From: ronstrelecki@gmail.com   
      
   I was watching some very old episodes (of The X-Files) and found myself   
   jealous of the high-ceilinged, nineties-era, abandoned, filthy Vancouver   
   apartments they always seemed to be filming in. The show was so dirty in the   
   beginning. It seemed like they    
   threw a dart at a map and said, "Let's film in THIS abandoned alley way!" or,   
   "Let's set this episode in an un-mown suburban side-yard full of broken Big   
   Wheels." No one thought to "prettify" the show until about season five, and   
   even then it was hit or    
   miss. The show really seemed to be taking place in an abandoned,   
   half-forgotten, semi-suburb of a major city.   
      
   I just want to move in to half the places. With just a coat of paint and a   
   couple of lamps, they could really be beautified (after the Lizard man who   
   needs to eat a human spleen every six years because he has a nutritional   
   deficiency is cleared out of    
   course).   
      
   The other thing I miss is all the TIME that all the characters seem to have in   
   their lives. It starts with Mulder and Scully, who allegedly work for the FBI,   
   but literally do nothing all day (and all night). The FBI is like their Secret   
   Clubhouse. But    
   ALL of the characters are just... relaxing all the time. Even the monsters   
   seem to just be chillin' in the sewers, or at the bottom of a well, or   
   underneath a porch that they've lined with half-digested human brains and   
   newspapers or what-have-you.   
      
   It is not often seen as such, but The X-Files is a Slacker's Paradise. The   
   whole nineties notion of "The Slacker" has all but disappeared. Viewing a   
   random episode of Season Three really brings it all back.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)