
okay, allow me to supergeek out here.
the second x-files movie will be arriving in theaters july 25, and i am beyondbrimmingbrains ecstatic. i loved this show, still love this show. it had such a beautiful, strange amalgamation of paradoxical but congruent elements--belief and skepticism, science and parascience, love and fear and loneliness. the series could be scaryish, but it ultimately wrestled with the existential questions of faith and purpose in a world of suffering. the characters harbored complexities rarely seen on teevee--and of course, you've got to appreciate the deliberate swapping of traditional gender roles, with mulder being the emotional and intuitive believer, and scully playing a more stoical, hardscienceandskeptic role (she's also super short, and that's pretty rad).
and as for all of that stuff about aliens and psychokinesis and government conspiracies and shapeshifters, etc.--i am both believer and skeptic, though always the cynic. i find it very hard to believe without concrete evidence...but i also understand that our scientific knowledge is limited and that people can be bloody nasty with creepy secrets and who the hell knows? maybe sasquatch is stealthystepping through oregon greentrees and hills. and so i want to believe...makes life much more interesting.
