Finished The X-Files recently and need a new hour long sci-if show to watch. Any suggestions? I’ve tried Babylon 5, Farscape, and Sliders but none of them have been interesting/entertaining enough.
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X-Files Replacement
Warehouse 13 is X-Files 2.0. You’re welcome.
>Warehouse 13
Looks too modern. Are the character/plots fun? Do the leads have chemistry?
It more lighthearted than the X-Files.
Have you watched Stargate SG-1? It definitely was a X-Files vibe with the ancient aliens and government conspiracies. And all four leads are great as well.
>Have you watched Stargate SG-1?
No but I considered it. Decided not to consider it after watching the movie.
Trying to avoid Whedon. Otherwise I probably would've started Buffy.
The show is way better than movie. Roland Emmerich wasn't involved with SG-1, and feels completely different.
Don't listen to him. It's not Xfiles 2.0, it's Basedfiles. Expect strong women, homosexuals and Black folk all over the show.
Xfiles is one of a kind, but if you're looking for something similar go for Millennium or, to s lesser extend, Dark Skies
FRINGE is better.
Millennium. S1 might be a bit of a slog at first but stick with it.
>Firefly
>Battlestar Galactica
>Sarah Connor Chronicles
>Severance
It's a very different kind of show, but there's always Star Trek and its spinoffs. Or the original Outer Limits.
>Star Trek and its spinoffs
I've only seen TOS. That's the sort of show I'm looking for but I've been too lazy to watch the TOS movies. Does everything need to be watched in order?
>Does everything need to be watched in order?
no, I would start with TNG, or you can go right into ds9, you will love it.
>Does everything need to be watched in order?
Not really. You don't need the movies to appreciate TNG (and you don't need to watch the TNG movies to appreciate DS9 or pretend to appreciate Voyager either). The TOS movies are worth watching anyway, though. I would recommend watching TNG before DS9.
Is Voyager actually worth watching? I'll probably start with TNG though. And I'm going to watch the TOS movies eventually.
>I think the X-Files Myth Arc is ass
Yeah that shit was awful, which is part of why TXF was so good to put on in the background, there's a lot of episodes you can ignore or just not pay too much attention to. And in between the garbage you'd get fun Scully and Mulder scenes.
>Babylon 5 (takes a bit, but s2-s4 trash The X-Files and have conspiracy elements)
I think I only watched the first episode but it seemed like a very political series and that just didn't interest me.
Rewatching Twin Peaks is probably a good idea actually.
>Old Canadian sci-fi show about a disgraced janitor, zombie assassin, escaped love slave and a loose robot head that hijack the evil empire's super ship and go on adventures on other planets.
That sounds fantastic.
>s Voyager actually worth watching?
No, hence "pretend to appreciate."
>I'll probably start with TNG though.
Enjoy. It's a great ride. But as you're no doubt aware the first season of TNG is notorious for being a bit shit. If you're not feeling it, feel free to skip through episodes. Season 2 is much better, and season 3 is where the show really becomes what people remember. TOS knocked it out of the park immediately, but TNG takes time to get going.
>No, hence "pretend to appreciate."
I missed that part somehow... and, thanks. It'll probably take me some time to get used to the new format. I've seen at least one or two episodes of TNG so I think have some idea how it works but its still odd to me.
>[Babylon 5] seemed like a very political series and that just didn't interest me
That's not entirely unfair, but B5's politics are ultimately always grounded in people.
>looking for a formulaic show with fun characters and a hot lead actress
Try Castle or Buffy.
>B5's politics are ultimately always grounded in people.
It's not the politics itself that bothered me I'm just not interested in anything that has to do with like government and bureaucracy or whatever. Like in X-Files they're FBI but the series isn't them debating policy or legislature, like its not Star Wars. The closest it comes to that is the shit with The Cigarette Smoking Man and I'd just skip all his scenes, I fricking hated that guy.
>Try Castle or Buffy.
Who's hot in Castle? I guess Whedon's the best I'm gonna get.
>The closest it comes to that is the shit with The Cigarette Smoking Man and I'd just skip all his scenes, I fricking hated that guy.
This thread gets worse the more we hear.
TOS movies are mostly good
I don't expect them to be bad
expect them to be like the better of the worse of the better episodes of TOS
however, 4 is just awesome
- and 6 is pretty good too
1, 2, 3 are good
5 is... well, not good
ST: Voyager had some good x-files vibes
Yeah I was thinking DS9, it’s obviously not xfiles but same kind of comfy.
Try ultraviolet (1998) only 8 episodes but very good vampire show
Star trek tng ds9
Fringe
Seconded: Fringe
Fringe is the closest we've come.
Rhymes with cringe.
well done, you have outed yourself as a zoomer
fauxlivia is cringe upon rewatching
name 1 better show thats got an x-files vibe
eh I think Fringe only had that first season that was like the X-Files. It looked completely cheap with soap opera lighting when they moved to Canada
I'd rather watch Millennium or Supernatural
And you as a butthurt fanboy :o)
It depends. I think the X-Files Myth Arc is ass. The standalone episodes are good.
