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the bridge between Twin Peaks and X-Files

posted 11 years ago by thezakman182
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A lot of people have said that Eerie, Indiana was a kids version of the X-Files though in a lot of ways Eerie acted as a bridge between X-Files and Twin Peaks (which is said to have influenced X-Files)

-Eerie came out when Twin Peaks was still running, but ended before X-Files started

-Twin Peaks had one main detective, Eerie had a duo, X-Files had a duo

-Most of Twin Peaks dealt with one main case, Eerie had a different one every episode, X-Files had tons of different cases

-Twin Peaks and Eerie both dealt with phenomenon in seemingly ordinary small towns

-Twin Peaks and Eerie tried to look like the 1950's

-all shows dealt with mysterious characters...Bob, Dash X, Cancer Man

...anyone else care to comment on any other similarities

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[–] keiya_27 10 years ago

Marshal is basically a young Fox Mulder. What an intelligent mature kid.

[–] jamesdean-13 10 years ago

Perfect. I've never thought about it like that. I really like your explanation, especially considering my friends (when this first aired) used to call it a rip-off of Are You Afraid of the Dark & Goosebumps. Although to me, it always gave off a completely different vibe than Goosebumps, etc.

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[–] esedwards 9 years ago

In Episode 14- Mr. Chaney, Marshall becomes the Harvest King and is supposed to be fed to a werewolf. As he is about to be attacked DashX hits it with a tree branch, knocking the werewolf out. Marshall says something like, "It's you!" and DashX replies with, "well, it's not the Log Lady."

[–] dan-willi84 8 years ago

If the show had not been cancelled. A crossover episode of The X-Files, with David Duchovny and Gillan Anderson appearing as Mulder and Scully would had been awesome.