Okay, Erik said he was in. So that means Greta is in. And Ryan. Three people besides me is all I needed

If you're not one of those three, you could still participate.

Let me tell you how we're gonna do it.

We will be rewatching The X-Files. Five episodes every week.

I will open a thread for every episode, you can write notes while watching it or whatever you want.

If you really hate an episode, you can decide to skip it and just write down what you thought of it.
I will be watching all of them though, even Space


The Episodes:

WEEK ONE
The Pilot
Deep Throat
Squeeze
Conduit
The Jersey Devil

WEEK TWO
Shadows
Ghost In The Machine
Ice
Space
Fallen Angel

WEEK THREE
Eve
Fire
Beyond The Sea
Gender Bender
Lazarus

WEEK FOUR
Young At Heart
E.B.E.
Miracle Man
Shapes
Darkness Falls

WEEK FIVE
Tooms
Born Again
Roland
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Little Green Men

WEEK SIX
The Host
Blood
Sleepless
Duane Barry
Ascension

WEEK SEVEN
3
One Breath
Firewalker
Red Museum
Excelsis Dei

WEEK EIGHT
Aubrey
Irresistible
Die Hand Die Verletzt
Fresh Bones
Colony

WEEK NINE
End Game
Fearful Symmetry
Dod Kalm
Humbug
The Calusari

WEEK TEN
F. Emasculata
Soft Light
Our Town
Anasazi
The Blessing Way

WEEK ELEVEN
Paper Clip
D.P.O.
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
The List
2Shy

WEEK TWELVE
The Walk
Oubliette
Nisei
731
Revelations

WEEK THIRTEEN
War Of The Coprophages
Syzygy
Grotesque
Piper Maru
Apocrypha

WEEK FOURTEEN
Pusher
Teso Dos Bichos
Hell Money
Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Avatar

WEEK FIFTEEN
Quagmire
Wetwired
Talitha Cumi
Herrenvolk
Home

WEEK SIXTEEN
Teliko
Unruhe
The Field Where I Died
Sanguinarium
Musings Of A Cigarette-Smoking Man

WEEK SEVENTEEN
Tunguska
Terma
Paper Hearts
El Mundo Gira
Leonard Betts

WEEK EIGHTEEN
Never Again
Memento Mori
Kaddish
Unrequited
Tempus Fugit

WEEK NINETEEN
Max
Synchrony
Small Potatoes
Zero Sum
Elegy

WEEK TWENTY
Demons
Gethsemane
Redux I
Redux II
Unusual Suspects

WEEK TWENTY ONE
Detour
The Post-Modern Prometheus
Christmas Carol
Emily
Kitsunegari

WEEK TWENTY TWO
Schizogeny
Chinga
Kill Switch
Bad Blood
Patient X

WEEK TWENTY THREE
The Red And The Black
Travelers
Mind's Eye
All Souls
The Pine Bluff Variant

WEEK TWENTY FOUR
Folie A Deux
The End
Fight The Future
The Beginning

WEEK TWENTY FIVE
Drive
Triangle
Dreamland I
Dreamland II
How The Ghost Stole Christmas

WEEK TWENTY SIX
Terms Of Endearment
The Rain King
S.R. 819
Tithonus
Two Fathers

WEEK TWENTY SEVEN
One Son
Agua Mala
Monday
Arcadia
Alpha

WEEK TWENTY EIGHT
Trevor
Milagro
The Unnatural
Three Of A Kind
Field Trip

WEEK TWENTY NINE
Biogenesis
The Sixth Extinction I
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
Hungry
Millennium

WEEK THIRTY
Rush
The Goldberg Variation
Orison
The Amazing Maleeni
Sings & Wonders

WEEK THIRTY ONE
Sein Und Zeit
Closure
X-Cops
First Person Shooter
Theef

WEEK THIRTY TWO
En Ami
Chimera
All Things
Brand X
Hollywood A.D.

WEEK THIRTY THREE
Fight Club
Je Souhaite
Requiem
Within
Without

WEEK THIRTY FOUR
Patience
Roadrunners
Invocation
Redrum
Via Negativa

WEEK THIRTY FIVE
Surekill
Salvage
Badlaa
The Gift
Medusa

WEEK THIRTY SIX
Per Manum
This Is Not Happening
DeadAlive
Three Words
Empedocles

WEEK THIRTY SEVEN
Vienen
Alone
Essence
Existence
Nothing Important Happened Today I

WEEK THIRTY EIGHT
Nothing Important Happened Today II
Deamonicus
4-D
Lord Of The Flies
Trust No 1

WEEK THIRTY NINE
John Doe
Hellbound
Provenance
Providence
Audrey Paulie

WEEK FOURTY
Underneath
Improbable
Scary Monsters
Jump The Shark
William

WEEK FOURTY ONE
Release
Sunshine Day
The Truth I
The Truth II
I Want To Believe


And if you want to participate but don't have the dvds, you could watch some episodes here;

(Best quality, but I recommend downloading them)
[web]http://www.ninjavideo.net/cat/430[/web]

(click)
http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/television/The_X-Files.html

Season 1

JD wrote:Season 1 wasn't a great season, perhaps 'good' is also overrating it.
I mean, I do like it. But there is little to no real plot and most episodes are just... good. It's all just... good.
Honestly, if this were the first time I watched it, I might stop watching.

