As I stated in my last blog post I don't quite get the hype behind The X-Files, but I do think there is something to be said for the third season. Since I only watched the the third season in full and quick overviews of the first two seasons I can't be sure of this, but it seems to me that the third season marks where the X-files really becomes the X-files everybody today loves.
In the overviews of the first two seasons the show seems to skip around a lot and not have a solid plotline. If this youtuber, N3RD, is able to totally summarize the first two seasons in detail in about 3 minutes each it shows that it isn't that complicated with a solid plotline. In season 3 there is a solid plotline with semi in depth charaters, I have trouble following it, but it is there. In this seaason we get more of a look at the charaters' families, such as Scully's mom and sister, while in the first two seasons mainly what we see is a sister (who turns out to be an alien clone). In the season you can follow what is happening and who the characters are, whereas the fist two seasons have more of a "monster of the week" feel.
To help my understanding of the show I watched the last episode of season 2. In this last episode it seems like the end of a season, like the story can end there. The last scene is "the cigarette smoking man" burning Mulder in a boxcar. I think that this was the sceenwriters allowing the series to start all over again. This continues in the first episode of the 3rd season, which, if shown separately, could be the beginning of a new season. Everything from the past seasons that you need to known is covered within the first episode and you can easily catch on. I think that the writers realized that the first two seasons weren't what watchers wanted, so they allowed it to be reborn.
I think that season 3 allowed to series to start over and become a show that was pone of a kind in the 90's. It was a sci-fi that wasn't totally heavy science and even followed the plotline of another story, Sherlock. While I don't particuraly enjoy the series I do appretiate it for what it is, a ground breaking science fiction show, and I believe that that all started in season 3.
