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Re: 'The X-Files' Is Returning After 13 Years
« Reply #30 on: January 23, 2016, 04:04:33 pm »
How long ago did that happen "Z" ?

Must have seemed rather strange and  a surprise having some stranger call around claiming to be a Spook !

Do you think this was from your ATS days ? or from on other forums ? Did he ever mention such forums ?

Did you / John  allow him to talk with both of you ?

or did you just have some initial conversation with him ?

Did you have your contact check him out ?

Do you believe him that you may only know 3% of the real truth ?

With ref to you and the Average person  I would have thought your Average present PRC members may know numerous % more than the average Joe...and you know numerous % more than most PRC members..

How yours and Johns Knowledge compare..to the truth..I would had thought maybe at least 10%  :) 

If it is only 3% we all have a lot to learn...too much for the average lifetime...by the seem of it... ???


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Hey I had "someone" come over to my house and he said he worked for some high up spook agency and wanted to talk to me and John. He told us that on a scale of 1-100 the public knew 1% of the truth and we were colser to 2-3%

The difference here is that my 'someone' gave me his real name and told me to have him checked out with my source at the pentgon and when he dropped by his car had DIA/AF Intel parking stickers in the window
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Re: 'The X-Files' Is Returning After 13 Years
« Reply #31 on: January 23, 2016, 04:25:18 pm »
Every Episode of The X-Files, Ranked From Worst to Best.

Part 1



Now that the return of The X-Files is upon us, it’s the perfect time to revisit all nine seasons and 202 episodes* of the original series before we’re thrust back into the world of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (and Walter Skinner and John Doggett and, yes, Monica Reyes). In the ’90s, there was no better place to get a dose of conspiracy paranoia and nutty sci-fi, not to mention butterflies in your stomach watching David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s tension build. At its heart, the series was about confronting the darkness within ourselves — you know, the crippling doubt of the unknown, the fear of what’s to come. It just used aliens and monsters to explore that in a way that decades later, still resonates with viewers.

As a refresher course for the series we all fell in love with, and then slowly fell out of love with in later seasons, only to love once again once nostalgia kicked in, I’ve ranked every episode. These rankings are based on numerous factors: enjoyability, chemistry of the leads, scariness of the monsters, and effectives of the jokes, to name a just few things (obviously technical factors are at play too). There are a lot of episodes of this show, so try your best to wade through through the downright awful ones (or just skip them, where I’ve suggested).

That said, it’s best to be forewarned that while the post-Mulder episodes of the series aren’t spectacular pieces of television, I find season eight incredibly underrated (and miles better than season seven, where David Duchovny seems as bored as all of us were at that point), and I actually like not only John Doggett, but Monica Reyes, too. Please don’t stop reading. Since every episode is available on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, you, too, can revisit the series and decide for yourself. The rebooted X-Files premieres as a six-part mini-series starting January 24 on Fox.

* There were 202 episodes of The X-Files, but for the purposes of this list, I considered two-part episodes a single entry. This equals 182 entries.

182. "Fight Club" (Season 7, Episode 20)
Season 7 is the series' most self-referential season. Every episode feels like one meta joke after the other, until it all collapses on itself in one of the worst hours of television you'll ever experience. Kathy Griffin's attempt to pull off the role of two twins (the product of a sperm-bank donor to two different women) is probably the scariest thing to ever appear on The X-Files.

181. "First Person Shooter" (Season 7, Episode 13)
Cyberpunk heroes William Gibson and Tom Maddock wrote two episodes over the course of the series, which is very awesome in theory. Unfortunately, their second episode is a goddamn mess. Mulder and Scully go into a virtual-reality world, and it's just as late-'90s/early-'00s as it sounds. It's like a bad episode of Freakylinks. Actually, that’d probably just be a regular episode of Freakylinks.

180. “Jump the Shark” (Season 9, Episode 15)
I’ve softened on this episode over the years. When it first aired, I resented killing off the Lone Gunmen as some sort of misguided “screw you” to Fox for canceling the spinoff series. Upon rewatch, I actually find the episode pretty amusing and watchable for a random episode of The Lone Gunmen. Except this isn’t that show. It’s The X-Files, and to kill off three important characters like that on a show where none of the main characters ever die means it should be a big friging deal. And an episode about shark cartilage and a lame “let’s kill ourselves to save a conference room full of people” episode is beyond rude. Also, you’ve got David Duchovny back for the series finale in four episodes — you don’t get to kill off the Lone Gunmen in an episode without Mulder.

179. “Schizogeny” (Season 5, Episode 9)
A girl's abuse at the hands of her father leads her to the ability to control trees. I repeat, this is an episode about KILLER TREES.

178. "Space" (Season 1, Episode 9)
This episode about an astronaut possibly possessed by an extraterrestrial spirit isn’t just bad. It’s also boring, cheaply made, invokes the Challenger disaster, and is reportedly Chris Carter's least-favorite episode.

177. "Shapes" (Season 1, Episode 19)
I’m not sure why it’s so hard for anyone to craft a good werewolf story. Aside from Ginger Snaps and An American Werewolf in London, most attempts are as depressing as this episode.

176. "Sein und Zeit" / “Closure” (Season 7, Episodes 10–11)
Duchovny does some of his best work in “Sein und Zeit,” where Mulder's mom commits suicide. It's a beautiful, heartfelt episode of television, where the emotional punch feels real. However, this two-part episode’s supposed wrap-up to the disappearance of Mulder's sister forgoes aliens and government conspiracies to say that she became Rainbow Brite or whatever. It's an incredibly disappointing conclusion to a seven-year story that was once engrossing.

175. "The Jersey Devil" (Season 1, Episode 5)
Mulder and Scully come across the monster that inspired the Jersey Devil myth. You're better off reading about the Jersey Devil myth on Wikipedia.

174. “Excelsis Dei” (Season 2, Episode 11)
The show tries tackling rape, only the culprit is a disembodied spirit. It somehow manages to be more exploitative than an average episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

173. "Agua Mala" (Season 6, Episode 13)
A Florida trailer parker and a hurricane monster lead to a pretty offensively bad episode. There's nothing redeeming in it, save for the fact that it's just bad, not offensive, like some of the worse X-Files outings.

172. “Sanguinarium” (Season 4, Episode 6)
A bunch of plastic-surgery victims are dead, and it’s all due to witchcraft. Season four is a really fantastic season of television; it’s a wonder how a clunker like this got through.

171. “Teso Dos Bichos” (Season 3, Episode 18)
Everything about this episode starring feral cats is poorly made. It’s best not to think about it.

170. “Teliko” (Season 4, Episode 3)
A show that deals with race in a nuanced way could’ve handled a script about black people having their skin turned white, but alas, this is not that show.

169. “Underneath” (Season 9, Episode 12)
A man Doggett arrested for murder 13 years earlier turns out to not be the killer -- he actually splits into two people and his other half commits the murders. This episode feels stitched together from a bunch of far superior X-Files episodes, and when it concludes with the innocent man’s death, it’s kind of mean and unsatisfying rather than heartbreaking as it was probably intended to be. Plus, Doggett dealing with a partner who’s corrupt should have made for a much better episode than this.

168. “Kill Switch” (Season 5, Episode 11)
A computer virus is killing people … or something. Nothing in '90s horror involving technology is ever good. This is the other episode written by the iconic cyberpunk duo that also wrote the equally awful “First Person Shooter” (Gibson and Maddox).

167. "Ghost in the Machine" (Season 1, Episode 7)
A computer starts killing humans! Never seen that one before.

166. “3” (Season 2, Episode 7)
This episode is such a disaster that it’s a wonder the series would ever return to the vampire well again. Fortunately, that other vampire episode, “Bad Blood,” is one of The X-Files’ best. But we’ll get to that soon enough.

165. "Badlaa" (Season 8, Episode 10)
Ah yes, the infamous "butt genie" episode. It's completely embarrassing and nonsensical, but it also manages to be a pretty entertaining hour of television. It's far from good, and the ending, where Scully is horrified that she had to shoot a child (the genie in disguise), doesn't feel earned — but it's not boring, which is one of the worst crimes an X-Files episode can commit.

164. “The Truth” (Season 9, Episodes 19–20)
There’s no getting around it: The X-Files finale is not good at all. If you thought Seinfeld ending with its characters on trial and in jail was bad, you haven’t seen this episode, where Mulder is put on trial for the murder of a Super Soldier. Which is, in fact, a farce, because obviously Super Soldiers don’t die. So instead of answering questions about nine seasons of conspiracy — let alone doing something interesting with David Duchovny’s sole appearance in the season nine — the show basically recaps every mythology episode but pretends they made a lick of sense. Kersh helping Mulder in the end makes even less sense, despite the fact that he was maybe on Mulder’s side for a brief moment at the beginning of the season. The series ends with the FBI on the hunt for Mulder and Scully while they lie in a motel bed, reminiscing about their past. He doesn’t even ask about the son of theirs she gave up for adoption. This is misery business and a horrible conclusion to one of television’s greatest series.

163. “Dæmonicus” (Season 9, Episode 3)
The first monster-of-the-week episode of season nine is even worse than the premiere (see: No. 161). While it has some gruesome moments and an awesome sequence where Doggett gets vomited on long enough for it to be a gag on Family Guy, the plot about a demonic possession is boring and drawn out.

162. “The Calusari” (Season 2, Episode 21)
How many evil-twin stories did this show manage to pull out of its ass in nine seasons?

161. “Nothing Important Happened Today” (Season 9, Episodes 1–2)
This episode officially starts the Doggett and Reyes era, but it’s so boring and all over the place that it does away with the goodwill we had for the characters in season eight. Doggett is a madman barking at his superiors like Mulder on Adderall. Reyes is saddled with a dumb sexual harassment plot with Cary Elwes. Oh, and Lucy Lawless shows up as a Super Soldier who’s mostly naked half the time, and drowning people the other half (what a weird way to kill people you can crush with your bare hands). Everyone’s allegiances shift so many times in this episode, you’ll get a migraine trying to figure out which side Kersh is actually on, or how Doggett manages to keep his job after continuing to ignore orders.

160. “Aubrey” (Season 2, Episode 12)
This episode starts out well enough, but the concept about genetically passed-down murderous traits ultimately falls apart in its final act.

159. "Young at Heart" (Season 1, Episode 16)
X-Files does its very best Benjamin Button! We’re supposed to care about all of these people retconned into Mulder’s life, including an archnemesis.

158. “Blood” (Season 2, Episode 3)
Another. Episode. About. Electronics. Killing. People. The only truly great thing about this episode is the ending, where the monster of the week sends Mulder a message on his cell phone that reads: “All done. Bye bye.”

157. "Trevor" (Season 6, Episode 17)
Mulder and Scully are barely in this prison-camp episode with a monster that can walk through walls. It's merely forgettable.

156. “Fresh Bones” (Season 2, Episode 15)
Haitian refugees and voodoo zombies? No thanks. The X-Files had a tendency to mine foreign cultures a little too much, and in ways that feel othering.

155. “Hell Money” (Season 3, Episode 19)
Speaking of inappropriately mining foreign cultures, here we have an episode of the Chinese mafia gambling with human body parts. At least Lucy Liu guest-stars in this episode, which gives it a few bright spots.

154. "Alpha" (Season 6, Episode 16)
You're better off watching Cujo if you want to watch a story about an evil dog.

153. “Kitsunegari” (Season 5, Episode 8)
A really unnecessary sequel to the excellent episode "Pusher," bringing back Robert Patrick Modell, the man who can control people with his mind. But this time, we’re supposed to imagine his sister is the real villain, despite the fact that we saw Modell murder a bunch of people in his first appearance. Just watch “Pusher” and forget about this one.

152. “Provenance” / “Providence” (Season 9, Episodes 9–10)
The mythology episodes in season nine are really bad. This one forgoes the Super Soldiers nonsense for a cult that wants to kill Scully’s baby, or Mulder, or both. Ultimately, they kidnap William and use him to turn on a spaceship so they can leave Earth. If you’re wondering why that needed to be two hours, it’s because 80 percent of the episode is the FBI lying to Scully, Doggett, and Reyes for no discernible reason other than the fact that everyone’s supposed to be “in on the “conspiracy, whatever the hell the conspiracy is at this point in the series, with only ten episodes left.

