Does this work in prolonging the life of the show and a continuing revenue stream? I think that it probably does but for how long? Does it matter, or is anything after a certain point gravy?

While I have used freeze framing on a few occasions it wasn't on my PC. I'm old school, I prefer watching shows on my television. But one can indeed travel through "rabbit holes" and spend quite a bit of time on the minutia of a show or movie's history, production, and backstories.

Was she really de-sexualized? I never thought so. She wasn't Ginger or Maryanne from Gilligan's Island but she wasn't de-sexualized.

The trust no one ethos isn't new to the X-Files, It was shared by the Night Stalker in the 70's and the Invaders in the mid 1960s. I think it reflected a disillusionment with government and big business and big labor..

I think that this is driven by the time period when the program is produced. X-Files was made around the time of the end of a 45 year Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain and the so-called Peace Dividend. There was also the beginnings of greater competition to the four major television networks.

I have to admit that I never liked the show. To me it was a creature of the week program like The Night Stalker of the 1970s but without the charm of Darren McGavin.

Peter Hyams' 1981 film, Outlander is a western set on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. While the setting is Science Fiction, the plot, strongly influenced by that of High Noon (Zinnemann, 1952).

The "science" in Science Fiction is almost irrelevant. What matters is the setting and how people react to various problems, some of which may have been caused by the "science" spurious or not.

Fantasy. like Science Fiction is a vehicle for illumination. It's a storytelling device. Like stories of the Greek and Roman gods, or Gilgamesh. Applying critical theory to it is like debating the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin.

It doesn't predict the future but it gives you possible outcomes, of a very bad one, if we as a society don't mend our wicked ways. We haven't become the dystopian hellscape depicted in films like Blade Runner (Ridley Scott,1982) or The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984). But there is still time.

Science Fiction is usually about today. It reflects current trends, sometimes subtly and other times blatantly. Star Trek TOS took on the racial problems of the 1960s openly, while films like Them (Gordon Douglas, 1954) dealt with the Cold War obliquely..