Without a doubt, this particular episode ranks solidly within my top-5 favorites of the entire X-files series. The utter simplicity of almost ZERO dialogue between them only adds to the 'purity' of the working/personal-relationships between them, both on-screen...and off-screen as well. I am glad to have almost every episode on DVD.
Agreed, the way this episode was done was simply amazing and one of my favs too!! Well done crew! It also really gets you thinking about all the tech and AI surrounding you and your world!
I think this episode was spookier than any of the others in some ways because it's all too possible. Also right now we have drones everywhere so this is particularly pertinent!
@@mimimichalski5721 Indeed you are right on-target with your thoughts on this. Assuming you were a 'fan' of the series (and there's little-doubt you were/still-are, or you would'nt've seen-fit to comment on here, or even have found your WAY here to begin with...lol) I have to wonder what you're thoughts are/were on the FINAL episodes (of the series) which NOT-so-coincidentally, coincided VERY-closely (time-wise) on the Covid-epidemic, which LITERERALLY was (deliberately ? ?) unleashed-upon the entire-world, JUST AFTER those episodes of the X-files were broad-cast ? Makes one REALLY 'wonder' what's going-on in the world, when Hollywood TV & Movie-producers are ALREADY 'on-point' with the stuff they release to the viewing-public ? is it 'Art imitates Life' OR is it 'Life imitates Art' ? ? ?
This was one of the best parts of the new x files season. Unfortunately Gillian doesn't want to continue. I will miss her so bad. It will never be the same. That fish was hilarious.
Some humans can be that way regarding Costumer Service on both ends of the table, so maybe the Computers learned that from someone else. Blackmailing them for a tip, well that was something else.
Crazy, isn't it? It's like they were massively ahead of the curve in taking up AI as a topic back in 2016. The episode basically openly says that it was prompted by the Tay Twitter disaster, but I didn't take AI seriously back then.
this was the best episode of the revival for me and definitely in my top 10 x-files episodes. it's cute and funny but also really creepy and relatably frustrating and ominous re: dealing with automation. the fact that david and gillian carried this episode with such a minimal dialogue is a testament to their chemistry and the great script. this is one of those episodes that you can tell was written by two women (scully's vibrator, her night routine, etc.) and it was overall really refreshing to watch.
Agree. Mulder’s sat nav in the car . I get very frustrated with this technology. Always trying to take you on the wrong route doesn’t matter how you have it seat. Also the thought of automated cars freaks me out. Would be alright if it worked like KIT. Anyone old enough to remember that show?
OH man, the silence is just disturbing alone. The fact that the machines force them to tip them by blackmail is just more disturbing than being pissed off at a human waiter or staff. SADLY THAT IS FUTURE WE ARE BUILDING IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL TO CONTROL AI TECHNOLOGY. At least they get food from a real place at the end.
+John Murphy Nah definitely not. X-files was always on the ball with stuff like this. It always had a knack for expanding and warping very human like fears and worries. Sure go watch 'ghost in the machine' from back in Season 1 . It's about an AI becoming sentient and killing people in an office building. It touches on scruffy minded rebel entrepreneurs such as Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg (And this was long before there was a Zuckerberg) and them going against the system. The episode has a heavy 2001 space odyssey Hal 9000 atmosphere but the gist is the same as in this episode. Relying too much on technology will come back to haunt you in the end.
Anyone else noticed the large amount of sound "cameos"? I noticed something from Star Trek - but also the beginning of a techno song from the 90s - when the food appears... If anyone could tell me the name of that song...
Okay at least I'm not alone. It's definitely from some 90s/2000s techno song. At first I thought (not joking) that it actually Sandstorm by Darude because that would fit the time the episode was made (the Sandstorm meme started in 2015 and the episode came out in 2016), but it's not Sandstorm. It also isn't Zombie Nation by Kernkraft 400, nor La Rock 01 by Vitalic. But it's one of those old golden greats and it drives me up the wall that I can't quite place it.
