From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   hipstre wrote on 30/07/2020 6:25 PM:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   I can't say the settings left much of an impression on me (too wrapped   
   up in the mystery, maybe!!) but I would bet that, now, those places that   
   you reckoned you wanted to move into have all been done up and made look   
   'trendy' .... if not knocked down and rebuilt in the latest "stylish"   
   fashion!! ;-P   
   --   
   Daniel   
      
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