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I'd like to revisit that show, actually. I recently stumbled across an episode of Charmed on TV. Not one I watched, really, but it put me in mind as to whether and how all the shows I did watch in the 90s would still hold up. I suspect Buffy might be dubious - I'd certainly hate the last two series a lot more than I did back then. X-Files I loved for the first few series, when it was still in Monster-of-the-Week mode. Once it got too deep into the one-issue, alien conspiracy thing it lost quality, and they should never have even contemplated carrying it on beyond Mulder leaving. The first film was pretty risible, though I found the second much better. Where it really went wrong was when they stopped keeping it vague, and started to outright have actual aliens and whatever... the real genius of the early stuff was that as the viewer I wanted to believe Mulder's supernatural explanation, but Scully's rationalisation could not be dismissed. Once it lost the latter, it lost a lot of what really made it special.
I've spent the last year working my way through the M*A*S*H box xset, on and off. With Season 3 of The Walking Dead off now and the long wait for next Spring when the fourth series will hit free-to-air in the UK (I refuse to be suckered in to paying for subscription TV of any sort), I'm making rapid progress through that box again. As of last night, I'm well into season eleven... Soon be looking for something else. I have considered Game of Thrones, though I'd rather wait until I can get a good deal on a complete box set than buy them as they come out. I might go looking into Mad Men - they seem to be available cheap enough these days.
Ha ha! Well, the X-Files isn't as good as I remembered it, that's for certain. I don't know what I was expecting though. Old age clouds my memories! I do find that the alien episodes are particularly tiresome. I agree, I like the story presented (both Mulder & Scully's sides) and then the audience decides on their own.
I still like Buffy, but mostly just the first few seasons.
Methinks I'd best go back to watching 'Thriller' and 'One Step Beyond.'
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