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April 4, 2012 11:07 AM

eatthecorn: the following story is inspired by actual documented accounts.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the mythology of the X-Files; complete with invasion countdown clock.

Mytharc primer

Mytharc episode database

Dossiers

Interview database

posted by AElfwine Evenstar (12 comments total)

So, cortex, how about that old project of yours?
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:21 AM on April 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

Last Update: May 11, 2011

Was that when the webmaster was abducted?

(If he was going to let the site go, he should've at least made a token update on 10/13)
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:24 AM on April 4, 2012

Old? it's still going.
posted by AElfwine Evenstar at 11:24 AM on April 4, 2012

Have there been any kind of pop-culture studies about how The X-files kind of came of age at the same time as the Internet, and how the two may have fed each other and fed fandom in general? Other shows have bigger fanbases now, but they all came either before or after that sweet-spot of late-90's-early-00's when the Internet was becoming A Thing.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:37 AM on April 4, 2012

X-Files is a very popular series in Bosnia. As is Twin Peaks, and Northern Exposure. Must be that special North-West grimness.
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 12:24 PM on April 4, 2012

Empress, there are but unfortunately a lot of paywalls :(

Non-paywall:

Deny all knowledge: reading The X files(specifically chapter 3)

paywall:

“Your Sister in St. Scully”: An Electronic Community of Female Fans of The X-Files

" I Want To Believe ": A Netnography of The X-Philes ' Subculture of Consumption

The X-files, X-philes and X-philia: Internet Fandom as a Site of Convergence

VISIBLE FANDOM: READING THE X-FILES THROUGH X-PHILES

There's probably more, but that was from just a cursory search.
posted by AElfwine Evenstar at 3:52 PM on April 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

The X-files were so cool individually, but the story arc is so lame.

SPOILERS I GUESS

Seriously, bees spreading a virus that will turn people into aliens via a billion year-old black goo that is actually an alien from outer space, supported by one group of aliens and their human turncoats who want to become human-alien hybrids but not like the other humans who will get infected by the alien virus but anyway they're working with this other group of aliens but not all the humans or aliens know it. And they do this on boxcars and in the arctic because.
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:46 PM on April 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

Is there an episode of X-files I can let my kids (9 & 11) watch? They've been running around the house singing the theme music for the last two weeks, and it has to stop.
posted by sneebler at 6:36 PM on April 4, 2012

Sneebler: I think maybe the episode The Unnatural may be a good choice. It's actually a lovely, sweet little story that can stand on its own, isn't too bogged down in alien mythos, and has a fairy-tale element to it. Plus it's got baseball.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:17 PM on April 4, 2012 [2 favorites]

Thanks for this.
I was a casual X-files fan when it was on and I was home (oh yeah, that was in the days before PVR and when I had a social life).
But it got too heavy with mytharc drama and what have you that was just confusing unless you were dedicated.
posted by bystander at 2:58 AM on April 5, 2012

Kind of like what bystander said, minus the social life. LOL! I hate watching TV alone. The mytharc got out of hand and I got turned-off. Nice to have a summary.
posted by Goofyy at 3:36 AM on April 5, 2012

The mytharc got out of hand and I got turned-off.

Or rather, bees spreading a virus that will turn people into aliens via a billion year-old black goo that is actually an alien from outer space, supported by one group of aliens and their human turncoats who want to become human-alien hybrids but not like the other humans who will get infected by the alien virus but anyway they're working with this other group of aliens so they can develop a pilot for an X Files-Lost hybrid entitled Fringe.
posted by y2karl at 10:43 AM on April 5, 2012