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Entertain me: X-Files Collector's Set
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What are they looking at up there?
The venue: planes, trains, hotel rooms, cars… you name it.
The back story: I get bored of movies. Yeah, I love them, but on some trips I just don’t have the attention span to sit through a couple hours of dialogue (unless I’m really being spoon fed, but usually I like movies that challenge me on some level… my sincere adoration of crap movies notwithstanding.) So in those cases I tend to turn to TV on DVD, because they offer the short blast of entertainment I need to distract me from boring legs of a trip, but don’t tax me too terribly much.
In that case, I shouldn’t have taken the X-Files collector’s set with me.
Seriously – nine seasons of Chris Carter’s much loved series, plus the first X-Files movie… what was I thinking? I’ll admit that I was a casual fan of the show when it was first on the air, but with this set? I became obsessed. I would watch episode after episode back to back, and found it hard to tear myself out of my hotel room to go experience the locales I was actually visiting. Note that I said locales, as in plural. Yes, I packed this sucker up more than once to get through every single minute of it.
The random comment: From a male travel companion, “Are you ever going to stop watching that? Jesus, Scully is hot.”
The verdict: If you’re on a 13 plus-hour plane trip, or an endless drive, or any other time where you could conceivably have long blocks of time where getting engrossed in a TV show is a good idea, by all means, go for it. But I strongly suggest limiting yourself to maybe a season at a time, if not a disc at a time if you’re on a shorter trip. Seriously – you will spend all your time watching TV, and that’s not how you really wanna travel.
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