Bros, what was it like watching a series like X-Files when it first aired on TV? I've started watching it recently, about halfway through season 1 and am really enjoying it, but I feel like it probably hits differently when you can't watch all the episodes back to back and I was originally watching it whenever, but now I watch it later at night to help set the mood for the show.

I love the way the various characters are just straight aura farming, I feel like that is not something that happens enough in shows today.

>>213111464 (OP)
>hits differently
look mom, i posted the latest nigger phrase!

>>213111492
That phrase is like a decade old, unc. It's been accepted into the general vernacular.

>>213111464 (OP)
>various characters are just straight aura farming

this nigga was a master of that

>look Scully, I don't actually believe in aliens. I got a sweet gig here. I don't have to do any real work and I get to go wherever I want.
>Next week we're headed to Boca Raton to check out some "mysterious disappearances"
>I took the liberty of selecting your swimwear for the trip

>>213111645
That last line is peak Mulder

>>213111464 (OP)
>I love the way the various characters are just straight aura farming,
what the fuck does this sentence mean

>>213111682
Nothing

For me it's season 6 episode 8

>>213111464 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JixoIauqpZM
This track reminds me of X-Files and RE2, peak 90s.
It was a different time. You had to be there.

>>213111645
This is literally what Josh Gates did for Destination: Unknown, just replace "FBI" with "Sci-Fi Channel"

>>213111682
Nothing
Its just empty words that zoomers put together when they cant think of something to say

>>213111803
I'm not a zoomer but it does clearly have meaning anon, you can google it

>>213111682
>aura farming
I think he means that the characters have a lot of presence.

>>213111682
>what the fuck does this sentence mean
Aura farming Motherfucker. What do you mean what does this mean?

>>213111682
>aura farming
>what the fuck does this sentence mean
How old is everyone here? Is this a boomer fucking forum!?

>>213111960
People that watched the X-Files when it first aired (over 31 years ago) are unlikely to understand retarded zoomer ebonics.

>>213111960
nigger, 4chan and the x-files were around before you were even born.

>>213111558
I love how he had a rather softspoken, unimposing voice. It would be more cliched to have him sound cartoonishly deep and threatening, but nah he's just a guy.

>>213112088
for me it was him wanting to be an author but continually getting rejected

>>213111464 (OP)
the entire world was different, you're literally incapable of understanding what it was like

>>213111682
>unc finna be like: "back in me day we had swag!"

>>213111833
but if they already have presence wouldn't their 'aura' be fully 'farmed?' why do they keep on farming?

I'm halfway through season 2. This new guy is lame and tryhard. I miss deep throat.

>>213112184
>why do they keep on farming?
they just do, okay!?

>>213112179
damn i always wanted a little gay neph

>>213112184
>if you already have arable land why do you need to keep farming
You are this retard

>>213111464 (OP)
>I feel like it probably hits differently when you can't watch all the episodes back to back
Yeah, I'm sure the convoluted soap opera of the alien arc didn't seem as ridiculous when they were doling it out in single episodes separated by months. They're good episodes individually but you shouldn't think about them too hard as a whole.

>>213112224
so you harvest the aura then plant more?

>>213111730
WHAT

>>213112197
>This new guy is lame and tryhard

Wait until you see his replacements

>>213111464 (OP)
>I love the way the various characters are just straight aura farming

>>213111682
Aura Farming is the action of doing things in a manner to make you look cool. Many fictional characters can be labeled as "Aura Farmers" due to their writing.

when it first started airing i would already be in bed but my dad and my older brother would watch it and i could hear the theme from my bedroom and it always spooked me.

>>213111464 (OP)
Given it's structure, bingeing it doesn't matter at all.

>>213112282
You always have to work on your power. Same as with the gym, same as with cultivation in Wuxia. You have to exercise your aura else you lose it.

>>213111464 (OP)
>aura farming
Kill yourself, faggot.

>>213112329
lmao mulder is goated

>>213111828
It signals that the speaker is a homosexual who emulates negroid ebonics.

I was a kid and it was so scary to me that I didn't dare watch it.
Then one day, I watched a rerun aired during daytime and that was a lot more tolerable so I kind of built up a tolerance.

>>213111682
First time I've ever heard the word and it makes sense, especially in regards to CSM
The zoomers are alright, look in your own backyard for cringe retarded saying, they'll be much worse capiche

>>213112329
the best part about this scene is the carny talking shit to skully about mulder at this exact moment, he says something like "who wants to look like that guy?" and they cut to mulder doing this

>>213111730
>I'm Agent Mulder and this is Agent Scully. We're with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. May we speak with Mr. Sneed?

>>213111464 (OP)
It was a cultural phenomenon.
Probably one of the main reasons zoomers are such faggots, they never had such an experience.

