Discussion about this post

User's avatar
WasteLandRover's avatar

I was obsessed with The X-Files in the 90s. Loved it. And then as the seasons went along and the mythology got more convoluted and mixed up and doubled back on itself and there was Krycek and the big alien bounty hunter and the black goo and the cigarette smoking man was someone's father and he hated the Buffalo Bills for some reason and it just got to be too much and I realized there was no way (NO WAY) they were going to be able to tie this all together. And then I stopped obsessing about the mythology and just enjoyed it for what it was - until Doggett and Reyes showed up (or in my mind Coy and Vance Duke).

It was a good lesson for when "Lost" came around. A lesson I completely did not learn.

Expand full comment
Mark's avatar

Hybrid MotW and longer arcs are clearly the ideal form of television and I hope we go back there. X-Files was great but it will be hard to top the best seasons of Buffy and Angel in this regard.

Expand full comment
30 more comments...

No posts