Any X-Files fans out there !!!

[Shadowjack]

There was one episode where Cancer Man and his background were explained. How he was recruited to shoot JFK and M.L. King. Why he started smoking.

Its told in a series of flashbacks as he writes he memoirs(In the form of a fiction novel).

During the episode, he gets the patch to quit smoking, and prepares his resignation from the "agency" letter, which he will post when his story is published.

I wont give more away, ive only seen it once and it doesnt seem to be rerun much.

[JaceSan]

Which Cancer Man episode? He was part of the on-going mythology until recently wasn't he? I liked the episode with the Lone Gunmen at the trade show tracking down the girl that came on to the "normal" looking gunman.

I'm not real good at remembering the names of particular episodes.

I also like the episode with Giovanni Ribisi (sp?). Where he gets powers from being struck by lightning.

[JaceSan]

I must have missed that one. Which season is it from?

[jasoom]

One of my favorite X-Files hosted Darren Mcgavin (Remember him from the Nightstalker?)
as an aged former X-Filer. It was interesting to see good ole Carl Kochak, Scully, & Muldar on the screen together.

[Shadowjack]

Jace, I believe that episode was in the season just before the movie came out, but Im not sure.

Yeah Jasoom, thats a good one too. I liked the Night Stalker. Didnt Chris Carter once say that was his inspiration for X-Files?

There was an RP Game out, ive never played it but I have a friend (real RPG freak) who did, out years before x-files, called "Stalking the Night Fantastic!" where you played FBI agents investigating supernatural occurances. According to him the idea behind the game was better than the rules though.

Anyone here ever heard of it?



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---Shadowjack

[JaceSan]

Yes, I've heard of it. The person running the D&D game I was involved in back in...the early 80's tried to get the group to play.

We made up characters, but never really got into playing too much.

I think the rules were a bit complicated. The idea behind the game was brilliant. Ask Chris Carter.

[Bmat]

I don't watch at all anymore- it got to be less SF and more horror- a genre I don't like.

[jasoom]

Hey there Shadowjack, not sure, but here's a few background tidbits. Carl Kolchak started out as a novel called the 'Kolchak Tapes', written by journalist Jeff Rice in the1960's. The novel came to the attention of producer/director Dan Curtis (known for his work on "DARK SHADOWS"). Curtis brought Kolchak to the screen & chose the famed Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone, Star Trek), to handle the script, and thus, the 'Night Stalker' was born.

[MorganaK]

I use to be such a die hard fan of X-Files but after the first season it turned into more of a horror show. I wasn't that impressed with the movie either. Maybe my expectations were too high.

Saw the first show of the new season. It lost me. Left me wondering if T2000 was brought in to give it a more scifi feeling? That didn't work for me.

[Shadowjack]

I think its gone on well past its lifespan. They are retreading old episodes, and the eerie feeling the show used to have has become all too familiar.

I want to check out the "Lone Gunmen" though, that might be funny!