Someone gave me all of the X-Files.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

The whole series, up to where Mulder leaves, on videotape. I am in hog heaven.

Surprisingly, watching them now, in these times, they just don't seem as far-fetched.

I wonder why...

[NNadir]

1. Is it a good show? I've never seen it.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Oh yeah.

At the start of the second season is where they really hit their stride with the "XFiles Mythos" arc that continues through the rest of the run of the program. It is the show where "Deep Throat" is killed and it is wonderful. The tone of the rest of the series is set. The photography is stunning, the writing superb.

But it is eerie how the conspiracies no longer seem so deliciously shocking and fantastic. They seem...almost plausible.

[Neoma]

2. I am so jealous of you.

Gimme!

[stanwyck]

4. I like the "monster" story episodes

the episodes that are whole -- outside the conspiracy arc stories. The "ghost" stories. Like the one where Mulder and Scully move into one of those gated, controlled neighborhoods where a basketball hoop is heresy. And someone, or something, is murdering the offenders of the neighborhood code.

[Swede]

5. Or the vampire family,when the California brush fires as backdrop.

That one always stuck with me.

[aaronbees]

6. I love that episode

too, where Scully and Mulder shack up in that neighborhood -- very self-mocking and ironic with some great, funny tension between them. God, I miss the X-Files -- greatest TV show ever, in my book.

[Broken_Hero]

7. you lucky @@#$#@$!!!

I got season one on dvd about a month ago, man, i wish someone would give me the whole Xfiles seasons...*hint hint*....:) The shows are pretty decent, but i did have to weed through some CRAPPY episodes in season I, about three of them, out of 20+...still, good though!

[KatyaR]

9. The DVD season sets have been reissued

without the "extra" disks for really cheap--$36.99, about what other TV sets are running for these days, and much less than the original $99.99/set when they were originally released. Seasons 1-6 are out now, and 7-9 will be out in June. You can find them on Amazon.com.

There are also DVD sets out now of just the mytharc episodes, which would be nice to watch those episodes in order without any breaks.

I bought the first 6 sets and am waiting for the last 3. I've forgotten how much I loved this show. I've never liked horror genre anything, but I always loved every episode of X-Files. There was something there for everyone, I think, but you really needed a strong stomach at times.

With X-Files gone and The West Wing ending in two weeks, I don't know what I'll watch on TV anymore. But thank goodness for DVDs.

[Broken_Hero]

10. extra discs?

Like the special features? I haven't even bothered lookign at special features, having the shows, is good enough for me...:) My wife and I decide which seasons to go after. She started with Little House on the Prarie which is 9 seasons, and I got my Smallville Seasons, which are 4 and going. So, it was her turn to decide, but I had a little say in the desicsions...she wanted the Simpsons, I was leaning towards South Park, and then we saw season I and II of Xfiles, and we were both quick to agree that the Xfiles would be our next set of seasons.

I would really like the Original Series of Star Trek, but damn, those things are still expensive as can be. My wife also wants the CSI: Las Vegas's, but those are still to spendy. I hate spending more than 35 bucks on seasons, its just a tv show on disc dammit! Some of the season prices, our out of control, big time.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. I am X-Files obsessed.

It's an addiction. I'm actually watching it right now on TNT. I need to get them all and watch them chronologically. I actually have an X-Files poster (I really bought it because of Scully) and the "I Want to Believe" poster that Mulder has in his office. The geckos have a Scully action figure in their tank, although, they also have a Biblical Jesus Action Figure in there too. Often, Scully and Jesus are caught in weird sexual positions that the geckos have pushed them into.

[djeseru]

11. I was too.

Anything and everything X-Files related had to be purchased - magazines, books, posters, on and on. I even went to two conventions. I even tried to stay as similar-looking to Scully as long as I could! One of my favorite photos of myself is when I got to sit in a mock-up of Mulder's office...that was fun.

That's a riot about your geckos...it's giving me the mental giggles just with the images... :thumbsup:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. I actually have it on Sci-Fi Channel right now. nt

[djeseru]

14. Ah, the joys of syndication!

I love being able to run across one now and again. Do you have any favorite episodes? I love most of all the Darrin Morgan ones, like "Humbug." "Squeeze" still stands out as the one that gave me the shivers!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. I'm into the conspiracy.

Not a huge fan of the first season or when it was mostly Doggett & Reyes. I need my Scully.

[djeseru]

19. God, yes, when she got so sick...

...I felt somewhat devastated. The first time I ever got so absorbed into a TV show...

From what I understand, Duchovny and Carter have a script, it's going into film production later this year...I'm curious as hell too.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Yeah, I'm totally looking forward to that.

I may buy the "Mythology" DVDs.

[ceile]

13. Lucky bastid!!

I try to stay up late to watch the reruns on TNT, but usually don't make it. Gosh I miss it. What a great show!

[Guava Jelly]

15. Jose Chungs from outer space was my favorite x files ep

Charles nelson Riley
and "thats a bleepen dead Alien"

[tigereye]

17. cool

I'd love to see more of those in order. They are on in re-runs, but you never know which ones.

[Lisa]

18. oddly enough, the bit that really seemed farfetched to me...

... was after Bush took office, when that deranged guy was trying to get to the WH with that computer disk, which he believed the President would want to see!

That part just cracked me up. I can watch baseball-playing extraterrestrials, cockroaches from outer space, and vicious Arctic ice worms (and even, ahem, a bus clearly marked "To UBC" rolling down a "New York" street) -- without batting an eyelid. But the thought that George W. Bush would want to (or even be capable of) saving the world ... that was just too much.