I take it as a cool thing for a lib to say to a homosexual publication. Maybe she really had such a relationship, but that’s brownie points in Hollywood. Granted, I’m a little sexist; if Duchovny said he had a sexual relationship with a male in high school, I’d consider him hopelessly gay (it’s the old Andrew “Dice” Clay, “If you commit a gay act, you’re gay,” standard). And, yes, Dice’s phrase has been heavily cleaned up there!
Never watched the X-Files, but I’m watching nightly on Netflix to get prepared. I’ve watched Kolchak, Supernatural (became too left-wing partisan and I came to despise it), Grimm and other of these genre shows, but this one has has some of the only episodes that were actually disturbing to me. The humanoid parasitic worm, the Satanic substitute teacher, the geek who ate the detached Siamese twin, and the one I saw last night about the boy who’s stillborn twin murdered most of his family. Really unsettling stuff.
Look for episodes of The Lone Gunman too. This is especially important. That show was so far ahead of its time that it accurately predicted the use of a heavy commercial passenger jet as a means of destroying the World Trade Center.
There was an episode devoted to precisely that. More to the point, it was also ahead of its time because the plane was controlled remotely through a hack. A vulnerability in the planes flight control systems. This is something that is front and center of airline safety and security people as we speak.
Be sure to look up The Lone Gunman.
X-Files is STILL ahead of its time - as we speak. There’s one about a boy who can conduct lightning that essentially references both the physiology of eels and Nikola Tesla.
The pilot is still one of the best - the coma kid who would awake to aid aliens in abducting his classmates.
Wait until you see Purity Control. Thanks to you, Gillian Anderson is back on my list of five I get a pass from my wife. Antonio Banderas just went back on the market, so I have him to worry about on her side.
I have two X-Files CD’s from back in the day. Music from the show. Amazing stuff you won’t hear anywhere else. Haunting disturbing stuff - just the mainstream music they picked.
Anyway, I can’t wait for the show to come back.
Far and away, the most disturbing episode ever is ‘Blood’. The end will give you permanent goose bumps. Way, way ahead of its time for the day, and it is likely happening in one form or another as we speak. You can safely skip ahead and watch that episode without injuring your progress on the longer plotline if you want.
Definitely worth skipping ahead for ‘Blood’. Let me know what you think when you are done. I’ve seen it a dozen times (I own the VCR tape) and I still get the chills watching it.