You tuned in and hoped it was creature feature of the week ep and not one of the long multi-year drawn plot of the god damn alien oil eps. Being when you march past the seasons now on streaming or dvd/blu it's easy to forget you're watch a decade plus running show.
when you watched it live you might miss a few weeks or hell even a month or more if you had real life stuff going on. The creature features are so self contained it's always interesting x-files stuff.
When you get into into ok remember back 4+ months ago when...... no, no I don't being I didn't even see that ep.
Lost kind of has this same issue where it's easily way better now when you can just pound past eps. Alias is the opposite being the show hinges on 1/2 the eps being mini cliff hangers and that doesn't work if you binge watch.

>>213111464 (OP)
it was magical and completely unique. the ufo thing was something completely fresh back then. you also started too see alot of things spooky and weird. also the insane sex chemistry moulder and scully had. goosebumps left and right. you looked ALOT forward to the day new episode aired. back then i even bought a book that analized episodes.

this show doesnt work with binge watching due to its monster of the week structure. its made to be watched once a week otherwise it gets stale quickly.

>>213112120
His books were just memoirs portrayed as fiction
Also I think it was meant to be irony, he can overthrow governments but can't even get a tiny advance from some shit tier publisher

>>213112538
>analized
kek

>>213111464 (OP)
it was great. watched it with my dad

>>213112529
I get so much shit for preferring the MOTW episodes.
Mythology episodes get rendered meaningless season by season.
Some are kino tho, I like the ship embedded in rock on that beach in Africa.

>>213112469
It was the perfect show to capture the American zeitgeist in the 90s "end of history" era when the opulent postwar order was starting to decay and fringe beliefs and conspiracy theories were starting to go mainstream. It was also arguably the first ever internet cult show. It probably couldn't be replicated today now that all of this stuff is just taken for granted.

X cops

>>213112538
>back then i even bought a book
yeah there as even an x-files magazine back in the day. The world moved a lot slower in the 1990s.

>>213112538
It's a nice comfy show to watch one or two eps every night, monster of the week or otherwise.

>>213112184
Zoomers aren't people, but algorithm-driven faggots who mix the speech patterns of negroes and really dumb, superficial women. The idea of aura farming reflects how zoomers behave. A normal person would say someone is cool or charismatic, implying it's an inherent trait. A zoomer droid can't understand someone having inherent qualities, but can only judge things based on fake performances, clickbait and algorithms, so they think people who are cool are doing something artificial to appear cool, hence "farming". "Aura" is basically how a middle-aged, new age woman would describe a person who emanates a cool or charismatic presence.

>>213112446

>>213112623
Now zoomers are shitting on this episode because Cops was le racist, even though if they actually bothered to watch it they'd see it was taking the piss.

>>213111464 (OP)
My favorite part is how every place in America looks like British Columbia.

>>213111464 (OP)
It was great when it was airing on television. It was unlike anything else on TV. Pre-internet, pre-intormation overload, pre-conspiracy theory EVERYTHING.
It didn't really age very well though.

>>213111645
Whenever I watched this show I always image some FBI expense manager somewhere being forced by Skinner to approve $1,000 trips to the other side of the country to hunt Chupacapra praying the public doesn't find out about it.

>>213112596
That didn't really happen until after 9/11. The 90s were mostly positive, aside from some gen-x cynicism, but that was mostly just attributed to angsty teenagers.

>>213112469
This.
Between this and the matrix, zoomers missed out.

One of the highlights of the later seasons

In this X-Files thread:

>Aura farming
>Unc
>Peak
Fuck my generation

>>213112574
>Mythology episodes get rendered
that's the interesting thing about watching or at least rewatching the show now. If you where not an alien oil sort of fan that entire story line almost feels fresh on a rewatch.
It just works better when it's not spread out over nearly 10 years. Yet as others mentioned the monster of the week eps can start to get stale in a rapid fire watch being the first 30min of each ep is kind of the same. No one believes Mulder.. but wait.. it's true, well maybe.
side note, I now work with a guy named Fox being his mom was a fan of X-files

>this guy suddenly appears
>OMG THIS IS SERIOUS

dont know when the last time was that a show had such a character

>>213112781
ikr? such a goat aura farmer

>>213112741
Yeah, the stale part is definitely true. Maybe I will do a mythology watch next time. I almost always skip those.
>side note, I now work with a guy named Fox being his mom was a fan of X-files
Hopefully he doesn't resent it

>>213111464 (OP)
in sociopolitical context, it now seems like predictive programming. Skepticism about UFO, govt secrecy are now entertainment, managing perceptions that it's OK to doubt and keep a distance to let them do their thing. our rewards is a weekly suspenseful mystery, giving a chance to peer into what FBI does (the sacred badge's powers!), what weird shit they pull up or come across. It quells the curiosity so less demands about IRL disclosure + transparency. Chris Carter in S9 last 2 episodes (??) described the vax rollout of 2021+. He is DoD/CIA asset.

>>213111464 (OP)
Fuck off or stop talking like a nigger.

>>213112704
Nah man, it started in the 90s. The cold war was over, there were no more serious international rivals for the time being, and domestic culture started cannibalizing itself and getting weird. Radical anti-government and conspiracy theory movements surged in the 90s, as did interest in UFOs and paranormal stuff. Art Bell's radio show was the other big popularizer of that after The X-Files. 9/11 was a turning point for conspiracy stuff but not the origin.

