Our Re-watch Begins: The Pilot Episode

[wendelah1]

Welcome to the xf_is_love episode re-watch. We'll be doing 20 episodes in 33 days. If you missed it, you can find the complete re-watch schedule here.

This week's schedule:

September 10: The Pilot

September 12: 1x2 Deep Throat

September 14: 1x12 Beyond the Sea

September 15: 2x03 Blood



Writer: Chris Carter
Director: Robert Mandel
Originally aired: September 10, 1993 (in the US)

Synopsis: Dana Scully is assigned by Section Chief Blevins to work with Fox Mulder on the X-Files, a special unit of the F.B.I. specializing in unsolved cases with paranormal overtones. He's an Oxford graduate in psychology who worked for the Violent Crimes Unit. She's a forensic pathologist who spent the last two years teaching at Quantico. He's a believer, she's a skeptic. Their first case takes them to Oregon to investigate the unexplained deaths of some high school students. Mulder believes there are aliens involved, Scully does not. It doesn't go well: another young person dies, their motel gets torched, their only physical evidence, the metallic implant retrieved during an autopsy, ends up in a dusty military warehouse. Nothing is explained to anyone's satisfaction. Plus, just who is that chain-smoking man skulking around the periphery?

Most Memorable Quote:
Mulder: "Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted."

Links:
Pilot transcript.
Redwolf's Episode Guide: The Pilot
Autumn Tysko's review
Tell All the Truth. A longer summary by me. Forgive the misplaced commas.
Even More Reviews and Links.

There were hilarious recaps at Television Without Pity, but the link I had is no longer working. Did they take them down? That site is impossible to navigate.
TWOP Pilot recap
TWOP-The X-Files main page
Kudos to allwasnew for providing the links.


Fanfiction: (What? You thought there wouldn't be fic links?)
Here are three favorites. For others, check the spoilers category at Gossamer and the season one tag at xf_book_club.
Universal Invariants by syntax6.
Alchemy by tree.
Untold by Thuvia Ptarth.

Photo courtesy of The X-Files DVD Screengrabs Archive.

The X-Files, an happy memory

[little-firestar.livejournal.com]

Day 1 of the celebration of our favorite duo... and here I am, sharing a memory.
Whenever I think about the X-Files, I think about happier times and my mum -which, in case you were wondering, is still alive, thank you very much.
Anyway... when it first aired here in Italy, it was around 18 years or so. I still remember the channel - Canale 5- and the time slot, every Saturday, from 22.30 to 23.30. I was basically a kid back then, being born in the 1984. God, I wasn't even out of primary school yet (it was spring, and I would start middle school in september). I already loved sci-fi and crime shows with a opassion, ahving beeing rised with Stargate movies, Star trek and Murder, she wrote and Columbo. Something that was a mix of both the genres was somehow a blessing :)
And mum.... she may say what she wants, but she is a sci-fi addicted as much as I am. She loved X-files (and Mulder), she really do. So, it was kind of our thing: on saturday, at 22.30 we would lie on the couch, cuddling like I was still a little baby, we would turn on the tv in the living room and we would watch the X-Files (then, at 23.30, we would swicth channel and look at the start trek classsic series movies marathon on Rete 4, or we would simply talk untill we fell asleep).
It was nice. Even if I suffered every bnow and then from nightmares, and even if for weeks I was kind of scared of water tubes because of the Flukeman.... Yes, I was like that. And yet I was addicted. It wasn't just the show, and even now, even if I rememeber a lot, even if I will never frgfet the flukeman (I swear I remember every single frame of that episode) whenver I think about the X-Files and those Sundays, I rememeber being safe and sound.
call me silly, but ehy, deep, deep down, I am a romantic.