Basically, this will either be awesome or destroy our marriage or a little of both. We're having a pretty great time so far.

Oooh, hurry up. We've just started* watching it from the start, and the SO didn't see it first time around.

Just did that one where you spend the whole episode trying to work out that the psycho is JF Sebastian, and miss most of the plot scouring IMDB, and then discussing the difference between JF Sebasion in Do Androids...(mentally subnormal) and the one in Bladerunner (genetic engineer with physical condition). So, just so you know, it's JF Sebastian.


(* OK, we're up to season two, but we're like that with big series)

OK, new thought, we could start sending you spoilers....

We already watched the whole thing once, so we're not worried about spoilers. :)

Ah well... then I suppose I'll just check your site, and stop us watching it at the first big fall in post frequency.

Are you gonna go whole hog - the movie, The Lone Gunmen, the christmas special on the wookiee planet... oops, sorry, wrong franchise - or just the show itself?

cortex, that site is THREE KINDS OF AWESOME!

But I must note 2 things: first, Mrs.C, aka Secretariat (you married a Triple Crown Winner?) is funnier than you. Sorry, she just has better punchlines.

Second: I am so sorry I missed on the Name the Blog AskMe thread, because I have ONE BIG PROBLEM with the name you chose, since Mulder is NOT IN EVERY EPISODE.

I really think the title should have referred somehow to The Lone Gunguys, Jose Chung or Clyde Bruckman...

The Lone Punmen
The X-File Depository
The Gassy Knoll
Jose Chung Made This!
Jose Chung's Greatest Hits
Everybody Loves Clyde Bruckman

or something like Alienating Autopsy or Alien Autopilot or Alien Asshat Autopsy

Mulder Scully Theater 4000 (MST4K - yes, I know neither of them were in EVERY EPISODE)

LOLXFILES?

AND WHAT WAS SO WRONG WITH "I Want 2.0 Believe"?

Mulder and Scully want to exhume a couple more graves…but someone else already has! The graves are open and empty! Mulder fingers Billy!

[ANGELA] Why would you say that. That’s terrible.

I lol'd.

This is ambitious... Do you think you'll manage the whole thing? I want to believe.

If Mrs. C is funnier, I definitely have to check this out, because cortex cracks me up consistently.

This 'll be good..

Most cool.

Are you gonna go whole hog - the movie, The Lone Gunmen, the christmas special on the wookiee planet... oops, sorry, wrong franchise - or just the show itself?

Yes, probably not, I only wish. The movie comes with the box set and is very much an "episode" canon/continuity wise besides. If we do the Lone Gunman, it'll be a couple years from now and out of desperation, because man did what I saw of that show suck. I love those three to death, but boy. I'd rather do Millenium first.

I really think the title should have referred somehow to The Lone Gunguys, Jose Chung or Clyde Bruckman...

We discussed names for a really long time. I could give you a specific reason for every single name we didn't go with; in the end, Mulder's Big Adventure was simple, accessible to casual fans, hooky, easy to type in domain name form, and wholly unrepresented in google, all of which are pretty solid. And he doesn't start not being in episodes until the tail end of the series.

This is ambitious... Do you think you'll manage the whole thing? I want to believe.

I do, too. I figure it'll either get easier or get harder over time, but for now we feel good about it.

If Mrs. C is funnier...

My wife is very smart and funny; she just doesn't obsessively start blog projects. Usually.

For some reason, I could never really get into the X-Files. I'm a big SF geek and usually go for such stuff but never really got interested in it.

Cortex, you just keep opening like a flower. I am so happy you and Angela are doing this; myself, I'm finally embarking on Project Move Past The Bitterness and reconnecting with my long-quashed love for the [earlier seasons of] this show. (Probably just in time to experience a re-quashing with the new movie, but oh well.) Anyway, I'll be following this with delight--thank you both!

I loved the X-Files (I was the right age for it - 11 or 12 during the second season). Even later, when it all started to crack up, I could never let it go. I'm looking forward to the new movie with unbridled enthusiasm.

The recaps are great so far, cortex! I like the character icons, and of course the snarking.

I've been reconnecting with a bunch of old sci-fi shows - Quantum Leap, for example, is airing in-order on a local independent station.

I could really, really have used this when my boyfriend started us watching the series from the beginning a while ago. Every time there's a "mythology" episode (is that what everyone else calls it? or is he just crazy?), he has to pause it and spend a good ten minutes catching me up on what happened in one 30-second spot last season.

They can be really, really confusing sometimes, but maybe we're letting too much time pass between episodes? We're not getting through them quickly, so you will probably soon catch up.

We call the episodes where series-arc continuity happens "plot" episodes. There haven't really been any in the first few episodes -- there's groundwork stuff, but nothing really significant as far as Foreward Motion yet. I hazily recall from January that plot kind of kicks in properly in the latter half of season one.

I do like that while we're not aiming to write some canonical guide or concordance or whatever with this, by nature we'll end up noting major themes and snarking on key points in such a way that it should function as a light reference.

I don't know how fast we'll go; I'm guessing one a week or so is likely, maybe more if we end up working fast. It takes probably an hour and a half to re-watch an episode (Angela handling the remote for pausing and rewinding, me taking notes on what's happening or what we're saying to each other or grabbing timestamps for good screencaps), and then that gets fleshed out into a more coherent writeup, styled up with little character (and Us) bubbles; I grab screen caps and upload 'em; and boom, it's an entry.

If I remember my time in x-files fandom at all, plot-arc episodes were usually called mythology episodes (because they dealt with the mythology of the series), and the other episodes were called "Monster of the Week" eps.

I've heard that the new movie should be a "MotW" type, so that's exciting.

Brilliant!

And dang, I wish I had a couple hundred dollars to burn on the whole series.

It's crazy bang for the bunk, deborah. I held off on X-Files for a long time because $60-80 a season was just crazy, but when we found out about the box set it was like, well, shit. Sculder time.

Ooh, mefi love now!