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If I hated the X-Files episode 'Millennium' will I hate this show?

posted 15 years ago by VbyV
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This show looks extremely fantastic to me and I am interested in watchingit. However I did very much hate the X-Files episode. Does this mean I will hate the show?

[–] There_Is_No_Sayid 15 years ago

Depends on what you hated about the Xfiles

"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."

[–] VbyV 15 years ago

I don't hate the X-Files. I'm saying I hated the X-Files episode "Millennium".

[–] runarvollan 15 years ago

True lovers of this show hated that X-files episode too;-)
This show is great.. Season 2 is less bleak than before (literally more color saturated, not so much of all those grotesque psycho minds, more about the MillenniuM group itself etc), but "compensates" (if needed) with more varied themes (like a nice Halloween episode) and probably even more mature content and dialogue. So... Haven't watched the 3rd yet due to digital errors in Owls in season 2 (I ordered the trilogy package from Amazon TWICE, both times with the same bugs), so although I know most about it, I'm still looking forward to watching the rest and having seen it all.

[–] UFO_Cryptkeeper 15 years ago

There was nothing Millenniumistic about that X-Files episode other than a character named Frank Black, who didn't act as he did in the series.

[–] runarvollan 15 years ago

Yup.
"Millenniumistic"... The Jose Chung episode was HILARIOUS:
"Boys boys boys boys, lighten up. This is a homicide, not a funeral. HAHAHA!"

[–] mwhite182 15 years ago

No, because the X-Files episode was nothing like how the actual show was (no zombies or anything like that). However that episode at least gave closure to Frank Blacks character so for that it was fine.

Guns don't kill people. I kill people... With guns.

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[–] DavidTL 15 years ago

Isn't Millennium a more violent and shocking version of The X-Files but without aliens and it's just like a more realistic show? I really want to watch it. It's on TV but I always miss it. Is it like the X-Files episode "Home" I mean in like content and story?

Indy - "How could you tell she was a Nazi?"
Henry - "She talks in her sleep"

[–] SilentDues 15 years ago

Isn't Millennium a more violent and shocking version of The X-Files but without aliens and it's just like a more realistic show? I really want to watch it. It's on TV but I always miss it. Is it like the X-Files episode "Home" I mean in like content and story?

I can't really find myself comparing it to The X-Files a whole lot, though plots of certain Millennium episodes do take a very similar direction as that show's style (Jose Chung is even in one ep). But overall, Millennium mostly sticks to its own thing. There's no "skeptic" to Frank's surreal-ness like Scully to Mulder, Frank doesn't even work for the FBI again till the third season, and what The X-Files does with alien mythology is what this series does with religious and biblical material -- a vastly different theme. You also have to keep in mind, whereas The X-Files had pretty much one steady flow of how its show worked, Millennium's three different seasons each had their own distinctive "looks", while the "Millennium" coda literally is an X-Files ep.

"You hear what happened to me last night?"
"You got lucky?"
"They put a tracer on me!"