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elapses ([personal profile] elapses) wrote2008-07-06 09:34 pm

to think this all transpired from a silly userinfo graphic.

OH, HELLO JULY! This month is kind of turning out to be an advent calendar of magazine articles and photoshoots and interviews and clips and stills ALL LEADING UP TO THE 25TH JULY, AKA THE DAY WHEN MULDER AND SCULLY ARE BACK IN BLACK.

It's been a long eight months since XF2 became official, and there have been so many doubting Thomas moments -- David-looks-old-and-bloated moments, Gillian-looks-weird-and-bony moments, look-at-their-scary-wrinkles moments -- and I know I have had a vague but constant undertone of worry if they were really still young enough to play the two incredibly good-looking FBI agents they spent so many years portraying.

ALL THAT IS OVER.

ANYWAY, it's not like everyone hasn't had the pleasure of seeing this set of photographs several times over, so this picspam is... mostly for me. So I can come back and look at these pictures again and again and again and again!



(PS. We're getting SKIN. AND GILLIAN IS A GOOD KISSER. And OHMYGOD I LOVE PRESS TOURS.)
(PSS. Please don't, like, make icons out of these pictures I have colored? All of the originals should be in [livejournal.com profile] xfiles! You can use those!)

Lately I'm reaaaaally addicted to friendsfriends. And I kind of started rebooting my LJ. And the weather is really hot. And the new powercord for my laptop still hasn't come in the mail. And I might need to reorganize my tags. AND MY IPOD IS STILL BROKEN! I really like fireworks! Sometimes I feel like my friends go out of their way to ORCHESTRATE DRAMA IN THEIR LIVES. And what exactly do you do when your DVD copy of your FAVORITE MOVIE EVER is tragically missing and has been for months? Buy a new one? I MISS IT.

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD YOU SO BEAT ME TO THIS BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY SPENDING THE LAST MANY HOURS CLEANING UP HUNDREDS (I'VE GONE CERTIFIABLY INSANE) OF SEASON FOUR CAPS SO I CAN POST A PICPSPAM TONIGHT. AND I WANTED TO INCLUDE THESE BUT I JUST GOT SIDETRACKED. BUT OH MY GOD WHY ARE THEY SO HOT??????????????????????????????????????????

I CAN'T EVEN. SERIOUSLY, I JUST CAN'T. THAT TV GUIDE SHOT KIND OF MAKES ME WEAK IN THE KNEES. (ALTHOUGH IT'S KIND OF WEIRD TO SEE THEM LIKE THAT TOGETHER -- ALL DONE UP AND 2008 -- BUT THEY'RE BOTH REALLY HOT AND DAVID AND DAAAAVID AND GILLIAN AND GIIIIIILLIAN. MY GOD.) AND THE ESQUIRE SHOTS!!!!!

...I need to calm down. but I seriously don't see that happening until maybe two or three months after july 25.

PS i didn't read a single word you actually wrote, so maybe I should go do that?

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
SEASON FOUR SEASON FOUR SEASON FOUR!!!!!!! I watched Memento Mori last night because my bff waaaaanted to, ARE YOU PICSPAMMING THAAAAAAAAT????

OKAY THE TV GUIDE -- I'm torn about it! BECAUSE IT'S BOTH OF THEM AND THEY'RE PRETTY but the coloring's off and OH GOD, HER MAKEUP. But I like the clothes! And I guess I shouldn't expect that much from TV guide.

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
FDJSLKFJDKSJFDKSJFKD:SJFKDJS:LFJDKSLJFD:LKS MEMENTO MORI. I WANTED TO DO AN IN-DEPTH ONE OF THAT!!! Okay, so here's the deal, I started it out just to post about season four -- random thoughts, pictures, etc. because it's been eating my BRAIN -- before I finish the last four episodes, and I started that literally hours ago. And then i was like, HOLY SHIT. THERE ARE 300 PICTURES HERE AND I HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE CANCER ARC. So I think i'm gonna save that for my next post, which will be dedicated solely to flailing over the angst and pain and misery and UTTER AWESOME that is that storyline. I also need to see what you guys would want me to do episode picspams of because i'm torn between Memento Mori, Paper Hearts, Elegy, and Demons. Maybe even Small Potatoes? JUST BECAUSE IT'S SO FUN AND NOT MADE OF 110% ANGST AND DRAMA.

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
MY FAVORITE (okay i'm using "favorite" really loosely here) PART IS WHEN THEY'RE BOTH TRYING NOT TO CRY ON THE PHONE WITH EACH OTHER. And... all of it!

I also need to see what you guys would want me to do episode picspams of because i'm torn between Memento Mori, Paper Hearts, Elegy, and Demons. Maybe even Small Potatoes? JUST BECAUSE IT'S SO FUN AND NOT MADE OF 110% ANGST AND DRAMA.
HOW EXACTLY IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO PICK BETWEEN THOSE???? (Damn, I guess season 4 was just... really ridiculously good?) Did you not do Paper Hearts in the first 300 pictures????

