Comments | hesychasm: rewatching The X-Files

hesychasm

rewatching The X-Files

Dec 16, 2013 10:40

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the beginning of The X-Files. This was my first online fandom. I think I was like a lot of people who couldn't make it to the bitter end. I can't remember exactly when I dropped out -- I liked Doggett, but I was already burned out on the sloppy mythology and, to be honest, the Mulder/Scully dynamic. And I ( Read more... )

tv: the x-files

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k2daisy December 17 2013, 02:25:48 UTC

14. Every time Skinner shows up, one of us ends up saying, "Skinner...he's such a man."

I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR OVER A DECADE, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???

Egads. Skinner and Krycek are the reasons I ever got my ass online. Seriously, you wouldn't know me at all had it not been for Skinner's...everything.

hesychasm December 17 2013, 02:49:31 UTC

Hee! Clearly I just needed that time to mature. ;)

We just watched Zero-Sum and HOT DAMN HOT DAMN.

fourteenlines December 17 2013, 05:09:20 UTC

You are making me nostalgic for a bad boyfriend. :)

hesychasm December 17 2013, 17:02:49 UTC

Still the bad boyfriend I measure all my other bad boyfriends against, but at least we can hang out like friends again.

kita0610 December 17 2013, 07:01:34 UTC

"Skinner...he's such a man."

Amen, sister.

Forget M/S, I would have paid money for Skinner to toss Mulder over his desk and have his (manly) way with him.

hesychasm December 17 2013, 17:04:11 UTC

Skinner could get ALL the booty on the show: Mulder, Scully, Krycek... Simultaneously, even!

aud_woman_in December 17 2013, 07:25:41 UTC

"What is the deal with Mulder? He should have been fired 19 times already."

And that was just in season 1. Mr. Hesychasm is a smart cookie ;)

I'm soon to do some re-viewing myself soon, since I signed up for xf_santa. Whenever I do, I'm always surprised by my reactions, possibly because when I was watching in real time, I was not paying that much attention to the actual case plots.

hesychasm December 17 2013, 17:10:11 UTC

It's actually been interesting watching the show through his eyes. There's still something so appealing about it even to present-day TV-watching sensibilities, which I never would have thought in my bitter phase.

I feel like I've been paying more attention to the cases this time as well. Most of them were pretty good in their own right, and would be very watchable if I caught them in re-runs for instance.