i will unsettle the ground beneath you
I was never in XF fandom, because I personally knew many people who watched it and I had a weekly phone call with my parents to dissect it (and we watched from the beginning on Friday nights - I started with "The Jersey Devil" - have I told this story? I can't remember. But way back in the 90s, Friday nights were family poker nights at my sister's, but I opted out after a while, and ended up being the designated babysitter for my niece and nephew (though I'm pretty sure he just slept, being basically a newborn at the time), and when she went to bed, I would watch tv, and via channel surfing, I found the show. It turns out my parents had already set the VCR to record it so it was easy enough to go back and watch the first few episodes I'd missed), and then I discussed it at work on Monday morning with my work friends, and well, I didn't need online fandom (though it was the knowledge that such things as newsgroups devoted to the X-Files existed that led me to alt.tv.homicide in 1997, and well, here we are).
I stopped watching the show regularly after the first movie - I still recorded it, but The Sopranos was on at the same time, so that got my priority at the time, so I haven't seen a lot of the later seasons, though I did watch both movies and after being really intense about it, I came through the other side as an MSR shipper who doesn't really care about the mytharc.
All of which is to say, I was excited to watch last night (and annoyed at being delayed by the football post-game), and
snacky and I were texting a lot. So.
X-Files: My Struggle
Without spoilers, I will say that it's hard for me to not see Jeff Winger whenever Joel McHale is onscreen, so I kept waiting for Abed or Britta to show up and slap him out of his roleplaying. *hands*
Also, wow, that was like vintage X-Files right there. Clunky, on-the-nose writing that doesn't really reveal anything and nothing that happens actually means anything because there's never any forward motion. Every step up is followed by two steps back.
With that out of the way, ZOMG ♥♥♥SCULLY♥♥♥
Also I also kept expecting Walter Bishop and Olivia Dunham to appear. Which would be kind of awesome.
Since I don't care so much about the mytharc business, I was just happy to see it hit all the familiar beats (SKINNER! WITH A BEARD!), and the internet tells me that the next two episodes are better and then amazing (DARIN MORGAN!!!), so I'm in. Because SCULLY, you guys. SCULLY. #I DO IT ALL FOR YOU MULDER
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In other news, it took me an extra 40 minutes to get to work today because bus service was so bad, but hey, it's not like we had the second worst blizzard since they started recording that shit or anything. I get the rationale behind opening the schools, but it sure does make life annoying for the rest of us.
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Oh wow, I almost forgot, I posted a story yesterday:
trade your heroes for ghosts
Star Wars; Ahsoka, Darth Vader; g; 1,515 words
Vader presents Ahsoka with an ultimatum.
This was originally part of a different story - one where Luke and Leia break Ahsoka out of prison - but it didn't fit tonally, so I separated it out. So that is still on the docket, after I figure out how the jailbreak is going to work. And I think after this Vader has to show up in the other story (I was waffling about it), so I guess reveals are going to happen earlier than in canon. *hands* I don't even know anymore. I just keep writing while the words are coming.
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I stopped watching the show regularly after the first movie - I still recorded it, but The Sopranos was on at the same time, so that got my priority at the time, so I haven't seen a lot of the later seasons, though I did watch both movies and after being really intense about it, I came through the other side as an MSR shipper who doesn't really care about the mytharc.
All of which is to say, I was excited to watch last night (and annoyed at being delayed by the football post-game), and
snacky and I were texting a lot. So.
X-Files: My Struggle
Without spoilers, I will say that it's hard for me to not see Jeff Winger whenever Joel McHale is onscreen, so I kept waiting for Abed or Britta to show up and slap him out of his roleplaying. *hands*
Also, wow, that was like vintage X-Files right there. Clunky, on-the-nose writing that doesn't really reveal anything and nothing that happens actually means anything because there's never any forward motion. Every step up is followed by two steps back.
With that out of the way, ZOMG ♥♥♥SCULLY♥♥♥
Also I also kept expecting Walter Bishop and Olivia Dunham to appear. Which would be kind of awesome.
Since I don't care so much about the mytharc business, I was just happy to see it hit all the familiar beats (SKINNER! WITH A BEARD!), and the internet tells me that the next two episodes are better and then amazing (DARIN MORGAN!!!), so I'm in. Because SCULLY, you guys. SCULLY. #I DO IT ALL FOR YOU MULDER
***
In other news, it took me an extra 40 minutes to get to work today because bus service was so bad, but hey, it's not like we had the second worst blizzard since they started recording that shit or anything. I get the rationale behind opening the schools, but it sure does make life annoying for the rest of us.
***
Oh wow, I almost forgot, I posted a story yesterday:
trade your heroes for ghosts
Star Wars; Ahsoka, Darth Vader; g; 1,515 words
Vader presents Ahsoka with an ultimatum.
This was originally part of a different story - one where Luke and Leia break Ahsoka out of prison - but it didn't fit tonally, so I separated it out. So that is still on the docket, after I figure out how the jailbreak is going to work. And I think after this Vader has to show up in the other story (I was waffling about it), so I guess reveals are going to happen earlier than in canon. *hands* I don't even know anymore. I just keep writing while the words are coming.
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/813246.html.
people have commented there.