X-Files...trust me this is only the first

Well my pets settle in because this is one of my grand obsessions.

  X-files along with Buffy and Star Trek are my default settings, so sorry but theres gonna be a lot of posts about them.

So, recently got seasons 1-3 for $20 each, where you my ask with a gasp, Wal-Mart of all places. Which means I have spent most of the last week watching X-Files nearly non-stop, you know, really indulging my Mulder fetish.

But in between all the ogling I was doing, (btw he spends a lot more time naked than I remember) I was noticing all the actors I recognized, so I thought I'd share a few connections with you all. 

 

I suppose I should start chronologically and really one of the more attractive guest stars, Seth Green. Later to have a more major role as the laconic lycanthrope Oz, in BTVS, here he plays a UFO watching stoner in the episode Deep Throat, the first episode after the pilot.

The next episode, Squeeze, brings us a double with Doug Hutchison as Eugene Victor Tombs the stretchy slimy liver eating murder, and Donal Louge as Agent Tom Colton, an old friend of Scully's who asks for help and gets more than he really wants. 

Mr. Hutchison you might remember from the latest season of Lost as Horace Goodspeed. 

Donal Louge has been in several tv shows and movies, but the one I always go back to is the slimy and inept henchman Quinn in Blade. Donal had his own series for a while called Grounded for Life, that I think of fondly.

Now we're going to jump some episodes as my geekdar didn't go off again till Space. Susanna Thompson who plays NASA specialist Michelle Generoo trying to get her fiance out of orbit in one piece, later becomes Army Lt. Col. Hollis Mann, the spunky girl who challenges Jethro's authority, and tries for a little love in NCIS. This next fact has little bearing on the X Files, but the lovely David McCallum also stars in NCIS as Ducky. (If you haven't seen the show you should check it out!)

 

Alright last one for now!

 Fire this one is another twofer. With Mark Sheppard playing the obsessive pyrokentic  pyromanic. Mark can later be seen in the truly excellent cult hit by Joss Wheadon,  Firefly as Badger, and in the latest Wheadon project Dollhouse. 

The next guy to cause a bip is Dan Lett who plays the upper class english twit who's next in line to get turned into a crispy critter. Later on he becomes a wet Canadian twit in The Industry, a very good Canadian comedy that I highly recommend along with The Red Green Show.

Well thats all for right now, but I'm nowhere near finished we're not even through season 1 yet.

MUUUWHAHAHA.........

Star Trek...2009

A warning first......SPOILERS

I do soo love Star Trek, all of it, well maybe not ALL. Several of the movies could have been done without and the latest series was only remotely watchable, the episodes with Brent Spiner being the only really interesting ones.

The original holds the dearest place in my heart, for all the cheesy acting, ridiculous dialogue, and horrific Scottish accents, every time I watch it I get warm fuzzys in the pit of my dorky little soul.

So when I heard this movie was coming out I was elated and terrified in turns. To see the Enterprise back on any screen was impossibly exciting, but to see the characters given over to new actors and a special effects driven movie industry made me squirm. The trailers proclaiming  "this is not your fathers Star Trek" only deepened my misgivings. What the hell was wrong with the Star Trek I grew up with, that my mother chased James Doohan through Madison Square Gardens because of, that gave us the ideas for so much of the technology we have today.

So with bated breath I went to the midnight premier in costume. Waiting for them to smash everything to bits, and they did. 

The movie was great, easily one of my favorites, the characters where spot on with the exception of the Vulcans. Spock having a sex life without the aid of spores, and his father being FAR more accepting of his human side, even before they kill off Amanda. But to be honest it was an acceptable diversion from the original, at least to me. 

Character interplay was everything I had come to love in the original and beyond. The first look at the Enterprise in space was breath taking...I really did fall in love with her all over again.

But they really did mean it when they said it wasn't going to be my father's Star Trek, they didn't just make it sharper and edgier, they erased my fathers Star Trek from the canon. Rendered it a defunct alternate universe, they resurrected and erased my favorite characters, and somehow I don't know if I can forgive that. So I won't, I'll instead treat it as I was meant to treat the original, as a wonderfully executed AU fanfiction. 

I can't wait for the next one!