The X-Files Season 1
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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101: Pilot 1992 [[]]
Watching now, in 2011, this seems... a lot hokier than it did back in the day. Part, I think, 18 years of TV production values. Part, my greater knowledge on things like abduction and UFO phenomena make Fox Mulder sound like a kid trying to show off. Part, so much other fiction since mixing in paranormal mythology, and knowing this show itself has 200 episodes in front of it, it seems such a crazy thing that they get lost time, abduction scars, implants, magnetic fluctuations, strange mutated corpses, mysterious lights affecting people right in front of Mulder all in one episode. Part, it seems pretty shameless the way they have Scully seem worried about scars of her own as an excuse to get her in her underwear, and makes her look weak to be hugging on this guy she barely knows since she's so frightened about it.
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