How is the X-Files any worse than Star Wars ("use the force") or Superman or any other movie or TV show with impossible things going on? It is fiction, and it isn't trying to be a documentary. (As an aside, some of the episodes are very funny; the writers clearly had a sense of humor. I never much cared for the show, but my wife, who is a devout atheist and nonbeliever in alien visitations and other paranormal nonsense, did like the show, so I have seen quite a bit of it.)
If you make a list of movies with impossible things and throw them away, you will eliminate or nearly eliminate entire genres of movies, like fantasy (in toto), science fiction (almost all are bad science with magic gravity in spaceships, etc.), action (e.g., people do not fly backwards when shot with a handheld gun), horror (with only very few exceptions of realistic killers), etc.
Basically, most fiction films and TV are ridiculous. Many times, intentionally so, other times because the people who made it are idiots.
Excluding very young children, people who cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality have very serious problems.
If you make a list of movies with impossible things and throw them away, you will eliminate or nearly eliminate entire genres of movies, like fantasy (in toto), science fiction (almost all are bad science with magic gravity in spaceships, etc.), action (e.g., people do not fly backwards when shot with a handheld gun), horror (with only very few exceptions of realistic killers), etc.
Basically, most fiction films and TV are ridiculous. Many times, intentionally so, other times because the people who made it are idiots.
Excluding very young children, people who cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality have very serious problems.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
