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Originally Posted by scratt
It's very clear from those that the majority of my interest was actually the longer story arc, not the weekly backdrop it was set against. This got more and more the case as the series progressed.
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Originally Posted by Kickaha
Ayuh. Some stand-alones stood out (Fluke, Toombs), but most, after the first season, were kind of meh. "Oh look, another critter. Whoo."
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I'm really surprised by this. I didn't think anybody preferred the continuing story stuff in
X-Files over the self-contained episode stuff. At least I've never met anybody that did. It makes me like
X-Files a little more to know that all that crap was enjoyed by
somebody.
Also, I just gotta ask: what about X-Files episodes like
Jose Chung and that one with The Amazing Randy (it had the father from
Every Loves Raymond in it)? Those weren't "critter" episodes. The writers were very creative. I think they could have come up with very, very entertaining, self-contained episodes for many years.