I watched compulsively from when I first discovered it about a quarter of the way through the first season up until mulder was mostly gone, and then I was out of there, too. In my opinion, those first seasons will be regarded in forty years the way the original Twilight Zone is regarded now...as a classic.
There were episodes sometimes that I really didn't like - the one about the inbred family. I almost wrote Chris Carter a nasty letter about that one, it was so gross. But there were others that were just wonderful...touching or funny or just really well-written. Some of my favorites:
- The "reincarnation" episode, where we seem to find out that Scully was Mulder's father in a former life. That just seemed to make sense.
- The cockroach episode.
- The Postmodern Prometheus
- Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
- The lake monster episode, where Mulder and Scully think they're trapped on a rock in the middle of the lake, and then they find out that they could have waded to shore, and where the creature swims by just after Mulder has turned his back to the lake
- The episode that goes into the background of Cancer Man, and we discover that he's a frustrated writer. I liked this one, too, because the town where I grew up was mentioned
- The La Chupacabras episode - where Fresno got its very own episode; although it wasn't filmed here, they mentioned some real places - and I live right across the street from one of them
- The first Max Fennig episode
Oh, and I always really liked The Lone Gunmen...but it really ticked me off when they killed them near the end of the series. That just wasn't right.
Anyway, yeah, I'm a fan.
