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Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

Watched another x-files or two yesterday...one was pretty good, still very early in the series...was about the agents going to an arctic research centre where they found that an alien organism had been hiding out deep in the ice, it would infect people and make them kill each other...saw it moving around in their necks...bit reminiscent of "The Thing", if I didn't know better I'd say it was an intentional nod.

I fell asleep for the one after it - but it seemed like one of those unimportant episodes to the overall series, which I'm finding a lot of season 1 actually is.
Seems like the best parts of the show are the current standalone "creepy" kind of episodes.

None of the big conspiracy stuff has started yet.

Lots of faces I recognise from other things and shows...Seth Green was in the second episode, I've seen a guy from Seinfeld, and a couple from Sons of Anarchy, and from what I understand about 5-6 people from Breaking Bad make appearances, including three of the core cast.

But yeah, from recollection, season 2-3 is where the show really picks up...so I will keep watching.

Hah. Neat. Started rewatching too. Yes, the stand alone episodes are usually the best. My favorite is probably the one with Lily Tomlin and some other respected actor playing ghosts in a haunted house Skully and Mulder visit on Christmas Eve.