Re: X-Files2?
141Yeah, Tim, I used to love this show when I was 13. Hence the shock and the question: was it always this atrocious?
I don't know if I'd say atrocious is the right word, but I was never a die hard fan. As has been said it was spotty at best. The first two seasons were probably the most solid and then it just started to get silly with the mythology. I think I stopped watching completely somewhere after the first movie.klimov wrote:Yeah, Tim, I used to love this show when I was 13. Hence the shock and the question: was it always this atrocious?
Well said, they helped launch a lot of the quality genre t.v. we enjoy today but the old model of cranking out that many episodes was way too much for a show like this. I thought it generally trended upward through the fifth season and the first film, which remains pretty stellar, but then trended down promptly after that. And I'm not a super fan, but I am having fun watching it with my kids.O-dot wrote:My wife and I began watching the series from the start about 4 1/2 years ago; I'd only ever seen the random episode and I think she was completely cold. "Spotty" is exactly the right word — you'd have an extremely solid episode surrounded three deep by some utter clunkers.
The X Files was ahead of its time in more ways than one — as I've said before, it's too bad it didn't premiere in the era of 12- or 13-episode seasons. Instead, it had to slog its way through a primetime network schedule and pump out 22-25 episodes a year — and very often the writers plainly were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
We stopped watching after season 3, and although I occasionally restart it on Netflix it struggles to keep my attention.
Very much this. Trying to re-tell, re-create and expand on an entire mythos within six episodes seems like a dumb idea, to be honest.TC wrote:my main concern is with as few episodes as he has to work with, carter is going to do more "cramming" of the mythos into episodes and we'll end up with more things like the back half of the first one, which i guess you all hated, as he's trying to make up for that second film, and this season will kind of sour everyone on the entire thing even more, and we'll be done with the x-files.
They should have taken a page from Lynch and the new Peaks and made it one overall story and just split it up into six episodes. As you said, they're acting like this is a regular series and pissing away screen time.TC wrote:tonight's episode is supposed to be "hilarious". great, yeah - that's what this show needs. comedy. when you have 23 episodes to fill, fine. 6? this is a bad idea.
skinner looks essentially the same - must have been the masked magician doing his magic on him.
this. but it seems the other people here that like the x-files prefer the "monster of the week" over the mythology, so what would he have done with one overall story? that's the thing - i think carter likes the idea of the x-files more than he actually has an idea.darkness wrote:it would have been smarter to do one overall story
This may be the truest thing ever said about the X-Files.TC wrote:i think carter likes the idea of the x-files more than he actually has an idea.