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Get a room already!
Have you seen this show? It’s like 10 years of that.
Well, I’d summarise the X-Files as (no spoilers):
- Mulder has his sister (purportedly) kidnapped by aliens as a child.
- As a result, Mulder is an occult nut who wants to spend all his time investigating supernatural stuff.
- For some reason the FBI lets him spend all his time doing that. (Kind of nepotism maybe?)
- They send Scully to go watch him, but she does a terrible job of that.
- Every episode there’s a different monster or paranormal thing. Mulder says something like “It’s Bigfoot”, Scully says “That’s silly, Bigfoot isn’t real”, then they see it is Bigfoot but Scully tries to rationalise it away.
- At some point Mulder gets tangled up in government conspiracies.
- He makes it his side job to try and crack those conspiracies, but continues his monster-of-the-week formula of normal paranormal investigations for the most part.
- As time goes on, there’s more and more conspiracy unwinding stuff, but they never fire him or kill him because one of the secret cabal members has a soft spot for him.
More stuff happens in the later seasons, but I’ll leave it out for spoilers.
TLDR; Mulder is not anti-government / FBI, he’s anti-secrecy and anti-conspiracy. He’s an occult nut who just wants to engage in his hobbies on the government dime.
i stopped watching when scully got pregnant and it was implied it was an alien baby. that was too far. they should have made it bigfoot’s baby
So you missed out on the series finale where it’s all flashback to Bigfoot barebacking Scully?
Edit: I apologize for the weird boner I just gave someone.
Tell me more
we were busy sweding our own version tyvm
You forgot the part where Mulder losses his gun. It’s a plot point in like half the episodes.
It’s been awhile since over watched the series, but I’m pretty sure Mulder and the X-files are allowed to exist because it provides a conspiracy theory sink that gives the establishment an excuse to wave away and discredit inquiry.
For some reason the FBI lets him spend all his time doing that. (Kind of nepotism maybe?)
Nepotism definitely I thought. Wasn’t it established eventually that he was really the cigarette smoking man’s son? Or am I remembering a plot line that turned out to be another false lead?
I thought that’s who was protecting Him. Hindering his work certainly, and telling his co-conspirators that he was controlling him, but also manipulating them to keep him safe.
i thought the cigarette man was providing cigarettes to fuel the growth of the alien embryo inside scully
That would be more applicable to the last point that someone in the cabal is protecting him. It doesn’t really speak to why the position exists in the first place.
If smoking man’s goal was to protect Mulder, creating a department that directly puts Mulder in danger would be a bad way to go about it. There are dozens of other divisions in the FBI that would keep him busy and safe.
spoiler
Although, iirc, he wanted the conspiracy to be uncovered.
I think it was mentioned that the department existed so the government could say they were investigating stuff while sweeping it under the rug.
Are you saying he is responsible for his sister’s kidnapping?
Mulder also hand picks his cases, in most episodes
He rarely gets told what to do
And his direct supervisor seems like the world‘s biggest hard ass, but is really just the world‘s biggest pushover.
Goddamn it now I want to rewatch all of the X Files
Yeah I’ve done that and I highly recommend it, purely for the time travelling experience - I mean in the first season there were hardly any computers around and certainly no mobile phones, absolute mad lads! It also made me realise how well-researched the stories were, like there’s an episode about an evil AI and they use jargon we use on a daily basis today. Great stuff all around.
Shit, me too. I’m glad I have it on my server…
It was a cover for the very real cover ups that were happening where they convinced people aliens were real rather than admit to classified information leakage.
Google Paul Bennewitz for more info.
i’ve been around the internet too long to randomly google shit people tell me exist. that’s how i ended up learning about the german art of preserving fruit in rum. how about you google rumtopf instead
I did and now I have a new project. Thank you.
i just got my rum jars out too i am so excited. i remembered in february instead of october this year
Mulder: >///<
Scully: GODDAMMIT MULDER
Mulder: u want sum fuk?
All X of them?
well now I can’t unsee it. Damn you!
This is what I say to anyone who hates their government but lives in a democracy.
Well, my fellow countrypeople consistantly go for the very obviously wrong choices.
Some of us live in a “democracy”.
Is that just a lucky frame? It doesn’t look like her?
What do you mean?
I feel like she looks very different in the photo? Am I missing something? I haven’t seen all the seasons.
