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22 Jul 2017, 10:15 pm

Because most people know what the series is about, I won't bother describing it. OK, maybe this brief description from TVTropes:

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FBI physician Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is assigned the task of keeping tabs on Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), a talented detective whose obsession with the paranormal is of grave concern to his superiors. Working out of the Hoover Building basement, Mulder specializes in the Bureau's "X-Files": a collection of cold cases deemed unsolvable due to macabre or taboo elements. While Mulder attributes these elements to the supernatural and extraterrestrial, Scully is a skeptic who attempts to debunk his theories through scientific reasoning. Together they investigate all manner of strange and unusual cases, which over time hint at a massive government conspiracy linked to a series of alien abductions going as far back as the forties.

What does everyone think of the series? I love it. There has been two series made (1993-2002, and a revival that started last year, but is on hiatus as of this message) and two movies "Fight For The Future" (1998) and "I Want to Believe" (2008).

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23 Jul 2017, 10:14 am

I've never seen it, but it definitely looks interesting.

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23 Jul 2017, 12:47 pm

Great programme, best when it goes off on a tangent, enjoyed the new ones!

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23 Jul 2017, 5:18 pm

I think it's great, though I hope they don't drag it on and on with the new ones. I enjoyed the new ones, but everything has to end at some point.

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24 Jul 2017, 1:25 am

It was without a doubt one of the greatest TV series of all time, and one of my all time favorites.

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24 Jul 2017, 1:26 am

EzraS wrote:

I've never seen it, but it definitely looks interesting.

REALLY?!?! You must remedy that, and see what you've been missing!

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24 Jul 2017, 5:04 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I've never seen it, but it definitely looks interesting.

REALLY?!?! You must remedy that, and see what you've been missing!

I haven't seen it either. What have I been missing?

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24 Jul 2017, 5:22 am

KyleTheGhost wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I've never seen it, but it definitely looks interesting.

REALLY?!?! You must remedy that, and see what you've been missing!

I haven't seen it either. What have I been missing?

Seriously? It's only the best horror TV series ever!

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24 Jul 2017, 5:26 am

KyleTheGhost wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I've never seen it, but it definitely looks interesting.

REALLY?!?! You must remedy that, and see what you've been missing!

I haven't seen it either. What have I been missing?

There would've been no Breaking Bad without the X-Files. The creator of Breaking Bad said that writing for the X Files taught him everything. Or something like that.

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24 Jul 2017, 5:35 am

248RPA wrote:

KyleTheGhost wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I've never seen it, but it definitely looks interesting.

REALLY?!?! You must remedy that, and see what you've been missing!

I haven't seen it either. What have I been missing?

There would've been no Breaking Bad without the X-Files. The creator of Breaking Bad said that writing for the X Files taught him everything. Or something like that.

That, and Bryan Cranston, who famously portrayed Walter White/Heisenberg, first became acquainted with the Breaking Bad creator on the X Files set when Cranston had played a paranoid redneck in one episode.

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24 Jul 2017, 2:20 pm

One of my favorite shows :heart:

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25 Jul 2017, 5:50 am

Well, if anyone would like to send me a PM telling me more about The X-Files, please do so. (Spoilers are welcome)

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04 Aug 2017, 2:58 pm

I watched the original series. I loved the first 3 or 4 seasons, but when they got too involved with their alien conspiracy, I lost interest. It was a great show when it was about all sorts of paranormal stuff with standalone episodes. About the last half of the series was a chore to watch, but I kept hoping they would return to form.

I've only seen a few of the new episodes. They seemed okay.

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13 Aug 2017, 8:04 pm

Has anyone else seen this series?

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