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de Bernd 2025-10-09 15:36:05 No. 14908 [AUTOSÄGE]
Some Finnish boomers recommended me to watch X Files and I did. It's fucking great. Does Bernd like this show as well? Do you know any other comfy American shows from the 90s?
>>18877 You should use torrents. But you can also stream them legally for free on Joyn currently (use adblocker).
>>18877 Well, I do use BitTorrent like a normal person. What's your problem?
Is it just me or is Scully getting more beautiful by the episode? Damn… I also like that there is nothing lustful or superficial about her beauty.
>>18838 >mpv Yeah no. I remember using it for certain videos that wouldn't play in VLC, years back. VLC plays them now. While VLC doesn't have the best user interface, it's kind of standard. mpv is completely its own thing. I actually switched to mpv wrapper SMPlayer after a short while because it was less weird. Can't say that I liked that one much neither.
>>18888 I don't want to install a client, I don't want to seed and I don't want to be dependent on somebody seeding it.
Japanese Iron Chef with the American dubbing.
Towards the end of S2, I'm definitely getting tired of monster of the week stuff. Fuck ass-pulled mystery stuff (the zoo episode had some good details, but damn are those aliens making dumb mistakes), and fuck serial killers. The main good thing about most such episodes is Mulder & Scully, and many of them don't even have much of it, and what's there somehow doesn't seem to have much emotional content. I actually wonder if late S2 was the low point of the actors' infamously bad relationship. A new thing that I found to like is, what seems to me, a surprisingly sober look at mainstream and fringe American culture. Our heroes really get around and talk to people of all walks of life. Mystery must be one of the formats most in need of realistic people in order to make the extraordinary stuff believable. I think the series creators understood that and delivered.
>>19067 Completely agree, I also think the acting of the supporting actors is rather bad in some parts.
>>19075 In case you have watched more, does the Mulder & Scully situation get better? Most episode ratings seem to rate the usually forgettable plots while most everyone agrees that Mulder & Scully are a main reason to watch X-Files.
Minor funny point: Before watching, I had always wondered how to correctly pronounce "Mulder" in English, and people in the series seem to be as puzzled as I was: I think I've heard everything from Moolder over Moulder to Mawlder. Mulder himself is IIRC closest to Moolder while Scully is closest to Moulder.
More about the names: the official story is that Mulder is from a classmate or something of Chris Carter and Scully from a baseball announcer. But what about the obvious morbidity of the names - skull and mold? Also, I had read that a certain Kersh that appears later was inspired by names in one of Chris Carter's favorite movies "Vampire Circus" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067924/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1 - and guess what, one of the Kershs is played by a guy called John Moulder-Brown!
>>19078 No, I think you already overtook me, Bernd hehe. I’m at episode 21 of S2. Had the exact same thought yesterday, if not for Mulder and Scully I would probably not continue watching. >>19079 That’s something I also noticed, I never questioned my pronunciation of it until I encountered rather weird ones in the show.
>>19081 Next up for me is 22 :> By the way, Mulder is of Dutch origin and means miller, so the "correct" pronunciation, written phonetically in German, would be something like "Müldech".

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Scully was on Klaus Schwab's payroll even back then
>>18945 https://rentry.co/vee-ell-cee
>>19150 OK, that's actually concerning. But I just tried SMPlayer again and it couldn't even have the video and the GUI around it in the same window (on Wayland). I also tried mpv, which somehow played the audio channels all wrong (my soundcard has many channels, but pretty much all applications seem to get the message that I have stereo output configured) and I didn't find any UI elements to rectify the situation. What do we learn? Create a shitty user interface and people don't want to use your stuff.
>>19162 Not everything is as it seems in the X-Files... you'll have to watch the episode (it's "Humbug"). >>19173 I mean I'll keep mpv (SMPlayer) in mind and wait until they maybe fix the Wayland situation... and audio downmixing.
>>19204 You can basically adjust everything in a mpv.conf and tweak it to your liking: https://mpv.io/manual/stable/
You will never be able to save Scully from certain death and gently arrange her hair
We will never ever be greeted and cared for by Scully like this. Why even continue living?

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Okay, just finished Season 2. I'd say overall it's weaker then Season 1, the average episode was rather mediocre. But at least they expanded on Mulder's and Scully's relationship and furthered the story arc. I'm particularly impressed by the cinematography and soundtrack, which in my opinion are both exceptionally good. For Season 3 I hope their relationship intensifies and the quality level of episodes is raised. I don't mind Monster of the Week episodes, if they're done well like in Season 1. Just give me Scully content and I'm happy.
I also just finished S2, somehow expecting the last episode to be a "single". But there are two more parts and now I'm waiting for S3E1 to download. To pass the time, I watched some of the bonus material, like deleted scenes from the pilot. You know what's in them? Scully's boyfriend!! and it's not Mulder She is doing her best to act cute around him and throw him loving gaves, but the guy is as awkward as Bernd at a first date - he blinks rapidly, kinda looks like he doesn't want to be there, and even leans AWAY from her while standing next to her. What le fug X===D
Guy failing chemistry class, hard
Ahaha, I love the "I do not negotiate" scene in S3E2. CSM is trying cheap psychological tricks that do nothing if the facts aren't on your side. He is fucked, but it's almost like an inside joke for people who know a bit about negotiations. I guess. I know that I would have understood this scene very differently before I became not 100% useless in that respect.
>>19436 The moment when Scully realized Mulder was alive
Another indicator that Mulder is a coomer

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>>19516 The first thing Mulder is going for are the porn mags.
I have to say the start of Season 3 was very very strong, found the transition back to Monster of the Week stuff in episode 3 a bit awkward. Although episode 3 was pretty good, just waiting for S&M's relationship to evolve.

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This scene just made me realize how incredibly rare it is for Scully to laugh. Mulder tells at least one joke per episode, but Scully rarely laughs. We only get a smile at best.
We need more small signs of affection like vid related, I'm glad to see them finally returning.
The first two film appearances of Gillian Anderson, the actress playing Dana Scully. Incredibly rare stuff. Interestingly the X-Files was one of her first roles. Just posting this for the appreciators, has nothing to do with the X-Files per se.
>>19752 I wonder if her dyed hair is canon. Redheads with blue eyes are (as I just researched) not impossible, but very rare.
You, Mr. Kraut who's also an appreciator of Gillian Anderson, are a dick. Fetching this hard drive and zipping this all wasn't fun.
>>19984 Tbh I’m glad they made her dye her hair, in the Pilot she still had brown air, but I like the red hair better.

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>>19993 Hnng, I wish it would be possible to rip stuff from alamy in full resolution, I crave a hires copy of this photo: https://www.alamy.com/pasadena-california-usa-9th-january-1995-actress-gillian-anderson-attends-nbc-winter-tca-press-tour-on-january-9-1995-at-the-ritz-carlton-hotel-in-pasadena-california-usa-photo-by-barry-kingalamy-stock-photo-image327976917.html
They turned Mulder into an uber coomer in the middle of Season 3. Why?
They seemed close to making out (or hugging to keep warm, or both) in the stranded scene in "Quagmire" :3
>>20242 >Why? Maybe to reflect on his real-life coomerness?
>>20726 I just got through that particular episode today while having put it off for a couple of days. That scene where Scully surprises Mulder kissing the female detective really broke my heart. I hope the rest of the season will be more harmonic again.