/int/ - International

I remember it really scared me sometimes as a kid. Like that incest episode with the deformed hillbillies, I couldn't sleep after. Anyway, Twin Peaks is an obvious choice to watch as well.

>>14908 >Twin Peaks is an obvious choice Fucking this! There is a Season 3 from 2017 and it is very well made and ultra-depressing.

Nevör seen a single episode but nice opening theme

>>14912 I had the same settis until yesterday, but I was surprised about how good it is

I enjoyed the show when I was a kid but the opening theme scared the shit out of me

>>14910 >>14915 Why did you watch shows for adults as children? Why not anime and cartoons like other children?

>>14916 The show was for age 13+ and ran at 8/9 in the evening.

>>14908 The first five seasons are wonderful, but it falls off a cliff quickly by season 6. The relaunch was awful.

X-Files up to season five is amazing and encapsulates everything good about early and mid 90s. Sadly it goes downhill quickly, specially when they are filming in Los Angeles/California instead of Canada.

>>14910 When I was a kid I remember there was this episode with the scientists stuck in a base in the Arctic (or Antarctica), and they were contaminated by the black oil, and they were all inspecting their armpits for black dots, I became so scared that I couldn't sleep properly and I couldn't stop checking my armpit.

>>14926 >X-Files up to season five is amazing Why only up to that season?

>>14916 Because it was on during prime time and my mum liked it I guess. Was never a big fan of anime despite watching some of the big ones appropriate for my age, thankfully I dodged the weeb bullet.

>>14928 In season six the production moved to Los Angeles and the series acquired an entire different "vibe". It wasn't entirely bad, some experiments were nice, the format indeed was forcing X-Files to be repetitive and tiresome, but it was also the point when it jumped the shark and you can safely opt out. The series also started to acquire a very late 90s or 2000 aesthetic. Early X-Files is very dark, moody, grunge, whereas from season six forward it is very Hollywood like.

>>14931 It was considered ok for the "big kids" to watch, everyone did and all the boys fapped to Scully. But thinking back, some episodes really were questionable.

>>14908 I tried to watch it few years ago. Boring, too drawn out. Every episode is the same shit. That's series for people of 90-s who had no internet and had no better entertainment. And maybe watched it out of curiosity whether those two will bang each other.

(at the same time it was nice and atmospheric)

>>14937 I also tried to make people watch X-Files and their reaction was the same as you. They couldn't focus and started to do different shit. I think that some story episodes like the final of season 1 and some monster of the week episodes like the pusher (season 3) are very strong, and able to keep a thrill from the beginning to the end. Watching one episode after the other is basically suicide.

>>14944 I watch one after the other and I don’t think it’s boring or drawn out. There’s also a ton of American cuties in that show.

Tales from the Crypt, if you don't mind horror anthology tv-shows. For those who don't know it's not really "scary" horror but more like macabre and sometimes supernatural. The episodes usually have a "bad ending", which I like, and I think it works well with the relatively short episodes that are usually less than 30 minutes. A lot of well known actors in it too.

>>14908 The conspiracy episodes aged great, it was a bit too obscure when I watched the original run.

>>14986 have you heard of the spinoff? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_(TV_series)#Similarities_to_9/11_attacks_in_pilot_storyline

It's really great. I remember being SmolBernd and accidently stumble upon an episode on TV during some late BBQ at our house. Damn I nearly shat myself from being scared. Then I started to watch it on Prime and about halfway through those suckers removed it. I'm still in the dark if Scully and Mulder every... probed each other instead of being probed by aliums.

>>15035 It's on Disney Plus or just torrent

Cigarette Smoking Man episodes are great. Feels like you're finally going to get some answers. Nope. Just more questions.

>>15036 Too stingy for D+ and too lazy to setup a torrent client. Also if you enjoy peak 90s/Y2K TV, I recommend Farscape as my all time favorite show. Just ignore the rather cheaply produced first season, they were still trying like the doods over with TNG and their first season did.

>>15038 then bs.to https://bs.to/serie/Akte-X

>>15039 Now that's an effort I can justify to myself. Thanks!

some of my favorites from the time are: Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG1

>>15120 Next Generation was smarter than real life is today.

>>15120 >you will never reenact famous battles with your mates in the holosuite Good times

>>15123 I would do a lot more in the holodeck than that. Honestly, I would probably never leave

>>15122 TNG is about if humans were actually rational and reasonable beings it was nice as a kid

I thought it was crap even back then.

it is indeed i liked 90s late night tv, sadly i have no names to share because they never said them and usually the opening with the name was cut

>>15126 This actor was great.

