oms_holyman
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I watched the X-files each week when they first came out, bought the video collections, then the DVD collections when video cassettes died and watched it regularly over the last 30+ years.
The main reason i did not give it 10/10 is what is meant to be the overarching premise of the whole series which is the government/alien conspiracy. If you binge watch the series you come to realise that there was never really an overarching story line which tied it all together but a loose premise that changed from series to series and sometimes episode to episode.
Usually pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are slowly shown to you so you build up a picture until it is finally revealed. With the X-files it seems that a couple of extra, similar looking puzzles got mixed together and they were trying to force the pieces together and ultimately never really succeeded so they could never decide what the overarching picture was actually meant to be.
Obviously you often get thrown curve balls to throw you off the scent and make the puzzle last longer but you come to realise that the curve balls are just writers putting their own spin on the premise or going completely off script to do the episode they wanted to do. Thus some story episodes either don't make sense or ignore the lore so completely they would have been better as a monster of the week episode.
Monster of the week episodes is where the x-files really shines and thankfully the majority of episodes are monster of the week episodes where the characters get to really shine and there is something new (and coherent) to discover while occasionally we do revisit past 'monsters' which gives a sense of continuity (much more than the overarching story line).
I am going to run the risk of being a X-file heathen and say i found seasons 8 in particular refreshing, possibly in part as season 7 was really conspiracy focused and even with it being focused on it was a mish mash of story lines, possibly as they were trying to wrap up Mulders story after him leaving sooner than expected. The series returned to the monster of the week focus again and i really liked Robert Patrick and think it is a shame he didn't get a better opportunity to do more with the series.
By series 9 though it was obvious the whole franchise had lost it's way completely and at best they were just trying to reinvent the series for a new audience which is always a sign that it has run it's course and it was really time to end it. If Anderson had stayed on i feel it may have actually been able to carry on as there seemed to be a growing chemistry between Doggett and Scully.
Considering x-files was essentially one mans (Chris Carter) vision and he stayed on throughout the whole series the X-files could have been one of the true greats of sci-fi history if he had kept a grip on the story or even thought it (at least generally) through properly before starting. Instead of a great story series filled out with some monsters of the week we ended up with a great monster of the week series with a poor story seemingly tagged on to give it a reason for being.
The main reason i did not give it 10/10 is what is meant to be the overarching premise of the whole series which is the government/alien conspiracy. If you binge watch the series you come to realise that there was never really an overarching story line which tied it all together but a loose premise that changed from series to series and sometimes episode to episode.
Usually pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are slowly shown to you so you build up a picture until it is finally revealed. With the X-files it seems that a couple of extra, similar looking puzzles got mixed together and they were trying to force the pieces together and ultimately never really succeeded so they could never decide what the overarching picture was actually meant to be.
Obviously you often get thrown curve balls to throw you off the scent and make the puzzle last longer but you come to realise that the curve balls are just writers putting their own spin on the premise or going completely off script to do the episode they wanted to do. Thus some story episodes either don't make sense or ignore the lore so completely they would have been better as a monster of the week episode.
Monster of the week episodes is where the x-files really shines and thankfully the majority of episodes are monster of the week episodes where the characters get to really shine and there is something new (and coherent) to discover while occasionally we do revisit past 'monsters' which gives a sense of continuity (much more than the overarching story line).
I am going to run the risk of being a X-file heathen and say i found seasons 8 in particular refreshing, possibly in part as season 7 was really conspiracy focused and even with it being focused on it was a mish mash of story lines, possibly as they were trying to wrap up Mulders story after him leaving sooner than expected. The series returned to the monster of the week focus again and i really liked Robert Patrick and think it is a shame he didn't get a better opportunity to do more with the series.
By series 9 though it was obvious the whole franchise had lost it's way completely and at best they were just trying to reinvent the series for a new audience which is always a sign that it has run it's course and it was really time to end it. If Anderson had stayed on i feel it may have actually been able to carry on as there seemed to be a growing chemistry between Doggett and Scully.
Considering x-files was essentially one mans (Chris Carter) vision and he stayed on throughout the whole series the X-files could have been one of the true greats of sci-fi history if he had kept a grip on the story or even thought it (at least generally) through properly before starting. Instead of a great story series filled out with some monsters of the week we ended up with a great monster of the week series with a poor story seemingly tagged on to give it a reason for being.
As someone who has watched SG1 and Atlantis numerous times...well i keep watching it over and over again.
Like all good sci-fi series the real reason people love it is not for the sci-fi but because of the characters and the way they interact with each other and the series started to go off when the original band started to split up.
Luckily this was around the time that Atlantis came about which reinvigorated the series/franchise as they ran concurrently and really kept the interest of Star Gate going, especially as the charcter relations just weren't the same with the newer characters in SG1 and the new enemy just didn't ring the same bells.
As Atlantis does often tie in quite closely with SG1 you kind of need to keep watching later series of SG1 to keep up with events and if you watch both in release order it is much better than simply watching the tail end of SG1 by itself.
As a package SG1 and Atlantis are more 9 or even 10 stars but as a stand alone SG1 is just an 8.
Like all good sci-fi series the real reason people love it is not for the sci-fi but because of the characters and the way they interact with each other and the series started to go off when the original band started to split up.
Luckily this was around the time that Atlantis came about which reinvigorated the series/franchise as they ran concurrently and really kept the interest of Star Gate going, especially as the charcter relations just weren't the same with the newer characters in SG1 and the new enemy just didn't ring the same bells.
As Atlantis does often tie in quite closely with SG1 you kind of need to keep watching later series of SG1 to keep up with events and if you watch both in release order it is much better than simply watching the tail end of SG1 by itself.
As a package SG1 and Atlantis are more 9 or even 10 stars but as a stand alone SG1 is just an 8.
If you think of Ferrari, outside of the classic red car you think passion, drive and excitement yet ultimately this was a rather bland a boring film which didn't reveal anything of interest i wanted to know or inform me of something I didn't know I should know. Even the potentially dramatic elements were delivered in a dull and droll manner I didn't feel engaged or care about any of the characters.
I didn't feel any drive or passion and certainly didn't get the impression Ferrari was an icon, at best it was a film about post war Italy which covered some struggles many people would be dealing with at that time it just happened to be following someone with a famous name.
This film didn't quite fall into the bracket where I felt like I had wasted 2 hours of my life watching it but I may have done if I had fell for the hype train. At best I can say this film passed some time.
I didn't feel any drive or passion and certainly didn't get the impression Ferrari was an icon, at best it was a film about post war Italy which covered some struggles many people would be dealing with at that time it just happened to be following someone with a famous name.
This film didn't quite fall into the bracket where I felt like I had wasted 2 hours of my life watching it but I may have done if I had fell for the hype train. At best I can say this film passed some time.