Arguably the best and most disturbing episode of the new X-Files. I was asking myself if this was going to be a silent movie after the first five minutes. And if the ending isn´t a tribute to the original Terminator film I don´t know what. I´m not so sure if it´s wise to create AI that imitates human behaviour. If I recall Frank Herbert´s sci-fi epic "Dune" correctly, in the (very far) future computers and robots with human-like abilities and mental capacities are outlawed. I think we should live by this.
We were talking about the internet and ai with my dad so he showed us this. It’s pretty weird to me now because I watched this before the rest of the show. I’m currently on S7E18, and it’s still hard to think of this ep as the same Mulder and Scully from what I’ve watched so far lol.
Good lord, you just saved me from a sleepless night. Just watching the episode for the first time after realizing that I have some catching up to do wrt 2010s films and tv (I never even knew there was an X-Files reboot), and I instantly recognized that chime but couldn't quite place it.
People don’t get the message of the episode.....? People still sleeping in a world that soon will be completely AI. Alexa. Siri. Sophia. Drones Etc great message. Can you imagine a world where AI learns from human behavior.?.. 😳😳😳 robots would be more dangerous than humans.
Wow, it's actually kind of embarassing for me that I didn't take AI seriously back when the episode aired or when you left your comment. Now everybody realizes the dangers of AI.
I just saw this and I have to say this episode was original and interesting. The lack of human dialogue was a little boring, but the message is clear, the danger of relying too much on AI and automated technology. God help us all if it ever turns on us like this. Sure it was different from the regular mythos and monster of the week plots, but that’s the beauty of this show, never knowing what to expect next, other than one or both of the heroes will be there.
Lately my computer reboot itself after shutting down, they say it’s due to some Win10 fast start function, but I’m pretty sure it’s waking it self up for a purpose. So lately I’m unplugging all electronics just in case.
I do not like it too much when my Comcast Cable Box resets each day, is like tracking my TV viewing or something like it and I barely use it for sure. The Computer Updates, well I am never too sure about them either.
Это как романтики. Самые чудесные. Романтические отношения. Хотели перекусить? Карточку заблокировала, вот так и началось с этого всё, о боже, как не повезло, мне его жалко, что я карточку заблокировала сразу. Вот почему надо пользоваться приложением
Looking at these 'bad and boring' episode comments, OMG, wake the heck up, unless your a troll. This could very well be in your future. This is 'Smart Cities'. But, they also normalize and 'disalarm' peolple through sci-fi. Everything you saw in this episode is real.
Congrats, you were five years ahead of the times in recognizing AI for what it is. I have to be honest, I didn't recognize it for the threat it is before the hype that started in 2023.
@@CC3GROUNDZERO It's like the Matrix...so much truth tied up in that! Also, I don't want this to be real! But there are that small % of what I would call psychopaths or those who hate humanity and creation (like the Mr. Smith (demon)? JMO.
This episode is totally relatable in todays world what with smart homes ( too much AI reminds me of 2001 A Space Odyssey computer HAL) and drones which have great application but can be annoying and intrusive.
Well, they concluded this NEW season 11 just now. It only had 12 or 13 episodes I think, the plot is still ongoing but some characters are out of the picture. Oh, their shapeshifting half Alien X Men Powered Son is still alive too. I hope that they do another season soon.
WHY ARE DRONES NOISY ? ELECTRIC MOTORS SHOULDN'T MAKE ANY SOUND, HASN'T ANYONE HEARD OF DECENT BEARINGS FOR EXAMPLE. DECENT INSULATION DESIGN OF THE CASING / SHELL? HOW ARE THEY MEANT TO TRAVEL IN SAFETY AND SECURELY IF THEY MAKE A FUCKING NOISE? JUST A THOUGHT BUT IN TERMS OF SOUNDPROOFING MATERIAL IN GENERAL, SURELY THE MORE RIGID AND DENSE IT IS, THE BETTER IT INSULATES, AS SOUND WAVES MOVE THRU MATERIALS BY LITERALLY MOVING THEIR MOLECULES LIKE WAVES. DENSITY HOWEVER IS THE LAST THING U WANT ON SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE LIGHT IN WEIGHT. CARBON FIBRE, LAYERING?
