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

[orangetango.livejournal.com]

Gillian Anderson was seriously 24? Dude, I just turned 23 . . .

This info is not helping my crisis of confidence weekend.

[nickless.livejournal.com]

(Nearly ten years later and I am still pissed off about that "children of starlight" crap.

Well, as that was perhaps the absolute most craptastic excuse for a resolution as GoldenBoy EVER came up with (and considering some of his other plot twists, that's saying something), I feel the frustration is justified.

Personally, I've chosen to deal with it by refusing to admit that particular episode ever existed. Beams of starlight, my ass...

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

I have tons of XF vids if you want them. By tons, I think it's 2-3 CD-Rs worth. Yes, I am a digital packrat. I'd be glad to mail them to you.

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?

...I had forgotten that. *feels old* Wasn't Claudia Black something like 25 when she started Farscape too?

Yes, M&S are so darn wee in the first few seasons. Awwww!

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.

Hahaha, yes. I like that you can keep going back and think "Okay, there! That's when they totally started doing it" many, many times. I think I was back as far as right before Melissa died on that one.

Yes, I am all about the porn.

Anyway, yay for wee Mulder and Scully!

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I've recently turned 25, and your reminder of Gillian Anderson's age in XF S1 makes me feel ancient now. I remember so clearly that I was 14 and discovered online fandom for the first time and wanted to be Scully when I grew up...

And here's my vid rec: Science-Fiction Double Feature (http://katycat.net/xfiles/videos.html) (just scroll down a little). By no means technically flawless, but joyful and cheesy and self-ironic and sweet. It reminds me of the reasons why I used to love this show.

[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?

[serendipityxxi.livejournal.com]

I completely agree! All the XF reruns I've watched lately I've been getting the references! and on top of that geeking out over the psych stuff b/c half of s2 is straight out of my intro to psych class! Although Scully explaining the psych stuff to Mulder irks so much more now b/c OMG HE KNOWS THIS ALREADY!!! *beats Chris Carter!!*
Gillian was only 24!! Jesus! I turn 24 in October!!!!!!!