Season 1 average: **.83

Erik wrote:Season one was not nearly as good as I remember it. It had some good episodes, and great episodes, but also had a lot of episodes that aren't that good. The mythology isn't nearly as good as the later seasons, especially once you've seen the series already. It is mainly just vague suggestions of aliens and government conspiracies. While future seasons are still vague most of the time, it's nothing compared to this season.

While it wasn't the best start to a series, it it wasn't the worst either. There were some really good episodes, including one of the best of the series ("Beyond The Sea"), and there are more good episodes than bad ones (although it is close).

Season 1 average: **.79

Greta wrote:Here's my review for every season.
I liked it.

Season 1 average: **.92

Ryan wrote:Season one wasn't very good to be honest. It introduced the main characters and some we will see later. I kinda wish the mythology had been bigger, but it is fine since the show got better.

Season 1 average: ***.12

Average: **.92

Season 2

JD wrote:A pretty huge improvement over Season 1.
The first couple of episodes were great, because they were completely different. Mulder and Scully weren't together anymore, which made the writers make new directions and new characters.

However, once they were back together it got a little like Season 1 again. The second half of the Season was not nearly as strong as the first half. Though still enjoyable.

Season 2 Average: ***.44

Season 3

JD wrote:With the Second Season being a huge improvement over the first, The Third is a huge improvement over the second.

Scully actually got to do more stuff besides being the Skeptic all the time. She got her own storylines, like her sister's death. She really starts to blossom and show her character's potential in this season. And Gillian Anderson also gets really, really hawt.

David Duchovny's acting also starts to improve big time, he's still not great at drama. but he managed to portray his character in a believable way unlike in some of the first Season.

The mythology grows, the show starts to have more lighter episodes. including two of the greatest of the entire show.

Yeah, Season 3 was a very strong year. and the most acclaimed one.

Season 3 Average: ***.67

Desmond Hume wrote:I will be watching all of them though, even Space

I will be watching all of them, even Fight Club.

Frank_Black wrote:

Desmond Hume wrote:I will be watching all of them though, even Space

I will be watching all of them, even Fight Club.

Space is worse

I've seen Fight Club only three times

No way is Space worse than Fight Club!

Yes way

They should use Space to torture people

Space is bad, but compared to Fight Club, it's as great as some of the best X-Files episodes.

haaah. no way

I think someone would die if he/she had to watch Space, Fight Club, Badlaa, Chinga and Ghost In The Machine on the same day.

Those last 3 aren't in the same league as the first two. >.>

what's your third least favorite?

Hmm.. Not sure. But I don't think that any other episode is in that league of crappiness.

I think Chinga and Baldaa are somewhat close

But Space is still the furthest down the pit of shit.

Maybe for you...

Will this include the movie?

Both

Once we're done with Seaosn 9, I think the movie will be out on dvd

Cool.

When is the movie out on dvd?

I'm guessing September, October-ish...

Probably more like Nov - Dec. Since the movie will be in the theater on July 25th. Unless it tanks in the theater then Erik's probably right.

I hope the movie doesn't bomb =\

I do to,

Holy shit, this WILL take us like 10 months


I hope you guys are still here by that time =[[[


I updated the first post with all the episodes we're gonna watch.

How did you not realize that before?
That's part of why I almost didn't say I would participate. As you can see I'm already having trouble keeping up.

We should have a break some where in there =\

gmvail23 wrote:How did you not realize that before?
That's part of why I almost didn't say I would participate. As you can see I'm already having trouble keeping up.

aww

Well, five hours a week is perse not that much.

I understand how it would be difficult if it were 10 episodes a week or something.

Odd Ryan wrote:We should have a break some where in there =\

Yeah, probably. if there's a week where most of us couldn't or something.

but if it's just one person. that person could eventually catch up

besides, if you're really busy. you could just review the episodes or watch them later. IDK. all I really need is the ratings and little reviews.

Hellsing wrote:

gmvail23 wrote:How did you not realize that before?
That's part of why I almost didn't say I would participate. As you can see I'm already having trouble keeping up.

aww

Well, five hours a week is perse not that much.

I understand how it would be difficult if it were 10 episodes a week or something.

The thing is there are other things I want to watch or do more than I want to rewatch The X-Files right now. I started going to the gym in the morning again so anything I do has to be after work. I get home from work between 5 & 6 Monday thru Friday and go to bed between 9 & 10, that doesn't leave much time for cooking, cleaning, reading a few comic, posting and whatever else I have to do at night as well as watching some TV. I can do some watching on the weekends, but during the summer I'm more apt to go out and stuff.
I'll keep watching as I can.

I hope you won't abandon us

but I understand.

Greta has a life

I've always wanted one of those

I won't abandon you guys I just want you to know why I can't keep up. I probably should have said no in and stuck with it, instead of letting you talk me into it.