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katernaterIn the grand tradition of making elaborate, busy plans for Sunday afternoons and then failing to follow through with them because a nap seems to be a more personally progressive option, I have spent most of today watching the second season of The X-Files and (appropriately) re-freaking myself out. I never knew that the rainforests of Costa Rica could look so much like the deciduous forests of British Columbia ("F. Emasculata"), that you can study pulse magnetics in an office that looks like the lobby of a branch library ("Soft Light"), or that -- speaking of magnets -- Dana Scully's head seems to be a magnet for heavy, blunt objects ("Our Town").
I'm trying to recapture some of the vip, vim and -- I'm not ashamed to admit it -- the vigor of my early obsession with the show. With the release of the second film, I almost feel obligated. I mean, for me? The X-Files was the beginning of everything. What I know now about life ("A cheap, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for"); and love (root beer = no; iced tea = yes) is neatly contained in nine (okay, six-and-a-half) seasons of television. Before House taught me to be aloof and acerbic, Mulder taught me the importance of truth, perseverance and, you know, always losing your cell phone/flashlight/partner at the most inopportune time during the episode.
To celebrate, I give you an X-Files Season 1 picspam:
PILOT
MULDER: ... in most of my work, the laws of physics rarely seems to apply.
DEEP THROAT
MULDER: I saw something I...
DEEP THROAT: As I said, I can provide you with information, but only so long as it's in my best interest to do so.
MULDER: What is your interest?
DEEP THROAT: The truth.
SQUEEZE
SCULLY: Oh my God, Mulder, it's smells like, I think it's bile.
MULDER: Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?
CONDUIT
MULDER: You know when I was a kid, I had this ritual. I closed my eyes before I walked into my room, 'cause I thought that one day when I opened them my sister would be there. Just lying in bed, like nothing ever happened. You know I'm still walking into that room, everyday of my life.
JERSEY DEVIL
SCULLY: Yeah well, I have got to get back to Washington by 7:30, so er..
MULDER: Another birthday party?
SCULLY: No. I have a date.
MULDER: Can you cancel?
SCULLY: Unlike you Mulder, I would like to have a life.
MULDER: I have a life!
SHADOWS
MULDER: Hey, Scully. Do you believe in the afterlife?
SCULLY: I'd settle for a life in this one.
GHOST IN THE MACHINE
DEEP THROAT: Loss of freedom does funny things to a man.
ICE
MULDER: It's still there, Scully. 200,000 years down in the ice.
SCULLY: Leave it there.
SPACE
MULDER: I have to admit, that fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies.
SCULLY: Yeah, it ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair.
FALLEN ANGEL
MULDER: Then what can I say? How can I disprove lies that are stamped with an official seal? You can deny all the things I've seen. All the things I've discovered. But not for much longer. Because too many others know what's happening out there. And no one, no government agency has jurisdiction over the truth.
EVE
MULDER: Potato, potahto.
FIRE
GREEN: Oh, come on, don't tell me you left your sense of humor in Oxford ten years ago.
MULDER: No, actually. It's one of the few things you didn't drive a stake through.
BEYOND THE SEA
MULDER: Dana. After all you've seen, after all the evidence, why can't you believe?
SCULLY: I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.
GENDERBENDER
MULDER: You get any sense about them?
SCULLY: There's something up there, Mulder.
MULDER: Oh, I've been saying that for years.
LAZARUS
PROF. VARNES: Did you know that half of all adults who have had a near-death experience can not wear a watch? The increased electrical activity in their bodies renders the watches on their wrists inoperable.
YOUNG AT HEART
REGGIE PURDUE: Remember the day you walked into my office wet from Quantico? You pissed me off just looking at you but then I saw how your mind worked. How you were always three jumps ahead. It was scary, Mulder. Everybody said so.
E.B.E.
SCULLY: Mulder, you're the only one I trust.
MIRACLE MAN
MULDER: People want to believe, you know.
SHERIFF DANIELS: Ninety-nine percent of the people in this world are fools ... and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
SHAPES
LYLE PARKER: I can deal with death, you know, living on the ranch, being close to nature and all, you see how it all works. Things are born, things die, everything else falls in between.
DARKNESS FALLS
SCULLY: What do you think?
MULDER: I think I'm going to suggest that we sleep with the lights on.
TOOMS
MULDER: If there's an ice tea in that bag, could be love.
SCULLY: Must be fate, Mulder. Root beer.
BORN AGAIN
MULDER: Well, individuals with strong past-life memories often exhibit enhanced psychic abilities - ESP, telekinesis.
SCULLY: So where does that leave us?
MULDER: One short step away from proving the pre-existence of the human soul.
ROLAND
DR. NOLLETTE: ... a quantum physics professor of mine at Harvey Mudd flunked me. He challenged the tenets of one of my theories - a theory I later published in 'Nature'. Anyway, uh, to get back him, one afternoon we decided to take his car apart and put it back together again in his office and left it running.
