#BEWARE THE FACE OF MARS XFILES SERIES#

Unfortunately, as The X Files went on, the back mythology became so tied in knots in the series’ constant need to keep providing surprises that it became apparent that the show was a shaky house of cards that had been built with little forward planning, unlike a show such as Babylon 5 (1993-8), which come with a pre-planned schema.

#BEWARE THE FACE OF MARS XFILES SERIES#

Less successful was the series back mythology, which concerned an extraordinarily complex conspiracy involving different factions of aliens, alien-human breeding experiments, covert factions of the government and a web of secrets involving Mulder’s family and past. It was one of the first tv series to substantially gain its fandom via the internet, where for a time star Gillian Anderson became one of the most searched images of women online.ĭuring its heyday, The X Files ventured into fairly much every field of the paranormal and fringe science imaginable and the episodes were clever and sharply written. The show, which was initially not expected to be a hit by 20th Century Fox, garnered a huge fanbase in a very short period of time.

Indeed, TV Guide voted it the No 2 cult tv series of all time – with Star Trek (1966-9) inhabiting the No 1 spot naturally. The X Files (1993-2002) was one of the great cult tv shows of the 1990s.

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