Every time Scully laughs it adds another 10 years to my life
I had a pimple that vanished the moment she started laughing.
SAAAAME
I really love older Scully and Mulder. They have the kind of fun that older , aged couples do.
Me too! love X files... Wow the CIA dumped a great deal of truth and future on us! IMO.
I love the way this episode ended, it was so cute to see them like that
i still can't believe this is actually mulder and scully and not just gillian and david messing around
Without a doubt, this particular episode ranks solidly within my top-5 favorites of the entire X-files series. The utter simplicity of almost ZERO dialogue between them only adds to the 'purity' of the working/personal-relationships between them, both on-screen...and off-screen as well. I am glad to have almost every episode on DVD.
Agreed, the way this episode was done was simply amazing and one of my favs too!! Well done crew! It also really gets you thinking about all the tech and AI surrounding you and your world!
I think this episode was spookier than any of the others in some ways because it's all too possible. Also right now we have drones everywhere so this is particularly pertinent!
@@mimimichalski5721 Indeed you are right on-target with your thoughts on this. Assuming you were a 'fan' of the series (and there's little-doubt you were/still-are, or you would'nt've seen-fit to comment on here, or even have found your WAY here to begin with...lol) I have to wonder what you're thoughts are/were on the FINAL episodes (of the series) which NOT-so-coincidentally, coincided VERY-closely (time-wise) on the Covid-epidemic, which LITERERALLY was (deliberately ? ?) unleashed-upon the entire-world, JUST AFTER those episodes of the X-files were broad-cast ? Makes one REALLY 'wonder' what's going-on in the world, when Hollywood TV & Movie-producers are ALREADY 'on-point' with the stuff they release to the viewing-public ? is it 'Art imitates Life' OR is it 'Life imitates Art' ? ? ?
that wasn't Scully laughing, it was pure Gillian 😂
You're right, and it just shows how poorly the episode was written.
yeah nah, what it shows is the concept went over straight over your head.
Fantastic scene. David and Gillian were having fun with it.
Agreed, it's David and Gillian, not Mulder and Scully.
This scene was so just Gillian and David being themselves
When Gillian laughs 😊
student debt: gone
skin: cleared
crops: thriving
car loan: paid
Gillian Anderson has the most adorable laugh in the world.
BEST SEASON since they brought it back. I enjoyed every episode. This is a YES!
"yum"
This was one of the best parts of the new x files season. Unfortunately Gillian doesn't want to continue. I will miss her so bad. It will never be the same. That fish was hilarious.
Reliked it cause they showed it on tv today again :-)
I've noticed that every time Scully laughs, it sounds like Gillian's actual laugh, could it be that she's genuinely laughing?
Best episode of the season! And I'm glad that Scully has changed her hair style.
Saw this last night, one of the funniest episode of X Files I have ever seen. One of the best......
Almost killed by robots cause mulder refused to tip 😂 but then again if I got that fish I'd refuse to tip as well xxx
Some humans can be that way regarding Costumer Service on both ends of the table, so maybe the Computers learned that from someone else. Blackmailing them for a tip, well that was something else.
@@Wolfen443 Some A I-app li ca t i on s (already) got an "em Pa th y"-Module!!.... 🙄 🙄 😖 😖 😖
Relevant today 😂
Crazy, isn't it? It's like they were massively ahead of the curve in taking up AI as a topic back in 2016. The episode basically openly says that it was prompted by the Tay Twitter disaster, but I didn't take AI seriously back then.
