Mark E Smith Is Jesus
Literally, so what he says can't be wrong.

That's deadon if you want to take issue, sir. But my personal experience says otherwise. Hell, a large part of my family was in the Orange Order for years, and now they don't give a shit/fuck/whatever. I'm talking recently, of course- post-Good Friday agreement. I mean, you go back further, we gave the biggest…

The 'Don't give a fuck' mainly comes from the fact that we just don't care anymore. Even the Unionists I've met hate the British system. It's all tradition and shit, so most of us in the younger generation don't give a shit and the older generation is getting too old to give a shit. I suppose we're more apathetic…

There's a tiny little scene at the end of the Massive making of documentary-

SPOILERS, SORT OF….

@Montypark- yeah, but she gets with the Taxidermist instead. So it's all good.
@S. Jerusalem- I'm gonna assume dead, although I seem to remember Fuller saying the first two issues were complete at one point- but that was in, like…March. So maybe just really delayed?

Yeah, especially since a) they're awesome and b)
*I'M NOT SURE IF THIS COUNTS AS A SPOILER*
Bryan Fuller apparently wanted to eventually end the show with a deathbed kiss.

@RagingBear- it's pronounced 'telly'. And frankly, any place where you need to queue for a trolley is…questionable.

I've been doing a re-watch lately (just finished 'Emily' in season 5 last night), and 'Space' and Teso dos Bichos' are pretty much neck and neck as irredeemably shitty. Though 'Ghost in The Machine' is bad, too. And 'Fire'. And 'Shadows'. And '3'. And I seriously don't get the love for 'Irresistible', either. …

I think I agree with you and zack that it's the best example (or damn close to it) of The X-Files in 'straight' mode. No weird subversions, no structural tricks, no real gimmicks. Just Mulder and scully versus a cool bad guy and some awesome set pieces. The russian roulette scene remains one of the best scenes…

Y'know, at some point thse boards are going to have to let go of the whole 'firsties/secondsies/whatever' thing. People are living IN FEAR.

Oh, the show was always fairly good at character evaluation, but I veel for the most part that in the early episodes, Mulder and Scully tend no to really emotionally react to events outside of the mythology. There's more at stake there, and it's only really in late season two that the show starts to branch out of…

It makes sense if it's a Darin Morgan piece, because it's fairly weighted against Mulder, and Morgan always seemed to see Mulder as dangerous and broken because of his obsessions, when a lot of the other writers tended to see him as sort of heroic and noble, at least at this point in the show.

Oh, it is really great. The whole 'Mulder and scully shipwrecked' sequence is fantastic, and surprising for coming from such an otherwise light ( but pretty funny) episode.

I think you're talking about 'Quagmire', which is awesome. It's at the tail end of season 3, I think. I'm pretty sure it was made because someone on staff said 'Hey, That Jurassic Park sure is pop'lar!'

Character development
I think a big reason the early mythology episodes work so well is that they're really the only episodes to deal explicitly with character development.

Hey, this show is actually funny!
When Seinfeld was actually airing, I was both too young and too much in the wrong country (as far as I'm aware, the BBC treated the show like shit for no reason in the U.K., like they also did with Arrested Development.) to really get the show. And I'd heard stuff, blah, but I didn't…