X-Files is iconic because in the first episode Scully shows up at Mulder's hotel room in her underwear and neither of them treat it as remotely sexual. X-Files is also iconic because by the second episode Scully is holding an air force officer hostage to get Mulder back and by the third she is staking her professional reputation on his right to have insane theories. She thinks he's crazy. She's ride-or-die for him. These two facts exist in equal measure no matter how many weird things he shows her or how impossible his latest theories might be. Again, this is just the first three episodes. They're already making television history.

















