watching the x-files in reruns

[solarbird]

Anna's watching through the first season of The X-Files, having received it as a gift, and I'm looking at it, and remembering how - intentionally - paranoid it was at the time, and I'm sitting here being struck by how naive it actually was. I mean, the idea that Congress - much less individual Senators and Representatives - would matter, would not be massively derelict in their duties, would actually oppose gross conspiracy against law, and Constitution, and even their own power as a branch of the government is just kind of astounding to me now.

I mean, honestly - Agent Mulder first season is being protected in his work from groups like the NSA and other secretive governmental groups by his patrons on a Congressional subcommittee. It's just so... laughable.

Which is, I suppose, horrifying in an entirely different way than originally intended.