Generations of Philes

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Permalink Reply by Raskolnikov on January 19, 2009 at 8:02pm

Bertha said:

1st gen. I was in uni when the show premiered, and my lecturers were using both XF and Millennium to teach their classes. :)

That is awesome! Did your professors use the shows in certain classes? How was it presented?

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Permalink Reply by Emily on March 23, 2009 at 12:28pm

Im 2nd Gen, I was born the year it aired and I watched it growing up because my parents were into it, but I wasnt a devoted phile until about a year ago.

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Permalink Reply by Bertha on March 23, 2009 at 1:45pm

Raskolnikov said:

Bertha said:

1st gen. I was in uni when the show premiered, and my lecturers were using both XF and Millennium to teach their classes. :)

That is awesome! Did your professors use the shows in certain classes? How was it presented?

Well, I was doing film and media studies. I remember the pilot for Millennium was used for scriptwriting class (as in how to write a really good script and introduce characters, create tension, etc.). XF is always brought up when the lecturers are talking about excellence in television-making. :)

I use it to teach my students too, from postmodernism to gender in TV.

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Permalink Reply by Edna on March 23, 2009 at 3:44pm

first generation here!

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Permalink Reply by Milagrophile on March 24, 2009 at 12:29am

First generation. I bought a poster after watching a couple of episodes. It still sucks that my mom tossed it out a couple of years later. Buying merchandise now isn't the same as the original stuff back in the day, as that old poster had lots of memories attached to it.

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Permalink Reply by Young Heejin on March 24, 2009 at 8:24am

I am a 2nd generation. I think I remember seeing the commercial and I was completely drawn to watch it because it's scary. I really can't forget the triangle episode, I was really thrilled and kind of flattered of the kissing scene that I sticked to watching it but the channel kind of stop airing it and I don't have TV priviledges when I was young that I need to sneak out of the room so I can watch it.

I was too young to understand and I got really scared of the people who were infected of the purity. I just finish watching it through repeats on studio 23 and my Aunt's copy.

Since they gave me TV priviledges, they started calling me because I always watch the cable. I get to watch the first movie a lot of times because they air the movie more than 3 times a week and the 2nd movie just revived my obsessions.

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Permalink Reply by juliejett on March 24, 2009 at 10:38am

I'm first generation, watched it with friends when it originally aired. I must have been the perfect age because I was in my mid-teens and collected the action figures from FTF, as well as the first season on VHS. I never stopped loving the series. The new IWTB film and low priced seasons on DVD sparked my old passion for XF. Now my best friend and I are watching the series from the beginning which is cool because we originally watched it together back in middleschool, 15 years ago:)

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Permalink Reply by Karen on March 24, 2009 at 12:24pm

I'm 1st generation.
I didn't start watching until 1998 during season 6 because when it first aired I was 8. At that age I was more of a cartoon watcher.
First I was exposed to Fight The Future when my brother ordered it on Pay Per View. I got so sucked in that I started watching the show.
10 years later and I'm still a big a fan as ever!

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Permalink Reply by triangle on March 24, 2009 at 1:07pm

i think i am 1st generation. although i didn't watch it from season one (i was about 7 when it aired) but i started in the middle of 5th season and been hooked ever since.
i was really crazy about it during 6th and 7th season (still got that i want to believe ufo poster :)) and watch the first seasons on reruns after the show had ended. i wasn't watching it for some years then, but started all over again last year when i got the dvds.

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Permalink Reply by Yemayah on March 24, 2009 at 2:59pm

I am a first generation! From the Pilot. I thought the characters were charming, charismatic, different. The stories fresh and compelling and deliciously quirky. Secondary character casting was so intriguing. I was continuously amazed that Mulder and Scully were off-center from usual male/female roles. David created a character with such interesting quirks and psychological dynamics. I was in medical school at the time, and had left law enforcement to do so, so I identified with that aspect of Scully. I thought Gillian's character, and the actress herself, had a rather realistic/accessible & fresh look about her.

I was studying very hard at the time and missed some episodes. Due to my training schedule, all the way through intership, it was tough following and I lost the mythology thread(s). Who knew then that they were too convoluted to follow even at close attention!! I recall the build up to the movie. I was ecstatic. It was not until after the movie premiered (which I made only on the very last day of showing in NYC, and only at a special showing for the hearing impaired!!) that I joined on-line fandom. I did not have a computer until 1998! There was just too much at once: passionate love of the series, agonizing waits for the November start of the new seasons (curses, Chris Carter!), XF websites up the wazoo, mind-blowing fanfic (remember Oklahoma!), message boards, pictures (I could not get enough), DD-love, magazines; TXF was everywhere, on just about every cover.

It brings back such memories and nostalgia. I 'met' online a circle of great posting friends, finally meeting all in person save one, who I called on the phone. When one of our group got married, we gathered from near and far for the glorious wedding. Believe it or not, we rarely discussed TXF when we gathered for bruch, gatherings 'n such!

I am very fascinated with the 2nd generation group, especially since you all were so young at the time. I enjoy reading your posts. What I want to know is where are the 3rd generation viewers (~8-10 yr is about right) who will expand the audience (and fan demand) for XF3? (Recall Star Trek and the build up to ST:TMP you older fans?) I am concerned that TXF predominantly (only?) is confined to cable and late at night. A whole lot of folks, and even more in this economic meltdown, do not have cable. I dont have cable, havn't for >1 year. TXF should be on regular FOX broadcast NOW, preferably at the early news-to-dinner time slot, weekdays and/or week ends, usually a time accessible to college age kids. Maybe it is just not on in the NY area. Regardless of all of our hopes and dreams, IMO an XF3 movie will have a short life screen life without a resurgence in the fandom numbers, which is what I would have expected by now for such a classic, smart series as TXF. What do you guys think? (maybe this can be another forum discussion).

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Permalink Reply by ejfurnia on March 28, 2009 at 8:43am

1st generation.
I started watching it the night it premiered. I was about 13 and was hooked from the beginning. When I was a teenager, I had an entire wall covered with magazine clippings and posters. lol. I had a couple of close girlfriends who were philes and we would get together and watch the new episodes each week. Good times.

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Permalink Reply by LSgrimm91 on April 5, 2009 at 6:07pm

bit of both, second really. i tried to hide from it when i was little (the music freaked me right out) and saw a few episodes, but with the second movie coming out, i started watching it again and got totally obsessed.

david's fruit basket made me a philer!!

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