cinema!!

uselessly posting about whatever my current obsession is

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oh i know the 19th century literature girlies were gagged at this

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Mulder and Scully.

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Part of the enjoyment of watching stuff like The X-Files or Buffy or Star Trek or whatever is that like. Yes, there are some excellent episodes that are truly incredible, but sometimes an episode is the dumbest shit you've ever seen in your life AND IT'S DELIGHTFUL.

I mentioned this to a friend yesterday and she was like "Oh yeah because you know there will be good episodes again so it doesn't bother you!" but no. The bad episodes are fun on their own for me. I don't always want a slick streaming series with 8 episodes where each one is a work of tightly written cinematic excellence. I can enjoy that, too, but sometimes I want an episode with the dumbest premise known to man. Not all dumb, not all the time, not badly made or created as a joke, but just...silly but heartfelt.

Like yeah, okay, I love getting an episode where Brad Dourif is channeling the dead and it's beautiful and tragic and thought provoking and powerful, but sometimes I also enjoy "the problematic weirdly sexy genderfluid Amish people turned out to be aliens you guys" performed without a breath of irony.

[phannibal]

THE X-FILES | 3x03 'D.P.O'

lookin sharp

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, 1997 - photographed by Mark Seliger for US Magazine.

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[venascus]

Love these guys what was going on with their old photoshoots

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as he should

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TIMOTHY OLYPHANT as Seth Bullock Deadwood (2004-2006)

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TIMOTHY OLYPHANT DEADWOOD, SEASON ONE, EPISODE SIX, "PLAGUE"

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[enchantedbook]

' View in Dracula's Tomb' by Fritz Schwimbeck, 1922.

[myspace]

Anti-piracy ad from 2004

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Sissy Spacek photographed by Jeff Lowenthal at home in Quitman, Texas, 1976.

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Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin