Worth watching?

No

>>213086378 (OP)
yes

>>213086378 (OP)
No. It was pretty good when it came out. I watched it since the pilot, but that's only because TV was really, really bad back then.

I tried watching it again, and only got half way through the first season before I had to turn it off. It's just too cheesy for most of the episodes. Some episodes are good, but you have to accept the time it was made and the low budget. Give it a chance, but don't expect to be blown away unless you have low standards.

>>213086378 (OP)
It doesn't hold up. Boring and dated tropes .

>>213086880
>>213086957
What TV shows do you recommend instead?

>>213086971
True Detective Season 1, Severance, Mad Men, Sopranos, Venture Bros., Frisky Dingo, True Blood (season 1-2 at least), Metalocalypse, Super Jail (season 1 at least).

>>213086378 (OP)
I would look up a best episodes list. Some people like the monster of the week shit, some people like the over arching serialized alien shit. I don’t know. It’s a fine show. A bit boring in my opinion. Formulaic.

>>213086971
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight

>>213086378 (OP)
Yeah it's fun, even the bad seasons. Don't bother following any watch guides. This shit ain't Star Trek.

>>213087021
>low standards
>le mafia show
pottery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agS61gN5zCo

>>213086378 (OP)
it was remastered in HD and actually holds up
the one-off monster of the week episodes blow the mythology episodes out of the water, the ongoing X-Files plot line makes LOST look like a concise fully planned out story

It's like every other TV show ever made. Some episodes you won't like. Some you will. The only way to find out is to watch. The only question you have to ask yourself is this. Do you like UFOs, aliens, government conspiracies, shit like that? If you so your odds of liking X-Files are higher. If not stick to watching Tik-Tok videos.

>>213086378 (OP)
It's good but at some point the main plot of the show becomes way too much

I just finished the 9th season, worth watching just for Doggett, I'm not really interested in watching season 10 or 11

>>213087021
The only one of these that is better than The X-Files is True Detective.

>>213087183
You should actually watch shows instead of youtube videos.

Yes but the last 4 seasons are not as good as the first 4 seasons.

>>213086378 (OP)
yes, just dose it appropriately... one episode a week or once every 3 days or so
you can look up the original air dates online and sync yourself to them lol
don't be like these guys who obviously overdosed >>213086880 >>213086957
>>213087023

>>213087021
>doesn't mention True Detective Season 2 or The Americans
>mentions all kinds of stoner shit
eh

>>213086378 (OP)
It's great if you like the gimmick, it exploits it to the fullest, but if you don't then don't force yourself, it ain't for you. The anthology premise is it's highest point, the linear storyline is so improvised and convoluted it sucks really bad but even those episodes have some good things here and there

>>213087452
You people are idiots. If something doesn’t stand up to marathon viewing then it isn’t good. This idea you need to watch it exactly like it was being broadcast just means the broadcast format was hiding the show’s flaws.

>>213087784
>muh marathon viewing
go back to netflix, twerp

>>213087987
I’m older than you, just not living in the past.

>>213088017
>older than you, just not living in the past
is that some kind of euphemism for Alzheimer's disease?

>>213088116
It’s a euphemism for being able to admit the things I liked as a kid may not have been as good as I thought and I don’t create viewing schedules to remain in my childhood.

>>213088156
oh you just came to canada from india
i understand

I miss these niggas like you wouldn't believe.
I even think their spinoff was enjoyable and I'm disappointed it didn't get a second season.

>>213086378 (OP)
Like others have said, the mythology (overarching story line) is made up on the spot. It has great highs and lows and if you do watch it for the story line, keep in mind that there isn't an ending of any kind, only cutoff points. The best cutoff point is after the movie Fight the future, which takes place after season 5. My recommendation is to not continue after that as the storyline goes really off the rails and just repeats ideas and gets stuck in a loop, since the creator Chris Carter is a hack who didn't know his own limits.
Regarding the standalone episodes - Monster of the Week (MOTW) - I would say that they are in general very hit or miss and that in season 6 onwards it gets worse since the tone gets too comedic/cringe. Season 8 gets back to form and has some good MOTW episodes with the new great character John Doggett, but the overarching storyline by that point couldn't be saved.

