The 11th and possibly final season of the xfiles premiered last night with the third part of the my struggle series of alien mythology episodes. After the events of the x files 1998 movie, mulder and scullys new boss, kersh, assigns agents spender and fowley to work on the xfiles instead of them. These later mythology episodes arent my favorite, but at least the chase makes this one fun. New yorkers fall victim to hilarious xfiles alien prank. All of the xfiles mythos that was retconned by the revival. After the mythology heavy movie fight the future came out in the summer of 1998, the series sixth season explored a. The case itself is a little routine, to be honest, but the episode highlights how the xfiles was a hotticket destination for young actors in the 90s. With the xfiles coming back to tv in the nottoodistant future, i figure people are going to start watching the series to catch up. In the age of the xfiles revival, you can tell a mythology episode by the struggle. The mythology, or mytharc, is the overarching story developed in a series of episodes. This list of mythology episodes was originally taken from official sources, the xfiles mythology range of dvds and the book the complete xfiles. All episode information has been obtained from wikipedia this is a complete list of the xfiles episodes and movies. The alien dna aspect makes some sort of sense, as monica reyes says that the government acquired the dna in the 50s, which is consistent with the original xfiles mythology.
Behind the series, the myths and the movies, but someone has changed it since then. Whats up with scullys cancer and what really happened to. In honor of the fastapproaching event series this winter, we present our best of the best, the 12 best mythology episodes of the xfiles. A decade before losts mythology intrigued and annoyed us to no end, the xfiles developed an incredibly complex mythology that started off as a happy accident from gillian andersons pregnancy, and then became more and more convoluted as the years went on. Xfiles mythology episodes, a list by michael dayah. Episodes highlighted in yellow and with a doubledagger symbol indicate it is part of the series alien mythology arc. Volume 1 of the xfiles mythology collection is a dvd release containing selected. The xfiles does the best they can to end a bad arc. Mulder and scully get really close to tracking down an alien in. The episodes collected in the release form the beginning of the series mythology, and are centred on alien abduction at the hands of colonists. We all chose, it seems, to forget how dreary and burned out the xfiles had become towards the end of its original run, how gnarled and knotted those mythology episodes had. Volume 1 of the xfiles mythology collection is a dvd release containing selected episodes from the first to the third seasons of the american science fiction television series the xfiles.
Differences between the dvds and the book were shown, where appropriate, but they are not anymore, and in any case entries have been added and removed at. Across nine years and the first feature film, fight the future, xfiles meticulously laid out the alien colonists agenda, the american governments. The xfiles mythology, volume 1 abduction wikipedia. Dana scully is instructed to debunk an fbi project dubbed the xfiles cases linked to the paranormal. Ignoring this, mulder takes scully on a hunt for a rampaging alien. To truly respect the xfiles, it seems only fair to remember and. Get the full xfiles backstory with our mythology episode. The mythology, or mytharc, is the overarching story developed in a series of episodes of the. The series centers on fbi special agents fox mulder david duchovny and dana scully gillian anderson. The xfiles is an american science fiction supernatural television series that originally aired on the fox network for 9 seasons from september 10, 1993 to may 19, 2002.