Writer's Block: The X-Files Birthday
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My absolute favorite episode would have to be Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" - the alien gray smoking a cigarette in a cage, a Jesse "The Body" Ventura cameo as a Man-In-Black, the odd little multi-person narrative that frames both the absurdity as well as the sheer wonder of conspiracy culture in general and to top it off the image of Agent Mulder, laying in bed at the end of the day, casually watching the Patterson-Gimlin Sasquatch film the way most folks would watch the Tonight Show sums up the character perfectly for me.
Second Place: "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" - what can I say? I just love a good villain origin story (this one done as a sort of evil version of Forrest Gump). That and the fact that we see how the X-Files-verse crosses over with some of the more pressing conspiracies of our real world (JFK, MLK and even the Gulf War) lent the series a certain gravity, adding to the illusion that the show could be happening somewhere in the shadows of the 'real world'.
Favorite X-Files Scene: The one where we see the zombies come out of their graves at the end of the episode and they begin dancing with each other. I'm pretty sure it was a sort of 'Dream Sequence' but it still makes me laugh to this day.
Worst episode: The one where they have to deal with a Genii. Am I remembering this episode right, Mulder gets three wishes and one of them wipes out all life on earth, the second wish restores all life on earth and on the third he free's the genii/spirit? Three wishes and not once does he say "Hey, I have a wish - tell me what the fuck really happened to my sister?"
Favorite Freak(s): I can't find the specific reference but there was this one episode with a family of inbred hillbillies (who at the time struck me as a kind of Faulkner version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre clan). I remember they kept their decrepit, withered, limbless(?) mother underneath a bed in this old house and at the end some of the clan escape in an old cadillac or something to terrorize rural America on the road. Sure the Fluke-Man and the pyrokinetic guy were fun, but the hillbillies from hell just creeped the fuck out of me. If I recall the episode was originally banned(?).
My actual experiences in the Paranormal would be too extensive to list as an addendum here. Some other time perhaps?
My absolute favorite episode would have to be Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" - the alien gray smoking a cigarette in a cage, a Jesse "The Body" Ventura cameo as a Man-In-Black, the odd little multi-person narrative that frames both the absurdity as well as the sheer wonder of conspiracy culture in general and to top it off the image of Agent Mulder, laying in bed at the end of the day, casually watching the Patterson-Gimlin Sasquatch film the way most folks would watch the Tonight Show sums up the character perfectly for me.
Second Place: "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" - what can I say? I just love a good villain origin story (this one done as a sort of evil version of Forrest Gump). That and the fact that we see how the X-Files-verse crosses over with some of the more pressing conspiracies of our real world (JFK, MLK and even the Gulf War) lent the series a certain gravity, adding to the illusion that the show could be happening somewhere in the shadows of the 'real world'.
Favorite X-Files Scene: The one where we see the zombies come out of their graves at the end of the episode and they begin dancing with each other. I'm pretty sure it was a sort of 'Dream Sequence' but it still makes me laugh to this day.
Worst episode: The one where they have to deal with a Genii. Am I remembering this episode right, Mulder gets three wishes and one of them wipes out all life on earth, the second wish restores all life on earth and on the third he free's the genii/spirit? Three wishes and not once does he say "Hey, I have a wish - tell me what the fuck really happened to my sister?"
Favorite Freak(s): I can't find the specific reference but there was this one episode with a family of inbred hillbillies (who at the time struck me as a kind of Faulkner version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre clan). I remember they kept their decrepit, withered, limbless(?) mother underneath a bed in this old house and at the end some of the clan escape in an old cadillac or something to terrorize rural America on the road. Sure the Fluke-Man and the pyrokinetic guy were fun, but the hillbillies from hell just creeped the fuck out of me. If I recall the episode was originally banned(?).
My actual experiences in the Paranormal would be too extensive to list as an addendum here. Some other time perhaps?