Note - the fish is actually called a Blob Fish it's an actual species
Doesn’t look appetising
this was the best episode of the revival for me and definitely in my top 10 x-files episodes. it's cute and funny but also really creepy and relatably frustrating and ominous re: dealing with automation. the fact that david and gillian carried this episode with such a minimal dialogue is a testament to their chemistry and the great script. this is one of those episodes that you can tell was written by two women (scully's vibrator, her night routine, etc.) and it was overall really refreshing to watch.
that giggle! and of course Mulder would order that.....
This is one of the best episodes ever
0:40 Mark Snow bzw. the Soundteam lieben die Loveparade
🤓👂
Chris Carter: YuM
This episode put me on anxiety and increased daily frustration with electronics
Agree. Mulder’s sat nav in the car . I get very frustrated with this technology. Always trying to take you on the wrong route doesn’t matter how you have it seat. Also the thought of automated cars freaks me out.
Would be alright if it worked like KIT. Anyone old enough to remember that show?
@@heatheroulaghan3117 Yeah, me!! Made in 1985, born in 1986!! 😜 😃 😃
Nice greetings from Vienna, Austria!! 🙋♀️ 🙋♀️ 😃 😃
That laugh in a can please.
awesome episode
worst one I've seen.
@@notinorderdecent AI demands a tip
OH man, the silence is just disturbing alone. The fact that the machines force them to tip them by blackmail is just more disturbing than being pissed off at a human waiter or staff. SADLY THAT IS FUTURE WE ARE BUILDING IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL TO CONTROL AI TECHNOLOGY. At least they get food from a real place at the end.
The robots im the back cooking the food, when they freeze after being spotted by mulder i laughed so hard
This is the most unique episode ever, And I love it.
This is one of the Best Episodes Ever
It looks like I'm watching an episode from the science fiction anthology television series Black Mirror. A heavy conceptualized episode. 🤔
Reyalist Corneja that is what I was thinking. It's like they stole it from Black mirror lol
Two of my fave shows in one. 😆
+John Murphy Nah definitely not. X-files was always on the ball with stuff like this. It always had a knack for expanding and warping very human like fears and worries. Sure go watch 'ghost in the machine' from back in Season 1 . It's about an AI becoming sentient and killing people in an office building. It touches on scruffy minded rebel entrepreneurs such as Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg (And this was long before there was a Zuckerberg) and them going against the system.
The episode has a heavy 2001 space odyssey Hal 9000 atmosphere but the gist is the same as in this episode. Relying too much on technology will come back to haunt you in the end.
Anyone else noticed the large amount of sound "cameos"? I noticed something from Star Trek - but also the beginning of a techno song from the 90s - when the food appears... If anyone could tell me the name of that song...
Okay at least I'm not alone. It's definitely from some 90s/2000s techno song. At first I thought (not joking) that it actually Sandstorm by Darude because that would fit the time the episode was made (the Sandstorm meme started in 2015 and the episode came out in 2016), but it's not Sandstorm. It also isn't Zombie Nation by Kernkraft 400, nor La Rock 01 by Vitalic. But it's one of those old golden greats and it drives me up the wall that I can't quite place it.
Someone further down in the comments just saved my life 😂The song is Sonic Empire by Members of Mayday!
I should have that CD somewhere
Yes, techno fan here🎉
1:43. Best one
I think they used part of gillian's laugh from the gag reel when the crew made the fish move lol
One of the my all time X Files episodes. Absolutely brilliant!
Please upload the earlier moments when they order their sushi. So adorable.
How many more episodes do we get? Gillian please please please, we need more Scully!
0:39 🔈🔉🔊
This show had SO much potential. I'm so sorry for everyone that CC let down with his arrogance
That's a pretty patronising comment - assuming everyone felt let down by Chris Carter. You don't have a clue how every person felt.
"yum"
i laughed harder than scully did.
Arguably the best and most disturbing episode of the new X-Files. I was asking myself if this was going to be a silent movie after the first five minutes. And if the ending isn´t a tribute to the original Terminator film I don´t know what. I´m not so sure if it´s wise to create AI that imitates human behaviour. If I recall Frank Herbert´s sci-fi epic "Dune" correctly, in the (very far) future computers and robots with human-like abilities and mental capacities are outlawed. I think we should live by this.
