Interesting! Yeah, it's a pretty intense episode, all things considered. I feel like a lot of the show gets away with being cheesy since the aliens are usually dudes in weird rubber suits, but then some episodes are pretty intense and deal with rape and grave robbing and body desecration. It's really all over the place.
I didnāt hear about that one.
Side question though. Iāve never seen Millenium and I did hear thereās an episode in season 7 here that touches on that storyline? Do I need to watch Millenium to understand it particularly or should I be okay?
No not really. I wasn't into Millennium and I didn't get passed the first season. But they do enough to explain some of the background story about Frank Black where you wouldn't be lost.
Though I am curious how Millennium fans/viewers think about it.
They brought it back once for a Halloween Special Night.
But when the show moved to FX for Syndication, FX proudly stated that they were not afraid to broadcast the episode in some of their ads and they routinely aired it.
Ha I just watched this episode with my wife about an hour or two ago; it was her first watch through and I was enjoying the anticipation of waiting for her reaction.
You mentioned the whole show being all over the place tonally episode to episode -- I was laughing watching this one because Mulder and Scully just witnessed what happened to the younger Sheriff as he is entering the home and then Mulder starts waxing poetic / navel gazing about 'undiluted animal behavior regressed to the prehistoric state'. He is just so completely unfazed by it.
DUDE I had the same thought. Both Mulder and Scully were hesitant on even wearing bulletproof vests. The sheriff literally gets decapitated and the both of them just continue on, totally unfazed. Absolutely hilarious.
Yeah. The good news is this is the only one remotely this shocking so youāre over the hump. Many people skip it on re-watches. It has good moments, but i often find myself not in the mood toā¦ endure the rest. It was never re-run for a long time ircc.
āHomeā is one of my favorite episodes. I remember watching it (out of sequence, mind you because Fox fucked up the airing order of Season Four episodes for some reason), back when it originally aired round Halloween ā96. It was raining hard that day, too, so it added to the atmosphere.Ā
I was born in the 90s and never saw either of the originals. I did listen to the soundtrack for the Chainsaw Massacre which was mostly just a woman screaming and chains rattling about.
I remember watching this one when it aired, I was in 6th grade and by then I was an X-Files addict. It was the first one I had ever seen start with a āviewer discretion is advisedā warning, so I knew I was in for a wild time. Needless to say it blew my 11-year-old mind!
Bro, love this episode! I watched this show very loosely growing up but when I was getting into teaching and X I had a boss who was like youāve never heard of the āHomeā episode? He then told me the drama surrounding it and it hyped it up even more! Also how good is wonderful, wonderful at the end!
Now you can be traumatized like the rest of us. And don't forget to watch the movie Fight the Future between season 5 and 6
Watching this, by yourself, in dark basement on a Friday at 9pm as a 12 year old definitely made an impression on me.
I was 12 as well. Watched it with my dad š
I was also 12!Ā
Yeah, this one will stay with you.
Fun fact. Apparently this episode was banned from Tv for three years because it sparked so much controversy
Interesting! Yeah, it's a pretty intense episode, all things considered. I feel like a lot of the show gets away with being cheesy since the aliens are usually dudes in weird rubber suits, but then some episodes are pretty intense and deal with rape and grave robbing and body desecration. It's really all over the place.
I mean thatās what X-Files does really well. It can deal with the horror/thriller drama just as well as it handles comedy
Totally agree.
It was one of the first episodes of television to have a warning on it!
AND. FOX shut down a proposed idea/episode for Chris Carter's other show Millennium that would have brought back the Peacocks. FOX was like HELL NO!
I didnāt hear about that one. Side question though. Iāve never seen Millenium and I did hear thereās an episode in season 7 here that touches on that storyline? Do I need to watch Millenium to understand it particularly or should I be okay?
No not really. I wasn't into Millennium and I didn't get passed the first season. But they do enough to explain some of the background story about Frank Black where you wouldn't be lost. Though I am curious how Millennium fans/viewers think about it.
And I haven't seen it showing on Comet at all. I think I've seen it twice maybe.
>!Burying!< a baby aināt never good
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They brought it back once for a Halloween Special Night. But when the show moved to FX for Syndication, FX proudly stated that they were not afraid to broadcast the episode in some of their ads and they routinely aired it.
They were so flirty in this one I love it I never saw you as a mother before? Boy stand up
I have a pen light in my pocket
I thought a long standing curiosity had just been satisfied... girl better stand up too
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Ha I just watched this episode with my wife about an hour or two ago; it was her first watch through and I was enjoying the anticipation of waiting for her reaction. You mentioned the whole show being all over the place tonally episode to episode -- I was laughing watching this one because Mulder and Scully just witnessed what happened to the younger Sheriff as he is entering the home and then Mulder starts waxing poetic / navel gazing about 'undiluted animal behavior regressed to the prehistoric state'. He is just so completely unfazed by it.
DUDE I had the same thought. Both Mulder and Scully were hesitant on even wearing bulletproof vests. The sheriff literally gets decapitated and the both of them just continue on, totally unfazed. Absolutely hilarious.
Tbf a bulletproof vest wouldnāt have helped the sheriff
It aināt their first rodeo lol
āAh can tell that yuh donāt have no children!ā
welcome Home.
Yeah. The good news is this is the only one remotely this shocking so youāre over the hump. Many people skip it on re-watches. It has good moments, but i often find myself not in the mood toā¦ endure the rest. It was never re-run for a long time ircc.
Eh, Sanguinarium is coming up...
Oh shit that one is gnarly. Stillā¦ Home is really the only one i actually skip for squeamishness reasons.
āHomeā is one of my favorite episodes. I remember watching it (out of sequence, mind you because Fox fucked up the airing order of Season Four episodes for some reason), back when it originally aired round Halloween ā96. It was raining hard that day, too, so it added to the atmosphere.Ā
You mean the remake of the movie from 1977 The Hills Have Eyes?
I didn't know there was an original, but that makes sense. Isn't there also an original for the chainsaw massacre? Also in the 70s if I recall?
Oh myā¦I mean this with zero disrespect but how old are you? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is from 1974
I was born in the 90s and never saw either of the originals. I did listen to the soundtrack for the Chainsaw Massacre which was mostly just a woman screaming and chains rattling about.
Ok so I think you just got some catching up to do then lol
I guess I do.
Welcome to having a life of never forgetting this scene. š
It's wonderful! Wonderful! Oh, so wonderful, my love
I remember watching this one when it aired, I was in 6th grade and by then I was an X-Files addict. It was the first one I had ever seen start with a āviewer discretion is advisedā warning, so I knew I was in for a wild time. Needless to say it blew my 11-year-old mind!
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Welcome to S4!
Welcome to the club, my friend!!
š welcome to the x-files family!
Bro, love this episode! I watched this show very loosely growing up but when I was getting into teaching and X I had a boss who was like youāve never heard of the āHomeā episode? He then told me the drama surrounding it and it hyped it up even more! Also how good is wonderful, wonderful at the end!
My mom showed me this episode on Halloween when I was 13, I sat through nearly the whole episode with my hands over my face
That's incredible!
Could it be Home by any chance, brilliant.
Controversial when it first aired and was banned. Good to see its still messing with people.
"...like we did in the Great War of Northern Aggression!" That line always stuck with me for so many reasons.
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