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Post by Katie on Nov 30, 2018 6:01:54 GMT -5
Well, I'm going to start pulling out my X-Files boxset and give it a workout. So I'm starting this thread for reviews hopefully soon. I'm going to watch them in order, seeing reruns on television got me in the mood.
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Post by Tim on Nov 30, 2018 12:27:36 GMT -5
Go for it, Katie. Pretty soon, most of our shows will be shutting down for Christmas. Gotta find a way to pass the time.
Can't wait to see your reviews.
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Post by Katie on Dec 1, 2018 21:02:55 GMT -5
Thanks, Tim. We certainly do need to pass the time.
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Post by Jean on Dec 11, 2018 20:21:55 GMT -5
How exciting, I look forward to it when the television season is on Christmas break.
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Post by Tim on Dec 12, 2018 0:46:13 GMT -5
Which starts after this week. All the CW shows will be gone for about a month.
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Post by Katie on Dec 21, 2018 18:57:27 GMT -5
Well my boxset is cracked opened, and been rewatching it.
Episode 1.01: Pilot
Firstly how amazing is X-Files in remastered HD. Yes I had the Blu-Ray but never watched them all in order. Just episodes here and there in the past.
The episode starts pretty typical, A girl was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a forest.
We then meet Scully and she has her first encounter or sees Smoking Man watching.
But the first meeting between Mulder and Scully is so fun. (Also Smoking Man had been listening in their first meeting the whole time with camera's and had been keeping tabs on them, a revelation we will learn in a later season)
Here we meet a young FBI agent Mulder who always seems to know more than anyone else, but still is in the basement even after 25 years. LOL
But I love how they really have great chemistry already. Scully is intersted to listen to Mulder and his theories, but still wants to back them all up with hard proof.
Scully is basically the viewers in a way. The viewer who follows the episode through her really.
We learn Time is a universal constant, it can not disappear ... but now we are not so sure anymore. Mulder stops to draw an X on the street, the way Scully looks is clearly me and the viewers I'm sure.
The dynamics between these two characters is perfect. A man and a woman discussing as an equal, because if Mulder is always a step ahead of Scully, Scully does not get anybody else's feet. This was so perfect for how a man and woman should be equal in a television series. Which might not be so common in the early 90s or earlier right?
So much mystery, and I think the pilot was perfect, as always. A real great one. At the end of this first episode we do not know what really happened to the boys who graduated in 89 at Bellefleur. They were kidnapped by a light, as Billy Miles claims?
Then Smoking Man goes to the secret base and stores the evidence.
But this pilot leaves you wanting more.
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Post by Katie on Dec 21, 2018 19:05:33 GMT -5
Episode 1.02: Deep Throat
We meet our recurring character Deep Throat. Seth Green from Buffy and Family Guy fame is in this a young 19 or 20 year old here.
The X-Files really went all out in the second one with aircrafts and Area 51. Which I think was a fitting way to follow from the aliens and Smoking Man from episode 1.
Lots to pull out from this episode. The idea that the US military is flying UFOs and that pilots are reduced to test-driving them. Then we are introduced to Deep Throat and his supposed concern over Mulder’s career and well-being; watching him and being mysterios and interesting.
Finally, we meet a couple of super stoner kids, headed by Seth Green himself, who regularly go onto the base to watch the airshow and hunt for aliens and UFO's. and who confirm the UFO pictures obtained by Mulder.
Mulder and Scully first see the incredible aircraft at night after getting directions from some locals. Scully and Mulder go back and forth on their opinions. Mulder can't resist and goes off leaving Scully to investigate, and gets captured and has his memory wiped when of course he sees the truth.
The ending of this episode is the best part. The scary part is Scully discovers the military identity of a man who was posing as a reporter and uses him as a hostage to exchange for Mulder. She successfully retrieves Mulder in a tense standoff with the base, only to discover that Mulder has no memory of how he got there, which is approximately the last twenty four hours of his life.
The final scene with Mulder and Deep Throat is really good. Deep Throat warns Mulder that their lives might be in danger and confirms what Mulder already knows about the aircraft. He leaves with the assurance that “they’ve” been here for a long, long time. Aliens, of course right.
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Post by Tim on Dec 22, 2018 0:31:42 GMT -5
Must be fun to watch those earlier episodes. They were much more stand alone at the start (like SPN would be, a decade later).
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Post by Jean on Dec 22, 2018 22:17:27 GMT -5
Well my boxset is cracked opened, and been rewatching it. Wonderful Katie.
They did a good job with the remaster.
I remember that. Yes he listened in on their first meeting.
Sadly they never left the basement after 25 years. I agree, Scully is the viewers eyes.
They are equals.
I love the pilot so much. It really set things up so well.
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Post by Katie on Dec 23, 2018 9:05:53 GMT -5
Well my boxset is cracked opened, and been rewatching it. Wonderful Katie.
They did a good job with the remaster. Didn't they ever. He sure did. Sadly they never got any promotion. I agree, and sadly these days so many pilots just are not as well paced like they used to do it. So many keep cramming so much in.
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Post by Tim on Dec 23, 2018 12:46:15 GMT -5
At first the Smoking Man seems like a background character. Of course, we soon learn he's much more than that.
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Post by Katie on Dec 25, 2018 5:10:31 GMT -5
At first the Smoking Man seems like a background character. Of course, we soon learn he's much more than that. That's right. I like how they build him up. I liked the mystery that led to a huge role later on.
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Post by Tim on Dec 25, 2018 12:47:36 GMT -5
Yeah, old Smokey was always lurking in the background. You got the impression that there was more to this guy that met the eye.
Of course, that was eventually revealed to all.
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Post by Katie on Jan 16, 2019 20:34:10 GMT -5
I liked how they built him up in the series.
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Post by Tim on Jan 17, 2019 0:25:40 GMT -5
Yeah, at first you wondered who this guy was. By the end, you realized that he's had an impact on Mulder's life, from day one (he is the biological father of Mulder, after all).
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