I watched like 10 episodes until now and I have to say the couple of first episodes are better than the last ones I watched. Curious to see how the rest of the season is. t. OP

>>15222 if you like the story arc, I got bad news for you. it doesn't really go anywhere. so better get used to the monster-of-the-week stuff. Story arc seasons 1-5 + movie are fine but then you might as well stop caring because it becomes increasingly clear that the writers have no idea where they're taking it and just come with shit as they go.

Xfiles is a bretty damn good show

Never saw it, but i played the Playstation game as a child. Ernst watched Twin Peaks a while back. 9.9/10

Scully is so cute :3

Scully's watch is also nice. Do you think a man could wear this?

>>15436 i have had sexual intercourse with detective scully

>>15446 Evil product placement

>>14908 I'm old enough to remember when The X Files were on their first run on TV. It was friggin great, and even though I was terrified of aliens and shit, I loved most of it. Anything past Season 4 is kinda nose-diving in terms of quality, though. Anything beyond season 7 is essentially a different show and not worth watching, imo.

I am nearing the end of the first season and the overall quality of the episodes has been quite decent. Nothing mindblowing, but there have been some excellent episodes. And the duo Mulder and Scully is just perfect, I think they fit very well together. The early 90s vibes are also very comfy.

>Does Bernd like this show as well? It's pretty decent. >Do you know any other comfy American shows from the 90s? Voyager, Quantum Leap, Sliders, and may be something called Dark Skies but I don't remember much about it.

>Do you know any other comfy American shows from the 90s? I watch early Edition/Alleine gegen die Zukunft to fall asleep atm. Very 90s and slowpaced, perfect to let everything fade away. After Im finished I will go for Quantum Leap (good Recommendation btw). My absolute favourite was Parker Lewis and the 90s Look of it always hits the Feels.

>>15846 https://youtu.be/eDrMkMBKze8?t=166 Posting hate memes about the Jews back in 1997, well before imageboards were invented. I recognise that Jew drawing, so that's where it all started.

>>15854 I think it's a bit older than that...

>>15170 Origin of that opinion: I had watched a monster of the week episode after hearing all that hype. So now I thought of giving it a second chance and downloaded the first two episodes of the first season. The first one was actually quite good! But I have read that: - only about 1/10th of the episodes advance the "main" storyline (and I think I dislike monster of the week) - OF COURSE the final resolution of many of the questions is iT iS a mYstErY... I *hate* that about many series The plan now is to watch until I run into too many bad episodes. Might happen by S1E3. Let's see. What I really enjoy is the "peak Western world" vibes of the show. The 90s were such an optimistic time. There were so few real world problems, they had to come up with trouble from outer space! Americans were even driving mostly sedans at the time. These sedans had a kind of understated (and slightly oversized) coolness instead of the currently popular BRAWNDO PEDESTRIAN KILLDOZER looks.

>>16059 That's what I like with House M.D., it just has a more or less coherent and nice ending. Farscape too if you include the 2 part TV movie which sadly crammed nearly a season worth of story advancing episodes into too little time.

>>16059 As a slightly autistic kid I wouldn't have realized at the time, but damn, Mulder and Scully have such a strong chemistry - you can basically see, hear, and smell the sparks flying. It seems silly that the writers took so long to let them be a couple. Also Scully seems more like a really cool "pretty enough" gf than a hottie (would not wank to now), and I like Mulder's slightly nerdy quiet confidence.

One episode to go and then I'm finished with Season 1.

My wife

There are scenes in the first few episodes of Season 1 where Mulder casually guides Scully with his hand not far above her ass in situations like "we're done here, let's leave" or even just "it's this way". That was in no way normal among "just colleagues" even in the 90s. Pretty weird to keep that, and all the other stuff, up for so long without them having wild sexo in their time off and sometimes on the toilet at work. Or that scene where Scully is disappointed by Mulder leaving her alone on a long, boring drive. That little "aw no" sigh was pretty cute tbh.

>>16563 >Or that scene where Scully is disappointed by Mulder leaving her alone on a long, boring drive. That little "aw no" sigh was pretty cute tbh. I remember… I will look for the exact episode and make a webm out of it, if it’s any good.

I love her so much, it's unreal, Bernd bros. Look at that cute little pouty face at the end.

>>15455 Just realized she also wore another watch in the first season: seems to be a Timex Iron Man, looks pretty good.

>>16563 She's saying ohhh. Goddess.

Every other episode Mulder finds his sister but then not really after all. It gets boring pretty quick.

Scully is a cute. Cute!

