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moonshayde and stargazercmc have put together an excellent new community: trustno1_redux, for rewatching the X-Files.Ahh, it takes me back to those heady days of young fandom, being an X-Phile (oh, what a horrible name), writing fanfic between classes, flirting with strange Canadians over the interweb, and all my passwords being 'trustno1'. Heeheehee. I looked at the list of first season episodes, and simply had to join. Squeeze! The Jersey Devil! Fire! Beyond The Sea! Gender Bender! Darkness Falls! I'd forgotten how much love I had for that series. *happy sigh*
And did everyone already know that Hammond is Scully's dad? I only just realised it today. It made me very happy, in a very geeky way.
ETA: And was it just me, or did every second X-Files fanfic involve them getting all dressed up to go to an entirely unlikely FBI ball, and dancing to something corny and romantic?
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But I suspect you're right.
And yay for rewatch! I really have to check and see if I have season one tonight, and if not, I will need to buy it.
Really, the cheesy dancing fics - I started to wonder if fans thought that all the FBI did was hold dances for their staff. Either that, or Mulder and Scully would get kidnapped, and she'd get impregnated. It was a little wearisome. Not that some of them weren't good, it's just that's my overwhelming memory of it all.
See, I was big into XF but I didn't write fic and I wasn't part of the fandom. I wasn't even online at the time.
So this all makes me giggle and smile.
"The dark green cocktail dress she wore reached down to just past her knees, was low enough at the neck to be enticing, without common... Scully smiled at her image. She didn't often get to dress up go "out"..."
As for the Hammond/Scully's dad connection, the first time I saw Stargate on TV was actually while waiting for a table at a restaurant and they had Stargate showing on some TV in the corner. I saw Don S. Davis on the opening credits and immediately grabbed my mom's arm and pointed saying, "THAT'S SCULLY'S DAD!!!!".
By the way, one of the best things about early X-Files is that they set a couple in Wisconsin... and apparently, there are lots of mysterious canyons in Wisconsin. Trust me, the landscape is nowhere near that rocky or craggy. Maybe if there'd been mysterious alien abductions from the tops of small rolling hills... but not canyons. Gotta love artistic licenses!
Their idea of England, as seen in the episode 'Fire', made me chuckle (I'm looking it all up on Wikipedia and reminiscing). Every other person is a Sir. As, you've probably discovered, is SO not the case. :D
Yeah, I used to think Fox was a good name. Eeeeesh.
(Actually, Dana is a good name...)
Wait, everybody's not knighted here? WTF? ;)
Dana's not a bad name... I just knew some girls at school and church named Dana and I couldn't name my daughter that and not dredge up memories. So while Dana Scully is kick-ass, Dana from Sunday School most definitely was (is?) not.
I bet the number of kids called Fox increased when the X-Files came along. And a lot of kids will be about as fond of that name as Mulder was. If I recall correctly, he made even his parents call him Mulder.
Yep. Knew that! And didn't he used to call her Starbuck, which was this weird BSG connection, too?
From wikipedia:
Queequeg was the name of Special Agent Dana Scully's dog on The X-Files. It was named after the Moby-Dick character. The name was also taken as an email handle by Fox Mulder, used to contact Scully, when he was on the run in later seasons.
I didn't remember the email thing. But apparently the nicknames came from him reading Moby Dick to her as a kid. Scully explained:
Quote from XF:
"My father used to read to me from Moby Dick when I was a little girl, I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg."
...Why was Starbuck on BSG called that, do you know?
In the original series it seemed more like a last name because they referred to him as Lt. Starbuck rather than just Starbuck (whereas in the newer series, she has a separate name, Kara Thrace and just goes by Starbuck as her call sign).
In the original series, Starbuck's parentage was in question. Fred Astaire guest-starred as a character who was revealed to be Starbuck's father (but not to Starbuck).
I've not seen the show, you see. From the bits I have seen of the original, though, I could imagine them choosing the name Starbuck because it's the sort of thing a space pilot could be called. :)
Go. Read. Now. Trust me on this one, despite your former passwords. *g*
blocked those from memoryforgotten those.I love fics by Dawson Rambo - long case-file-y things with MSR and Profiler!Mulder.
I do love this show.
Dawson Rambo is an excellent name. *g*
I'm also a big fan of Jean Helms' And Death Shall Have No Dominion. But I'm way biased on that one - she's a RL buddy.
I found part of my stash of X-Files fic (other people's fic, that is - I've fortunately managed to misplace my own. Now if only Gossamer will delete it...). When I get a chance, I'm going to look through and see if any of it was good, or if it just seemed good to teenaged me.
*g*
This whole post brings back memories. I was a HUGE fan of the X-Files but never into the fandom at all - and it's a very good thing that my 13 year old mind had yet to discover this thing called fanfiction :D
But I did chat to people in other countries, and that was very exciting - seemed very exotic to me, at the time. Heck, it still does. :)
Ah, the memories...