Like I said, one of the most disturbing hours of TV I’ve ever watched. You know it’s gonna be fucked from the very first scene.
Everyone raves over Black Mirror now, but I don’t recall the plot details of any of those with as much detail as I do a 23-year old episode of the X-Files.
In a modern comparison, it’s like Dean says in Supernatural: He hates it when it’s just people. Monsters are predictable. Humans are fucking crazy.
Season 1, Episode 24 Erlenmeyer Flask
Mulder and Scully find confirmed alien DNA and a doctor who injected it into himself
Solid season finale. Immediately after I complained about Scully still being skeptical, she came around and apologized to Spooky. The FBI murders count is really starting to tick up.
I’m not a doctor like Skully, but it seems to me that opening up the corpse-bag of someone who just died of an unknown, highly contagious and 100% deadly disease with no protective gear might be a bad idea.
Your mini-reviews make this a great experience watching along at my leisure, catface. Much thanks for being so generous with your time and thoughts on the show.
Up to season 8 already from this thread watching while exercising or doing bookwork. Forgot about Doggett until now.
Poor Doggett, I actually like Robert Patrick, but trying to continue the series without Fox was such a poor idea.
It’s been better than I remember actually. His thing with Reyes and shit makes it decent still. I think I had Duchovny fanboi judgments watching it the first time. Still pretty solid imo. Season 9 Episode 8 atm.
I might have to give it a rewatch then
It’s crazy seeing how many people have been in single episodes we never heard of then that are famous now.
I have tried to watch it a few times but Scully ruins it each time. How many aliens and other weird shit do you need to see? You are not a scientist, you are not curious, you are not interested, you are awful.
This happens by like episode 5 and just keeps going…
Yeah, in real life Scully would have either become a believer or had a psychotic breakdown. The writers weren’t really thinking one step ahead.
I can only get past it by claiming she’s an intentional wet blanket from the the FBI, but that starts to fail in season 2.
Easily the most annoying part of the show is that Mulder’s dopey instincts turn out to be correct almost all the time. The writers should have included more episodes where Scully gets to be right and Mulder looks like a doofus.
Did not know!!!
After David E. Kelley’s crossover strategy gave a much-needed ratings boost to his other shows, he got the brilliant idea to crossover his show Picket Fences with The X-Files.
Kelley repeated this maneuver with his Boston Public, Ally McBeal , and Boston Legal shows. Thereafter, many other crossovers occurred including shows not created by Kelley.
Kelley’s most elaborate crossover was only partially successful. He sought to crossover an episode of his Picket Fences with Chris Carter’s The X-Files . Both shows aired Friday nights, but on different networks. The intent was to begin the story on one show, then hope viewers would switch channels to watch the conclusion on another network.
CBS balked, and both scripts were rewritten, with The X-Files’ Fox Mulder no longer set to appear on Picket Fences . Yet, both episodes deal with Wisconsin and cows, with Fences referencing an FBI investigation in a neighboring town.
http://www.poobala.com/picketandxfiles.html
The X-File episode, “Red Museum”, is a standalone story involving cows, teenagers and injected alien DNA in a small Wisconsin town… just not Rome. Instead it was the town of Delta Glen. But the Picket Fences episode is a different story…
The Picket Fences episode “Away In A Manger” also had a story concerning some freaky cow crap… so to speak. And it was independent of what went on in The X-Files. But it also clearly references the events of The X-Files episodes as having happened in the neighboring town of Delta Glen. Specific plot points and supporting characters are mentioned.
Of course Mulder and Scully aren’t mentioned by name. That would attract attention from the network. When the cow calamities begin in Rome, one character starts going on about stuff that went on over in Delta Glen. Weird stuff happened there involving alien DNA, cows, a plane crash, and a doctor named Larsen - all from The X-Files “Red Museum” episode. And the same character talks about how they heard the F.B.I. was investigating all of it. No agent names of course. Everyone figures the dude saying this is just kooky. I mean, what F.B.I. agents would investigate such crazy stuff?