The problem with a potboiler like "X-Files" is that if they ever "solved" the conspiracy, the show would be over. So they had to keep "revealing" another piece of the conspiracy in those ultra-dramatic mythology episodes and season finales - but the "reveal" always turned out that there was yet ANOTHER layer to the conspiracy, and so on ad infinitum.
The problem with a potboiler like "X-Files" is that if they ever "solved" the conspiracy, the show would be over. So they had to keep "revealing" another piece of the conspiracy in those ultra-dramatic mythology episodes and season finales - but the "reveal" always turned out that there was yet ANOTHER layer to the conspiracy, and so on ad infinitum.
The problem with a potboiler like "X-Files" is that if they ever "solved" the conspiracy, the show would be over. So they had to keep "revealing" another piece of the conspiracy in those ultra-dramatic mythology episodes and season finales - but the "reveal" always turned out that there was yet ANOTHER layer to the conspiracy, and so on ad infinitum.