UNCUT - The X-Files S2E19 - Død Kalm

If you want to see a great movie with Gillian Anderson in a voice-talent role, the Studio Gibli animated movie Princess Mononoke, has Gillian Anderson doing one of the roles for the English dub.

I like this episode quite a bit, mostly because the Philadelphia Experiment is my fav conspiracy theory. I read so much stuff on it when i was a kid Netscape via my 56K dial up modem.

It's one I come back to now and again during rewatches, not because I think it's *objectively* good, more just a personal self-indulgence, the comparison to Darkness Falls was good - not a ton of plot, but good atmosphere and for me almost like a "campfire ghost story" you'd read in a kids' scary stories book, and I enjoyed it on that level. I appreciated Alex's nod to the score, it's one of Snow's more specific-episode-unique sounds, and shows up in a lot of the released soundtracks because of that. It works well for the atmosphere, and I LOVED the DKC comparison! That had never occurred to me, but I INSTANTLY knew what he was talking about.

When we say an episode is bad, keep this in mind. On your third series rewatch (or higher) you ask yourself "Can I skip this episode?" That's the reason I and maybe others dislike episodes, we just want to move on to the great stuff.

May I recommend Gillian in The Fall its a fairly short series. 3 seasons at 6 episodes each Also, she was on Hannibal

My take is that If Chris Carter likes you, you get a producer credit. It's a way to reward someone with higher pay under union pay scales. Recurring writers and directors almost always get producer credits. As for the episode, just a C-tier for me. Cool idea, but just executed poorly. The MotW episodes do indeed vary a lot in quality.

Now you guys need to watch The Philadelphia Experment film.

I remember loving this one when I was younger. Just such a creepy, atmospheric episode. The idea of being trapped on this ship as it drains the life out of you was great. I'll admit, it has lost some charm over the years, but it's still a perfectly enjoyable C+ to me. Great direction and atmosphere, and I love Scully's last journal entry about the end of the world. I do agree it really loses steam in the second half. Really though, the main give away that it wasn't a time warp is that a destroyer would only be provisioned for a couple months at most. If they really experienced 50 years of time, they're have run out of fuel and food in no time, let alone on the lifeboat.

AL BEILEK PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT Time Travel The Philadelphia Experiment - Al Bielek’s Time Travel Confession | Art Bell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bP4IbkCg5M Al Bielek- Art Bell Radio Interview- The Philadelphia Experiment March 12, 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqkNAFL02BE Al Bielek - Preparation/Aftermath of the Philadelphia Experiment, Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3qvZlLpbU4 Al Bielek - Preparation/Aftermath of the Philadelphia Experiment, Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvOAboFV43E Alfred Bielek QUFON 1997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTyrt1lZ634

So this aging process doesn‘t effect the hair? Great! I wear hats not without a reason.

One of my guilty favorites, I re-watch fairly often, starts great and slowly gets to meh. But I like the atmosphere. Heads-up at this point in the series, Chris Carter was dividing his talents between X-Files and his new show Millennium that first aired Oct 25, 1996.

Mulder seems like a guy who would have seen the Man Trap

Episodes like this hinge on whether or not you like the guest stars or their characters because Mulder and Scully are going to be fine after all. Unfortunately they kill off the only character that isn't grading early on and after that I had nothing left to stay invested in.

I'm kind of prepared based off the thumbnail for you guys not to have been into it, haha, but I'm still gonna love re-watching it with you. Død Kolm's just trashy fun X-Files. I'll go for any Mulder & Scully Get Trapped Someplace Creepy episodes, and they're mostly ludicrous like Firewalker, but also awesome like Ice and Darkness Falls. Bring on the goofy B-Movie X-Files! [After re-watching]: okay, yeah that make-up's dodgy as hell, pretty awful, but still dig this ep ;)

Gillian Anderson was in The Last King of Scotland in 2006, which was a really good movie.

Scully’s speech about the afterlife was the moment I realized how little character development was actually happening in this episode. I was so eager for her to keep going because I was starved for character details. This was one I always remembered because it was so creepy and atmospheric (Bowman Smoke!), and I was expecting to love watching it again, but nothing much really happens, huh?

I liked it a bit more than most people in the takes did, but still nothing extraordinary. I also think, part of the problem is that this show set the bar so high with many phenomental, downright spectacular episodes, that even a "regular quality" episode somehow leads to slight disappointment, making it appear weaker than it actually is... because we are just used to so much better. I hope that makes some sense. Either way I think it is 100x better than the previous one. I think there were some great moments here nonetheless. And the commentary by Josh regarding theories by main characters and the reference to episode "Blood" was very good, I liked that a lot. Needless to say, always a great surprise to see an unexpected Early Access X-Files reaction. :)

Random monster-of-the-week episodes are like a box of chocolates: you never know what yer gonna get.