151. “Chinga” (Season 5, Episode 10)
Stephen King lends his writing skills to The X-Files! Sadly, we learn that Stephen King is much better at writing books than he is at writing television.

150. “Elegy” (Season 4, Episode 22)
The less said about this One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ripoff, the better.

149. “Fearful Symmetry” (Season 2, Episode 18)
This is the much-derided episode about (don’t laugh) invisible elephants and other zoo animals.

148. "Signs and Wonders" (Season 7, Episode 10)
A mysterious church and Satanic rituals are basically X-Files Mad Libs, but at least the snakes are scary as hell.

147. "Fire" (Season 1, Episode 12)
David Duchovny even hates this episode, which cooks up a fire fear for Mulder and introduces a villain with pyrokinesis. The X-Files doesn’t really do well with introducing backstory in these early episodes.

146. “The Walk” (Season 3, Episode 7)
A quadriplegic killing people by astral projection. It’s not as offensive as it sounds, but it’s certainly not great either.

145. "Two Fathers"/"One Son" (Season 6, Episodes 11–12)
The promo for this two-parter promised “the answers you’ve been waiting for.” Nah. Mostly Jeffrey Spender finds out he’s Cigarette Smoking Man’s son (and possibly Mulder’s half-brother), then he gets shot in the head. As far as the mythology of the series, the Alien Rebels kill the entire Syndicate, so you’d think the government conspiracy is over, and we don’t have to worry about alien colonization anymore. You’d be wrong. The mythology manages to somehow drag on for three more seasons.

144. “Lord of the Flies” (Season 9, Episode 5)
The best parts of this episode are its pre-fame appearances from Jane Lynch and Aaron Paul. Otherwise, the plot — about a teen who can control insects only to realize that he’s half-insect just like his mom — is a lame one that relies on kids who mostly can’t act, carrying out a ludicrous story built around a Jackass parody. How 2001.

143. "Shadows" (Season 1, Episode 6)
Written after the writers were asked give Mulder and Scully more plotlines where they help people, this hokey supernatural episode comes off like a by-the-book procedural.

142. “The List” (Season 3, Episode 5)
A death-row inmate claims he’ll be reincarnated and kill five men. The attempt to flesh out the man’s story and actually give it weight pretty much falls flat, and so this episode is kind of dull as a result.

141. "Brand X" (Season 7, Episode 18)
Not one of the better episodes about killer bugs (and there were plenty).This one also tries to take on the big tobacco industry, but it fails to create a real metaphor for the harmful effects of smoking. Granted, the series mostly lives and dies on the chemistry between the leads and the creepiness of the monster of the week, but if you’re taking on a “smoking kills” storyline, have something new to say.

140. "Chimera" (Season 7, Episode 16)
The X-Files excels when it digs deep into fears of America's past — cities without modern technology, towns where frontier justice reigns supreme. That's why an episode like "Home" succeeds, where an episode like "Chimera" falls flat. The show never really found much to say about the suburbs, save for season six's "Arcadia." Also, the running joke where Scully is stuck on a stakeout isn't as funny or interesting as the show thinks it is.

139. "Miracle Man" (Season 1, Episode 18)
The X-Files would get better over time at mining religious themes to craft really creepy episodes, but this story about a faith healer misses the mark on too many levels and ultimately ends up feeling like a generic procedural.

138. “Firewalker” (Season 2, Episode 9)
This is a retread of season-one episodes like “Ice” and “Darkness Falls.” Skip it, and just rewatch those.

137. “The Host” (Season 2, Episode 2)
The episode itself isn’t too spectacular, but damn, the Flukeman is a creepy as hell monster.

136. “Sleepless” (Season 2, Episode 4)
Mulder meets Krycek and the shadowy man known only as X (who would become his new Deep Throat), plus you get a stellar performance from Tony Todd. It’s kind of a shame that black actors like Todd, Joe Morten (from “Redrum”), and Steven Williams (X) would play such amazing side characters on the series and never occupy lead roles.

135. “Soft Light” (Season 2, Episode 23)
The first episode written by Vince Gilligan is kind of a clunker, but at least you get killer black holes and a guest appearance from Tony Shalhoub.

134. "Rush" (Season 7, Episode 5)
The cast of characters here is a bunch teenagers who can barely act, while the plot centers around being able to move really fast. Miserably, the episode drags.

133. “Kaddish” (Season 4, Episode 15)
A Hasidic Jew is resurrected as a golem and kills the people who killed him. The special effects and storytelling are top-notch, despite an altogether lackluster whole.

132. “All Souls” (Season 5, Episode 17)
Scully investigates the death of handicapped girls while grappling with the loss of her daughter Emily. It's hardly a memorable episode, but it’s a great showcase for Gillian Anderson.

131. “Synchrony” (Season 4, Episode 19)
This is a lame time-travel episode that doesn’t stand up to the test of logic on a plot or character level.

130. "The Rain King" (Season 6, Episode 8)
In the script that earned Jeffrey Bell a spot on the X-Files writing staff, a con man claims he can control the weather. Bell would later become a showrunner on Angel, and churn out several amazing pieces of television, but this is not one of them.

129. "Milagro" (Season 6, Episode 18)
Chris Carter's penchant for monologues and voice-overs are out of control in this episode about a creepy writer who's obsessed with Scully.

128. "Invocation" (Season 8, Episode 5)
A kid goes missing for ten years and returns exactly how he was when he vanished, only now he's creepy. The concept is good, but the follow-through is less than exemplary, only made better by Scully and Doggett's interactions. In that respect, it's just like a regular mediocre X-Files episode; there's no evidence that the presence of Mulder would make it any better.

127. "Salvage" (Season 8, Episode 9)
A man turns to metal and seeks revenge on the people who turned him into a monster. He stops his rampage because of a "flicker of humanity." The monster of the week largely has nothing to do with whatever Doggett and Scully are running around town trying to figure out, which feels off.

126. “Hellbound” (Season 9, Episode 8)
I like Monica Reyes. However, there’s no denying that the episodes focused on her are the weakest ones of season nine. Doggett gets a classic like “John Doe,” and even two great season-eight episodes, like “The Gift” and “Via Negativa.” But Reyes gets episodes where she has “visions” and “feelings” that are tangentially related to cheesy, pseudo-religious arcs. This episode is grisly as hell, which is to be expected when you have a killer skinning people alive.  But the reasoning behind the deaths — the killer is hunting the reincarnated souls of his murderers — bogs the episode down in boring past-lives nonsense.

125. “Our Town” (Season 2, Episode 24)
An episode about a town of cannibals that, after some pretty gnarly scenes at a chicken-processing plant, is perhaps a pro-vegan episode.

124. “Unrequited” (Season 4, Episode 16)
An invisible assassin kills high-ranking military officers because the government is  covering up Vietnam POWs who are still being held. Oddly enough, the episode doesn’t really do much justice to veterans. Who’d have thunk?

123. “Empedocles” (Season 8, Episode 17)
Connecting the murder of Doggett’s son to such a lame X-File about an evil that hops from body to body is ... well, lame. The squabbling between Mulder, Doggett, and Reyes while a pregnant Scully has pizza-ordering woes is funny, so the episode works on a pure character level. Too bad the plot’s lackluster.

122. "Død Kalm" (Season 2, Episode 19)
This is the ghost-ship episode that attempts some pretty shoddy old-people makeup on Mulder and Scully.

121. “El Mundo Gira” (Season 4, Episode 11)
Ah, the requisite Chupacabra episode of a supernatural show. It’s not that good.

120. “2Shy” (Season 3, Episode 6)
Hey, did you know that internet dating can be dangerous? Thanks, X-Files!

119. "Born Again" (Season 1, Episode 22)
Soul-transference episodes are not a thing that this show excels at.

118. "Lazarus" (Season 1, Episode 15)
Slightly better than “Born Again,” but only because that episode’s basically a second chance at this one.

117. "Roland" (Season 1, Episode 23)
An autistic janitor gets possessed by his evil twin, Arthur. It’s as embarrassing as it sounds, but for the most part, it’s a chilling and effective hour.

116. “Scary Monsters” (Season 9, Episode 14)
Making the scared kid with the overactive imagination the villain is a nice twist, but having Doggett’s lack of imagination be the reason he solves the case is an even funnier one.

115. "The Beginning" (Season 6, Episode 1)
What a disappointment this episode is, coming after the season-five finale and the first movie. After everything that's happened, Scully remains a skeptic, while the show itself is still spinning its wheels when it comes to any sort of conclusion for the overall mythology. Agent Jeffrey Spender ends up being important to the series later (he’s Mulder’s half-brother), but from this point forward (save Mulder's disappearance), it's mostly about the stand-alone episodes.

114. "The Sixth Extinction"/"The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" (Season 7, Episodes 1–2)
Seven seasons in, more convoluted-mythology episodes are the last thing you want to see — especially when they're as overwrought as this one. While it does feature some beautiful moments between Mulder and Scully, this two-parter mostly feels unimpressive. Mulder's "illness" never really goes anywhere beyond a cheap cliff-hanger.

113. “4-D” (Season 9, Episode 4)
Reyes’s throat gets slashed and Doggett is shot in the neck in what Reyes believes is a parallel universe. The killer is stopped and everything goes back to how it was, but the reasoning behind the creation of these universes is never explained. It’s a cool concept that’s mostly effective, but the follow-through leaves a lot to be desired.

112. "Surekill" (Season 8, Episode 8)
This Of Mice and Men story about a brother controlling his slower brother is pretty by-the-numbers. In moments, it inches toward a noirish atmosphere, but it never quite gets there.

111. "Orison" (Season 7, Episode 7)
Eugene Tooms is really the only villain on this show who’s managed to have a sequel episode that isn't a mess. Just like Robert Patrick Modell's return in "Kitsunegari," Donnie Pfaster's return here offers no further insights into a villain from an incredibly scary one-off. Pfaster seems only to have returned for Scully to kill him in the end, and to question whether she's "losing control." She's not.

110. "Dreamland" (Season 6, Episodes 4–5)
Mulder swaps bodies with Michael McKean in a fun yet bloated episode that's a pale imitation of the Eddie Van Blundht business at the end of the superior "Small Potatoes."

109. “Tunguska” / “Terma” (Season 4, Episodes 8–9)
Mulder goes to Russia with Krycek, while Scully defends Mulder in a congressional hearing. Separating the two doesn’t do wonders for this mythology episode.

108. "S.R. 819" (Season 6, Episode 9)
Skinner is poisoned, dies, and gets resurrected. This is never the show where any main character legitimately dies, so it's pretty mundane, as far as suspense goes. But making Krycek the man behind Skinner’s poisoning at least made things interesting.

107. “Trust No 1” (Season 9, Episode 6)
The weird thing about this episode is that it plays better in 2015 than it did in 2001. The NSA tracking Scully’s every move might have seemed ludicrous when it first aired, but now it’s all too real. That aspect of the episode, along with the overall plot of a Super Soldier plant in the NSA trying to murder Mulder, works. What doesn’t work is … pretty much everything else. Much like the Angel episode “The Girl in Question” — where the plot revolves around Buffy without Sarah Michelle Gellar even being present — this episode tries to pull off a Mulder-centric plot without David Duchovny in tow. It mostly works, until you have a body double running through a quarry and leading Scully to a bunch of red rocks that can kill Super Soldiers. None of this Super Soldier business makes any damn sense and at this point; it’s incredibly boring, to boot. As much as I love Mulder and Scully, with Duchovny gone, the show really should’ve been moving on to anything else.

106. "Biogenesis" (Season 6, Episode 22)
Mulder becomes ill from some mysterious artifact, and a new component to the mythology is introduced (enough already), but Mulder and Scully mostly wander around accomplishing nothing. Everyone else's allegiances change, as usual, because that's the only thing keeping these conspiracy episodes going. The only truly awesome moment is when Scully goes to the Ivory Coast and finds a huge-ass alien ship buried on the beach.

105. "En Ami" (Season 7, Episode 15)
That Scully could be this naïve in falling under the Cigarette Smoking Man's spell this far into the series is laughable, but if you ignore logic, this is a pretty good episode that lets Scully confront her own cancer again, as well as her desire to help others.

