Pilot the Limerick:
Exhuming a boy that was dead,
Finding a monkey instead.
Time loss at night,
And scary bug bites.
Billy's dirty feet got out of bed.
In the words of Julie Andrews, "Let's start at the very beginning; a very good place to start." The Pilot episode is a wonderful beginning to the greatest television series of all time. It perfectly captures the feel of the show and it is a feeling and atmosphere that is built upon throughout nine more years. The story is about kids who are being abducted by aliens in a town in Oregon. Scully is assigned to work with Mulder on the X-Files as a means to "debunk" his work and prove scientifically that there is no basis to Mulder's claims. Scully seems somewhat put off by this assignment and shows her integrity by deciding that she is not going to take sides straight off but rather is going to find the answers. She soon finds that with the X-Files things don't usually work this way. I love Mulder's line about finding the answers and knowing where to look. "That's why they put the I in FBI." Scully is led to believe that there is definitely something going on with this case and while she doesn't believe that it is aliens she can't disprove any of Mulder's theories based on science being as most of the evidence is destroyed. All except the implant she pulled from the exhumed body which she had kept in her pocket. Finally we get the classic scene at the end of CSM walking through a giant warehouse of evidence and filing the implant with others like it and walking out the door with the pentagon evacuation procedures on it. There are so many great things in this episode including many more well known one-liners which are familiar to any die-hard X-Phile. I also really like the music in this episode done by Mark Snow. I thought it was interesting that Mark Snow's first work on the music of the show did not include the show's famous theme. It mainly consists creepy piano sequences backed by resonating string sounds. I thought it was interesting also that there was another person in the basement when Scully went down the first time. We see a man drinking coffee leaving Mulder's office. Its not too often in the show that we ever see anyone else in the basement unless they are either friend or foe of the X-Files. The Pilot gets an easy 10/10 from me. I mean seriously who wouldn't give a 10 to an episode with a young 24-25 year old Gillian Anderson in her underwear? Just sayin.
Exhuming a boy that was dead,
Finding a monkey instead.
Time loss at night,
And scary bug bites.
Billy's dirty feet got out of bed.
In the words of Julie Andrews, "Let's start at the very beginning; a very good place to start." The Pilot episode is a wonderful beginning to the greatest television series of all time. It perfectly captures the feel of the show and it is a feeling and atmosphere that is built upon throughout nine more years. The story is about kids who are being abducted by aliens in a town in Oregon. Scully is assigned to work with Mulder on the X-Files as a means to "debunk" his work and prove scientifically that there is no basis to Mulder's claims. Scully seems somewhat put off by this assignment and shows her integrity by deciding that she is not going to take sides straight off but rather is going to find the answers. She soon finds that with the X-Files things don't usually work this way. I love Mulder's line about finding the answers and knowing where to look. "That's why they put the I in FBI." Scully is led to believe that there is definitely something going on with this case and while she doesn't believe that it is aliens she can't disprove any of Mulder's theories based on science being as most of the evidence is destroyed. All except the implant she pulled from the exhumed body which she had kept in her pocket. Finally we get the classic scene at the end of CSM walking through a giant warehouse of evidence and filing the implant with others like it and walking out the door with the pentagon evacuation procedures on it. There are so many great things in this episode including many more well known one-liners which are familiar to any die-hard X-Phile. I also really like the music in this episode done by Mark Snow. I thought it was interesting that Mark Snow's first work on the music of the show did not include the show's famous theme. It mainly consists creepy piano sequences backed by resonating string sounds. I thought it was interesting also that there was another person in the basement when Scully went down the first time. We see a man drinking coffee leaving Mulder's office. Its not too often in the show that we ever see anyone else in the basement unless they are either friend or foe of the X-Files. The Pilot gets an easy 10/10 from me. I mean seriously who wouldn't give a 10 to an episode with a young 24-25 year old Gillian Anderson in her underwear? Just sayin.