x -files the truth is out there.

Most people who know me well know I'm an x-files fan, I love anything to do with the x-files so I'm so happy that x-files 2 movie is out and hopefully they will bring the x-files series back to the tv where it belongs . But one of the most funny things is I really do investigate UFOs and paranormal events as a hobby .

So what made the x-files a big hit, I guess it's mainly because the x-files had everything going for it. The sexual chemisty between the main actors Mulder and Scully the drama and action as well as suspense with unexplained and paranormal events thrown in. Also the FBI really does investigate these kinds of events but they aren't about to come out and admit it .

Apart from the fact that Fox Mulder (David Duchovny )and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) are good looking the show touches on some real events like area 51 and flying triangles yes they have been seen and really photographed. Alien abduction's, implants and the whole government cover ups and Conspiracy theory's JFK and Roswell and the aliens (grays )have always been here .You might laugh but "hey" its not to far from the truth but that's another story. But the x-files had more to it, it had drama and every episode featured something unexplained or paranormal and not to mention the chemistry between Mulder and Scully was electric everyone wanted to see them kiss or something (you know what I mean ) Ha ha. The thing about Mulder is that he believed in something so passionately that he was willing to die for it and Scully as the debunker at first always seemed to keep Mulder level headed so to speak .

The Characters

Fox Mulder or spooky Mulder

Fox Mulder - he's got a photographic memory, and a mission to uncover the truth.

Mulder first became interested in aliens when his sister was abducted by one. Or so he thought. The more he worked on cases of the unknown, the more it became apparent that the disappearance of his sister was closely related to his parents' involvement in a conspiracy between humans and aliens for control of the earth.

Mulder's dedication to uncovering the truth about his sister became a source of increasing alarm to his parents, especially when he came to the attention of a shadowy individual known as the Cigarette Smoking Man. Not only is the CSM an aggressive member of the conspiracy, he was also an old friend of Mulder's father, and an even closer friend of Mulder's mother.

Mulder's work on the X Files have diverted him from his promising career path at the FBI. Once a high-flyer, he's now confined to the basement.

At the end of the seventh series, Mulder was abducted by aliens. Much of the eighth series is a quest to find Mulder

Dana Scully Dana Scully - she's a medical doctor and mother-to-be.

Agent Dana Scully went into the FBI after training as a doctor of medicine. She comes from a naval family, and was devoted to her father (who nickamed her 'Starbuck'). She was initially assigned to the X Files in order to spy on Mulder, but gradually drew closer to him as she realised the importance of his work.

Scully has followed Mulder through thick and thin, albeit with never wavering scepticism.

Her work with Mulder has come at great personal cost. She briefly had a pet dog Queequeg, until it was eaten by an alligator. After her abduction by the conspiracy, Scully discovered she had contracted cancer and couldn't have children. Her sister was accidentally assasinated by the conspiracy, and her relationship with her brothers is frosty.

At the end of the seventh series, Scully discovered she was pregnant. As well as spending the eighth season looking for Mulder, she's also looking after the health of her unborn child.

Walter Skinner Walter Skinner - Vietnam vet and defender of Scully and Mulder

Walter Sergei Skinner is an Assistant Director of the X Files. Initially as unfriendly towards Mulder as the rest of the FBI, Skinner has gradually grown to respect Mulder and Scully's work on the X Files.

He's defended the Agents staunchly, going out on a limb several times to protect them. His faith in Mulder springs from a paranormal experience Skinner underwent in Vietnam. With Mulder's disappearance, Skinner becomes more involved in the X Files, and in helping Scully find Mulder.

Cigarette smoking man Cigarette Smoking Man - key conspirator and Mulder's nemesis

The Cigarette Smoking Man is a key figure in the conspiracy, carrying out much of their dirty work, calling on the help of certain sections of the FBI. Working with Agent Krycek, the CSM has overseen the frustration of Mulder and Scully's efforts to uncover the truth.

An enigmatic figure, the CSM was once a friend of Mulder's parents, and may even be Mulder's real father! But we're never sure. All we can tell is that he's a shady figure. An investigation by the Lone Gunmen once hinted that the CSM was responsible for everything from the death of JFK to fixing the Oscars.

