re: X-Files > Fringe

There was zero closure in the x files. Carter never really wrote beyond individual seasons and had no plans to end it.

However, 75% of x files is individual episodes. I' never watched the x files for the alien arch. If you get through it on DVD then I understand your disappointment, but week to week there wasn't a better show on television for 4 years. Plus they had to write around duchovny leavin the show and that made the overall story get even crazier and didn't allow time for then to properly close out the Samantha mystery.

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I was pissed at the lack of closure in the x-files, absolutely pissed:

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Loose ends and ambiguities were all integral to the overall story at X-Files. If everything had been neatly resolved, where would the mystery be? Where would the plausibility of the whole government conspiracy/alien "truth is out there" motif be if everything had been tied into a neat bow? The strength of X-Files was in the excellent characterizations (total consistency IMO) and in the week to week ambiguity/tension (re: the alien abduction/search for Samantha subplot) no matter what the main story line might be for the given weekly episode.