>>16585 What’s so great about her - and I think I repeat myself but whatever - is that she’s the right kind of beautiful and cute. She doesn’t look like a super model or otherworldly perfect. She has perfectly natural beauty that really shines through her imperfections. And the character’s personality fits really well into that.

>>16586 Well said.

If this was scripted, it's incredibly good acting. If not their chemistry feels very natural.

>>16607 X-Files is basically the best love story I have ever seen because it's so understated yet obvious with very few of the typical clichés and tropes. Also, a Bernd can learn a *lot* about eye contact and honest romance from it, not the predatory PUA stuff for which you need to be a bit of a sociopath anyway. It's like even if I could, I wouldn't want to do that. I regret not watching it with gf when I had one, we did watch stuff together and discussed characters but none of them felt that real and, frankly, cute and adorable (yes both, no homo). Of course, Mulder and Scully's composure and cool (and aloofness, reportedly one of the few things INTPs have going for them in dating) in so many difficult situations is unrealistic. They are also both shown to be sensitive and caring with children, which is also not something you often find in real life nerdy types. They are nevertheless fantastic role models for nerds, even though they are bordering on Mary Sue characters. They aren't The Best And Always Win, but they are always good people. The laundry list of why they are so good is getting ridiculous, but I just remembered two more things: with how much casual respect they treated two obvious stoner kids and (Mulder alone) some homeless people and one guy in particular. He fucking gave him the keys to his motel room while he stayed at his place to wait for the "monster". Again unrealistic (the guy could have parasites or steal), but exceedingly nice.

What in the actual fuck of fucks, this is either the geniusest of acting (it IS a TV show), or their natural chemistry is stronger than oxygen and hydrogen. The way she buries her face on his shoulder when her slippery jokes embarrass her is the cutest thing. https://youtu.be/BgEN1t4jPRE?si=U2qgt28JhGv-U6Sj

>>16568 >BLAP

>>16725 Do you think a man could rock it?

>>16729 Sure, why not? "Rock it" seems to be exaggerated though. You can wear it and hope it doesn't make you look too nerdy. Kinda like trekking sandals.

>>16693 New Scully smile webm just dropped

I just realized it was pretty stupid of me to not write down the original filenames of my Scully webms, because now I don't know which episodes they're from anymore.

>>16729 Someone bought the Scully watch ;_;

Yeah, the monster of the week stuff is BAD. The highly rated "Eve" episode - how the fuck did they remove the blood, why, and what did they do with it? It makes no fucking sense. Series creator Chris Carter didn't do anything notable before or after - he probably just lucked into the best pairing of actors ever. It is quite striking - they are both good, Anderson particularly, but nothing like the magic when they are together.

Scully's slightly shocked face after seeing Mulder's ex-gf (vibe: it was a mistake, but the old attraction is still there) from the UK give him a kiss on the cheek <3

>>16607 Thanks for sharing these webms, specially with sound. Yes, I think the same as you, they probably improvised a lot, but also they are basic and monolithic archetypes, the skeptic junior vs the endearing eccentric passion driven genius. With more seasons they start to become tiresome, specially Scully, and they change, because there are only so many times Scully can look surprised while visiting a town and trying to debunk any bizarre theories Mulder comes up to explain what is happening, then making a surprise face. They are also very good actors.

>>16561 Imagine if le white women knew the power they could have, if only they dressed like Scully and had a haircut/make up like Scully.

>>17213 Just have a look at this scene. Wholesome :3

>>17215 Women and men both are terribly misguided about how they relate to and how they should relate to the other sex, these days. It's a tragedy.

I love the episode about Smoking Man's annoying life, where he changes the Forrest Gump quote. https://youtu.be/3vGmkB5TIso And he snipes at a guy just for the feeling of knowing he could kill him if he wanted.

>>17229 What do women find attractive?

>>17379 me jk ;_;

>>17379 other women

>>17387 Why he swipes so much his hands on his face? Sweat?

>>17421 Pent up sexual frustration over Pirates and werewolves.

I arrived at the episode where Scully gets abducted and I don’t want to keep watching, because I don’t want that to happen to her :(

S02E06 devastated me, I don't know if I can continue living like this...

>>17433 Lmao

>>16560 The first one is much stronger in context because Mulder's answer is an intentional misunderstanding. Also she keeps hiding a happy face for a while after. Must be so difficult to play that, but Gillian Anderson did it.

