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⌈ Secret Post #2681 ⌋

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Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I'd like to know a good stopping point. I've heard the show goes through some very bad seasonal rot so I'd like to avoid that mess.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's kind of tough to say, because even at the point where the show as a whole has more weak episodes than good ones and the metaplot becomes complete nonsense, there are still individual episodes worth watching. I would say probably season 7 is where you need to start being a lot more selective about skipping episodes. Season 6 is a logical breakpoint in a lot of ways - it was the season where they moved from Vancouver to LA which changed the texture of the show in a lot of ways and also the show right after the movie - but there's still a lot of decent to good episodes, like Drive, Triangle, and The Unnatural.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

Tbh, I don't care that much about the myth arc with aliens. I'm much more interested in the supernatural of the week dealings. Those cases are so much more interestibg to me than aliens.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree, fwiw, and I think you're going to get a lot more enjoyment out of the show if that's what you care about.

I honestly got kind of bored with the alien plot sometime around the 4th season. But I also just love "weird shit in America" anthology type shows in general.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad to hear that! I thought that me not caring about the mytharc would make it a bit easier to find a stopping point.

Ditto!! I love those types of shows and it's one of the main reasons that I stopped watching Supernatural after the angels were introduced.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, crap, I agree completely about Supernatural! I didn't stop watching it (almost entirely because of how much I love Bobby Singer) but it was so fantastic before it became nothing but metaplot. Exactly that kind of people driving across America seeing weird shit show. I guess basically what I want from a TV show is Route 66 but with ghosts.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

I love Bobby too, but I couldn't watch the show for him. I lost damn near all interest when the angels were introduced. I went back and watched it just to see if I made a mistake and the arc was good. Nope, I made the right decision the first time.

That's what I thought Supernatural would be but it was not meant to be. The first couple of seasons fit and I'm glad to have them but I want a show that's Route 66 with supernatural shit going on. No overreaching mytharc about aliens or angels or whatever. Something character driven and something that doesn't need to explain the mysterious happenings.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding "Drive" and "Triangle."

I'm on my first rewatch of the year of The X-Files, and I'm currently on season three. Mmm, season three.

Re: Popular ships you anti-ship for benign reasons

[(Anonymous)]

Season 6 does have a different feel to it, but it also has some of my favorites (thirding the Triangle love) so I'd say watch that one all the way through. My personal stopping-point is about halfway through season 7 (the episode, appropriately enough, is titled "Closure" - and then *very* selective watching of the rest of s7 & 8. There's IMO only 3 episodes of s9 worth watching, and you can marathon them like a movie b/c they're closely related. (the William "trilogy")

A lot of fans I've met aren't just annoyed with s8 & 9 because they're bad (even though they are) but because the creators dragged out the show and made so many questionable decisions that it felt like a kind of betrayal to the fans. 8 felt like an experiment that ultimately didn't work. Most of 9 felt like Chris Carter was just trying to break the show, as hard as he could, as brutally as he could. So much of it was just painful to watch.