104. “Patient X” / “The Red and the Black” (Season 5, Episodes 13–14)
A jam-packed episode gets bogged down by Mulder's sudden disbelief in aliens, when we're all perfectly aware that aliens exist on the show. A crisis of faith is always a great move for a hero, but this borders on asinine. The idea of an all-out alien war is introduced into the series as well, but the mythology episodes were pretty much running into a wall by season five.

103. "Terms of Endearment" (Season 6, Episode 7)
Bruce Campbell shows up as the father of a demon baby in this entertaining but not very memorable Rosemary's Baby riff.

102. “Mind’s Eye” (Season 5, Episode 16)
Lili Taylor is a blind woman who can see her father's murders. It's better than The Eye, that 2008 Jessica Alba movie with the same plot, I guess.

101. “Travelers” (Season 5, Episode 15)
This is a period episode surrounding Mulder's dad's involvement in the series’ conspiracy. It definitely works as an episode, but it's far less exciting than "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man," which it tries to rival.

100. “The Field Where I Died” (Season 4, Episode 5)
This Heaven’s Gate–esque cult episode is pretty good and affecting, but it never crosses over into excellent. The past-life stuff is interesting, and Duchovny is great at portraying Mulder’s obsession with it, but the ending grows predictable by trying too hard to break your heart.

99. “Redux” (Season 5, Episodes 1–2)
This episode is two hours, but it doesn't need to be. Scully's cancer gets cured, and the Cigarette Smoking Man “dies,” but not really because, like I just told you, he’s still alive 11 episodes later. “Redux” is a great name for this episode because the same mythology engine keeps getting rebooted and rebooted.

98. "Medusa" (Season 8, Episode 12)
Not being a fan of Boston, I was already on Scully and Doggett's side when they came up against whatever task force was assigned to cover up a potential biochemical threat in the subway system just so a bunch of angry people wouldn't have their rush-hour service interrupted. First of all, try relying on the L train if you really want something to whine about. Second, the episode creates some good atmosphere by thrusting Doggett into the subway's underground tunnels, with Scully only catching glimpses of what's happening on a television screen. But let’s be honest, this episode loses points in the eyes of city-dwellers for pretending that any subway system is as clean and somehow rat-free as this one.

97. "The Amazing Maleeni" (Season 7, Episode 8)
This episode is a classic for the final scene, where Scully pulls off a magic trick and twists her hands around 360 degrees. The rest of the episode is a quirky twist on a bank-robbery scheme that thrives on Mulder and Scully's top-notch banter.

96. "Hungry" (Season 7, Episode 3)
Having most of the episode be from the killer's perspective is an interesting move that makes you start to actually feel bad for Rob Roberts's character — before you remember he's a murderer. The episode's writer, Vince Gilligan, would later use the same technique to make you feel for Walter White on Breaking Bad.

95. "All Things" (Season 7, Episode 17)
Written and directed by Gillian Anderson, this was also the first X-Files episode directed by a woman — and it shows. Scully’s conflicting emotions as she attempts to save the life of a college professor she once had an affair with feel very real and palpable. Anderson clearly knows her character so well, and the episode feels small and intimate as a result. When Scully finally reaches closure from the affair, it goes a long way in showing how much she had grown over seven seasons.

94. "Patience" (Season 8, Episode 3)
Doggett's first X-File involves a half-human, half-bat creature that preys on the relatives of the man who caught him. Thrusting Scully into the role of the believer and Doggett as the skeptic is a breath of fresh air, but the case itself is by-the-numbers. However, this episode is all about establishing Scully and Doggett's chemistry, which is a lot stronger than fans might remember. Back then, they still held out hope that Mulder would return and rescue their favorite show.

93. “Three Words” (Season 8, Episode 16)
Once again, the dynamic in the series changes. Now Doggett, Mulder, and Scully are thrown into the alien conspiracy, and Mulder obviously doesn’t want to trust Doggett. Any episode with the Lone Gunmen is fun enough, but seeing Doggett running to save Mulder really makes you glad that this big, crazy FBI family is back together.

92. “Wetwired” (Season 3, Episode 23)
This is one of the stronger episodes of the series, and deals with technology controlling people and creating carnage along the way.

91. “F. Emasculata” (Season 2, Episode 22)
An exceptionally dark episode that puts Scully inside a prison with a rapidly spreading disease while Mulder chases after escaped convicts. This is by-the-numbers X-Files, but done extremely well.

90. “Little Green Men” (Season 2, Episode 1)
This was the first episode of the series to show a live extraterrestrial. This is also the first instance of the agents trying to get an X-File reopened after it’s been closed (this happens nearly every other week from here on out), so it does a lot to continue to drive Mulder’s devotion to the paranormal, and Scully’s devotion to him.

89. “Christmas Carol” / “Emily” (Season 5, Episodes 6–7)
Here’s the thing about Emily. The idea of Scully being determined to protect her dead sister’s daughter, who turns out to be her own daughter, is a fascinating one. But the story, boiled down into two episodes, never really amounts to anything but an idea. There’s also the fact that there’s scant mention of Emily when Scully has her miracle pregnancy three seasons later, but that’s not this episode’s fault.

88. “Quagmire” (Season 3, Episode 22)
Of course this show did a Loch Ness monster episode. But what’s surprising is how the episode manages to actually be about Mulder and Scully’s relationship, using the monster as a metaphor. Episodes like this are beautiful treasures.

87. “Nisei” / “731” (Season 3, Episodes 9–10)
You can’t really get better than a mail-order alien autopsy video, Scully meeting with abductees, and Mulder jumping on a goddamn train in a mythology episode.

86. “Piper Maru” / “Apocrypha” (Season 3, Episodes 15–16)
The first appearance of the black oil is a doozy of a mythology episode that focuses on Scully’s hunt for her sister’s killer. She’s left without justice in the end, however, because that’s how all of these conspiracy episodes tend to work. This episode is also a joy because of Krycek’s return and subsequent entrapment in an abandoned missile silo. He’s the Wile E. Coyote of The X-Files.

85. “Alone” (Season 8, Episode 19)
Leyla Harison joins The X-Files as Doggett’s new partner (for one episode), serving as an opportunity for the writers to playfully satirize their fans. Obsessed with the X-Files but completely unequipped to be in the field, Harrison gets herself and Doggett held prisoner by a horrible CGI reptile monster. That aside, this episode is pretty funny and gives almost everyone something to do that’s in their wheelhouse. Mulder even completely comes around on Doggett in this episode, not only saving him, but welcoming him into the fold.

84. "The End" (Season 5, Episode 20)
The image of Mulder's office burning has stayed with me since I first watched this one as a teenager, but the episode itself isn't as much of a classic. It's sort of the death knell of the idea that the mythology episodes would ever reach any sort of satisfying conclusion. There would be glimmers of life in subsequent episodes, sure, but you basically just have to be along for the ride.

83. "Millennium" (Season 7, Episode 4)
This dark and creepy episode serves as closure to the canceled horror series Millennium. The whole zombie thing comes off as mostly uninspired, but this episode shines because it features the first actual kiss between Mulder and Scully.

82. “William” (Season 9, Episode 16)
This episode is all over the place, but in the end, it ultimately works. A horribly scarred Jeffrey Spender returns, pretending to be Mulder in order to inject Scully’s son with the iron needed to take away his special abilities. The fact that anyone would believe Spender to be Mulder, even with a DNA test, is, frankly, nonsensical. But the conclusion that Scully has to give William up for adoption in order to keep him from being pursued by men who want to hurt him is appropriately heartbreaking.

81. "Theef" (Season 7, Episode 14)
A doctor's father-in-law is brutally murdered, and the word theef is written on the wall in blood. This leads to a straight-up horror show of an episode that excels in the way only "scary" episodes of The X-Files can.

80. "Within"/"Without" (Season 8, Episodes 1–2)
Doggett's introduction to the show is actually quite seamless. The series is "rebooted," in a sense that the new mythology arc is hunting for the missing Mulder. The new man in charge, Kersh, is kind of an over-the-top asshole, but it works to put some fire in the investigation. By episode's end, Doggett is assigned to the X-Files, while Mulder is naked (looking fine, I might add) on an alien ship full of Bounty Hunters.

79. "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" (Season 6, Episode 6)
Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin show up as a pair of lovers who committed a murder-suicide pact in the ’70s and have been haunting their home ever since. This episode should be mentioned more in the canon of great television Christmas episodes because it's easily one of season six’s most entertaining moments.

78. "Three of a Kind" (Season 6, Episode 20)
Mulder doesn't appear in the episode, so it's Scully’s turn to team up with the Lone Gunmen in a kind of unnecessary yet really funny sequel to the Gunmen origin episode "Unusual Suspects." The scene where a drugged Scully asks a room full of men to light her cigarette is one of the funniest scenes Anderson has ever played.

77. “Syzygy” (Season 3, Episode 13)
Two teenage girls kill fellow high-schoolers, thanks to a rare planetary alignment. What’s oddly noteworthy is that this episode aired the same year the teen slasher Scream was released.

76. "Conduit" (Season 1, Episode 4)
This episode goes a long way to show exactly how obsessed with finding his sister Mulder is, not to mention clueing in Scully on his quest. While the Samantha search would ultimately have an unsatisfying payoff, the setup is solid.

75. "The Goldberg Variation" (Season 7, Episode 6)
This twist on the "monster of the week" episode is funny on its own, but Willie Garson is absolutely fantastic in the role of a hapless doof with incredible luck who runs afoul of the mob. There's also an appearance by a young Shia LaBeouf!



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74. “Red Museum” (Season 2, Episode 10)
This was a pretty good monster-of-the-week episode that perhaps would’ve been better if network squabbling between Fox and CBS hadn’t kept it from being a crossover with David E. Kelley’s Picket Fences.

73. "Gender Bender" (Season 1, Episode 14)
Nicholas Lea’s first appearance in the series isn’t as Alex Krycek, but as the would-be-victim of a gender-bending shape-shifter. Exploring sexual themes is rarely something The X-Files tackles — religion, government paranoia, and mysticism are usually its go-tos — but this is one of its better episodes, where the social commentary of sexual repression surprisingly still packs a modern punch. It’s an often-maligned episode, but it’s one of the earliest indications of how spooky and atmospheric The X-Files was capable of being.

72. “Unruhe” (Season 4, Episode 4)
This is one of the many episodes that relies on Scully being kidnapped, but the plot involving psychic photographs and a man who abducts and lobotomizes women is dark and terrifying.

71. “Essence” / “Existence” (Season 8, Episodes 20–21)
This episode is full of insanity, from the fact that Scully somehow has enough female friends that her mom can cobble together a baby shower, to Billy Miles chasing the agents across the Eastern Seaboard. The whole thing is basically a never-ending chase scene, with alien replicants (who are now revealed to be Super Soldiers, because things weren’t convoluted enough) in pursuit of Scully’s baby. The episode makes little to no sense once we get to the end, but Scully has her baby, Doggett and Reyes are officially partners, and it’s certainly a fun thrill-ride that perfectly caps off a fantastic season with the mythology arc’s last sputters of life. The most important part of the episode, obviously, is that big kiss between Mulder and Scully. A final scene eight seasons in making, how satisfying.

70. “Release” (Season 9, Episode 17)
The nonsense about an evil force killing Doggett’s son (see: “Empedocles”) is completely ignored in this episode, which finally offers an explanation. It’s not a neat conclusion, by any means, but it’s a logical one that serves to finally let Doggett lay his son’s memories to rest.

69. “Anasazi” (Season 2, Episode 25)
If you actually think Mulder gets killed off at the end of the episode, you’re about as smart as the writers think you are. However, this is a pretty great mythology episode.

68. "Beyond the Sea" (Season 1, Episode 13)
Scully gets to confront her father’s death in an unusually emotional episode for the series’ first season. This was the first sign that Gillian Anderson was destined for some truly amazing work on this show.

67. “War of the Coprophages” (Season 3, Episode 12)
I promise you, the killer-cockroaches episode is not as bad as you might have heard. In fact, it’s actually pretty damn entertaining.

66. “Improbable” (Season 9, Episode 13)
This Scully and Reyes episode is goddamn hysterical. The hunt for a killer driven by numerology is just an excuse for Burt Reynolds to show up singing in Italian, playing Checkers, and dancing around the exasperated FBI agents while they’re trapped in a parking garage with the killer. The bonkers musical sequence at the end is the icing on the cake.

