s04e07 — Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man

An amazing series, here it is the shadow government.
It is a pity that this is very easy to believe and perhaps with good reason.

I have been waiting for the development of this character for a long time

An interesting series, finally we learned at least something about him

The series perfectly reveals the character

Seriously? Kennedy and Luther King?

I was pleased with the reference to Forrest Gump, in general, the Smoker is an interesting character, I hope that there will be many more similar series dedicated only to him.

Well, now we know who killed John F. Kennedy.)) A strong series that reveals in detail the main villain of the series - the Smoker!

Life is... like a box of chocolates. A cheap, meaningless, formal gift that no one needs. Unrequited, because you will only get back another box of chocolates. And this incomprehensible muck with a mint flavor remains with you, and you thoughtlessly chew it when there is nothing else to eat. Sometimes, of course, you come across a candy with a fondant filling or an English truffle. But they are rapidly disappearing, leaving not even a taste. And now in the remains there are crusty toffees and sweets with nuts, on which you can break your teeth. If you have the courage to even eat them, then all you will have left is an empty box... filled with useless crumpled wrappers. (c) Smoker

"Khrushchev, we will find you.
We'll kick your ass together.
Castro, we'll find you.
We'll kick your ass together..."
(in the TV-3 voiceover)
What kind of patriotic soldiers they have)))

A great series. The Smoker was revealed not only as a villain, but also as a person. I even felt sorry for him, he spent his whole life doing dark things and controlling the course of history, but he just wanted to write books... And Mulder, it seems to me, he protects from his fellow conspirators to some extent, maybe even, among other things, because of some personal affection - after all, if he hadn't been the son of an old friend of a Smoker, he would have either flown out of the FBI long ago, or tragically become the victim of some kind of "accident" or "gas leaks".

A great series. Before that, I thought that a Smoker had no feelings at all, but it turned out that he was a writer. Suddenly.
The alternate history in this series is a separate positive point.

PERFECT!
Perfect character disclosure! I'm thrilled!
However, when they showed the murder of Martin Luther King, I burst into tears. Excuse me. The man was too big for me to indifferently endure this fragment of the episode.)
And also, the series is interesting because it shows that in many ways it is the government that is at the helm of the main events in history.

a kind of Severus Snape)
I'm surprised that no one has been killed from the lone shooter yet, I'm very worried about them ((
they attributed a lot of "merit" to him, it could have been simpler, but more cruelly.and then by the end of the series, I feel sorry for him, and I'm not hunting to kill him (

It's curious, but I don't really believe it. For such a simple killer, he is too influential and has lived too long himself.

JFK, M.L. King and the allusion to Forrest Gump is a good rich series.

a very interesting series, it was nice to learn more about the Smoker

Hitler also wanted to become an artist, but he was not accepted to school, and what is the consequence?
Do not offend people of art))

I hated him before this episode, and now he's my favorite character.

A great series. She made me feel, if not understanding, then at least sympathy for the Smoker. Before this episode, I hated him with every fiber of my soul, but now I can't treat him so unequivocally. The Smoker's dream of a series of his novels was incredibly touched, as was his reaction to a call from a magazine publisher. It's a pity that everything couldn't have turned out differently for him, somehow I want a second chance at a normal life for him (despite all his actions).
In general, the series is a favorite, the disclosure of the character is 10 out of 10.

I almost burst into tears from what they did to him. I felt terribly sorry, especially seeing his reaction to the letter and the phone conversation. If earlier he was perceived as an influential negative character shrouded in mystery, now he is an ordinary person who has had everything go wrong since childhood, and he could not get out of it. I don't think I can watch episodes with his participation normally now, so that he doesn't create there...

A good series, a secret hobby, of course, amused - such a powerful man and rejoices like a child that his novel will be published. The smoker seemed to be Fox Mulder's secret protege, loved his mother all his life, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Smoker refused to be Mulder's father.

Well, why are they like that? Of course, I don't treat this character negatively, but I've always treated him with indifference... And now, I feel sorry for him. 🤦 Cheert . And how to treat him neutrally now?

How did they keep his name a secret? How did Frohike find out and tell everything about him except his name?!

it turns out that the Smoker is offended by life and no one wants to publish his fanfiction

Well, it's even a pity for the Smoker. Perhaps if his Novel had been published, everything would have been different. (If Hitler had chosen a career as an artist. For some reason, I drew a parallel with this)

And the Smoker crashes ;)

Well, it's been revealed. finally. Basically, it's been clear for a long time that the character is ambiguous. Try to keep quiet all the time, sitting in the office of the deputy director of the FBI. And during the meetings with Mulder, he behaved quite interestingly. Plus, his love for Mulder's mom after all these years says something about character. And now it turns out that he's been carrying her picture with baby Fox for so many years. No, he won't kill him.

Ahaha. It turns out that the Smoker, the main enemy of Mulder and Scully, who, according to the X-files version, killed John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, was not just a radish, but a writer. And the only thing he really wanted was to publish his novel.

And he was as happy as a child when the novel was published. He even resigned and wanted to leave his terribly secret government job. And everything would be fine. but!

The publisher published the novel, changing the ending, so that, deceived in his best feelings, the Smoker returned to work and began to put sticks in the wheels of Mulder and Scully again.

That's such a vulnerable writer's soul.

This series is just great. Everything is perfect in it. It was like watching a short movie. Amazing character disclosure. This episode is definitely now the most beloved in the X-Files. Who would have thought that I would start sympathizing with a Smoker.

The series is interesting, the actor playing the young Smoker revealed the character, although another actor used to play the young Smoker, he had more external similarities

The idiotic episode

Is a smoker a real person?... Damn heh

Gorbachev resigned, there are no more enemies🤣
In almost every episode, the Soviet Union is implicated, sometimes even to the point of absurdity. They just show how they "don't care"

The series is great, and there's even some sympathy and empathy for the Smoker, albeit a little. I think I saw his sincere smile for the first time when he found out that his novel would be published. And in general, it was noticeable that he was enjoying working on the book. Only now I'm confused about the dates. It seems from this episode that he was born in 1940, in 1963 he was still very young and serves in the army with Bill Mulder. And in the episode "Apocrypha" (16x3), Smoker and Mulder are shown as government officials interrogating a burned submariner and the year is 1953...

What the hell did the authors fork out for a Smoker's ENT :D

To be honest, I didn't like the series at all. It's long-winded, and there's a lot of historical context that isn't fully understood by those who don't live in the United States. I barely finished it. Although, the line with a smoker-writer who is ready to give up his dirty deeds for a career as a writer interestingly reveals the character. However, I still don't like him very much, he's a graphomaniac offended by the lack of attention, who doesn't know anything about publishers and is offended like a child that the story was distorted. It is not yet clear why he told the second one who killed the alien (I forgot what kind of character) that he did not kill anyone, when, obviously, many.

Somehow I even felt sorry for the smoker, a lonely man who is trying to do what he loves (writing), but in this case, he was not appreciated.

The smoker is still a terrible character, no matter how you look at it

People write that we've found out the Smoker's background, but we haven't. We only found out a possible version of it in Frohika's retelling. It's not even a fact that what he dug up or leaked to him is true. Unreliable storyteller as he is =3

P.S. and, according to this variation of the story, Deep Throat's name is Ronald =3

Wow, that's a cool episode! We've been waiting for at least some information from the smoker's past for a long time, and now they've rolled out his whole story, and what a story! In the end, he's not a humanoid after all, but a human being, and even a writer with feelings. Bravo,

It was amazing to see him so emotional when the publisher called him.
It was as if his voice had even changed a lot.