Why did The X-Files make a comment about the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2?
In the second season of The X-Files, specifically the episode “Blood”, the Lone Gunmen invite Mulder over to their apartment to “hop onto the Internet and pick apart the scientific inaccuraciesof Earth 2.” Many fans of both the X-Files and Earth 2 thought that this was a cheap shot directed at E2, or a confirmation that E2’s science wasn’t accurate. Actually, it was a comment directed against the nitpickers on the alt.tv.x-files newsgroup, that picked apart every detail of the show. The writers of that episode, Glen Morgan and James Wong, were fans of E2. It was their way of welcoming the “new kid” on the science-fiction block. They may have used another subtle reference to E2 in the very beginning of Space: Above and Beyond, where a colony living in domes on a planet with two moons got wiped out by attacking aliens. The colony looked a lot like the Eden Project.
Why did The X-Files make a comment about the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2?