👽IT BEGINS👽 The X-Files REACTION [1X1] 'Pilot' [FIRST TIME WATCHING]

[@killianlpc]

Well Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan was a major writer on The X-Files, and Bryan Cranston got the part of Walt because Vince Gilligan was so impressed by his performance in the X-Files episode Drive. Plus Vince Gilligan sneaked in the fictitious Craddock Marine Bank into Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, which of course is Mulder's bank in the X-Files, showing the two shows are in the same universe. The X-Files has to be one of the most referenced shows in other series such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel and Supernatural where constant reference is made to it. It's a superb series with brilliant monster of the week episodes and a fantastic continuing story thread throughout. It is a brilliant show.

[@opheliabelleu8025]

Fun! I just recently started a rewatch for the 1st time in almost 30 years so I'm glad I found your channel! Just a couple spoiler free observations- there are quite a few mediocre episodes as the show finds its feet but the really good episodes make the journey worth it. Back in the 2nd or 3rd season when the show became a big hit, the creator admitted that he didn't really have an end game for the bigger story arcs which is good to know as you watch and try to guess where the story line is going. The writers didn't really know where it was going either, so if things don't always make sense don't get frustrated. It's about the journey. I hope you enjoy it!

[@wrenbirdreactions]

I'm going in knowing that there are going to be filler-type episodes considering it's a 24 episode season. That's fine, I don't mind it so much, as you said the big ones really make up for it. I'm up to episode 15, and I'm having a blast so far.

[@nickthepostpunk5766]

Interestingly, I was planning on watching all The X-Files again - so your reactions are timed perfectly 🙂

[@batmanrecharged]

Where can we watch it....apart from buying the dvd sets

[@nickthepostpunk5766]

@@batmanrecharged it's all on Disney Plus. So, as long as you have membership...

[@ricanhavoc215]

the best line is "she's running...on foot? " 😂great reaction. I've only seen the alien ones

[@DarthCrimsonDeath]

I can't believe I started watching this show way back in 1994, the last episode of the first season. I was enthralled, and that era back then, the zeitgeist of the time, just before the explosion of the internet into everyone's lives, the supernatural, conspiracies, UFO sightings, the media covering it, talk shows with episodes on supernatural themes, "reality" shows like Sightings and others showing caught on tape footage, FOX network's dumb alien "documentaries," the myriad of X-Files clones after solidifying the show's influence, then shows like The Outer Limits, Tales from the Crypt, many other supernatural shows, Stephen King television adaptations doing better justice to his books. Then Chris Carter creating MIllennium, which got glorious in its second season with the supernatural elements and crossed over to the X-Files for one last go. What a fun time the late 90's were in entertainment in this genre, television at least, and now supernatural/horor movies have reached their golden age. Conspiracy theories and the nuts that believed them were more innocuous, there was more wonder and magic to it, it all did not have the insidiousness it does now. Watching the X-Files now should be fun looking at how dated certain elements are, the differences of the times, how the writing was considered with more wit and sophistication at the time while noticing writing has advanced much much more now due to the great television shows of this era's golden age. There will be some awesome episodes, some glorious stand-alone monster-of-the-week episodes that stand the test of time even now, some run of the mill episodes of course, and I was one the ones that did enjoy the "mythology" episodes and lore most of the way.. The movies too, especially Fight the Future.

[@wrenbirdreactions]

Ohh I vaugly remember Millennium, or mainly Lance Henriksens mug. Can't remember what the show was about though. I never watched The Outer Limits, and I barely remember Tales from the Crypt, but I do remember being creeped out by the crypt keeper haha. The stories on there were like, one offs right? I wonder if I could find it to watch anywhere. Argh, I can't stand those 'Alien Documentary' shows. Especially when my father in law believes them word for word. I haven't seen too many King adaptations, not even The Stand. Isn't that like his most famous TV one?? I do remember watching Rose Red back in the day though and liking it somewhat. But Haven was my jam for a few years. I loved that show. I must rewatch actually.

[@venomoverlord7016]

its a great show Stranger things and Fringe HEAVILY took from the X Files - the writing and characters are phenominal

[@katiecook6006]

"Listen to me Scully, this THING exists!"

[@calanor4130]

I've certainly had some unpleasant experiences of sleep paralysis. However, when I started to experiment with lucid dreaming, I experienced sleep paralysis much more frequently - but they were no longer unpleasant. I often still felt a "presence", but it was a "sacral" presence, and not at all malevolent. Ever since I stopped with my lucid dreaming experiments, I've rarely experienced sleep paralysis, but when I do it's never unpleasant. Anyway, I am a little late, but it's great to see that you're checking out one of my absolute favourite shows of all time! However, it actually took a couple of episodes for the show to completely win me over, although I did find the pilot interesting enough to continue watching.

[@EL_Duderino68]

It's great to watch a new person reacting to my favourite TV series. You do a great job with your editing and comments. Also great to have a Kiwi doing it (from an Aussie). You are in for quite a ride.

