Finally found the iconic FBI office! Can’t believe LEGO is bringing this to life. So ready for some late-night build sessions.

partway through s11, had a hard enough time with s10. does it get better?? the mandela effect episode is really doing me in and im so close to giving up. someone pls just tell me it's worth it (even though ill probably just finish it anyway bc i love them too much)

Hi. First time watching this show. It was great, I was watching the whole show in order with the films included, and today I started the tenth season and everything feels off. What happened?

I appreciate a lot about "Fire". I really like how Scully works the case while Mulder is clearly distracted and/or umm...incapacitated, and yet cares for him and is sympathetic to his phobia. I think inserting Phoebe between Mulder and Scully is an effective way to develop Mulder's past and his and Scully's partnership. It IS a hoary trope too, but in 1993, we didn't mind such tropes. Phoebe is believable as an old Mulder flame, and along with her willingness to entertain Mulder's ideas, she has his playful sense of humor too. She of course, is more reckless than Mulder, and in this way is a bit of a cautionary foil.

I like the practical fire effects. The scene of Mulder crawling through the burning hall is just lit in a way CGI could never achieve. The X-Files needed iconic images to climb into the mainstream, images that would gave would-be viewers a feel for the show. Season 1 promo materials showed two serious-looking agents and a bevy of assorted images. We can imagine someone picking up a a magazine with an X-Files feature in '93: 'Wow, this show has everything: aliens, monsters, UFOs, creepy kids, and look there, people on fire!'

And of course, "Fire" isn't an all-time classic, likable though it may be. Chris Carter created an entire show about serial killers, and learned what made for a great TV serial killer. Maybe Cecil L'Ively had to walk so Donnie Pfaster could run, but Cecil is all spirit and no motive. Like, maybe Mulder should've said to Phoebe, "In all my years working violent crimes, I never saw a killer cackle and laugh maniacally as they killed." There's a nice thread through the episode of Cecil's working class resentment of his employers, but maybe his motivation is erotomania too.

Whatever Cecil is thinking, it's a little '60s comic-booky. His powers are too. Sort of a Stan Lee pairing: pyrokinesis and speedy regenerative tissue (which, he'll need to survive all those fires!).

Finally, Mulder's pyrophobia. Chris, this is what happens when you don't have a series bible, bruh. 33 years later on a rewatch, this discarded Mulder trait takes me out of your episode as I watch. :(

A fun, playful and cute, entertaining, episode with some wow-factor effects and makeup.

🔥🔥🔥 out of 5.

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My thoughts about The X-Files:

• Space
• Fallen Angel
• Eve
• Fire

Rick Worley (who previously did that 5-hour video on the mythology I also highly recommend) has done an analytical look at the differences between all the cuts of IWTB. This digs into not just the obvious differences we all know, but where exactly some shots are shorter/longer or where alternate takes were used. It’s definitely more extensive than appears on first glance.

Now I disagree with Rick that none of the deletions are a disservice to Scully’s subplot (which is my main issue with the VF cut), or that the movie shouldn’t have to deal with things left over from the original series (being a movie that comes after the original show ended is it’s place in the timeline and editing it with an eye towards what happened in the revival doesn’t make sense to me). But, I agree that the criticism that we don’t get to know more about the villains is wrong, we don’t need to, and the real “Frankenstein” element is the questionable lengths (to different degrees) that both they and Scully go to in order to save someone’s life (to this end, one of the best changes is intercutting the operation with the second abducted woman in captivity). And, of course, I agree generally that fans not getting what they want isn’t a reason to take away this franchise from Carter.

I am doing a rewatch with a friend who has never seen the show. I have been waiting patiently to get past IWTB so I can show her the 20th Anniversary Paleyfest with Kevin Uhlich. We are now in the revival and I excitedly went to share this delight with her and I can’t find it!!!!

Does anyone know how to access it? Find it? I have a VPN and can switch countries. I’m in Canada and I did a search in the US as well.

There is a crappy copy on YT but the quality is really bad. The expressions on their faces really adds to how great it is!

Of course: parallel thinking and coincidences happen, I just can’t help but feel that the writer in the episode is very much Alan Wake coded.

Speaking of which, a direct Alan Wake episode of the X Files would make a whole lot of sense and would have been a cool thing to see.

Imagine Scully and Mulder in Bright Falls, Washington!?

We were watching S6E09 S.R. 819 last night (great episode) and there's a hilarious scene where someone obviously throws a pigeon in shot but it hits the main actor in the side of the head.

Sorry for the long clip but it's best in slow mo. 😂

The X-files is way funnier than I remember

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Season 5 ep 19

And I am absolutely blown away. This feels less like a MOTW X-File and more like a glimpse into a Thomas Harris psychological thriller. Eerily similar to Red Dragon (misogynist killer spawned from a matriarchal family) and Silence of the Lambs (female agent in physical and emotional distress), the influences are definitely there.

GA's acting is absolutely top tier. Her scene with the mental health specialist was phenomenal, and her final teary eye breakdown hit me hard. Like, really hard. My (M/49) stomach sank. That hug from Mulder must've felt so good after being so, so low. Where's my box of tissues?

"Girly girl..." One of the scariest villains on TV for sure. Shapeshifter? Alien? Or all too human? That is the scariest part... whatever Donnie may be, he's the most "of this Earth" antagonist, far closer to real life than one could imagine. Kudos to Nick Chinlund for a chilling performance.

This is definitely a high ranking episode for me, an instant must-watch-again favorite. Wow. Coming off of Excelsis Dei and Aubrey, Irresistible was the perfect, very-much-needed surprise episode.

Swooning over.

I always love seeing where Scully and Mulder differ and how they hash out their arguments. They're such unbelievably well-written characters-- dynamic, nuanced, flawed.

I watched it as a kid in the 90’s but I don’t remember any of it. I have an interest in weirdness and cryptids and extraterrestrials, so this show is right up my alley. It’s a fantastic show!

“Ice” episode was amazing, I thought it was over until they explained organisms living in ice on the news broadcast. It’s still very relevant today, this show seems very prophetic in that sense.

I was disappointed by the Jersey Devil episode because it had nothing to do with the Jersey Devil it seemed but ended up being just a Neanderthal woman. Interested to see what the other episodes have in store!