Is X-Files really sci-fi?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

You know, Scully never really did have anything solid to file with her reports to her superiors.

[CharlesPhipps]

You know, Scully never really did have anything solid to file with her reports to her superiors.

The weird thing about Scully is that she is only an unbeliever by contrast to the crazy pants Mulder as she turns in a hundred or so reports about shapeshifters, mutants, electrical ghosts, and other things. Things that the FBI concludes as "solved."

The irony being that since the FBI answers to the Smoking Man, that they're actually covering a lot of this up.

[Riprope22]

No, in truth it was a comedy, the entire conspricy was just a huge prank set up by Mulder's cruel but hilarious sister. it was in that alternate ending that never made it to air. Edge told me

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

No, in truth it was a comedy, the entire conspricy was just a huge prank set up by Mulder cruel but hilarious sister. it was in that alternate ending that never made it to air.Edge told me

You know, Scully never really did have anything solid to file with her reports to her superiors.

The weird thing about Scully is that she is only an unbeliever by contrast to the crazy pants Mulder as she turns in a hundred or so reports about shapeshifters, mutants, electrical ghosts, and other things. Things that the FBI concludes as "solved."

The irony being that since the FBI answers to the Smoking Man, that they're actually covering a lot of this up.

Does she actually interact with said anomalies though? Really, I watched through the series, and she's stern about what she saw and about how she has a hard time leaning on the unnatural side based on Mulder's own word.

First episode I saw was where they go to that trailer park with freaks (Gillian Anderson eats a live bug by accident, I saw it on a behind-the-scenes thing before watching the premiere episode at a sleepover). Nothing technically supernatural happens though.

[Riprope22]

I don't don't see how my bad jokes compares to the sexiest man alive.

[CharlesPhipps]

Does she actually interact with said anomalies though? Really, I watched through the series, and she's stern about what she saw and about how she has a hard time leaning on the unnatural side based on Mulder's own word.

First episode I saw was where they go to that trailer park with freaks (Gillian Anderson eats a live bug by accident, I saw it on a behind-the-scenes thing before watching the premiere episode at a sleepover). Nothing technically supernatural happens though.

Scully interacts with a fair amount of the freaks and while she has a habit of not being around when there's actual UFOs or proof positive of extraterrestrials, she has been around a fair number of the mutants as well as other lower-tier weird stuff.

Stuff that is POSSIBLE just unlikely.

Stuff from the 1st season alone Scully witnesses and deal with:

1. Prehistoric man-eating insects that cocoon humans and devour them.
2. An Alaskan parasite that drives people insane.
3. Victor Tooms who is, no shit, an immortal cannibal with the Elongated Man's powers that they CAPTURE ALIVE.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Does she actually interact with said anomalies though? Really, I watched through the series, and she's stern about what she saw and about how she has a hard time leaning on the unnatural side based on Mulder's own word.

First episode I saw was where they go to that trailer park with freaks (Gillian Anderson eats a live bug by accident, I saw it on a behind-the-scenes thing before watching the premiere episode at a sleepover). Nothing technically supernatural happens though.

Scully interacts with a fair amount of the freaks and while she has a habit of not being around when there's actual UFOs or proof positive of extraterrestrials, she has been around a fair number of the mutants as well as other lower-tier weird stuff.

Stuff that is POSSIBLE just unlikely.

Stuff from the 1st season alone Scully witnesses and deal with:

1. Prehistoric man-eating insects that cocoon humans and devour them.
2. An Alaskan parasite that drives people insane.
3. Victor Tooms who is, no shit, an immortal cannibal with the Elongated Man's powers that they CAPTURE ALIVE.

Right. She does see freakish, things, just not aliens. I suppose you can call the show SF.

[Rocketboy1313]

That is sort of the problem with Genre as a concept.
It can be about setting (Western, Nautical, Period Piece).
It can be about subject matter (Politics, Crime, Espionage).
It can be about tone (Horror, Comedy, Drama).

"The X-Files" is (in my opinion) 99% Horror. Paranoia, mutation, black magic, and abduction. Horror-horror-horror. The dark cinematography, penchant for gore that pushes the limits of broadcast TV, and gruesome subject matter all Horror.

Yeah, there is crime, espionage, and science fiction elements, but it is spooky as hell.

[CharlesPhipps]

I certainly think its low-tier sci-fi.

And we KNOW Mulder is right anyway. Too often in fact. The show is the anti-Scooby Doo.

"It turns out Old Man Smithers is actually a flukeman!"

[Admiral X]

I don't really know what else I'd classify it as, as it is full of glorious '90s pseudoscience, alien conspiracy theories, and monsters of the week (oh my!). Fantasy, maybe?