[@wrenbirdreactions]

Thanks so much :) Where abouts in Aussie are you? I'm over in WA myself. Been in Australia since 2011, and still getting crap about my accent haha!

[@EL_Duderino68]

@@wrenbirdreactions I'm in Adelaide. You sure do have a Kiwi accent but there's nothing wrong with that. I've got Kiwi friends who've lived in Australia for many years and you can still hear the accent. You know when Aussies give you crap that means they like you. Just don't order 6 serves of fish and chips :) Edit: Also, as an Aussie, I love all the swearing.:)

[@mcjs8640]

Great to see this. Just to mention, it's, 'The X-Files,' not, 'X-Files.' This was the pilot, so the theme music wasn't in place until a whole season was commissioned. I do hope you continue - if you do, you're in for the ride of your life. IMHO, The X-Files is the greatest TV series in the history of TV. It led the way for so many other series. Don't assume anything as you watch The X-Files - it will always surprise you. Also, don't expect to get answers in each episode straight away. Keep going, it's well worth it. The X-Files changed my life, honestly. 👍👽

[@wrenbirdreactions]

I'm pretty sure I subconciously correct myself going forward. Saying 'X-Files' and not 'The X-Files' does feel weird.

[@venomoverlord7016]

Alot of the writers behind X Files also went on to be producers and writers for Breaking Bad

[@serinx]

Vince Gilligan ... creator of Breaking Bad and also Better Caul Saul... started off on X-Files.... if you get deeper into episodes.. Walter White (season 6) and maybe Jesse (season 9) might show up... :P ... who knows... maybe Tuco and Uncle Jack might be on the show.... you never know.... :P :P

[@wrenbirdreactions]

whaaat?? No way, haha!

[@pievancl5457]

commenting for the algorithm

[@wrenbirdreactions]

Appriciate it :)

[@MrHws5mp]

Nice to see you doing this, but one tech point if I may: there is a BIG difference between the volume levels of the show and your mic. I'm turning it up to hear the dialogue then getting deafened every time you speak. I'd HIGHLY recommend that you watch the blooper reel at the end of every season. Gillian Anderson is WAY more fun than Scully: IIRC, in her high school yearbook she was voted "girl most likely to do absolutely anything". Can't say anything specific here 'cos spoilers, but the X-files crew found that not only could they prank her, but she'd often take it as a dare and one-up the prank. Hilarity, as they say, ensued...

[@mcjs8640]

I agree with your comment on the sound levels.

[@wrenbirdreactions]

Damn it! You know, before I rendered it I thought to myself maybe I should lower my level because I think I might be too loud, but then second guessed myself, haha. I should always go with my first instincts. I'll remember going forward.

[@venomoverlord7016]

honestly Fringe and Stranger Things are not even 1 / 10th as good as the X Files

[@wuxin5847]

i agree - the x files is much better

[@wrenbirdreactions]

I LOVE Fringe haha!

[@EL_Duderino68]

They are just different. I like them all. I will say that X-files if my favourite. Every week some friends and I got together to watch it as they were first aired. Fun times.

[@MrHws5mp]

Another term for the "waking dream" you described is Sleep Paralysis. Basically, your brain has a mechanism that disconnects it from your body when you're asleep so that you don't act out your draems in the real world (this mechanism may be faulty in sleepwalkers). What sometimes happens is that your dream makes your brain wake up, but the mechanism doesn't reconnect for some unknown reason, so you're conscious but paralysed. Since you're not getting real feedback from your body, your brain latches onto every little thing it can perceive and over-analyses it, which creates the feelings of "presence" and being "manipulated by outside forces", the details being woven together from your cultural programming. Put a religious 12th century European peasant though this experience and you get a tale of demonic possession. Do the same thing to a 20th century American peasant and you get a UFO abduction story. Re The Exorcist, there's a great story somewhere here on KZbin, but I'm damned if I can find it (phrasing, phrasing...). The guy being interviewed was working for an advertising agency in Brighton, England in the early 1970s. One of the guys in the office was reading The Exorcist, and it was really doing a number on him. He was getting paranoid and jumpy, coming into work telling tales of having horrible nightmares, and hearing strange sounds in his flat when he was awake. Eventually, he announced to the whole office that he was done with the damned book, and at lunchtime he was going to go down to the pier and throw it into the sea. So... our narrator waited until the "victim" went out to lunch, nipped round the corner to WH Smiths, bought another copy of the book, brought it back to the office, soaked it under the tap in the brew room, and put it in his desk drawer. After lunch, the "victim" came back looking much happier, told everyone how he felt better already having got that blasted book out of his life, and settled down to an afternoon's work. The scream about ten minutes later was truly satisfying...🤣😂🤣😅

[@wrenbirdreactions]

Hahaha, what a cruel bastard, though being there for that scream would be so satisfying.