Doo-doo-doo-doo-dee-dooooo....

[icepixie]

Today, for some reason lost in the mists of my short attention span, I went looking for X-Files music vids. One site also had Farscape vids, which of course I had to peek at. And naturally, now I want to rewatch both shows from the beginning. Well, minus most of S8 for XF...and some chunks of S7...maybe a couple episodes from S6 as well... (Nearly ten years later and I am still pissed off about that "children of starlight" crap. BOO, CHRIS CARTER, BOOOOOOOOOOO.) There are a few S4 episodes of Farscape I could skip as well...Lobster of Truth, anyone?

Yeah, now I'm wishing I hadn't canceled my Netflix subscription. Although if I watch TV, then there's less time to write and read books... Decisions, decisions.

(I think I would get twice as much out of TXF now that I've got both an academic education, courtesy of college, and an innuendo education, courtesy of fandom and ballroom.)

Anyway, I realized three things while watching said vids:

1. First-season M&S are so young OMG. They both look like kids. Gillian Anderson was only 24 when she took the job. SHE WAS ONLY A YEAR OLDER THAN ME. I...what?

2. M&S really spent quite a bit of time touching each others' faces, especially in the later years. And the Doctor and his various companions have been given a run for their money on the hand-holding front.

3. Either there are very few good vids out there, which I find exceedingly hard to believe for a fandom of this size, or I'm no good at Googling today. Anyone got recs? I'm partial to humor, Mulder/Scully, character study, and--should there actually be any beyond the three I've seen--Doggett/Reyes vids, but anything well-done good.

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Awww, I haven't seen the X-Files in *years*... It was the first show I was really emotionally invested in, I think. Meeeemorieeeeeees...

(I think I would get twice as much out of TXF now that I've got both an academic education, courtesy of college, and an innuendo education, courtesy of fandom and ballroom.)

Ha, I know! Now I wish I hadn't tossed all my tapes a few years back. I haven't really watched any since freshman year of high school, and I'm sure they'd look different, um... has it really been eight years since then? WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME WANT NETFLIX??

First-season M&S are so young OMG.

I KNOW! Isn't it sad that we're starting to get to the point where everyone else our age is blatantly succeeding at crap?

[icepixie]

I think XF was the fourth show I really got into. (Well, second, if you count TNG/DS9/VOY, which I discovered within a year of each other, as one blob o' Trek...)

Ha, I know! Now I wish I hadn't tossed all my tapes a few years back. I haven't really watched any since freshman year of high school, and I'm sure they'd look different, um... has it really been eight years since then?

Eight years? So I take it you stopped watching in season...six?

I still have tapes sitting on my bookshelf. They're pretty much all of random S6 and S7 episodes. (And by "random" I mean "shippy"--Arcadia, all things, Hollywood AD, Triangle, Rain King, The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas...)

WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME WANT NETFLIX??

I have special powers.

I KNOW! Isn't it sad that we're starting to get to the point where everyone else our age is blatantly succeeding at crap?

Er. I was trying not to think about it in quite that way, but...yeah, pretty much.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Heh, Trek. I think I actually started watching DS9 because Fox had it on right after X-Files...

So I take it you stopped watching in season...six?

Or... maybe seven years? Me and math are not like *this*. I think I stopped watching around the end of S7 - whichever one it was where Doggett and Rayes came on. Ugh.

Ha, Triangle! That was awesome like an awesome thing. Split screens and Nazis and dopplegangers, oh my!

Er. I was trying not to think about it in quite that way, but...yeah, pretty much.

See, I have special powers too!

[icepixie]

Or... maybe seven years? Me and math are not like *this*.

Riiiight...

I think I stopped watching around the end of S7 - whichever one it was where Doggett and Rayes came on. Ugh.

They both showed up in S8, although Reyes didn't get added to the cast full-time until S9. S8 was horrifying; I had to quit after...whatever the episode was that had the giant slug trying to crawl into the neck(?) of a very pregnant Scully, who was screaming her head off for about ten minutes straight. S9 was actually pretty good, though. Carter finally realized that the old magic was gone, and started giving Doggett and Reyes a chance. I liked them together; not as well as the good old days of M&S, but they had their own thing, and it was pretty fun to watch.

"Triangle" was freakin' awesome. Love.

See, I have special powers too!

And yet I use mine for good, while you use yours for evil...

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

S8 was horrifying; I had to quit after...whatever the episode was that had the giant slug trying to crawl into the neck(?) of a very pregnant Scully, who was screaming her head off for about ten minutes straight.

UM. I either stopped before that, or else I have purged it from my brain entirely. I'm happy with either situation. I was offended by D&R as bad imitations of M&S. I think they would've been tolerable, if they weren't presented as, "here, this is your new Mulder and Scully! They're just the same, we promise!" I watched the last few episodes of the series, to see how it ended, but... a My Personal Canon was edited into existence.

And yet I use mine for good, while you use yours for evil...

MUAH! HA! HA!!

[icepixie]

UM. I either stopped before that, or else I have purged it from my brain entirely. I'm happy with either situation.

If only I could do the same.

I was offended by D&R as bad imitations of M&S.

Awww. Well, they were, but...not exactly? They got more differentiated as S9 went on. Seriously, check out "Audrey Pauley" or "4D." They're quite different.

I think they would've been tolerable, if they weren't presented as, "here, this is your new Mulder and Scully! They're just the same, we promise!"

Well...yeah... I liked that Doggett's personal loss didn't make him batshit insane like Mulder, and Reyes, while she was kooky, had yet to be angstified like Scully, with the death of half her family and cancer and whatnot. They were much less creepily codependent than M&S as well, which was a something of a relief.

I watched the last few episodes of the series, to see how it ended, but... a My Personal Canon was edited into existence.

Well, yes. My personal canon gets rid of many episodes as well. (Chiefly "Closure." ARGH, I HATE YOU AND ALL YOUR "BEAMS OF STARLIGHT," CHRIS CARTER.) It also essentially breaks the show up into two shows, one with Moose & Squirrell, and the other with Doggett & Reyes.