For serious. I came across this random screencap while reading an article on Cracked:



And without even thinking, completely by reflex, I casually thought to myself, "oh yeah, that's from 'Ghost in the Machine,' season one, episode six. The part where Mulder and Scully are on their way up the elevator in the Eurisko building to interview Benjamin Drake."

God DAMMIT I'm such a nerd.

But I love it.

lordsathien wrote:

So do you have any cards from the 90's card game?

...I have the full collection. And have never found one other person who had any to play with.


I also have every single collectible card in the non-CCG set that has things like characters and episodes.

Two. Binders. Full.




Also: never seen Fringe. Do I need to seek it out?

Sarge wrote:

I'm not as bad as you Hawk, but I do have all the X-Files DVDs and can usually name the episode when someone describes it. I always try to describe Bad Blood to people when we start talking about the show... it's simply something you have to experience for yourself.

Very true. And, while Bad Blood is just plain funny because its funny, the occasional humor XF episode riffs so much on the characters (and their relationships) that its really hard to appreciate without knowing the show.

Take "Small Potatoes," the scene where Mulder walks in on Scully and Eddie (looking like him) about to sleep together. It's a funny situation in general sure, but is far, FAR more so if you understand Mulder and Scully (especially at that point in the series.)

I honestly count one of the major dividing lines between being a child and an adult as watching the final X-files episode. Not only was it the end of an era, I think the bitter, bitter disappointment was good for aging me at least a decade or so. (Although, in their defense, at least Mulder was there.)

Syd Lexia wrote:

As for the X-Files, I love the later seasons. Not as much as the older ones, but Doggett was a fantastic character. Reyes was okay. But the show was at its best when they were fighting a villain-of-the-week, not so much when it was exploring its confusing alien invasion saga. And the humor episodes were always some of the best. Sunshine Days, Hollywood A.D., and Jose Chung's From Outer Space were some of my favorite all-time episodes.

You know, it makes me happy to hear you say that, about the late season episodes. I think I would have liked them--and might now, if I go back, now that it's been many years--but at the time they made me, not angry, but sad. SO much of what I loved about the show was Mulder and Scully that, after Duchovny left, it was pretty much downhill for me. But I do remember thinking Robert Patrick did a good job, and that the scripts themselves weren't bad. It was good TV, it just wasn't my X-files.

The humor ones are among the best, no question. "Humbug," "Small Potatoes" "Bad Blood" (that one might be my favorite.) Just a fantastic writers corps they had on that show. Amazing the things that happen when the right people come together with the right idea at the right time. X-files really was special.

lordsathien wrote:

"Home" is one of the few episodes I can really remember *shudder* Hawk, what're your thoughts on Millenium and The Lone Gunmen?

Home, ugh. I think I've pretty successfully put that one out of my head. The only thing I really remember--that I WANT to remember--about it is that it's the episode that we find out that Mulder is red/green colorblind. (Which makes me wonder how he ever passed the FBI physical, but that's a whole other X-file.)

Also, Mulder uses the phrase, "pumping out the uber-Scullies" which cracks me up every time I think about it.

The Lone Gunmen series was...okay. If the spinoff had happened earlier in the series, before the mythology died wrapped up in its own umbilical cord, I think it could have been great. They're fantastic characters, and the two episodes that focused on them were quite good. By the time the series came around, it was more of a last-ditch effort to get attention for the main show, and not a real showcase for the characters, so it kind of died. Also, it needed Mulder and Scully cameos.

Millennium I never got into. I should have I suppose, since it takes place in the X-files universe, but...eh. it was very much "okay," but I haven't seen them all, and never felt like I was missing much.