Everything you ever wanted to know about the X-Files
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- "The X-Files" is a highly influential and popular television series that blends science fiction, horror, and mystery genres. Created by Chris Carter, the show explores various paranormal phenomena and government conspiracies, featuring FBI agents who investigate unusual cases. Here’s a detailed look at "The X-Files":
Overview
Premiere and Duration:
First Air Date: September 10, 1993.
Original Run: Concluded on May 19, 2002, after 11 seasons.
Reboot: Returned for a six-episode revival in January 2016 and a subsequent eleven-episode season in January 2018.
Creators and Production:
Creator: Chris Carter, who developed the series and was a key writer and executive producer.
Production Company: 20th Century Fox Television (now 20th Television).
Plot and Themes
Main Premise:
The show follows FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who work on "X-Files," unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena and government cover-ups. Mulder believes in extraterrestrials and conspiracies, while Scully is a skeptic and scientist, providing a rational perspective.
Themes:
Paranormal Phenomena: Includes aliens, ghosts, cryptids, and unexplained events.
Government Conspiracies: Often explores themes of cover-ups, secrecy, and manipulation by powerful entities.
Personal Drama: Explores the personal lives and challenges of Mulder and Scully, including their beliefs, relationships, and struggles.
Main Characters
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny):
Role: FBI Special Agent who believes in the existence of extraterrestrial life and government conspiracies.
Background: Driven by the abduction of his sister Samantha, which he believes was caused by aliens.
Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson):
Role: FBI Special Agent and medical doctor who is initially assigned to debunk Mulder’s work but gradually becomes a believer.
Background: A rational scientist with a skeptical view, often providing a counterbalance to Mulder’s theories.
Other Notable Characters:
Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi): Assistant Director of the FBI, who supports Mulder and Scully but is often caught between them and higher authorities.
The Smoking Man (William B. Davis): A mysterious and influential figure involved in numerous conspiracies and cover-ups.
Structure and Episodes
Episode Types:
Mythology Episodes: Focus on the overarching conspiracy and alien plotlines.
Monster-of-the-Week Episodes: Standalone stories featuring various supernatural entities and unexplained phenomena.
Season Format:
Each season typically consists of 24 episodes (early seasons) or fewer in later seasons. The structure combines mythology arcs with individual cases.
Cultural Impact
Popularity:
"The X-Files" became a cultural phenomenon in the 1990s and early 2000s, known for its engaging storytelling and iconic characters.
Awards and Recognition:
The series received numerous awards, including Golden Globes and Primetime Emmy Awards.
It is often credited with popularizing the science fiction genre on television.
Influence:
Influenced other shows and media in the science fiction and conspiracy genres.
Spawned various media, including two feature films, comic books, and novels.
Feature Films
The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998):
Plot: Takes place between seasons 5 and 6, exploring a major conspiracy involving an alien colonization plan.
Reception: Generally positive reviews, praised for its expansion of the series' mythology.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008):
Plot: A standalone story set after the series' original run, involving a missing persons case and a priest with psychic abilities.
Reception: Mixed to positive reviews, with some criticism of its departure from the main mythology.
Revival and Continuation
2016 Revival:
Episodes: Six episodes that continued the story from where it left off.
Reception: Mixed reviews, with some fans praising the return of Mulder and Scully, while others felt the new episodes did not live up to the original series.
2018 Season:
Episodes: Eleven episodes that further continued the story and wrapped up some of the long-running plotlines.
Reception: Generally mixed, with varying opinions on the resolution of the series' central mysteries.
Merchandise and Spin-offs
Merchandise:
Includes action figures, clothing, posters, and other memorabilia related to the series.
Spin-offs:
There were attempts to develop spin-offs and related media, but none became as prominent as the original series.
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I always found that I did NOT want scully and fox to hook up, I just thought they were perfect combination for the pursuit of investigations into the paranormal. If they had hooked up, it would have cheapened the show, placed far too great time and effort into their emotions and feelings and relationship, which would have taken away from what made this show great. I am so glad, the showrunners did not fall into that complacent garbage of "relationships". And I honestly believe, that this is what kept it so great for so long.
Err... Um...
Don't watch the later seasons
@@mattgilbert7347 Thats funny you say that, when i watch X Files, which is very often... I have NEVER watched past season 6 so far. Once I get to season 6, it starts to feel different...so I go back to season 1 and start all over. I have watched the newest season that was recently made and I did like them for the most part even though it was obvious they hooked up. But the showrunners did it right, where they didnt focus on their relationship.