>>213086378 (OP)
Absolutely! It’s ultra comfy and the 90s aesthetic gives it awesome retro vibes

>>213086378 (OP)
Imagine being married to scully and enjoying dropping huge loads into her as she gets hotter and hotter with age. Absolutely mind-bending

>>213086800
>>213086808
yes

>>213088236
Weird projection

>>213088540
Man that would be horrible kek

>>213088351
they were a great representation of a time when computing and electronics were not all about computers and the internet (especially in the original series, although the spinoff foreshadowing 9/11 just a few months prior the event was kinda wild)
>>213088408
>Like others have said, the mythology (overarching story line) is made up on the spot
you are saying that like it's a bad thing
nigga Tolkien wrote the entire LOTR that way, making it up going forward

>>213086880
>>213086378 (OP)
>It's just too cheesy for most of the episodes.
X-Files walks a fine line between legitimate suspense and self-aware comedy. There are some episodes that further the overall Alien/government conspiracy plot. Those (and a handful of others) tend to be more dramatic, but a lot of the monster of the week episodes are supposed to be funny or kind of ridiculous.

In other words, if you go in expecting that it's going to be a super serious suspense thriller, you'll probably be disappointed. If you go primed for variety, it's an amazing show. I think that's one of the reasons it's so successful. Other shows that try to be super serious all the time jump the shark when they reach the point that they can no longer continue building tension. X-files doles those tension episodes out well, and the rest are kind of fun excursions into "what if". It takes about the first half of the first season to find it's footing, but season 2 through season 8 are solid. I dropped it a few episodes into season 9. The T-1000 wasn't doing it for me, and I never watched the "I want to believe" seasons.

Watch Millennium.

>>213087072
>Don't bother following any watch guides
This. Just watch the episodes in order starting from the pilot.
The monster of the week episodes break up the alien conspiracy episodes and the variety is a strength.
X-files was a different format. It's not made for binging so if you try to watch it like you watch modern shows, you may find it lacking. (That said, I've binged it several times. It's my comfort show I put on in the background when I need to do something kind of tedious).

>>213087784
>If something doesn’t stand up to marathon viewing then it isn’t good

>>213088759
Nigger I never said to make the story along the way was by itself a bad thing. I detailed how the storyline went wrong, it had great ideas but the refusal to plan was it's downfall. Tolkien was a scholar and well aware of germanic heroic legend like Beowulf and the like and specifically formed LOTR after those, making Frodo, Aragorn and Samwise embody the different traits of the hero. Tolkien wanted to do a British "pagan" mytology of sorts, which he succeeded brilliantly in.
Chris Carter and the other hand was not a scholar like Tolkien. He based the story on the classic romantic hero, a hero with a quest like the holy grail, but his cynicism was fatal to the story. The cynicism made him refuse to give the heroes any victory, he only teased a light in the tunnel which was way different than Tolkien's optimistic approach. Cynicism like the one in X-Files works only when the heroes in the end succeed, then it can be justified. Sadly this isn't the case in the mythology of the x-files, because of the hack Chris Carter and his utter refusal to plan and end the story, but also to fleshout the villians. This resulted in Scully's character development stopping after season 5 and Mulder eventually losing his goal, his holy grail.

>>213088844
>the "I want to believe" seasons
Yeah, whatever happened with that? The X-Files came back, with Anderson and Duchovny back as the stars, and it just kinda... existed. I never heard anyone talking about it. I never even heard "Ugh, it sucks, they should've just left it alone."

Not really. It's very dated. 80% of the episodes are also pretty forgettable. People just fondly remember the few good ones and think the whole show was like that

>>213087325
unfortunately i have watched the sopranos. the slop you people shill as steak au poivre is truly infuriating

>>213086971

Try Fringe broskie you wont regret it

>>213089243
>autistic reeeeeeeee wall of text.txt

>>213089383
I don't know, but I generally avoid zombie shows. Sometimes it sucks when a show ends, but I can't think of any time something has come back and was able to recapture the magic. I'd guess that we didn't hear anything about it because while it wasn't particularly good, it may not have been so egregiously bad that it was proper rage-bait.

