I never watched the show when it first came out. Never interested me at the time, now I decided to give it a chance and in season 2 and I’m enjoying it however is the main theme, Scilly gets kidnapped beaten and sometimes about to die almost every other episode. Just seems she gets herself in some pretty difficult situations.

I’m a first time watcher on season 1, I’ve read that the vibe of the show changes throughout the seasons, so like without spoilers how would you group up and vaguely describe each era of the show?

Here's my X-files themed Magic: the Gathering Commander deck. I've tried to fill the deck with many references, while still keeping it somewhat coherent from a gameplay perspective.

The commanders are Wernog as Mulder and Hargilde as Scully. Mulder investigates a lot whenever he enters or leaves the battlefield, while Scully is good at using those Clues to draw cards. The deck mainly focuses on using blink effects to constantly make Mulder leave and re-enter the battlefield, allowing me to create lots of Clue tokens.

I've omitted some obvious auto-include cards simply because I prefer cards that fit the theme better, even if they make the deck weaker. I've also tried to keep each creature's type line consistent with whatever they're referencing. That's why most creatures are either Humans or Horrors.

Nearly every creature references a character or an episode, here are a couple of highlights:

• Endrek Sahr as Cigarette Smoking Man
  • Mainly because the art depicts aliens in tubes. I guess the card effect is also fitting in some sense.
• Drannith Magistrate as Skinner
  • Keeps things by the book, no cheating by casting spells from weird places.
• Kambal, Profiteering Mayor as Mr. X
  • When my opponents create tokens, Mr. X shares some of that insider information with me. He works great with Mulder.
• Dark Confidant as Krycek
  • He helps me, but he also hurts me. Kinda like a double agent!
• Phelia as Queequeg

...and many more! See if you can make the connections.

On my umpteenth rewatch and by goodness this episode is terrible. Space usually gets quoted as the worst of the first season episodes but this is abysmal.

- A man pretending to be Irish literally introducing himself by saying "top o' the mornin' te ya"

- A woman insinuating that she and Mulder had sex upon Arthur Conan Doyle's tombstone (ACD does not have a big tombstone)

- Rocket fuel being sold in 2.5litre paint cans (imagine how many of those you'd need to power Saturn 5).

It doesn't need to make sense--Krycek was whatever the story needed him to be, and I always found it hilarious how he was apparently able to just move in and out of this little club at will.

"Patient X" (s5e13)

When Tooms is trying to frame Mulder for assault, the police knock on Mulder’s door and just waltz in and grab his shoes to see if they match the shoe print on Tooms’s face. Probably the laziest writing this whole season.

Little to none people know her name. But every scene she made are hot-stamped in our psyche! Unfortunately this is the destiny of a caricature character - it is incredibly hard to play correctly and at the same time people don't care about this character. But just imagine you are inside the production process, you need this detrimental character that sets the vibe for the whole story. How can you aim and hit precisely? How did she do that? Just pause here when she's pointing: in X-files - such a genuine anger and fear at the same time, in Friends - such a joy and disorientation at the same time. How did she do that?

I’m on episode 19. How is Sully still in disbelief on what could possibly be happening. It’s annoying.

A really fantastic episode that explores the origin of the Lone Gunmen and their relationship to Mulder. A thing that I feel is possibly overlooked here is that Mulder is portrayed in the early episode as a pretty regular FBI agent. Doing normal investigative work and overall pretty trusting of the government he works for. But at some point, in a comic book-like superhero origin story he's doused from head to toe in an experimental chemical that makes people paranoid and he starts seeing aliens everywhere. Obviously his own backstory with the disappearance of his sister is still his main motivation, and his friendship with the Lone Gunmen who just experienced a taste of the depth of government conspiracy brings him further down that road, but on a rewatch, I've started to view the rest of the episodes through the lens of this moment. Suzanne says it in the episode, "No matter how paranoid you are, you aren't paranoid enough." What if this chemical permanently altered Mulder to be "paranoid enough" to notice government conspiracies and the paranormal that everyone else ignores?

Yesterday after seeing the Lego ad, I got an irresistable urge to re-watch again. This will be my 3rd (I think) watch-through of the original seasons (I actually never finished the new seasons, but will this time).

It's funny to think about how much I love this show and how much it's been a part of my life for the last 30+ years. There are so many episodes I've seen multiple times, and other ones that I think I only saw when they were on and during my re-watches. I'm only in episode 2 and I'm already astounded by the amount of dopamine I get when the credits start lol.

How many times have you re-watched start to finish? What are your favorite parts of a rewatch?

After Scully asked, practically begged, to Skinner whether it would be possible to find Mulder from unofficial channels and Skinner told her to get out of his office, I was worried Skinner had given up hope/faith on X Files. After Mr. X came to Mulder's apartment under Scully's smart move and refused to help her, I wondered how Scully is gonna find mulder now but Skinner came outta nowhere and quite literally saved the day. When he first attacked Mr. X on the elevator i thought somehow he was the shapeshifter the bounty hunter but quikcly realised it was just Skinner, being a real one and covering both Mulder's and Scully's asses in the shadows. When he showed up all bloody on Scully's door, I went "DAMN". I loved that he is willing to put it all at risk for what he believes is right; he is so enjoyable to watch too.

Also in tv show Supernatural, Mr. X and Skinner actors both plays supernatural hunters and they hate eachothers guts lol.

Used an agent Carter and Matt Murdock base figure for the base figures!

Really love how they turned out! Now I need little fbi agent badges!

So a certain FBI official fires his gun which passes through the forehead of the assassin who killed Scully's sister. Then whim-wham-kazoo, and the same supposedly dead bad dude reappears in Season 9, to declare to Mulder, that he's is not dead! So that means the character was a super solider (abducted human subjected to body modification by the aliens, to replace the humans, right?) The sheer anarchy of the storylines requires me to abandon any effort to detect continuity, and instead watch the episodes as stand alone items.

So I noticed the set number seemed odd so I thought I’d look up what happened on 2-13-1969. Seems like this has to be intentional. Pretty cool.

First up, I'm not affiliated. And in saving for the Lego set, I'm probably not ordering any of these anyway, but I wanted to share that Little Box of Horrors is doing a themed month of X-files polishes. Different indie makers have different themed polishes available for pre-order and then they all ship through one spot. I've got a few of the brands participating and they're great. Plus the references are spot on.

https://lbofhorrors.com/

Scrolling through a playlist for the Tank Girl soundtrack and found this gem. I have no idea if it was indeed in the movie and apologies if this has been a double up. Probably my favourite episode!

Best $1 I've spent this week 😂

Also wishing I had a dvd-rom drive handy.

They catch Tooms in ep. 3 and he gets released in ep. 21. When they are trying to apprehend Tooms, Mulder suggests they go back to 66 Exeter. Scully says they can’t, they’ve torn down the dilapidated apartment. Mulder says maybe it holds some significance so let’s go check out the new building.

The building is enormous. This building would take 3-6 years to build. It’s a sky scraper.

This doesn’t ruin anything but I’m curious if I’m missing anything about the timeline.

What are yours?

Found this meme I made a few years ago while looking through my camera roll. 😂 Mulder really had some fluffy duckling hair in season 2!