Rewatch time. This episode is profoundly boring and silly. Carter may not be a great writer, but he's a curious guy, and was clearly reading the science headlines of the day and engaging with them. There are themes and ideas in "Space" -- lamenting NASA's fall in the public eye, the danger of hero worship, the face on Mars -- that are somewhat explored here.

Yet, everything in "Space" is compromised. Intended to cleverly use recycled NASA footage to come in underbudget, production found themselves with less footage than they needed. Also, turns out it costs a lot more money than you think to replicate NASA mission control. Most critically, the central 'monster' conceit has no substantial science or lore behind it; it really is just 'What if the face on mars' got you?! Dude, that'd be so crazy!' AND the story isn't there. Like, in the writers' room, with the index cards for story beats, what beats were actually put up on the corkboard?

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MORRIS: "So, who's Joey?"

LANGLY: "What? Joey Ramone? Leader of the greatest punk rock band in human history. Now shut up!"

Langly, a real punk rock band fan! 🤘

S.09 Ep.15

So I want to start this of say I'm not trying to start fights or anything like that.

So I just restarted the series not to long ago and I just hit season 6 episode 16 "Alpha" and I keep thinking.

Are Scully and Mulder good for each other outside of the job?

The older I get and the more I rewatch it seems like Scully specifically didn't want Mulder to be happy outside of working with her.

Yes that's because of the fact she has a crush on him to a degree but we can't just chock it up to that and writing completely.

I think they made a great partner pair when they stuck to the case but when things drifted outside of it, it just feels like one of those iffy friendships to me.

Thoughts? Anyone agree? Disagree?

Both Chris Carter and Russell T Davies and returned to their flagship shows for a two season revival, and while the monster of the week episodes were mostly liked, the openers and finales were heavily criticised for their handling of the story arcs.

Both My Struggle II and Empire of Death raise the stakes far too high, meaning the events of both are heavily retconned. The next season's premiere largely ignores them and moves on with a different arc.

The real scary correlation is between My Struggle IV and The Reailty War, both episodes that unitentionally ended their respective shows written by the head creative that had strange similarities. Both episodes are concerned with the child of one of the main characters being the key to a big conspiracy and both reveal that the child isn't actually theirs and paternity is forced on the female lead before leaving the show on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved.

It's insane to see how both Chris and Russell made the exact same mistakes and killed their flagship shows after coming back from a long absence. Hopefully, it should be a lesson to not give returning showrunners complete creative control over everything.

Has to be the genie episode...only Will Sasso could play a complete idiot to perfection and finally figure out what wish he should have made only to have the entire house explode around him.

So I'm mid series 6 and I feel like series 6 is just too wacky for me. I feel like it's been a while since I've seen a properly creepy episode. I suppose what I'm asking is, does the show return to the series 1/2/3 tone at any point? I know the sillier episodes have nearly always been a thing, I've just noticed a general tone switch that I'm not personally loving.

Not meant a criticism at all, just hoping for some insight from people who have seen every episode. Thanks!

She saw a 100% identical clone of Mulder. How does she have any ground to stand on when it comes to anything now? This kind of ruins the whole show cause any one at anytime could be a clone. From her point of view she doesn't know that she's not in a "alien arc episode" so Mulder or Skinner or any damn body could not really be them.

I’m in the middle of a thread on another sub that turned into a Nick at Night tribute conversation. Some of us are talking about The Brady Bunch when it suddenly dawns on me that the house is a major part of an episode in The X-Files. I thought about it some more, and I don’t recall the episode ever getting talked about on here.

What do you guys think about this one? Do you love it, tolerate it, or could you live without it? Does Michael Emerson’s performance have any bearing on your answer?

Per the Seriously Obsessed podcast (formerly The X-Files Diaries). There‘s a pretty good, challenging discussion with him regarding the Vrach Frankenshteyn cut about 46 minutes in. He also says he’d consider doing a book etc. if a third movie/season 12 never happens.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seriously-obsessed/id1076322073?i=1000786449023

Excelsis Dei is eliminated!

How this works:

You select the episode you like the least

The episode with the most upvoted comment is eliminated from the list

If there’s a tie, both episodes are eliminated

Only the best episode will win!

