I'll admit, I was late to the party, I must have joined The X Files in about 1997, so I am watching these for the first time.
No wonder this show became the huge, long running hit that it is, the foundations were clearly very strong. This is a fantastic first episode, I can hardly find a single flaw. It explains why Mulder is such a Maverick, why he is the way he is, and why Scully is sceptical, I had no idea she was sent there to throw a spanner in the works.
It's a good story, it's not as wild as some of the later ones, but it has just the right balance of something very strange happening.
Great to see that characters have been there since the start, cigarette smoking man in particular, he's great here, very sinister. Duchovny and Anderson look so young, both look so sweet.
Very enjoyable, it's stood the test of time, 9/10.
No wonder this show became the huge, long running hit that it is, the foundations were clearly very strong. This is a fantastic first episode, I can hardly find a single flaw. It explains why Mulder is such a Maverick, why he is the way he is, and why Scully is sceptical, I had no idea she was sent there to throw a spanner in the works.
It's a good story, it's not as wild as some of the later ones, but it has just the right balance of something very strange happening.
Great to see that characters have been there since the start, cigarette smoking man in particular, he's great here, very sinister. Duchovny and Anderson look so young, both look so sweet.
Very enjoyable, it's stood the test of time, 9/10.