Episode X-Files is almost destroyed by nature

By Chris Snowlings
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X-Files This is a show that gave us some coldest visions in television history. For example, everyone who grew up, watching Eugene Thoms, using Mr. Fantastic Forces for Evil, is probably still afraid of escalators thanks to the Toms episode. However, to revive such monsters was just another day in the office for the production team, and their nightmares usually approach the house. For example, episode 1 season “Darkness Falls” was rejected by almost everyone behind the camera because it X-files Open places in the episode and the horrible weather often took pictures almost impossible.

Waterfall Dark-it’s Nightmare X-Files

For the “darkness” – this X-files The episode where Molder and Skali should fight with moody loggers, deadly insects and new forms of life working around the Olympic National Forest in Washington. Two different Vancouver forests were used to embody the famous American forest, and the episode looks so good that you never know that it pursues production difficulties. However, open shoots did not cause the end of the headaches, starting with the fact that all the extra time travel for scenes meant that the crew could only shoot six pages of the script per day, not eight.

Not only the outer places of “darkfall” slowed X-files Production crew. There was also a very specific problem for accessing the road. The crew had a labor camp to which only a deadlock could be obtained, which allowed only one -time movement and the necessary vehicles. Thus, they had to spend an obscene amount of time, transferring actors and crew from a public parking lot.

Now it would make the “darkness of the waterfall” heavy enough to shoot, but X-FileS crew also had to fight the elements. Heavy rain continued to cause delay, a problem consisting of how much the episode was lifted on the street. Later, the RW GoodWin executive producer estimated that “six days of shooting were in the woods,” forcing seriously crowded days and nights.

The weather was so bad during the shooting “darkfall” and the rain was only one obstacle with which it faced X-files Crew. Director Joe Napolitano complained that it was raining every day, and that the crew was worried that the dam broke down near the weather; In addition, the guest star (and a childhood friend of David Dush) Jason H hog said that “the conditions for the shoot could not be worse,” saying, “It was raining, snow and freezing there.” According to Goodwin, all this consisted of a “logistics nightmare”, in which just seeing that they were “to try to see through the waterfall.”

While the “darkness” was completed and aired, the version we saw on TV was very different from that X-files Initially, the crew was provided. The alleged pictures were to be shot because the rain took certain shots and arrangement of the camera impossible, and the production was drowning because the weather, such as a pure audio recording, is almost impossible. The weather sometimes even made shots of daytime scenes impossible, because, as the episode name, the clouds surrounded everyone in the dark.

Credit if credit, however X-files The episode, and none of these production difficulties is visible on the screen. Now that we know how difficult it was to shoot, we will never look at this classic episode the same again. Malda tried to tell us that “the truth is there” but it turns out we are that we really It is necessary to pay attention, it was raining.