when the ship goggles come off

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My X-Files rewatch continues apace (actually at rather a faster pace than it probably ought, but this is not a post about the fact that I'm feeling a bit low and am compensating with too much television), and I've found season 4 and the beginning of season 5 to be so interesting in a number of senses that the rewatch of the first couple of seasons

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Probably fortunately, I encountered B5 when I was old enough not to imprint so strongly on John and Delenn, because I suspect they might not hold up so well. But maybe I only say that because they never did much for me in the first place. But that's a show with so much to love that I don't think it would matter if they didn't hold up for your adult self.

And yes, I do remember liking that one! I don't remember the title, and I haven't come to it yet in the rewatch, but I remember it being scary. I've been generally less pleased with the Scully's faith element in my rewatch because it just seems so inconsistently done. Not in the sense that Scully's faith doesn't always seem inconsistent with her character generally, but in a way I find super fascinating and potentially quite realistic, but in the sense that I don't think that experience of the lingering influence of a conventional religious faith is something any of the writers were drawing from with any kind of firsthand knowledge, so while the idea of Scully's faith rings true, it never seems right to me when they actually try to deal with it. But I'll have to see how I feel when I do see that one again.