>>14908 >tfw saw that episode where they went to area 51 as a kid and was so terrified of the thought of ET's and ufos that it sparked a lifelong obsession with the topic the end is near dear bernds

>>14926 There are excellent episodes after they moved from canada, but the show became more commercialized etc. and lost a bit sovl, sure the quality degraded by every season but I would not say it's bad until duchovny left (I stopped watching at that point)

>>17667 Also I recently watched the first few episodes of californication (the show which duchovny left the x-files for), in the beginning he says something like "I'm not a big porn guy" (as in he doesn't watch porn), when mulder watched a lot of porn and didn't have any relationships, it's obvious duchovny got tired of acting a nerd schizo loser and wanted to act some chad role instead and made the californication character the complete opposite of mulder

>>17232 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man is my favorite episode, as well.

>>17667 it doesn't look right after the move because of the sunny, dry los angeles environment and it's really silly to see an episode that's supposedly in west virginia or someplace, but it's super sunny and there are eucalyptus trees and palms

>>14922 >>14926 I think it dropped off after maybe season 3. The cigarette smoking man storyline ran out of puff and then there was no particular story arc.

The emotional anguish I have been living in the last few days because of this show was unreal, I’m glad it’s over now. Fuck the creators of this show for making us go through that, I never want to lose her again

>>17828 Get a grip, Bernd!

>>17831 I'm madly in love, let me be

>>17668 I remember enjoying Californication when I was young. I wonder how would I judge it now, 20 years later.

Summary after watching most of season 1: Great characters, fantastic 13/10 chemistry between them, usually great atmosphere... but pretty dumb, cheesy stories in most episodes. I have never liked "mystery" stuff and I still don't. My ideal show would be characters from The X-Files and stories from John le Carré but I'd settle for Berlin Station or Le bureau des légendes (The Bureau). But that wouldn't really work because these are often about ethical conflicts where the good guys need to do "evil" things, and Mulder and Scully don't really do evil. At least they haven't so far.

>>17668 Does the porn watching come later? In S1, so far I've only seen him once with a "gentlemen's magazine" that he plausibly had for professional reasons.

>>17877 At S02E08 (or E07) there’s a scene where he is laying on his couch late at night and the TV is on. You can hear moaning etc which implies it’s porn.

Has anybody watched this spin off? Is it good?

There should be a law against hiring Duchovny without Anderson and vice versa. They could play (have played) normie parents, sexual deviants I don't find Anderson physically hot but I think she could play sexy behavior, especially with Duchovny, king and queen, weirdo loner and prostitute with heart of gold... wasted opportunities!

Scully's sister is cute af as well btw

I just realized two things: a) Scully's hair color changed from brown in the beginning (see pic) to red later on and b) she definitely gained weight over the course of the first two seasons. But it looks cute :3

She had some pretty delicious pregnancy hips and milkers in the final episode of S1. In her normal state, there is sadly not that much in these areas.

Oink oink

>>18098 h-hot

>>17976 She got pregnant, and they tried to hide it by dressing her in a wide baggy suits and coats

>>18113 Why would anyone impregnate her?

>>18118 I'd gf her, impregnation comes with the territory. Scully isn't a sex symbol to me, more like a parasocial love interest. So cute and adorable.

>>18118 Why wouldn't anybody impregnate her?

Stop talking about impregnating my wife, you fucking creeps.

>>18183 Stop talking... and start acting!

>>18195 Using the Scullian beauty to repel the Russian hordes

You will never be able to wipe BBQ sauce from Scully's face. Why even go on living then?

>>17891 That's really not much to go on. Back then porn coming from the tv late at night was a thing and if you happened to be watching tv late at night chances are there's porn coming from the tv. To say that Mulder was some porn addict nerd coomer based on one instance where he may have watched porn intentionally is quite a stretch.

>>18265 Awww cute, especially the way she looks at him afterwards Found some fun anecdotes from Gillian Anderson. It has many cute items, genitals, breasts, and her crying about the end of S5. https://old.reddit.com/r/XFiles/comments/1ldq12l/from_march_2002_gillian_anderson_reflects_on_her

>>18269 S2E3 "Blood": Richard 'Ringo' Langly: Obviously, you haven't read our August edition of TLG. Mulder: Oh, I'm sorry boys. It arrived the same day as my subscription to Celebrity Skin.

>>18269 It gets referenced constantly, another example is vid related.

>>18278 >Telling David in his trailer that I was pregnant and him telling me that he felt his knees buckle. They fugged, didn't they.

>>18341 That was a bit WTF indeed. The best innocent explanation I could come up with is that Mulder was by far his best role up to that point and her pregnancy might have hurt or killed the series. But from what I have heard and seen of their real-life relation(ship) (such as >>16696), what I consider most plausible is that they initially had an affair, then Duchovny (who is / was quite the womanizer, and let's face it, Anderson isn't *the* hottest piece of ass for an attractive coomer) dumped her and they had to keep working together.

