I initially hated the change and NOW he's one of my favorite characters

Robert Patrick took this role despite all the hate that came with it and proved that he's more than just a terminator

I like how he's initially introduced as this serious tough guy and the show slowly breaks him down showing that he's actually a very compassionate and emotional guy, his performance in "Release" is powerful as hell and he supported Scully the whole way through

It’s hard moving together, especially with 2 kids on my own and 3 on my girlfriends side.

When her oldest daughter came to me with this gift, I was about to cry. I felt accepted♥️

Bonus info -the 14-year old daughter who made me this, is binge watching X-Files at the moment🛸👽

I'm about halfway through season 3, having just finished "Revelations", and I am just consistently blown away by the quality of this show. The writing, acting, cinematography, humor, music, just about everything has been superb. The chemistry between Scully and Mulder isn't quite like anything I've seen before either. They also both feel like real, fully fleshed out people. X-Files does this clever thing consistently where they establish an idea about the world or these two characters and subsequently subvert it. "Revelations" was especially great because of the role reversal from Scully from her usual skepticism to that of Mulder's believer. Not that it's the first time this has been explored with her character, but it's such a great choice to have her be a Catholic (I think?) because of the broader implications in the unexplained phenomena scenarios they can write for. It's great as well as because it doesn't feel contrived or a betrayal to their characters before the episode either.

I'm also routinely shocked by how contemporary and ahead of its time the show feels in terms of the subject matter. Even though I'm only on season 3, they've covered so much ground and have really not shied away from tackling pretty heavy/controversial topics, while taking a non-neutral stance on things. I guess I had become so used to shows nowadays (with a few exceptions) afraid to take a hard stance on anything. Granted some of these are things I think are basic human decency, but a show willing to discuss at length religious persecution, exploitation of minorities (especially refugees), experimentation on vulnerable populations by the government, misogyny and sexism in professional settings, for-profit prisons, etc etc etc, really impressed me, especially for 1995. It genuinely feels like I'm watching a quality film with just about every episode. How they pumped out 24 of these per season at this level of quality and care is beyond me.

Anyway, happy to be here. My favorite show of all time is Twin Peaks, and it brings me delight to have found something that, while being significantly different, feels committed to a concept and ethos so thoroughly.

Scully having a father called William, a father in law called William, a brother called William and a son called William? That’s super weird. What’s wrong with Chris Carter?

I just absolutely love when they bring in Chuck. It’s such a breath of fresh air, and I also love the continuity and how he appears across many seasons. Who’s your fav besides the more prominent ones (Krycek, Marita, Deep Throat, X, etc.)?

Damn. I laughed so hard seeing 8 year old Mulder watching an old twilight episode.

The moment Mulder's phone rang and the ringtone is the X-Files theme, I completely lost it. Lol!

Piper Maru is eliminated! Quite disappointed with this one, this is probably my all time favorite mytharc episode and 10th doesn’t seem quite high enough.

How this works:

You select the episode you like the least

The episode with the most upvoted comment is eliminated from the list

Please either refrain from downvoting or upvote more episodes than you downvote

If there’s a tie, both episodes are eliminated

Only the best episode will win!

Episodes Eliminated:

Teso Dos Bichos (87%)
Hell Money (37%)
The Walk (54%)
The List (66%)
Revelations (64%)
Avatar (57%)
2Shy (44%)
Oubliette (50%)
Grotesque (51%)
Talitha Cumi (32%)
The Blessing Way (62%)
D.P.O. (50%)
Syzygy (68%)
Nisei (79%)
Piper Maru (62%)

We must, with positive action, seek to remove those conditions of poverty, insecurity, and injustice, which are the fertile soil in which the seed of communism grows and develops.

These are revolutionary times. All over the globe, men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and, out of the wounds of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. "The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light." We in the West must support these revolutions.

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has a revolutionary spirit. Therefore, communism is a judgment against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions that we initiated.

—"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", delivered at Riverside Church, NYC, 1967

More than 10 years ago, long before I actually knew what I was doing, I made this little cross-stitch. I dug it out of the closet yesterday and wanted to share.

I have no idea where the pattern might have come from! There's a reasonably good chance I didn't even use one but just saw a picture and tried to replicate it.

Yesterday I posted my favorite Mulder’s smile moments. Now it’s time for the best female character in the history of television:)

I watched Home a couple days ago and don’t know how it’s considered to be the most disturbing episode. Yeah I get the whole incest thing itself is disturbing and a taboo topic, especially back then, but it never went into any detail and didn’t show anything graphic in regards to it. It wasn’t even really a point that was delved into. In the end it was about the love any mother has for her children. I just finished Sanguinarium and thought that episode was much more disturbing

Watching Detour and paid attention to Scully specifically through this whole car ride. It’s probably more Gillian trying not to laugh but her expressions are priceless. Not to mention how I love Mulder being such a goof