About to rewatch the X-files from the start – again
February 6, 2009
I recently treated myself to a new DVD/Divx player. The last one I had, a rather robust little DK player, which seemed to play everything I threw at it, until the day it died, just stopped working (Reason unknown).
I had a look around a few websites and finally happened upon the Philips DVP5990 with HDMI 1080p up scaling and a front-USB 2.0 port. Thanks to a nice little find on the internet, I was able to format an old 200GB external HD into fat32 and I have began to fill it with various divx/xvid files.
As I sit here now, typing this, my HD has the first few seasons of The X-files loaded up and ready to go. I can’t wait to watch them back to back again. It’s been a while, probably a good few years, since i watched it from the very first episode. Probably as far back as when I purchased all 8 (as it was back then) seasons on VHS from Amazon for £125. Since then, I’ve managed to catch quite a few episodes here and there, on Living and Virgin 1. So it’ll be a fantastic treat to relive the experience from the start to finish.
The X-files is probably one of my top three favourite shows of all time. I even love the later conspiracy based seasons, which shook off a lot of fans. Although, like any other fans, I too agree that the first few seasons are by far the best, with the most interesting episodes and a lot more reason to think and wonder at the subjects covered.
February 6, 2009 at 21:11
I’ve also been going through The X-Files over the past couple of years. I’m currently on season 7. It has aged reasonably well, but there are some horrible moments of melodrama that I didn’t pick up on in the 90s.
I will always regard Millennium as Chris Carter’s finest hour.
February 6, 2009 at 21:32
Yeah, I’m a huge fan of Millennium. I didn’t realise it was done by Chris Carter and I came about the show totally by fluke while I used to peruse the files of eDonkey P2P. Great show, with a great cast and brilliantly written and thought out episodes.