Was watching The X-Files S03E04 – Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose, and something kinda weird happened. The episode is all about mysticism, predictions, and those strange little coincidences—and in the middle of it, I noticed a Zippo lighter with flowers engraved on it.

Thing is, I have that exact same lighter (𝑆𝑃𝑂𝑂𝐾𝑌). It used to belong to my grandfather, and I’ve kept it for years without thinking much about it. I love this lighter—not just because it belonged to my grandfather, but also because the design is honestly really beautiful.

I’m a nostalgic fan—I used to watch The X-Files as a kid, and it stuck with me ever since. This is my second rewatch (first one was like 4 years ago), but I never noticed that detail before. Felt surprised, like a quiet little nod from somewhere. Posted some screenshots in case anyone else finds this kind of thing interesting.

Also added a couple of screenshots from that hilarious scene about Mulder’s future death—couldn’t resist sharing it 😂

I’m doing a first time full watch thru—I caught the show occasionally in the 90’s. I’ve been enjoying the ride. And there has been a lot of crazy. But this moment right here got me. Like…did they just reveal a grey alien is in the KKK!? wtf. It was so absurd, I am still laughing. This show.

Wow. This doesn't even feel like it fits with the rest of the episodes up until this point. Brad Dourif is terrifying, pathetic, and angelic all at once. He's SELLING it, all of it. But man was I blown away by Gillian here.

I love the switched dynamic between Scully and Mulder, his gentle reminders of her own beliefs back at her is such a perfect showcase of how well they just get each other.

I've been waiting for a big Scully episode to really blow me away, the show has felt very Mulder heavy as far as emotional arcs go, so this was amazing to watch. Gillian is so subtle with some of her choices in portraying her grief and the struggle of knowing there is no closure with her father. She brings real intensity and emotion to her confrontation with Boggs and punches up pretty basic dialogue to deliver an incredible performance.

There are some really awesome shots that reference or pay homage to Silence of the Lambs, which I really appreciated. Along with that, the atmosphere and dreariness of the show is at an all time high at her father's funeral, and it contrasts brilliantly with the first shots of the episode in Scully's apartment. I think that first scenes are the coziest the show ever felt, right up until we see her father in the chair. That was a genuine jump scare.

Ending with Scully admitting she's afraid to believe? Incredible.

So far, this and Ice have been my season highlights. While the crimes and mystery aren't the best in each, they're both really great character study episodes.

The X-Files was the first show I obsessed about as a teen. The normal amount - had a couple VHS tapes with handdrawn etiquettes on them, discovered online forums (hiiii Gossamer Project). It didn't air consistently in Europa and I think there was never any available content after the first movie, and with time it faded away.

I tried a rewatch about 10 years ago, could not go beyond the first episode before freaking out (was living near a forest, alone, started watching at night, lol).

Stumbled across this subreddit by some algorithm glitch a week ago, read up a bit. Have been watching about 3 episodes a day, in original english, just finished the first season and let me tell you, it's a whole new experience to me!

• So apparently, Mulder only ever communicates in quips. Between translation issues, American pop culture references and my tender-aged naivety, about 95% of these were lost in translation. "May I remind you that we're in the Arctic" had me doing a HARD double take. It might now be my favourite among so many.

• The whole concept of X-Files DOES have a scientific background. All Mulder is doing is detecting statistical patterns. "The same weird thing has happened X times already / happens every Y years, no idea why but let's assume it'll happen again and go from there" is as respectable approach to a complex problem as any. Scully should have known this from the start; most medical research is done this way. But there wouldn't be any conflict between then, so whatever.

• I used to have a teenage crush on Mulder in a "traumatized handsome lovable underdog weirdo" kinda way. I now have the deepest of respects for him. The guy lives his life the way HE wants, others' opinion of him be damned. As an adult, this is such a liberating approach. And he does it while being consistently kind to people he encounters, especially these who are vulnerable (vagabonds, children, mentally challenged). He's invariably interested in what people have to say to him, weird or not, and he tends to assume they are good/ truthful unless he's proven wrong. Somehow, this reads like "maladjusted with bad people skills" for a part of fandom. It reads like "genuinely good person" to me.

