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Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
(sorry about disappearing for a bit -- work and life and parents and scary dental appointments interceded)
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
I had to think about this for a bit, as I'm actually not sure how many times I've watched certain TV shows or episodes of TV shows. I must have watched if not the entire series than most of Highlander more than 5 times. And during my ST: TOS days I'm sure I watched some of those episodes several times, particularly if I was writing a story relating to an episode. But, upon much thought, I think I have an answer:
It was the summer between my Junior and Senior years at college, and I was doing Summer Stock theatre in White River Junction, Vermont. I had one VHS cassette holding several episodes of The X-Files from its season 2, and one of those episodes was One Breath. Stuck in White River Junction, Vermont, having a blast doing theatre but cut off from almost all civilization and only limited to what my TV reception could pick up, I lost count how many times I watched those few episodes I had recorded, in particular "One Breath." I loved that episode, I was fascinated by it, by Mulder's pain, that moment when he breaks down crying in his apartment, Skully on that boat, all of it.
These were the days before DVD recorders, before avi files, before decent laptops, really. For me personally, I had only the barest knowledge of fandom, fanfic, fans of a show that did more than just watch it every week. It was the dawn of an age.... lol. Okay, that's overstating it, but X-Files was my gateway fandom, and no help from me on this. I would have gone on completely ignorant of all of you wonderful people but for a friend of mine who was much more computer savvy than I was, and after I got her hooked on The X-Files, she was the one that found online forums and printed out fanfic for me to read, and mailed it to me while I was in White River Junction, Vermont.
Sometimes I think of returning to The X-Files some day and watching it all over again, and looking at episode blurbs for those first few seasons, it was really a great show.
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
I had to think about this for a bit, as I'm actually not sure how many times I've watched certain TV shows or episodes of TV shows. I must have watched if not the entire series than most of Highlander more than 5 times. And during my ST: TOS days I'm sure I watched some of those episodes several times, particularly if I was writing a story relating to an episode. But, upon much thought, I think I have an answer:
It was the summer between my Junior and Senior years at college, and I was doing Summer Stock theatre in White River Junction, Vermont. I had one VHS cassette holding several episodes of The X-Files from its season 2, and one of those episodes was One Breath. Stuck in White River Junction, Vermont, having a blast doing theatre but cut off from almost all civilization and only limited to what my TV reception could pick up, I lost count how many times I watched those few episodes I had recorded, in particular "One Breath." I loved that episode, I was fascinated by it, by Mulder's pain, that moment when he breaks down crying in his apartment, Skully on that boat, all of it.
These were the days before DVD recorders, before avi files, before decent laptops, really. For me personally, I had only the barest knowledge of fandom, fanfic, fans of a show that did more than just watch it every week. It was the dawn of an age.... lol. Okay, that's overstating it, but X-Files was my gateway fandom, and no help from me on this. I would have gone on completely ignorant of all of you wonderful people but for a friend of mine who was much more computer savvy than I was, and after I got her hooked on The X-Files, she was the one that found online forums and printed out fanfic for me to read, and mailed it to me while I was in White River Junction, Vermont.
Sometimes I think of returning to The X-Files some day and watching it all over again, and looking at episode blurbs for those first few seasons, it was really a great show.