I
had lots of plans crammed into the long Presidents’ Day weekend a while back. But snow and
ice storms, amongst other things, canceled my plans, leaving me with three days
of Netflix binging. I got sucked into X Files.
I have a friend who tried to get me into a year ago, and I had been going
slowly, an episode here or there. But I really synced with it that weekend and
have since blown through several seasons. There are forthcoming blog posts relating my current sci-fi obsession to my faith, so brace yourselves for my latest geekout.
2. Scully needs to wear her latex gloves and surgical
masks more often. Papers left behind by a killer? Gloves. Gooey body of unidentified
humanoid? Bare-handed and uncovered mouth open. This is how all those alien
diseases spread!
3. I’m really glad the government had stopped
smallpox vaccinations before I was born. And I can see where anti-vaccers are
coming from. In fact, my binges are making me pretty paranoid about several
things. I need to get some good detox literature lined up.
4. Family members of FBI agents must have
terrible insurance rates. Same for any woman that crosses Skinner’s path.
5. I kind of don’t want to see the new
episodes, because I can just go on the internet and see what post-9/11 Mulders
are like in real life. That’s depressing. I need the distance.
6. The show premiered in September 1993. That
month is beginning of Eternal September, which refers to when AOL began offering
Internet access for many people. Before then, the internet was mainly geeks and
college students (with waves of newbies joining each September at the beginning
of school, settling into the ways of the net within a few weeks). In Sept.
1993, the waves of new AOL users didn’t stop, forever changing the culture. I
think this show is the perfect Eternal September show, in that it perfectly encapsulates
1990s tech. As agents, Mulder and Scully have cellphones and the internet, and
both play incredibly large roles in plots. As the seasons progress, more and
more common people have the technology too. The show seems to perfectly balance
how technology was used in the 90s.
7. This scene. Just, everything about it.
#blackandwhite #cher #walkinginmemphis #mutant #jerryspringer #mulderandscullydance
#postmodernprometheus
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