By Chris Snellgrove | Published
In some respects, X-Files is one of the simplest television programs ever produced … sure that mythology on extraterrestrial conspiracies and government concealations has become a little confusing, but viewers rarely had to disentangle if certain beats of the plot were metaphors for any type of deeper message. However, two of the greatest writers in the series secretly estimated that the program intrigue was actually a postmodern way to analyze one of the main characters. In their comments on the X-Files The first of season 2, “Little Green Men”, the writers Glen Morgan and James Wong revealed that they thought that the extraterrestrials of the program symbolized the most intimate fears of Fox Mulder.
At the time, this X-Files The episode was major because he showed us more extraterrestrial life on the screen that we had never seen before. Mulder actually saw one of the “Little Green Men” holder, and Wong said that this moment “was what this series is.” It is because he thought that the show asked poignant questions like “what are your little green men” and “What do you check in your mind that you are afraid of, or that you have to face?”
NOW, X-Files Fans who watched this episode are likely to be confused by this metaphorical analysis because we really see the stranger on the screen, and there is no clue that it is a hallucination on the part of Mulder. However, Morgan said that he and the co-series Wong “were trying to find this notion:” Was it even there? ” Is it real? »»
Interesting, the X-Files The writer considered that these crunchy philosophical questions were foreshadowing by the admission of Mulder to Scully that he began to doubt that his sister was removed by extraterrestrials. Morgan estimated that this could lead the public to ask if the fear of extraterrestrials is “in his head” and also ask: “Let us create this kind of fear ourselves? He also clarified that he and Wong wanted viewers to consider “the idea that we must all fight our own little green men and continue”.
What is the most fascinating in this idea is that she feels shocking in advance on her time … As, in the post-Golden era of the world of television, we would not be surprised that Ryan Coogler X-Files The restart has teased the idea that Mulder could continue the extraterrestrials which only exist in his mind rather than a crusader for the truth. But for a genre show of the eccentric 90s, the idea that the public can never trust what the main characters see were almost unthinkable. For example, even Twin peaks (The frightening sister show which also featured David Duchovny) treated the paranormal strangeness encountered by his own FBI agent in crusade with a seriousness.
However, X-Files Fans on their umpteenth Rewatch of the whole series (it’s not only us, right?) Could take advantage of the show through the objective of Glen Morgan and the Extraterrestrial conspiracy of James Wong. Suddenly, we are forced to ask how many extraterrestrial meetings of Mulder have really occurred and how many of them could be manufacturing of his interior fears. In addition, Scully was assigned as a Mulder partner would suddenly make sense … Of course, she is there to demystify Mulder’s work, but perhaps the FBI also wants it there because they fear that their best agent suddenly lost their heads and started to babble on extraterrestrials.
Unfortunately, these two X-Files The writers finally left the show, and their vision of Mulder fighting the interior demons were manifested while extraterrestrials left them. However, their comments have completely changed the way we see “Little Green Men” and other first episodes of this pioneer program. Mulder could well be the most unreliable narrator on television, and we cannot wait To unravel what he has and did not imagine about extraterrestrials during our next excessive session of this founding show.
