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[gwyn]

Happy birthday, taselby! I hope you are well, and have a great day planned for yourself.

For those interested in reading about Brokeback Mountain, we just posted this very interesting article on whether this is really Hollywood's first true gay movie -- and in a way, the author argues both for and against that himself, because he says that the movie avoids all the stale cliches of what that normally means. It's quite lovely, but if you are not familiar with the story or don't want to know much about the movie, it is spoilerific. My favorite line: "In the end, Brokeback Mountain is less the story of a love that dares not speak its name than of one that doesn't know how to speak its name, and is somehow more eloquent for its lack of vocabulary."

I have been on a renewed love affair with the X-Files, enough to even start recording the daily showings on SciFi just to refamiliarize myself with them without getting out all the DVDs and carving time. It's weird. To say I was enraged at the end is putting it mildly. I still to this day have no idea what the story was actually about because the last episode made the whole thing into a weird nonsensical joke -- it was as if they were giving us the TV equivalent punchline of "No soap, radio." And that infuriated me, and they way they ran it into the ground, and the way they took the outstandingly unconvential "romance" that Mulder and Scully had for years and turned it into conventional romance... gah. But. If you ignore those last two seasons (though I confess, one of my favorite Skinner eps came in season 8, with Skinner and Doggett being all quien es mas macho with each other in an oddly attractive way), and you put some distance between the show and yourself, you find out there's still a lot of warm fuzzies there. Working on the remasters of There's No Way Out of Here and Fall in the Light made me feel kind of nostalgic for monster of the week stories. The mythology is now meaningless, but it's amazing what you can see in the show when you view it through the lens of time, and I'm feeling very caught up in it again and want to make vids. I realize the world is not clamoring for more X-Files vids, but I still feel like making them.

And now I need some XF icons and have misplaced my only one.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Brokeback Mountain article. The film won't be coming here until next month, but I can't wait to see it...anyway, that article does a lovely job of exploring the film, and I enjoyed it.

[meko00.livejournal.com]

I'll have to read the novella before I see it. (I have the book, but I haven't been in a reading mood lately, which is so very unlike me.)

love affair with the X-Files
Ahhh, my first Internet fandom.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

My favorite line: "In the end, Brokeback Mountain is less the story of a love that dares not speak its name than of one that doesn't know how to speak its name, and is somehow more eloquent for its lack of vocabulary."

*weeps and is broken*

X files fandom person ....

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

waving hand timidly from the back row. Please, ma'am...more X Files vids? I know what you mean about rekindling the love; I've been watching them at 5 PM on the Sci Fi channel and remembering just how good they could be. Now that we know that there isn't really a resolution of all the plot twists, it's easier to enjoy. And when they were good, they were very very good. Scully and the Lone Gunmen are unique creations and Scully (until the last season or two) was one of the strongest, smartest and prettiest-in-not-Hollywierd style characters on TV. Mulder wasn't so bad looking either. Krycek was the prettiest baddie-maybe with pouting mouth and eyelashes out to there. Also pretty.
Did I mention pretty?
OK - so I'm juvenile.

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the "Brokeback Mountain" article. It's really helped clarify some things in my mind. Reading it made me realize that it's very much what I've been trying to write lately.

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Waves from the back too...more XFiles vids, pretty please? I have a very soft spot for Krycek, myself, and I was never an XFiles fan at the time they were airing...but your work always gives me the tingles (you pimped me Fast adn Furious with just one vid!), so...yes, please? :)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Hey, it WAS the first internet fandom, not just yours! I still remember the usenet communities with... uh... fondness would not be the word, just because we didn't have the full fledged Intarwebs the way we do now. Ah, good times. Flames, trolls, insults, pairing wars... using the nascent web technologies to try to hunt down the names of the episodes...

Re: X files fandom person ....

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but I might not be the person to give you what you want. I hate Krycek with the white-hot passion of a thousand burning suns. I was a Skinner girl all the way, and of course a Mulder and a Scully girl. I always thought Dana got the shaft in that show -- she didn't believe in anything until the end, and by then no one was watching. For her to always stubbornly dig in like she did in the face of evidence... it bothered me that they were so rigid with how she should remain an unbeliever. She was too wonderful not to bend just a little.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I feel bad now, because as I was just saying to namastenancy, I absolutely loathe Krycek and I'm afraid I might get people's hopes up. I do have a Mulder vid in the works, and still have a Mulder and Scully idea I'd like to do, as well as a Scully focused character vid. Maybe if they're good enough people won't notice Krycek never enters my vision. ;-)

Re: X files fandom person ....

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Well, my goodness - I'm certainly not "demanding" Krycek. I'll take Skinner (BEG). Oh my yes! But whatever you do will be wonderful as it always it. I also agree with you on Scully; the writers did not do her justice. I'd forgotten about how rigid they made her - I suppose that it was part of the arc but it really doesn't work that well in retrospect.

[meko00.livejournal.com]

Hee! I know. :-D

Also, for the record, I love most of the characters. Poor Pendrell. *sniffs*

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I will happily slurp up any XF vids you make. I've been toying with renewing the passion, myself; XF was my first true media fandom and the one I was most excited about.

They say you never forget your first love...

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

LOL
Well, you don't have to make a songvid where Krycek is loved..you can make one to show how nasty and disgusting and loathe-inducing he is...who says vids have to be about love-objects? They can certainly be about hate-objects too.
*grins*

(and that was a serious observation, btw, even if tainted by my attempt to brainwash you. Ops.)

Well, a girl has to try *hugs you*
More vids is a good thing anyway, Krycek or no Krycek. :)