X Files

[fraserstuart]

watched this last night. i remember the original series omg what a load of absolute rubbish find the zapper quick

[CrapAtCryptics]

I lasted 2 episodes - just the same stuff rehashed with slightly better effects. I hope Heroes: Reborn pans out better.

Keep an eye out for the new Stephen King 11/22/63 first two episodes are lokking worth watching.

[Arksided]

I loved it, very clever to take the rise out of itself the way that did.

[Peter Pedant]

what people do for money and the rent .....

[-SharonA-]

One episode was enough for me. Load of rubbish.

[ummmm]

I got half way through the first one and turned over.

[ivor4781]

i agree with -SharonA-
both actors past their sell by date too
loved the first series

[Arksided]

Horses for courses... A lot of humour in last nights episode, I bet the chat in the graveyard has many out-takes where Mulder and the lizard man (In human form) are chatting.

[Cloverjo]

Which channel was it on? I'd like to watch it. I only saw one or two episodes of the old series.
One that comes to mind is two people dying in a hospital and being brought back to life. Of course, they come back in the wrong bodies. Love it!

[scorpiojo]

Channel 5, 9pm Monday...repeated on 5 + 1 today.

[scorpiojo]

..5 + 24, sorry.

[Cloverjo]

Thanks, scorpiojo.

[scorpiojo]

You're welcome, Cloverjo :)

[Sir Alec]

I enjoyed it.
The twist of the lizard having been bitten by a human, not wanting to be in human form was excellent. His character was very humorous, I thought, especially, as Arksided mentioned, in the graveyard.
I didn't recognize the actor playing the lizard, but he sounded English. Rhys Darby, so maybe he's Welsh? Apparently he was in 'Flight of the Conchords', but I've never seen it.
Also, the sight of the lizard witnessing a human attacking and savaging other humans was amusing. It was obvious to the lizard that he would be blamed for the attacks.
Did nobody else think that the old man, a 'peeping Tom', looking through the stuffed head on the wall, was funny? Especially when the lizard pulled the head off the wall to reveal the old man, screaming!
The TV Times have it as 'Pick of the Day'. As they say, "...This enjoyably silly story has its tongue firmly in its cheek as it follows our heroes chasing down the perpetrator of several grisly murders...Lots of fun, 'Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster' is by far the best episode so far in this six-part X Files revival."

[naomi24]

I recall that the original series sometimes included a bit of a wacky, kind of tongue in cheek, episode, as the latest one was. I love the X-files - old and new.

[viv41]

I too thought it was absolute rubbish fraser - had its day I feel.

[naomi24]

A monster gets bitten by a human, turns into a human, and his first thought is “I’ve got to get a job”. I'm sure I was meant to laugh – and I did. In fact I think Mulder and Scully found it difficult to keep straight faces. Daft - but fun - and I think that was what was intended for that episode. :o)

[viv41]

I didn't watch that episode, it does sound tongue in cheek - may watch the repeat if nothing better to do !

[Sir Alec]

I had forgotten about the 'sex scene' in the shop and wonder how many 'takes' they had to do to stop laughing.
Full credit to Gillian Anderson in that scene, for being so out of character!

[Arksided]

I agree with you Sir Alec, the best of the three so far... before the series started this was the episode I wasn't looking forward to having seen the Lizard-monster in a previews clip. Having Said that I think it's the funniest episode of The X files I've seen. I watched it from the beginning when first aired I only started to lose interest when they Introduced John Doggett but stuck with it.