El Coyote, you are not alone… I too gave up on the show long before it ended (and based on their ratings the last few seasons they were on, lots of others did too). The mythology was kind of fun in the early series, as it was ramping up. But there were also the brilliant, often very funny stand-alones. Stuff like the circus freaks episode, the cockroach episode, “Clyde Bruckman” and “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space.”

Somewhere, the show stopped doing that stuff and it pretty much become nothing but the mythology. A convoluted mythology that eventually made little or no sense, and they just dragged it out way too long. I don’t even know what finally became of Mulder’s sister. Was she dead, but cloned before her demise? No clue.

Anyhow, I’m sure my wife and I (big X-fans in the day, at least for awhile) will go see the movie. I can’t say I’m excited about it though. This trailer tells me nothing, except that Gillian Anderson is hotter than ever! Something tells me I’ll have seen The Dark Knight two or three times before I get around to seeing The X-Files.