How about Germany? They've never been the bad guys.

[annakovsky]

I've been having a weird impromptu X-Files marathon lately -- I haven't watched that show in FOREVER but for some reason out of the blue I got the urge to watch the first season episode "Eve", and it held up SHOCKINGLY WELL. I tend to the think of the first season as being kind of terrible, but man, I can see why my 14 year old self got really into

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[annakovsky]

Oh God, I'm glad other people felt that way, I kept seeing people saying that Ben and Leslie made them sad in this episode and I was like BUT IT WAS SO HOT oh god what is wrong with me. Ahahahahahaha, oh man, in a hotel to settle their differences, write that fic!

[marguerite_26]

wasn't ever an X-files fans but I loved ST:TNG

remember how if you missed something that was just too bad? Unless you could find someone on a Prodigy X-Files message board who would send you a VHS tape in the mail?)

AHAHAH!!! yes. I remember this one TNG finale that I missed the second half of and I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN MY RAGE.

er.. not sure I ever did manage to watch that ep, come to think.

[annakovsky]

Ahahahahaha, oh my God, right? I think my parents still have vague trauma about me getting really upset over VHS mishaps, BUT THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY TO GET THE EPISODES. HEADS WILL ROLL. The quick move of technology is weird and unsettling at times, but overall AWESOME.

I wish angry-bang were its own category on Yuletide.

[cereal]

I want to hang this entire entry on my refrigerator door so that whenever I'm going for my Toaster Strudel I see it and think of all the good times I had reading it.

I don't think it's even possible to overstate how influential X-Files was to 12-year-old me and who I became as, like, a TV watcher and a member of fandom? Al was singing 'Beyond the Sea' the other day and I was like, SCULLY'S DAD! SCULLY'S DAD! and he was like, "...Finding Nemo?" And I watched my relationship fall apart.

Also, Tooms is the dude that married that 16 year old. Let me just crawl through some bile on a show and then 15 years later marry a girl that was born while I was doing that. Just, what.

ME TOO, I would read all the angry-banging in the world.

[annakovsky]

I seriously sometimes wonder if I would like the things I like even if the X-Files hadn't existed, or if I only like those things because I imprinted on co-dependent law enforcement partners at a critical time in my sexual development, haha. FINDING NEMO WHAT THE HELL, AL?!?!?!?

ALSO OMG TOOMS DOING THAT TRAUMATIZED ME SO BADLY, I was like, oh good, I totally know who this creepster is and am disappointed in him? Great.

Re: ME TOO, I would read all the angry-banging in the world.

[sarcasticpixie]

I seriously sometimes wonder if I would like the things I like even if the X-Files hadn't existed, or if I only like those things because I imprinted on co-dependent law enforcement partners at a critical time in my sexual development

YEP. I eventually figured out why I always had to hug my pillow and pretend it was my boyfriend while I watched XF. I think I figured this out around the same time that I started downloading NC-17 Mulder/Scully fic and disconnecting the dial-up modem so my mom wouldn't yell at me for tying up the phone line.

Re: ME TOO, I would read all the angry-banging in the world.

[annakovsky]

Ahahahahaha, oh God, NC-17 Mulder/Scully fic was basically how I became a woman. I remember being at sleepovers with my best friends getting online to talk about XF and putting a pillow over her super loud dialup modem so it wouldn't wake her parents up and alert them to what we were doing at 2 am.

[_kirsty]

The Treaty -- I think this episode was like the funniest one of the show ever, God, I laughed so hard. Also I find Leslie and Ben way sexier when they're yelling at each other

This is basically the entirety of my thoughts about last week's P&R. Well, plus that moment when Leslie and April are sitting in front of the lockers smiling at each other in anticipation of graduation and a kick-ass summer is one of my favourite moments on the show.

man, that is the way a little girl gets mad. She is totally not worried about whether her feelings are legitimate, or whether she's being unreasonable, or about anyone thinking she's a bitch.

I hadn't thought about this but it's true. Although reading about why it's great/special to see is super depressing.

[annakovsky]

I seriously was just dying during that episode, everything was the funniest. What are you going to do without tides, Peru???

Ugh I knoooow, it makes me so happy that Leslie is so unselfconscious about anger, etc, but it bums me out how selfconscious *I* am about my emotions. DDD: OH WELL.

[sophia_helix]

We have been having a great X-Files renaissance at my house -- my husband and I are just about to watch "Bad Blood"* and my housemate and I are hitting "Colony/Endgame" in our separate rewatch. I am having the same feelings as you re: self-important voiceovers and all the crazy shit that happens to Scully, but I am also being validated as to just how awesome Scully was. I fell for the show at the beginning of season five when I was 16, and man, Scully is just so smart and pretty and tough and great. It really set the tone for every other show or character I have loved, and explains why I can't get into a lot of mainstream television. It also makes me realize that one of the things I like about P&R is that Leslie is considered super-competent by everyone, which is just so refreshing. Usually there's a huge "but" to a character like that (Meredith Grey is a great surgeon but she's also a weeping troubled-men magnet so no one takes her seriously!), so I like that Leslie's flaw is that she is TOO competent and everyone's scared of how

[annakovsky]

Oh man, how funny! I seriously haven't watched XF in so long and then suddenly I just wanted to. Scully really really REALLY is so awesome, it completely is validating -- there is nothing about her that is awful, she is just so kickass. Haha, though there are some times in the first season where she gets some mansplaining about, like, medical things, which seems inappropriate. But for the most part she is SO GOOD. (Though it is also funny to me HOW FAST she is psychotically loyal to Mulder. Any normal person would save their career and run away from this lunatic, Scully!)

Omg VINCE GILLIGAN WROTE YOU BACK?????????? I-I have possibly never been this jealous of anyone in my life.

[sarcasticpixie]

I HAD COFFEE WITH CHRIS CARTER'S SISTER LAST MONTH.

(She doesn't know that I know who her brother is, though.)

[annakovsky]

WHAT. WHAT. Oh my Godddddddddddddddddddddddddd I would die.