For me, it's Darkness Falls.

overrated episode I'm afraid

>>211649494
I do not accept this judgement when it comes from someone too cowardly to name their own favorite.

>>211648663 (OP)
Thats just Supernatural S1E2 Wendigo.

>>211649714
Jose Chung's from outer space

>>211648663 (OP)
GOOLD?

>>211650079
I hated this episode and the Owne Wilson Vampire one so much as a kid. As an adult I like them and add them to my before bed playlist.

As of right now, I am officially reopening the X-Files.

>>211648663 (OP)
the only scene, that redeems that episode is a reluctant scully singing a thin aired lullaby and a mouthy, moody mulder.

if you want a natures monster take "field trip".

>>211650079
it's literally f-tier try hard reddit faggot overwritten capeslop
it's off-tone from the rest of the show in the worst way possible
people only parrot this opinion because they're too fucking dumb to form their own, fucking episode SUCKS

>>211651010
>overwritten capeslop
brainrot

>>211651010
I'd have understood if you had said this about pusher but you're reading way too much into an episode that's just supposed to be a parody of the show itself

>>211651152
Pusher was great. Kill yourself

he's literally me

>>211651179
I didn't say it wasn't, it's one of my favourite episodes

>>211651268
I skip the "maybe the real aylmaos were the humans" episodes. They annoy me.

>>211648663 (OP)
>Darkness Falls
this was my fave as a 10yo boy in 1994 and is still my fave to this day

>>211648663 (OP)
Scully:
>the corpse was male
*Mulder looks down at the crotch*
>barely
Why did Mulder have to insult the dead guys dick? It is a difficult episode to re-watch as an Indian man.

>>211651010
>it's off-tone from the rest of the show in the worst way possible
I wish. After Darin Morgan left they kept trying to make funny episodes, more and more as the show went on. By the time you get up to season 9, it's like 50% soap opera mytharc shit, 50% """comedy""" episodes, and it never works. You need a Darin Morgan to make it work. IMO Jose Chung's was pretty good (I love the implications of the line "you mean Lord Kimboat"?) , but its consequences were dire. I wish they'd just stuck to the straight and narrow and kept doing nothing but serious, stand alone episodes like Darkness Falls and The Host.

>>211651859
It annoys me too. They should have saved these scripts for Millennium. They tried to save it too by having him morph into the devil in a few scenes, but in the end he's just a serial killer.

>>211651152
>that's just supposed to be a parody of the show itself
ah yes the infamous
>I was only pretending to be retarded episodes

>>211648663 (OP)
I liked the William Gibson written ep where the chick uploads her conscious to the web at the end

>>211655106
>t. miserable faggot

>>211648663 (OP)
My raging erection final repose:
Scully's ass

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is one of the greatest episodes ever made

>>211651010
Total retarded take by an obvious broccoli hair zoomer faggot. Reddit let alone capeslop didn’t even exist when those peoples where made. Morgan was doing meta before was even trendy to do it

>>211655982
>Mister Bruckman... there are hits and there are misses. And then there are misses.

>prime scully will never wrap her lips around your BBC
truly grim times we live in...

>>211648663 (OP)
S1? Deep Throat

>>211657350
kino episode. him and X were the best characters on the show, shame X went out for being an out of character retard

>>211648663 (OP)
Love me Titus Welliver

For me? It's Beyond the Sea or Quagmire

>>211648663 (OP)
That is the worst episode. I'm not a dude who normally bitches about so-called plot holes, but these intelligent people are in the middle of a FOREST and they need LIGHT and nobody thinks of building a FIRE??? And then nothing they actually did matters because they just randomly don't die and get rescued anyways.

Anyways I like the episode with the murder sextuplets or whatever.

>>211657621
Eve(I'm guessing is the episode you're referring to) was fucking kino

>>211657714
That's the one.
I love most of season 1, I think it got the mix between campy and creepy really well before the mytharc stuff started to become more prominent.

>>211657902
Shows like this are best when the mystery is strongest. The main storyline is less interesting when more is revealed.
I feel the same way about Supernatural.

>>211652649
The dude was completely dehydrated. That's the reason for the penis comment.

>>211657350
Scullys code name

>>211648663 (OP)
Hey op are you a bot because I’m the only one that ever talks about that episode in xfiles threads and yet, I didn’t make this one. Why is it your favorite? Because they should have died? Respond.

>>211651010
>try hard reddit faggot overwritten capeslop
Speaking of overwritten.

>>211648663 (OP)

Home - the TCM homage

>>211648663 (OP)
For me it's John Doe.

>>211658568
i've rewatched the mytharc more times than i can count and i maintain that it's pretty good up until the weird kritschgau stuff, it made no sense that mulder would believe a complete stranger and they really drag out the "mulder is a skeptic now" thing
i like mulder best when he's incorruptible

>>211650079
Soft disclosure that UFOs and says are a giant psyop and coverup for glowing shenanigans but there are entities like Lord Kinbote that are beyond our understanding.