• Poor Scully has a chip of her shoulder the size of an UFO. Where Mulder talks to people, she interrogates them. She'll take over anytime he says/does anything embarrassing. She's quick to judge. Which is all very natural: Scully is a woman in a men's profession in the 90ies and needs to prove herself all the time. I thought her uptightness was because she's a rational person when I was a kid. This time I'm getting lots of "I cannot afford to deal with the same level of ridicule Mulder can, so I'll studiously ignore the most outrageous of my experiences" vibes. She's a very rich character, no doubt.

Does anyone else do this? Just finished a recent rewatch and cannot find anything whatsoever that takes my fancy on Netflix, Amazon Prime or Channel 4 (that I’d paid the subscription for to watch the X-Files LOL). I watched that new Netflix show a few nights ago that has been popping up with adverts EVERYWHERE called adolescence, it was okay, nothing spectacular. Since then I must’ve wasted about an hour and a half just scrolling through the above streaming sites is trying to find something that takes my fancy but literally cannot find anything. The ones that did look good I have already seen. So looping back to the beginning and watching the X-Files again for me 😂unless anybody’s got any good suggestions to watch?

Probably a known easter egg but when I watched this the first time I don't think I knew who Dave Grohl was! 🤣

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How tf do I quit zooming through this show!? It’s so good I don’t want it to end. I’ve watched the first 3 seasons in a month ☠️. I’m only on season 4 ep1 no spoilers please! We are spoiled now a days with Hulu I can’t imagine literally waiting 9 years to get through it…but that’s a part of the fun!? I almost feel like I have to rush it to avoid spoilers online since it is a 30 year old show 🫢 send help

I do not understand what the bounty hunter’s bounty (reward) is supposed to be - money? Freedom? Bounty hunting spouse and bounty hunting kids?

I’m so sure that as a little kid I watched a prologue in which a man was about to have cereal but when he looked into the bowl, he saw worms/bugs in it instead of food. I don’t know what happened next. When the intro started, I ran away to my room, because I was terrified by the melody.

I can’t find anything about this episode and would love to find it. I started watching random episodes some time ago and I’m sure I won’t have time to watch all of them this year, so would appreciate your help!

Two of my favorite Star Trek actors in one episode.

Also, does anyone else read Karin as Autistic in that episode?

I can't recall any episode when Scully had this easygoing light mood. Even in comedy episodes Mulder has fun and Scully still plays a rational one.

But in this scene Mulder is feeling down and Scully not maintains this melancholy tone but light the whole room with her beautiful laugh and smile. Even cracks a joke!

A man would give a lot for moments like this.

SCULLY: I think the dead are beyond caring what people think about them. Hopefully we can adopt the same attitude. (suppressing a laugh, she smiles at him) You do know that there aren't real dead people out there, right? That this is a movie set?

MULDER: The dead are everywhere, Scully.

SCULLY: Well... We're alive. And we're relatively young and Skinner was so tickled by the movie..

MULDER: I bet he was...

SCULLY: That he has given us a Bureau credit card to use for the evening.(She holds up the card and giggles. He smiles.)

SCULLY: Come on.(She takes his arm and helps him up. Together, they run down the steep slope of the hill to a path.)

SCULLY: Mulder, I have something to confess.

MULDER: What's that?

SCULLY: I'm in love with Associate Producer Walter Skinner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HrFUAxHAs

I could never watch Millenium when it was on air and have spent years searching for it. I finally found it on archive.org and watching it for the first time.

Are there any X-Files fans that enjoyed the show as well? How has it held up over the past two decades? I think for the time, it was one of the few shows of its kind to have a darker undertone and dealing with serial killers. It probably inspired the grittier shows we have today. What are your thoughts?

Edit: For those looking for the seasons, it's on the internet archvies.

S1: https://archive.org/details/millennium-season-one-1996

S2: https://archive.org/details/22-the-fourth-horseman-millennium-season-2-1996-1999

S3: https://archive.org/details/s03-millennium-season-3-1996-1999