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[wolodymyr]

So I suppose the thing to do is just to start rewatching the X-files for all Vince Gilligan's episodes. Which probably a bunch of people have already done. It's just that recently whenever anyone brings up an episode, it seems to be one of his.

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[proximoception]

Been feeling this pull also. But I've never seen a good episode of that show, and I heard Gilligan's habit of giving his writers credit for episodes that were mostly his was learned from Carter.

[wolodymyr]

Yeah, X Files - even through this is true for everything - probably has one's number or doesn't. It has mine, but there are still a lot of bad episodes.

[proximoception]

I don't think I had a problem with the premise or the murmuring characters. Probably my attention span back then was to blame - I didn't do well with any 1-hour '90s shows but Twin Peaks.

Let us know what turns up if you go looking.

[wolodymyr]

Well, from the rest of this thread, it seems like there are at least 2 S5 eps worth trying.

[lapsedmodernist]

Including the one I mentioned the other day, I think...

[wolodymyr]

Yes!

[ikon_]

Bad Blood, season five, episode 12, is so my jam. It's in line with my favorite episodes: the non-canon one-offs often written by guest writers. Mulder and Scully in [insert crazy situation] is the dream. Established characters with an established rapport in a world where anything can happen.

[wolodymyr]

Bad Blood - following another episode mentioned by lapsedmodernist - is EXACTLY what prompted this post.

[ikon_]

Right?! It's amazing! It's X-Files fanfic but ON THE X-FILES!

[wolodymyr]

I just saw it for the first time last night, to break up some question sections.

"Like a flying squirrel?"

[anonymous]

DARIN MORGAN. His Millennium eps were great too.

[wolodymyr]

oh yeah. But I believe the absolute perfection of "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" is well-established. The VG thing was news to me.