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For some people, it may be the truth about extraterrestrial life. We all long to believe in something, in some truth, that provides meaning for our everyday lives. The search for the truth by Mulder, and Scully alongside him, symbolizes the most basic of human needs. Mulder wants to believe that there is other intelligent life in the universe, but the very heart of his quest is to find evidence to justify such a belief. Behind it lies the fervent desire to find something worth believing in, accompanied by the nagging possibility that the search for proof will eventually prove one wrong. This implies both passion and doubt, volition and uncertainty. He doesn’t believe-he wants to believe, he wants to find reason to believe.” 1 As Chris Carter describes here, the slogan on Mulder’s poster is a major theme throughout the series. (“Quagmire,” 3x22)įrom the first episode of The X-Files, you see this poster with a spaceship on it, and it says, ‘I want to believe.’ And that really is Mulder’s mantra. That’s why these myths and stories have endured. I guess I see hope in such a possibility. Quote: MULDER: I guess I just wanted Big Blue to be real.

What hat something is is almost irrelevant in a way. It's about being a seker, about being a person who isn't content with conventional reality and believes there must be something more. I'm not a Christian but I got 'We Want To Believe' because it's not about being any one religion. How do we know he wasn’t an alien? On X-Files, Mulder, he would say something like that: How do we know God’s not an alien? There’s no doubt in my mind that we are not the only intelligent life. I’ve seen everything that everyone’s compiled together about aliens. When I asked her what television program she believed was most like her religious beliefs, she offered this intriguing answer: It’s a new outlook on what could be happening, rather than on what already is happening, or what in the past has happened.” Skeptical about the God she associated with organized religion, Jodie was fascinated instead by other forms of the supernatural such as the paranormal, ghosts, and aliens. Quote: “I watch a lot of extraterrestrial stuff,” Jodie, a young, Anglo American woman from an impoverished economic background, told me as she puffed her cigarette. Adolescent Religious Identity, the Media, and the “Funky” Side of Religion' in which this part was most relevant: A relevant article I found when researching or academic material on The X-Files was an article called 'U.S. I wholeheartedly identify with Mulder, only with none of the good looks or college degrees. I think part of what drew me to The X-Files, the substance I see in it which sets it apart from a lot of the superficial crap I consume, is its emphasis on faith. Why do people like it? What does it say about the culture that created it, consumed it and passed it on to future generations to shape the culture of the future? Of course, I think the show was brilliant so I endeavor to understand its deeper meaning and influence for that reason as well. It is my firm belief that, even if you think a piece of art sucks, it's vital to understand that art. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader We Want to Believe: Faith and Gospel in the X-Files But I just figured I'd try and collect some of it in the meantime and also share it with those who might be interested. Unfortunately, I can't read much of it because spoilers. An immensely popular and influential franchise like The X-Files definitely demands attention from smart people and it has received quite a lot of that. I can't do it but I can buy books from people who can or read their papers online. I certainly enjoy academic work more than I used to and I think a critical, scholarly appraisal of pop culture is vital. I like to think I've grown vaguely wiser in a decade, too. I was just sitting here and was like 'I really liked that show.

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My randomly deciding to finish this series is a good example of that. I don't know why I stopped exactly, I am just impulsive like that. I never did finish even Season 5 back a decade ago. I just now bought the bluray collection of the first series and the revival series for less than I spent on those five DVD season sets. They were overpriced and I only got up to Season 5. It must have been about ten years ago when I started collecting X-Files Season Sets from FYE.

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