I saw a good one on the new Outer Limits about the last man on Earth. He had a AI controlled environment that looked like all his friends were still with him. But at the end all these holo image friends start ignoring him and leave him lost in the crowd. So since he's real he's rejected by the holo people, his world now a living Hell.
From losing her parents and sister to getting cancer then recovering to having a mental breakdown over losing her partner to having him back, ABSOLUTELY she has
I’d be careful with labeling things as “not debatable”. Not that I’m inclined to disagree with you but you can debate just about anything. Say for instance “the sky is blue”. Well sometimes...it’s also gray. But it’s black at night and really, the only reason it’s “blue” in the first place is because the blue light tends to scatter whilst other, slower wavelengths are more readily absorbed by the earth’s atmosphere. There’s very little that isn’t up for debate, least of all tv characters.
@@manifestgtr I meant like "my opinion is the only one that matters" as a joke. Of course it's debatable. I still think she's the main character who suffered the most tho
My favorite episode and probably number one worse than death episode is the "Thing" inspired episode with the mind control worms in the arctic called "ice".
I'm a die-hard X-Phile and still watch it with my kids. They had so many classic bad guys and creatures. Some episodes scared the hell of you. The time loop episode is called "Monday". Carrie Hamilton (Carol Burnett's late daughter) is in it. It's definitely one of my favorites. They had so many great guest stars. Another favorite episode of mine is "Never Again". Jodie Foster voices a possessed tattoo.
One of my fav is the one where they discover a ancient bug species in old trees which are only visible in darkness. I also remember the episode where Mulder discovers a genie and tries to get his 3 wishes without bad consequences.
@@jasonwest3101 for the first season I would say Space. This is a badly-written stand-alone with no series relevance. I would say Fresh Bones in the second season, as it seemed boring and repetative.
Remember the Hillbilly in-bred family episode? The one where the the armless, legless mother was screwing her kids to make more kids. They had their house rigged with traps. Those were some nasty deaths by those traps.
Ikr! Those were the days. Me and my dad watched every Sunday night when I was 10 until 15 I believe. He would get so upset at the 3 words "to be continued". Lol
I guess the black hole guy one haunted me because it was heavily implied they severed his C5 (To permanently immobilize him) turning him into a 'head on a stick'.
Drive. Bryan Cranston has to drive west to keep his head from exploding. Granted, at the end of the episode he loses the battle but oh man that whole episode was so tense, what with this random guy who just has this happen to him and suffers through the whole thing, and the only way to stop it is to stop moving just long enough for Scully to stick a massive needle in his ear to relieve the pressure.
I'm kinda old. I watched the entirety of the X-Files as a fully formed adult member of society. And I am so gratified that a TV show I always felt to be a brilliant, ground-breaking, scary and truly thought-provoking series is still remembered and now being introduced and enjoyed by the next two generations after me. Scully & Mulder forever. :) And that DALLAS crack was priceless....
If you're having trouble quitting those darn ciggies, check out Season 7's Patient X. Saw's Tobin Bell plays the titular lab rat, who seems to be immune to a rather lethal dose of nicotine that virtually makes your lungs explode with seething tobacco beetles. Mulder himself cops a blast, and the scene of him at the end of the ep getting his lungs vacuumed, while the container next to him fills up with beetles is nauseating to say the least. Care for a cigarette, sir? Piss off.
Brand X. Basically a variety of cigarette that contains microscopic tobacco beetle larve. Nicotine found in tobacco leaves is a natural insecticide, but the tobacco beetle has some immunity to it. However, with a very high nicotine dosage, even the tobacco beetle will be poisoned. Basically, the character had to keep smoking constantly, to keep his nicotine level high enough so that the beetles in said cigarettes wouldn't hatch inside him. The issue was that anyone who inhaled his second-hand smoke would inhale the larve but not enough nicotine to subdue them from hatching.
@@dancoulson6579 Cheers, Dan. I was already corrected on that one, though. I stuffed up, lol! The episode still stands as one of the more horrible body horror eps. I like what Mulder says after having the larvae and eggs literally vacuumed out of his lungs. Scully says, "How do you feel?" Rasps Mulder, "Like I just lost a fight with a Dustbuster." Ech.
That’s the one that came to mind for me. That scene where the guy is tied to a chair and has duct tape over his mouth. They pull it off and all the beetles come pouring out >_
@@averydarrenkamp8102 The actor is good, but they didn't know what to do with that character. They hinted at his own paranormal events in his life, but didn't really elaborate on it.
