And any answered questions would usually either just ending up raising more questions, or the answer would soon thereafter be retconned. By the latter end of the decade, though, the Myth Arc story had churned along for years without really answering any of the questions raised. No reference was too obscure for devoted X-Philes, who cheerfully threw themselves into history, folklore, myth, science, or any other branch of human knowledge that seemed like it might shed some light on the story.
Forests of Epileptic Trees sprouted around every new tantalizing hint revealed. For the first half of the 1990s, the fans were convinced that Carter had plotted an elaborate and minutely thought-out web of deceit and lies for his FBI agents to unravel.
The Chris Carter Effect: There's a reason why he's the Trope Namer.Then there's " Post-Modern Prometheus", which is filmed entirely in black and white and ends with a song-and-dance number featuring a Cher lookalike (after Mulder had effectively broken the fourth wall because he decided the original ending sucked). Bizarro Episode: Most notably the "Rashomon"-Style episodes " Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and " Bad Blood".
Some episodes of earlier seasons had to use upconverted video sources due to the film being too damaged (or downright missing), but the consensus for the most part among fans is that, except for the updated opening titles, this is the definitive way to watch this series. Before the release, there was a seemingly built-in case of They Changed It, Now It Sucks! due to seasons 1-4 being presented in 1:85.1, until the director of photography issued a statement clarifying that the seasons were always filmed in widescreen so that it would be "Available". Better yet, these releases, for the most part, use 35mm film transfers whereas the DVDs (and for a long time until January 2016, Netflix) used old tapes. All 10 seasons can be bought on blu-ray for 20 bucks a piece on average as of June 2016. Go crazy (The movies aren't, unfortunately)
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