January 18, 2008

• mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeh. After a convoluted mythology, a nonsensical movie and the death of the Lone Gunmen, I think it's too late.
• If they bring back Burt Reynolds, and he spends the entire film dancing with an old lady, while laughing and laughing, then it will be the very best film ever made
• Reality has gone was too bizarre for X-Files to have the same impact. They Lone Gunmen died?
• A truly great series... ...which jumped the shark hard enough to achieve escape velocity. There's no going back. I think the Lone Gunmen died after getting their own show. Can't swear to it, though.
• The Lone Gunmen died because their own show was so awful Fox wanted to make sure there was no way another one could ever happen, anywhere.
• The Lone Gunmen died because their own show predicted 9/11.
• I do applaud their desire to leave said convoluted mythology behind. The best episodes of the show were the little standalone gems reminiscent of the Twilight Zone.
• Sod that, what about the Rockford Files?
• 'Romance' and no aliens? Is that going to be X-Califonication?
• Flukeman. FLUKEMAN!
• I'd pay $9.00 to see a Rockford Files movie. You think they could get Jim Garner as Rockford, Sr.?
• Oh that so has Colin Farrell written all over it.
• I'd probably see the X-Files movie. Rockford Files? It would depend on who was in it.
• There's a whole bunch of freaks converging on New York City, with the intent of suicide bombing it. We should send Skully and whatever to investigate Hiro. And +1 on the Rockford Files.
• I have to admit, as big a fan as I was of the first... oh, six or seven seasons... releasing a new X-Files movie at this point feels like a form of necrophilia. And not in a fun way, either.
• Well I guess I'm in the minority when I say holy crap, that just made my year. I'm sure Carter realizes it's a bit too far gone, and taking that into account would make a "sequel" well worth seeing for anyone who ever appreciated the show before he screwed it up (imho). If they get the writers from the first three season who are responsible for likes of Ice, Beyond the Sea, War of the Coprophages, Syzygy, Clyde Bruckman, etc., I'm in. Well, I'm in either way. Yes, I'm that girl. Don't get me started. Just look at the nickname... Anyone else think it was a conspiracy that the first movie came out on my birthday AND my last day of high-school ever which obviously forced me to skip the last day of my senior year and go see the movie? Twice. Yea. That's what I thought.
• It was such a great show. And the mythology episodes were fantastic. And then my fears that Carter really didn't have a grand plan and that the clues dropped in the mythology were not really connected in any meaningful way became increasing realized. Then the show just completely sucked. A new movie has to be a stand-alone. The mythology made no sense and meant nothing. They have to pretend that never happened.
• I, for one, welcome the return of Gillian's impertinent, disdainful lips to the silver screen.
• I spent way too many of my high school years trying to look Scully-ish. Yeah, I'll see the movie.
• The wife and I took every friend we had to Fight The Future. To separate screenings every time. Even though it kinda stunk. I imagine we will see this several times theatrically as well. So she has a thing for Duchovny? Scully is STILL my #1 screen crush, so I am SO there.
• I spent way too many of my high school years trying to look Scully-ish. I think I love you, now. Could you walk briskly toward a parking deck while talking on a cell phone and starting every sentence with "Mulder?" TIA.
• I can do that. I just have to find the right trench coat first.
• Hey you two, get a pod.
• Y'know what I really, really loved about Agent Scully? She was drop-dead sexy, had all the boys panting after her, and she still wore sensible shoes. Drives me crazy when I see women on TV wearing four-inch heels to do a job they could never really do in that footwear,
• She always wore shoulderpads though, which coupled with her short neck, made her look like a quarterback. And Duchovny had bad hair.
• To me, that was sort of their appeal - they weren't fashion plates, which made them more realistic.
• I demand good eye candy from my fictional Federal Agents. What the hell are my tax dollars paying for??!
• Dick Cheney's blood thinners?
• Dick Cheney's man-sized safe?
• A Tim Horton's in Kandahar?
• I liked that about Scully, too, TUM. I'm not about to wreck my feet in pretty but painful footwear. (Except today, apparently. I bought some new pants that fit like a dream except for the part where they're five inches too long, so I had to roll them up *and* wear heels. These pants were apparently tailored for a 6-foot-tall woman.)
• And also? Mmmmmm... Timbits