Hmm, yeah, you're right about S6, actually. I thought that Bermuda Triangle one was just about the greatest thing ever the first time I saw it... I think the thing was, the "funny" episodes were like great novelties and instant classics back when they were less common, but when it got so that every other episode was a funny one, it kind of diluted it a bit for me (although in the later series, the funny ones were by and large also the good ones, 'tis true). I really liked S5 at the time of first viewing, iirc - Kill Switch and Bad Blood are two of my favourite X-Files episodes of the lot (and whichever one is the one where Scully takes a weekend off to solve some small town's spate of mysterious deaths all by herself). I think the film was...strange in many respects, but probably represents a missed opportunity to wrap up the whole alien conspiracy arc and move on, instead of beating the shaggy dog into the ground as they did in the later series. Yes, the garbage monster! Weren't they, rather hilariously, also pretending to be married at the time? And the one where the camera crew were following Mulder and Scully around was good, I think. I wish I had more X-Files on DVD, actually - if I ever come into any money...
The weird thing about the X-Files for me was that I spent the first two or three seasons really digging the conspiracy-arc eps and finding the "monster of the week" eps a bit tedious, and somewhere along the way the situation reversed so that the one-offs were the good ones as far as I was concerned and the arc episodes just inspired deep apathy in me, really (apart from the two-parter with the plane crash which is imho excellent for the precise reason that it kind of ignored what had by then become the repetitive aspects of those stories).
Well, you know, don't push yourself unnecessarily - slow and steady wins the race. I'm feeling much more, I don't know, much more "it", whatever it is this past week or so. Hope things continue to improve for you too. :)
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The weird thing about the X-Files for me was that I spent the first two or three seasons really digging the conspiracy-arc eps and finding the "monster of the week" eps a bit tedious, and somewhere along the way the situation reversed so that the one-offs were the good ones as far as I was concerned and the arc episodes just inspired deep apathy in me, really (apart from the two-parter with the plane crash which is imho excellent for the precise reason that it kind of ignored what had by then become the repetitive aspects of those stories).
Well, you know, don't push yourself unnecessarily - slow and steady wins the race. I'm feeling much more, I don't know, much more "it", whatever it is this past week or so. Hope things continue to improve for you too. :)