“The X-Files” Returns to Fox

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. I loved the show but

I admit I am open and agnostic when it comes to believing alien life has and continues to visit our little blue planet. There are too many unexplained events to dismiss that idea outright. As recent as the lights over Phoenix, or many crop circles that were produced overnight and just could not have been created by humans that fast makes me go hmmmm.

The "but" is that I started suspecting that this show was like a way to water down and confuse those that actually want answers to those unanswered events. By making the show about every crazy bizarre odd ideas from telepathy, bugs, you name it, it had the effect of marginalizing anyone who still questioned the government's official position (of ridiculing anyone who believed otherwise) into a group that also believed all these other weird tales from the crypt, the full assortment of whacky aliens and monsters that the X-files trotted out week after week, as entertainment. That if you still believed in UFOs and alien visitations after 3 seasons of X-files, then you also believed in every show idea on that program as well. Thus...if you still believe in a government coverup...you crazy boy!

That "I Want To Believe" poster in Mulder's office was a clue. It was a nice little suggestive hint every week to be reminded that you might just be believing in anything extraterrestrial because you "want to".