(with unexpected naked!Ancelyn, as I promised Clocket).
Naturally, possible spoilers for the S2 episodes Danse Macabre and Mother Redcap under the cut (although I have done my very best not to reveal any of the how/whodunnit aspect, I promise!):
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In which Peter Davison turns up at the door dressed as a vicar and Jonathan wants Maddy to check his underwear... )
I think even my brain (which is naturally prone to go to crossoverland), really failed at imagining Ancelyn as a nudist estate agent... What it did do was come up with a Jonathan Creek/X-Files crossover (have you sen The Omega Man ep? It is an interesting X-Files debunk, or parody, or something), and I'm hopeful I can try some typing up soon. It doesn't really go that far - I don't have that much brain yet - but can you imagine two people who would get on each other's nerves more than Jonathan Creek and Fox Mulder? I mean, every time he found one of his proofs, Jonathan wouldn't just be sceptical, he'd explain exactly how the scam was pulled off...
Mulder: So tell me how you explain that X...
Jonathan: Well, it seemed convincing at the start, but that was because we were looking at it from the wrong way round. Once you realised what Y had to gain, it was simple... so simple no one would ever have guessed...
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The one with the supposed dead alien? Yes, I think I have seen that one, although can't remember... Wasn't it frozen mercury or something, and then it melted, explaining how it "disappeared"? Or am I just making that up? Glad you got a plot bunny, though - hope it progresses well for you. And yeah, Mulder would...not appreciate it at all, I don't think. (Although on the other hand, Mulder does tend more often than not to be right about most things paranormal-related, even when he's very obviously leaping to massive conclusions on the basis of little to no evidence. I mean, even when it seems he's wrong, they always have a little twist at the end that "proves" he was right... ;D So, the annoyance might go both ways...)
I think the thing that sort of makes the notion of unexpected!Naked Ancelyn even more amusing/mind-blowing, however, is the pipe. For some reason, everything seems funnier with pipes... ;D
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That's what I said - they'd get on each other's nerves. Although the mundane trumps the supernatural all the time, so Jonathan would win. ;-) Didn't even the X-Files eventually come out with the fact that half the alien stuff really was just a conspiracy to make it seem as though there were aliens when they were covering up dodgy gov't stuff? I lost track of the last few seasons, but I seem to think it had gone quite a bit that way.
(Not anything as advanced as that makes it sound; I just scribbled down a brief cross in my notebook, but I'm still not up to the concentration involved in actually typing up and editing anything at all, that's all. I think soon, though, now.)
The pipe is just... very Jonathan Creek, I think! :-D
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I think there _were_ aliens (more than one faction of aliens?), but... No, I couldn't actually say what actually turned out to be "The Truth", because I'm more or less certain that Chris Carter and co were making it up as they went along. :D I sort of like to think that everything after the first film was some sort of dream of Mulder's or something... But yes, whoever's programme the crossover takes place in should probably win in that sort of scenario - it's only common courtesy ;D
Glad to hear you're getting there, though. :)
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Aw, no - the film was probably a dream (that would explain a lot), but that would mean the depressing stuff of S5 was real, while the stuff where they suddenly got a great tongue-in-cheek sense of humour in S6 wasn't. (There was the Bermuda triangle, the Christmas ghosts, the two part body switch and other things, but I think that was the last season I had much enthusiasm for. Although I seem to remember S7 did have a ewpisode that was a bit rubbish, but did feature an amusing bit where they made a bad film of the X-Files and screen-Scully is in love with Skinner... After that, my mind is totally blank. Of course, that probably has very little to do with the X-Files.
Yeah, I just get carried away. I sit up and I think I can walk, but I think it's better that way than the reverse. :-) I hope things ar still continuing to imrpove for you.
