business, trust no one but yourself. it s a message that s cynical but kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 90s. the 90s was a time of conspiracies and the internet started to spread across commuter yeezers. everyone wanted to talk with the black oil and the bees and what the cigarette smoking man was up to. go to alt.ppv and people were so nuts for this show. it s sign fiction and that s what i like about it. the x-files changed the way people watched television. you can sense the court reporterers trying to see how they can do things different than a 5 or 10 years ago. sometimes it seemed to fall off the edge a little bit.