>>213088648
Gillian Anderson legit comes across as fun and probably a wildcat in bed. Plus she can go into a British accent on command

>As of this moment I’m reopening Agent Scully’s legs.

>>213089625
She is a well known party girl and turboslut.

>>213089426
which episodes do you think were "bad ones"? Not counting season 9 and after, I think I can find most of the episodes enjoyable. My least favorites may have been the one with the cybergoth chick/space laser, and the outer space phantom one. I'm trying to think of other stinkers, but I think even the shlocky ones are a good time.

>>213089655
>the one with the cybergoth chick/space laser,
>least favorite
You're crazy! That was a great episode. Also a Lone Gunmen episode. Co-written by the guy who did Neuromancer.

>>213089625
>Plus she can go into a British accent on command
her British accent is pretty miserable, and her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Crown was pretty cringe-worthy. I love Gillian Anderson, but I think the British accent thing is an odd choice of strength to bring up.

>>213089625
Back in the day, there was a pic floating around of Gillian Anderson pre-X-Files where she was sitting on what looked like a fire escape of an apartment building smoking a cigarette looking like a total grunge chick with her hair kind of frizzed out all alt-90s style. She looked like she could have been the lead singer of a garage band. It was fucking hot.

>>213088952
>Millenium
> watched by Boomers

>>213089773
She grew up in London. Also I want to see this pic

>>213089770
I'm not saying I skip it when I rewatch the show (which I've done several times). It's just not my favorite. Is that also the one with the tech house that becomes self aware and tries to kill people?

>>213089852
>I want to see this pic
I'm trying to find it, but search engines kind of suck these days. There was a time when I thought nothing could ever be lost once it was on the internet.

>>213087021
Retard.

>>213087021
>Frisky Dingo
I have literally never heard of this before.

>>213086378 (OP)
The first few seasons are extremely good but after like the 4th or 5th seasons it only gets worse and worse and it never gets better again.

I remember watching up until the episode(s) where "Everything was revealed" and the aliens killed the entire council of old conspiracy men (except for Cigarette Smoking Man) and after that I just kinda stopped cause what was the point anymore after that?

>>213089770
>the guy who did Neuromancer.
You mean William Gibson the author of Neuromancer? I had no idea he worked in tv.
It also might explain a bit. My friends were SUPER into William Gibson when I was growing up and tried to get me to read his books. They never grabbed me and I thought maybe I just didn't like to read for fun. Fast forward to adulthood and I started tearing through tons of books after buying an e-reader (which I originally got to make reading manuals away from my computer easier though I've never actually used it for that) . I tried to revisit Gibson and discovered his writing style just isn't for me. There's other sci-fi I do like, but Gibson focused too much on the tech and not enough on the people/story for my liking. I'd read pages and pages of him fetishizing gadgetry and have no fucking clue what I was supposed to be getting out of it. I understand it's a classic, but I really fucking hated Neuromancer.

>>213090145
An animated show made by Adam Reed who later made Archer. It's similar in that there are a bunch of people who are inept at their jobs and spend most of their time arguing in a way that's funny to watch, but instead of being a spy agency, it's a super villain, henchmen, and a superhero (along with extended cast).
The animation style is even more limited/rudimentary than Archer, but it's funny.

The show is enjoyable, but if it's listed as a favorite, I wouldn't expect the person to also be super into X-Files. The anon just listed early Adult Swim stuff and shows that are safe to talk about liking on /tv/. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but I wouldn't personally avoid a show just because that anon said it was garbage.

>>213090435
Correct. I don't really have an opinion on Gibson or Neuromancer but the episode is noteworthy for settling any disputes as to what Molly would look like since that's basically the goth chick from the X-Files episode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)

>>213090435
What will really blow your mind is that William Gibson wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter and at that point had literally never even touched a computer. He basically wrote about a fictional future for a technology he had only a very vague theoretical understanding of

>>213090679
His vision of the future is fucking brilliant. I can understand why he is a celebrated author, but it's not for me.
His world that he created is so crystal clear in his mind that he goes through long passages talking about tech that doesn't exist and doesn't hold your hand. It's up to the audience to figure out what the fuck he's talking about, how the gadgets work, etc. And there is logic behind all of it so if you can pick up what he's putting down, I'd imagine it is super worthwhile. That said, I really didn't care about the tech so much that I wanted to spend time deciphering what it all meant. I thought maybe if I just stuck with it, it would eventually click like the slang language used in Clockwork Orange, but I read Neuromancer from cover to cover and at the climactic end of *SOMETHING* happening, I thought to myself "what the FUCK did I just read"?
I literally couldn't give you a synopsis, and most of the time I felt like reading was something to endure.

