Lobby's The X-Files fanpage

The X-Files is one of those shows that I wish we could see more of. A show where people ignored the "wisdom" of market studies and made a show because they believed in it. It became a cult hit, but umm I think it's gone beyond cult status since it's translated to other languages and watched all over the world. I'm pretty sure it's mainstream now.

The first show that really caught my attention was Shadows which really captured the gloomy scary feel that I've come to know and love.

The next episode I really liked was Church of the Red Museum. I fell in love with the cinematography in that one, everything was so crisp and green. Makes me wish they'd film all their episodes in that location. That is the perfect episode to watch in a darkened room with a Hi-Fi system. Neat.

There were a few episodes I cannot stand to watch! There's a really gross one called F. Emasculata in which... no *glorp* I cannot even bear to think about it!

One of the funnier episodes is Humbug it's got everything you would want in an X-Files episode and MORE!

One I kinda like but have a bit of trouble with is Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' the episode starts off GREAT, a guy and a girl, driving down the road, the guy tells the girl he loves her, she thinks the first date is too early to tell. Suddenly his car conks out, then an intense bright light appears before them, we see these beings with large heads and eyes coming toward the car, the girl is scared and asks the boy "What the hell are those things?" to which the boy replies "How the hell should I know?" As the beings get closer the boy and girl are paralyzed, next scene, the aliens are dragging the kids' bodies to their space craft, another craft of a different design floats up next to it... A hoofed hairy cyclops looking creature gets out, at which point the small 'greys' stop, one turns to the other and says, in english "Jack, what the hell is that thing?" the other 'grey' looks up at it and replies.. "How the hell should I know?. Then we get the familiar X-Files music. Damn that has to be the best intro I've seen for the X-Files!

In my opinion they got way too cute with the camera tricks and scene editing in this episode. I'm sitting here, watching the show then they do a funky jumpcut with a narration that leads you to believe there hasn't been a jumpcut, and then they spring it on you that it indeed was. When that happens I stop paying attention to the movie and start paying attention to the movie making process. Oh well, maybe that's just me.

The episode was great though, In fact I can honestly say it changed my life. The line at the end of Jose's book about Agent Mulder: "his search for the truth has so warped his psyche one shudders to think how he gets any pleasure from life" as they cut to a scene with Mulder in bed, watching TV, we see the TV and it's one of those supposed Bigfoot videos. This really got me thinking about my life, about my own search for the truth.

Well, I won't bore you with the details but I became a much more responsible person, I gave up my silly quest for the truth about UFOs, sent out some resumes and started planning out my life as a responsible productive member of society and not some deluded member of the lunatic fringe. But I still drop by #UFO now and again to say hi to my former fellow lunatics.

The quest is futile, all you're ever going to find is misinformation, disinformation and other people's fantasies and opinions dressed up with pseudo science and passed off as fact. I no longer believe in alien abductions, for as neat as it would be and as much as I'd like it to be true that we are visited by ETs, there is no more proof that there are aliens abducting humans than there is that there is a god. And we all know there's no such thing as god. I'm 23 years old now, it's time to put away the telescope and pick up an anti-static wrist band.

Well, be sure to check out the most complete X-Files Website, just click on the X-Files logo at the top.