(January 26, 2018 at 12:19 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(January 26, 2018 at 10:14 am)Brian37 Wrote: I hate that show. I've run into far too many people since it began that treat it like documentary.
The description of it sounds like a documentary. I first heard of it when it was new and I wondered if it was supposedly based on true FBI case files. I hadn't seen it though (and wouldn't until almost 20 years later). I asked my roommate at the time about it because he was a big fan and he told me it was fiction. That's telling because this guy was a creationist and he never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like. He was exactly the kind of guy who I could see believing the episodes were based on actual events.
If somebody thinks The X-Files is a documentary, they've probably never seen it. Anyone who's actually watched more than a handful of episodes and believes it is real is a complete idiot. It's not without precedent. There were actually people in the 1960s who were convinced Gilligan's Island was real. The U.S. Coast Guard received hundreds of letters from people demanding that they find the castaways.
Yeah, there are idiots out there. If you're going to hate everything that fools them, you're going to hate a lot of things.
I've literally had conversations with idiots right after they got done watching it when I said, "It is just a show", they got upset and responded, "How do you know it isn't true?"
These are the same types of gullible people who buy Big Foot and crop circle bullshit.