The best thing about the X-files was the monster of the week plots and the IDEA that Mulder was delusional and Scully was actually right. When they leaned into the main plot of Mulder being right and the government conspiracy was that aliens were here all along the show fell off. That's why Paper Hearts in S4 was so good.

>>211650079
weak reddit pick

why does reddit think monster of the week is good?

>>211662417
The data doesn't support your assertion.

>>211648663 (OP)
Based.

>>211662582
>uses reddit as an insult
>is a redditor
Many such cases.

I wish it was on HBO so they could have went hog wild with more stuff like Home.

>>211662688
the image is from imdb

>>211661552
I like any episode where the characters are trapped somewhere remote, and it has peak S1 rainy forest atmosphere. Simple as.

>>211650588
As of right now, I am officially reopening the N-Files.

>in remote wooded town
>no cellphones, land lines only
>thunderstorm
>"the phones are out!"
>music sting
oh yeah, it's kino time

>>211648663 (OP)
Some of my most rewatched are humorous MOTWs:
>Humbug
>Bad Blood
>Je Souhaite

For serious episodes, the tops are:
>Die Hand Die Verletzt
>Sanguinarium
>The Pine Bluff Variant
>Theef
Plus the various episodes with Tooms and Pusher. Maybe also "Fire" from S1.

Oddly enough, none of these faves have anything to do with aliens. I like the alien conspiracy in the background but I have surprisingly little interest in the "overarching mythology" itself.... especially since in hindsight we all know what an embarrassing shitshow that turned out to be, even before the alleged "revival" cringefest.

The reason people get tripped up with HURR DURR MYTH ARC GOOD/BAD is that the myth arc is HALF good and half dumb, but it's not divided by season. It's like, GREAT MYTH ARC EPISODE, terrible myth arc episode, repeat.

One of my favorite things from my last rewatch is this musical cue they do of that distant industrial pipe clanking noise whenever Mulder stumbles on another clue and you suddenly realize it's a myth episode. Total audiokino. The Scully abduction stuff is great too (why do so many people forget that for a big chunk of this show's top seasons, the sides flipflopped and Scully became the true believer and Mulder was demoralized thinking it was all a government hoax?)

Kill Switch, simple as

>>211648663 (OP)
nig

>>211648663 (OP)
For me, it's Syzygy. None of the stills do the episode any justice, truly a great bit of weird media.

>>211664808
Pretty cringy episode

>>211655982
it's the best one, it can't be topped

>>211654539
I feel you. If you ask me, Darin Morgan's 4 episodes are among the very best the show had to offer (with Jose Chung and Clyde Bruckman being at the very top of the pile), but he made the show change for the worse, because everyone wanted to take a shot at making their own comedic episodes. Vince Gilligan went from writing stuff like Pusher, Unruhe and Paper Hearts, to being the new guy in charge of the funny/lighthearted episodes. Chris Carter's attempts at comedic episodes were always gimmicky.

Scully: I'm going to need more to go off if you want me to believe in something so outlandish, btw I'm a clone or something

>Look Scully right there, a UFO spacecraft lifting off out from under the ice. Quick open your eyes, Scully wake up! Indisputable evidence *shakes* wake from your slumber, no more need to be a sceptic

Scully: -SNOOOZE-

>Moulder squints in disappointment, as he observes the UFO propel into the sky out of view

Scully: You just don't have any evidence, btw i was abducted by the government as a child and injected

>>211651010
You're trying way too hard to fit in.
>>211655982
Probably my favourite, but it pretty much made Scully immortal so kind of ruined any "life threatening" situations she ended up in later.

I wonder if they'll have new agents or just reboot Scully and Mulder for the new show
I like Night of the Coprophages

>>211666879
This really sums up the entire show

>>211666155
>>211667362
It doesn't. Why are there SO many people who didn't watch the X-Files in these threads?

Scully literally believes in aliens for longer than Mulder does.

>>211667441
Whatever retard, I was on drugs the entire way through and even I distinctly remember Scully permanently undermining, questioning & pushing back on Moulders belief in aliens.

>>211648663 (OP)
For me it's Beyond the Sea

Midler is going to die David Caradine style

>>211648663 (OP)
Blood is the best episode. Soon after that I stopped watching.

>>211648663 (OP)
Is that the green bug one? That scarred me mate. Invisible bugs are crawling all over and will suck my precious bodily fluids AAAAAAH

>>211657621
> FOREST and they need LIGHT and nobody thinks of building a FIRE
Ah yes the pacific north west known for its dry and easily lit tinder and wood.