Off hand the following are better or equal.
The Twilight Zone (OS)
The Outer Limits (OS and 90s version)
Babylon 5 (takes a bit, but s2-s4 trash The X-Files and have conspiracy elements)
Space: Above and Beyond (only 20~ episodes)
Twin Peaks (but only s1, some of s2 and s3)
Try Lexx. Old Canadian sci-fi show about a disgraced janitor, zombie assassin, escaped love slave and a loose robot head that hijack the evil empire's super ship and go on adventures on other planets.
Fringe
Lost
Eureka
kolchak the night stalker
friday the 13th the series
fantasy island with ricardo
brisco county jr
lost in space
the prisoner
buffy the vampire slayer
dark angel
shibuya15
>the prisoner
I actually watched that after X-Files.
did you like it?
Didn't care for the last episode but, yeah, I loved most of it.
how about the old avengers with steed & peel?
Dollhouse: decent premise, mix of episodic and long arc stories and great finale.
watch stargate
It's episodic, but the 90s Outer Limits show is decent.
Lexx is really bad so far
Heh that was my suggestion. Did you find S1E1 or something?
>Did you find S1E1 or something?
The whole show is on Prime and YouTube free. It's boring but I'm only about 25 minutes in.
I'd probably watch it if Emma Peel wasn't dead.
Does Lexx have giant bugs in it?
The titular ship Lexx is basically a giant bug.
Well yeah I see that but I see something on the Wikipedia page about the "insect race"
"Insect Civilization", my bad
Have you tried listening to your own thoughts for a while?
Unfortunately there's nothing really like x files.
Millenium is as close as you're going to get as far as the look and feel goes.
The original Outer Limits is good for an episodic scifi horror.
What the frick is your problem with the newer version? Ultimate shit taste? It's mostly short stories from beloved sci fi authors, some of them even prize winning ones.
>What the frick is your problem with the newer version?
I've never seen it, so I can't recommend it. I'd be surprised if the 90s show lives up to the original (or at least the first season of the original) but I intend to find out eventually.
Oh okay. I guess generally people think like that. It's good though, as I said they mostly took short stories from big writers for the episodes.
>Unfortunately there's nothing really like x files.
By "like the X-Files" I basically meant formulaic and entertaining. Or formulaic and interesting. I know Anderson and Duchovny's chemistry is impossible to replicate but surely there's more MOTW type stuff with fun episode ideas.
>supernatural
>Charmed
Yeah, sort of like that.
Fringe for sure
The obvious is
supernatural
GRIMM
Constantine
Charmed
Buffy
fringe is the closest i've felt to the feeling of watching x-files as a young boy
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is basically the grandfather of The X-Files and Chris Carter says that outright. It's about a journalist in Chicago who keeps running into weird stories and is strictly MOTW but very interesting and I love the characters. Kolchak has a loser underdog energy to him that you don't really see these days.
Fricking awesome show, and totally spot on.
I think the movies are better than the show itself, but I would second this recommendation.
I'll check out Kolchak cause he sounds like an interesting character but I guess I should've been more clear, I was pretty much just looking for a formulaic show with fun characters and a hot lead actress. The X-Files, in my opinion, is mostly really bad after season one but I enjoy the different monsters of the week and sci-fi shenanigans. Anyway, I've settled for TNG for now. Lexx was really bad. And the first episode of TNG is really bad but I figure I should watch it all.
I'll probably try out every other show suggested in this thread too. My main replacement right now is Bleach but its godawful, even by shonen standards. Then I decided I'd try out Xena but the first few episodes didn't grab me or make me feel invested at all. Maybe I should've just gone back to Breaking Bad, I dropped it in the middle of S2 to start X-Files.
>I was pretty much just looking for a formulaic show with fun characters and a hot lead actress.
Might have said that at the start
Yeah my bad
>The X-Files, in my opinion, is mostly really bad after season one
Questionable taste.
They run out of ideas after S1. The comfy early 90s feeling disappears, and the myth arc goes into full swing with Krycek and X. They should've just stole plots from Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
Smallville
A few of the same production people, the same composer and you see a lot of the actors from X-Files show up. It's very monster of the week at the beginning.
Fringe
Fridge should be in every answer here
>debbie wanted to be successful
>she should have settled for being alive
I got 5 seconds into this garbage and I already gave it up
Enjoy never experiencing defeating a rakshasa in an elderly israeli community, bozo.
Ultraman Max or Jack
>Jack
?
Evil (2019)
Although I genuinely found leland to be too well written and disgusting a villain that I couldn't relax so I dropped it
Brisco County Jr.
It has some scifi elements to it, and Bruce Campbell
Season 1 Fringe is like classic X files after that it starts to go up it's own ass.
Forget what they all said.
Watch Nowhere man
>Watch Nowhere man
why