Yep, exactly what Chris Carter intended. Despite him not knowing how to finish the myth arc, he made the right call regarding how the show should look and feel.

Those first 5 seasons are so great to me, too, cause I’m from the PNW and having a show set/filmed in that area just gives it that extra mood. Anytime I drive through Tillmook forest I think of some of the X-Files episodes that take place out in the middle of nowhere. It’s even better at night: no streetlights, dark forest on both sides of a windy road. Always makes me think just for a moment I’m gonna turn a corner and come across some cryptid or alien encounter.

One of my favorite episodes. I watched it when it aired and loved that they were willing to take a risk with making a gritty, grim, brutal episode. There was really nothing like it at the time. Even rewatching the show now it’s kind of a shocker cause the rest of the episodes are pretty tame in comparison. If it came out today it’d be tame compared to shows like Hannibal.

Plus, you got Scully quoting the sheep from Babe which always cracks me up.

I rewatched the remastered season one on BluRay after getting an OLED TV in December. Holy crap it looks so good.

Would love for a 4K scan of the series to come out with HDR cause I bet it’d look amazing. Maybe with this year being the 30th anniversary they’ll announce something? Doubtful, but one could always hope.

“Alex Trebek?! The game show host?!”

I thought Pennywise was another Dandelo like the creature Roland meets; that one fed off laughter rather than fear. Never heard of Pennywise being the Crimson King, though.

Would be cool to see this be the start of a cinematic King universe. Seems like Castle Rock was trying to do that on Hulu; shame it got cancelled.