65. “Talitha Cumi” (Season 3, Episode 24)
When Mulder's mom has a stroke, he hunts for a mysterious healer. As such, this episode is a fantastic showcase for Duchovny.

64. “Zero Sum” (Season 4, Episode 21)
Skinner puts a bunch of people’s lives at stake to save Scully, which doesn’t at all fit his character, but it’s a great episode, so let’s try to ignore all of that.

63. “Demons” (Season 4, Episode 23)
Mulder undergoes therapy to get pieces of his past memories, but a post-hypnosis blackout leaves him in a hotel room with two dead bodies and no memory of how he got there. This is a fun, twisted episode that doubles as a dark exploration of who Mulder is as character.

62. “Vienen” (Season 8, Episode 18)
The black oil is back for one last hurrah, and this time, Doggett and Mulder are trapped on an oil rig with it. Blowing up the oil rig and stopping the offshore drilling of the alien substance is done in a spectacular fashion, with both FBI agents leaping to safety in a fiery climax.

61. "Fallen Angel" (Season 1, Episode 10)
The introduction of Max Fenig, a frequent UFO abductee who will become important to Mulder, is a doozy of a conspiracy episode. It drags Mulder and Scully into a mystery involving a UFO crash that the Air Force is covering up. This is one of the first indications that the conspiracy is far-reaching, with every part of the government involved.

60. “Gethsemane” (Season 4, Episode 24)
Pretending that Mulder might actually die after multiple instances of “Did Mulder die?” cliff-hangers is such a wheel-spinning moment that it’s one of the first signs that the mythology episodes had no clear endgame in sight. Despite that, it's a great episode of television.

59. “Leonard Betts” (Season 4, Episode 12)
A cancer-eating mutant known as Leonard Betts is scary enough as a monster, but when he targets Scully, it’s the first indication that she’s infected with cancer. It’s the kind of episode that this show does best: a stellar monster of the week that morphs into an unexpected emotional arc.

58. “John Doe” (Season 9, Episode 7)
When season nine is still worried about Mulder’s disappearance and Super Soldiers, it’s a mess. But when it focuses on what the season should be about — the new agents — it can actually be fantastic. Doggett, already the center of two great episodes (“Via Negativa” and “The Gift”), is the subject of an X-File once again. This time, he wakes up in Mexico without his memory while his partners try to find out where he is. Doggett regaining his memory and having to relive his son’s death is a beautiful and powerful conclusion.

57. “Oubliette” (Season 3, Episode 8)
In this episode, which dials up the creepy, a kidnapped girl shares a psychic connection with a fast-food-chain employee who was kidnapped by the same man years earlier. This installment’s strength lies in the older woman’s sacrifice to save the girl from the same fate she suffered. It breaks Mulder, as his strong connection to kidnapping cases drives his very being.

56. “Tempus Fugit”/”Max” (Season 4, Episodes 17–18)
The tragic alien abductee Max Fenig returns in this episode, which takes much longer than it needs to, but it’s a worthy successor to “Fallen Angel,” and features the show’s first abduction by aliens.

55. “The Blessing Way” / “Paper Clip” (Season 3, Episodes 1–2)
Mully escapes certain death, Skinner has a showdown with the Cigarette Smoking Man, and Scully is an all-out badass in this awesome season-three opener. This season has the series’ best mythology episodes, back when the villains were still scary and the conspiracy seemed like it was building to something sublime.

54. "Drive" (Season 6, Episode 2)
This episode is a part of television history, because it brought Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston together for the first time and led to Cranston's casting in Breaking Bad. But more than that, it's also an incredibly thrilling episode, starring Cranston as man who'll die if he doesn't keep moving at a certain speed. It's like Speed done with a human, and it's more brilliant than it sounds, largely because of Cranston's performance.

53. “Never Again” (Season 4, Episode 13)
A man’s life is being controlled by his talking tattoo named Betty, voice by Jodie Foster, who rears her jealous head when Scully begins investigating him. This episode was originally set to be directed by Quentin Tarantino, but a DGA dispute kept him from being able to. The episode is just as fine without his vision, however; it’s plenty twisted and funny enough.

52. "Roadrunners" (Season 8, Episode 4)
This is a hard episode to love because it feels like it's punishing Scully for not fully embracing Doggett as her new partner. But it's also a hella creepy episode about a cult that worships a big-ass slug and inserts it into the bodies of hitchhikers. A stranded Scully trying to escape the cult while Doggett hunts for her cements these two as partners you want to keep watching, which contributes to my theory that season eight is a lot better than people want to give it credit for. Plus, the body horror in this episode is some of the series' best (and grossest) work.

51. “The Pine Bluff Variant” (Season 5, Episode 18)
Mulder goes undercover with a group of bioterrorists and lies to Scully about it because he’s kind of an asshole, but we still love him anyway.

50. "The Unnatural" (Season 6, Episode 19)
This one can seem a little hokey, but it’s actually a pretty affecting episode about a friendship between a human and an alien baseball player posing as a black man in the ‘40s. It gets bogged down in some ridiculous notions about race in America and how we’re “all the same,” or whatever it is David Duchovny thought he was was getting at when he wrote and directed this episode. And to be honest, Jesse L. Martin and Frederic Lane seemed like they were in love with each other the entire episode (that would’ve taken this story to much better heights), so it was their chemistry that sold the whole thing. The episode could’ve taken a few more turns that weren’t by-the-numbers for a “white person and POC become friends during times of racism” story, but as-is, it’s a perfectly enjoyable piece of television that could’ve reached a bit higher to truly be great.

49. “Grotesque” (Season 3, Episode 14)
Mulder's old mentor turns out to be evil and tries to frame him for murder. The main thing this episode has going for it is that it succeeds where “Young at Heart” (a similar episode about a nemesis from Mulder’s past) failed.

48. “Herrenvolk” (Season 4, Episode 1)
It’s a huge strength of the series that this episode features the death of X, but manages to make it as shocking and important as Deep Throat’s death three seasons earlier. It’s a great kickoff for season four.

47. "Deep Throat" (Season 1, Episode 2)
Same as the pilot, as most second episodes of a series are, but this time, we get introduced to Deep Throat and give Mulder a man on the inside. The series only promises to get better from here, and it definitely does.

46. “Avatar” (Season 3, Episode 21)
Don’t you just hate when you’re accused of murdering a prostitute? Skinner sure does. This deep dive into Skinner’s life is much-needed, plus a scary episode, to boot.

45. "Per Manum" (Season 8, Episode 13)
Introducing Mulder as the potential father for Scully's baby finally kicks the season's mystery into high gear. Gillian Anderson is fantastic as a woman determined to protect her child, find her partner, and also save another pregnant woman who might be killed by shadowy doctors. The bond between Scully and Doggett is finally solidified when he learns the truth about her pregnancy and does everything he can to save her in an intense final-act showdown.

44. "Squeeze" (Season 1, Episode 3)
The first monster-of-the-week episode truly sets the bar for all future stand-alone episodes. Eugene Tooms is a creepy, horrifying villain, and his nesting — along with his elongating himself through an air vent — still haunts nightmares more than two decades later.

43. “This Is Not Happening” / “Deadalive” (Season 8, Episodes 14–15)
Alien spaceships are dropping abductees’ near-dead bodies from the sky, where they act as incubators for aliens. When Mulder finally returns after his abduction, he’s presumed dead — until Skinner has his body exhumed. From there, it’s a race against the clock to keep Mulder from turning into an alien. The climax of Mulder’s disappearance story line is as thrilling as the mystery’s been, and it also opens a new angle to the alien conspiracy. As tired as the conspiracy has become at this point, Mulder’s return is enough to keep the mythology engine moving. Bonus points for being the episode that introduces Special Agent Monica Reyes, because I am probably the only fan of this character that exists.

42. "Je Souhaite" (Season 7, Episode 21)
This kind of historical-fiction episode is something I love. The idea that a genie was behind Mussolini and Nixon's rises to power is hilarious, and equating them with a bunch of down-and-out hicks who want things like a really big boat and the power to turn invisible is an awesome send-up of the clichéd “genie grants you three wishes” story. Even the ending, which you can see coming from a mile away, manages to be satisfying.

41. "Redrum" (Season 8, Episode 6)
Scully and Doggett are only bit players in this episode, which borrows heavily from The Twilight Zone to tell the story of a man accused of his wife's murder, who keeps traveling backwards in time until he can right one wrong that set him on this tragic course. The concept could've fallen flat on its face, but Joe Morton (Papa Pope from Scandal and Robert Patrick's co-star in Terminator 2: Judgment Day) is a phenomenal actor, and sells every bit of it. This is an episode that deserves more recognition among the classic X-Files episodes that step outside the procedural box and try something different.

40. "Requiem" (Season 7, Episode 22)
Mulder gets abducted! Scully is mysteriously pregnant! Krycek is back — and he shoves Cigarette Smoking Man down a flight of stairs! The cliff-hangers in this episode are fantastic, and so is the rest of the spooky, chock-full-of-aliens hour. If this had been the series finale of The X-Files, it would've left fans hanging, but damn, what a final episode it would be. Unfortunately, Duchovny split as a main character after this episode and forever upended the dynamic of the show.

39. "Tithonus" (Season 6, Episode 10)
Scully takes the reins in a fantastic Final Destination–esque episode where a crime-scene photographer can see people's deaths before they happen.

38. “Revelations” (Season 3, Episode 11)
Just trust me when I say that an episode about Stigmata is actually one of the better episodes of this series.

37. “Audrey Pauley” (Season 9, Episode 11)
Reyes ends up in a car accident, and Doggett doesn’t want to take her off life support while she struggles to send him a sign from the limbo world she’s trapped in. This is a heartfelt episode that continues to build the emotional bond between Doggett and Reyes. If the series continued on with more episodes like this one, “4-D,” and “John Doe,” it might have worked out its kinks in order to take them to the heights that Mulder and Scully reached in seasons two through four.

36. “Irresistible” (Season 2, Episode 13)
Donny Pfaster, a death fetishist, is kidnapping women, and he has his eyes set on Scully. Aside from this being another “Scully in peril” episode, the scares here are some of the series’ finest, thanks in large part to Pfaster as the truly terrifying villain. Like I said before, though, skip the sequel episode, “Orison.”

35. "Arcadia" (Season 6, Episode 15)
This is a fan-service episode that cooks up a plot for Mulder and Scully to go undercover as a suburban couple. Shipping fantasies aside, the mystery is obvious from the cold open and never really goes anywhere unexpected. But years before Desperate Housewives hit the air, this satire on the insidious nature of the suburbs played pretty well.

34. “One Breath” (Season 2, Episode 8)
Scully is in a coma following her kidnapping by Duane Barry. Mulder tries to figure out what happened to her, believing the Cigarette Smoking Man to somehow be behind it. Meanwhile, a mysterious nurse speaks to Scully while she’s in her coma. The mysticism in this episode all hangs on the relentless lengths Mulder goes to to find out what happened to his partner.

33. "E.B.E." (Season 1, Episode 17)
Our first introduction to Deep Throat’s motivations is a fun, engrossing conspiracy episode that also introduces us to the Lone Gunmen. The early days of Mulder’s obsession with the paranormal are still pretty fun to watch, even years later.

32. “D.P.O.” (Season 3, Episode 3)
Giovanni Ribisi can control lightning. I think that’s all you need to know.

31. "Eve" (Season 1, Episode 11)
The most important thing about this episode — to my generation, at least — is probably that it inspired the name of the band Eve 6. But this creepy installment about clones committing grisly murders is a really well-done monster-of-the-week ep, too.

30. "Folie à Deux" (Season 5, Episode 19)
Folie à deux is a term meaning “madness shared by two people.” When a man believes his boss to be a monster and takes his office hostage, Mulder and Scully step in. The man is killed, but Mulder believes the boss is a monster, too, and gets locked up in a psych ward. Scully’s determination to save him is why you love watching these two fight for one another.

29. "Darkness Falls" (Season 1, Episode 20)
I have a special place in my heart for this episode because it’s the first-ever episode of The X-Files I saw, and it gave me nightmares for weeks. It’s mostly a redux of “Ice,” but the forest setting and the visuals of green bugs feasting on victims shows what the series can do in a nature setting, as the superior “Field Trip” would build upon.