Having parted company with Krycek on bitter terms, the CSM continued to work for the conspiracy, until political arguments forced him into a somewhat more obscure role. Dying of cancer, he was last seen being pushed down a flight of stairs by Krycek

One of my favourites

The lone Gunmen The Lone Gunmen - hackers and conspiracy theorists.

Lone Gunmen are a group of conspiracy theorists. Byers, Frohike and Langly produce a conspiracy newspaper, The Lone Gunman, dedicated to uncovering the truth. This is something they're suprisingly good at, having a deep background knowledge, as well as an enviable ability to supply hardware and hack into computers.

They're rather erratic, though. Mulder uses them as a source of information, but they're easily misled. They fancy Scully rotten, but none of them stands a chance.

Alex Krycet Alex Krycek - conspirator and Russian agent

FBI Special Agent Alex Krycek was originally assigned to Mulder as his new partner. He worked with Mulder to investigate Scully's disappearance, until it became increasingly obvious that Krycek was in fact working with the conspiracy.

Kycek's involvement with aliens has become increasingly complex. Surviving an assassination attempt, he went freelance, became infected with Black Oil, was revealed as a Russian agent, lost an arm, trafficked in Black Oil victims, blackmailed Skinner, and killed off his old boss. Oh, and he shot Mulder's father and Scully's sister. He's not very nice, really.

John Doggett John Doggett - ex-policeman and sceptic

John Doggett came to the X Files from a high-flying FBI career. Before joining the Bureau he worked in the New York City Police Department, and has risen quickly through the ranks. He's supposed to be running the FBI task force looking for Mulder, but soon becomes involved in the day-to-day operation of the X Files.

Like Scully, Doggett is a doctor, though his PhD is in public administration. He used to be a marine, and served in the Lebanon. Whereas Mulder's quest was for his sister, Doggett is searching for an explanation for the disappearance of his son Luke, who went missing age 8.

He makes an unusual partner for Scully - rigid and cautious, he makes Scully seem like a wild conspiracy theorist. He's motivated by a deep respect for Scully, a suspicion of Mulder, and a dogged determination to solve problems, however unusual.

The X Files is a division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation devoted to unsolved cases that appear to have some unexplained, paranormal element. The files take their name from the filing cabinet where they were kept - originally filed under U for unsolved, they grew to big for the drawer and were moved to the less populated X cabinet.

Originally opened in 1946 by J. Edgar Hoover - who wanted a series of murders with a half animal, half man suspect investigated - the X Files became a dumping ground for reportings of UFOs, alien abductions, and other arcana that the FBI didn't want to investigate, or didn't believe in. At least, that was the case until Fox Mulder, a high flying serial-killer specialist, requested transfer to the forgotten basement.

An true bever in the paranormal, a result of witnessing his sister's abduction as a child, he soon started to ruffle feathers in the Bureau. Eventually, he was assigned a partner - the sceptical, scientific Dana Scully. She wasn't just there to help him - she was expected to report back in order to discredit the wild-card Mulder.

Slowly convinced by the mounting evidence, Scully became Mulder's staunch ally. Over years of investigating cases no-one else would touch, the pair have come across paranoia inducing gas, vampire fetishists, plagues of grasshoppers and Luke Skywalker's love children. But this is just the detail...

The key to the files runs deeper than any strange phenomenon - there's a conspiracy at the heart of the government, and aliens are trying to take over the planet. Not just any old E.T.s, mind - they can possess people using Black Black Oil, and shapeshifting aliens are already among us. Luckily, there's a rebel faction who are on our side...

Nicholas Lea, who plays Krychek, first appeared in the first season in the episode Gender Bender as a completely different character

Scully's pregnancy actually lasts for 14 months

In real life, the FBI have denied that they have a X Files department

The fourth member of the Lone Gunmen was known as The Thinker

David Duchovny has also starred in an 'adult' TV drama called The Red Shoe Diaries

Numbers- 11-21 makes many appearances, often as the time on clocks. It's the birthday of Chris Carter's wife

Episode Titles- Piper Maru is actually the name of Gillian Anderson's daughter.

Fox Mulder is red-green colour-blind. Maybe that's why he's always insisting that the little green men are, in fact, grey

The Lone Gunmen series opened with a plot about terrorists trying to destroy the World Trade Centre with a plane.