# Give me the X-files in 3 paragraphs...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 7, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203 "2006-12-07T12:19:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/1 "2006-12-07T12:19:51Z")
I loved the X-Files, and caught most of the episodes back when it was on. But as time has gone by the plot has faded from my memory. I do remember a lot of twists and hard to remember alien subplots. Not to mention a couple of Muldrers who kept disappearing/reappearing.
Would it be at all possible for you to summarize the story in 3 paragraphs to tie together and explain everything that happened? A daunting task I realize, but I can’t put the show together in my head anymore. What was the big conspiracy? How many different aliens were there? Who were really the good guys and who were the bad?
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/2 "2006-12-07T12:24:12Z")
Shit happened.
The writers got confused.
Scully gave away her baby.
They finished the series with a _clip show_.
Four paragraphs, but probably more than it deserved.
Bitter? Me? No, of course not. Just because you watch a show weekly for 9 FRIGGIN’ YEARS and they DON’T BOTHER TO RESOLVE A DAMN THING… hell, I’m not bitter. It’s just a TV show, of course. 😉
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/3 "2006-12-07T14:24:12Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT]
Shit happened.
The writers got confused.
Scully gave away her baby.
They finished the series with a _clip show_.
Four paragraphs, but probably more than it deserved.
Bitter? Me? No, of course not. Just because you watch a show weekly for 9 FRIGGIN’ YEARS and they DON’T BOTHER TO RESOLVE A DAMN THING… hell, I’m not bitter. It’s just a TV show, of course. 😉
[/QUOTE]
Maybe that’s why, years later, I am so confused by my memories of the show.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/4 "2006-12-07T14:50:23Z")
Well, they didn’t resolve anything. Except that Mulders sister was _not_ kidnapped by aliens, thereby making the past “search” an exercise in futility.
But what Scully did with William was just… immoral. Dumb. Idiocy on the point of frothing-mouthiness.
Problem: You have a child that is the focal point of an interstellar manhunt. People are going to be gunning for the kid his entire life.
Solution: Abandon him with some farmers in Montana, hope nobody figures it out.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/5 "2006-12-07T14:52:43Z")
The truth is out there.
No, it isn’t.
Yes, it is.
Shut up and kiss me.
Or not.
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### Author:  [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/6 "2006-12-07T14:54:00Z")
Hell hath.
No fury.
Like a scifi fan disappointed.
-Joe, shoulda been a poet
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### Author:  [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/7 "2006-12-07T15:55:49Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist]
The truth is out there.
No, it isn’t.
Yes, it is.
Shut up and kiss me.
Or not.
[/QUOTE]
This should have been spoilered and posted to the Lost thread.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/8 "2006-12-07T17:33:21Z")
It was great,
And many fans loved it,
And then the eighth and ninth seasons were total and utter unmitigated pieces of crap.
(And **Kythereia** ’s not a bitter person. Really.)
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/9 "2006-12-07T18:26:48Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000]
Give me the X-files in 3 paragraphs…
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I am reminded of the time I perused alt.tv.x-files the day after _Jose Chung’s From Outer Space_ first aired.
Somebody wrote a message saying that he’d missed the episode, and asked “Can somebody post a brief plot synopsis?”
I’m pretty sure that the only possible response to that question is “No”…
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/10 "2006-12-07T23:39:06Z")
Weird
Stuff
Happens
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### Author:  [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/11 "2006-12-08T06:51:56Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT]
Well, they didn’t resolve anything. Except that Mulders sister was _not_ kidnapped by aliens, thereby making the past “search” an exercise in futility.
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So what happened to her? I stopped watching at season 6 and Wiki doesn’t say.
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### Author:  [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/12 "2006-12-08T07:05:04Z")
[This](http://www.tv.com/x-files/show/61/summary.html) is the best I can do for you. The best I can tell, a small part of the US Government found out that some aliens are planning to colonize Earth, killing off the natives in the process. The Conspirators cut a deal with the aliens in order to save their skin, but it doesn’t work out so well.
Scully’s baby was an attempt at a hybrid that could somehow save the human race, I think. It turned out to be normal. I think.
The aliens will invade on 4-22-2022 or around there sometime, and there’s nothing we can do about it, and the general public is still in the dark.
If any of you bitter-beans can correct me, I’d sure appreciate it
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-the-x-files-in-3-paragraphs/383203/13 "2006-12-08T07:11:00Z")
[QUOTE=DataZak]
So what happened to her? I stopped watching at season 6 and Wiki doesn’t say.
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She’s got an entry.
> **[Samantha Mulder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Mulder)**
>
> Samantha Ann Mulder is a fictional character in the television series The X-Files. She is the younger sister of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder and the daughter of Teena and Bill Mulder. As a child, Samantha was abducted, ostensibly by aliens, and was never returned. It is this experience that drives her older brother Fox Mulder to join the FBI, and later take the reins of the X-Files section. On the evening of November 27, 1973, Samantha Mulder was apparently abducted by aliens from the Mulder fami...