Comic Con, Here I Stay! :(

Here it is, the 20th anniversary of The X-Files, and the TV Guide Magazine Los Angeles bureau chief Michael Schneider is leading a panel that includes Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files!

I don't know if FBI Special Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana "Goddess" Scully (Gillian Anderson) are there. Maybe even Carter's science advisor, Anne Simon, Ph.D is there.

I was a fourteen-year-old kid when The X-Files came about, still months from my fifteenth. That was in September of 1993. The pilot episode, I think, was aired in 1992 when I was still 13. And it wasn't just the lusting for Scully, a good number of years older than me, but the show struck a cord in me. It was the science and the anti-government views of Mulder that I think every single American secretly hides deep inside them somewhere. Anyone that says they don't is a liar, or thoroughly under the government's enchantment. Because America is a not a free country. Even at thirteen, I seemed to know this, that I was in the greediest and most materialistic country in the world. The X-Files showed me that I was not alone in my assessment.

"The truth is still out there."

People just have to wanta see it. Though seeing the truths of the world often require first seeing many self-truths...

I would be at the gathering with all the other X-fans, and I'd have my kids with me to see the makings of what became a cult classic. A show that helped shaped an entire generation of young minds with stories of medicine, science, cryonics, cosmology, quantum physics, dendrochronology, and many more—as we followed Mulder and Scully into plots with aliens, vampires, ghosts, tulpas, revenants, telekinesis, reincarnation, voodoo, astral projection, eidolons, zombies, werewolves, mutants, and more.

It was the real science planted within the show by real life scientist, Doctor Simon, that my scientifically inclined mind picked up on. The stories were good, the science—great!