From: kestra1@nospam.com   
      
   "Jim"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.22082e18f965c06a98969b@nntp.dsl.pipex.com...   
   > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:22:46 GMT, down on alt.tv.x-files, Kestra drove   
   > up in the Vengabus and exclaimed:   
   >>   
   >> "Alan McHurshman"  wrote in message   
   >> news:0c1e35b9-c1c3-44c0-80fb-724ea8128605@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com...   
   >> On Jan 10, 7:42 am, kimba  wrote:   
   >> > I thought the story was really good for a pilot. The pacing was slow,   
   >> > and let the story develop, but it more than piqued my interest. Even   
   >> > today, it's interesting, without being dated, beyond the big glasses,   
   >> > I mean.   
   >>   
   >> >I love it still. I still remember sitting on the   
   >> >couch while baby sitting my niece and coming   
   >> >across this show totally by accident. And just   
   >> >being amazed at how good a show could be   
   >> >given the junk on the tube at the time (this was   
   >> >pre-Buffy, of course). At the end of the show I   
   >> >was absolutely sure it would be cancelled before   
   >> >Christmas. Up until then nothing that gould ever   
   >> >lasted.   
   >>   
   >> Immortal line: "That's why they put the "I" in "FBI"............."   
   >>   
   >> I remember the ads at the time led us to believe it was going to be an   
   >> "Unsolved Mysteries" type of doco show and I taped it (cos it was on here   
   >> in   
   >> Aus about 10:30pm Monday nights). So began my first tv obsession....   
   >   
   > *blink*   
   >   
   > You mean it wasn't Neighbours?  ;)   
      
   It seems to me the Brits like Neighbours more than the Aussies at times. I   
   did watch it when I was younger but XF was my first foray into true obsessed   
   online "fandom".   
      
   Anyway, most of my family are obsessed with Coronation Street!  :)   
      
   Kes   
      
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