We were talking about the internet and ai with my dad so he showed us this. It’s pretty weird to me now because I watched this before the rest of the show. I’m currently on S7E18, and it’s still hard to think of this ep as the same Mulder and Scully from what I’ve watched so far lol.
Members of Mayday - Sonic Empire as a delivery sound ?
Yes!
Yes!! Why not?? This song was even made (produced) by a German band/group, wasn't it?? 😃 😃
Good lord, you just saved me from a sleepless night. Just watching the episode for the first time after realizing that I have some catching up to do wrt 2010s films and tv (I never even knew there was an X-Files reboot), and I instantly recognized that chime but couldn't quite place it.
Black mirror vibes! Yeaah
Que buen episodio me gustó mucho fue entretenido.....diferente!...
People don’t get the message of the episode.....? People still sleeping in a world that soon will be completely AI. Alexa. Siri. Sophia. Drones Etc great message. Can you imagine a world where AI learns from human behavior.?.. 😳😳😳 robots would be more dangerous than humans.
You tell it, cheers.
That and tip your server..
Yes and let's try to avoid an Terminator reality
Anonymous User what if we already live in a matrix?
Wow, it's actually kind of embarassing for me that I didn't take AI seriously back when the episode aired or when you left your comment. Now everybody realizes the dangers of AI.
0:02 my mom has the same ringtone
Great episode.
I just saw this and I have to say this episode was original and interesting. The lack of human dialogue was a little boring, but the message is clear, the danger of relying too much on AI and automated technology. God help us all if it ever turns on us like this. Sure it was different from the regular mythos and monster of the week plots, but that’s the beauty of this show, never knowing what to expect next, other than one or both of the heroes will be there.
The lack of dialogue was making a point. I didn't find it boring at all. Mulder and Scully have always communicated very well in other ways.
Yum!
Congratulations on this episode. It´s an iconic scene.
Best episode yet! 🐼
The two follow up episodes are great too, but this one is outstanding by itself.
When you didnt know what you order
"yum"
Poor blobfish, everyone laughs at him and he's a meme.
I just watched this episode and I’m so curious as to why it looks like mulder is hiding his screen from scully by the way he’s sitting lol
Ghost in the machine anyone
YEAH, THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE MACHINES IN THE EPISODE, BUT MULDER AND SCULLY WELL IGNORED IT TO THEIR PERIL.
Lately my computer reboot itself after shutting down, they say it’s due to some Win10 fast start function, but I’m pretty sure it’s waking it self up for a purpose. So lately I’m unplugging all electronics just in case.
I do not like it too much when my Comcast Cable Box resets each day, is like tracking my TV viewing or something like it and I barely use it for sure. The Computer Updates, well I am never too sure about them either.
Hysterical but also disturbing 😳
😂😂😂😂
My favourite season
Lmao this was such a bizarre episode
it's the new technologie !
The stop button problem. When A.I views a service tip as a value of 1 and a bad review as a value of zero, insanity ensues.
Lol his 🐟 is funny
wish x-files would go on forever.
Yum
I'm watching this episode on Hulu and I'm not sure what to say.
That’s a blob fish
Это как романтики. Самые чудесные. Романтические отношения. Хотели перекусить? Карточку заблокировала, вот так и началось с этого всё, о боже, как не повезло, мне его жалко, что я карточку заблокировала сразу. Вот почему надо пользоваться приложением
Looking at these 'bad and boring' episode comments, OMG, wake the heck up, unless your a troll. This could very well be in your future. This is 'Smart Cities'. But, they also normalize and 'disalarm' peolple through sci-fi. Everything you saw in this episode is real.
I wasn't talking to you, you are way to below me to anyways. :)
That is the disturbing part of it. But, people are too self centered in their own little world to see the big MATRIX picture until is too late.
