egg files

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:42 am

I'm balancing out January misery by watching all of the X files for some reason

But that's not 100 years old

Post by **Pual** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:29 am

...or is it?

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:16 pm

I want to believe... the X-Files is a 100 years olde

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:21 pm

i tried watching all of the x files once but gave up at series 5 or so because it was just too much

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:44 pm

I've just reached the start of season 3

you're never going to stop me ever

I'm going to watch Millennium and the Lone Gunmen spin off as well, I don't give a fuck, it's my life

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 1:16 pm

excellent. i have never seen a lone gunmens episode and i hope i never will

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:09 pm

nobody has

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:13 pm

I have split this into a new thread in case I have anything interesting to say about egg files

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:13 pm

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:20 pm

I just remembered they made some new x files

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:30 pm

they did, apparently a few of them were quite good

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:30 pm

I watched the big season 2 end / season 3 beginning episodes last night in which they proved that vaccines were evil

I hope this wild conspiracy theory didn't catch on

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:35 pm

I'm quite looking forward to the new episodes for some reason, but I have seven season of the X Files, two films, three seasons of Millennium and one of The Lone Gunmen to watch first

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:37 pm

I thought maybe I'd seen some Millennium before but apparently I was thinking of Dark Skies which was a rip-off rather than a spin-off. I got quite excited when I realised that the star of Millennium was Lance Henriksen! I love that guy

I did watch Space: Above and Beyond at the time though which was made by some of the same people, but wasn't a related show

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:39 pm

I watched some of millennium but genuinely cannot remember the plot of any of it. Just that it had lance henriksen and Locke from lost in it

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:39 pm

Something about serial killers or something who knows

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:41 pm

Locke was in an X Files too! He was a small-town sheriff who didn't get much to do, it was an episode about a serial killer's granddaughter continuing to kill because DNA or something

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:41 pm

Also I watched one whole series of new x files, and it was not good. It was all vaccine conspiracy nonsense again, too, for some reason. And the hero was some sort of YouTube alex Jones style conspiracy man. Awful. I actually felt sorry for Gillian Anderson for having to be in it

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:42 pm

Actually there was one quite funny episode with Murray from flight of the conchords in it. That was good (due to Murray from flight of the conchords)

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:44 pm

I used to watch space above and beyond. I think that was the beginning of Jim Robinson from neighbours ten years or so of American tv domination (which only ended when he made the mistake of being in Indiana Jones, which was an actual film, and therefore the end of being allowed on television I suppose)

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:48 pm

ah yes, the Robinson Era

I mostly remember him being in 24

I think

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:49 pm

also I'm tracking the episodes of egg files that I watch on a spreadsheet and giving them a rating out of 10

so far my only 10 is "Beyond The Sea" from season 1 because it's strange and sad and has Major Briggs from Twin Peaks in it

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:50 pm

my lowest rating was for "Jersey Devil", also from season 1, because it was just worthless and boring

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:53 pm

At least half of series one is pointless and boring isn't it?. Then series two was mostly always good. Then series three was maybe tw thirds good. Then the ratios went ever downwards and not even terminator 2 could save it

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:53 pm

Those are my at least ten years ago recollections of x files at least

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:57 pm

in season one I rated 9 episodes less than 6/10

in season two I rated 7 episodes less than 6/10

I think general consensus is that season 3 is the best but I will have to watch 22 episodes more before I can confirm my thoughts on it. give me a week

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:00 pm

Also yes that Major Briggs episode is wonderful. Has anyone ever written an essay about how the x files was just twin peaks without the schoolkids bits and the excellent music yet, because they should, and also I always meant to

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:04 pm

Where mulder is dale cooper, skinner is david lynch, and scully is whatever Miguel Ferrers character is called I can't remember now

Post by **dng** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:04 pm

The smoking man is the log lady

Post by **vom** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:05 pm

that episode definitely has major Twin Peaks vibes. also my second favourite episode so far (the circus / sideshow one) has Michael J. Anderson in it. The old lady that then mysteriously becomes a different old lady and Hawk have been in episodes too but not particularly good ones. I'm probably deriving at least 20% of my enjoyment from "recognising guest stars" so far

one of the ones I watched last night has strange Mulder dream sequences while he's in a coma inexplicably surviving certain death without a scratch on his body and that feels like it would have been a million times better if Twin Peaks had done it

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:39 pm

Somewhere I have a boxed copy of the X Files PC game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_Game

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 am

vom wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:37 pm I thought maybe I'd seen some Millennium before but apparently I was thinking of Dark Skies which was a rip-off rather than a spin-off.