So the fans ship them so hard that they actually sent a petition to get them married in real life? Wow that’s fandom on a whole new level.
I still love this show the best. And I still root for mother and Scully to get together
@@Gonewithjon Scully marrying someone’s mother just seems weird.
@@HereIsWisdom1318molder
in my country, the impact of the series on popular culture, language, etc. was huge. The police have created their own X-files (that's the official name of many police departments now) that investigate forgotten unsolved cases and have good results. The best investigators and police officers go there.
My favorite television series of all time. As a kid in the 90s... this show terrified me. Opened my mind to a completely different world that I never knew.
they were edward snowden before edward snowden. because they opened peoples minds with that series. to me this show is not just a tv show. more like a good movie, that is there to let you learn something.
it is especially cool when you research some incidents mulder was talking about, or for example, realize that the makers of x files were also deep into the UFO information, and played with certain scenarios, disinformation, how the whole thing might work, etc.
they definitely met people that told stuff...true or not true.
but they kind of showed how some thing are def. handled in the world...
people like dr. Greer were working on disclosure since 1990, so I am sure they knew about him too, and what he was doing.( I think dr. greer is interesting because this guy got fed some serious disinformation), but he also holds some true confessions at least. , george knapp was already the UFO guy and did research, lazar, etc. it is just sick when you also consider people like richard doty and their story... lol that aside, even without real world reference, the show was like seriously sharing secret with people via TV without really actually doing it.
the way this series did this was amazing.
That creepy theme even through this day scares shit out of me
It still gets me
Still to this day one of the best series of all times
Certainly is!
What's your favorite episode mine is darkness falls
@@Gonewithjon obviously war of coprohanges
the main storyline in those first few seasons were fucking mint
Yo! This was an excellent introduction to the wonderful show! :) I am planning to share this with other folks that haven't seen it or skeptical about it. Thank you for taking the time to create this! :)
What an amazing thing to say. Thank you so much. Leave a like and share it all over social for me. It is one of the best shows of all time
Cool video. Takes me back. People really do forget just how HUGE an impact this show had on popular culture. Such a great show that still holds up today.
I still watch it. Thinking about doing more videos about it
@@Gonewithjon you should. It's still one of the best TV shows ever made. Modern TV shows wouldn't be where they are now without it.
You know we all got mad at Scully. All that crap you saw last episode, and all you can do is tell Mulder he's wrong! Scully was the most skeptical person EVER!!!!😂
Love her ,,
My buddy at work is watching X-Files now, and i can see Scully frustrating him.
The greatest TV show of all time ever made ... The best tv show of all time ever made me terrified... Also has the greatest opening theme song... The best tv show of all time which made the science fiction detective era of tv history....
I was eight in 1993. The theme to this show told me that everything I was afraid of lurking in the dark was real, and the premise of the show seemed to convey to my young mind, that these matters were so serious actual government investigators had to be involved to handle it all. Pleasant dreams, and trust no one.
I love this show. I watch it now and it takes me back to that time when I was a younger dude.
I loved it too... the running through dark buildings with the flashlight always got me as a kid.. i was like 'just turn the lights on' 🤣
I think Robert Patrick played a great role in retrospect. As a kid i didnt like it.
I need to go back and watch his episodes. I can't remember even one of them
I feel his character pushed scully to be more open to the pharanormal. She took on more of a Mulder role in the later seasons.
I dunno what the episode was called but it had a pizza delivery guy who was vampire when Mulder knocked over his sunflower seeds the vampire had the compulsion to count them the vampire was he was drain his blood all kinds of comical and demented stuff Mulder was so drugged up he could barely move
I think it was called bad blood?
Only recently have I become a fan of the X-Files. It's really a great series. The government conspiracy story line casts an eerie shadow into today's politics. I have no idea what I watched in its place at that time but when Supernatural aired in 2005 it became my all-time favorite SI- FI show.
Seasons 1 thru 4 are amazing
I love this show so much and I still rewatch it often
"Making the Mother of All Omelettes here, Fox! Can't fret over every EGG!!" 💢👊🏻💥💫
-The Senator Smoking Armstrong Man, probably
But so sad this greatest tv show never got a very good ending... But I heard an animated version of this show is coming.... I don't like animated version but a live action show would be better but should have a great ending
Do the Aliens know about the warewolf and other creatures?
I like to think that they all play poker
I love this show I love the first movie sort of like the second one that was really fucked up
My favorite episode is: “Musings of the Cigarette Smoking Man!”
