Posted on 09/10/2013 3:02:23 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
One of the better episodes was when Ponce de Leon’s men had found the fountain of youth but it changed them.
It was supposedly set the the Appalachicola national Forest, which is S/W of Tallahassee. I remember thinking that the area didn’t look that much like NW Florida. Probably filmed in BC.
I think that’s one thing that contributed to the show’s appeal. Because they were able to set the episodes all over the country, people would say, “Hey, this episode is just a few counties over.” While it was not obviously shot on all those locations, it still played into local folklore and struck a chord with viewers all around the country.
One of my favorite shows. Loved it. It may have had conservative/libertarian ideas but I loved screaming at Mulder/Skully “NO YOU CANNOT COME IN! YOU DON’T HAVE A WARRANT YOU F#CKING FEDS!” :)
Of course we were right...things never were the same after that, in regards to those youthful bonds and friendships we'd built all those years, but when I was in Korea, and the X-Files was on AFN, I watched it every week. When that episode came on, and it scrolled "Home, PA" on the screen, I was right back there in my mind :-)
Yep...I was in law enforcement at the time and would trouble shoot some of their procedures. I chalked it up to artistic license...but then again, do monsters have Constitutional rights?
You and me, both, yarddog.
And that is exactly the kind of chemistry I think we all want with another person in real life. Am I right?
Long live Mulder and Scully!
Southern California thing. It sounds weird to us Bay Area natives, too. It may have migrated up and down the coast by now, though.
I heard the, “the,” used a few times during a brief stay in the Portland/Astoria, OR area, as well as in and around LA. I just assumed it was an entire west coast thing. Must have been a few transplants I ran into up in OR.
Probably the Locusts. They descended on my home state, voted to screw it all up, wondered why things got so out of hand, and now they’re moving up to Oregon and Washington to do the same there. Been going on for a long time now.
the first 5 seasons rocked...but then it got goofy. Thank heavens Scully stayed stunning.
That’s wonderful! I do hope they pursue the project, something to look forward to!
I particularly like this quote from the article:
“And almost every episode featured the tagline “The Truth Is Out There,” meaning not only that the truth might be found in unusual places but that there was in fact an objective truth that could be found, despite what the postmodernists want us to believe.”
There’s so much more in this review, that I must urge everyone who has ever had an interest in “The X Files” to read it. Thanks, Joe.
http://takimag.com/article/the_truth_about_the_x-files/print#ixzz2edNz3ojF
Rush Limbaugh often explains the early popularity of his show relating that all he was doing was saying the things people were already thinking.
That kind of sums up how I felt when I read that article...There was always something I liked about the X-Files, but just couldn’t put my finger on. When I read that, I kept thinking, “yeah, that’s right! I noticed that, but never thought of it in those terms.”
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I guess that's the definition of a gifted communicator. It's a rare talent.
Actually it's CS Lewis's definition of friendship:
""Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
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I love that.
30 Year Bump!
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