I Want to Believe

I was happy anticipating some really good movies during the first quarter of this year. But Scully and Mulder in a new x-Files offering? I think I may have just gotten my early Christmas gift. Finally, and after a decade, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder are around to keep x-Files fans up on their toes. To say that "x-Files is back" may be too much of a preemtion and I don't want to be heartbroken. "I Want to Believe" is good enough for now although after watching it I know I will be hankering for more. Will they give us more after "I Want to Believe"?

I would not deny those times when I'd sit in front of the TV feeling the onset of a breakdown everytime an x-Files episode would end. I wasn't too young to be addicted to a TV series of this genre, nor was I too sane not to be salivating at the thought of watching x-Files.

David Duchovny confesses to a contradiction between himself and Mulder's character. Mulder believes in the supernatural while Duchovny in real life says he can be spiritual but is naturally skeptical about things that he can't see. It is in this aspect that I get to appreciate Mulder better than I do Duchovny. Sometimes, I think people who get too skeptical about the unexplainable things in this world are drilling. Sometimes, when conversations about aliens and the supernatural come up and there are people within earshot who right away declare an adamant "I don't believe", I just want them to get lost because they are such spoilsports. Sometimes, I want to beg them to just go and read Ricky Lo.

They started showing the x-Files in theaters today, a day when money is a strange word to me. If you're not doing anything at six p.m. later, please bow down and offer a prayer so that the boys and I will have enough money to get ourselves to the movie house this weekend and be brave enough to buy tickets for this movie. It's x-Files for godsake.

If in a split second you'll start wondering why you'll do something like this for me and you completely don't care about me, allow me to remind you that you have been praying for world peace for a long time and your prayer hasn't been heard yet. Try this one and it just might work.

Thank you for being that human being who does not only do things because it will make you famous. Thank you already if you consider praying for me. Three tickets for x-Files, hear our prayer.

If we get to watch it this weekend, then I can truly say, I Want to Believe!