28. "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)
The very first episode of The X-Files is one of its best. It introduced the characters of Mulder and Scully and thrust us into its '90s-paranoia dialed up to 11 at the same time. It sets the tone for the entire series well, even despite all the twists and turns it would take throughout the years.

27. "X-Cops" (Season 7, Episode 12)
The stereotypes in this episode are a bit much, but back in 2000, when everyone was watching Cops, this episode was pitch-perfect. I wonder how anyone who didn't grow up watching Cops would view this episode now, but for anyone in my generation (late '80s) or older, this is satire at its best.

26. "Die Hand Die Verletzt" (Season 2, Episode 14)
The series’ best meditation on faith and Satanism pits Mulder and Scully against the devil-worshipping PTA at an East Coast high school.

25. "Hollywood A.D." (Season 7, Episode 19)
Scully running in heels in the background of “Hollywood A.D.” may be one of The X-Files’ greatest moments. It battles for the top spot, obviously, with the glorious three-way split-screen bubble bath between Scully, Mulder, and Skinner. This episode doesn't always make sense, but it's hella funny.

24. “Unusual Suspects” (Season 5, Episode 3)
The Lone Gunmen’s origin episode was devised, oddly enough, because Duchovny and Anderson were still busy filming the X-Files movie when production began on season five. What resulted is a hilarious, paranoia-drenched episode about the series’ greatest supporting characters.

23. "Tooms" (Season 1, Episode 21)
Tooms is the only monster of the week whose return manages to surpass his original outing, upping the stakes by framing Mulder for assault. The climax, set in a mall where Tooms has built his latest nest, is one of the series’ greatest setpieces.

22. "Field Trip" (Season 6, Episode 21)
An amazing mindfrig where it's all a dream, thanks to hallucinogenic mushrooms. When you ask people about their favorite X-Files episodes, they're always certain to mention "the one with the killer shrooms."

21. "Via Negativa" (Season 8, Episode 7)
The X-Files does A Nightmare on Elm Street. Dripping with atmosphere and dominated by Doggett, this monster of the week is further proof that season eight is better than people give it credit for. The creeping fear that Doggett's trapped in a nightmare and might end up murdering Scully is palpable in Robert Patrick's performance. This episode knocks it out of the park.

20. "Detour" (Season 5, Episode 4)
Mulder and Scully are stuck in a car with two random FBI agents, en route to a “team-building” seminar. They end up running into a mysterious forest monster and delivering a well-done monster-of-the-week episode.

19. "Duane Barry" / "Ascension" (Season 2, Episodes 5–6)
In the episode, which sends us down the “mysterious Scully health issues” rabbit hole, Scully is kidnapped to service Gillian Anderson’s real-life pregnancy. This installment has a lot in common with “Irresistible” and other Scully-kidnapping episodes, but none is as thrilling as this one.

18. "The Erlenmeyer Flask" (Season 1, Episode 24)
This is an amazing end to a spectacular debut season. Scully finally getting her hands on proof of extraterrestrials but having to trade it to save Mulder’s life is the mission statement of this show in a nutshell. Deep Throat’s death also feels like a new and important moment, before setbacks like this would become part of the show’s rhythm.

17. "Humbug" (Season 2, Episode 20)
How could anyone ever have watched American Horror Story: Freak Show after seeing this master class on how to tell a hilarious, creepy, and dark story about circus freaks?

16. "The Gift" (Season 8, Episode 11)
Ignore the retcon that Mulder would ever hide a brain disease from Scully, and this is a perfect episode of The X-Files. Using Doggett's still-murky allegiance to Scully and Skinner to great effect, he investigates a town that Mulder kept visiting in secret. Turns out there’s a soul-eater there who consumes human diseases, which the town uses to its own benefit. Mulder tried freeing the soul-eater from his captivity, just as Doggett attempts to do before he's shot and killed. When the soul-eater consumes Doggett's death, it's able to save him and finally free itself. This an incredibly affecting episode that will make anyone a John Doggett fan, unless you have a heart of stone.

15. "Monday" (Season 6, Episode 14)
Mulder keeps getting blown up in a bank robbery gone awry in this Groundhog Day–inspired episode. While the concept is one you've seen before on TV, the acting, script, and mystery behind the repeated Monday are all strong enough to make this a bona fide classic X-Files episode.

14. "Ice" (Season 1, Episode 8)
Inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing, this episode isolates Mulder and Scully with a small team of doctors as they investigate a mass murder-suicide of physicists in Alaska. The paranoia present in every episode of The X-Files is driven to all-time heights in this installment, where Mulder and Scully are at the brink of insanity.

13. "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" (Season 4, Episode 7)
This excellent flashback episode might not even be true, given the unreliability of its narrator. But diving into the Cigarette Smoking Man’s background and showing how he’s been at the center of conspiracy after conspiracy in America really expands the series’ mythology, and shows the far-reaching grip of the forces Mulder and Scully are up against.

12. "Small Potatoes" (Season 4, Episode 20)
Eddie Van Blundht (the h is silent) is the character at the center of this episode. He’s a shape-shifter who tricks the women in a small town into thinking he’s their husbands or their ultimate fantasy (Luke Skywalker, for one woman). This smart script by Vince Gilligan is one of the series’ funniest.

11. "Paper Hearts" (Season 4, Episode 10)
So “Closure” is awful because it actually wants us to buy its lame wrap-up to the Samantha Mulder abduction. But this episode, where Mulder believes that a serial killer might be responsible for his sister’s death, is a beautifully rendered piece of television. The episode leaves Mulder unsure of whether his sister was actually this man’s victim, which ultimately turns out not to be true (if it had been the real conclusion to Samantha’s abduction, it would be the series’ greatest arc). As it stands, it’s still one of the series’ best.

10. "Triangle" (Season 6, Episode 3)
Long takes, à la Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, are used in an episode where Mulder is trapped on a luxury liner invaded by Nazis in 1939. Scully and the Lone Gunmen rush to save him with the help of Skinner. Written and directed by Chris Carter, this episode was marketed as a television event — and it's actually as good as we were led to believe. The series would go on to have more near-excellent episodes after this one, but this is the last time The X-Files would reach glorious, iconic heights.

9. “Sunshine Days” (Season 9, Episode 18)
Doggett: “Why is everyone still watching a 30-year-old TV show?”

Reyes: “Because they’re the family everyone wishes they had.”

Mulder lost his sister, father, and mother. Scully lost her sister and her child. Doggett lost his son. Reyes has always had paranormal connections to loss. Ultimately, The X-Files is a show about finding whatever you believe your family is. The series’ mission statement is never as beautifully summed up as in this episode written and directed by Vince Gilligan, where Michael Emerson (Lost’s Ben Linus) plays a man who turns his home into the Brady Bunch house because he’s never truly had a family. When his doctor finally claims him as a son, it’s hard not to feel all of that emotional weight. Scully also receives irrefutable truth that the paranormal exists, and Reyes and Doggett clasp hands, realizing their family is now one another. If the series had ended on this episode, canceled before it could reach a “proper” conclusion, it would have been one the best series finales in television. As it stands, this penultimate episode of the The X-Files is simply just one of the series’ finest big-picture moments.

 8. "Pusher" (Season 3, Episode 17)
Scully saying to Mulder "Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy" is probably the best line in the series. Robert Patrick Modell, a man who can control people with his mind (or “put the whammy” on them, as Mulder describes), is sort of an early version of Kilgrave from Jessica Jones. The final showdown between Mulder and Modell, playing a game of Russian roulette, is one of the most tense scenes ever attempted by the series.

7. "The Post-Modern Prometheus" (Season 5, Episode 5)
This episode is a classic, not only for its quality but for its piece in television history. Two roles in the episode were designed for pop-culture icons: Roseanne and Cher. Roseanne was unavailable for filming, and Cher turned down a cameo where she’d merely be singing at the end (she wanted to act in the episode), only to regret it when she saw how beautiful the episode was. It’s easy enough to pull off a Frankenstein’s-monster episode in this day and age, but to do it with such artful cinematography (the episode is entirely in black-and-white) is where The X-Files put its own spin on a classic story.

6. "Memento Mori" (Season 4, Episode 14)
Scully seeks cancer treatment, while Mulder nearly goes insane trying to find out what happened to his partner when she was kidnapped. This episode rightfully earned an Emmy nomination and won Gillian Anderson a lead-actress Emmy.

5. "Colony" / "End Game" (Season 2, Episodes 16–17)
When the mythology episodes are bad, they’re really bad. But when they’re excellent, they’re as transcendent as this two-parter that pits Mulder and Scully against the Bounty Hunter. Scarier than those Super Soldiers could ever be, the Bounty Hunter morphs into Mulder. Scully realizes she’s in danger when she hears the real Mulder’s voice on the telephone, at which point there’s no way you won’t get chills.

4. "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" (Season 3, Episode 20)
Much has been written about this episode, to the point where there’s nothing much to add. Except this: What makes it so brilliant is actually what keeps it from being the all-time-best episode. This is the series at its most meta, poking fun at the genre and The X-Files as a whole. But for a show that changed the genre game (and television in general), it just doesn’t seem right to give the very top spot to an episode that satirizes itself.

3. "Home" (Season 4, Episode 2)
Hands down, this is the scariest episode of The X-Files. So twisted and demented that Fox has never reaired it, this episode about a bunch of inbred killers banging their paraplegic mother whom they keep squirreled away underneath a bed in her room is one of the most sickening things that’s ever aired on television.

2. "Bad Blood" (Season 5, Episode 12)
On the flip side, this is the funniest episode of The X-Files. The setup is simple: Mulder drives a wooden stake through the heart of a teenager he believes to be a vampire. But he might actually be human. How Mulder arrived at that conclusion is brilliantly told through Mulder and Scully’s own differing perspectives. No episode has ever gotten to the core of how much the two love each other, despite their differences, than this one.

1. "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (Season 3, Episode 4)
The X-Files could be thrilling, scary, heartbreaking, and funny. This episode takes every element that made the series so iconic and throws them all into one heartbreaking installment. A man who can see the future aids Mulder and Scully in stopping the murders of psychics and fortune-tellers. It took Scully years to finally come around on the supernatural, but in that moment where she finds Clyde Bruckman dead, she takes his hand, and you can see it in her eyes that she’s finally ready to take this journey into the paranormal with Mulder. This isn’t just the best episode of The X-Files, it’s one of the best episodes of television ever.

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« Reply #33 on: January 23, 2016, 09:24:00 pm »
How long ago did that happen "Z" ?

2008ish I think :P

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Must have seemed rather strange and  a surprise having some stranger call around claiming to be a Spook !

Might have been if it was out of the blue... but by then I was used to 'certain' people contacting me

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Do you think this was from your ATS days ? or from on other forums ? Did he ever mention such forums ?

Yes he was NJMooch at ATS  :P  He even had a badge as his avatar and his profile said" If people here knew what I really did for a living they would poop their pants"

Of course no one believed him LOL

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Did you / John  allow him to talk with both of you ?

Yes we spent three days over at John's house :D

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Did you have your contact check him out ?

Yup  he checked out :D  I should drop him a letter and see what he is up to these days

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Do you believe him that you may only know 3% of the real truth ?

I am probably closer to 5% now after all these years :P

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With ref to you and the Average person  I would have thought your Average present PRC members may know numerous % more than the average Joe...and you know numerous % more than most PRC members..

Well they WOULD  if they read what we post :P  Only a few people ever took the test  and no one followed up :P  Only TWO people have ever asked for access to the 12,000 plus pdfs we have mostly from the military. That was the original purpose of PRC  sadly it seems people only want that 1% :P

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How yours and Johns Knowledge compare..to the truth..I would had thought maybe at least 10%  :) 

Well I suppose assigning a percentage is hard... We do have a lot of leads and contacts him more than me obviously, but in the end I can't set up an interview with an Alien for you nor give you a tour of a flying saucer

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If it is only 3% we all have a lot to learn...too much for the average lifetime...by the seem of it... ???

I have been looking at Ancient Aliens for over 45 years  TONS of data... but I expect I will end up doing like the Buddhists did with the Library Cave in China   Putting thousands of scrolls into a cave and sealing it up :P


ONE POINT THOUGH

After he left... about a week later he called and said. "I hope you didn't think I was spying on you guys!"

LOL Nah thought never crossed my mind :P

But here is the thing that changed...

