Next Please!



What does a Phile do when The X-Files is
over?

I think this is a question many of us are
pondering at the moment. It's like suddenly
having to completely re-think our strategies.
In order to keep going, we can no longer
unplug the phone and switch off the lights
every Sunday to watch a new episode. We
need to find new ways to keep it going.

All we need to do is look around at what
we've already built for each other. We've
got so many stories still to write, so many
observations still to make, so many collages
to create and conversations to have, and all
of that is without taking the next movie into
account. We can survive, as long as we are
detirmined to do so.

Of course, we've still got the actors too.
We can follow David and Gillian through their
newest roles, we can support Chris Carter's
new stuff, and we can continue to collect the
posters and make friends with other Philes
and discuss our favourite episodes... in fact,
now we've got enough time on our hands to
learn every episode inside out!

My latest project started when I began at uni
in September. Me and my boyfriend are watching
every episode in order, 2 per week minimum,
without fail. We're currently right at the end
of season 2 (the next episode is Our Town). I
think it gives me lots of new insight into
how the show has developed over the years - 
and, of course, it means every episode gets
a fair innings, rather than the more
standard and extremely obsessive "Triangle/
Millennium/Amor Fati/Arcadia/Rain King" kind
of behaviour.  Even the episodes I don't like
still get watched (repeat after me: I will
not pay too much attention to 3.  I will not
pay too much attention to 3).  And, of course,
I'm compiling lists of quotes and stuff, too.

Life, my friends, is good :-D