egg files

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Just watched "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and that might be my second 10/10 episode I think

When people say "the best episodes are the ones Darin Morgan wrote"... that is hard to disagree with

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(he also wrote the carnival sideshow one, and the one with Rhys Darby in it. and two others in this season that I am extremely looking forward to)

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also I watched one that had Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi in it and that was quite good too

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I watched "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" tonight, which is the final episode that Darin Morgan wrote (until they revived it and he wrote two more). I quite distinctly remembered the opening scene of this one from when I first saw it in the 90s but nothing really else. Turns out it's one of the most dizzyingly clever and intricate things I've ever seen, hooray.

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is that the one thats like an in universe tv show about the x-files itself?

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No, it's like a semi-Rashomon kinda thing with the story being told by multiple unreliable narrators - I think the one you're referring to might be "X-Cops" which comes later on, but I'm not sure

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oh yeah i think i remember that one, but not much. maybe i should watch it again.

also i looked it up and it turns out darin morgan was also the fluke man creature for some reason

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ves. I think he's in another episode (in season 4 maybe) as an actor, presumably without the fluke man suit

his brother (Glen) was working on the show before him, so I think he kind of got involved almost accidentally.

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then perfected it, then left for 20 years

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I'm still watching egg files

Tonight I watched Leonard Betts, which is about a man from Robocop who is entirely made of cancer and eats cancer and can give birth to copies of himself

I love the egg files

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I wish I could give birth to copies of myself.

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I watched the second film tonight and Jesus Christ that is possibly the low point so far

Absolutely terrible

There may have been a few episodes that were worse but at least they weren't 105 minutes long

Also since I last posted in this thread I have watched two seasons of Millennium (I couldn't handle a third, it's so bad, apart from the episodes Darin Morgan wrote and one about Lance Henriksen being confused by the internet) and also The Lone Gunmen which confusingly feels more dated than any of the earlier episodes of the other shows, but was quite charming in its own silly way. And also chillingly predicted 9/11 in its first episode

Just the revival episodes left to go, now

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I actually quite enjoyed the Robert Patrick seasons

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I have been watching the X-Files for almost two solid years

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also there's a big plot point in the second film where a psychic paedophile (Billy Connolly) says "don't give up!" to Scully and for the rest of the film they keep saying "what did he mean by that?" and... like... it's a totally generic thing that makes complete sense as something to say to a person investigating a crime?

I don't understand how the writing was so bad, or why anyone was up for coming back to the X-Files after a six year break for THIS script

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on a more positive note, the film stars Xzibit and I really hope they just got him because his name starts with X

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yes, that x files film is just completely abysmal in every way

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x files was 30 years old the other day also

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vom has been watching it for 31 of those years now

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x files was 30 years old the other day also

so was I and yet somehow now I'm 41? time is a stalker that hunts us down

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I have finished the X Files now, two years after I started watching

The revival seasons were definitely better than that terrible second film, the mythology stuff was not great but the standalone episodes were fun