Forgot all about Millennium - which was an impeccable show that connects to the X-Files as well.
I never saw that one. Was there a connection to X-Files with that
@@Gonewithjon yes. There’s a season 6 episode titled Millennium that connects x-files & millennium. It’s an incredible show but sadly not on streaming services
X-Files has some of the best stories
Best show of its kind ever
So many stories you see in modern shows are just blatant ripoffs of X Files episodes. Though, admittedly, so many X Files episodes are rip offs of movies. But, in the case of The X Files, the episodes they made were often better than the movies they were ripping off.
I still love X-Files the best
Clicked on this video for some plot synopsis
"aliens"
Pusher and Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose are tied, I think.
I love both of those...
Both great episodes. Robert Patrick Modell was such a great standalone villain.
Pusher and darkness falls
We need new good X-Files without any agenda
Anything without an agenda would be welcome
Best episode for me is Beyond the Sea. Brad Dourif gives a stellar performance in that one.
I like toons and darkness falls
@@Gonewithjon I prefer the first episode with Eugene Tooms in, 'Squeeze', over the second one. And I wasn't as keen on Darkness Falls as most people. It felt like a lesser version of Ice to me. But that's what's so cool about a show like The X Files. Every episode has its fans.
I remember fleeing like crazy once that theme song started LOL
I love that feeling of this show coming on
@@Gonewithjon The theme of the x-files starting is so cool.
Not everyone wanted to see them hook up. I certainly didn't.
really wish gen z got in to this
It's still such a great show. I watch it all the time
i did.
I'm gen z and I got thr privilege of watching all 11 seasons with my dad 🥰
Wasnt looking for an explanation of the show behind the scenes, wanted a recap of the shows story
Try watching a different video instead of thinking we all only exist to provide what you are looking for you ego monster 👍. It's okay to think that but saying makes you look a bit narcissistic and entitled
@@Gonewithjon 🤣😂🤓
Season 10 was really good!
Playing no mans sky. I need a show to binge while I mine some rocks. I just finished Firefly and I guess X-files is next! 😃
stargate Sg-1 or farscape is also a good option
@@afwdawdawdwadw1595 I was TOTALLY thinking about Star Gate.
X files for me
X files for this guy
My favorite episode is "Je Souhaite". It is the twenty-first episode of the seventh season
Nice Name
If anybody is reading this in 2020 just know that ETs are absolutely real and have been visiting Earth for thousands of years (probably longer) and they likely played a significant role in human evolution and development
I knew it
I started watching it again since It’s on demand now. It’s nostalgia from my childhood as well.
Shapes and of course, Clyde Bruckman’s final repose
Darkness falls and tombs
The guy that played the smoking man also did a great job in the video game, The Thing.
also i'm assuming your southern, i can somewhat tell with the subtle accent and a very occasional "y'all"
Hell yeah
lol all the tags
@@awsomedudeplays5243 got to get it
I’m on a rewatch of this and got halfway through the first season and remembered there were two freaking movies I need to find too! I have watched them before but not in order and always found the first movie a little confusing not realizing that it takes place between seasons 5 and 6, and focuses on key story elements from the show. I was really young when the show was at its height and just didn’t know you had to watch the show, it’s the OG connected universe that so many people try and replicate today, maybe not quite as extensive as some that try and build these kinds of interconnected shows and movies but in any case I am gonna have fun (re) watching this again.
I watched one yesterday. It is so good. The story lines, the characters, the lack of a political message..... Just wonderful
@@Gonewithjon it is great! I’m just starting season 2 and when I get to the point where I need to watch the movie I will just buy it probably to watch it again. This series really was something special and hopefully we will get a 3rd movie at some point, from what I know the two newer seasons they came out with raised more questions then answers and it’d be nice if we could get a movie about whatever questions were raised in those seasons but idk, it seems like that might be a long shot but we can always hope!
very beautiful David and Gillian
Thank you
Great review. Nice accent.
Ryan Baker thanks man. Very cool of you
This dude is reading the Wikipedia....smh
My favorite episode is Host
Honestly nothing quite scared me like it as a kid and it's still terrifying
I still love that one
@@Gonewithjon I personally think the best episode is Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man though, and some of the episodes that further the plot
I grew up watching it and started watching again streaming through Hulu and it looks incredible
MOACSM was the most memorable for me too. The MLK assassination scenes are really haunting.
19 (pause) 2002 yes i agree 192002 is a good year