Go to Google and type in search   "Airborne Laser"

Just that nothing more....

Now look at your firat page of results


Then compare yours to my first page... Notice anything different?

 ::)

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« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2016, 11:18:10 pm »
Shocking...Positively Shocking  :o

I was not aware you had had such close personal contact with such persons...

One wonders if its wise to ask about such a topic..& what he wanted to know from you both that he wouldn't have already known...

This was some years after the Bob Lazar incident !

I am sure that would be a very interesting topic to know what he asked and what your thoughts were on it..if its safe to do so..

One wonders what may happen if one writes in Airbourne Laser !

Seems like it may relate to the Death Ray Star Wars thing and ive seen what Jessie Ventura on his Conspiracys program has said about what has happened to persons snooping into that !  :-\  ???

Check out the video to the new Secret  security services Dance...if you can view this in the USA !

see the part towards the end around 1 min 9 secs...

what have the TV ad people come too...At one time I think such a thing would have seen quite offensive and restricted by TV ad regulations... :D





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Do you think this was from your ATS days ? or from on other forums ? Did he ever mention such forums ?

Yes he was NJMooch at ATS  :P  He even had a badge as his avatar and his profile said" If people here knew what I really did for a living they would poop their pants"

Of course no one believed him LOL
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« Reply #35 on: January 24, 2016, 04:52:58 am »
Go to Google and type in search   "Airborne Laser"

Just that nothing more....
Nothing more? Then how does your search result shows "mil" in bold? The words in bold are the ones that were used for the search.  ???

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« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2016, 09:54:17 am »
well dang I don't follow orders so good..sigh

 add mil  dod    to your search and waaalla there ya go
old saying persistence eliminates resistence


Z  what happens if YOU do that now?.. how long ago was that ?







edit to note  computer was swarmed with cookies and had a crash dump
after leaving here and going to the next link
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this is  cool     http://www.mda.mil/  but being easily found probably mostly what they want you/me to see


 "Airborne Laser" mil dod

About 32,300 results (0.78 seconds)
 


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« Reply #37 on: January 24, 2016, 10:40:28 am »

full court press for this show.. they have been running the old stuff non stop on several tv stations and ads every where..i hope it lives up to the hype




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The X-Files: 5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Revival

Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are back to solve the mysteries of the universe in The X-Filesrevival. With just over a week until the series returns on Fox, there are more questions than ever about the iconic investigators of the extraterrestrial and what they've been up to since the series originally went off the air in 2003.

Duchovny, Anderson, revival co-star Joel McHale and series creator Chris Carter answered questions about the upcoming six-episode season at the Television Critics Association winter previews on Friday. Here are the facts you need to know:

1. It's more of a mini-season than a mini-story: Carter says that the truncated season will still reflect the spirit of an original 24-episode arc rather than being an X-Files event series. There will be a mix of mythology and monster-of-the-week episodes among the six. "The signature of the show was that we would do a mythology episode, then you could do a monster-of-the-week episode and go right back to the mythology episode and it worked," Carter said. "In this case, there are only six episodes so we had to do it in a shorter arc."


2. Baby William is far from forgotten: One of the remaining mysteries from the original series is what happened to Mulder and Scully's son William. Anderson says that mystery around the baby they had to give up will be very present when the series returns. "It affects her a lot. It's a big conversation throughout the series," she said. "William is very, very present through all of these episodes. It's emotional for her. So we get to hear a lot about [him]."

3. The mythology episodes will bookend the series: Carter says that there are two "strong mythology episodes" in the six-episode arc and they will bookend the series. The premiere will work as a bridge between the finale and the revival and allow new fans entry into the show. "It's a re-entry into a series that hasn't been on the air for 13 years. I think you needed to get back into the characters' lives, their quest, where they are, where their relationship is and where their professional lives are," Carter said.

4. The Lone Gunmen are back, but they aren't alive: Carter confirms that the Lone Gunmen died in the original series and their return in the revival will not be a resurrection from the dead. "The way that you see them return will explain itself. We don't just bring them back as live characters. They are back in a completely different way. They are actually back in a fantasy," he said.

5. Our post-9/11 world has had a great impact on The X-Files: Mulder and Scully began looking for aliens in the '90s, during a time of relative peace and prosperity. Now, conspiracy theories are more abundant than ever. That tension between civilians and the government provides a rich backdrop for this new iteration of episodes. "We're living in a time now where there's a tremendous amount of distrust of authority, the government, even the media. This is a really interesting time to be telling X-Files stories," Carter said. "Conspiracy sites are chock-a-block with the most outrageous stuff, but some of it actually is quite plausible. I think that's what you find in the mythology episodes here."

The X-Files premieres Jan. 24 on Fox.



 

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« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2016, 11:07:40 am »
As I have Fox on cable I looked and they will show the first two episodes on January 26.

Maybe I will watch them. :)

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« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2016, 11:15:51 am »
A long term Conspiracy Researcher and has never seen an episode of what maybe one of the best programs about such things !

Did you not even watch the Films ? inc the one where they end up in the Alien Underground base in the Antarctic ?

But you are not the only one I am sure that has not seen it..John Lear didnt even know what it was once when I asked him  :)

It would be good to watch the initial episodes if that is possible before the new series to get a better understanding and become familiar with it would be my suggestion ...

but it would take a LONG time to watch them all..to catch up.

I didnt see the X Files until some years after it was initially shown and on standard TV there have been few replays..thats in the UK...I suspect its been shown many times on std USA Tv if thee is such a thing...as the US seems to have more channels that one can handle when Ive visited in the past..

Not sure if there maybe some Free replays on the net somewhere that I may have come across at one time if I recall..

Although generally I think its well monitored for copyrights even on youtube..


Glad to see the Lone Gun Men may return... even if in spirit only . :)


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    on any other forum this may not be news.. but I think it is here..lol...en~joy

It's news because it's in the news.

Never watched it, and I'm not interested in watching this reincarnation.
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http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=8089.msg111392#msg111392

As I have Fox on cable I looked and they will show the first two episodes on January 26.

Maybe I will watch them.
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‘The X-Files’: 10 Episodes Everyone Should See




They may help explain the basis of the series...

but Not sure if they would be ones favorite episodes...


Extra terrestrials, government conspiracies, and creepy monsters, oh my. For nine seasons, The X-Files helped to define a generation’s understanding of what a sci-fi and horror show should look like. It’s a cultural staple for many – and it’s getting a second chance at glory this year. Creator Chris Carter and FOX have brought The X-Files back for a limited mini-series event, which will once again follow Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) in their never-ending search for the truth about unexplained phenomenon.

If the buzz surrounding the series reboot has you intrigued, but you’re feeling a little overwhelmed by the prospect of jumping into The X-Files blind, fear not. Despite having over 150 episodes and a crazy amount of characters and plot lines to keep track of, it’s pretty easy to boil the series down to its most basic parts. There are two main types of X-Files episodes: Myth-arc, or those that cover the show’s bigger themes about aliens and government cover-ups; and monster-of-the-week, or standalone episodes that are fun and creepy but don’t deal with the main storyline. Here are 10 episodes — five that relate to the main plot, and five that stand alone — that will help you get caught up with the mood and the major moments of The X-Files.








1. “Pilot” (Season 1, Episode 1)
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in the first episode of 'The X-Files.'


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You can’t get immersed in The X-Files without checking out how it all began. The first episode of the series not only introduces us to many of the main characters — the Cigarette-Smoking Man (William B. Davis) — but it also puts us smack in the middle of one of the series’ main themes — extraterrestrial activity, and the government’s efforts to cover them up.

The pilot episode of The X-Files is also vital because it establishes the show’s core dynamic between recently-partnered FBI agents Mulder and Scully. He’s a brilliant psychologist with a flare for the paranormal — and who witnessed his sister’s apparent alien abduction as a child. She’s a scientist with a strong skeptical streak, who believes even the most bizarre events they encounter can be explained. Their opposing views on exactly what is going on in the small New England town they’re sent to investigate makes for compelling dialogue — and lays the foundation for one of the most memorable partnerships in television history.

2. “Squeeze” (Season 1, Episode 3)
Doug Hutchison as Eugene Toombs in 'The X-Files' episode "Squeeze."


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“Squeeze” is first “monster-of-the-week” episode of The X-Files — and it remains one of its’ best. That’s largely due to the introduction of Eugene Tooms (Doug Hutchison), an immortal being who emerges from hibernation every 30 years to feed on humans. He’s creepy when he looks human, with his dead-eyed stare and preternatural calmness. But when he begins to transform into his true self — with glowing eyes and supernaturally stretchy fingers — he becomes the stuff of nightmares.
3. “One Breath” (Season 2, Episode 8)
Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in 'The X-Files' episode "One Breath"


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Early in the second season of The X-Files, Dana Scully is kidnapped by an unstable alien abduction survivor, Duane Barry. Then, she disappears, inexplicably. Mulder is convinced she was taken by aliens — and when she turns up at a hospital, in a coma, in “One Breath,” he’s even more committed to learning the truth of what happened to his partner. The episode is a turning point in the series — Scully’s abduction has long-term effects on her personal and professional life, and is a driving force for Mulder in his quest for the truth. It’s also a surprisingly quiet and introspective reprieve that gives us a chance to see a more human side of both of the series’ protagonists.
4. “Anasazi” (Season 2, Episode 25)
'The X-Files' episode "Anasazi"


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Through much of the first two seasons of The X-Files, Mulder is desperately in search of proof of otherworldly lifeforms. In “Anasazi,” he finds what he’s looking for — but faces dire consequences as a result. The second season finale is a game-changer for the series — and one of the most thrilling episodes to date. It raises the stakes, further cements the wide-ranging conspiracy against Mulder’s quest, and forces many of the characters to confront truths that they may not be ready to face.
5.” Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” (Season 3, Episode 4)
Peter Boyle as Clyde Bruckman in 'The X-Files.'
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Scully meets her match in this standalone episode — and the results are both hilarious and harrowing. Peter Boyle plays the titular character in “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” — he won an Emmy for his efforts, too, and with good reason. Bruckman is a reluctant psychic who can see the movements of a local serial killer. Scully refuses to believe that he’s capable of what he claims — only to realize too late that her skepticism is unwarranted. This episode is considered by many to be one of The X-Files’ best, for its ability to perfectly blend dark comedy, horror and genuine emotional growth from one of the series’ most stoic characters.

6. “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” (Season 3, Episode 20)
Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in 'The X-Files' episode, "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"
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It’s always entertaining when a series can poke fun at itself — but when it’s one as involved and often dark as The X-Files, it’s even better. “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” takes a story you’d easily find on the series and twists it until it becomes parody. It follows a famed sci-fi writer, Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly) as he attempts to piece together a case that Mulder and Scully worked on for a new book he’s writing on UFOs. The episode — which features, among many other highlights, a surprising cameo from Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek — is one of The X-Files’ funniest. That’s not only because of the absurd way in which Chung ends up telling his story, but because it plays up many of the series’ established themes with a wink and a nod.

7. “Home” (Season 4, Episode 4)
"Home," one of the most disturbing episodes of 'The X-Files'
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Many of The X-Files most disturbing episodes deal with a manner of supernatural elements — ghosts, demons or even giant monsters that live in the sewers. But “Home,” perhaps the series’ scariest episode ever, deals with something a little more within the realm of reality. The episode finds Mulder and Scully investigating strange occurrences in a rural farm home. What they discover there is a family that’s lived with a dark secret for generations. And that secret, brought to light, puts Mulder and Scully’s lives in danger — and will forever make you rethink the concept of family ties.

8. “Memento Mori” (Season 4, Episode 14)
Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) in 'The X-Files' episode "Memento Mori"
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Throughout its’ nine seasons, The X-Files’ protagonists often faced death at the hands of paranormal beings. In “Memento Mori,” Scully discovers that she has a brain tumor — and the sudden threat to her mortality feels more dire than anything else she’s faced. This episode is a must-see, not only because it weaves the series’ larger mythology into a frighteningly real scenario, but because of its emotional resonance. “Memento Mori” reminds fans that Scully’s abduction has stayed with her — and that her connection with Mulder is a grounding force in her life.
9. “Bad Blood” (Season 5, Episode 12)
Gillian Anderson, David Duchnovy and Luke Wilson in 'The X-Files' episode, "Bad Blood."
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Like “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” this episode makes light of many of The X-Files’ darker themes. It’s also, without a doubt, is one of the most entertaining episodes the series ever produced. It’s a classic case of “he said/she said,” and pits Mulder and Scully — and their starkly differing opinions of what happened during a badly botched case — against each other. “Bad Blood” features a hilarious appearance from Luke Wilson as a town sheriff who is, depending on who’s telling the story, wildly charismatic and good looking or impossibly hapless and goofy. The episode gives us a chance to laugh at The X-Files’ main characters and reminds us just how fun horror can be.

