the x-files was a show ... with music by mark snow

For eight years, I was a fan of The X-Files. Creepy plotlines, smart dialogue, amazing chemistry between the two main characters, and it being a cult classic in my high school all contributed to my anticipated Friday night routine: race off the hockey field to be first to get showered so we could be in and out of dinner in time to get a seat on the 6:30 bus to go get groceries and return on the 8:30 bus, charging into the common room, forcing whoever was in there out of the way for the 9 pm showing of a new episode.

I took this love with me to college, despite not getting FOX for the first part of the year--and then my first episode all year was Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man. Wondering what had happened to my beloved show, I sighed, turned the TV off, and ignored it until Super Bowl Sunday 1997, when I was watching the Super Bowl in Valentine with a bunch of fellow froshies, and Leonard Betts was broadcast. Aha! That was more like it.

Except what the HELL had Leonard Betts, the cancer-eater, just said to Scully in the ambulance? "You have something I need?" Fearing that no one else was really an XF fan, I retreated to my room the next week with Ingrid and Shay to watch Never Again ... and Memento Mori ... and by then, I was hooked again, happily, and had a crowd to watch with again.

I also discovered X-Files fan groups on the web near that time; I forget if my then-lab partner Ruth introduced me to them, or if we discovered later on that we'd joined the same one. In either case, I started chatting with friends online, and we made plans for an X-Files convention in Vancouver later that summer. And we met, toured the scenes, shared our love of XF and Mulder and Scully, and got to know each other ... and this convention became a yearly gathering. We're still planning that "nice trip to the forest" next year.

This isn't your typical X-Files fansite. This is how XF has affected my life--the people I've met, the things I've done, and the degree to which I've indulged my impulsive streak. ;)

It's getting cleaned out a little, since we are now in X-Files: The Next Generation. {sigh} Mulder as the "absent center" of this season is not, in truth, happening. I can only hope that the last half of this season redeems my shipper faith. But if not, I can always turn to The West Wing and Dawson's Creek. ;)

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