The Aliens Have Landed And We Don't Even Care

My 12-year-old self got incredibly excited this week.

Hi,

I was an obsessive kid. If I liked something, I really liked it. Nothing came in halves with me. It was all or nothing.

And throughout the 90s — and into some of the 00s — The X-Files was my obsession.

It was one of the first shows on network TV to have a sprawling, epic story scattered throughout its multitude of seasons (there are 11, but in my mi…