I still go back and watch X-files. I remember watching it every week with my dad, those were good times.

The first and foremost problem is that apparently a great deal of the population is satisfied with watching the Kardashians and other braindead shows.

Those shows that venture out of idiotic reality topics, I think, are way too targeted to what they think a certain audience will like. The thing about the X-files is they covered a non-braindead genre with virtually no studies or expectations and just went on the content's own merit.

Now? Who could hope during a time when crappy shows get made and extended, while good shows (as rarely as there are any) get canceled and screwed around with to ensure cancel-worthy lowered ratings. Sure there are some, but the medium sucks.

But this will all change when dinosaurs die and the internet becomes the direct line for all media and data purposes. When that happens, connection is your access and content creators are your market to shop in. TV and internet will flow with no distinction, as they shouldn't now. Right now, when 90+% of internet ready people pirate stuff, the consumers live ahead of the innovators. It is quite simply and quite inevitably the time for old dinosaurs to die and new innovators to arise.

 

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Ah, I just saw ads for it. Never caught the show.

Hulu apparently has all of the X-files now. I've been debating whether to go back and watch from the beginning.

 

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Warehouse 13 is a modern twist on the 'Friday The 13th' TV series.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092357/

As achingly slow-building as The X-Files was, it served it's purpose. It was like Fringe is now. Set characters, with arcing storyline, some stand-alone episodes, but always coming back to the bigger picture. Fringe is just doing it faster.

 

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Although the stories in x-files seemed to be well written I hated the actors and wanted them to diaf asap. I never made it past the first few episodes.

 

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X-Files such a great series.

 

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Did a search on the episode and came up with this:

Due to its graphic nature, "Home" became the first of two X-Files episodes to receive a viewer discretion
Season 4 Episode 2
Original air date: October 11, 1996

The episode was inspired by a tale in Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, about the time he stayed at a tenement home while touring in a British musical theatre

wow didnt know that


"Home" marked the return of writers James Wong and Glen Morgan, who had left after the second season to create Space: Above and Beyond. After returning to the series, the duo decided to write a shocking story to "start off with a bang".[2] The episode was inspired by a tale in Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, about the time he stayed at a tenement home while touring in a British musical theatre.[3] After dinner, the family took him upstairs to meet their son - and pulled him out from under a bed.[3] The son had no arms and legs and flopped around while they sang and danced.[3] Glen Morgan read the story and decided to use the incident,[3] though he also suggested for Darin to use it in one of his scripts, "Humbug".[2] James Wong came up with the idea to change the son to a mother.[3] The name Peacock came from former neighbors of Morgan's parents.[1] Sources consulted by the writers for the episode included the documentary Brother's Keeper - suggested by actress Kristen Cloke - and books about nature and evolution.[2]

 

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See, I always hought the X-Files was just about aliens and conspiracies. Apparently its about all kinds of weird isht though.

 

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actually I always counted that as being one of the best parts of the show... you might get some alien conspiracy but then you might get an awesome monstery kind of episode too.

Eugene Tooms was one of the best

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Trivia
Doug Hutchison is one of the two actors that played the character of Tooms, a liver eating mutant, in the episodes "Squeeze" and "Tooms". Hutchinson is actually a vegetarian, or was at the time. After filming "Tooms" he sent the liver of an animal to Chris Carter as a thank you for the opportunity to play a character on "The X-Files"

 

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Around the same time X-Files was big, there was a similar show on Nickelodeon intended for kids called Eerie, Indiana. It was about strange happenings and stuff in a town called Eerie.

I watched that instead, I think was too young back then for the X-Files.

 

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