Procrastinating...

Updated the vid list. 34 XF Tapes.Back to homework.

And so it begins...

(Since I havent updated since I returned to VA...)Gaaaaaah. XF withdrawl is bizarre...I have made the *strangest* connections in my head and I am *so* going to need to curl up with my tapes... once I figure out how best to do that.Phoey. ::sigh::

Philishness

Yesterday I came home in the evening to a highly amusing message on the answering machine:Thursday 6pm ESTUh, hi Memy, it's Kimba.I was watching Badlaa on FX. That's the episode where the little Indian guy is going around bursting out of people's... ::laugh:: ...bodies. And I was wondering, why did Scully go into the room alone when she knew there was probably something *about* to burst out of the person's body?That was all, I just wanted to talk to you. Bye.ROTFL I nearly died. God, I love being a phile and having philey friends, few as they are. ; )Well, as I typed too slow to Sabs as she signed off,Byers (Frohike, and Langley!)

Reading...

Towards the middle of the summer when I made library runs, I took a break from Harry Potter to read the only XF book I never picked up, which was Skin, the last one published.And with Skin, I found I was reading with a slightly critical eye, similar to how I read fic sometimes. I was wondering about how the characters were written, how the story was going, and was noticing Meiser's style of total detail in description, etc.Well, after finishing that one and talking about it and the books in general with Fire, I got to wondering a little bit more. Because honestly, it had to be about 4 or 5 years since I read the others. I realized I quite did not remember any of them very well other than Ruins -- and vaguely at that.Also, Memy tended to be quite youngish and dense back in those days in relation to the series and the world. So I've picked back up Ground Zero, which I basically came off hating the first time, but which I wonder if that might have had to do with either not understaning stuff or just not being excited by it. I'm working on it and I'll have to type my updated opinion when I finish.But I realized something the other day while reading. I shy away from even typing the title online because of 9/11. Because it means something so much more frightening and terrible now. But for some reason, while I have this side thought, I totally don't make a connection. I guess perhaps because I associate the title in context of a book title in these instances here, I don't let it connect. Or maybe I associate it with the original time I knew and first heard this title, rather than the national meaning it holds more recently.It's almost like they are homonyms in my head.Anyway. Off to sleep. More on GZ and the other books later.

Requiem

::watching FX::With my luck, this will be the last rerun I see before school. Anyway.::on to random XF musings::Maybe it's just me, or how the last two seasons and this ep played out, but the tide really turned with Requiem, didn't it?I dunno, I rewatched and rewatched this ep on summer hiatus that year. I still watch it and am not sure I can figure anything out. Two years later and I'm still asking questions, still trying to read every minute detail that was never meant to be looked at.But still I wonder. Because everything only got more strange from that point on. So strange that you could't even put the pieces together yourself because you didn't know what the pieces even were.... And somehow in my head this ep is frozen in time.It had a totaly different feel to it, which made you *know* something was up. And for as close as the signings were that year, it was very nearly the last. Thus it also had an odd impact (though not as great as if it had ended there.) But it's hard to remeber that or even care since we did get S8 and 9.It's just odd to think of Requiem as the last M&S case since it aired so long before the final end. Because really, though reunited in S8, things were not (and couldn't be put) back to the same as they were before in S7.Which I'm not complaining (i'll have to wander on other seasons later ; ), but that's a fact I realized in the middle of S8.I guess I've always just thought of Requiem as a bridge between everything, looking back. And I still want it to explain everything before and since. Which I know it won't do, but still I look. If to just put any sort of definition to it, any sort of solid marker in my mixed up head.And I think I've run out of direction for one post. But when you have to laugh at the "first case" reminders, your heart still nearly stops at the shippy spooning and the announcement at the end and when you look back with a sense of reminiscence for the old and a feeling of empathy for knowing what came next...Heh. It's been too long. I should have kept writting reviews.