>>18341 >>18365 I can definitely tell you she grew to hate her fame from being associated with The X-Files: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/11903333.html?es=1 Part of it was raising her child on set, and another part was being typecast and permanently associated with the show against her will, despite her efforts to broaden her reach. She was rumored to personally detest being paid far less than her co-star, although that quote hasn't been independently verified. It could be fabricated. Her second child (first son Oscar) was likely the product of infidelity. She was legally married to Julian Ozanne but pregnant with Oscar at the time she announced her split with him in April 2006. She gave birth in November.

This man is definitely a coomer.

New Scully chuckle just dropped.

You will never be able to hug Scully like this.

It was quite popular here back in the 90s and I do enjoy this show. Sadly the last time I dl'd I only managed to watch it halfway through I had to delete I needed the spaec.

>>18563 >Sadly the last time I dl'd I only managed to watch it halfway through I had to delete I needed the spaec. Oof, I already made up my mind to get a larger SSD for Christmas, so I can store all the good seasons on my PC and have them available to stream 24/7.

>>18500 > Julian Ozanne etc I just had a look at all of her three or four well-known partners, and they are all a somewhat particular kind of - what I would call - ugly. Interesting.

>>18512 A GRANNY coomer even, or at least age-curious. Based. (I looked up "B.J.", curious name innit, and she was kind of old even then and seemed to wear makeup to look even older in the episode)

I liked the episode in S2 with the hot maybe vampire. Shows that Mulder and Scully's (let's call it) love is not some pure children's or Hollywood thing. Adults just get horny sometimes. The club scenes were also fun, as a club enjoyer (mostly aged out of it).

>>18596 I think the signs of the true nature of their relationship get much more obvious after the Vampire episode. Mulder touches Scully much more often than before after she wakes up from the coma.

>>18598 Not to mention that Scully's family members were kind of rolling their eyes at the two for not admitting their love already.

>>18601 I hope they stop putting my dear sweet Scully in danger. I just want her to be together with Mulder solving crimes and exposing the deep state and shiet.

>>18564 Good idea.

>>18512 The actor (David Duchovny) was a self-admitted sex addict at that time, so it makes sense that they would bring that aspect into the show.

>Because Duchovny was much taller than Anderson, during scenes where Mulder and Scully stand or walk next to each other Anderson stood on "the Gilly-Board," an apple box named after her. Cute!

Scully quoting the Völkischer Beobachter. This whole episode was fucked up.

>>18699 Well, it's the first episode with a German title, so that seems appropriate. Scully makes a better effort than what is typical for Americans to pronounce the Völkischer Beobachter, but it's still pretty mangled :3

>>18695 >a self-admitted sex addict at that time >at that time Reminds me of that quote from a US comedian: "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too." I just think it's funny, as a coomer I don't hold it against Duchovny at all. I think the only difference between a sex addict and a coomer is that the sex addict manages to be attractive enough to coom into live women.

>>18704 True.

Loaded up my tablet with 30 X-Files episodes for my work trip. Gonna be comfy. Btw, has any Bernd (I think it was already mentioned here or on another IB?) watched this X-Files mythology video? If so, would you say one should have seen the whole show in order to be able to appreciate it? Don't want to get spoilered tbh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQ0Um9VlhM

>>18560 Watched the episode today. Aw man. That feels like hugging my ex gf when we were so in love. So warm and comfy, been waiting for this all day etc. Like many similar relationship things, I have never seen it played so real.

This is Scully's "my love is probably going to live" smile

>>18825 Will watch it today. On my 4 hour train ride yesterday I was so sleepy that I only managed to watch two episodes, but I already jotted down some ideas for new webms, there were some nice Scully scenes in the episodes prior to the one you mentioned. Also Berndi vlc is no good, mpv is much better!

Where do you get the episodes from? I don't use torrent, so is there a mega.nz archive or something somewhere?

>>18877 You should use torrents. But you can also stream them legally for free on Joyn currently (use adblocker).

>>18877 Well, I do use BitTorrent like a normal person. What's your problem?

Is it just me or is Scully getting more beautiful by the episode? Damn… I also like that there is nothing lustful or superficial about her beauty.

>>18838 >mpv Yeah no. I remember using it for certain videos that wouldn't play in VLC, years back. VLC plays them now. While VLC doesn't have the best user interface, it's kind of standard. mpv is completely its own thing. I actually switched to mpv wrapper SMPlayer after a short while because it was less weird. Can't say that I liked that one much neither.

>>18888 I don't want to install a client, I don't want to seed and I don't want to be dependent on somebody seeding it.

Japanese Iron Chef with the American dubbing.