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redshirt posted:Can someone successfully and succinctily summarize the "Mythology" storyline? The overall plot of the X-Files makes no sense whatsoever, especially when you get into the characters' behaviour, but there are some basic aspects of the setting that are pretty consistent across episodes. Note: the following is from seasons 1-5 and the movie, because I don't really give a poo poo after that. One of the more fundamental jokes in The X-Files is that "Greys" don't actually exist. They're totally horseshit, but the US government promotes belief in them when they want to cover things up and make Mulder look like a crackpot. Greys consequently only appear in dream sequences, hallucinations, and fictions.* So what is the US covering up? Usually pretty basic stuff like mind-control technology, warp-engine fighter jets, new bioweapons, etc. That poo poo all gets blamed on the Greys. Actual aliens do exist in the setting, but they take the form of germs, bugs, fungus, and those sorts of things. These non-anthropomorphic aliens apparently fall to Earth in meteorites all the drat time, and have a tendency to infect people, so governments have been conducting covert experimentation to produce vaccines and/or immune genetic hybrids. (Greys provide a convenient cover story here too, since common symptoms of alien infection are discolored skin and a swollen cranium.) The main type of alien-human hybrid are the green-blooded clones who appear across show. These guys are organic, but act exactly like the robot drones from the movie Terminator. Each type is manufactured for a specific function, like ants, and they're continually working in the background as slaves for the real baddies. Those real baddies are, naturally, a bunch of rich old white dudes. But those white dudes are, themselves, servants of the real real baddie: a formless mass of black goo. Unlike most aliens in the show, the black goo is intelligent - apparently made up of nanomachines or something. It's billions of years old and, having developed saucer-like ships capable of space travel, likely created all life on Earth. The goo hosed off back into space shortly afterwards, but is now preparing to return one day so it can forcibly transform humanity into a race of xenomorphs from the movie Alien.** So, what's up with the bees and the abductions? The goo isn't as powerful as you might expect, since it needs to spend decades breeding genetically-engineered bees to serve as a delivery mechanism (like the 'facehuggers' from the movie Alien). That's primarily what the secret clone army has been working on. These clones are partly created from the genetic material of abductees - people who the government has had kidnapped for whatever arbitrary reasons. Scully, for example, was abducted to mess with Mulder, while Duane Barry was abducted so that he could be brainwashed into a kind of "manchurian candidate" sleeper agent. The DNA collection seems kinda secondary in importance, but they use it anyways. That's about it, I think. As you can see, it's pretty coherent in the abstract, but nothing about how Mulder and Scully are actually fighting this evil plot makes any sense. *A Grey finally does appear for real in the very first episode of season 6, immediately following the movie, but I stopped caring at that point. **As noted above, season 6 immediately retcons the film and says the black goo xenomorphs were actually just baby Greys all along, which is boring.
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Zesty posted:Was there supposed to be non-supernatural explanations up until season 6? Because most of the time it was just ghosts or aliens or the leechman. The show is absolutely not designed for it, but it's very interesting to watch from the perspective of "ok, so, who witnessed what? And what evidence did they actually gather in the end?" Like, in the less-popular vampire episode "3", the only 'supernatural' occurrence is that a dude spontaneously combusts in front of a bunch of witnesses and the doctor's like, "idk, some kind of weird skin disorder?" The corpse later maybe disappears, and they never follow up on it. Everything else with the vampires is just a noir-ish psychodrama about a woman with an abusive ex. On the other end of the spectrum, there are episodes where stuff is objectively proven but nobody cares. With flukeman, they probably recover half his body and test his dna, and it even ends up in the news, but this discovery has no effect on anything.
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