So I am watching the "crappy" x-files seasons

[ClintP]

And I am kind of digging it. I only got to watch a handful of episodes when they originally aired because I was working in college and kind of mad with the no Mulder stuff. I am om the 4th episode of season 8 and I am starting to come around. John Dogget's character is not so bad.

I will watch more of course and report back to you again. I guess thanks for making me stick it with EVS.

[Joe Kalicki]

Yetserday my friend told me seasons 7-9 were his favorite.

[ClintP]

Yetserday my friend told me seasons 7-9 were his favorite.

damn... I like many episodes from all the seasons. I think I like 2-5 the most and a few from 6 and 7.

[Joe Kalicki]

damn... I like many episodes from all the seasons. I think I like 2-5 the most and a few from 6 and 7.

I never watched it after the movie came out, but my roomate has all the DVDs so I'm about halfway through season 1 so far. It's not very good right yet.

[ClintP]

I laugh every time I see my old car in those early episodes. I had a 91 olds cutlas ciera and that fucker is their rental for like every case for the first 2 seasons. :lol:

[(akaRyanHoffman)]

Yeah, I purchased seasons 1-7 earlier this year and I'm on the second disc of season one. I know it gets better, because I've seen many good episodes of The X-Files, but I can't wait for it to get better.

[Ethan Van Sciver]

The first season of XFILES is rough. A little sketchy. And Gillian Anderson isn't made up or lit properly yet. Hang in there.

And yes, Seasons 8 and 9 are really good stuff. I loved them.

[ClintP]

I just watched the episode where the guy gets high on tree bark and kills people in their sleep. It was an ok episode, but the others so far have been pretty good. I think they could have done a spin off show and just ended the main series when Mulder left and it would have been received alot better than it was. I do like Dogget's old school detective role in the X-Files quite a bit. It is cool to see Scully as the believer and Dogget pretty much as the old Scully in skepticism.

[ClintP]

Just watched the episode where the little Indian fella crawls up people's ass or something. I have noticed that the episodes are pretty interesting, but they seem to not really explain much of anything in a lazy sort of writing way. It is kind of sad really since the feel of the show is still pretty good and has a nice dynamic.

The show does suffer greatly in a lack of humor that can only be attributed to Mulder being gone. God they should not have continued on without him... Or at least they should have cast Bruce Campbell to give this show some humor. It is greatly missed.

[NaughTibbittz]

And I am kind of digging it. I only got to watch a handful of episodes when they originally aired because I was working in college and kind of mad with the no Mulder stuff. I am om the 4th episode of season 8 and I am starting to come around. John Dogget's character is not so bad.

I will watch more of course and report back to you again. I guess thanks for making me stick it with EVS.
Doggett rules. I like the character, and it's a good actor in the part. His chemistry with Mulder was great.

But the scripts in those last season are VERY uneven and often outrightly stupid. The series finale was abysmal.

[Sy-Klone]

Sci-Fi Channel aired the two-part series finale earlier this week, and I watched it for the first time since it aired.

It was very disappointing. I understand why Carter made the choices he did with that episode, but it still seemed to squander the ending of the series. We spent an hour in dry military tribunal proceedings. I think Carter felt like he needed to use that device to tie the series together and pull all the story elements from the nine seasons of the show into a cohesive summary.

But I'd have rather had a finale that spotlighted what made The X-Files so great: Mulder and Scully, a believer and a scientist, working together to explore the paranormal. Instead we got Mulder on trial for the death of a supersoldier and a lot of hand-wringing about a shadow government.

I wouldn't say it was terrible. I would say that it's not the highest note to leave the series (or the characters) on.

I'd have almost preferred it if Carter gave us absolute closure on Mulder and Scully in Season 7/8 and then "started over" with Doggett and Reyes. Find a new "conspiracy" or a new "mythology" for those characters, and start over. Instead, Carter plopped Doggett and Reyes into the ongoing story/mythology involving Mulder and Scully, which did no favors to the characters or the actors (and in both instances, the characters and actors had great potential).

[ClintP]

Ok, I just watched the episode where they found Mulder and he is all jacked up from those dirty alien bastards. Dogget is a cool character. I have finally accepted this. Reyes is still as annoying to me as ever. I still wish harm upon her.

[ClintP]

Almost done with season 8. Pretty good stuff. I may have to take back my hateraid that I spewed out over this when it aired.

[Jef UK]

The ones that are just monster of the week episodes are good!

The continuing mythology and having Skully no longer be skeptical were terrible.

[ClintP]

I think I hate you now Ethan. I just watched the second to last episode and it looked like Dogget and Reyes finally hooked up. After re-watching and watching some of these for the first time, I actually don't hate Reyes anymore and think she is ok. And I really like Dogget. He is a hard core cop/detective type kind of guy. Seeing him come to accepting weirdness was pretty cool too. I think Mulder, Scully, Reyes, and Dogget should move on and make a ghostbusters like team. Plenty of different personalities to keep it interesting.

[Anthony ANMPH Hary]

What are your thoughts on the rumors of the upcoming movie?

[ClintP]

What are your thoughts on the rumors of the upcoming movie?

Damn excited! I love X-Files almost as much as I love Indiana Jones. Not quite, but close. I think I heard that it takes place during the middle seasons where I wish it would just take place after all the seasons ended.

I like the fact that they seem to be running with the basics that made the show great to begin with, like a good old fashion paranormal theme and play up their subtle romantic relationship. It should be good, it nothing else than there is a lot of love with all the people involved.

[Anthony ANMPH Hary]

Damn excited! I love X-Files almost as much as I love Indiana Jones. Not quite, but close. I think I heard that it takes place during the middle seasons where I wish it would just take place after all the seasons ended.

I like the fact that they seem to be running with the basics that made the show great to begin with, like a good old fashion paranormal theme and play up their subtle romantic relationship. It should be good, it nothing else than there is a lot of love with all the people involved.


Right. I hope running the movie in the middle of the time line like that doesn't screw with continuity.

[ClintP]

Right. I hope running the movie in the middle of the time line like that doesn't screw with continuity.

From what Chris Carter has said, I think it will basically stand on it's own 100% which I think is a smart move. I hope enough people go check it out so we get more, so having it kind of re-spark the franchise seems like a good idea.

[ClintP]

I watched the finale last night. It was not so good, but it did wind things down for the show. It had some lame moments, but I did like the fact that Mulder was seeing all the lost folk who were part of the cause along the way and that he is a believer in something more now too.

I hope I never see another finale based around some trial (this and Seinfeld)

[artimoff]

About a year after X-Files went off the air, there was a rumor that Fox wanted to spin off the Dogget character in a series of made for TV movies. He wouldn't have been investigating X-Files cases, just normal ones.

[ClintP]

About a year after X-Files went off the air, there was a rumor that Fox wanted to spin off the Dogget character in a series of made for TV movies. He wouldn't have been investigating X-Files cases, just normal ones.

That would have been pretty sweet. Is the actor who played him doing anything these days? I would like to see more of his acting. He really made me like a character I initially hated.

[artimoff]

That would have been pretty sweet. Is the actor who played him doing anything these days? I would like to see more of his acting. He really made me like a character I initially hated.

He was Johnny Cash's father in Walk the Line.