Why watch the x files

It's less confusing than you remember. When The X-Files originally aired, Mytharc episodes were pretty spaced out. You could wait weeks, or even months, for a resolution to something. And even binging the show today on a streaming service, there's still a lot to get through before you learn the truth about its many tangled plot threads.

But there are no such issues with a Mytharc rewatch. It's quite the opposite, in fact: you're positively overloaded with information, and pretty much every episode uncovers some massive new revelation to mull over. It's overwhelming more on that later , but hugely entertaining and satisfying.

A lot of the best character moments happen in the relatively chill Monster of the Week episodes. In the frantic, dramatic Mytharc episodes, Mulder and Scully rarely get any downtime to hang out, joke around, and learn about each other.

This happens almost exclusively in the 'between' episodes, and this wonderfully written character development makes the emotional life-or-death situations in the mythology episodes hit way harder. You've made it this far, now here's a killer two-parter to end the season and give you a big, gratifying hit of new mythology. As we explained earlier, this means the plot is constantly in motion, and you're never left hanging. The downside of this is that the show's central mysteries are exposed and stripped of their mystique a little too quickly.

Usually it would take a hundred episodes to learn some of these earthshaking plot details — but in this rewatch it takes half that, which isn't always a good thing. The truth is, as good as The X-Files is, it really loses its way around season 6 — especially where the mythology is concerned. It's still fun to watch, but compared to the heights of seasons 3, 4, and 5, it's clear the writers were running out of ideas and hitting narrative dead ends.

In our entirely subjective opinion, obviously. Fire sees the first appearance of Jealous Scully, who reappeared every now and again throughout the run — not the best way to enjoy our heroine, but it does imply a more than professional interest in her partner.

Add Beyond The Sea for more strong and heartfelt, albeit not overtly romantic, scenes between the two. Add Duane Barry for the first part of the story continued in Ascension. Add Red Museum for some very shippy direction of the pair in an otherwise normal conversation. War Of The Coprophages and Syzygy give us Jealous Scully two episodes in a row, which is rather wearing, but there you have it.

Pusher is much stronger, while the Darin Morgan-authored sections of Quagmire elevate that episode enormously. Add Gethsemane for more of that arc, and for the lead-in to Season Five.

Add Never Again for a very brief possible glimpse of Jealous Mulder. Detour continues to drop the odd overt hint that at least one agent might be romantically interested in the other.

Add Christmas Carol for the first part of the story concluded in Emily. Season Six starts to play around with the idea of Mulder and Scully as a couple more obviously, including old genre standby plots like having to go undercover as a married couple Arcadia , body-swapping leading to various hi-jinks Dreamland , monsters of the week who treat the leads as a couple How The Ghosts Stole Christmas and whatever the heck is going on in Triangle.

The Unnatural and Field Trip offer more standard stories featuring sweet moments between the two leads. With the arrival of a new millennium, the subtext finally started to become the text. Sort of. Details redacted for spoilers.

Add Essence for the first part of the story concluded in Existence. Like the series finale, this belated follow-up movie left a lot of people vaguely dissatisfied, but saved itself from complete ignominy for the shippers with some reasonably well judged scenes.

We suspect most of the more committed non-shippers had given up by this point anyway. The X-Files was a two-person led show for most of its run, but it did eventually start to add a few more regular characters, and by Season Nine, had worked its way up to four leads Scully, Doggett, Reyes and Skinner. Another Day in the Limelight for Skinner. Unusual Suspects is the first episode to focus primarily on the Lone Gunmen.

More Skinner in S. Add Triangle for a story that has fun with Skinner, as well as Mulder and Scully. Brand X is another Skinner story. Add Hollywood AD for another bit of fun for the whole team.

David Duchovny appears in only about half of Season Eight, so naturally other characters start to come to the fore. In Season Nine, both Skinner and Reyes became main characters while Gillian Anderson stepped back a little, so of course, this season heavily features Skinner, Reyes and Doggett in the majority of its episodes.

Add Provenance and Providence for the return of the Lone Gunmen to the show after a sojurn in their own spin-off. A Stranger Confronts Mulder. The World Has Gone Crazy.

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