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Edit: She had never heard of the show either.

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[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have literally never seen an episode of the x-files. I'm late in my college years at this point. It is simply before my time tbh. Granted I know vaguely what it is but I wouldn't be able to recognize character names thats for sure

[โ€“] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the show came out today it would be denounced as a woke, anti-american commie monstrosity by all of mainstream media

The second episode alone would've created a firestorm about "anti-US military" narratives being pushed on "our children"

Shit half the "left" would deride it as "qanon for tankies" considering all the pro-NAFO and pro-state department takes being pushed around these days

I envy you, I wish I could watch it a first time again

[โ€“] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Legit frightening how much more radically right-wing us society has become in some very important ways.

[โ€“] Frank@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

It would likely seem dated in many respects. After Twin Peaks it was one of the very first shows to have season long narrative arcs and a meta-plot that stretched from season to season. Since there was no real way to re-watch episodes you missed most shows prior to the 90s were self contained monster of the week things with very limited if any ongoing plot. Twin Peaks and X-files were some of the first shows to break with that and start telling a story that built up over the course of the series. If you missed an episode you could ask your coworkers what happened the next day, or you could read a summary in an actual magazine made from real dead trees, but that was pretty much it. So having a show where you really did have to watch every episode was a really radical development in tv story telling.