reflections from the heart of an addict

there's been a lot said about the X-Files movie over the weekend, sure enough it's definitely a wedge issue...

so just to add my two cents to the millions of cents already floating around out in cyberspace, as an out and out x-phile i like to think i'm basically the core audience for the film.

inital thoughts...walking out of the film the first time i was perplexed, i couldn't figure out how i felt about anything. was it what i anticipated? no...but is anything in this life, let alone the x-files ever what we expect it to be.

in the six years that i've watched and rewatched every episodes, got countless friends hooked on the show, and desperately waited to find out what had become of my heroes, i hoped it would be something that would recapture everything i felt when i watched the show as an angsty teenager. in a somewhat sad revelation about myself, mulder and scully were so important to my angst years i can basically relate every episode back to what was happening in my life at the time.

anyway back to i want to believe, by the time i woke up the next day i decided i wanted to go and watch it again (something people without an interest as intense as mine will not be inclined to do). upon a second viewing i enjoyed it a lot more. but for me the things that stand out, that i enjoyed were purely based around mulder and scully and the evolution of their relationship. when i first started watching the show i was a staunch no-romo who ultimately turned shipper once i realised their relationship was in fact a strength rather than a weakness, particularly in the way it's played.

ultimately i want to believe that this film will do well enough that we will get further installments in whatever format they may take. if not i guess i'll have to be content to live my life free of new x files and happy to make up my own mind about where my not so imaginary friends are...at the end of the day i left the film for the second time, went home and began to rewatch some of my favourite episodes over again, i guess some addictions never die.

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