Can you believe that I never watched them when they were "in season"? I saw a bit of one once when I was younger, and the antagonists of the episode scared me so much that I never wanted to see more. It's very funny to watch them now, because they are so excessively campy and dramatic.
Sometimes it makes me think though. I have a tendency to extrapolate and overthink things, but it sometimes seems to me that the believer/skeptic dialog between Mulder and Scully could sometimes be taken as a metaphor for the dynamics between Christian/nonbeliever schools of thought.
Sometimes there are snippets that make me think of the way the government seems to view its citizens nowadays, like this exchange between the Cigarette Smoking Man and an alien dude who's decided not to help the cabal take over the world, or whatever. ::shrug:: I don't follow it that closely!
CSM: “Who are you to give them hope?!”
alien dude: “What do you give
them?”
CSM: “I give them
happiness; they give us authority.”
alien dude: “Yes, in order to
give them freedom under the guise of democracy.”
CSM: “Men can never
be free, because they are weak, corrupt, worthless, and restless. People believe
in authority. They’ve grown tired of
waiting on miracle and mystery.
Science is their religion. No
greater explanation exists for them. They must never believe any differently…”
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