World Enough and Time

Went this afternoon to a Lone Gunmen video-party at Tasia's place.

Had a lovely time, but I was disappointed in the show. I remembered the Lone Gunmen as characters from X-Files, and thought they were cool, back when everything about X-Files was cool.

But this wasn't like X-Files, and not just because there was no Fox Mulder. First, it was comedy: and I just don't like comedy. Second, the stories were about crimes - no alien abductions, no weird creatures. No lurking in dark places with flashlights.

And mainly, I just don't like shows in which the heroes are played for laughs.

There was, I suppose, a third problem with the show: in every episode we saw, and we watched four, we were able to anticipate what was about to happen and how the show would end pretty much from the beginning.

Two good things about it: in the Pilot, there's a story about a plot to fly a plane into the Twin Towers in New York - and the episode aired six months before this actually happened.

The other good thing: there was an episode about tango dancing. I like tango music.

So they're talking again about making another X-Files movie.

Seems to me they finished off the story, and the last season or two of X-Files left me feeling wounded. It's been so long, can Duchovny and Anderson still become Mulder and Scully? Well, yes, of course, they are actors. But it's hard for me to look at this with optimism, to think of it as anything but exploitation of a franchise. I wonder if Nick Lea would be in it.

If they make another movie... what would they do? With the plot?