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Favorite episode ?



Just recently i saw the episode directed and written by Stephen King. That is a great episode which reminds me why vintage x-files and Mulder & Skully will always rule the fake ass police show scene. That episode has to be one of my favorites, i always like the " guest " director episodes, because everytime someone else comes in, it gives the show a whole new feel ... The characters have new attitudes, and different feels, and the camera work is always different. The X-Files has always been one of my favorite in TV cinematography, they've always been nearly perfect after about season 3 ... a close runner up second for favorite would have to be the episode written by David D. i belive. Its done with two cameras side by side, all in one take. They're running around a ship that goes into the past, and theres an ancestor of Skully, and one of Mulder, and they're trying to get to eachother while running around this strange time zoned ship ... mostlikely the best camera work ive ever seen done on TV.

One of the episodes of the first season, some rapists are "mangled" while attempting to rape a woman, but it turns out she is being protected by her former boss's ghost, who died recently and is haunting her and playing havoc with her life.
Our dynamic duo is on the case, and in the end they find out who killed the woman's boss.

Personaly, I think X-Files was cool until the secret is revealed, the two-part episode when Mulder and Scully discover the warehouse when their tissue samples, after that everything's the same. I stopped watching after an episode where some bugs where in fact robots that had invaded Earth (several scenes including cockroaches entering several person's bodies, I had trouble sleeping that night...).

aphexmonster wrote:Favorite episode ?



Just recently i saw the episode directed and written by Stephen King. That is a great episode which reminds me why vintage x-files and Mulder & Skully will always rule the fake ass police show scene. That episode has to be one of my favorites, i always like the " guest " director episodes, because everytime someone else comes in, it gives the show a whole new feel ... The characters have new attitudes, and different feels, and the camera work is always different. The X-Files has always been one of my favorite in TV cinematography, they've always been nearly perfect after about season 3 ... a close runner up second for favorite would have to be the episode written by David D. i belive. Its done with two cameras side by side, all in one take. They're running around a ship that goes into the past, and theres an ancestor of Skully, and one of Mulder, and they're trying to get to eachother while running around this strange time zoned ship ... mostlikely the best camera work ive ever seen done on TV.

I saw that one too. I also enjoy the episodes that involve the Lone Gunmen, my favorite minor characters ever.

Dalton wrote: I saw that one too. I also enjoy the episodes that involve the Lone Gunmen, my favorite minor characters ever.

I liked the lone gunmen, but i didn't like their TV show, their involvment with melinium, and the x-files were cool... them by themselves i thought was silly

Warspite wrote: I stopped watching after an episode where some bugs where in fact robots that had invaded Earth (several scenes including cockroaches entering several person's bodies, I had trouble sleeping that night...).

That's actually one of my favorites. "Was it a girlish scream?"

The ones with Charles Nelson Riley's character were absolute classics. And his crossover in Millenium, where they lampoon Scientology without mercy is a high point in television history. The "onanograph", ,it's funny because it's true!

aphexmonster wrote:Favorite episode ?

My favorite was the one in the middle of nowhere in the woods,
where the loggers keep getting killed by glowing green insects...

2nd Runner up was the one where they end up on the ghost ship,
and age prematurely...

3rd Runner up - My very first X Files Episode - the 1st TOOMS episode

Season 3 rocked.

War of the Coprophages - the Cockroach episode that doesn't take itself at all seriously.

Jose Chungs "From Outer Space" - its a book about B-movie type aliens set in an X-Files episode that is the basis of the book. Huh?

And then you have the classic in Season 5.

Bad Blood - the town of Vampires, told from 2 different P.O.V's.

Oh and of course:

Season 9, though average for the most part we had the outstanding:

Mr Burt - Burt Reynolds as a number obsessed, salsa dancing god trying to get a serial killer's attention. Truly fucked up and wonderfully hilarious.

Season 6.

X-Cops - Its "Cops" with the X-files crew hunting a Waspman/werewolf/freddy krueger/hanta virii...

The episode about the vampires that was told from both Mulder and Scully's POV would be my favorite. "Shoot out the tires of a moving vehicle is not as easy as it looks."

I also liked the one where Alex Trebec and Jessie Ventura were Men in Black.

I liked several one shot monster episodes. Especially the Flukeman. he was just plain neat!

Grrrr Flukeman scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. That guy was one nasty motherfucker.
~Jason

Mark S wrote:The episode about the vampires that was told from both Mulder and Scully's POV would be my favorite. "Shoot out the tires of a moving vehicle is not as easy as it looks."

I also liked the one where Alex Trebec and Jessie Ventura were Men in Black.

The vampire episode was cool because both perspectives were hella different, but it was still the same story

Soontir wrote:Grrrr Flukeman scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. That guy was one nasty motherfucker.
~Jason

I was scared to use the bathroom for a wekk after that episode and my dad, the practical joker that he is, didn't help with my problem one bit

My favorite episodes have always been the ones where it wasn't completely serious. Jose Chung's from outer Space, though, is my absolute favorite. I almost died when I lost my old VHS copy of it. Then I bought the seasonal sets and stopped worrying

Besides From Outer Space, my fabvorite episode was the character study of Cancer Man, showing that he was after all, a frustrated writer!

Then my other fave is the most fucked up episode of all- the one where the three brothers live in the civil war era house with their mother!

I'll never listen to that song they kept playing the same way again!

Lord Poe wrote:Then my other fave is the most fucked up episode of all- the one where the three brothers live in the civil war era house with their mother!

Those motherfuckers!

Frank Hipper wrote:

Lord Poe wrote:Then my other fave is the most fucked up episode of all- the one where the three brothers live in the civil war era house with their mother!

Those motherfuckers!

LOL!!

Lord Poe wrote:

Frank Hipper wrote:

Lord Poe wrote:Then my other fave is the most fucked up episode of all- the one where the three brothers live in the civil war era house with their mother!

Those motherfuckers!

LOL!!

The episode you refer to is "Home." It was a very good episode.

However, I think that my favorite would be the first one I ever saw: "Detour." Not because it was the best episode, but because it got me into the series.

Yep the one Poe mentioned was good. My favourite episodes are always the ones written by Glen Morgan and James Wong *cough*Space: Above and Beyond *cough*. Mainly because their last three for the X-Files featured the lead actors from S:AAB after it was canceled.

Also I loved the cockroach one, the sexual tension between Mulder and Scully was defenetly upped a notch with the female cockroach expert (wasn't her name Bambi?)!

Darkness (the glowing green bugs)

Stretch and Tombs taken together

and the one in the arcti with the worms that make you insane.

I liked the Lone Gunmen series.

Another cool one was the two-parter where Mulder switched bodies with that Area 51 brass played by Michael McKean. Just watching him as Mulder trying to score with Scully was golden

The Baseball Episode rocked. The Alien who loved the game so much he wouldn't go back.

A pitcher from a rival team chucks a baseball player at a Klasnmans head, they take of the klan hood and its an alien!!!!!!

Teddy Tooms I & II

My 2 favorite eps were where Mulder and Scully pose as a married couple to infiltrate some community. That and the one where Mulder and the Area 51 guy switch bodies.

I loved the Lone Gunmen series, I missed the series finale due to my 10th grade formal, I was annoyed.

Darth Fanboy wrote:The Baseball Episode rocked. The Alien who loved the game so much he wouldn't go back.

A pitcher from a rival team chucks a baseball player at a Klasnmans head, they take of the klan hood and its an alien!!!!!!

That episode was so sad... that one was written by David Ducovany(sp) ...





Holi fuck... i forgot about the episode where they let bruce cambel play satan ... that at least deserves some mention. The old man is great for any part.