From: ronstrelecki@gmail.com   
      
   > I can't say the settings left much of an impression on me (too wrapped   
   > up in the mystery, maybe!!) but I would bet that, now, those places that   
   > you reckoned you wanted to move into have all been done up and made look   
   > 'trendy' .... if not knocked down and rebuilt in the latest "stylish"   
   > fashion!! ;-P   
      
   No doubt you are right about that! I only notice because I've watched every   
   episode more times than I care to count. Which brings up another oddity   
   about The X-Files. It's place in my life is not as a horror show, or a cop   
   show,   
   or even a mystery show. It's very relaxing to me. It's extremely comforting   
   to me. Everyone belongs in The X-Files. Even the monsters, who are almost   
   always representations of people who have been rejected by society are   
   usually trying to find their place. They often HAVE found their place, and   
   society comes in with its expectations and wrecks everything. Mulder in   
   particular is very non-judgmental about the monsters. He seems to see them   
   as products of nature, as belonging to a lost time. The monsters haven't   
   changed, the world has changed around them, and they are just trying to sur-   
   vive in a world that no longer has a place for them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)