(Mar 24, 2015 04:41 PM)C C Wrote: The conspiracy story that was interwoven amidst the regular self-contained episodes, which was the heart of show in the beginning, really became a detriment to it as that thread became increasingly meandering and garbled. Who knows in which context they'll pick-up the pieces and resume -- just go on with conventional episodes alone as if the colonization-related affairs never happened, or try to offer an explanation as to why the world is still chugging along as usual in 2015 or 2016, and still tinker around with those conspiracy arcs.
I preferred the show before they started explaining everything. Perhaps they knew that they were going to shut it down and wanted to give it closure.
The earlier episodes were exceeding cool, with Mulder and Scully gradually becoming aware that things (most decidedly) weren't as they seemed, and that dark and powerful unseen forces were at work. It spoke to everyone's innate paranoia, to mine certainly.
The way that the writers framed it around the already existing ufology and conspiracy theory mythos gave it a sense of authenticity, almost as if viewers' own familiarity with those things verified what the show was saying.
I'd prefer that they go back to that. Revealing too much made the X-files into a much more conventional sci-fi show and drained it of its essential creepiness.