>>211662655
>can't get to the boy because of the lights
>just screams bloody murder all night as she clings to the ceiling and peeks in on him

that bathroom scene in the intro is absolutely fucked. the whole opening sequence is amazing - maybe one of the best in horror movie history

How is William B Davis still alive? He looked like he was 80 when the show was airing.

bump

>>211648663 (OP)
i really liked triangle, creating the parallel universe, a little bit of a love story and vintage dressing, though the lighting looks like they filmed under the blanket. but then again, its a ghost ship

I really liked the ep with Bryan Cranston.

>>211672418
Well he's got those old man spots now so he'll be going to the great saucer in the sky soon

>>211664984
I think you're mistaking it for First Person Shooter

For me it’s Field Trip

>>211672418
I watched him in some SYFY dragon movie ten years ago, and wondered how he was still going then.

>>211648663 (OP)
For me, it's D.P.O

Anyone else feel like every episode focused on Christianity fell flat?

the attempt to mix Christianity being real with a world where all these weird sci fi elements were real feels awkward

Every time they uncharacteristically make Mulder into some hyper skeptic just for the sake of the plot, while scully suddenly believes it, also against character, just because she’s Christian it doesn’t make sense she’d really be that up to believing a demon is killing girls because they’re nephilim lol

Finally all of the stories are just badly written compared to average episodes from what I remember

>>211679561
I always understood Scully as a secrety sensitive character, that is very skilled, has reverence but applies order. her faith is the backdrop, her connection to her father (who gifted her the cross necklace) and her ability to keep the line between supernatural and earthy matters.

Is it Detour with the camoflauge wendigo? I liked that one. Same for Supernatural, the wendigo was episode for me.

>>211663053
Why did Mitch Pileggi not get more roles after xfiles?
He's a kino machine and instantly improved every episode he's in

>>211663914
They needed to end it cleanly at season 4 (which it nearly was) and start a new arc.
Dragging it out past then is what ruins the earlier ones.

>>211680742
I feel like they actually blew their load at the end of S1 and it forced the overarching storyline into a series of repetitions.
Like Scully lifts up an ayy embyro with her bare hands and witnesses someone getting killed over it, then in LGM Mulder has a crisis of faith? After he saw all those bodies in tanks?
Might have been better for the show's health in the long run if actual literal ayys were used more sparingly

>>211648663 (OP)

>>211662630
As of right now I'm shutting down the you-files.

>>211663063
name 3 episodes (for me)

>>211672418
it always freaked me out that he looked a lot like my dad

For me it's Small Potatoes

WHY on earth is so lewd still?

I liked the one with the Chinese shape-shifting doggo

Where my Arcadiachads at?

Peak comfy

This episode is is exactly how I imagine living in 90s USA

t. Born 1990 not in USA

>>211664954
>>211683658
Patrician taste

whats the episode with the lone gunmen where they are at a conference and trying to uncover some secrets there with their nerd buddies

>>211672418
He's Immortal

>>211648663 (OP)
The Unnatural

>>211683943
>drive
>big guy
>little feet
Predictive programming for /tv/.

>ctrl+f
>only one mention of The Host
fucking plebs

>>211682932
>Sneed Potatoes

It's hilarious that Darin Morgan played Eddie Van Blundht

>>211664954
This episode always stood out to me because Mulder was the real savage jerk towards Scully and there was no real explanation why.
This is random episode where they decided that Mulder is going to humiliate Scully verbally.
Didnt help that this episode came right after an episode where they teased closer relationships between two and that was sweet episode.

>>211648663 (OP)
Are you hyped for the black reboot?

>>211648663 (OP)
When the series finale was airing my high school gf called me to say her parents weren't home. I never finished the episode and haven't seen the show since.

>>211687834
>where did all the black fathers go? did aliens abduct them?
>the mystery of the chirps in the hallway
>a secret society oppressing blacks called Per Capita
so much material for kino

The name's Bambi, federal agent researching cock ..roaches

>>211689565
>...her name is Bambi?

I'm in season 9 right now. What a mess.

>>211680658
He looks like a violent alcoholic

>>211679561
I like those episodes. But I favor Millennium over the X-Files, which delved more regularly into such matters as part of its core identity. They're in the same universe. What they should have done is create a third companion series that unify all the alien stuff with the theology stuff. A third perspective wherein it's revealed to be two sides of the same coin. This kinda stuff is popular nowadays, ppl pointing out similarities between ufology and demonology or whatever, all kinds of myths and tales. And the uncovering of mysterious ancient civilizations would figure verrry heavily into this hypothetical third series. Core characters as archaeologists... always digging for the truth! The Truth is Down There. The show writes itself if you watch lots of "conspiracy" theory videos.

>>211691960
Wasn't that was the lone gunmen were supposed to be?

>>211692055
No. It's nothing like what I'm describing, what I'm picturing.