Topic: The X-Files Marathon

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The X-Files Marathon

In the series, FBI agents  Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the investigators of X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal  phenomena. Mulder is a believer in the existence of aliens and the paranormal, while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analysis on Mulder's discoveries.

The X-Files Lasted for 9 Seasons and 2 movies. That is 202 Episodes and 2 feature movies! All of which I plan to eventually (this will be another of my slow moving marathons) watch and review here. Watching the movies in their rightful chronological order... which I believe means I will watch X-Files: Fight the Future between seasons 5 & 6... and watch The X-Files: I Want to Believe after season 9.

Some of you may not be too thrilled with some of my episode reviews. I say this because I was never much for the episode that are devoted to the series long arc of the alien invasion. I very much preferred the stand-alone "Freak of the Week" episodes! And I know a LOT of X-Files fans out there are just the opposite.

The X-Files Episodes:

Season 1: 1. Pilot 2. Deep Throat 3. Squeeze 4. Conduit 5. The Jersey Devil 6. Shadows 7. Ghost in the Machine 8. Ice 9. Space 10. Fallen Angel 11. Eve 12. Fire 13. Beyond the Sea 14. Gender Bender 15. Lazarus 16. Young at Heart 17. E.B.E. 18. Miracle Man 19. Shapes 20. Darkness Falls 21. Tooms 22. Born Again 23. Roland 24. The Erlenmeyer Flask	Season 2: 1. Little Green Men 2. The Host 3. Blood 4. Sleepless 5. Duane Barry 6. Ascension 7. 3 8. One Breath 9. Fire Walker 10. Red Museum 11. Excelsis Dei 12. Aubrey 13. Irresistible 14. Die Hand Die Verletzt 15. Fresh Bones 16. Colony 17. End Game 18. Fearful Symmetry 19. Dod Kalm 20. Humbug 21. The Calusari 22. F. Emasculata 23. Soft Light 24. Our Town 25. Anasazi	Season 3: 1. The Blessing Way 2. Paper Clip 3. D.P.O. 4. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 5. The List 6. 2Shy 7. The Walk 8. Oubliette 9. Nisei 10. 731 11. Revelations 12. War of the Coprophages 13. Syzygy 14. Grotesque 15. Piper Maru 16. Apocrypha 17. Pusher 18. Teso dos Bichos 19. Hell Money 20. Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" 21. Avatar 22. Quagmire 23. Wetwired 24. Talitha Cumi
Season 4: 1. Herrenvolk 2. Unruhe 3. Home 4. Teliko 5. The Field Where I Died 6. Sanguinarium 7. Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man 8. Paper Hearts 9. Tunguska 10. Terma 11. El Mundo Gira 12. Kaddish 13. Never Again 14. Leonard Betts 15. Memento Mori 16. Unrequited 17. Tempus Fugit 18. Max 19. Synchrony 20. Small Potatoes 21. Zero Sum 22. Elegy 23. Demons 24. Gethsemane	Season 5: 1. Unusual Suspects 2. Redux 3. Redux II 4. Detour 5. The Post-Modern Prometheus 6. Christmas Carol 7. Emily 8. Kitsunegari 9. Schizogeny 10. Chinga 11. Kill Switch 12. Bad Blood 13. Patient X 14. The Red and the Black 15. Travelers 16. Mind's Eye 17. All Souls 18. The Pine Bluff Variant 19. Folie a Deux 20. The End	Season 6: 1. The Beginning 2. Drive 3. Triangle 4. Dreamland 5. Dreamland II 6. Terms of Endearment 7. Rain King 8. How the Ghosts Stole Christmas 9. Tithonus 10. SR 819 11. Two Fathers 12. One Son 13. Arcadia 14. Agua Mala 15. Monday 16. Alpha 17. Trevor 18. Milagro 19. Three of a Kind 20. The Unnatural 21. Field Trip 22. Biogenesis
Season 7: 1. The Sixth Extinction 2. The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati 3. Hungry 4. Millennium 5. Rush 6. The Goldberg Variation 7. Orison 8. The Amazing Maleeni 9. Signs & Wonders 10. Sein Und Zeit 11. Closure 12. X-Cops 13. First Person Shooter 14. Theef 15. En Ami 16. Chimera 17. all things 18. Brand X 19. Hollywood A.D. 20. Fight Club 21. Je Souhaite 22. Requiem	Season 8: 1. Within 2. Without 3. Patience 4. Roadrunners 5. Invocation 6. Redrum 7. Via Negativa 8. Surekill 9. Savage 10. Badlaa 11. The Gift 12. Medusa 13. Per Manum 14. This is Not Happening 15. Deadalive 16. Three Words 17. Empedocles 18. Vienen 19. Alone 20. Essence 21. Existence	Season 9: 1. Nothing Important Happened Today 2. Nothing Important Happened Today II 3. Daemonicus 4. 4-D 5. Lord of the Flies 6. Trust No 1 7. John Doe 8. Hellbound 9. Provenance 10. Providence 11. Audrey Pauley 12. Underneath 13. Improbable 14. Scary Monsters 15. Jump the Shark 16. William 17. Release 18. Sunshine Days 19/20. The Truth