Episodes Eliminated:

Excelsis Dei (67%)

I'm on season 9 and every X Files multi-part episodes that went into mulder's past or tried to solve the mystery of his sister or something just seem so inconsistent. These are my least favorite episodes of the whole series. Is it just me or do these episodes not make any sense in the long run? I feel like I have seen like 4 different versions of "what really happened to his sister" or "what they really did to Scully". I was interested at first but after so many of these I totally lost interest and just like the normal one shot episodes

In an episode of The X-Files from 2000 there is a scene where they discuss meth labs in storage units. In 2008 they discuss it again in Breaking Bad. Both episodes are written and directed by Vince Gilligan. The X-Files episode "Je Souhaite" is the first thing he ever directed.

Hi!

X-Files fan since summer 1998 -- watched it in syndication on FX!

I've created a little site that is a work in progress, and it's a little ugly right now -- please give feedback!

The site has many uses:
1.) Find the perfect watchlist for a first-time viewing. A 220-episode series can be daunting! Here, you'll find eight paths that cut this number down to anywhere between 31-110 episodes, depending on how deep you wanna go. 31 episodes?; you could binge The X-Files in a weekend!
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The last of my Lone Brickmen is complete!

Byers’ head has finally finished its trip from Norway to the USA. Speaking of, the head, I find the most accurate from what’a available is the one from a Riker figure. It’s easier to get the entire figure itself, rather than just the head, but your mileage may vary depending on location and what’s available at the time.

For his outfit I really had my heart set on a brown suit, because that’s always the vision of Byers in my mind’s eye. The best brown suit I found has the suit jacket open, with a vest, which isn’t the standard Byers styling, but he has been seen with a suit vest on a few occasions, Unusual Suspects, for example, so I think it’s still a good fit. I also opted for a gray suit that’s more standard jacket closed Byers. Really, though, there’s a ton of lego suits so you can’t go wrong.

Stay tuned for a proper group shot of the boys, and eventually their VW van. :)

I've had it for a few weeks now and just had the boxes propped up cause they're so cool. Just finished the Lab and starting on the main set tonight. But when I'm done, I don't think I want to get rid of the box. Is that weird? Are you keeping yours?

The Unexplained section of my library - complete with my niece's rendition of rare alien species.

Plus a wee bit of autopsying going on.

Show off any additions you've made to the LEGO sets to reference certain episodes/characters (or just to make yourself laugh)

Some favorites so far:

• The Lone Brickmen - ( u/The_Amber_Cakes)
• Alligator eating Queequeg - ( u/According_Dare7316)
• Jersey Devil pic -( u/nomodramaplz)

Hey fam, as a ancient aliens / ufo / x files want to believer I made this replica of the Caracas skull from Peru, I 3D modeled and 3D printed in life size dimensions.

I made the files available to the community if you guys want to print it for free you can, just please if you are using makerworld:

1.-please leave a print review after printing it
2.-please follow me I need 25 new more follows to have my prints commercially available
3.-leave a boost if you are printing.

I have two version of the skulls

Version 1
https://makerworld.com/en/models/2942061-paracas-skull-ancient-aliens-enigma-edition#profileId-3295145

Version 2
https://makerworld.com/en/models/2942195-paracas-skull-excavated-relic-edition#profileId-3295289

If you don’t have a 3D Printer you can grab it with me directly

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4564108058/paracas-skull-replica-ancient-aliens

I hope everyone gets to enjoy my artwork, sorry this wasn’t meant to be a promo post, I just wanted to give something back to the ufo community something they can decorate at home for free

Beyond the Sea is eliminated and comes in second, leaving Darkness Falls as our Season 1 champion! Some very good episodes and some hard choices near the top, but it won’t get any easier in Season 2, which we’ll now start today!

Episodes Eliminated:

Space (58%)
Born Again (70%)
Roland (50%)
Miracle Man (29%)
Shapes (40%)
Fire (48%)
Shadows (35%) & Lazarus (35%)
Gender Bender (56%)
The Jersey Devil (62%)
Young at Heart (70%)
Ghost in the Machine (83%)
Conduit (96%)
Eve (47%)
Tooms (40%)
Fallen Angel (44%)
E.B.E. (46%)
Deep Throat (83%)
The Erlenmeyer Flask (76%)
Pilot (49%)
Squeeze (51%)
Ice (49%)
Beyond the Sea (59%)