[ SECRET POST #5796 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5796 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

lol what.

I mean, why?? What would the CIA possibly have to gain?

[(Anonymous)]

Making it easy to mock whistleblowers as weirdo conspiracy nuts, or delusional sci-fi fans who took things too seriously makes their job easier.

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt it. I guess you could sell me on the idea of some of the source material that Carter drew from being generated by the CIA. But there's no clear advantage to the CIA funding a show like the X-Files. And also, in general, the CIA had significantly curtailed dumb useless cowboy stuff like that by the 90s.

[(Anonymous)]

k

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious if you feel like explaining why.

[sabotabby]

I doubt it (it's more CIA bad, FBI good) but it was, like most shows, definitely getting some sketchy funding. See Sarah Z's episode on Buffy's "Beer Bad." And I blame it for propagating a lot of the conspiracy theories that got us to the political place we are today. I don't think Chris Carter knew either.

[(Anonymous)]

This, 100%. Including the part about the popularity of modern conspiracy theories, which is highly unfortunate.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, X-Files isn't really that much of an FBI Good show. Yeah, Mulder and Scully and Skinner are heroic, but the rest of the agency is pretty thoroughly compromised.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Even in the beginning, the narrative definitely leaned fairly heavily towards FBI Bad, like, systemically. Most of the higher-ups were painted as either actively involved in societally destructive machinations or passively complicit.

[(Anonymous)]

I simply cannot grasp what you could imagine the CIA would possibly think they'd have to gain by doing such a thing.

Do you also secretly worry they may be monitoring your brainwaves?

[(Anonymous)]

Historically speaking, the mere fact that something makes no sense does not in and of itself preclude the CIA from doing it

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Truth. In fact this seems a bit too harmless and a bit too sane for the CIA to bother with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't be silly, everyone knows it's the NSA who does the brainwave recording.

[(Anonymous)]

How is the weather in Langley today, anyway?

[(Anonymous)]

K

[(Anonymous)]

I can see how you'd say that with post-2016 context, but in 1993 context absolutely not. The X-Files was absolutely about questioning authority and the corruption of that authority.