So, I've gone back and started re-watching
The X-Files from the beginning to get me all ramped up for the film release in July. Tonight, I watched a run of excellent episodes from the 2nd season that I probably haven't seen in a good 10 years. It's so satisfying to revisit something that gave me so much pleasure in the past, and then finding it to be just as entertaining and engaging as before. My favorite of the night was "Humbug," the first deliberately "funny" episode written by the amazing Darin Morgan (he also penned a number of fantastic eps for the 2nd season of
Millennium--I see he's now working as a consulting producer on
The Bionic Woman, but he needs to re-emerge as a writer) and it had me cracking up. If you were a fan, you'll recall the "freak" episode with Jim Rose and Michael J. Anderson...and some of the funniest bits from the entire run of the series...particularly when Mulder falls on the bed of nails and quips "It's more comfortable than a futon."
Anyway, don't wanna turn into a fan girl, but this is just getting me even more excited about the next film. It's been five years since the end of the series and ten since a film, so I'm practically drooling. Rumor has it that the movie's going to be a stand-alone, but that seems a little strange, given the fact that Mulder and Scully were essentially on the run from the FBI and many others at the end of the series. We'll see. Either way, I'll be front and center come July 25th, and I'm likely to be sitting there with my Mulder and Scully action figures in hand. :)
2 comments:
I'd love to go back and re-watch the series at some point. For a couple of years (Season's 2-5 or so) it was one of my favourite shows on TV...I watched every Sunday night.
I can't imagine that the new movie will be anything short of very good. It'll be great to see Mulder and Scully back together again.
I was there from beginning to end. It certainly had its high points (and 2-5 probably was it) and occasional lows, but it never ceased to be my primary source of entertainment when it was on.
And about seeing Gillian and David together again? It's like watching two old lovers return for another fling--beautiful and bittersweet.
Here's a link to a blog I posted at the end of the series in 2002, if you're interested. It's at the beginning of the page. You'll get a sense of how important this little slice of television history has been to me:
The End of The X-Files
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