I may be a bit late to the party but I finally figured out why the FBI has such a bad rap

What kind of FBI agent never has a camera?

Show sucked.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Show sucked.

That's because you were watching the X Files. I was watching the Gillian Anderson show.

Unless something has changed they still don't use bodycams as a general rule, no fed LE does. Again, something may have changed since I retired 8 years ago. No bodycams, no digital audio recorders either. Everything is a "written, sworn statement". No opportunities for problems there at all......

I especially enjoyed the episodes on religious topics. They turned Scully into a believer and Mulder into a skeptic.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Show sucked.

Blasphemy.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Blasphemy.

Concur.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Show sucked.

I didn't like the alien conspiracy episodes but I did like the stand alone episodes.

They definitely did a great job in casting the leads. Great chemistry between the two of them.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Blasphemy.



Concur.

I concur with your concurring. Great show.

Back on topic for me, with apologies for the drift. I loved the show. It's still great.

My wife (girlfriend at the time) loved the show and got me to watching it. I ended up really enjoying it and occasionally wonder if we should binge watch it sometime.

I enjoyed it. There were some pretty good episodes scattered around here and there.

I started rewatching the episodes.The show had an odd ability to capture things 30 years ago that are arguably more mainstream conspiracy today. Not necessarily the alien parts, but the episodes involving government cover-ups and such.

I started to watch The X-Files when it first premiered in the early 90s, and there was nothing like it on TV, IMO a big step up from normal shows at the time. Remember, early cable TV shows like Oz, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos did not exist at the time, and the only other show that was as different as X-Files was Twin Peaks, which was cancelled after two seasons prior to X-Files. These two shows showed big-film ambitions as far as writing, cinematography, etc. I have not watched it since the initial run and can't remember specific episodes, but I thought the first five seasons were very good, my wife and I were fans of the show. Not every episode hit it out of the park, but very enjoyable nonetheless.

Watched it when it was first run; had some really good stuff! The UFO related episodes were ok, but some of the other non-alien episodes were down right scary!

"Home"

Yes, the episode "Home" is awesome. My other favorite is, I guess, based on a combination of the Branch Davidians and Jim Jones. But Mulder and a member discover that in their past lives they were lovers from the Civil War.

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There were some pretty good episodes scattered around here and there.

I am of the opinion that "pretty good", or "great" describes the overwhelming majority of episodes. Weak episodes were exceptional.

I will say that, perhaps in season five, the "mythology" episodes started to have too much representation. In the early seasons, you'd have an episode that revisited the overarching storyline every now and then, with most of the episodes being one-off stories, or two-part cases. Once the "big" story started getting more screen time, the show lost a little bit of appeal for me.

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Originally posted by akcopnfbks:
Unless something has changed they still don't use bodycams as a general rule, no fed LE does. Again, something may have changed since I retired 8 years ago. No bodycams, no digital audio recorders either. Everything is a "written, sworn statement". No opportunities for problems there at all......

Yes, that has changed.

Body cams were rolled out in the last 2-3 years at most federal agencies, including the FBI. I know all DOJ and DHS agencies have them now (though it's possible that 100% of their agents may not have them yet), but I don't know about other flavors of federal LE agencies like IRS-CI, USPIS, or the various OIGs.

The Cigarette Smoking Man. The Lone Gunmen.