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I mentioned elsewhere, I've been slowly watching the old X-files episodes. First time I've seen many of them, and only second viewing for ones I had seen back in thee days of yore. It's fairly "bad" much of the time. but... well.. ya know.

Anyway, it's tempting to put together a concordance of the x-files, laying out all the "real" stuff episodes are based on. Oh yeah, the "beach boxes" are right in the area where the 1st episode was set.

For instance, season 4, ep 16: it's totally about Mike Echanis.

The fictional background of Hwa Rang Do, is interesting example of how myth-in-reality is built up. I guess it's not that uncommon in the fighting arts. but does anyone really believe the current head/creator is the 58th head of his art? I guess it's important to be able to lay claim to a lineage.

It would be interesting to hear how it came to be that a very young Echanis got into this then obscure martial art, and ended up a highly placed instructor in the US special forces, where he "marketed" Hwa Rang Do.

It's not The Wire, (modern Shakespeare in other words) but the scope of X-Files is similarly ambitious in metaphysical terms.

Behind it all one senses the personal revelations of the writer/creator Chris Carter. References to real events are just one layer, the story lines themselves are another, the revelatory journey that Scully makes toward gnosis is another, and for Mulder the revelatory journey is something different again. The Monster of the Week episodes are much more fun than the more monolithic story arc episodes, but the arc stuff does become very interesting, especially through it's later workings. And don't neglect series 8 and 9, hugely under-rated.

That damn show. Pretty much everything I ever wanted to write screenplays about was mined by them first!

I hate them. I love them. I hate them ...