>>213111492
>>213112410
>>213112937
I don't think a nig has ever said aura farming

>>213112937
You don't farm auras bro?

>>213111682

gen alpha brainrot slang

>>213112729
>implying people don’t use these words ironically to get a reaction out of other anons

>>213112729
>WAHHHH WAHHH WAHHH NEW GENERATION SLANG WAHHHHG!! I NEED MILLENNIAL AND XOOMER VALIDATION!!! GAHHHH

>>213112870
Take your meds, but to be fair Carter definitely had his finger on the pulse of known and speculated government psyop tactics. The early episode where they spike a whole town with super-acid disguised as fluoride/pesticide and get everyone to murder each other as a test in manufacturing paranoia and distrust was super prescient to what you hear /pol/friends ranting about now.

>>213112701
this is peak gillian
absolute MY DICK tier here

>>213112701
> . Pre-internet
Lmao

>>213112538
>the ufo thing was something completely fresh back then


it wasn't at all. UFO and alien sightings peaked in the 1950s

>>213113129
I think she meant to say pre-widespread adoption of the internet

>>213112654
ngl this is a lowkey goated post

>>213113157
That’s more accurate. Anyways, question for oldfags. Did you discuss x files on internet forums back in the day?

>>213113129
>1992
Were you on the internet?
I was. There was NOTHING there.

>>213111464 (OP)
>Scully... J-just... Take it easy.
It was comfy.

>>213112224
>>213112282
When you reach max aura you stop farming.

>>213113224
rec.arts.sf.tv on usenet?

>>213112329
Did they purposely get like the most non-tailored suit for him int that scene? Like throughout the show most of his clothing and suits are so nicely tailored.

>>213113134
UFOs as a social phenomenon peaked in the 50s, but UFOs as a pop culture entity were very fringe and basically a meme until the X-Files. Everyone knew about them but TV and film didn't often entertain them as a serious subject before the 80s. Close Encounters and Communion started to reverse the trend, and the X-Files blew it wide open.

>>213112410
Bro they can't even pronounce aura.

>>213112947
There was conspiracy shit long before the 90s, some of which was ironically grounded in some semblance of reality. And the end of the cold war signaled hope and reconciliation, which defined most of the 90s. Sure, it gradually singled out the US as the only target for criticism, due to it being the only remaining superpower (not that the soviet union really was one), but it wasn't until the GWOT that things turned to shit.
Hell, the 80s were a lot worse in terms of moralizing bullshit and excess, thanks to yuppies, Christian-conservatives whining about censorship and the US ceding ground to Japan, and all the lefties kvetching about it. It's what spawned the whole cyberpunk genre. But the 90s were mostly an era of positivity and hope, aside from the usual teenage angst, before the 2000s started to bring everything down.

>>213113321
He wore the huge suits more in the earlier season if i remember correctly.

>>213112781
I actually liked the well manicured man better, though he was in less episodes.

>>213113358
>But the 90s were mostly an era of positivity and hope


Being a worthless slacker mope was literally romanticized in the 90s.

>>213113065
It gets to a point where it’s just retarded and fucking annoying. Op is obviously a zoomer
>>213113097
Now I have to love zoomerslop slang or else it means im seeking validation from older generations. You type like a foid btw

>>213113358
Sorry but I think you're looking back with rose tinted millennial/zoomer glasses. The cultural rot didn't start in the 90s either, but that was when the cracks really began to show. The positive and optimistic vision of consoomer culture coexisted with an creeping undercurrent of nihilism (in the real philosophical sense, not the rick & morty meme), pessimism, social division and distrust of authority, manifesting in increasingly fringe, radical movements, conspiracy theories and new-age/paranormal fads. This was acknowledged and analyzed even at the time. It was coming to the fore in the 90s and politics and culture took note of it, and yes 9/11 and the middle east wars were accelerating factors but the ignition happened in the previous decade.

>>213113398
Like I said, that was part of early 90s teenage culture, that started with grunge faggotry. Then again, the understanding of 90s culture today has turned into the same parody we have of the 60s, as if that was the only culture that existed. Moping Gen-Xers were just a tiny part of it. You also had the "radical" culture, the surviving rock/metal culture from the 80s (aka B&B) and the Euro-techno shit, and towards the end of the 90s you had all kinds of gay boy bands and girl bands, and there wasn't much left of the early 90s moping.
Also, it's weird how everyone seems to have forgotten how iconic motorcycles and ripped working class guys were in the 90s. They were everywhere. A young dude on a Harley. It was in every gum commercial, half of the B-tier TV shows and even in some movies.

>>213113664
I'm old enough to remember it, dumbfuck. Hell, I remember a bit of the 80s.
The only thing you're right about is that the cultural rot started much earlier, but that's something that goes back as far as you want it to go back, depending on your political perspective. Communist propaganda and infiltration did a number on the US and the west in general.

Anyway, yeah X-Files was pretty good