7. The X-Files
After a successful, 10 season run on Fox, two major motion pictures (one very good and one very bad), a huge mythology, a parade of supporting characters, deaths, resurrections, countless twists and turns, a starling realisation occurs: the truth is still out there. Was Mulder really the father of Scully's baby? What really happened regarding Samantha's (Mulder's sister) abduction by aliens? Was Cigarette Smoking Man the big bad of the series - or merely the henchman of the true big bad? When was the human race finally going to be made aware of the presence of aliens on this planet? Why didn't Mulder go public with this truth right after his own resurrection? Was Krycek good, evil, or in-between? Whatever happened to the surviving members of the Syndicate? How did Mulder and Scully successfully avoid the FBI as fugitives for years without being off the grid? Whatever became of all the black oil and the hybrid bees so often referenced? These burning questions were built up to, but never fully addressed. We are no closer now to discovering the whole truth, what it all means, than we were on September 10, 1993 - the premiere date of the show's pilot episode. Who knew that The X-Files was the original Lost - another mythology-heavy TV show which ended with too many unexplained threads to count? A case can easily be made that to this day, fans are extremely reluctant to invest in sci-fi themed television shows for fear of being burned, a la The X-Files Series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson - along with series creator Chris Carter - badly want to do a third movie in the franchise. Seriously? Attempting to do so 20 years after it all began is way too little and way, way too late. No one cares. Next!