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Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:50 am
by fudgeflaps
Hey, crofty!
You on the late shift too? I'm trying to get kip, cannae sleep!!! I'm having Hun nightmares! !wink!
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:40 am
by Antoni S Chmielowski
I have all 9 series on DVD anf your right Flat_Eric you have to watch them from the start !.
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:51 am
by fudgeflaps
I loved it, but never got hooked- I always found it very accessible, even on a random-episode basis- the plot was generally too deep for a lot of back-referencing, IMO.
I might do a retrospective, buy all the boxsets, and get right into it, tho! It was ahead of it's time- makes a mockery of today's pish. I can't fathom why 'Lost' is so acclaimed.
Re: UFO
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:05 am
by andy at handiwork
I remember an episode of UFO that involved the Ed Bishop character suffering some delusional problem such that he thought his reality wasn't real. The camera tracked back to reveal the whole set and crew, clearly in a studio, and he spent a while thinking he was making a film
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:20 am
by Trumpton
I never seen it Steve.
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:46 pm
by steve56
I dont like the 2 actors in it at all Duchovny is up himself
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:52 pm
by Trumpton
Eh?
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:55 pm
by fudgeflaps
i thought that would make him good for the role, a special ops Fed is bound to have a high opinion of himself- X-files is the only work in which i rate Duchovny; one-trick pony, but seems genuinely quite witty and sharp on the chatshow sofas, IMHO. A lot of his stuff outwith X-files has pretty much second-rate as far as i know. An acquired taste, maybe.
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:57 pm
by steve56
Michael Douglas and Brenda Vaccaro would have done it good perhaps.
Re: X Files
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:16 pm
by fudgeflaps
Is that a wee deadpan one-liner? Sid James and Hattie Jacques would be awesome too! !wink!
Mikey baby would be too old for the profile..... and i think the producers were looking for relative unknowns, free of type casting or previous big roles that may detract from the illusion, to make the part their own. Duchovny and gorgeous redhead (forgot her name, Gillian Anderson?) didn't make the show, the show made them. Good chemistry between them, though, and a lot of long-winded tricky, fast, technical pseudo-scientific gobshite difficult lines to rattle off. Kevin Spacey or Guy Pearce would have also been good for the male lead....... Spacey was way too big at the time for the role!
All in all, i think it came off really well!!