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[daygloparker]

I am a terrible Livejournaler. No post in nearly two weeks? Personal record, I think.

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So, uh. Consider this portion of this post as a test drive for my real blog (WHAT? who said that).

Recently I purchased The X Files S1-5 on DVD, which is kind of shocking unto itself in that the only visual XF things I owned prior to this was an original

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[ohvienna]

The end scene of the Mad Men pilot might just be probably maybe my favorite ending to a pilot...of all time. Definitely top 5. Top 3. I should likely throw the end of the XF pilot up in there, too. Still caught in the middle of a recent rewatch (at the beginning of s4) as one of the roommates...has never seen it. I know. I know. How does that even happen.

[daygloparker]

Am I allowed to cheat and call the BSG mini-series a pilot episode? IT'S KINDA LIKE ONE. Only... 3 hours long?

I'm excited for a rewatch! What will hold up? What won't? Will Tooms and Donnie Pfaster both still creep me the fuck out? How extremely ridiculous were Scully's pantsuits? Will I still be able to tell episodes in which, obviously, David and Gillian were totally doing it in their trailers between takes (I STILL BELIEVE IN THIS)?

[ohvienna]

Donnie will indeed, just. IS YOUR HAIR CHEMICALLY TREATED?? "Irresistible" is one of the scariest episodes...ever, and I never scared easily at The X-Files (I don't even know. Basement. In the dark. Starting in the 3rd grade? Was totally fine a great majority of the time). I still dug "Orison," too. Tooms, however, in concept, surely, but IDK if now I'd be able to think of him without putting Horace's 70s hair on his head? I might sporfle and then get creeped out, simultaneously?

THE PLAID ONES. ANYTIME THERE ARE PLAID SUITS. Hearts.

[daygloparker]

TOOMS IS HORACE GOODSPEED. TOOMS IS HORACE GOODSPEED OH MY GOD WHY AM I JUST FIGURING THIS OUT NOW? The Dharma Initiative recruiting policies are terrible. :/

I cannot wait to mock "Jersey Devil" senselessly for the fact that the brush Pine Barrens outside Atlantic City look so LEAFY and VANCOUVER-LIKE.

[ohvienna]

You just have to look past...everything and just at his face. It took me several minutes and then I was all...OH MY GODDDDDDDD. He's an actual actor for real, not a bile-eating stretchy elastic monster.

DON'T FORGET TO MOCK IT FOR SCULLY'S WHITE LACE DRESS. I think that's when she goes on "a date."

[snarkhunter]

Will Tooms and Donnie Pfaster both still creep me the fuck out?

Yes.

There is no other possible answer.