All great art holds a mirror up to society, making us see ourselves as we truly are and showing possible consequences if things don't change. I'm not claiming that the X-Files is great art, but without real world conspiracy believers it could never have been made. That it has a modern day setting and claims a conspiracy is precisely the point. Take the Lone Gunmen, Mulder's Baker Street Irregulars working from a basement. They may have access to an impressive amount of espionage technology and a network of underground contacts, but aside from advancing the plot occasionally their major impact in this world is producing a newspaper with an increasingly dwindling readership. Even their own readers think they're crazy.
That certain sections of viewers take it seriously enough to consider it a documentary says more about the viewing public than the X-Files. Lots of people think soaps are real as well, sending flowers when a character is killed off.
That certain sections of viewers take it seriously enough to consider it a documentary says more about the viewing public than the X-Files. Lots of people think soaps are real as well, sending flowers when a character is killed off.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
