[J m HofMarN]

It may get parodied a lot but thats not because its bad, its because it's so good that its become a well accepted part of our culture, kinda like Star Wars. Mulder was great and the show was generally funny at times, and creepy at others, and you didnt have to remember the entire plot to get each episode so you were allowed to miss a few. Scully was silly but the plot twists kept the show afloat and keeping intrigue for so long is damned impressive.

[Despondent]

I liked it, I started watching during pivotal season 3. the last year or two were a waste, imo, but when the movie came out it was HUGE!

[Just your average movie goer]

It started out well but I abandoned it after too many false resolutions with Mulder appearing to have found his sister over and over again.

There was one episode when he was stuffing lots of child clones of his sister into his car and just went "Okay, that does it!" and gave up after that.

It should have wrapped itself up in three or four seasons but it lingered on, getting too weird and convuluted.

The early stuff was really good though.

[SimeSublime]

I came in late, but lost interest before the last season.

[looktothesky]

I loved seasons 1-3, after that I dunno... I wasn't all that interested anymore?

Although, I'm a HUGE fan of Chris Carter's other series Millenium.

[Hannibal]

Lone Gunmen was the best:

in the first episode they predicted a 747 would be flown into the world trade center, which would be the core of a government conspiracy to launch a war in a third world country and take over.

[Jane Sherwood]

My dad used to love that show, but I never really got into it, myself. There is one episode I remember that I absolutely loved, though, it was the one where they're investigating vampire attacks in some pissant little town, and after Mulder stakes the kid who's responsible, they each have to give their side of the story to Skinner. I just remember thinking the whole episode was funny as hell and loving every minute of it.

"And it's not that Mexican goat-sucker, either!"

"But I just put money in the Magic Fingers!"

Etc.

[J m HofMarN]

I remember that episode, good stuff. I think the thing about the X files is sometimes it scared you with plot and characters rather than with cheep blood gushing. The whole show just had a really great creepy mysterious feel to it.

[SimeSublime]

Thats true. I loved the stand alone episodes. I just got sick of the overall-story episodes. I'd missed so many of them that I had no idea what was going on and who a lot of the random characters were.

[Madam Corvax]

I remember I actually watched it avidly back in 1994 when it all started. It was a novelty then... But as some of you mentioned, it is at its best when it is not too serious.

I remember one episode, when Mulder works alone and talks to Scully over the phone. He gets to meet a female scientist by the name of Bambi and reports it to Scully and she says
"She is called BAMBI?" repeating it twice. It was really funny...

Also, I liked watching it, because in my opinion Scully was the most tastefylly dressed American women I ever saw. I loved her toned-down smart suits, very elegant.

[s20]

Yes it was a great show, although it got a bit confusing at times......I just never got to see how Scully and Mulder got together, I guess Scully had a baby. I think that's pretty much where I left off.

[Despondent]

I was thinking of the movie today. Anyone see that? It really was a decent run-on sentence of a film in the James Bond sort of way. Not the franchise Fox hoped for, but good entertainment.

[makingfun22_sw]

I watched the first 3 or 4 seasons and i liked them, but after that i realised that Chris Carter had NO idea at all about what was happening in the main story (alien) arc. He just was making stuff as the series were proggressing. Besides it had TOO many goverment conspiracy elements.
"Who is to be blamed for the urder of JFK" "The Government"
"Who killed Martin L. King" "The Government"
"Who abducts people" "The Government"
"Who clones people" "The Government"
"Who the f**k left the toilet seat up!" "The Government"!!!!!???????