I think it's best if you come back to it after seeing Mulder and Scully live through the next seven years of getting progressively more cynical, and then come back to S1 and it's like sudden sunlight.
Awww. That's kind of adorable, actually; I can totally see how that would work better.
S2 and S3 are quite good, and I personally think that's where the best-plotted of the mytharc/conspiracy stuff is, and some of the best character work, but they weren't standout and have a lot of bad filler eps. S4 and S5 are just pretty consistently good, with a lot of really excellent one-shot episodes, and some solid plot and character work on the ongoing stories.
*makes notes*
(And, hey, I've read all this out loud to BB, and right about here was where she caved and added season two to our Netflix, so thank you!)
But the movie was between S5 and S6, and they completely screwed over the conspiracy/plotline stuff in the movie, and it never came anywhere close to making sense, or even being particularly interesting, after that.
They made the movie between seasons? I thought they only made movies from TV shows after they were off the air. It seems like it would be hard to have a continuous canon running on TV and movies simultaneously; you'd have all kinds of problems making the movies self-contained enough, for one thing. Plus, the storytelling would be weird. Just seems like a bad idea generally. I shake an admonishing finger at whichever people were responsible for making the X-Files movie. *admonishes*
After S7, Mulder's actor quit, and they took away Scully's characterization in favor of making her all of her plotlines be about her uterus.
...OMG. No wonder people describe this as the worst of all possible fan/canon breakups.
I think if BB gets that far, we'll just declare seasons eight and nine never to have happened. Our canon will end at season seven. (Or maybe season five.) Sounds like the best way.
It's as if in Stargate S9 and S10, instead of having Jack retire in glory, they had him run off and join the NID, and Teal'c was killed off in a stupid way, and Hammond was demoted, and Daniel went to Atlantis, and they knocked up Sam with Jack's baby, and made her stop kicking ass in favor of having her weep and worry. Oh, and the Goa'uld just sort of faded off the radar instead of actually being dealt with.
THANK YOU. This is the best explanation ever for the seasons eight and nine problem, and I now grasp it completely. And, um, am kind of horrified. Canon assassination!
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Awww. That's kind of adorable, actually; I can totally see how that would work better.
S2 and S3 are quite good, and I personally think that's where the best-plotted of the mytharc/conspiracy stuff is, and some of the best character work, but they weren't standout and have a lot of bad filler eps. S4 and S5 are just pretty consistently good, with a lot of really excellent one-shot episodes, and some solid plot and character work on the ongoing stories.
*makes notes*
(And, hey, I've read all this out loud to BB, and right about here was where she caved and added season two to our Netflix, so thank you!)
But the movie was between S5 and S6, and they completely screwed over the conspiracy/plotline stuff in the movie, and it never came anywhere close to making sense, or even being particularly interesting, after that.
They made the movie between seasons? I thought they only made movies from TV shows after they were off the air. It seems like it would be hard to have a continuous canon running on TV and movies simultaneously; you'd have all kinds of problems making the movies self-contained enough, for one thing. Plus, the storytelling would be weird. Just seems like a bad idea generally. I shake an admonishing finger at whichever people were responsible for making the X-Files movie. *admonishes*
After S7, Mulder's actor quit, and they took away Scully's characterization in favor of making her all of her plotlines be about her uterus.
...OMG. No wonder people describe this as the worst of all possible fan/canon breakups.
I think if BB gets that far, we'll just declare seasons eight and nine never to have happened. Our canon will end at season seven. (Or maybe season five.) Sounds like the best way.
It's as if in Stargate S9 and S10, instead of having Jack retire in glory, they had him run off and join the NID, and Teal'c was killed off in a stupid way, and Hammond was demoted, and Daniel went to Atlantis, and they knocked up Sam with Jack's baby, and made her stop kicking ass in favor of having her weep and worry. Oh, and the Goa'uld just sort of faded off the radar instead of actually being dealt with.
THANK YOU. This is the best explanation ever for the seasons eight and nine problem, and I now grasp it completely. And, um, am kind of horrified. Canon assassination!