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Aug. 18th, 2013 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficGod, now I want to rewatch all of X-Files (there were only ever six seasons, right?).
Or not even that. I want to feel the way I did watching it the first time. There are still shows I love, but none that I feel quite the level of eager desperation about that I used to--desperation that only comes from having to spend years tracking episodes down through syndication, out of order, sometimes only having a few audio clips of dialogue from Napster and a fan site episode summary to link the missing pieces of a plot arc. I don't want to go back to that--that sucked--but it did make me love shows differently. I spent so much time imagining and constructing them in my head because I couldn't get my hands on the source material that it almost didn't matter what the source material was.
For a long time all I had of "Ascension" was a thirty-second audio clip of Mulder's interrogation of Duane Barry. Rewatching it now, I remember how intensely I felt about that episode when I finally saw it for the first time, and I don't think I've felt like that about anything in a while.
Or not even that. I want to feel the way I did watching it the first time. There are still shows I love, but none that I feel quite the level of eager desperation about that I used to--desperation that only comes from having to spend years tracking episodes down through syndication, out of order, sometimes only having a few audio clips of dialogue from Napster and a fan site episode summary to link the missing pieces of a plot arc. I don't want to go back to that--that sucked--but it did make me love shows differently. I spent so much time imagining and constructing them in my head because I couldn't get my hands on the source material that it almost didn't matter what the source material was.
For a long time all I had of "Ascension" was a thirty-second audio clip of Mulder's interrogation of Duane Barry. Rewatching it now, I remember how intensely I felt about that episode when I finally saw it for the first time, and I don't think I've felt like that about anything in a while.