Again, he's briiilant and I totally understand why people might love him. It's just not something that clicks with me personally.

(He also created a version of a military flight jacket that was so popular and vividly described that people kept asking for it and eventually companies started making it to fulfill demand).

As of this moment, I am bumping the X-Files thread.

>>213091758
but what if the thread is bumping itself and you are just an unwitting tool, scully?

>>213086378 (OP)
S1-S5 and the first movie. That's about where I'd stop.
I went up to half of S7 and S6 was already scraping the bottom of the barrel. Once they opted to keep on forever, the momentum fizzled out and the mytharc storyline began to REALLY suck.

>>213089940
Seriously what the fuck happened?
All sorts of shit is just gone.
Anything you do find is low res and fucking blurry.

>>213086378 (OP)
cops episode is unbelievably kino

>>213086378 (OP)
It was best when it focused on the "weird monster of the week" stuff. There was even a line in the reboot where Scully says "I forgot how much fun X-files was" when they were doing a monster of the week thing. The overarching plot is just blue balls city. Many shows are like thos though. Buffy and Supernatural were the same. As soon as they get away form the MotW, it's so gay it hurts. Leviathans can only be killed with cleaning products? Come on man.

Monster of the week episodes are good, the main plot is pure garbage and nonsensical.

>>213086378 (OP)
Yeah, at least the self-contained episodes. When they started with the ongoing storyline about ayy lmaos it went to shit.

>>213087317
True Detective also has S2, >>213087508
>doesn't mention True Detective Season 2
Oh maybe because it was liquid shit.

>>213086378 (OP)
first season is some of the best mystery on TV

>>213088017
Why are you caning old TV shows then, old man? Watch an episode or two at most likely a normal person.

The Netflix model of serialisation just means you have a good first and final episode and then 8 episodes of mediocre doldrums in the middle. At least with classic serialisation you got stand out episodes.

>>213092475
that was the hair style! Different pic. The one I saw had her looking more sultry, but that's the 90s grunge thing.
>Seriously what the fuck happened?
Search engines stopped giving you want you're looking for and started giving you what paid advertisers want you to see. I think a lot of stuff is still out there, but it's nearly impossible to find.
It sucks that the ruskies currently have the most reliable search engine.

>>213092547
>>213093832
>>213093857
The alien episodes are still mostly fun as self contained mysteries. I agree that it ultimately didn't really go anywhere satisfying, but it was always fun getting more bits of the mystery with a little plot twist, and maybe seeing what might be an alien (alive or dead), a UFO, etc.

>>213093832
The main plot starts out as compelling, but they quickly run out of ideas and MOTW becomes the real reason to watch.

>>213095479
How would you fix the Mytharc?
My first idea would be to scrap the whole alien colonization part. They never really explained why the Ayys needed to grow hybrids inside humans when the resulting creature behaves more like a xenomorph than a useful colonist.

>>213095651
>How would you fix the Mytharc?
You can't retroactively fix it. You'd have to come up with a complete story from the onset. Carter never intended for the series to last for so long, the movie was meant to be the finale.

>>213086378 (OP)
The first 7 seasons, 100%. Easily some of the best tv.
The first movie is great.
Then season 8 & 9 are a step down, but still decent.
The second movie is good.
Then season 10 & 11 are utter dogshit, outside of Darin Morgan's episodes(which were classic X-Files)..

>>213095651
>How would you fix the Mytharc?
I would have done the second movie as a 2012 conspiracy movie, that ties together everything, instead of doing the season 9 stuff.
But outside of retconning stuff(like season 10 did), there's not a lot you could do to fix the original ending.
But the real solution is to just have a vague plan that you're working towards. Having each season sprinkle it in with the season finale/openers. Then use the final season to tie them all together.

>>213088952
its mid