MULDER: Hmmm, an egghead classic.
THE ERLENMEYER FLASK
DEEP THROAT: Mister Mulder?
MULDER: What?
DEEP THROAT: Don't give up on this one. Trust me. You've never been closer.
I'm trying to recapture some of the vip, vim and -- I'm not ashamed to admit it -- the vigor of my early obsession with the show. With the release of the second film, I almost feel obligated. I mean, for me? The X-Files was the beginning of everything. What I know now about life ("A cheap, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for"); and love (root beer = no; iced tea = yes) is neatly contained in nine (okay, six-and-a-half) seasons of television. Before House taught me to be aloof and acerbic, Mulder taught me the importance of truth, perseverance and, you know, always losing your cell phone/flashlight/partner at the most inopportune time during the episode.
To celebrate, I give you an X-Files Season 1 picspam:
PILOT
MULDER: ... in most of my work, the laws of physics rarely seems to apply.
DEEP THROAT
MULDER: I saw something I...
DEEP THROAT: As I said, I can provide you with information, but only so long as it's in my best interest to do so.
MULDER: What is your interest?
DEEP THROAT: The truth.
SQUEEZE
SCULLY: Oh my God, Mulder, it's smells like, I think it's bile.
MULDER: Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?
CONDUIT
MULDER: You know when I was a kid, I had this ritual. I closed my eyes before I walked into my room, 'cause I thought that one day when I opened them my sister would be there. Just lying in bed, like nothing ever happened. You know I'm still walking into that room, everyday of my life.
JERSEY DEVIL
SCULLY: Yeah well, I have got to get back to Washington by 7:30, so er..
MULDER: Another birthday party?
SCULLY: No. I have a date.
MULDER: Can you cancel?
SCULLY: Unlike you Mulder, I would like to have a life.
MULDER: I have a life!
SHADOWS
MULDER: Hey, Scully. Do you believe in the afterlife?
SCULLY: I'd settle for a life in this one.
GHOST IN THE MACHINE
DEEP THROAT: Loss of freedom does funny things to a man.
ICE
MULDER: It's still there, Scully. 200,000 years down in the ice.
SCULLY: Leave it there.
SPACE
MULDER: I have to admit, that fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies.
SCULLY: Yeah, it ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair.
FALLEN ANGEL
MULDER: Then what can I say? How can I disprove lies that are stamped with an official seal? You can deny all the things I've seen. All the things I've discovered. But not for much longer. Because too many others know what's happening out there. And no one, no government agency has jurisdiction over the truth.
EVE
MULDER: Potato, potahto.
FIRE
GREEN: Oh, come on, don't tell me you left your sense of humor in Oxford ten years ago.
MULDER: No, actually. It's one of the few things you didn't drive a stake through.
BEYOND THE SEA
MULDER: Dana. After all you've seen, after all the evidence, why can't you believe?
SCULLY: I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.
GENDERBENDER
MULDER: You get any sense about them?
SCULLY: There's something up there, Mulder.
MULDER: Oh, I've been saying that for years.
LAZARUS
PROF. VARNES: Did you know that half of all adults who have had a near-death experience can not wear a watch? The increased electrical activity in their bodies renders the watches on their wrists inoperable.
YOUNG AT HEART
REGGIE PURDUE: Remember the day you walked into my office wet from Quantico? You pissed me off just looking at you but then I saw how your mind worked. How you were always three jumps ahead. It was scary, Mulder. Everybody said so.
E.B.E.
SCULLY: Mulder, you're the only one I trust.
MIRACLE MAN
MULDER: People want to believe, you know.
SHERIFF DANIELS: Ninety-nine percent of the people in this world are fools ... and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
SHAPES
LYLE PARKER: I can deal with death, you know, living on the ranch, being close to nature and all, you see how it all works. Things are born, things die, everything else falls in between.
DARKNESS FALLS
SCULLY: What do you think?
MULDER: I think I'm going to suggest that we sleep with the lights on.
TOOMS
MULDER: If there's an ice tea in that bag, could be love.
SCULLY: Must be fate, Mulder. Root beer.
BORN AGAIN
MULDER: Well, individuals with strong past-life memories often exhibit enhanced psychic abilities - ESP, telekinesis.
SCULLY: So where does that leave us?
MULDER: One short step away from proving the pre-existence of the human soul.
ROLAND
DR. NOLLETTE: ... a quantum physics professor of mine at Harvey Mudd flunked me. He challenged the tenets of one of my theories - a theory I later published in 'Nature'. Anyway, uh, to get back him, one afternoon we decided to take his car apart and put it back together again in his office and left it running.
MULDER: Hmmm, an egghead classic.
THE ERLENMEYER FLASK
DEEP THROAT: Mister Mulder?
MULDER: What?
DEEP THROAT: Don't give up on this one. Trust me. You've never been closer.