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
YES YES YES-- and the way he slams the drawer after! I think my favorite might have to be the whole opening scene with the both of them at the hospital. Just everything about the way they're interacting with each other-- Mulder's tentativeness and how his feelings are completely tattooed across his face and the way he says "what are we looking at here?" and just ALL OF IT. Even the tiniest little details just make it so painfully perfect.

I KNOW, THATS WHY I NEED ALL Y'ALL'S HELP. And there's no chance in hell I'm gonna put the option of doing multiple, because PICSPAMS ARE SO FUN BUT SO MUCH WORK. I think for my own sanity I'll have to stick with one. Maaaaaybe two, MAX. NO MORE THAN THAT THOUGH.

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I love the opening scene! For all the reasons you said, and how he has to pass off his flowers with a joke because he's not entirely comfortable just saying "hey, Scully, I... brought you flowers" and his REFUSAL TO ACCEPT and oh god, WHY IS THIS SHOW SO GOOD?????

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
YES!!!!!!!!!! THAT TOO. But GOD, the way he nods and his face does these split second transformations from putting-on-a-good-face to utter DESPAIR to denial to EVERYTHING. UGH UGH.

PS I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE END OF MAX, I NEED TO DO THAT TOO!!!! There's no chance in hell this is going up tonight, man. Tomorrow for sure though!

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
The whole thing is just so unbelievably beautifully tragic?????? WHAT A WAY TO REALIZE SOMEONE IS THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE.

Do not forget the beginning of Tempus Fugit! (LISTEN TO ME, ALL DEMANDING. ALL THIS PICSPAMMING, you are never going to finish the actual watching part in time :()

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
PSH, dude the beginning of Tempus Fugit was literally the first thing i did because there are few things in the whole run of the show that make me as ridiculously giddy and silly and HAPPY as that moment (seriously up there with the end of Unnatural for me). EVEN THE WAY MULDER SITS AT THE TABLE IS JUST FJDKLSFJKDLS. Everything everything!

Oh and I've completely given up on trying to finish the re-watch before the film. I actually don't want it to end! Even if it takes me ages to finish it, I'm totally cool with that, seeing that once i'm done, I'm done? (Although I wouldn't underestimate my ability to go through it again. Not so soon, of course, but like, it's not out of the realm of possibility. I'M NUTS.)

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
YOU KNOW SHE USED THAT KEYCHAIN FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER even though she wouldn't've liked it had it been given to her by anyone else and he grinned a little every time he saw it. He celebrates her birthday in the best ways!

Are you going to do abridged versions of the crappy seasons when you're done with 7?

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
And no, Paper Hearts did make it in the first 300! But I mean, the whole episode is incredible, so I kind of wouldn't mind doing that one. I totally didn't even touch any of the cancer arc episodes because I just love them all too much. I KIND OF WANT TO DO NEVER AGAIN TOO? I don't know :( :( :(

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
WHAT IF, for your one picspam, you just called it a "cancerarc" picspam and then you could do abridged Memento Mori and Elegy (I AM SO IN LOVE WITH ELEGY) and Never Again and, uh, TOUCH ON ALL OF IT????

Except that would probably get out of hand :(

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Except that's kind of what I think I might do????? It might be the only way to quell this burning yearning inside me for ALL THE CRAZY ANGST. The picspam can have my fanmix in it as well! (I think this may be the way to go but I'll still have a poll and see what people think)

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
OH MAN, FANMIX + PICSPAM! Daaaaang, that's like... the 1997/2008 angst extravaganza. That could end up epic. I VOTE YEA.

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
QUITE POSSIBLY.

i excessively comment, MY BAD.

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
PS, I kind of agree about the TV guide shoot-- the coloring and the make up were odd, as was seeing them at an equal height. Something else was kind of off about it, but I DON'T KNOW. THEIR FACES IN THAT PICTURE. It's like they're two thirtysomethings who met in an upscale bar after work-- he was with his guy friends and she was with her gal pals and they just CLICKED. BUT NO IT'S MULDER AND SCULLY, ALL GROWNED UP.

This film. What are we going to do with ourselves.

Re: i excessively comment, MY BAD.

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
as was seeing them at an equal height.
AHAHAHA, SO TRUE!!!! Their natural state (http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season5/bad-blood/x-files717.jpg) really doesn't work for magazine covers, though, I suppose :(

BUT I AGREE -- that thirtysomething thing is the PERFECT way of articulating how the clothes made me feel. I love that he's wearing suits! I love it when he wears suits! My least favorite thing about him no longer working with the FBI was the fact that he would no longer ever wear suits :( :( :(

Re: i excessively comment, MY BAD.

[identity profile] adinfinitum.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Such a shame, really!

Suits may be my biggest weakness in life. :( / :)