ETA: Oh, and there was a garbage monster or something, as well. (Sorry. I bet this is showing my bad taste yet again; let me reassure you that I probably liked S3 & 4 best - although I know the most straight-up horror was in S1 & 2, but then I don't really like horror; the X-Files is absolutely as far down that line as I go. But there was a garbage-monster, wasn't there? :-D)
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The weird thing about the X-Files for me was that I spent the first two or three seasons really digging the conspiracy-arc eps and finding the "monster of the week" eps a bit tedious, and somewhere along the way the situation reversed so that the one-offs were the good ones as far as I was concerned and the arc episodes just inspired deep apathy in me, really (apart from the two-parter with the plane crash which is imho excellent for the precise reason that it kind of ignored what had by then become the repetitive aspects of those stories).
Well, you know, don't push yourself unnecessarily - slow and steady wins the race. I'm feeling much more, I don't know, much more "it", whatever it is this past week or so. Hope things continue to improve for you too. :)
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I don't think that's weird - I was exactly the same about it (and I had the plane crash one on a second hand video, before I gave it to my sister, and I seem to recall that was pretty good.)
Well, I'm glad things are continuing to get a bit better for you. I am improving, but it's just kind of slow, and also because I don't feel properly ill like when you have the flu or something, I feel a bit like a fraud at the same time. (You know, if I had a hacking cough, or something in a bandage, it would all be perfectly justifiable...) Except that I really *can't* do much, or not for very long, anyway... LJ's a very handy distraction at times like these! :-D
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Yes, I think S5 was the point where Mulder finally became completely disillusioned in the whole alien-conspiracy thing after being double-crossed one time too many and became a bitter sceptic for a while. Ironically, just as Scully was becoming more open to the whole thing... But I don't think it lasted that long, really. I think S5 also sort of coincided with my own most intense obsession with the programme, so that might colour my opinions of it just a bit...
The plane crash one was great. Called Tempus Fugit, iirc, punnily enough. ;D
That's the thing with those sort of illnesses, though. Just don't try to do too much too soon, and look after yourself, and hopefully you will continue to improve. And yes, post things on LJ! Best wishes, anyway.
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Thanks.
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Yeah, rl - can't live with it, can't live without it... ;D
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But yes, baseball - one of those things that Do Not Translate Well, I fear... I liked the one with the typewriter that could warp reality (you typed stuff, and it came true), which was a later one - although I think they nicked the idea off some old Twilight Zone episode or somewhere. And speaking of nicked ideas, the Groundhog Day-clone where Mulder's waterbed kept repeatedly bursting and Our Heroes kept repeatedly getting blown up by the same bomb, I seem to remember that was a good one. You know, if I watched some of those later seasons again I'd probably start enjoying them more.
Have you seen the newish (2008?) film? Not the greatest, but maybe not as bad as people have claimed. It would have been a perfectly acceptable weird-happening-of-the-week episode around about S2, I think.
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Oh, yes, the Groundhog Day; that's a fun one. That's got to be S6 (or possibly S7) as well, hasn't it, because Scully's puzzled by the fact Mulder even has a water bed for it to leak, which came in body-switch episode. And the typewriter one was one of those I mmissed on TV - not a bad reason to get the DVD, after all.
Yes, I saw it - it was kind of bad in the opposite way to the first one which got all excited that THIS IS A MOVIE and at least was entertainingly ridiculous and movie-ish; so they went the opposite extreme and we got what would have been a good episode stretched out forever. exactly as you say. But it was nice to see the X-Files again, Mulder and Scully having at least some sort of happy ending, and I was extremely pleased when Scully sent for Skinner. I would have rated it it v low if he had not appeared at some point.
Oh, and that reminds me of the other thing I like about S6. I'm pretty sure in the opener Mulder and Scully get told off for being in the X-Files movie as they spent too much FBI money etc. :-D
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Skinner was the highlight actually. And in some of the series episodes too, to be honest - Skinner was sort of the X Files equivalent of the Brig or something. I fondly remember the epic punch-up he had with "Mr X" around about S4 or so... XD
LOL yeah - something about their travel expenses wasn't it? Well, yeah, you know, going to Antarctica will do that... (And how did he manage to get to Antarctica without the baddies finding out, considering that probably only government/military flights go there? And then get back again?! Answers on a postcard, please...)
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