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Any X-Files fans here?

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Shelly21

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I know it's a 90's show, but I just recently got into it.

Of course I caught a show or two in the past, but thanks to Netflix, I'm started from the beginning. I'm at Season One, DVD 5.

I just noticed one thing interesting, Scully is always the one who gets beat up, hurt, shot at.... more often than Mulder. Anyone else noticed that?
 
Wait until season 8 when something much worse happens to mulder....Although the cancer that happens to Scully is pretty bad...I dont know, I think it equals out in the end.

That show was great. I was very sad when it went off the air, but there is supposed to be a second movie sometime. I would be content with the series continuing in movie form, but I am not sure it will happen.



 
You forgot how Scully is always dropping her gun when she needs it the most. I did love this show, but I bailed on it after Duchovney left.
 
Originally posted by: ECUHITMAN
Wait until season 8 when something much worse happens to mulder....Although the cancer that happens to Scully is pretty bad...I dont know, I think it equals out in the end.

That show was great. I was very sad when it went off the air, but there is supposed to be a second movie sometime. I would be content with the series continuing in movie form, but I am not sure it will happen.
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WTF... maybe you want to put a spoiler alert there??? The dude is on season one...
 
We're a little farther up than you here. We've got season two, discs four and five out right now. But yeah, we've gotten a rekindled interest in them as well. There are many episodes I've never seen and the last few seasons I got so lost from missing episodes here and there that I gave up completely. Gotta love netflix. Otherwise I would never get to see these episodes.
 
It got a bit repetitive after a while, & when Mulder (Duchovny) left, it went downhill.

But i still loved the show; one of the best i ever watched.
 
I only watched a few episodes, but they all seemed to be the same thing over, and over, and over, and over again. Thus I could never get into it.

Formula for all the shows I saw:
[*]Aliens don't exist. Everyone says so.
[*]Odd things happen.
[*]Aliens do exist.
[*]But wait, maybe they don't...
[*]Repeat for next show.


Is there actually a difference among all the episodes? Or is this same formula the only thing they ever did?
 
Big time fan but due to college I had to stop watching about 3/4's through. I bought Seasons 1-9 though in one felled swooped. I don't like buy season by season of any show (that has concluded) unless there are some great deals (ie Friends).
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Big time fan but due to college I had to stop watching about 3/4's through. I bought Seasons 1-9 though in one felled swooped. I don't like buy season by season of any show (that has concluded) unless there are some great deals (ie Friends).
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I try not to think about the fact that I spent about $700 on all nine seasons. I bought them as they were released. I know I wouldn't be able to spend that much money at one time.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
I only watched a few episodes, but they all seemed to be the same thing over, and over, and over, and over again. Thus I could never get into it.

Formula for all the shows I saw:
[*]Aliens don't exist. Everyone says so.
[*]Odd things happen.
[*]Aliens do exist.
[*]But wait, maybe they don't...
[*]Repeat for next show.


Is there actually a difference among all the episodes? Or is this same formula the only thing they ever did?
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Most of the episodes aren't even about aliens.
 
That's pretty unbelievable <---impressed, not calling you a liar. They retailed for over $100 a piece and you got them for under $80 shipped!
 
I've only seen a handful of epidodes and the movie, but none of them recently. I kinda want to see more sometime, watching the stuff in order would be cool.

But back to my crappy homework...
 
My friend bought Seasons 1-7 the beginning of last summer and it has been our goal to watch them all in sequence. At the end of this summer when my friend left for college, we had gotten to the first disc of Season 7. I have seen about 90% of the episodes from seasons 1-6 (cuz I missed a few due to my girlfriend, but none were plot moving episodes)

X-Files Highlights (forgive me, I dont know the names of episodes):
Mulder in the perfect neighborhood episode: (to Scully who is undercover as his wife) "Woman, get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich!!"

Mulder in this weird nonsequential dreamland type episode -- He just looks normal and then randomly screams with the funniest scream and expression on his face.

Skinner in the World War II ship episode: "God bless America, now get the hell out of here"


X-Files notes:
Mulder is right about 98% of the time, and when Scully is right she is usually saving Mulder from doom.
Scully misses every early UFO encounter from the first few seasons which Mulder sees.
Deep Throat looks like one of my high school teachers, we called him "Mr. Chance"
Dwayne Berry is from the same town as one of my friends from VA, so my friend has been called Dwayne Berry ever since.
There is no such thing as Lucky Boy restaurants in Costa Mesa, CA (I live in Newport Beach on the Costa Mesa side border) in the shark guy episode in Season 7
Krycheck(sp?) is a bastard
Prepare to wait until season 7 to have Mulder and Scully share a kiss.


Overall it's a great series once you see all the major plot moving episodes. If I had watched them on TV, I would have probably misses a few episodes and also not known how and why some things happened (like when Mulder breaks his arm, etc). If you miss the plot movers it's hard to understand what's going on.

Once this is done, we are going to watch all seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. "There are FOUR LIGHTS"

 
the series sagged at the end when they sent the t-1000 back in time to replace david duchovny. the show coulda still been cool if agent dogbert could be bullet resistant like the aliens were but...

one of the best episodes is the matrix-spoof. FPS corporation baby!!
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: notfred
Most of the episodes aren't even about aliens.
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Maybe I just saw 3 in a row. All were just almost identical. I never watched again.
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Yeah, there's way more to it than that. There's been vampires, that lightning kid, ghosts, the Lone Gunmen... if I had to make up a statistic for the percentage of shows dealing with aliens, I'd put it no higher than 25%.
 
Originally posted by: Shelly21
I know it's a 90's show, but I just recently got into it.

Of course I caught a show or two in the past, but thanks to Netflix, I'm started from the beginning. I'm at Season One, DVD 5.

I just noticed one thing interesting, Scully is always the one who gets beat up, hurt, shot at.... more often than Mulder. Anyone else noticed that?
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I was not following it very much but I started to see it from the beginning. I'm only at DVD 3 of season 1.
Great show.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Yeah, there's way more to it than that. There's been vampires, that lightning kid, ghosts, the Lone Gunmen... if I had to make up a statistic for the percentage of shows dealing with aliens, I'd put it no higher than 25%.
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Did those shows follow a formula like this:
[*]Vampires don't exist. Everyone says so.
[*]Odd things happen.
[*]Vampires do exist.
[*]But wait, maybe they don't...
[*]Repeat for next show.

or

[*]Ghosts don't exist. Everyone says so.
[*]Odd things happen.
[*]Ghosts do exist.
[*]But wait, maybe they don't...
[*]Repeat for next show.

If not, maybe I'll watch it next time I see it on.
 
I loved this show, I too stopped watching it after Duchovny left, Robert Patrick is good but it wasn't the same. On a side note, I saw David Duchovny at a Dodgers Game a couple of weeks ago.
 
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