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Post by tarantella on May 4, 2010 20:23:05 GMT
So, anyone a fan? I know I'm about a decade and a half too late, but I've only just started watching (although I'm already through the first two seasons) and I'm totally obsessed. I don't even really know why, to be honest. Some episodes are gross, very few are scary, all of them are ridiculous, and Gillian Anderson is smoking hot in every single one. I'm fascinated by fandom and fan culture, so it's very exciting for me to find out all the history of the show as well. For example, I had no idea that Mulder/Scully fans were the ones to invent the term 'UST' (unresolved sexual tension)! Or that the show inspired the first major internet-based fandom! Or that David Duchovny is a sex addict! lolololol David Duchovny is pretty great too, though, I won't lie. I most enjoy all the times he fails at crying in episodes; I laugh to the point of crying myself.
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Post by sueme on May 4, 2010 21:02:19 GMT
Oh, X-Files. As a kid I always wanted to watch it, but was never allowed to. And now that I'm older it isn't on TV anymore. Or wait, I think it is. I might have to check the time and see if I can watch it - fullfilling a childhood dream of mine. ;D I think I'm just into that mystery stuff. And I mean, Gillian Anderson. If there was a female that I thought was some kind of fit when I was still a child - before I even was confronted with the question of sexual orientation - then it might have been her. Dear, the last sentence took me long to write. Note to myself: Watch The X-Files. Good night.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on May 4, 2010 21:25:10 GMT
^ as I'm three years older than you I was allowed to watch it I guess it was a a good tv series but all I can remember now is the music at the beginning and a sexy Mulder. so er.. probably it wasn't that good but quite amusing . Maybe I should watch some episodes again.
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Post by sueme on May 4, 2010 21:31:48 GMT
^ as I'm three years older than you I was allowed to watch it Yeah, my sister was allowed to watch it, too and she is about your age (not quite three years older than me, I think). I guess it's all her fault (as always) that I even became aware of X-Files. I remember one episode we had on video tape that I watched with her once. It was a two-part series and we only had the first part...
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Post by helwin tins on May 5, 2010 1:06:16 GMT
i have so many feelings on the x-files. growing up my mother watched it (i think mainly because she fancied mulder) and so i was around it from a young age and started watching it young. ghost in the machine fucked with my ten year old head so badly i'm still nervous around exposed machinery (remnants of the lift scene). anyway, i love it to bits, and it's my original geeky tv show, even if bits of it are flat out unintentially hilarious. the bit in the jersey devil episode where the homeless man shows mulder the sketch had me crying with laughter last time i watched it (i was stoned though) ahahahahahahaahah it's still funny.
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Post by Lemon Bloody Cola on May 5, 2010 5:26:39 GMT
I was terrified of the X-Files as a kid. Mainly because I saw a documentry about "real" alien abductions at the time and became terrified of aliens.. and well the theme music!
As an adult only really seen it in the context of scattered episodes here and there. Always an entertaining watch because Mulder is an ace, rather Doctor-ish character and Scully.. well 'nuff said!
I don't think I'll ever properly get into it though because the fact there's never any explanation for most of the happenings might make things more mysterious for some but it bugs me. It just seems like an excuse to have monsters running around without rhyme or reason. I like my sci-fi/fantasy to have really clearly defined universes with their own interior rules and logic.
Oh, and I've been told I look like Duchovny but this was many years ago before my face got uber-chubs.
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Post by helwin tins on May 5, 2010 13:22:24 GMT
i like the lack of definite answer though... for quite a while it was plausible that scully was right to be skeptic and mulder was just a bit nuts. then it became clear that wasn't the case
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Post by tarantella on May 5, 2010 20:19:30 GMT
I like that so many of the episodes don't make any sense. Plot holes galore! They're delicious.
-I like that Scully continues being a skeptic after the season 1 finale, during which she handled an alien fetus. They keep getting proof of extraterrestrial existence, and she seems to keep forgetting.
-I like that Mulder and Scully -- the show itself -- is so anti-government, yet they are FBI agents themselves. Congress, the CIA, the military, the whole government is totally corrupt and conspiring to keep the truth from the people. Except for the X-Files division!
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Post by glumbumble on May 5, 2010 20:22:17 GMT
I used to spend my saturday afternoons watching the X Files when I was in middle school.... I loved it. I know my parents used to watch it and loved it. We watched it together. It got kinda old after a while though. Mulder finds his sister, oh but no it's a clone, then she hasn't been abducted by aliens but by The Cigarette Man (is that his official name is English?), then that she's actually dead, then she's a ghost...woah. Now when I watch it I get bored, not enough answers.
Haha I remember I had a sleepover with a friend, and we watched that episode at the beginning of series 1 or 2, where Scully and Mulder are stuck in Alaska or somewhere there's a lot of snow and stuff and everyone's killing each other and there's a parasite in their head and stuff. It kind of freaked me out but I was ok XD. My friend was scared of the plant in my living room after watching it though, and didn't want to sleep facing it....she said it reminded her of the episode...XD
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Post by tarantella on May 5, 2010 20:28:07 GMT
Mulder finds his sister, oh but no it's a clone, then she hasn't been abducted by aliens but by The Cigarette Man (is that his official name is English?), then that she's actually dead, then she's a ghost...woah. Spoilers!!! Just kidding, I love spoilers. I think I've made clear that I don't watch this show for the plot, but for the lolz. Haha I remember I had a sleepover with a friend, and we watched that episode at the beginning of series 1 or 2, where Scully and Mulder are stuck in Alaska or somewhere there's a lot of snow and stuff and everyone's killing each other and there's a parasite in their head and stuff. It kind of freaked me out but I was ok XD. My friend was scared of the plant in my living room after watching it though, and didn't want to sleep facing it....she said it reminded her of the episode...XD I love this episode! I have a special fondness for the we're-trapped-in-Alaska-and-one-of-us-might-be-a-killer storyline that every show manages to do.
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