Episode X-Files has been made to enhance awareness of rare disease
By Chris Snowlings
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If you are a TV lover from the return, you probably remember the strange phenomenon of “very special episodes”. Types of fairy tales that tend to stop your favorite shows so they can hit you on the head with obvious messages such as smoking or anorexia. However, once -of -the -art writers were able to increase the awareness of the major issues facing society, telling a strange history. One such show X-FilesWhose season 1 episode “Young in Heart” was partially made to increase the experience about Progeria.
X-Files “Young in Heart”

Even if you are hardcore X-files Fan, you may need a brief primer that the hell is “young in the heart”. In this episode, Malda faces the perspective that the deceased criminal he once helped to postpone can remain alive. This amazing case leads it and scoli to find out that the sketch -leak carried out experiments on those who have progeria) a disease that causes progressive aging) and that he may have found a way to cancel the aging process.
The script called for old black and white staff of a doctor who works with a child who had a proger. To make it happen, X-files The producers contacted Progeria Society, and with the help of their help brought young Army Court to Vancouver to star in “young in the heart”. She actually suffered from Progeria, and her presence helped add true authenticity to one of the most fantastic show stories.

While Arciaga was short for a short time, she seemed to have made a big impression on all she worked with. X-files Later, the Rw Goodwin producer said, “When we contacted our parents (Arkaga), we learned that they were big fans of the show, like a little girl. It was almost like” making a wish “: it was great.”
A X-files The producer also gave some further understanding of why the attraction of Arciaga in the first awareness of this. “Thus, the show was able to achieve something positive for countless people suffering from this disease, simply giving in mind its existence and destructive consequences.

In a retrospective X-Files Writers and producers were able to transfer the needle from the “young in the heart”, creating a special episode that did not allow fans and did not turn into a crowded pierced. Of course, not every fan will agree, but we see it as the best way to go for increasing awareness of diseases that society otherwise may not notice. In addition, this approach is perhaps more respectful to those who suffer from things such as Progeria, because it effectively normalizes their illness, but does not hide it behind a special episode, which the audience is almost instantly forgetting.
If you look further X-Files– The first season is supposed to be a little uneven. Gor every instant Calng, like “squeezed” or “by the sea”, was something ambitious and half -baked, such as “space”. Fortunately, the “young in the heart” is amazing, demonstrating the incredible ability of the show to combine reality and fiction into something exciting unique. And what has been done partially to enhance the awareness of the real disease makes it increasingly acute every time you review it.