From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   This week, I finally bought the first three seasons on DVD.   
      
   I just got done watching 'Anasazi'.   
      
   My mind just got done exploding.   
      
      
   It's amazing how still, after all these years, after thousands of viewings   
   and re-viewings, this episode is still so fresh, so exciting, so powerful.   
      
   The pacing is utterly flawless. From the very start, it's so taut and   
   suspenseful, and it just keeps building and building from there. Just when   
   you think it couldn't get any more jaw-droppingly wicked and intense, yet   
   another scene ratchets it up even further. And then *another*. And then   
   ANOTHER. And then A FUCKING NOTHER!!!   
      
   There's no filler, no sidetracking, just one straight line forward and up   
   through the plot, culminating in the inevitable climax. Even the slower,   
   expository opening scenes have this sense of energy, of intensity, of   
   portent, as if the episode is haunted by its own future from the very first   
   instant. It's like we're just setting out on an unforgettable journey that   
   is destined to change our lives forever.Watching it is like masturbating,   
   except with your mind instead of your dick. First, the initial anticipation   
   stiffens you up and arouses you and gets you ready. Then you start slowly   
   stroking, each scene increasing the pleasure, going faster and faster until   
   finally the boxcar explodes in a fiery orgasm.   
      
   It gives me that same feeling as the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band   
   album -- that sense of a carefully designed masterpiece, so unpredictable   
   and packed full of innovation that it grabs your attention and never lets   
   go, punching you repeatedly in the balls as it slowly builds -- peaking and   
   ebbing, then coming up again, peaking a little higher this time, then   
   ebbing, then coming up again, peaking a little higher, the peaks getting   
   closer and closer together as they simultaneously get bigger and bigger,   
   like a runaway train going faster and faster and faster, until it finally   
   crashes and explodes in the climax -- the last few scenes are The X-Files'   
   version of 'A Day in the Life'.   
      
   I defy you to find another television show that has ever done something even   
   a quarter as incredible and mind-blowing. I FUCKING DEFY YOU.   
      
   Off to watch the rest of the trilogy now. All done. Bye bye.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com   
      
   House: I think I'm going blind.   
      
   Wilson: Hairy palms, too?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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