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Exit... Stage Left (Mulder)
Never Jumped
Death (The Lone Gunmen)
The Movie
Moving (Vancouver to L.A.)
Shark Bytes
I surprised myself by, after being with the X-Files from the beginning, actually liking the Agent Doggett character and those episodes. I agree that it gave new life to the series in that he was a different kind of agent, more like a regular man or a cop than Mulder. I never would have thought that I would feel that way because early on I was crazy about the Mulder character, but I gotta say I didn't really miss him or Scully when they weren't there.
I have always loved X-Files and always will. It is my favorite show and favorite actors of all times. I still watch the repeats and WILL go to see the new movie.So do my kids. And I'm no kid. I'm a 64 yr old Grama.I have a crush on CSM,also!
I think that the Mulder & Scully stuff got too old and it started to get hard to care for them. I started to hate seeing Mulder & Scully all the time in the 5th season and stopped watching in the 6th season.
I started to watch again in the 8th season when a heard about Robert Patrick replacing Duchovny.
I like Robert Patrick's John Doggett. He was like a real G-man and a better person than Fox Mulder. To me, John Doggett was like Joe Friday or Eliot Ness and Fox Mulder was like an dumb oddball lazy old man who loved porn trapped in a younger man's body.
But the sad thing for me was that Scully remain on the show and that her character had become a dry-toast bi#%#ing who always was crying about "the government coming for my Baby" and "wheres Mulder". A main character having a baby in the last seasons should be number one in proof of a character which has jump the shark.
Monica Reyes was like John Doggett's Frank Canon. Doggett and Reyes were true to the show's plot of FBI agents looking into paranormal cases.
The show in the 8th and 9th seasons needed to move away from Mulder & Scully more and focus more Doggett & Reyes only.
The show was called The X-files and not the Mulder & Scully hour.
The X-Files would have been like Law and Order. Law and Order has new people join the force and old ones to leave all the time.
It was natural for new agents to join the X-Files Department and old ones to leave.
The X-Files would still be on if people were not so hung up on Mulder & Scully.
The super soldiers arc was true to the X-files conspiracy mythology. The super soldiers arc hit on real conspiracies like MKULTRA, U.S. Government secret Human genetic engineering projects and Hitler's Uber-men project.
I know people will say "if the Government had super soldiers, They would be fighting in Iraq." but you have to think of it like this: To the Government The super soldiers are special and cost money, but normal people are not. See this fits into The X-Files' world of Dark Evil Shadow Government.
The X-files never jump the shark.
The Mulder & Scully characters did jump the shark.
I started to watch again in the 8th season when a heard about Robert Patrick replacing Duchovny.
I like Robert Patrick's John Doggett. He was like a real G-man and a better person than Fox Mulder. To me, John Doggett was like Joe Friday or Eliot Ness and Fox Mulder was like an dumb oddball lazy old man who loved porn trapped in a younger man's body.
But the sad thing for me was that Scully remain on the show and that her character had become a dry-toast bi#%#ing who always was crying about "the government coming for my Baby" and "wheres Mulder". A main character having a baby in the last seasons should be number one in proof of a character which has jump the shark.
Monica Reyes was like John Doggett's Frank Canon. Doggett and Reyes were true to the show's plot of FBI agents looking into paranormal cases.
The show in the 8th and 9th seasons needed to move away from Mulder & Scully more and focus more Doggett & Reyes only.
The show was called The X-files and not the Mulder & Scully hour.
The X-Files would have been like Law and Order. Law and Order has new people join the force and old ones to leave all the time.
It was natural for new agents to join the X-Files Department and old ones to leave.
The X-Files would still be on if people were not so hung up on Mulder & Scully.
The super soldiers arc was true to the X-files conspiracy mythology. The super soldiers arc hit on real conspiracies like MKULTRA, U.S. Government secret Human genetic engineering projects and Hitler's Uber-men project.
I know people will say "if the Government had super soldiers, They would be fighting in Iraq." but you have to think of it like this: To the Government The super soldiers are special and cost money, but normal people are not. See this fits into The X-Files' world of Dark Evil Shadow Government.
The X-files never jump the shark.
