I never really watched the original series (the opening theme was enough to scare the bejeesus out of me, I had a very active imagination and didn't need that crap after the simpsons on a sunday night).
Anyone have any specific episode recommendations for a newbie like me? I just want to snipe the best episodes on Netflix, don't think I'll have the time to really take the plunge.
I just watched "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' " and thought they were great, I'll also watch "Home" because 'most disturbing episode of X-files' is something I can get behind. So what other episodes would best round out my X-files experience?
Just watch all three yesterday. Pretty much feels like the x files tv show. I kind of expected a unified storey arc was the a six episode mini series. But you could just randomly spread these episodes out throughout the 90's and nothing would be out of place.
Nothing wrong with it but not the event I was expecting.
I never really watched the original series (the opening theme was enough to scare the bejeesus out of me, I had a very active imagination and didn't need that crap after the simpsons on a sunday night).
Anyone have any specific episode recommendations for a newbie like me? I just want to snipe the best episodes on Netflix, don't think I'll have the time to really take the plunge.
I just watched "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' " and thought they were great, I'll also watch "Home" because 'most disturbing episode of X-files' is something I can get behind. So what other episodes would best round out my X-files experience?
If you don't want to get bogged down in the whole global conspiracy, alien abduction mythology storyline, the stand-alone episodes are probably a better place to start.
I never really watched the original series (the opening theme was enough to scare the bejeesus out of me, I had a very active imagination and didn't need that crap after the simpsons on a sunday night).
Anyone have any specific episode recommendations for a newbie like me? I just want to snipe the best episodes on Netflix, don't think I'll have the time to really take the plunge.
I just watched "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' " and thought they were great, I'll also watch "Home" because 'most disturbing episode of X-files' is something I can get behind. So what other episodes would best round out my X-files experience?
Here's a list of must watch episodes. Included are essential mythology episodes, best of the series but not part of the mythology, and episodes that are not essential but connect to the mythology. There's a lot to watch there but this list helps to cut through a lot of the not so great episodes the series had to offer.
Yeah something felt just a little off about yesterday's episode. Premise was cool, and the monster was super creepy, the gore was surprisingly....gory. I think it was maybe all the stuff with Scully's mom being intertwined with it that left it feeling kinda meh? Really not sure.
I thought it was pretty good. Some chuckles peppered in there. I'd agree it wasn't especially memorable though.
I liked the idea of the 'tulpa', I read a creepypasta about tulpas about a year ago that was entertaining, and looked up more about the subject. There's a whole group of people that actually believe in the subject and that they have created these companions. Just seems like a good way to encourage schizophrenia to me, but like anything new age, some people take it pretty seriously.
They never got him. And they couldn't, cause he wasn't physical. I guess the resolution takes place in the fact that Scully told the guy that created him he made him then ignored him and so, he was just as bad as the people he was ranting against. (Our throwaway culture, etc.)
But, the guy then remolded the head of the model making it a big happy face before he left his den, obviously upset about his actions. So whether this will change the tulpa or not, is up to the viewer I guess. The people in this particular conflict are dead, so does the thought form go to other towns to stick up for the homeless? Would he disappear cause he's no longer needed here? Did the changing of the model change his form, changing him from a vengeance driven monster to something happy?
It's a ghost story, doesn't always have a clear resolution.
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That's what I got from it. The homeless guy controlling them said they are dying out and decomposing and won't last long. How would you even catch something like the trashman?
That's what I got from it. The homeless guy controlling them said they are dying out and decomposing and won't last long. How would you even catch something like the trashman?
I think when he said that, he was talking about the other thought forms in his den. Like the one that lunged out in front of Mulder and Scully when they were exploring the area. Cause he did add after that, that the trashman was different. More permanent. That he had lost control of him in a sense. Which is part of what prompted Scully to say what she did at the end of the conversation.
Which is why he felt the need to change the model at the end. He didn't want the trashman going around killing anyone anymore. Though, I think it's up to the viewer to decide if it worked or not (or even matters).
I think when he said that, he was talking about the other thought forms in his den. Like the one that lunged out in front of Mulder and Scully when they were exploring the area. Cause he did add after that, that the trashman was different. More permanent. That he had lost control of him in a sense. Which is part of what prompted Scully to say what she did at the end of the conversation.
Which is why he felt the need to change the model at the end. He didn't want the trashman going around killing anyone anymore. Though, I think it's up to the viewer to decide if it worked or not (or even matters).
Interesting point. I kind of feel like the trashman may make another appearance in the series. It seemed to me that they were alluding to the materials used to make the trashman as extraterrestrial and I wonder where they go with that. If the trashman was "different" will he return as a force for the greater good (fight government cross breading alien DNA).
I think it was more of a monster of the week episode, with the only recurring plot line being that about their son, whom I'm sure is going to show up by the finale, but you could be right.
He didn't use any materials to make the trashman. He used materials to make the model, clay mostly (and that's how it got the bandage nose, he mentioned he used a bandage to keep the nose on the model) but the trashman himself was a purely mental construct. Kinda like when someone meditates on a totem, or image. Except, it became real. Which is what the myth of the 'tulpa' is about. Creating a entity from pure will through meditation.
I think it was more of a monster of the week episode, with the only recurring plot line being that about their son, whom I'm sure is going to show up by the finale, but you could be right.
He didn't use any materials to make the trashman. He used materials to make the model, clay mostly (and that's how it got the bandage nose, he mentioned he used a bandage to keep the nose on the model) but the trashman himself was a purely mental construct. Kinda like when someone meditates on a totem, or image. Except, it became real. Which is what the myth of the 'tulpa' is about. Creating a entity from pure will through meditation.
I think the son has already made an appearance. The young janitor from one of the first episodes who was seen sliding across the from of Scully and Mulder's car.
I think the son has already made an appearance. The young janitor from one of the first episodes who was seen sliding across the from of Scully and Mulder's car.
Did you not finish watching that episode? They went to that kid's house, brought him into custody and then brought him to that lab where he met his sister, blow out the windows, kill the bad guy doctor and off they ran.
Definitely not Mulder and Scully's son.
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