Lol, "superfluous verbosity"charlie chong wrote:skykid be smokin dat meth..
towards the end x files was actually unwatchable.
your superfluous verbosity will never change that
It was absolutely unwatchable by the end. The X-Files has probably the worst finale in TV history. So bad it's legendary. Breaking Bad most certainly has it beat there. In-fact, I write off the entire last two seasons as all the writing staff jumped ship after the seventh - it was Fox that forced the continuation because money.
That doesn't mean I couldn't name a better episode of the X-Files for every single episode of Breaking Bad. Great writing and directing doesn't go out of date, ponies do.
EDIT: Sorry matey, I missed this:
A quarter duff ones may be right, I wouldn't be sure unless I did some quick calculations eps x 7 seasons. I don't count 8 & 9's existence.GaijinPunch wrote:I always call a spade a spade. Then and now, there's a handful of X-Files episodes (a quarter?) that were just meh. Maybe nature of the beast for something that had more episodes per season, but them's the facts. Even if it was consistent from Season 1-7, seasons 8 and 9 were pretty fucking awful. You can't say Gilligan was cashing in on ratings for filler on BB, but totally ignore the last two seasons of X-Files. The heart and soul of the show said he was fucking leaving and they still tried to ride the cash cow. Not to mention 90% of episodes ended the exact same way. I'm like halfway through season 3 watching one here and there on Hulu, and w/ 5 minutes to go, I always find myself saying, "here it comes, the Deus Ex Machina sweeping it under the proverbial government rug". Now that's creative!I know how much you like BB, and I enjoyed it too, but I gotta call a spade a spade. For all its entertainment value I know I'd never watch it twice because there's so much dead space in it it's like staring at a blank wall - nothing happens.
BB's Deus Ex Machina issues are slightly more pronounced, don't you think? It has its moments, but most setups are very clunky and there's little to nothing you don't predict because from the cues. Not the same level of drop as Krychek walking out of a bathroom stall feeling "like a new man".
The XF wrap ups aren't really an issue: if something wasn't brushed under the government carpet at the end of each show, it would have invalidated the show.
Bar the running plot thread that surfaced possibly 4 - 5 times out of a 24 eps season, it's a self-contained single story entity, a la Twilight Zone/Outer Limits with one of the most impressive writer/director teams assembled for one TV project: Rob Bowman, Vince Gilligan (Pusher, Paper Hearts, Drive), Darin Morgan (Jose Chung's From Outer Space, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose) Glen Morgan and James Wong (Home, Beyond the Sea), Frank Spotnitz (Tempus Fugit, Tunguska) Howard Gordon (Nisei, Firewalker) -
- to name a tiny handful, not including Rob Bowman and Carter. Even Duchovy had some impressive writer/director credits with eps like The Unnatural (that weird one with the baseball team, if you remember.)
Anyway, I didn't provide a criticism to have a pissing match over two shows. People get upset because I state something as fact... well that's how you have conviction in an argument. Lawyer's don't walk into courtrooms and say "Hmm, maybe you're right" to the opposition.
Everyone manages to get all butthurt that any criticism is levied at all - crit I think is reasonable - and happily ignore all the positive stuff I said about it.
If you folks think I'm the only person in the universe who happens to think the TV nation has slightly overrated a decent show, yer on crack ese.
" Seasons 2, 3, and 4 were so slow that they could easily have been condensed down to one season.
I could go on, but the OP nailed a lot of it already. The show is ridiculously overrated, and another great example of how fans just like latching onto trends because it makes them feel important."