The X-Files Main Characters:

Fox Mulder
(seasons 1–7 main, seasons 8–9 recurring)
Mulder is an FBI special agent who believes in the existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth regarding such craft. With his FBI partner Dana Scully, he works in the X-Files office, which is concerned with cases that were marked as unsolvable and shelved by the FBI; most of these cases involve supernatural or mysterious circumstances. Mulder considers the X-Files and the truth behind the supposed conspiracy so important that he has made their study the main purpose of his life.


Dana Scully
(seasons 1–9 main)
Scully is an FBI special agent, partner to agent Fox Mulder. They work out of the cramped basement office at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. to investigate unsolved cases labeled "X-Files". In contrast to Fox Mulder's credulous "believer" character, Scully is a skeptic, choosing to base her beliefs on scientific explanations. However, as the series progresses, she becomes more open to the possibility of paranormal happenings.


Walter Skinner
(seasons 1–8 recurring, season 9 main)
Skinner is an FBI assistant director who served in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War. During this time he shot and killed a young boy carrying explosives, an incident which scarred him for life. Skinner is originally the direct supervisor of special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in the X-Files office.


John Doggett
(seasons 8–9 main)
Doggett is an FBI special agent who makes his first appearance in the season eight episode "Within". Doggett served in the United States Military from the 1970s to the 80s. Later, he started to work with the New York Police Department, eventually being promoted to the rank of detective. After his son's death he joined the Criminal Investigations Division of the FBI. In 2000, Alvin Kersh assigned him to the X-Files office as Dana Scully's partner after an unsuccessful task force attempt to find missing agent Fox Mulder.


Monica Reyes
(season 8 recurring, season 9 main)
Reyes is an FBI special agent who was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, where her parents still live (as of 2002). Because she was raised in Mexico, Reyes speaks fluent Spanish. She majored in folklore  and mythology  at Brown University, and has a master's degree in Religious Studies. In 1990, Reyes enrolled in the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. Her first assignment in the FBI was serving on a special task force investigating Satanic  rituals. She is a longtime friend of Agent John Doggett and becomes his replacement partner on the X-Files after the departure of Agent Dana Scully.

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What can I say guys... when I finish up a marathon I like to replace it with another. And since I just recently finished Angel... I needed another one I can work on now and then. And I been wanting to try and tackle this one for some time now! 

[Jimmy]

A long time project... I Want to Believe can be watch anywhere in the serie (I think it's better to watch it anywhere before the season 8 since no reference are made to the last 2 seasons).

Good luck with that
Of course, I will follow this one. but don't count on me to start a new X-Files marathon for at least one year.

[addicted2dvd]

Thanks Jimmy... I seen I Want to Believe once before on On-Demand. Recently got the DVD... so I will probably want to watch it before too long at all. But I may do so in another thread... and then repeat it after the end of the series Marathon.  Because even though not necessary I would kinda like to make it the end of the marathon. But who knows... by then there may be a 3rd movie! 