10. “One Son” (Season 6, Episode 12)
'The X-Files' episode "One Son"
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By the time The X-Files hit the middle of its sixth season, Mulder and Scully were up to their eyeballs in a government conspiracy involving alien colonization on earth. And fans were deeply invested in the main story arc — but the series’ writing team was ready to shake things up a bit. While The X-Files continued to explore alien mythology in later episodes, “One Son” is a defining moment in which all of its main themes come to a head. The result leaves Mulder and Scully grappling with the knowledge that the shadow government they’ve been fighting — the Syndicate — has been stopped, but that they face an uncertain future.

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The X-Files: Complete Guide to the Mythology



It’s safe to say that The X-Files has one of, if not the, most complicated narratives told in the television format, partially a consequence of its running for nine seasons (and two feature films) and partially the direct result of creator/showrunner Chris Carter’s deliberate, convoluted storytelling methodology; the executive producer has said many dozens of times over the years that, had he just laid out the whole mythology of the series in one sweeping gesture, it would be too fantastical to be believed.

But this is exactly what we’re going to do here; it’s all well and good to have half-truths and redactions and obfuscations at nearly every turn for 201 episodes, but when attempting to bone up before the show’s grand return to television this weekend, it’s necessary to have that straightforward, step-by-step summation made available.

So, without further ado, here is our Complete Guide to The X-Files’s Mythology. (And once you’re done here, be sure to check out our top 10 reasons why we’re worried about how this storyline may be picked up – or not – in the revival series.)



http://screenrant.com/x-files-complete-guid-mythology-tv-reboot/
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« Reply #40 on: January 24, 2016, 11:47:57 am »
The New X-Files Is One Long Gulp of Clinton-Era Conspiracy Theories.

Roswell is alive and well.

Seems the media have been creating various articles about the new show !



One of the more impressive parts about the new The X-Files miniseries—premiering tonight on Fox—is how little it does to accommodate new viewers. The creative team, mostly drawn from the same one behind the original series, seems to have guessed that anyone interested in paranormal procedurals who wasn't around for its first run would have by now binged it on Netflix or DVD, so they only take a few minutes in the first episode to throw Scully and Mulder right back into the alien-human conspiracy that they've already spent nine seasons constructing to dizzyingly batshit levels of complexity.


Its creators are so enthusiastic about picking back up where they left off that they barely acknowledge that any time has passed since the series went off the air in 2002. Mulder's gone a little crazier, Scully's been busy doing selfless medical work, and Skinner's grown a beard, but otherwise they're still pretty much the exact same characters from the first time around.

The show has also retained its distinctly Clinton-era conception of what's lurking in society's shadows. While Tad O'Malley, the Bill O'Reilly-meets-Alex-Jones character amusingly played by Joel McHale, is a 9/11 truther, the elaborate plot about a global system of populace control that he lays out centers around the Roswell UFO crash site, and only barely touches on the biggest source of conspiracy theories since the Kennedy assassination.


When The X-Files first ran, the world of conspiracy theories (not to mention computer graphics) was a very different place. They were just starting to make their way from the cultural fringe into the mainstream, thanks in part to the newfangled Internet that frequently figured into its plots in sinister ways. Once exclusively the province of the mentally ill and edgy bohemian intellectuals, the theories often had an element of the fantastic at their core: intelligent extraterrestrial life, troves of mind-bendingly advanced technology, a hollow Earth where lizard people lived alongside Hitler's zombie armies. They promised that our world was much bigger and more interesting than we thought, even if there were classified government programs keeping it a secret.

Conspiracy theories have changed fundamentally as they've made their way from obscure bookstores to your extended family's Facebook posts. They've lost their mythological aspects and become more darkly existential, as well as drifted further and further toward the political right. It's no longer dreaming about hidden alien technology–it's about seeing the grieving families of shooting victims on TV and thinking they're hired actors.

The phrases "crisis actor," "creeping sharia," and "white genocide" didn't exist when the X-Files first aired, and they don't really exist for the new series either. Thanks to social media and fake news sites, we're awash in conspiracy theories—from Obama's plans for a military invasion of the American Southwest to subliminal messages about interracial sex encoded in the new Star Wars movie—that the show's creators have decided, reasonably, to ignore in favor of almost quaintly old-fashioned stuff like Roswell and gravitational warp drives. It seems like real life has finally gotten too weird for The X-Files.

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The X-Files: Complete Guide to the Mythology

To find all the content for this article you need to find the "NEXT" part of the story link on the page...which can be a pain !

Like the look of this UFO Saucer craft  that I assume is in the New Series !

Tried to find a suitable larger image for the Craft on the right to fit in the frame without having to side scroll...but struggled to find one... initially..





but then got lucky ! and was able to make it fit.  :)
At least on my screen size..







It’s safe to say that The X-Files has one of, if not the, most complicated narratives told in the television format, partially a consequence of its running for nine seasons (and two feature films) and partially the direct result of creator/showrunner Chris Carter’s deliberate, convoluted storytelling methodology; the executive producer has said many dozens of times over the years that, had he just laid out the whole mythology of the series in one sweeping gesture, it would be too fantastical to be believed.

But this is exactly what we’re going to do here; it’s all well and good to have half-truths and redactions and obfuscations at nearly every turn for 201 episodes, but when attempting to bone up before the show’s grand return to television this weekend, it’s necessary to have that straightforward, step-by-step summation made available.

So, without further ado, here is our Complete Guide to The X-Files’s Mythology. (And once you’re done here, be sure to check out our top 10 reasons why we’re worried about how this storyline may be picked up – or not – in the revival series.)





The building blocks of life may have arrived on Earth thanks to a meteorite (probably originating from Mars), but it was a race of extraterrestrials that made mankind into what it is today – a series of UFOs arrived on the planet millions of years ago, covered in verses that would eventually find their way into all of man’s various religious texts and written in a language that would ultimately reemerge as a Native American dialect. It would seem that the aliens shaped man more or less into their image physically, as well, although evolution would take its course, turning off most of the aliens’ physiology and rendering it into what scientists now call junk DNA. (Occasionally, a human is born with at least some of this DNA activated, giving him such abilities as telepathy; the series refers to these individuals as being “more human than human.”) It remains unknown why these extraterrestrials created humanity or whether they’re responsible for other civilizations on other planets, as well.

Also arriving on that meteorite was an already-evolved lifeform, an alien virus that has since come to be called Purity. This virus is sentient and is able to function by invading a host species and transforming it into an alternate, perhaps more ideal (for defensive purposes) form. Purity flourished as the original inhabit of the planet until the next ice age began; extreme cold is one of the virus’s few weaknesses, and it was forced to abandon all of its various hosts and travel deep underground, where it eventually hitched another ride – this time within oil, another medium that can be perfectly manipulated (hence Purity’s nicknames as the Black Oil or the Black Cancer throughout the show).


It is unknown whether the alien race was present on Earth along with their early vessels, but, at some point, they came into contact with Purity and became almost entirely subsumed by it. It seems that the two lifeforms evolved into symbiotic partners, with the aliens becoming Purity’s permanent hosts and Purity becoming the main reproductive method for the aliens (a host is infected and then used as an incubator for the alien offspring, which consumes the host’s body when it is birthed).

It is at this stage that humanity is viewed as the perfect crop to be harvested, and plans are made to return to Earth – presumably once the ice age retreats – to reclaim it. In the meantime, the newly reconstituted aliens colonize as many other planets in the cosmos as possible, spreading the virus and strengthening their ranks. Only a small number of these so-called alien colonists (at least, so far as we know) manage to resist infection, using their latent shape-shifting abilities to seal off every body orifice to prevent Purity from entering their systems. These alien rebels make it their life’s work to halt the spread of the virus everywhere they can across the galaxy – including, eventually, Earth.



The alien colonists make their long-awaited return to Earth in the 1940s, where they encounter a (comparatively) technologically advanced human species. Several of their ships are unexpectedly downed when they are exposed to deposits of magnetite, a mineral that is toxic to them and which apparently also arrived on the planet thanks to that fateful original meteorite.

The State Department is sent to investigate this new extraterrestrial presence – including, most importantly, what their intent to humanity is – and to keep its existence a secret from the general public, which the American government agreed to do along with all the other leaders of the world in order to prevent a global hysteria. Eventually, after 16 years of investigation, the top-secret group within State pieced together the colonization project and realized that they had no hope of preventing its commencement. Instead, they made a bargain with the aliens: in exchange for them not launching a series of nukes and plunging the planet into another ice age, they and their families would be spared the viral apocalypse. In return, the government agents pledged to lay the groundwork for the invasion and to ensure that everything transpires as smoothly as possible. In this way, the project originally contained within the American government quietly became a global Syndicate.

What neither side realized was that each had a secret. The alien colonists allowed their human collaborates to believe that Purity would transform all of humanity into mind-controlled zombies instead of being fodder for their reproduction. For their part, the Syndicate labored to create a vaccine to Purity, to stave off the colonization altogether (or, at least, to ensure their own safety).




In 1952, Special Agent Arthur Dales (Darren McGaven) becomes entangled with Bill Mulder (Peter Donat), Fox’s (David Duchovny) father and a secret member of the Syndicate, and thereafter becomes obsessed with cases with an extraterrestrial or otherwise paranormal bent, thereby officially birthing the X-files unit. (Why X? Because the FBI’s secretary filed them in the “X” drawer after the “U” drawer [for “unsolved”] became too full.)

When Dales retires years later, the FBI hierarchy is only too happy to have the X-files shut down – until Agent Fox Mulder, hugely successful as a psychological profiler and with contacts in both the Senate and the State Department (thanks to his father), is able to use his sway to reopen them. His overriding goal: to locate his sister, Samantha, who was abducted by aliens in 1973, and to blow wide open the government conspiracy of silence regarding extraterrestrial life on Earth (much to the Syndicate’s chagrin). His initial partner is Agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers), his wife at the time, though both their marriage and partnership fell apart shortly thereafter.

To replace her, the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis), a member of the Syndicate whose plate of responsibilities includes keeping all of the various agencies housed in Washington, DC in line, recruits Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), a medical doctor well-trained in the scientific method – and a firm non-believer in the supernatural. It is Cancer Man’s hopes that Scully’s skepticism will infect and undermine Mulder’s quest for the truth, ultimately deterring it (and preventing the Cigarette Smoking Man from having to kill him, which runs the danger of turning one man’s crusade into a full-blown movement).



From March 1992 to May 2000, Mulder and Scully investigate hundreds of X-files and slowly, irrevocably work their way to the truth surrounding both the Syndicate and the alien colonists. Along the way, they pick up several insider sources from the very heart of the government conspiracy, who help point the agents in the right direction – and who inadvertently help cause the X-files office to be shuttered two additional times, as Mulder and Scully’s continued successes make them ever-more-dangerous to the colonization project. Both times, however, forces from within the FBI – including Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), the agents’ supervisor, who, despite his own skepticism, secretly admires their willingness to ask questions that no one else will – intercede and eventually get the X-files back on track.

At one point, exasperated by his inability to thwart Mulder, the Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Scully to be made part of the Syndicate’s project by becoming an alien abductee (more on this in a moment). Although she is only gone for several weeks, the damage done to her in the wake of the experiments is immense: her ova are confiscated, resulting in her infertility, and she is given a microchip implant at the base of her neck. When Scully detects this and has it removed, she develops a lethal form of brain cancer which threatens to kill her within the space of just a few months – a failsafe that the Syndicate’s doctors install into each of their test subjects in case they remove the microchips. Scully is only able to survive due to Mulder’s procuring of an antidote that the Syndicate has developed (namely, inserting a new implant), but her inability to have children haunts her for the duration of the series.



