I watched the premiere episode of Brisco County Jr. and THEN the X-Files. They first ran on Friday nights. Poor Brisco only lasted a season and a half maybe.
As a youngster I was always scared by alien abductions stories. There was a show in the early '80s called That's Incredible. They had bizarro things on there like spontaneous combustion and cattle mutilations, so I think that's what made me think aliens were scary. That and War of The Worlds. Creeped me out to no end.
So for me to WANT to watch a show that was based on alien abductions , it had to be have been very very intriguing to me at the time.
Very glad I bucked it up and watched that premiere 'cause I can say I've been a fan since day one of one of the best TV shows ever done in over 50 years of TV, among all genres. There will never be another show like it and no other characters as alienated as Mulder [pun intended] and as stalwart as Scully.
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Happy Anniversary X-Files and X-Philes
Date: 2008-09-11 01:32 am (UTC)As a youngster I was always scared by alien abductions stories. There was a show in the early '80s called That's Incredible. They had bizarro things on there like spontaneous combustion and cattle mutilations, so I think that's what made me think aliens were scary. That and War of The Worlds. Creeped me out to no end.
So for me to WANT to watch a show that was based on alien abductions , it had to be have been very very intriguing to me at the time.
Very glad I bucked it up and watched that premiere 'cause I can say I've been a fan since day one of one of the best TV shows ever done in over 50 years of TV, among all genres. There will never be another show like it and no other characters as alienated as Mulder [pun intended] and as stalwart as Scully.
And yes, the recent movie made me cry.