Alf's X-Files

Last Updated: 1-July-96

The X-Files is a show that transcends many of today's normal TV boundaries, and hence defies being easily put into a "group". Each episode is primarily based upon a mystery, which Agents Mulder and Scully (who make up a department in the FBI called "The X-Files") are either requested to investigate or investigate because it engages Mulder's "spooky" side. The mysteries differ in scale and complexity, some of the more complex span over several episodes (which are annoying put in at the end of one season and the beginning of another). The scope of the mysteries is vast, on one hand we have the "unexplained phenomenum" ones and on the other we have the more traditional old-style mystery.

The X-Files built up a loyal cult following during most of its first season, read low ratings, and from then on has appealed to slightly wider audience. Initially I thought this wider appeal would inflict a mortal wound on the story but fortunately it didn't.

Throughout The X-Files there is an air of "sexual tension" between Scully and Mulder, and some have suggested that their attraction for each other should be made more concrete. Many, including myself, believe that it would ruin the tension which has built up over the years and would send the show down the path trodden by Moonlighting. The tension allows the two agents to throw subtle daggers at each other, and adds a lot of character to the show, a character which is sadly missing from many of TVs "serious" dramas.

Sydney bound fans have probably already read this but for those of you who aren't I've typed up an interview that I found in the Sunday Telegraph's TV Extra.

YES! I want to read it!

A small plug...

While I'm here I might as well plug a new addition to my site, Alf's Collection of Miscellaneous Texts. There you'll find some texts I have collected which I find amusing, and hopefully you will too. So why don't you check it out. It's in development, but there a few good texts there...
Now back to your scheduled programming.

(1/7/96)

International

The Official X-Files Site
This is the official X-Files site on the web, run by the guys/gals at Delphi. It's exceptionally professional (minus one or two little things) and truly absorbing for any X-Files fan, like me. There's also a weekly quiz with an (impossible) annagram thrown in for good measure. Also contains the latest news and episode guides, includes the new series just airing in the States too.

Australian

Andy Butt's X-Files Page
Good links, good pics... a must see for Australian-bound X-File fans
Simon Chin's X-File Site
Very attention grabbing site...
The Black Knight's X-Files Page
Lots of character profiles & nicely done. Also home of the Unofficial Mr. X Fan Club