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Dec. 10th, 2007 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixie"Humbug" was on Skiffy this afternoon, and I happened to catch the second half of it. I always forget how funny XF was--before it started sucking, anyway--in addition to how creepy. And the camera work was really quite good, at least in this episode; I loved the sequences in the funhouse and Scully's interview with the deformed curator. Also, Michael J. Anderson was in it! I love him! (And heh, he played a manager here too.)
One day, I need to sit down and rewatch the whole series.
(Oh, and read fic. Hmmm. Anyone got recs, or a favorite recs list/site?)
One day, I need to sit down and rewatch the whole series.
(Oh, and read fic. Hmmm. Anyone got recs, or a favorite recs list/site?)
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Date: 2007-12-11 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-11 04:07 pm (UTC)I think there are actually still a few chunks of the fifth season I haven't seen. I should remedy that.
I'm pretty sure S6 is my favorite, though. "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas," "Arcadia," "Dreamland," "Triangle"...so many good episodes, as long as you ignore that infuriating "children of starlight" thing in the middle.*
* I'm still bitter about that.
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Date: 2007-12-14 05:45 am (UTC)All I remember about "children of starlight" is a big ol' facepalm. Sigh.
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Date: 2007-12-15 05:12 am (UTC)Eeeeeee!
All I remember about "children of starlight" is a big ol' facepalm. Sigh.
OMG, yes. I ranted for days.
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Date: 2007-12-15 05:24 am (UTC)Okay, we just finished "Christmas Carol"/"Emily," Starring Scully And Her Womb. Le sigh. Although children and clones chock full of Slurm kinda makes up for it.
OMG, yes. I ranted for days.
Awww, it was like the Ur-Headdesk. We were so young and innocent then. And yet we still knew starlight was a dumb idea.
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Date: 2007-12-15 07:05 pm (UTC)Awww. Yeah, that did get a little womby. Although I remember liking those episodes...
Although children and clones chock full of Slurm kinda makes up for it.
Heh.
Awww, it was like the Ur-Headdesk. We were so young and innocent then. And yet we still knew starlight was a dumb idea.
Well, it was one of my Ur-Headdesks. See, I lived through Voyager's "Threshold" a couple years before that. I can't remember if you ever watched Voyager and if that would ring any bells for you, so here's the summary: Tom Paris takes a shuttle to Warp 10, aka "infinite speed" (headdesky all on its own), and during the course of that flight, he and Janeway "evolve to humanity's ultimate form"--which happens to be newts--land on some planet somewhere, and have newt babies.
I really, really wish I were making that up.
But the badness of that episode is mitigated by the fact that Voyager wasn't exactly falling from greatness, like XF was. If only the mytharc hadn't been so dumb...