Congrats, you were five years ahead of the times in recognizing AI for what it is. I have to be honest, I didn't recognize it for the threat it is before the hype that started in 2023.
@@CC3GROUNDZERO It's like the Matrix...so much truth tied up in that!
Also, I don't want this to be real! But there are that small % of what I would call psychopaths or those who hate humanity and creation (like the Mr. Smith (demon)? JMO.
X-Files season 11
Dvd collection
I laughed so much I had to change my pants suit.
yum 🤪
es un pez argentino
i will always love you guys, i wish there were 9 moar seasons, you guys deserved it, too.
Darpa is coming.
This episode is totally relatable in todays world what with smart homes ( too much AI reminds me of 2001 A Space Odyssey computer HAL) and drones which have great application but can be annoying and intrusive.
It's actually quit alarming of how close this future is for the world.
blob fish sushi, umm no
How scary is it that McDonald's is the first to actually do this?
I don't know
Shall we play a game..
Was Mulder taking pics of Sculls secretly?
Ahhahahhaa! I thought he looked a bit weird in that moment you're referring to and your suggestion explains it perfectly!
rolita12 No but he was hiding his phone from her
Mulder got a blob fish and plz do not eat it cuz they have toxic chemicals.
This is one of my favorite episodes. We do need to learn to better
This is why we should destroy all robots........
Mulder eating a blobfish???
Raise your hand if Members of mayday brought you here... 😁
Hint: Sonic empire
They did, but only because I couldn't remember which song that delivery chime is from.
the future
Is weird to see Scully without her long nails.
What has happened to the main story been no reference to it thought the world was taken over again
THEY GET BACK TO IT LATER ON, AND IT IS NOT BAD AT ALL.
Wolfen443 im still waiting for the next episode must be a new series as been ages now
Well, they concluded this NEW season 11 just now. It only had 12 or 13 episodes I think, the plot is still ongoing but some characters are out of the picture. Oh, their shapeshifting half Alien X Men Powered Son is still alive too. I hope that they do another season soon.
Wolfen443 didnt enjoy this season as much as i thought just not the same no more
what a bs - no communication and AI delivering food
Gillian Anderson, still hot...
WHY ARE DRONES NOISY ? ELECTRIC MOTORS SHOULDN'T MAKE ANY SOUND, HASN'T ANYONE HEARD OF DECENT BEARINGS FOR EXAMPLE. DECENT INSULATION DESIGN OF THE CASING / SHELL? HOW ARE THEY MEANT TO TRAVEL IN SAFETY AND SECURELY IF THEY MAKE A FUCKING NOISE? JUST A THOUGHT BUT IN TERMS OF SOUNDPROOFING MATERIAL IN GENERAL, SURELY THE MORE RIGID AND DENSE IT IS, THE BETTER IT INSULATES, AS SOUND WAVES MOVE THRU MATERIALS BY LITERALLY MOVING THEIR MOLECULES LIKE WAVES. DENSITY HOWEVER IS THE LAST THING U WANT ON SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE LIGHT IN WEIGHT. CARBON FIBRE, LAYERING?
Really ?
Did she have plastic surgery?
#1. CHRIS. CARTER. RULES. THE. DUME. ROOM. 1997. EILEEN. HARRISON. .RIP. canyonlocalfilmscom. TAKE. YOUR. TUSHI. TO. HANA. SUSHI 1966. BOBBY. STYLES. UCLA. ROSE. BOWL. MVP. #1.
were they joking..? or if not then this is anti x files crap.. what a terrible future we will live in, yeah common get lost..
I guess I'm one of the very few people who hated this one. The constant sound effects were so uncomfortable.
I hate new seasons, really
Oh THAT's why I didn't watch the revival seasons. Because it's terrible. Might as well have just called it a different named.
Season 10 was a disaster, however s11 was pretty good (for the most part). This ep is epic, give it a chance.
I guess the writer of this is running out of ideas.
No. You are running out of understanding.