Chris Snellgrove | Published
X-Files It’s a show that gave us some of the coldest visions in television history. For example, those who grew up watching Eugene Tome using his Mr. Fantastic Powers thanks to the episode “Tomb” are probably scared of the escalator. But bringing such monsters to life is another day in the office for production teams, and their nightmares are usually much closer to home. For example, in the season 1 episode “Darkness Falls,” this was once again covered by almost everyone behind the camera. X-Files The outdoor location and terrible weather in episodes made filming almost impossible.
Darkness Falls is a nightmare of the X-Files
For reference, the “Dark Waterfall” is as follows: X-Files An episode in which Mulder and Scully have to fight against grumpy loggers, deadly insects, and new life forms. All of these run around Washington’s Olympic National Forest. Two different Vancouver forests were used to bring the famous American forest to life, and the episodes looked very good and were plagued by production difficulties. However, outdoor shoots did not cause an end to the headache. All of the extra travel times in the scene started with the fact that the crew could only shoot six pages a day script rather than the intended eight.
It wasn’t just the appearance of the “Dark Waterfall” that was late X-Files Production crew. There was also a very specific road access issue. The crew had a work camp that could only be accessed by dead-end roads that allowed only single-lane traffic and essential vehicles. So they had to spend indecent time transporting actors and crews from public parking lots that were a whopping 200 yards away.
Well, that would have been difficult enough to photograph “Dark Waterfalls.” X-fileThe S-crew also had to compete with the elements. Heavy rain continued to cause delays. This is an issue that has been exacerbated by how much the episode was filmed outside. Executive producer RW Goodwin later estimated that “of the eight days of the shooting, six of them were in the woods,” and he did a hard work, seriously flooded day and night.
The weather was very bad during filming of “Dark Falling” and the rain was exactly one obstacle. X-Files crew. Director Joe Napolitano complained that it was raining every day and that the crew were worried that a nearby dam would break due to the weather. Additionally, guest star (and David Ducobney’s childhood friend) Jason Begué said, “The conditions for filming wouldn’t have deteriorated,” and that “it was raining, snowing, and snowing.” In Goodwin’s words, all of this was added to the “logistics nightmare,” and simply looking at what was before it was “like trying to see a waterfall.”
“Darkness Falls” was completed and aired, but the version I saw on TV was very different from the one I saw. X-Files The crew originally imagined it. Production stalled as the rain made it impossible to shot or placement on certain cameras, and the intended shots had to be discarded, making tasks like recording clean audio nearly impossible. The weather sometimes made daytime scenes impossible as clouds surrounded everyone in the dark, as appropriate for the episode’s title.
If credits are due, “Dark Falling” is a very solid early stage X-Files None of the episodes, and the difficulty of these production, can be seen on screen. But now that I know how difficult it is to film, I won’t be watching this classic episode the same way again. Mulder said, “The truth is there,” but that’s what we did. Really It was necessary that it was raining.
