Snowflake 2018

[keiliss]

Day 11

Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I remember exactly when I fell in love with The X-Files. It was Anasazi - the arc that started end of season 2 - which I hired to maybe look at after some movie I wanted to see. I think it might have been a bad night at Blockbusters. Anyhow, I'd missed it when it aired - I was a more casual viewer till then because I was usually out Friday nights. I put it in the machine after the movie and watched. Got coffee, ran it back, sat on the floor in front of the tv, watched it again. Did it a third time. Realised the birds had started singing and that I HAD MISSED (and needed to find) SO MANY EPISODES!!!!

It was this amazing feeling, like falling in love - all the excitement, all the fascination for this new, wonderful thing in my life, all the controlled terror that it might implode as soon as I began to trust it. And let's face it, the show changed, lost some sparkle, had a ghastly 'ending' .... but that's okay, it's the X-Files, I can just pretend none of the ugly bits happened (and that Alex is alive and well and off somewhere busily selling secrets).

This was my first true fandom, as in following all the details about the show and the actors, writing episodes of the mythology in my head, devouring fan fiction when that opportunity finally came ---- my primary motivation for wanting my first computer was based at least partially in needing to get online at home and find out more!!! I've never actually written any X-Files fic. By the time I had the confidence and experience to do the people I love justice, things were quieter and I was very involved with Tolkien, but still one of the best things that can happen for me on Ao3 is to find a really good fic I've not read yet (and if it has Alex and Marita, even as secondary characters, it's like Christmas morning).

Guilty secret time: when Season 10 came back after all that time, I didn't give a damn if it was brilliant or totally sucked. I just cared that it was out there. First love is like that, I guess.

Comments

[wendelah1]

Did somebody say X-Files?

[keiliss]

Ha! It's like someone waving a flag, isn't it? I smile each time I see your icon!

[wendelah1]

Thank you. The show and I are not in a good place right now (don't get me started on CC) but I still love the old fanfic as much as ever, and some of the newer fic, too.

Marita and Krycek--that's a tough one to find these days. I bet they would qualify for rarepairs! I'll keep an eye out.

[keiliss]

I rewatch old episodes, it's like comfort food for the soul, but I can't pretend I see the point in picking it up again now (besides money, I mean).I watched season 10, I'll also watch season 11 (it only starts here next weekend) because, eh, it's been a long road, may as well see it through. But I won't rewatch and there is no way in hell I'd buy the DVD.

Wow yes, the poster children for a rare pairing. (my OTPs tend to be like that, I do not know what contrary gene in me avoids mainstreaming :D)

[wendelah1]

Comfort food episode #1 for me is "Bad Blood." It never fails to cheer me up.

I didn't buy the Blurays of season 10 even though there is a slot right there for it in the boxset.

I'm relieved that GA says she's done. I'm not surprised that DD is willing to do the show with or without her--after they did an entire season and a half without him. Chris says he won't do it without her but he carried on without David. We'll see. I can see giving Mulder a pair of younger agents to manage. Turn him into Skinner. Kill off the CSM once and for all--that guy has worn out his welcome as far as I'm concerned. Maybe bring back Krycek from the dead!

[keiliss]

I'm still trying to understand how CSM is alive, but that's just me being picky. And yeah, I think David needs the show way more than Gillian at this point - she has plenty of work and I can understand feeling there was nothing left to learn with Scully (and possibly having her own thoughts about the scripting...). The whole mentor of new agents thing though -- they sort of tried that with Scully, not sure it'll work much better with Mulder, but we'll see.

You inspired me to go rewatch Bad Blood. You're right - can't not smile after that.

[hhimring]

Not my fandom really, but I still have such fond memories of your cross-over fic, the M Files!

[keiliss]

I should have done more with that, I was having a really good time with the whole huge conspiracy concept. Still have fic notes.....