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southp wrote:Finally! I've been waiting a long time to illegally download the full X-files collection in HD!

Getting through 159 hours does seem like an intimidating prospect however.

I heard they've been out there for a while.
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bada wrote:
southp wrote:Finally! I've been waiting a long time to illegally download the full X-files collection in HD!

Getting through 159 hours does seem like an intimidating prospect however.

I heard they've been out there for a while.
hehe..."out there"
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
bada wrote:
southp wrote:Finally! I've been waiting a long time to illegally download the full X-files collection in HD!

Getting through 159 hours does seem like an intimidating prospect however.

I heard they've been out there for a while.
hehe..."out there"
NO
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durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
bada wrote:
southp wrote:Finally! I've been waiting a long time to illegally download the full X-files collection in HD!

Getting through 159 hours does seem like an intimidating prospect however.

I heard they've been out there for a while.
hehe..."out there"
NO
why not?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
bada wrote:
southp wrote:Finally! I've been waiting a long time to illegally download the full X-files collection in HD!

Getting through 159 hours does seem like an intimidating prospect however.

I heard they've been out there for a while.
hehe..."out there"
NO
why not?
Just... puns.

I don't know. It felt right.
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southp wrote:Finally! I've been waiting a long time to illegally download the full X-files collection in HD!

Getting through 159 hours does seem like an intimidating prospect however.
If I tried really, really hard and had the time, I could probably make a must-watch episode list that's more like 75-90 eps long.
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Watch this:

Season 1 - 12 Episodes
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Pilot
Deep Throat
Squeeze
Ice
Fallen Angel
Eve
Fire
Beyond the Sea
EBE
Darkness Falls
Tooms
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Season 2 - 13 Episodes
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Little Green Men
The Host
Sleepless
Duane Barry
Ascension
One Breath
Die Hand Die Verletzt
Colony
End Game
Humbug
F. Emasculata
Soft Light
Anasazi
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I haven't watched an episode in over a month. Gotta get back on it.
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Cutting down the next 2 seasons:

Season 3 - 13 episodes
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The Blessing Way
Paper Clip
Clyde Bruckman
Oubliette
Nisei
731
Piper Maru
Apocrypha
Pusher
Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Quagmire
Wetwired
Talitha Cumi
Season 4 - 12 episodes
Spoiler: show
Herrenvolk
Home
Tunguska
Terma
Paper Hearts
Never Again
Leonard Betts
Momento Mori
Tempus Fugit
Max
Zero Sum
Gethsemane
Season 3 was really, really hard to pare down. I always thought Season 4 was better, but thinking about it this way--what are the must watch episodes?--really helped demonstrate to me how good 3 was.
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Got to Ascension in season 2 and god damn what a fantastic episode. The direction/camera work in the scene when Duane gets pulled over seemed really ahead of its time, and reminded me of the scene in Breaking Bad when Walt gets pulled over and won't turn down the radio.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:Got to Ascension in season 2 and god damn what a fantastic episode. The direction/camera work in the scene when Duane gets pulled over seemed really ahead of its time, and reminded me of the scene in Breaking Bad when Walt gets pulled over and won't turn down the radio.
Plus Nick Cave.
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I did laugh at the overly dramatized scene with Mulder pushing the tram to 30mph. He wasn't buying himself that much time.
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I'm gonna need this to tide me over until Twin Peaks finally comes back.

I CAN'T WAIT
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3 is an awful episode.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:3 is an awful episode.
Yes. It contains the absolute worst line-read of the entire series:

"AIDS?" -Mulder
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What do you guys think the worst episode is? I still haven't finished the series yet, but so far I'd say it's hands-down "First Person Shooter". What a piece of shit that was.
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I'd have to rewatch the series. I remember being underwhelmed a couple of times but I don't remember any out and out terrible episodes. But I also only watched once, in real time. I own all the DVDs but I've only rewatched the first disc of S1. All of those episodes are baller.
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3 is definitely the worst so far.
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"Space" is pretty bad, but I think I agree with chud: absolutely nothing about "3" works, on any level.
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