But I still have a super special place in my heart for DRR.
Indeed! I always loved them for not being Mulder and Scully, mostly. They weren't epically tragic, or particularly complicated, and they certainly weren't going to sit around pining over each other for seven years without doing anything about it (I felt like we were supposed to understand that they'd gotten together around the end of the series, really, though I was watching with admittedly ship-colored glasses). And the hug in my icon is one of my all-time favorite TV hugs (though WOW, that was an awful episode, now that I've gone back to rewatch it!).
In terms of the season as a whole, from what I've rewatched, only "Scary Monsters" holds up as a pretty solid episode: pretty well-done MOTW case that holds together on its own merits, lots of fun meta references, very few cringeworthy character and acting moments. The rest is much worse than I remembered. But I still want to give John Doggett a hug and have Monica Reyes for my friend, so I guess I'll call it a win.
I do think that TXF was a splendid introduction to fandom. I mean, it was that for so many of us, I think, and it invented so many of the terms and tropes, and I'm glad to have been a part of it, even in the extremely small and marginal way that I was. But wow, was I ever a rabid 'shipper with very little capacity to think outside that box! (The especially embarrassing part is that I don't even have the excuse of having been 14; I was 19 or 20!) And looking back now, I do sort of wish I'd discovered thinky fandom sooner, because it would have been fun to engage with TXF in that way back then. But on the other hand, if I'd done that, I might now be far more bitter about the bitter-making parts of that show, whereas now I can accept that there were parts of those latter seasons that totally broke my heart (to the point that I will never not sort of want Scully to run away from Mulder from the word go, because it's just not worth it), and yet I will still also melt like a rabid 'shipper at all those shippy moments (mostly the M/S, but also the D/R) because they're tinged with so much vaguely embarrassing but awesome nostalgia.
Indeed! I always loved them for not being Mulder and Scully, mostly. They weren't epically tragic, or particularly complicated, and they certainly weren't going to sit around pining over each other for seven years without doing anything about it (I felt like we were supposed to understand that they'd gotten together around the end of the series, really, though I was watching with admittedly ship-colored glasses). And the hug in my icon is one of my all-time favorite TV hugs (though WOW, that was an awful episode, now that I've gone back to rewatch it!).
In terms of the season as a whole, from what I've rewatched, only "Scary Monsters" holds up as a pretty solid episode: pretty well-done MOTW case that holds together on its own merits, lots of fun meta references, very few cringeworthy character and acting moments. The rest is much worse than I remembered. But I still want to give John Doggett a hug and have Monica Reyes for my friend, so I guess I'll call it a win.
I do think that TXF was a splendid introduction to fandom. I mean, it was that for so many of us, I think, and it invented so many of the terms and tropes, and I'm glad to have been a part of it, even in the extremely small and marginal way that I was. But wow, was I ever a rabid 'shipper with very little capacity to think outside that box! (The especially embarrassing part is that I don't even have the excuse of having been 14; I was 19 or 20!) And looking back now, I do sort of wish I'd discovered thinky fandom sooner, because it would have been fun to engage with TXF in that way back then. But on the other hand, if I'd done that, I might now be far more bitter about the bitter-making parts of that show, whereas now I can accept that there were parts of those latter seasons that totally broke my heart (to the point that I will never not sort of want Scully to run away from Mulder from the word go, because it's just not worth it), and yet I will still also melt like a rabid 'shipper at all those shippy moments (mostly the M/S, but also the D/R) because they're tinged with so much vaguely embarrassing but awesome nostalgia.
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