GENERAL POST OF SQUEE

[amalnahurriyeh]

If you have a topic you would like to squee about at short length (rather than in a full post), post it in the comments here.

What about the X-Files makes you leap for joy? What makes you happy about being in this fandom? What makes you love this show? What keeps you coming back?

(And I am out of ideas for funny XF macros, so if you've got one, I could use it.)

Comments

[littlegreen42]

Now... what is it that I like about the X-Files? It's hard to put into words, actually. I don't think I can.

Well, one thing I like is that Mulder and Scully seem so serious to outsiders but they're both actually very funny people when they want to be. And I think that makes them funnier. I love, in the first season, the way Scully's always teasing Mulder and how, in later seasons, she still does it occasionally. I love Mulder's dry, dark sense of humor, and I love his dorky sense of humor, too. I guess, in short, what I'm saying is: I like all the little funny moments on what appears to be a very serious show.

[amalnahurriyeh]

I feel like there's some moment in the second season where the writers went--oh, fuck, they're funny, got it. And then the show got license to use the fact that they had two actors with excellent comedic timing who could pull off a joke. They really recognized what finds they had in their leads, and were able to make the show a lot more complex because of it. The mix of humor and seriousness is one of my favorite things about the show, too.

[red_eft]

I love this, too! There are so many great lines. And I mean- I think it would be easy to fall into a feeling of "This are serious show, we are serious agents" but the humor keeps them feeling human and hopeful in the face of murder and conspiracy and alien abductions. <3