Do you like "The X-Files"?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Do you like "The X-Files"?

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[Chovexani]

1. It jumped the shark when Duchovny left, though.

Mulder leaving was the death of that show and it never recovered. Those early seasons were something magical, though. I was just watching "Post Modern Prometheus" the other day on DVD and was reminded of just how brilliant a storyteller Chris Carter was at one time.

I also love Mulder/Krycek fanfic but that's a whole other thread. :evilgrin:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. It takes my breath away. Full stop.

Every stinking time. It is just that good.

Oh, to have it back again...

[AbbeyRoad]

5. Definitely

I remember being all psyched to see the movie in theaters, but it didn't seem like long after the movie that the show started getting a little off track. I probably liked the mytharch episodes the best.

[Champion Jack]

3. I preferred the episodes that maintained the story arc as opposed

to the "monster of the week "shows

[stavka]

4. I didn't, then I watched and I did...then I didn't

It's continuity is so bad it's a waste of time to watch thinking it might be good.

[traco]

6. I really enjoy sci-fi

so yes, I like x-files. Although all I get to see now are reruns.

[solinvictus]

7. Not a "yes" or "no" situation with me...

When the program started and was mainly concerned with the inexplicable, yes. When it became a convoluted "conspiracies are everywhere" story that involved a level of obtuse plotting that would make "Twin Peaks" seem normal, then I hated it. The worst episodes where the ones Duchovny wrote and directed. Also, Gillian Anderson's Scully wasn't credible being skeptical at the beginning of each episode. Robert Patrick did a great job of injecting new life into the series, but at that point it wasn't worth saving.

[tigereye]

8. The early ones were astonishingly good

they were so creepy! Later on the endless alien abduction angle and accompanying "revelations" got a little old. Still it blows pretty much anything similar away. Except maybe the old Nightstalkers. They were really scary.

[chenGOD]

9. Without a doubt one of the best shows in recent memory.

With a massive story arc, great acting by it's leads (even including Robert Patrick, who I felt did a very credible job of stepping into Mulder's job without stepping into his shoes) and great one-off shows. It's ability to make one wonder and wait in suspense has been unmatched by anything since.

[kodi]

10. long live the inbred peacock family. home is home, even for mutants

first few seasons were much edgier, more night stalker type.

tell you this, the three spookiest shows (in addition to the fine upstanding one about the loving peacocks) were the two with the once in 47 years liver eating rubberman, toombs, and the one with the limber albino african who drained the color out of a man. got to see scully save mulder's ass in that one.

love the smoking man. he was a tragic figure of shakespearian proprtions, esp. the show where his personal history is shown.

love a line from that one....."as long as i have anything to do about it, the buffalo bills will never win the superbowl!"