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Twenty Years On: The X-Files Premier September 10, 1993
Self ^ | 9/10/13 | Joe 6-pack

Posted on 09/10/2013 3:02:23 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack

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To: Joe 6-pack

It makes me sad as to how much time has gone by.

This show was such a huge part of my teen years. It was also the official start to the weekend. After X-files, where I lived, Deep Space 9 came on right after. Then if it was a clear night, I went right outside with my telescope until the early morning. So much fun!

It may be time to fire up the first episode this Friday to live that time again.


21 posted on 09/10/2013 3:35:36 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Joe 6-pack
I believe Peter Boyle won an emmy for that episode...

I believe you are correct.

22 posted on 09/10/2013 3:39:10 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: VanDeKoik

Yep. 20 years have gone by quickly...


23 posted on 09/10/2013 3:40:17 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Sure, rub it in. We’re getting old.


24 posted on 09/10/2013 3:40:28 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
"Yep. 20 years have gone by quickly...


25 posted on 09/10/2013 4:01:21 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: bgill

Ooops. My #25 was meant to be a reply to you...


26 posted on 09/10/2013 4:02:58 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Klemper
"I absolutely love this show, still today!"

I own all 9 seasons on dvd. It's my favorite show ever...which I know doesn't make it the "best show ever," but I think a good case can be made for putting it in the tope five or ten.

27 posted on 09/10/2013 4:08:40 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Should have known this was you;-)


28 posted on 09/10/2013 4:20:12 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Joe 6-pack

Dana sure made it easy to watch....meow ;)


29 posted on 09/10/2013 4:30:27 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: Joe 6-pack
Hasn't been a show equal to the X-Files yet, imho.

Running out of plot lines caught up with it however, kind of what happened to "24" also.

30 posted on 09/10/2013 4:35:39 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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31 posted on 09/10/2013 4:37:26 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: The Cajun
"Running out of plot lines caught up with it however..."

I agree with the overall story arc, and yet some of the very best singular episodes were in the final seasons. The episode with Burt Reynolds as God was a near perfect X-Files episode, and the show where Doggett gets closure on his son's death was especially powerful.

32 posted on 09/10/2013 4:40:11 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

She’s something else...man oh man.


33 posted on 09/10/2013 4:42:56 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: Joe 6-pack
Liked the *Lone Gunmen* bunch, they gave it some weird comic relief, didn't like the way they ended up though.

Cigarette Smoking Man, classic villain at his best, the grand manipulator.

34 posted on 09/10/2013 4:46:02 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: Perdogg

Thanks for the ping. I recently checked out “The Lone Gunmen” series from the library. It was good even better than most Xfiles episodes.

I also checked out the entire Xfiles series and only watched the x-files ‘mythology’ episodes. That made it watchable, whereas the stupid monster-of-the-week episodes were what made me NOT watch it originally...


35 posted on 09/10/2013 4:49:42 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: The Cajun

Yes...the cigarette smoking man was one of the best TV Villains ever.


36 posted on 09/10/2013 4:54:39 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I might have to watch the series. It will be a lot given that I’ve never watched a single episode.


37 posted on 09/10/2013 5:05:31 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Start at the beginning and don’t jump around. It’s that tightly written, and the characters grow and develop so it will seem disjointed if you watch episodes out of sequence.


38 posted on 09/10/2013 5:08:41 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Axenolith

Haha, That’s ‘Home, Pa” or something like that.

I know someone who got a job delivering phonebooks while they were in a nearby college, one of placed they had to go was ‘Home’ Pa. They said it was pretty rough.

Freegards


39 posted on 09/10/2013 5:12:17 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

I grew up 8 miles south of Home, PA. Loved Sheriff Andy Griffith in that episode :-)


40 posted on 09/10/2013 5:15:39 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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