After that last movie, I think it's time to put the whole thing to bed.

Cause X-Files 2 was so good right?

bukketmaster: WTF Indeed: X-Files is over. Fringe is here and every other episode doesn't end with men in black suits covering things up.

This. Fringe is what the x-files should have been.


You must be smoking what the dude in the picture is having.

So X-Files 2 sucked. It still wipes its ass with Fringe. I'm surprised that show is still on.

I'm as much of an X-phile as the next girl, but is that really a good idea?

Bluemookie: Never saw fringe. Might have heard of it, but never checked it out. Do they deal with aliens, vampires and demonic possession too? Or is it just another CSI wannabe show like I initially thought? Please, get back to me on this. I need something new to watch with Breaking Bad season 4 ending soon.

On a scale between X-Files and CSI, Fringe is very close to X-Files.

The cases are plenty absurd. But not too absurd.

... same goes for the characters, now that I think about it.

Fringe's first season was pretty weak. They kept referring to some over-arching construct called "The Pattern," and how everything they encountered somehow fit into it.

The second and third seasons saw it get much more interesting. They have ditched The Pattern and have let a few stray dogs of subplots die. The result is a much tighter and impactful show.

I was a big fan of X-Files, but after about 5 years it had clearly run its course. Stuck around too long and the movies were ass.

Bluemookie: So, is it more like Millennium? More crime solving and end of the world stuff but not as much supernatural? Miss that show. Sucks that they pulled the plug before they got to the real finale.

If you compare it that way, it's probably more CSI than Millenium :-)

It's more case-based, and more "official FBI investigation with quirky civilians".

Yeah, I don't get the outright hate for the second one either. I enjoyed it, and I thought the case was pretty creepy.

Sybarite: After that last movie, I think it's time to put the whole thing to bed.

Done in one.

Peeeeee-youuuuuuu, what a shiatfest that movie was.

I liked X-Files 2

but then again, I was always a fan of the Monster Of The Week episodes.

Bluemookie: So, is it more like Millennium? More crime solving and end of the world stuff but not as much supernatural?

Replace supernatural with appears supernatural and is explained with SCIENCE! Crazy mad science from an honest to goodness mad scientist (spent the last 20 years in a mental institution, and removed pieces of his own brain to prevent him from remembering certain stuff)! Plus a war between dimensions, with a complete alternate dimension timeline of most of the main characters.

AdolfOliverPanties: Fringe's first season was pretty weak. They kept referring to some over-arching construct called "The Pattern," and how everything they encountered somehow fit into it.

The second and third seasons saw it get much more interesting. They have ditched The Pattern and have let a few stray dogs of subplots die. The result is a much tighter and impactful show.

I was a big fan of X-Files, but after about 5 years it had clearly run its course. Stuck around too long and the movies were ass.


The Book of Revelation obsessed agent they introduced in Season 2 luckily went to live with Chuck Cunningham, but to me it always seemed like the Pattern wasn't really abandoned. It seemed more like the whole idea was for the Pattern plot to fade away after it was revealed that the Pattern was Walternate's preparations for the cross-universe war, like it was designed to be a short term mystery, the answer to which would set up future plot lines. They actually did a pretty good job of making many of the early standalone episodes pay off in later seasons (for example, the amber-like substance that was used in the bus attack in season 1 wound up being something Walternate created to plug cracks in his universe).

Bluemookie: You convinced me. Downloading season one now. I'm reserved. Duchovney had a screen presence that I really dug, and nobody ever really got laid on that show, which I also love. Okay, there was that one episode in the last season that showed Mulder waking up at Scully's apartment. I just dislike shows where main characters are constantly trying to get it on. I have porn for that need.

You probably won't like where they go with Peter and Olivia in season 3, but they do at least throw in some romantic hurdles that are fairly fresh.

WTF Indeed: Bluemookie: Okay, so I downloaded the first season and I'm watching the pilot and 2 of leads (I'm assuming they're lead characters) are getting it on in bed within the first 5 minutes? Goddamnitsomuch!

I forgot about that.

Yeah, me too.

Really???

X marks her spot.

Rawr.