Anticipation in the hinterlands...
Dec. 31st, 2008 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpFolks in Times Square are nearly 30 minutes into the New Year as I write this, sitting in the Mountain Time Zone. (Heck, it's... 3:30 pm or so on January 1 in Brisbane, Australia, if my mental calculation is correct!)
Here in Colorado, it's just Shiloh and me. Drew stopped by around 6 pm to wish me the best and give me a hug; he still had about 5 hours of deliveries left.
Moi, I rented the latest The X Files movie while visiting the grocery store earlier today, and watched it after Drew left, leaving me to my corned beef and potatoes. And as much as Mulder (and I) might "want to believe," I think the kid under Scully's knife in the movie has a better chance of survival than the concept's franchise.
Or maybe not. On the one hand, I think it's really hard to shoot a proper movie based on a television series, because if you're true to the small screen's backstory, what you end up with on the big screen is, basically, a longer episode of what you'd see on the tube.
On the other, I am prepared to watch any continuation of The X Files, short of some pathological excursion, although not at first-run prices. In my mind the chemistry between Fox and Dana still works, even if some part of the modus vivendi depends on the wasteland between my ears. I want Mulder and Scully to succeed; to be happy (although if they are to succeed dramatically, their mellow must always be under threat of being harshed). I want them - need them - to be triumphant over the powers of darkness.
The story was worth the price of admission.
Cheers...
Here in Colorado, it's just Shiloh and me. Drew stopped by around 6 pm to wish me the best and give me a hug; he still had about 5 hours of deliveries left.
Moi, I rented the latest The X Files movie while visiting the grocery store earlier today, and watched it after Drew left, leaving me to my corned beef and potatoes. And as much as Mulder (and I) might "want to believe," I think the kid under Scully's knife in the movie has a better chance of survival than the concept's franchise.
Or maybe not. On the one hand, I think it's really hard to shoot a proper movie based on a television series, because if you're true to the small screen's backstory, what you end up with on the big screen is, basically, a longer episode of what you'd see on the tube.
On the other, I am prepared to watch any continuation of The X Files, short of some pathological excursion, although not at first-run prices. In my mind the chemistry between Fox and Dana still works, even if some part of the modus vivendi depends on the wasteland between my ears. I want Mulder and Scully to succeed; to be happy (although if they are to succeed dramatically, their mellow must always be under threat of being harshed). I want them - need them - to be triumphant over the powers of darkness.
The story was worth the price of admission.
Cheers...
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Date: 2009-01-01 05:43 pm (UTC)I found The Mentalist you mentioned a couple of times. Having a nice, cosy night :)