My 10 Favorite X-Files Episodes
Submitted by cmonster on Sun, 01/29/2006 - 06:13
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- Unrequited - Sensitive and moving sketch of the tension between Vietnam's long shadow over the present, and the current pull towards militia fever. I cry every time.
- Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - This episode is everything I loved about this series, without anything that made me stop watching later seasons. A quirky standalone with well-drawn characters.
- Quagmire - Sea monsters RULE.
- Shapes - Moody, tense and interesting.
- Darkness Falls - I'm rooting for the gloworms.
- DPO - Easily had the best soundtrack of any episode, and possibly Giovanni Ribisi's best performance to date.
- Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
- Post-Modern Prometheus - Cinematography, character-acting, and a Cher-impersonator = television gold.
- Kill Switch - Such an upbeat ending.
- Je Souhaite - Jeannie steals the episode with her bag of turnips, but this is easily the cleverest answer to the eternal question of what you would ask a genie for.
Some great episodes here, especially Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, Quagmire and Darkness Falls. Three of my favorites! DPO, Post-Modern Prometheus and Je Souhaite are also really good.
You seem to like episodes from early and later seasons ans well. Which is your favorite? You can vote here!
I think I'd have to say that Unrequited is my all-time favorite. It strikes the perfect balance between the unexplainable and conspiracy theory madness. But Shapes is a close second.
Quality list, Cmonster :)
Thanks, Wezzo!
Interesting list. Certainly unorthodox. I thought Unrequited and Shapes were two very forgettable episodes. In fact, Clyde Bruckman is the only one of these episodes that would even break my top 30 - however, I do love Quagmire a lot, and I can see the appeal of all of these. Except Shapes. Don't really know what you see in that one.
Well, Shapes is interesting to me for the following reasons:
-the whole interchange between Mulder and the Native elder. Fox's response ("Teach me") is the most honest response a non-Native person could have in that situation.
--Gwen's intriguing as a character in her own right. And X-Files doesn't have a lot of intriguing female characters who aren't Scully. She's complex.
--I love non-dominant-paradigm mythology. There, I confess it. So the whole thing makes me dance with joy.
And as for "Unrequited"? I still feel like we, as a US society, haven't coped with the debt we owe our Vietnam veterans, nor have we acknowledged the part the government played in failing to provide them with the help they needed on their return.