(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... )
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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