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Unattainable Ideal
Okay, so we borrowed the DVD set from a friend of ours and Mrs. Barsoom and I spent the last three nights in a sort of mad frenzy, helpless to stop ourselves, watching Mulder and Scully relentlessly until we couldn't keep our eyes open. I mean, that's like 8 episodes a night. We were watching X-Files from about 8:00 PM until 2:30 AM -- and then I was getting up at 8:00 AM to go to work.
Not good for the ol' brainpan.
Another salient data point -- we don't have TV. We stopped paying for cable two years ago and the reception on any broadcast is so bad we don't bother.
Another salient point -- we were hardcore X-Files junkies for the first four or five seasons. Taping every episode and watching them over and over again, all that good stuff.
But we haven't watched any in years.
So it was kind of strange. Observations:
Gillian Anderson is a tremendous actor. She can make almost any scene watchable. The scripts and other actors do defeat her on occasion, but honestly, she's amazing. It's interesting to compare some scenes that have equally silly dialog and if she's in it, the scene's okay, and if she's not, bleah.
David Duchovny is really really good at some things. Deadpan wisecracks. Serious concentration. Utter conviction. When Mulder gets righteous it's magic. He doesn't always pull off the more intense stuff -- sometimes, yay, sometimes, nay.
There's sure a lot of filler in some of them episodes.
Gillian Anderson rocks.
The "X-Files Thing" got invented over the course of the season. The early episodes are very different from the later ones -- part of that is probably because the show was doing well and had more money to spend, but you really notice by the time you get to the last episodes that you're watching "The X-Files" as opposed to just any old TV show -- which some of the early episodes seem like.
Stay far, far away from the children in Chris Carter's brain. They are evil and want your soul.
Gillian Anderson sure can act.
The mythology is impressively complex even in the early stages -- I think a d20 Modern X-Files sourcebook would be an AWESOME product. When in the very last episode Mulder walks into that room full of clones or whatever they are, I thought to myself, "I want to run this campaign."
Given how silly some of the stories are, they do a good job of scaring you.
No commercials is good.
It's possible I have a bit of a thing for Gillian Anderson. Red-heads. Not my fault.
Twenty-odd episodes in three nights. My brain hurts.
Anyone else ever done anything like this?
Not good for the ol' brainpan.
Another salient data point -- we don't have TV. We stopped paying for cable two years ago and the reception on any broadcast is so bad we don't bother.
Another salient point -- we were hardcore X-Files junkies for the first four or five seasons. Taping every episode and watching them over and over again, all that good stuff.
But we haven't watched any in years.
So it was kind of strange. Observations:
Gillian Anderson is a tremendous actor. She can make almost any scene watchable. The scripts and other actors do defeat her on occasion, but honestly, she's amazing. It's interesting to compare some scenes that have equally silly dialog and if she's in it, the scene's okay, and if she's not, bleah.
David Duchovny is really really good at some things. Deadpan wisecracks. Serious concentration. Utter conviction. When Mulder gets righteous it's magic. He doesn't always pull off the more intense stuff -- sometimes, yay, sometimes, nay.
There's sure a lot of filler in some of them episodes.
Gillian Anderson rocks.
The "X-Files Thing" got invented over the course of the season. The early episodes are very different from the later ones -- part of that is probably because the show was doing well and had more money to spend, but you really notice by the time you get to the last episodes that you're watching "The X-Files" as opposed to just any old TV show -- which some of the early episodes seem like.
Stay far, far away from the children in Chris Carter's brain. They are evil and want your soul.
Gillian Anderson sure can act.
The mythology is impressively complex even in the early stages -- I think a d20 Modern X-Files sourcebook would be an AWESOME product. When in the very last episode Mulder walks into that room full of clones or whatever they are, I thought to myself, "I want to run this campaign."
Given how silly some of the stories are, they do a good job of scaring you.
No commercials is good.
It's possible I have a bit of a thing for Gillian Anderson. Red-heads. Not my fault.
Twenty-odd episodes in three nights. My brain hurts.
Anyone else ever done anything like this?
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