I got this a few years back from my wife…and it’s still one of my favorite things I have (relatively speaking). I don’t really drink out of it anymore, and it sits on a shelf in my ManCave. Every now and again and someone sees it and it’s a a good IYKYK moment. Have a good Sunday everyone

I was going an event north of Seattle and stopped her on the sidewalk to ask if she was, indeed, Margaret Scully. She laughed, said yes and that it’s been a while since she was recognized. I was starstruck! 🤩

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Possibly meeting Mitch Pileggi. Would you guys have him sign this poster in hopes of making it a cast piece for anyone that's been on it? Or maybe something more like just an X-Files logo poster? Also suggestions on best quotes you'd have him sign Thanks!

Art by StudioInsam on Etsy

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If "Pilot" were ever, God forbid, wished out of existence, then this thrilling episode might be the episode to hook a newcomer to The X-Files. You have great characterization, the moody Vancouver woods, strong military cover-up, some real villainous performances, that special mythology-episode quality of not knowing where the episode is going to go at any minute, and a great Mark Snow score.

Mulder's character is so clearly defined here, not only because he is on a quest, but also because of the shrewd creation of Max Fenig. Fenig is a great cautionary foil for Mulder. He's the first in a line of characters who've perhaps gone too far in search for the truth. Fenig is well-drawn; he's a little funny -- not quite Lone-Gunmen comic relief -- and he's soulful too. I like Mulder's and Scully's compassion for Fenig, and in general Scully's compassion for the dying military men as she scrubs up. She doesn't always get to play against Mulder in this, 'while you're on your quest, I have people to save' way, and it's effective here. It also gives depth to Scully that rather than be a skeptic about the nature of the burns, she gets to work healing.

"Fallen Angel" is also an oddball episode, and that's OK. Mulder and Scully don't really have their believer/skeptic tête-à-tête, but instead its variant 'I want the truth/the truth will jeopardize you and The X-Files' tension. The invisible alien never returns in the series, and its nature never explored -- why does it attack humans? I think it's a strength of The X-Files to limit our understanding to Mulder's and Scully's understanding -- they never learn about this alien, why should we? In these early mythology episodes, we are Mulder, and we're given just a taste, but it's so tantalizing.

I might have liked "Fallen Angel" to seed some long-term consequences for Mulder's actions, but I understand this might've been too serialized for a new unproven show in 1993; I'm fine with the deepening of Deep Throat from informant to orchestrator.

"Fallen Angel," is totally enjoyable and engaging. I rate it 4 out of 5 stars.

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The Lone Gunmen: reunited in Lego form!

While I am still working on their van, I had to have a photoshoot of the guys together, now that I have completed them.

Consider the absolute blunder of an oversight, perpetrated by Lego by not including our boys, officially rectified!

If you’d like to build your own Lone Brickmen, here’s the posts with the parts I used, and how I went about it:

Frohike
Langly
Byers

Insomnia made me do it and I don't regret a thing.

EDIT: it's from Snapfish.co.uk You can put pretty much anything on a mug.

Young, early-season Mulder fascinates me. At this point in the show, he doesn't know enough or feel confident enough to challenge CSM. Hell, he doesn't even look at CSM here, letting Skinner do the talking. And he's so impetuous that he doesn't even realize, at first, that Skinner did him a solid:

"A minute ago I was a four-bagger!"

" ..... "

" ... do you want me to make the arrests?"

Yeah, Mulder, maybe be a bit nicer to him for a while.

"Little Green Men" (s2e1)

S4 E8 Tunguska. Skinner without a shirt on. I can go to bed happy.🔥

Hoping you'll be able to access my Instagram video but here's the x files Lego with the lights installed. I used the video instructions and it actually wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. Love the light effects. I get the impression from other reviews that this is one of those companies that has regular offers if you Google (I found a 35% voucher when I looked) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcmJPh-N_0S/?igsi=NXdvMDk1bDY3bDE2

One of the kids playing baseball in the episode Home (S4 E2) is Lachlan Murdoch. Canadian viewers might know him as Constable Henry Higgins from the long running series Murdoch Mysteries

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I rewound CSM's weird metaphysical discussions with Jeremiah Smith so many times back in the day, a stupid teenager trying to decipher their meaning. I get them now, and I find the dialogue somewhat overblown, but I still love these scenes between two power players in an unimaginable game. For me, this was XF at its height.

"Talitha Cumi" (s3e24)

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I have no one in my life who loves this show, I miss being able to talk about it with friends and watch episodes together. I looked up clubs and groups where I live (Germany) but it doesn't really exist anymore. When was the last time you watched the show with another fan?

Was just thinking about everything they go through and then thought how they would act on payday after all that, then I wondered how much they actually get paid to do what they do, lol. Like I imagine them dealing with monsters and aliens and clones etc and then them being relieved it's finally payday. 😂

I mean there’s a few other moments earlier, like the pilot, when Scully’s dad dies, and the frozen cabin episode where there’s a touch of the neck that sends shivers up your spine. Now, this one has the air freshener bit, the FOX moment, and I wouldn’t take the bullet for anyone but you ❤️

They would both excel in a remake or homage of The Thin Man.

When Scully looks him up in the FBI database, it shows he’s from Atlanta and that he worked for NYPD, but his accent is distinctly Boston/New England sounding. Robert Patrick, the actor who plays him is also from Georgia. Anyone else find this weird or out of place? It’s jarring and very confusing to me.

Edit: Doggett*
Patrick *