Through its many decades of operation, the Syndicate’s overriding project is the creation of the perfect human-alien hybrid, which would be impervious to infection from Purity and which could be genetically manipulated to be a race of mindless slaves once colonization is complete (the Syndicate and its chosen family members would be injected with the hybrids’ DNA, granting them immunity from the alien virus). It is for this reason that thousands of innocents are abducted and experimented on, and it’s the Syndicate’s own loved ones who start the process in 1973: as a sign of good will, they are handed over to the colonists to be the first abductees. Bill Mulder chooses his daughter, Samantha; CGB Spender – better known as the Cigarette Smoking Man – hands over his wife, Cassandra (Veronica Cartwright).

Although deliberately dragging their feet on the hybrid experimentation, the Syndicate successfully transforms Cassandra Spender into the first perfect hybrid in early 1999, which moves the start of colonization from its drop-dead date of December 22, 2012 to that very day. The alien rebels (who have finally reached Earth), however, act first, seeking to turn the Syndicate from its self-preserving ways; when they fail, they instead gather up all of its members – save for CGB Spender, of course – and kill them. The Syndicate and, perhaps, the colonization project seem to be dead.

So, too, unfortunately, is Samantha, a fact which Mulder is finally able to track down in early 2000. Given that the Cigarette Smoking Man is really both her and Mulder’s father – Mulder’s mother, Teena (Rebecca Toolan), had a long-lived affair with the villainous chain-smoker – she was returned to him instead of the Mulder family. She spent the rest of her short life being the repeated test subject of additional, horrific experiments at Spender’s hand, until 1987, when she is spared the suffering by a merciful and timely death.



With their human co-conspirators removed from the picture, the alien colonists revert to their pre-determined December 2012 date and move to replace their terrestrial allies in positions of power all across the planet with a brand-new type of human-alien hybrid: the human replacement or alien replicant (or the “super soldier,” as their cover story names them). Re-abducting the previous test subjects all throughout the year 2000, the colonists infect them with a new type of virus that replaces the host with a near-identical copy but which is incredibly strong (the replicants can decapitate someone with one swipe of their hands) and nearly impossible to kill (a metallic spine can regenerate itself and then all other tissues).

Mulder is nervous that Scully, given her previous history as an abductee, would be put on the colonists’ list, but it’s actually Mulder that they want – throughout their years on the X-files, Mulder is inadvertently exposed to a whole series of alien contagions and sources of radiation which have the net effect of altering his brain chemistry to that of a perfect human-alien hybrid (even going so far as to make him temporarily telepathic). Although CGB Spender performs an operation on Mulder that reverts his brain chemistry back to normal – and enables Spender to inject Mulder’s “hybrid” DNA into his own body, thereby granting him immunity from Purity – he’s still the best candidate that the aliens have access to.

Mulder himself is abducted in May 2000 and goes missing for nearly a year. During that time, the FBI hierarchy sees an opportunity to insert one of their own into the X-files office and, they hope, begin the surreptitious process of shutting it down. That new agent is named John Doggett (Robert Patrick), a skeptic, who gets temporarily partnered with a Scully who, after eight years of investigating the paranormal, has finally seen enough to become a believer. (What they don’t count on is Doggett’s integrity and his genuine curiosity at solving these impossible cases, making him a worthy successor to Fox Mulder.)



mmediately after Mulder’s disappearance, Scully receives another shocking bit of news: she’s pregnant.

The nature of her conception is a driving mystery throughout The X-Files’s final two seasons. While it’s revealed that she had quietly been undergoing fertility treatments – and that she even asked Mulder to be her donor – audiences are also led to believe that the two finally bit the bullet and spent the night together, even though neither one is brave enough to acknowledge the event, and they keep acting as if nothing has changed between them. The most likely explanation, however, would seem to be yet another repercussion from Scully’s abduction back in 1994: her conception was triggered by another variation on the human-alien hybrid project, which the alien colonists have taken over and resurrected. A number of female abductees have suddenly, miraculously given birth, and each of their babies has demonstrated “more human than human” abilities, such as telekinesis; Scully’s son, whom she names William, even manages to interact with an UFO, proving his extraterrestrial origin.

Since it is believed that this new race of human replacements would be the leaders of the colonization that is scheduled to occur 11 years after their births, William’s life is constantly in danger, both by those who wish to keep him from Mulder’s anti-authoritarian influence and those who wish to stop the alien invasion by any means necessary. Finally, at the very end of the series, little William is injected with magnetite, which destroys the alien part of his hybrid DNA, and Scully, fearful that the pro-colonization forces will now kill her son out of pure spite, gives him up for adoption. The choice ensures the baby’s safety, but it also incessantly hangs over Scully.


Special Agents John Doggett and Dana Scully head up the X-files for nearly a year, from May 2000 to early 2001, with locating Agent Mulder forming their primary task. And even after Mulder is returned in the spring of 2001, Doggett remains the supervisory agent of the X-files – particularly after Mulder finally goes one step too far and gives his superiors the justification they need to fire him. (Why doesn’t Mulder shed his skin and transform into a human replacement? Because Scully is able to successfully create an antidote that permanently cures him of both the new alien virus and the lingering effects of his hybrid brain chemistry.) Although initially suspicious of the “career boy” Doggett, Mulder comes to realize that he represents one of the best chances for the X-files to be granted legitimacy and feels confident in passing the torch onto him.

Shortly thereafter, Scully goes on her maternity leave and makes it known that she has no interest in returning to the office that she’s spent nearly a decade of her life dedicated to; without Mulder present, it’s just not worth it to her anymore, and she instead returns to teaching forensics at the FBI Academy in Quantico, which was the position she held before joining the X-files. To replace her, Doggett personally recruits Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) from the New Orleans field office, a big-time, New Age-y believer in all things supernatural and a friend of John’s from years before. Investigating this new, “super soldier”-driven alien conspiracy forms the bulk of their work.

Scully, however, finds herself inexorably drawn back to the X-files office once her son starts exhibiting extraordinary powers and Mulder is forced to go into hiding – either he or William is to be killed, the government conspiracy threatens, and Mulder decides the best option is to leave his fledgling family behind, at least temporarily. Scully, as such, serves as Doggett and Reyes’s mentor and medical expert, still performing her now-legendary autopsies on a regular basis.



When the series ends in May 2002, a number of various storylines are left dangling, most of which are left unaddressed by 2008’s I Want to Believe, the second, standalone-story feature film.

Mulder’s return – tipped off about Mount Weather’s critical importance to the new colonist conspiracy, Mulder infiltrates the facility and discovers the set-in-stone date for colonization – news which devastates him, as it means all his hard work and sacrifices across all these long years were for nothing. Just to add insult to injury, the military arrests Mulder for his illegal entry and plans to have him be executed.

The final closing of the X-files – not content to watch their friend die, Scully, Doggett, Reyes, and Assistant Director Walter Skinner help him escape. Knowing of their role in the breakout, the FBI hierarchy disbands the X-files yet again, scattering Doggett and Reyes to the wind (Skinner is allowed to keep his position, but he pays an unknown price for his intransigence). Mulder and Scully, meanwhile, go on the lam, attempting to carve out for themselves new lives while remaining fugitives from the FBI.

A (partial) new beginning – Scully eventually lands work at a Catholic hospital in an unknown city. Several years later, the FBI tracks her there and enlists her help in getting Mulder, whom she’s been living with as a romantic couple, to temporarily return to the fold to help solve a case involving missing agents. In exchange, the Bureau agrees to quietly cease its manhunt for him, giving him some breathing room to resume his life – or what’s left of it.

CGB Spender – unable to worm his way into the new alien conspiracy, and believed dead by the wider world, anyway, the man formerly known as the Cigarette Smoking Man holes up in a series of Anasazi ruins in New Mexico, which he claims are the relics of the first shadow government in human history – in-tune with humanity’s extraterrestrial origins, the Anasazi elders somehow divine that mankind will end on December 22, 2012, and hole up in a region heavy with magnetite deposits, which will save them from the colonists’ return. Instead, the human replacements dispatch black helicopters to the area and demolish it with a series of missiles, killing Spender – and, they hope, Mulder, who was also present at the scene.

The chosen one – in keeping with their apparent foreknowledge of the impending alien colonization, various Native American cultures developed a mythology around a man who will stop the impending apocalypse, thereby becoming humanity’s savior. It is largely believed that Fox Mulder, who naturally became the perfect human-alien hybrid, is this figure of destiny, although it remains unknown whether Mulder has a part yet to play – or whether his previous actions have already fulfilled the prophecy.



Did we miss an important mythological beat? Do you have your own interpretation of the show’s previous developments – or predictions as to its new ones? Let the world know in the comments below.

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« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2016, 01:31:40 pm »
A long term Conspiracy Researcher and has never seen an episode of what maybe one of the best programs about such things !
It may be one of the best, but the little snippets I saw make me think it was not really worth my time, TV shows are just entertainment.

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Did you not even watch the Films ? inc the one where they end up in the Alien Underground base in the Antarctic ?
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Not sure if there maybe some Free replays on the net somewhere that I may have come across at one time if I recall..
There's always a way of seeing TV shows for free in the Internet, even when my Internet provider (Vodafone) blocks some sites because of court orders (or so they say). ;D

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Although generally I think its well monitored for copyrights even on youtube..
Youtube is not the best place to look for things like this. :)

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« Reply #43 on: January 25, 2016, 02:57:12 am »
I suppose it depends upon how one may view a such thing as entertainment V related to ones Interests that maybe seen as connected with possible similarities..

I suspect a lot of Conspiracist or UFO / ET reasearchers resulted from that series...

Some may even suggest that there maybe truths in some things that the "X Files" may relate too..

but I think it was as good as any other TV series or movies that relate to such issues..


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It may be one of the best, but the little snippets I saw make me think it was not really worth my time, TV shows are just entertainment.

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« Reply #44 on: January 25, 2016, 03:00:51 am »
How the revived 'X-Files' made that massive life-sized alien spaceship for its pricey premiere.

Some more images of a Crashed found UFO from the "X Files".

Is it a bit similar to the Sports Model ?

Its said to be 50 foot in Diameter..

The approx height of 2 story houses where I live is about 8.5 metres to Apex..or 28 Ft..so its good to try to put it in perspective !

Almost twice the height of an average house...

that seems quite big when comparing it..












Warning: Spoilers for the first episode of the new "X-Files" below.
"The X-Files" creator Chris Carter wanted the show's revival to be more than just your standard return. He wanted it to be fresher, more contemporary, and bigger than it had been. The series accomplished that right off the bat by creating the largest prop it has ever made for the premiere episode. But that wasn't even the most expensive episode of the new season.

On Sunday, viewers got an eyeful when the series showed a UFO crash. Modeled after the iconic 1950s flying saucer, the scene showed viewers what really went down at Roswell. Led by Mark Freeborn of the art department, the ship took a team of painters, sculptors, and visual-effects pros to pull off.

According to Freeborn, the life-sized flying saucer was 50 feet in diameter.

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The crashed-saucer scene serves a significant purpose for the series. It and its alien passenger found near the site set up a conspiracy that changes the mission of FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). The military is recreating alien technology with the goal of using it for a military takeover of the government. It uses all the privileges afforded by the Patriot Act, the NSA, and Homeland Security to monitor everyone's conversations and destroys anything and anyone in its path to overthrowing the government.

Fox's marketing department "crashed" a replica of the saucer into LA's The Grove shopping center on Friday.


With such a showpiece, how could episode one not be the most costly of the six-part return?

"Isn't that amazing? I would've thought it was the most expensive," an incredulous Carter told Business Insider.


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From left, guest star Megan Peta Hill, David Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson on the "Founder's Mutation" episode of "The X-Files."

In fact, the most expensive episode of the new run is episode two, Carter revealed. Titled "Founder's Mutation," it centers on the results of testing on children — some born with horrible deformities, others with great powers — and will cause Mulder and Scully to wonder about the child they gave up for adoption, William.
How did it cost more than an episode that featured a life-sized UFO?

"It had the most locations, it used some of the most expensive equipment, and I think it had a large cast," Carter said about the episode.

Fans will be able to watch the explosive (and expensive) episode when it airs Monday at 8 p.m. on Fox.

NOW WATCH: There was a 'Star Wars' made-for-TV movie you've never heard of — starring only Ewoks.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/revived-x-files-made-massive-040100022.html
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