I rather took to Dark Skies at the time, and watched more o' that than X-Files/Millennium!

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:31 am

richschnauzer wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:39 pm Somewhere I have a boxed copy of the X Files PC game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_Game

You must get the game graded IMMEDIAITELY!!!!

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:39 am

vom wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:44 pm I've just reached the start of season 3

you're never going to stop me ever

I'm going to watch Millennium and the Lone Gunmen spin off as well, I don't give a fuck, it's my life

I was once vaguely interested in The Lone Gunmans because I thought the speccy one with long bond hair was cute and that made it watchable.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:39 am

Then it got put on the Shifting Timeslot OF DEATH

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:39 am

Then it got cancelled.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:43 am

That is the only eggs-file I know, despite my father and his live-in girlfriend being avid watchers thereof

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:04 am

I tried to watch all the egg files a few years ago, but after about 4 seasons I just couldn't stand the on/off plot threads that never go anywhere

Post by **vom** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:12 am

I think that's roughly where I gave up when it was originally on

Although I'm not sure as I'm pretty sure I've seen the one with Brian Cranston in it and that's season 6 apparently

Post by **vom** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:13 am

An Unicorn wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:39 am
vom wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:44 pm I've just reached the start of season 3

you're never going to stop me ever

I'm going to watch Millennium and the Lone Gunmen spin off as well, I don't give a fuck, it's my life
I was once vaguely interested in The Lone Gunmans because I thought the speccy one with long bond hair was cute and that made it watchable.

It pleases me that you only know the second and most forgotten spin-off and not the actual show

Also I like his Ramones t-shirts

Post by **vom** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:14 am

blombluss wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 am
vom wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:37 pm I thought maybe I'd seen some Millennium before but apparently I was thinking of Dark Skies which was a rip-off rather than a spin-off.
I rather took to Dark Skies at the time, and watched more o' that than X-Files/Millennium!

I assume I enjoyed it but I don't actually remember anything about it really, my memory is so absolutely terrible

Post by **Pual** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:35 am

dng wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:42 pm Actually there was one quite funny episode with Murray from flight of the conchords in it. That was good (due to Murray from flight of the conchords)

That was the best episode of anything ever.

However, the rest of the series was so bad that Scully had to regenerate into Thatcher.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:43 pm

vom wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:13 am
An Unicorn wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:39 am
vom wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:44 pm I've just reached the start of season 3

you're never going to stop me ever

I'm going to watch Millennium and the Lone Gunmen spin off as well, I don't give a fuck, it's my life
I was once vaguely interested in The Lone Gunmans because I thought the speccy one with long bond hair was cute and that made it watchable.
It pleases me that you only know the second and most forgotten spin-off and not the actual show

Also I like his Ramones t-shirts

I mean, I know all the memetic bits: "I want to believe," "the truth is out there," something called The Smoking Man, aliens???, the new-agey space-whistling theme, but I'm not sure I ever sat through an episode?

Then again I sat through episodes of The Gun Loanmen and don't remember them either, so.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:47 pm

vom wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:42 am I'm balancing out January misery by watching all of the X files for some reason

But that's not 100 years old

It was made in the 1990s, that was a hundred years ago innit?

Post by **vom** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:53 pm

technically I think that was a thousand years ago

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:58 pm

weirdly the furthest away time now seems to be 2019

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:58 pm

like that years a whole world entirely of its own

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:58 pm

somewhere separate from the before and after times

Post by **dng** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:58 pm

i do not know why

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:55 pm

dng wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:58 pm weirdly the furthest away time now seems to be 2019

WE DO NOT SPEAK OF 2019!!! IT IS NOT OUR WAY!!!