Phile" and most definitely of the Monster of the Week persuasion. ;D

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kateln said:

Hee! I saw one on TV recently which had a scene where you see Mulder watching a video and it sounds like porn...it turns out that it's the video of bigfoot walking through the woods...

Not only that, but Mulder's watching it in bed with one hand under the blankets!
That's "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and is one of my very favorites ever.

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That's "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and is one of my very favorites ever.

I knew I was forgetting one! One of the best eps ever! Devastatingly funny from start to finish. Love the Harryhousen aliens: "ROCKY!!"

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Whatever happened to Darren Morgan anyway? The guy wrote the best X-Files episodes ever, then vanished into the night? I remember watching the Emmys when he won for writing Clyde Bruckman and squealing like a teenager, I was so happy for him.

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I think what happened was the stress of having to top himself got to be too much so he retired. A really sad sidenote, Frank Spotnitz got him to write again and asked him to do an episode of Night Stalker. The day after he turned in his finished script the show was cancelled.