and yes, on my last rewatch I did skip about half of season 3)
Oh there were absolutely a few episodes that I was tempted to skip over, but I really wanted to make this re-watch a complete one. As I re-watch though I'm already planning in my head which episodes I will keep and which I will skip over next time I have a series re-watch lol, the seasons would be so much tighter to binge-watch without wading through some of those filler episodes. (Well I suppose that technically speaking most of the MotW's were fillers, but there were definitely a few among them that felt *really* pointless and inconsequential). If you're just picking out classic episodes to rewatch then the MotW are undoubtly better, but yeah I think that the mytharc hasn't actually dated all that badly when you're re-watching an entire season, those are generally the episodes that let things slow down and focus on Mulder and Scully as characters more. Lol at some of today's viewers talking about catching up exclusively through the mythology episodes and never watching *any* of the MotW's though, that really is wildly missing the point of the show
And yeah it's definitely the ghosts seeking revenge that are already starting to feel a bit played out at this point. Really when you look at top ten episode lists, a lot of the time it's actually the comedy episodes and the postmodern episodes that get picked out as favourites, and yet there's so much nostalgia for the golden age when the X-Files stuck to ~traditional cases~, even though that generally means sitting through purely procedural episodes like The List which are hardly anything exceptional. There are great examples of that format too of course, like Pusher for one, but really the less traditional episodes where the show played around with the formula, or focused on Mulder and Scully as characters in some way, those are generally the ones that everyone remembers and talks about...
And Kim Newton wrote Revelation and Quagmire, in the official guides they talk about Revelation being a disaster on the page and needing to have a lot of re-writes to save it, and I'm guessing that was the case with Quagmire too before Darin Morgan stepped in. He reuses a few elements from his episodes like Scully's dog and the stoners from WOTC, so it definitely came across to me that he rewrote pretty huge chunks of it, even though it's actually credited to Kim Newton. Plus the examination of Mulder's obsessions and how can he get any joy out of life at all is a theme that comes up time and time again in his episode, so that scene on the rocks came across like it was entirely written by him.
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Date: 2016-07-19 08:41 pm (UTC)Oh there were absolutely a few episodes that I was tempted to skip over, but I really wanted to make this re-watch a complete one. As I re-watch though I'm already planning in my head which episodes I will keep and which I will skip over next time I have a series re-watch lol, the seasons would be so much tighter to binge-watch without wading through some of those filler episodes. (Well I suppose that technically speaking most of the MotW's were fillers, but there were definitely a few among them that felt *really* pointless and inconsequential). If you're just picking out classic episodes to rewatch then the MotW are undoubtly better, but yeah I think that the mytharc hasn't actually dated all that badly when you're re-watching an entire season, those are generally the episodes that let things slow down and focus on Mulder and Scully as characters more. Lol at some of today's viewers talking about catching up exclusively through the mythology episodes and never watching *any* of the MotW's though, that really is wildly missing the point of the show
And yeah it's definitely the ghosts seeking revenge that are already starting to feel a bit played out at this point. Really when you look at top ten episode lists, a lot of the time it's actually the comedy episodes and the postmodern episodes that get picked out as favourites, and yet there's so much nostalgia for the golden age when the X-Files stuck to ~traditional cases~, even though that generally means sitting through purely procedural episodes like The List which are hardly anything exceptional. There are great examples of that format too of course, like Pusher for one, but really the less traditional episodes where the show played around with the formula, or focused on Mulder and Scully as characters in some way, those are generally the ones that everyone remembers and talks about...
And Kim Newton wrote Revelation and Quagmire, in the official guides they talk about Revelation being a disaster on the page and needing to have a lot of re-writes to save it, and I'm guessing that was the case with Quagmire too before Darin Morgan stepped in. He reuses a few elements from his episodes like Scully's dog and the stoners from WOTC, so it definitely came across to me that he rewrote pretty huge chunks of it, even though it's actually credited to Kim Newton. Plus the examination of Mulder's obsessions and how can he get any joy out of life at all is a theme that comes up time and time again in his episode, so that scene on the rocks came across like it was entirely written by him.