I'm making myself a new icon.

[pepper]

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?

Comments

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

Oh man... X-Files... that brings me back to eighth grade and the days when I contemplated whether or not it would be totally weird if I named my first son 'Fox' (I was 14, cut me some slack). For the sake of the world, it's probably a very good thing I didn't know what fanfiction was back then.

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!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, mostly, the landscape was remarkably like Stargate's alien planets. I think if I ever go to Vancouver, the whole place will feel spookily familiar.

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...)

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

I get that feeling too. I mean, if I already do it with other shows filmed in Vancouver (my mom & I play 'guess that filming location' now almost as much as 'name that British/Canadian actor/actress').

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.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I guess you didn't know anyone named Fox, though? *g*

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.