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[redbrickrose]

All right, so yesterday I was walking through the dining room and X-Files was on the front cover of the entertainment section of the Birmingham paper and just seeing it in the paper again made me make high pitched noises audible only to my parents' labradoodle. Last week I bought the TV Guide with Mulder and Scully on the cover. I don't do that;

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[inlovewithnight]

Somehow though, I've had the good fortune to have been humbled enough to comprehend the absurdity of it all, and to thus realize that a quest to be "understood' is nothing less than a self-absorbed exercise in self-righteousness

And making an extended life-as-performance-art statement about that realization *isn't* a self-absorbed exercise in self-righteousness? ::eyebrow::

...you're pretty, Gabe, is what I'm saying.

:) Enjoy the movie!

[redbrickrose]

Heh. Well, there is that, of course. *g* He's self-aware enough of his own pretension and ridiculousness that I forgive him for it. And then I flail around absurdly when he does things like name blog posts using the titles of old Midtown songs. GOD GABE. I feel like I can never be sure how sincere he's being with any of it, and I feel like there's always an element of self-deprecation in his sincerity. And that makes me love him more (except for the times I want to punch him). And it is a vicious, vicious circle.

:) And thank you! I think at this point I probably will. I just want an entertaining two hours and an acknowledgment of Mulder/Scully. THIS IS NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK.

[olivia_circe]

Oh god, yes. I'm not going to make it to the movie tomorrow, I don't think, and all my X-phile friends are scattered around the Midwest, so I think I may be going to see it alone, but - yeah.

[redbrickrose]

I have talked (at least one, maybe two) fandom friends here into going with me. They're not really into X-Files, but I think they find my flailing amusing. I *would* have gone alone, though - or dragged my parents if I'd had to.

Recovering X-Philes Unite!

[stephanierb]

I was never in the X-Files fandom; like you, Buffy was my first true fandom, but X-Files was my first TV obsession. It was the first show I watched religiously from week to week, the first show I became invested in and the first show that I felt the urge to discuss. Since my friends watched the show, there was no need to seek out a community online so I missed the fandom experience with that show. I'm not sure that wasn't a good thing.

I don't have any expectations quality-wise for this film, I'm strictly there for the nostalgia of it. I still love the show and the characters, and being able to experience them again after all of these years is worth the price of admission.

[redbrickrose]

I'm mostly there for the nostalgia of it as well. But, like, I keep reading reviews about how long they had this idea and how excited they were about it, and then I have HOPE. But, yeah, no matter what it'll be nice to have Mulder and Scully on my screen again.

[lycomingst]

I have my fingers crossed for all my fl X-Files fans. Via con dios. 8 ]

[redbrickrose]

Muchas Gracias. It's possible we're going to need it.

[exsequar]

*flaps hands*

My X-Files love wasn't nearly as intense as yours (whoa girl! <3) but it was the first deeply emotional entanglement I ever had with a show. I DEVOURED fic, and yes, wrote a couple silly little ficlets. I think I even put them online! Hee. But I definitely didn't participate in fandom in a community kind of sense. I wasn't really aware of its existence at that point.

YOU USED "MSR"! *nostalgia*

I just watched Pusher and Syzygy with my roommate. CLASSICS. Ugh it's so fucking good, and I'm SO FUCKING READY for tomorrow. Scully and Mulder are two characters that I would follow into hell, and I trust them to make even a shitty plot bearable, because I could watch them sit together and have coffee for, like, hours and still be totally riveted. People say FTF was a bad movie - I unironically LOVED it. Mulder saved Scully from a big icy hole in Antarctica!!1!!!1! They kill me.

(Krycek! ;_;)

SO SOOOOON.

[redbrickrose]

My GOD I was a scary fangirl. I must have been charming or something also, because sometimes I look back on it and go " . . . how did I keep friends