@@mikespearwood3914 lol for real. I did like him in T 2 and generally like his acting. Just like you said they don't ever give him a good back story as far as main characters go.
Ah, yes,”The Black Oil “. When it came out, my ex wife and I went to see it at the University Collection. The showing was only a dollar apiece, because the cinema had a leaky roof. It wasn’t raining, but the shoebox theatre had a black puddle between the forward and back seats. Of course, we had to sit in front of the puddle. Talk about special effects!:)
Detour was one of my all time favourite episodes as a kid. It definitely doesn't get the credit it deserves most of the time. Glad to see it pop up on this list.
When I was 4, Doctor Who was being shown at a local theater. Doctor Who and the DALEKS. We, the whole family, went there for movie night. I remember vividly going, no one else in my family does. The DALEKS scared the hell out of me. Now, now that I'm 53...they STILL scare the hell out of me. Your parents need a liff.
I saw the first episode that they came back with they changed it and I have no idea where to find it can you help me with that? I'm dying to see it not literally but I really want to see it badly and did they go more than one season? And is it still on?
@@dabzprincess92 X-Files originally aired in 1994, i believe. I think Hulu has the original episodes, or perhaps a FOX streaming service, the original network.
@@MastersweetRAY I don't care about your opinion. I asked where to find so I can watch. I could careless if u liked them or not that includes the original series in 90s and then the new ones from the 2000s. So gtfo and just shut up.
F. Emasculata with the exploding bug blisters and Roadrunners with the mind control slug that burrowed into your spine were pretty gnarly and belong on a list like this.
“The Post-Modern Prometheus” is one of the best! I loooove that one! Did you know the guy who plays him is also the same actor who played Agent Jeffrey Spender? He was so great as the monster.
That was supposed to be Cher but she couldn't make the filming. That was the last episode filmed in Canada before they moved filming to the US permanently.
I've got some to add: Being a force of chaos (Fight Club) Being slowly dissolved by hallucinogenic fungus (Field Trip) Being resurrected into a zombie in a trailer park (Je Souhaite)
The episode with the guy who can squeeze into very tiny places and sneak into houses thru vents and kill people. That episode freaked me out so much as a kid.
I liked the episode of the small town that had residents die from their inner ear exploding. It was caused by the Navy having buried transmitters to talk to the submarines by somehow using the earth’s crust.The transmitter emitted a radio wave that effected certain people. If they could outrun the “wave”, they had a chance of living. They were always unsuccessful. Mulder even tried to help someone, even having a Learjet waiting on the highway. Still ended in an exploding head.
Now imagine 2 nights after watching Detour having to do a Duke of Edinburgh night navigation exercise in a woods in the middle of nowhere. Have never quite gotten over that night.
When I tell people I still watch X-files they always say”the show about that guy?” And I say no the show about Scully!!! She is an amazing actress and is the focal point of way more episodes than Mulder. Totally sad it took my rewatching it to appreciate he part in the show
Aaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww my God, someone talking about the X-files! So many good memories! (some bad ones around the latest seasons and ending, too, but whatever) Plain fantastic plots weren't my favorite ones in the show (I preferred more realistic, only tinted with paranormal, ones) but "Monday" what a crazy good episode!
This may be controversial but I thought the second season of the reboot was fine. The Skinner episode and William living a new life is pretty ok for me.
Fates worse than death seems like the horror side of X-Files and horror is Ash's department. Ash also has red hair like Scully. I really liked that new episode about tipping machines, frakking cylons
The artificial intelligence in Robert heinlan's the moon is a harsh mistress is like chaotic neutral in dungeons & dragons alignment, It orgasms from throwing asteroids into Earth but it's definitely not evil per se
How about when Scully was nearly decapitated? Saw that episode called Our town last night. That had to be the closest she came to death. On third time watching and enjoying the show.
am I the only one who remembers the one episode with the soldiers that weren't allowed to sleep because of an experiment that was supposed to make them more agressive
With talking about that Star Trek character being the only A.I. character that isn't evil, you should have mentioned Bishop in Aliens. Regardless of the theories about him being responsible for the egg on the Sulaco in Alien 3, Cameron's intention was him to be a good guy, & its abundantly clear. Not entirely on topic as it does result in death, but one ordeal that would be terrifying is being cocooned by those ancient bugs in season 1's Darkness Falls.
