Doo doo dee doo dee doo...

[icepixie]

Now that the new X-Files movie is only a month from coming out, I'm starting to get veeeery excited about it. I spent about an hour tonight checking out the responses to a recent MSR vid challenge. From what I've seen so far:

Here's a cute, funny little vid.

And this is rather cool; it's clips in air-date order over the entire nine years, using an acousticy-sounding version of "Walking After You." (Remember in middle and high school, when we all made up little personal Mulder/Scully fanmixes which included that song, half of Sarah McLachlan's oevure, and bits and pieces from The Cure*? ...just me, then?) I realized in watching it that, wow, Scully's hair was almost as terrible as her wardrobe in the early seasons, and as she used progressively less hairspray, she looked progressively better. Also, bangs are a Really Bad Idea on her.

I hear also that in preparation for the movie, they're releasing an eight-episode DVD set with episodes Chris Carter considers essential for understanding the film. They are Pilot, Beyond the Sea, The Host, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, Memento Mori, Post Modern Prometheus, Bad Blood, and Milagro.

Anyone got speculation on why those might be vital for events in the film? I'm mostly unspoiled (because I can't seem to find the good spoiler sources anymore...it's been too long!), and would like to remain somewhat so, but tidbits are good. I'm guessing cancer and the Scully family play some part in the film, from the inclusion of MM and BtS. And perhaps Cher, from PMP? ;)

* Bonus points if, even now, hearing something by Savage Garden immediately makes you think of Paris/Torres on the strength of "To the Moon and Back." Ohhhh, I am so dating myself right now.

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[nickless.livejournal.com]

I posted that, then spent the next two hours thinking "Or wait, was that Milagro??"

I started watching bits and pieces in season 5(?), I think, a little more regularly near the end. Then I kinda wanted to see the movie, and FX was just starting to run them all in order, so I went through from the beginning. Or was the movie between 4 and 5? Anyway.

[icepixie]

I believe the movie was between 4 and 5.

As I recall, I started trying to watch in S3. I'm pretty sure my first episode was either "Paper Clip" or "The Blessing Way." Not surprisingly, I took one look at it, went, "WTFMytharc?!" and mostly forgot about it. I believe I tried again over the summer reruns, saw "Teso Dos Bichos," went, "WTFRabidSewerCats?!" and gave it up as a bad job.

I think I started watching here and there in S4 or S5 because I had a lot of friends who were into it and I bowed to peer pressure. Got into it eventually, thought the movie was awesome, and became a weekly watcher with S6, catching up on reruns where I could. I think there are still a few episodes from S1-5 which I haven't seen, and to be honest, it's been so long since I saw most of them that it would pretty much all be new to me now.

Hmmm. Must find DVDs and have marathon...

[nickless.livejournal.com]

I started right after S:AaB was canceled, 'cause Morgan & Wong had gone back to writing and were bringing in guest stars right & left. I think my first full one was Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man, then it was on and off. I honestly can't remember why I decided to start watching full-time... I think the reruns in order were a big help, but I don't know why I threw myself into it. Huh... *shrug* I must have caught random reruns in there somewhere, just for kicks.

Yeah, I need to pull out dvds/tapes, too. Just to hit some highlights, if nothing else!