Even with my best girl friend being fan numero uno and having David Duchovny’s posters spread all over her bedroom, and telling me how awesome it was.Īlhough I never watched an episode, I was still very attuned to what was going on: I remember the uproar when Scully showed up pregnant or when Mulder left the show. But even if it was on the original English, I had always had the impression that the X Files was a horror show and being the ninny that I am, I was scared of watching it. The main one being that I was living in Brazil back then which means that the episodes were dubbed and you will never believe the ATROCITIES that dubbing things in Portuguese will do to a movie or a TV show. I had never watched the series when it was on telly for two reasons. I am a newbie when it comes to the X-Files. I learned many important things from the show (what exactly digitalis is and that it is derived from Foxglove, for instance or cool vocabulary words like “corroborate”), and it’s one that will always be very close to my heart.Īnd this is why I am damn happy that I get a little bit more of Mulder and Scully, especially now that I am an adult. The X-Files were an important, major part of my formative years–for the longest time I wanted to be a forensic pathologist like Scully. This year, when the ultimate collectors edition DVD box set was released (including every episode and the first movie, Fight The Future), I bought it immediately. Over and over again, I would watch my favorite episodes, forcing my poor younger sister and family to bear with me. By the time I was in high school, the episodes were available for rent at our local video store, and I wore those suckers out as well. Each year when we would return to the USA for summer vacation, I would eagerly buy the next season on video–which came with collectible cards, posters, and yes I even bought the magazine. These used to terrify me, in a wonderful tingly way, and I could not get enough of them. I rushed through the remaining episodes–with conspiracy theory stunners like “Deep Throat” and “The Erlenmeyer Flask” to the most EXCELLENT monster of the week episodes, like “Squeeze”, “Ice”, and “Darkness Falls”. From the Pilot episode, with the crazy nosebleeds, “missing time” and the terrifying possibility of Alien Abductions, I was completely and hopelessly hooked. That evening, I ran upstairs to the video room, popped in the Pilot/Deep Throat tape…and my life would never, ever be the same again.
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