By that point I'd been watching XF on and off for about five years, and just threw my hands up in the air over the whole Mulder storyline. What idiots the writers were, especially for people who were only casual viewers. Season One is the epitome of XF, for me.

Topic switch--can anyone give me some good Dark Angel recs? I know the fandom's scary as hell, but surely there's some readable Max/Logan stuff behind all the shipper crap?

The only Dark Angel I ever read was a crossover with XF, by Sarah Segretti. You could probably google her website and find it. I only ended up reading it because she's a friend and asked me to beta.

Oh, it was good, of course. Cause, Sarah Segretti.

There's that Buffyverse crossover with Faith, too, though I don't remember its title or the author.

Breaking out google...

...sweet Lord there's a Buffy/Roswell crossover with a Faith/Buffy/Isabel pairing...

Ah, here it is. Witness, by Hth.

Hth is the total god of me.

Dana gave me the XF link, and I've read the BtVS one. Thanks, though. I googled. It was both rewarding and scary, as most googling truly is.

I only ever saw Dark Angel once, and I thought it was so cool that they were setting up a guy in a wheelchair (a hot guy in a wheelchair) as the romantic interest. Then at the very end some miracle or something happened and he moved his leg or some such and was clearly going to be all better by the next ep. Never went back.

yeah, that would've been cool, Brenda.

FWIW, by the end of the second season, he could walk for limited amounts of time using a power-brace arrangement thingie, which is consistent with real-world current R&D efforts. The series had a lot of stupidity but they actually were pretty good about the guy in the wheelchair. (PS -- the really interesting relationship on the show was Max/Alex, but he doesn't show up much before the start of the second season.)

Oh, and can someone confirm for me -- in the X-Men movie, was Magneto's real name Erik Lennsherr or Lehnsherr? I've got the second written down here, but it doesn't look right.

Then at the very end some miracle or something happened and he moved his leg or some such and was clearly going to be all better by the next ep. Never went back.

He wasn't. His storyline was both simultaneously the most frustrating thing ever, and the one of the more interesting subplots of the show.

PS -- the really interesting relationship on the show was Max/Alex, but he doesn't show up much before the start of the second season.

Well, it was Alec, not Alex. Made more interesting by the fact that he was the genetic duplicate of one of her X5 brothers she had to kill the previous season. I'm pretty sure the reason they brought him back was because of the chemistry between the actor and Jessica Alba.

Man, I really loved the first season (and maybe the first half of the second season).