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The X-Files: Season 1

Now you can own the entire first season of THE X-FILES. All 24 classic episodes from the first season of this award-winning show are available for the first time in this exclusive collector's edition. Don't miss the opportunity to see how the phenomenon all began back on September 10, 1993.

This 7-disc set includes deleted footage, special effects shots, some of your favorite scenes dubbed in languages from around the world, and episode listings for the show's entire seven seasons.

Episodes:
1. Pilot
2. Deep Throat
3. Squeeze
4. Conduit
5. The Jersey Devil
6. Shadows
7. Ghost in the Machine
8. Ice
9. Space
10. Fallen Angel
11. Eve
12. Fire
13. Beyond the Sea
14. Gender Bender
15. Lazarus
16. Young at Heart
17. E.B.E.
18. Miracle Man
19. Shapes
20. Darkness Falls
21. Tooms
22. Born Again
23. Roland
24. The Erlenmeyer Flask

[Najemikon]

Some of you may not be too thrilled with some of my episode reviews. I say this because I was never much for the episode that are devoted to the series long arc of the alien invasion. I very much preferred the stand-alone "Freak of the Week" episodes! And I know a LOT of X-Files fans out there are just the opposite.

Not me. I loved The X-File's and both kind of episodes equally, but on one hand, freak-of-week work better for the X-Files idea and on the other, the arc turns out to be absolute crap that undermines the point of The X-Files. I think you will find, Pete, that the majority of fans gave up on the arc when it was clear the writers were making it up as they went along.

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That is good to hear Jon... maybe I won't get as much flack as I thought! 

[Jimmy]

I think you will find, Pete, that the majority of fans gave up on the arc

[addicted2dvd]

  OK... so I should count on Jimmy not liking many of my reviews! 

[Jimmy]

No I like the monster of the week also, but Jon generalize too much when he talk about the show's mythologie. He had never watch the last 3 seasons, so many facts are unknown to him

[addicted2dvd]

Oh... OK!  Well who knows... maybe once I get that far and start reviewing the episodes that will change? 

Back to watching! 

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The X-Files: Season 1

1. Pilot
Original Air Date: September 10, 1993
After a number of Oregon high school teens begin to die mysteriously, Scully and Mulder are called to investigate the matter.

Guest Stars:
Charles Cioffi as Chief Blevins
Cliff DeYoung as Dr. Jay Nemman
Sarah Koskoff as Theresa Nemman
Leon Russom as Detective Miles
Zachary Ansley as Billy Miles

My Thoughts:
This is a well done introduction to the characters. The chemistry between the main characters is there right from the start. The storyline of this episode... while good... there are better. As I said before... never cared much for the Alien stuff. And this is really the start of the series long arc. But of course at this point the arc is interesting.

When I popped this episode in this morning I couldn't get over how young the cast looked. It is hard for me to believe that these episodes are already a good 17 years old. Which I think... for me at least is a good reason to figure on watching the second movie at the end of the marathon. It won't be as much of a visual disruption from the episodes to the movies back to the episodes again.

My Rating:

[snowcat]

Nice! i need to buy the other series .... I have 1 ¬_¬

I can't wait to see your views on my favourite episode Pete!

Season 1 Episode 8 - Ice

[Najemikon]

No I like the monster of the week also, but Jon generalize too much when he talk about the show's mythologie. He had never watch the last 3 seasons, so many facts are unknown to him

 

What? When did I say that? I've been halfway through season 9 for about 3 years!   I literally couldn't waste any more time on it. I missed freak-of-the-week; it was so poorly written and so called surprises at the cost of character. I've since learned the what the finale had in store. Erm... rubbish.

I plan one day to re-watch the whole thing and it will be interesting to see if my enthusiasm can last through the whole of Season 9 that time. I wouldn't take that bet...  

[addicted2dvd]

I stopped watching X-Files on TV after season 7 when Mulder was written out. But as I bought the DVDs I gave it a chance and got all 9 seasons. Oddly I don't remember the last 2 seasons that well. But that could be due to the fact that I only ever seen those episodes once. Where I seen all the rest multiple times. But I do remember thinking they weren't as bad as I thought they would be.