I was hanging in there, trying to keep track of alien wars and black oil and the virus and Well-Manicured Man and CSM…saw the movie…then there was an episode that looked like it was wrapping everything up…and something blew up, and then the series went on for another 2 years and I stopped watching.
I’d suggest Googling it, since in the end, it became so complex and pointless that I don’t know if anyone here will be willing to type it all out. My other suggestion would be to not bother, because nothing was ever answered satisfactorally, and even second-hand exposure to the idiotic “super-soldier” plotline of the last season or two could cause temporary insanity.
The sad truth is personal and financial spats between the personnel so altered the story arc during the last two or three seasons none of it wound up making any sense. Worse, it got incredibly tedious and stupid. I can handle pointlessness if it doesn’t suck balls, but, unfortunately, the X-Files wound up sucking giant hairy baboon sack before it choked on it and died. I stopped watching before the end, and I suspect you’ll hear the same from many erstwhile fans of the show. What did it all mean in the end? Effed if I know, or care.
Basically, all the stuff you ever heard about, it’s all true man. Even the stuff that dopesn’t make sense and the stuff that’s contradictory. On the bright side, God exists and he’s watching out for you.
On the downside, so does Satan. Also, aliens are coming to act out their Ridley Scott *Aliens * fantasies all over the planet. Cheers.
My god. I zoned out after 10 or 15 paragraphs. I scrolled down, and down, and down. I kept expecting there to be text in the middle of the lower paragraphs saying “I can’t believe you’re still reading this.”
Fer shure. I don’t know which is worse – the writing on the web site, or the writing on the show. Honey, you’re not the author, are you? I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings…
Nope, I’m not the author. As convoluted as that site is, it’s much clearer than than the actual show.
My advise is to just watch the stand-alone “monster of the week” episodes. Trying to reason out 9 seasons of the X-Files mythology will give you a migraine.
I recall checking one of the Usenet X-Files groups the day after Jose Chung’s From Outer Space originally aired and seeing the subject line: “I missed last night’s episode – can someone post a brief plot synopsis?”
I think that, in both cases, the answer is simply “no”.
Do what I do – watch (an enjoy) the non-“paper clip” episodes. They’re some of the best TV ever made. Forget about the rest. I managed to be a huge fan during the show’s entire run (okay, okay, I wavered when Cary Elwes came on board) watching like this.