The Mulder & Scully characters did jump the shark.
ok i was only like 1 when the series started but my dad got them all on dvd last year and i watched them all. I love the show but once mulder got abducted it was just a bit meh. And that whole thing with samantha in closure was rubbish wtf was with the ghosty things?? And i dont believe that scully would be such a sceptic then just because mulder got abducted she'd suddenly become a believer in everything. Plus the baby thing was crap. And all through the first 7 serieses i was rooting for mulder and scully, but when they finally got together i lost interest. Hated it when the lone gunmen died, was gutted when krycek was killed he was an awesome character. And the final episode was quite boring really.
Still gonna see the film as long as its not too like romantic between Mulder and Scully cos they were pretty awesome together when they were just friends.
All through there were some lame episodes like the one about csm
Still gonna see the film as long as its not too like romantic between Mulder and Scully cos they were pretty awesome together when they were just friends.
All through there were some lame episodes like the one about csm
Jumped with the development of the romance between Mulder and Scully. I always believed that prior to that, Scully would turn out to be Mulder's long lost sister. The introduction of a cloned sister ended that idea, but until then, I'm sure that was the original plan. Of course, they might have changed it because it might have seemed too obvious, but the romance angle was just as bad a move, and was obviously done at the behest of a certain segment of viewers.
That, and some of the episodes were just a little too far fetched even for X-Files.
The conspiracy was cool, as were some of the stand-alones. Although I can't think of any titles, some of my favorites include the one with the family of incest perpetrators, and the one with the mutant human flukeworm resulting from the ingestion of human DNA from fecal matter contaminated by radioactivity from Chernobyl.
That one was a brilliant take-off on old Marvel comic book hero-villain origins.
That, and some of the episodes were just a little too far fetched even for X-Files.
The conspiracy was cool, as were some of the stand-alones. Although I can't think of any titles, some of my favorites include the one with the family of incest perpetrators, and the one with the mutant human flukeworm resulting from the ingestion of human DNA from fecal matter contaminated by radioactivity from Chernobyl.
That one was a brilliant take-off on old Marvel comic book hero-villain origins.
Embracing the silliness of UFO's, cryptozoology, and alien abductions is one thing. However, the episode where the show's main villian is revealed as the man who assasinated John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King was awful and totally trivialized two of the darkest days in American history. It also served to imply that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray were innocent men rather than the cold blooded killers they were.
OMG! Where to begin.............
Mulder leaving, pissed me the hell off, and David Duchovny has forever been sucking because of his massive ego that he would actually think that he would become this major star when he left the show that MADE him a star! I have lost all respect for him, but tolerated his (multiple) returns during the 8th and 9th seasons! Plus, the series finale.
I don't particular;y care for Tea Leoni either........
The Lone Gunman dying, literally "jumped the shark", that's what that episode was CALLED!!!
Robert Patrick is cool, I just didn't care for his character, and I just stopped watching altogether.
Annabeth Gish -- BLAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I didn't care much for Mimi Rodgers' character either, nor did I buy that she and Mulder had some sort of affair...never bought that, never will.........
I loved the first 7 seasons of this show, never recovered when David left.
The first movie kinda sucked cuz Mulder & Scully neither kissed nor had hot sex. Hopefully they will in the new movie.
Moving to LA was a stupid move also because Tea probably pushed for that to happen and David bowed down like the lapdog he was.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Mulder leaving, pissed me the hell off, and David Duchovny has forever been sucking because of his massive ego that he would actually think that he would become this major star when he left the show that MADE him a star! I have lost all respect for him, but tolerated his (multiple) returns during the 8th and 9th seasons! Plus, the series finale.
I don't particular;y care for Tea Leoni either........
The Lone Gunman dying, literally "jumped the shark", that's what that episode was CALLED!!!
Robert Patrick is cool, I just didn't care for his character, and I just stopped watching altogether.
Annabeth Gish -- BLAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I didn't care much for Mimi Rodgers' character either, nor did I buy that she and Mulder had some sort of affair...never bought that, never will.........
I loved the first 7 seasons of this show, never recovered when David left.
The first movie kinda sucked cuz Mulder & Scully neither kissed nor had hot sex. Hopefully they will in the new movie.
