The X-Files Final Friday Feature: Favourites

Before I get to the second movie (that'll be on Monday), I might as well go through the series and talk about some of my favourites. I feel like such lists would have been made a lot in 2002, and since the movie didn't come out until six years later, I don't think there's much left to be revealed that would influence my list or anyone else's. I can list things I really liked, and maybe a few things I really didn't, and I'll write about I Want To Believe next week.

The X-Files Friday Feature: When Television Series Go Bad

Boy is this ever a good time to talk about how most shows run at least a season too long.

The X-Files Friday Feature: The Springfield Files

Yup, I've finally seen 'The Springfield Files'.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Sports

Yeah, sure, why not? We've seen enough references to Mulder being a sports fan, plus one entire episode that had a lot of baseball in it, so I might as well write a post on the subject.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Summer Break

OK, I know it's cheating, but it's partly because I feel like I've exhausted a lot of my Friday Feature ideas and I haven't yet got my hands on a copy of 'The Springfield Files'. I do have more ideas for what to write, but I think this will be a good time to take a break from writing something every Friday only do periodic Friday Features until I can come up with enough ideas to do them weekly again. Plus, I'm pretty busy this summer and haven't had as much time to write as I'd hoped.

Some of the ideas I'm saving, primarily because they kind of have to wait until near the end. They wouldn't really make much sense right now.

So next week, there will be an episode post on Friday because of reasons, and a Feature the following Friday, and then who knows? By that point, I should be getting close to season seven, which means there won't really be that much of the series left. Well, there will, but three seasons feels more manageable somehow, but it's still about 15 weeks' worth, depending on two-part episodes and such.

Since I sometimes only get a chance to watch four episodes in a week, I won't be doing regular episode posts on Fridays to substitute for missing Features. Some Fridays just won't have a post.

In hindsight, what I should have done is write individual posts for those first 16 episodes that I ended up bunching all together - and four Friday Features - before I figured out how I wanted to write this blog. Then I'd have had a month long backlog to work with.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Canada

This show is very clearly filmed in Vancouver. Or rather, was - I figured I should do a post about Canada now that the show has moved to Los Angeles, right?

It's not really obvious to me from the geographical features - I've never been to Vancouver, and I've only been to Seattle once, but Canada definitely looks a lot like parts of the U.S., too.

No, it's clearer from a lot of the guest actors.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Serialised Television

It seems like a good time, right before the season five finale and the first feature film, to write about serialised television, because for the most part, The X-Files isn't. Except when it is. Obviously.

The X-Files Friday Feature: D.C., Politics

It's weird watching a show like this living in the Washington, DC area.

The X-Files Friday Feature: You Got Your Science In My Fiction

Or maybe you got your fiction in my science? (Hrm, now I want some Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.)

The X-Files Friday Feature: Blogging, Revisited

Writing a blog about a television show is a lot like writing a book report.

I'm glad it's not for credit.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Midpoint

What incredible timing. By watching four episodes a week and pairing the two part episodes, I've managed to finish season four on a Thursday.

More importantly, I've very nearly reached the halfway point (the actual halfway point will be after S5E4 or S5E5, depending on how you count the movies) of the series. It's time to revisit a few things.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Technology

It occurred to me that I haven't really talked much about the technology on the show, and that I've been intending to ever since I saw those giant bricks of cell phones in the first season.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Shipping

Whenever I watch a show, I have a tendency to put characters together that I think would really be compatible. That's kind of hard on The X-Files, because there are really only two main characters.

But there are enough secondary characters to provide for at least some variation.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Meta

Whenever I get into something, I can't help but look for external information about it. I find it enjoyable to learn behind the scenes information, things about the writing process, influences, and so on.

Of course, there's also a slight risk to that.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Death Eaters

Why Death Eaters? Well, that's a good question, really. Why, indeed.

Yeah, I've been throwing this term around, and I don't know if I've fully explained my insistence on it.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Nightmare Fuel

Since I just finished watching 'Home', this is probably the time to talk about nightmare fuel, which The X-Files contains rather a lot of.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Fringe

I've mentioned the show, Fringe more than a few times here, and figured it was time to expand on some of those mentions. Obviously, this will contain plenty of spoilers for the show.

If you haven't seen Fringe, I highly recommend it, especially since I know you already like The X-Files.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Intelligent Life

So I guess this is as good a time as any to talk about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe.

Note, I did not say elsewhere in the universe.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Spot the Actor

One of the interesting things about getting into a show as late as twenty years after it first aired is that I've seen a lot of other more recent shows and movies, and some of the people who may not have been stars then have since moved on to bigger and better things. (Though some came from bigger and better things than even The X-Files at the time.)

I mean, I do this all the time in everything I watch, not just this. I'm sure everyone does to some degree, especially if there are people you see again and again - after all, there does seem to be a bit of a line between TV and film actors, and there are an awful lot of people who have just been in dozens and dozens of TV shows for one or two episodes.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Scully

Last week, I wrote about how I identified with Fox Mulder on this show. But ever since the beginning of this series, I've also strongly identified with the character of Dana Scully. She's a scientist - always curious, always wanting to know more about the world, even if it disrupts her assumptions about the way the world works.