Members SuperBacon Posted July 11, 2023 Author Members Posted July 11, 2023 18 hours ago, lars85 said: But the one that had the biggest impact on me was The Host. Yep, watched that one just before bed last night. Not the wisest decision ever. I loved Blood but was a bit annoyed by the lads choice of weapon to start picking people off on the tower. I get you need a high powered scope rifle, but you literally have to do it bullet by bullet. Sod that effort. Quote
Loki Posted July 11, 2023 Posted July 11, 2023 It’s hard to imagine any series having the impact that the X Files did when it arrived. I was about 15 and a boarding school and so I saw the first half of every episode of the first series as we got sent to bed during transmission! Everyone was obsessed with it. Obsessed. The mythology it exposed you to was so different to anything else, suddenly everyone was a conspiracy theorist and subscribing to Fortean Times. I even made an X Files parody film after my A Levels with a mate who was into movie making. I did a rewatch a few years ago but noped out at the point Mulder left the series. Robert Patrick is a great actor but the series had run out of ideas by then. And oof, that reboot series. Awful. Chris Carter had become a very lazy writer. I enjoyed both the feature films though. What I really want to see again is Millennium, Carter’s other series that appears to have gone to tv purgatory. That was excellent. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 11, 2023 Author Members Posted July 11, 2023 4 minutes ago, Loki said: I even made an X Files parody film after my A Levels with a mate who was into movie making. Erm...OK? Quote
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted July 11, 2023 Paid Members Posted July 11, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Loki said: What I really want to see again is Millennium, Carter’s other series that appears to have gone to tv purgatory. That was excellent. I'd love to see this and The Lone Gunmen again. I've never watched either of them properly (same with The X Files) but have good albeit vague fuzzy memories of watching them when I was younger and knowing they were too grown-up and scary for me at the time. It's always annoying when a streaming service has a show but doesn't have any of its spin-offs. Really hurts the completionist in me. Edited July 11, 2023 by Lorne Malvo Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 11, 2023 Author Members Posted July 11, 2023 4 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said: The Lone Gunmen I didn't even know this was a thing! I'm definitely watching that after I've finished The X-Files. American Gothic was another show I remember enjoying as a kid (IIRC it was always on some randomly late time on Channel 4) but I've never revisited it. Quote
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted July 11, 2023 Paid Members Posted July 11, 2023 American Gothic was amazing, but they played the episodes out of order, which killed it as it was an overarching story. It's Dark Skies that I wished had gone on Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 11, 2023 Author Members Posted July 11, 2023 Krycek has turned up. Forgot what an absolute nob he is. Also, Good god. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 11, 2023 Author Members Posted July 11, 2023 It all makes sense now. A paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur and an instability that is a threat to all around him. And Duane Barry. Quote
Paid Members SpiritOfTheForest Posted July 11, 2023 Paid Members Posted July 11, 2023 You chaps have inspired me to start the X Files again myself. Absolutely adored it as a teenager but never actually finished the series. I had no idea it was on Disney Plus! Classes have just finished for the summer. I detect a plan coming together. I'm already looking forward to once again seeing Fox Mulder unnecessarily leaping off things. Quote
Factotum Posted July 11, 2023 Posted July 11, 2023 Put on a few episodes again tonight and it is worrying me how I find myself staring at Duchovny. Quote
Liam O'Rourke Posted July 12, 2023 Posted July 12, 2023 (edited) Started watching the X-Files for the very first time last year and made it through to the end of the original series. There is much to say, but for now I'll leave this here for those who never saw it. https://youtu.be/zg_vVKcVYbo Edited July 12, 2023 by Liam O'Rourke Quote
Merzbow Posted July 12, 2023 Posted July 12, 2023 David's touring here this November, i didn't even know he sung. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 12, 2023 Author Members Posted July 12, 2023 17 minutes ago, Merzbow said: David's touring here this November, i didn't even know he sung. Wonder if he'll give out free PlayStations... ...oh, its not THAT David. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 13, 2023 Author Members Posted July 13, 2023 In the episode The Red Museum Mulder actually says "He’s been injecting those kids with alien DNA" ??? That is PEAK X-Files. I laughed my arse off. Also, the woman he gets off with in 3 is well fit. Quote
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