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1) Happy birthday, paranoidangel!
2) I've been watching The X-Files recently, since I hardly saw any of it when it was on the telly. It is very good, but I am here to ask for anti-recs: which are the really disturbing episodes? I would like to skip them, I think. ("Home" is already on the list to skip.) I'm ok with gore but less so with creepiness (er, it is possible I am watching the wrong show. But I do like it otherwise!). For context, I have already seen most of season one, only skipping "Squeeze" and "Tooms" since I have already seen 'em.
3) This article by Johann Hari in the Indy, on what Britain under the Conservatives might look like, has been all over twitter today, and with good reason. I also read a good article in Saturday's Guardian by Polly Toynbee, "The vote is precious, but we can't be":
paranoidangel!2) I've been watching The X-Files recently, since I hardly saw any of it when it was on the telly. It is very good, but I am here to ask for anti-recs: which are the really disturbing episodes? I would like to skip them, I think. ("Home" is already on the list to skip.) I'm ok with gore but less so with creepiness (er, it is possible I am watching the wrong show. But I do like it otherwise!). For context, I have already seen most of season one, only skipping "Squeeze" and "Tooms" since I have already seen 'em.
3) This article by Johann Hari in the Indy, on what Britain under the Conservatives might look like, has been all over twitter today, and with good reason. I also read a good article in Saturday's Guardian by Polly Toynbee, "The vote is precious, but we can't be":
If precious voters choose regardless of consequence they could wake up to the result they most deplore. What kind of conscience is it that says, "I don't care what happens. I have clean hands, I voted with conviction regardless of the outcome"? Many don't understand the wicked ways of the voting system, but those who do should know better.
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Date: 5 May 2010 14:16 (UTC)However, 'Irresistible' from season 2 is far and away the creepiest/scariest thing that show ever did. It's one of the better episodes of the series, but good lord is it creepy. The actor who plays the bad guy in that episode shows up a lot on other tv shows, and I literally have to turn them off when he comes on because he frightens me so much.
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Date: 5 May 2010 17:55 (UTC)who ate her motherwho ate people or something. Mulder was throwing pencils at the ceiling and in the end it was covered with them.no subject
Date: 5 May 2010 19:29 (UTC)Home deserves its reputation, but I'd almost ask you to reconsider because the chemistry and interaction between Mulder and Scully in that one is absolutely glorious (at least watch their bits!).
My advice otherwise is to watch everything, but go to the next episode if it gets too much. Otherwise I think the show tends to stay on the right side of comfortably scary, if that makes any sense. It's certainly not like Chris Carter's other series Millennium, which was anything but comfortable.
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Date: 5 May 2010 19:46 (UTC)Oh, and I can't make any informed judgments about Hammersmith & Fulham, but they have speedbumps that seem custom designed to exterminate all cyclists and only be passable by Chelsea tractors. Not seen anything quite as bad as this anywhere.
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Date: 5 May 2010 20:23 (UTC)Me neither. I'm rather dreading the possibiliy. :/
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Date: 5 May 2010 20:27 (UTC)It does, and that's very reassuring, thanks!
the chemistry and interaction between Mulder and Scully in that one is absolutely glorious
Ooo. I do love the Mulder-Scully bits. Maybe I shall make judicious use of the fastforward...
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Date: 5 May 2010 20:29 (UTC)Oh, that's why I had some vaguely bad associations with his name! Yes, this article is definitely octopus-glomp worthy...
they have speedbumps that seem custom designed to exterminate all cyclists and only be passable by Chelsea tractors
D: I don't think that's how speedbumps should work!
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Date: 6 May 2010 12:26 (UTC)The problem is that so many of the creepy episodes are some of the best ones the show has done!
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Date: 6 May 2010 21:24 (UTC)There are lots of potentially lethal speedbumps in London, but these really were special.
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Date: 6 May 2010 21:54 (UTC)We were twittering about it today ... I'm zurchreart and zurcherart6 on twitter.
By the way ... who are the companions on your Dreamwidth banner between Benny and Martha.
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Date: 7 May 2010 10:52 (UTC)-- Irresistable
-- 2Shy
-- Grotesque
-- Home
-- Chinga
JFYI: When I rewatched Home in my early twenties, I was laughing my ass off, but Irresistable seemed EVEN MORE disturbing.
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Date: 7 May 2010 13:48 (UTC)In fact Season 6 rocked. I forgot how obscessed i was with this show. I have the whole thing on vhs but i may have to go and buy the dvd's so i can watch them all again.
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Date: 7 May 2010 18:56 (UTC)Also, I love your icon!
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Date: 7 May 2010 19:03 (UTC)I was really thinking it had alot to offer and then ... WTF ... they got to the rape stuff and I couldn't believe it.
*nods* I liked how irreverant and unglamorous it was, but I was too disgusted by the misogyny to keep watching.
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