Moving to LA was a stupid move also because Tea probably pushed for that to happen and David bowed down like the lapdog he was.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Have to agree with the last comment--even at it's worst it was a 100X better then the crap that passes for TV today. Loved the stand alones, loved the conspiracy, loved the comedies, loved the characters. It had it's ups and downs throughout the years but I don't think it ever jumped.
This show jumped the shark when Scully had intercourse with a Sasquatch. That episode was ultimately banned from TV all together, if I'm not mistaken.
Bunch of different choices, but I'll stick with just two.
Closure, yeah, it was nice I suppose to give closure to the whole plotline with his sister, but the fact that it contradicted everything that had been said or hinted about his sister up to that point was just sloppy writing.
First Person Shooter was the other episode, the one that I think is the actual point the show jumped. The only episode that was so bad I wasn't able to watch the whole thing.
Closure, yeah, it was nice I suppose to give closure to the whole plotline with his sister, but the fact that it contradicted everything that had been said or hinted about his sister up to that point was just sloppy writing.
First Person Shooter was the other episode, the one that I think is the actual point the show jumped. The only episode that was so bad I wasn't able to watch the whole thing.
How is this on the "never jumped" hall of fame when the number one shark jump reason is the departure of Mulder?
For me, The X-Files jumped the shark twice, with a one-year recovery in between. The first jump came after the movie and the move to L.A. The comedy/drama balance couldn't be maintained, the mythology fizzled out and Duchovny had one foot out the door. Plus, shooting in L.A. cost the show one of it's greatest assets - the gloomy gray skies of Vancouver.
I know I'm in the minority among X-philes, but I think Season 8 and John Doggett was a "de-jump" and gave the show an energy it had not had in years. Robert Patrick had great chemistry with Gillian Anderson and, after two seasons of a visibly bored David Duchovny, it was nice to see an actor with his heart in the work. Sure, Monica Reyes was a flake, but the Scully pregnancy arc, the ultimate return of Mulder and the stand-alones (best since Season 4) got me tuning in again every Sunday. The two-part finale (Mulder, Scully and baby together; Doggett and Reyes with the keys to the basement office) would have been a great point to end the series.
Unfortunately, Chris Carter pushed on to Season 9 and jumped the shark again. Maybe if Scully was gone and not doing glorified cameo work; maybe if a new mythology (super soldiers? really?) had not been attempted; and maybe if Doggett had been given a new partner (the naive Agent Harrison? Maybe another male agent? I still think Bruce Campbell would have been great as a regular), Carter's dream of "X-Files: The Next Generation" might have been realized. But the abbreviated season suffered from the worst scripts in the show's history and a finale that didn't do it justice.
Maybe the upcoming movie will bring us back to the glory days of Seasons 1 through 5, before things got out of hand and The X-Files was one of the coolest sci-fi/mystery series in TV history.
I know I'm in the minority among X-philes, but I think Season 8 and John Doggett was a "de-jump" and gave the show an energy it had not had in years. Robert Patrick had great chemistry with Gillian Anderson and, after two seasons of a visibly bored David Duchovny, it was nice to see an actor with his heart in the work. Sure, Monica Reyes was a flake, but the Scully pregnancy arc, the ultimate return of Mulder and the stand-alones (best since Season 4) got me tuning in again every Sunday. The two-part finale (Mulder, Scully and baby together; Doggett and Reyes with the keys to the basement office) would have been a great point to end the series.
Unfortunately, Chris Carter pushed on to Season 9 and jumped the shark again. Maybe if Scully was gone and not doing glorified cameo work; maybe if a new mythology (super soldiers? really?) had not been attempted; and maybe if Doggett had been given a new partner (the naive Agent Harrison? Maybe another male agent? I still think Bruce Campbell would have been great as a regular), Carter's dream of "X-Files: The Next Generation" might have been realized. But the abbreviated season suffered from the worst scripts in the show's history and a finale that didn't do it justice.
Maybe the upcoming movie will bring us back to the glory days of Seasons 1 through 5, before things got out of hand and The X-Files was one of the coolest sci-fi/mystery series in TV history.
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