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Summary: When Mulder met Scully...
Review: AH! The beginning of one of the greatest TV Shows ever! They have the scary monsters and the introduction to the characters Mulder and Scully. They have REALLY good deleated scenes for the Pilot. I highly suggest that you check this out.
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Summary: Ahhh, The Good Old Days...
Review: The first season episodes of "The X-Files" had a quality unserpassed by most of the later seasons. The stories were fresh and smart and the chemistry between our favorite FBI Agents (miss you Mulder!) was the real reason to watch. This DVD set complements all the wonderful qualities of this groundbreaking season perfectly, and accents it with great extras. It's a perfect reminder of what makes "The X-Files" the best show on television!
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Summary: Get Off The Bus & Get On The X-Files Mobile
Review: This compilation is reason enough to purchase a DVD player. I have never encountered such sheer volume & quality in a media package as the X-Files Season Box Sets. Although I own Season 1 on Video, the DVD purchase is fantastically packaged as a momento of the ground-breaking first serise of Mulder & Scully's forray into the world of the unknown & includes some excellent episodes including Beyond The Sea, Gender Bender, E.B.E, The Erlenmeyer Flask & Tooms to name but a few. 24 episodes, all the TV teasers, behind the scenes interviews, this is an outstanding package which will be hard for another DVD manufacturer to emulate. Fox cares for its audience & with the X-Files having some of the most loyal fans in the world, Chris Crter & the boys have gone all-out to ensure that said fans (including myself) remain that way. Go on, relive those early daus with Dana & Fox, & remember the initial frisson that TVs premiere sci-fi show gave in digital quality. I can't wait until season 4 onwards are released............
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Summary: The first is the best of them all.
Review: I started watching the X-Files five years ago, when it was in the middle of the fourth season. I was captivated by Chris Carters imagination immediately. Last December, (...) my dad got me the first season on DVD. It was great. The first day, I watched eight episodes. Amazon delivered the package very fast.Now I will tell you a little about the best episodes episode.
The Pilot episode starts out as Mulder and Scully become parters. Scully is sent by the Deputy Director to spy on Mulder. Their first case sends them to oregon to inverstigate the mysterious deaths of three high school students.
In Deep Throat, Mulderand Scully investigate the disapperance of an Air Force pilot.
In Squeeze, the agents investigate a couple of grusome deaths in Baltimore.
The Jersey Devil takes the agents to atlantic city, where unexplainable deaths have occured.
In Shawdows, the agents are called in to investigate the deaths of two muggers who attake a woman at an ATM machine.
Ghost In The Machine takes Mulder and Scully on an investigation of the paranormal. They investigate the death of a buisness man in a high security high rise in Califronia.
Ice (based on the 1982 movie The Thing) the agents travel to The Icy Cape to investigate the deaths of the scientists stationed there.
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Summary: A great product, but could have used a last minute go-over
Review: I really like these dvds. The X-Files is easily one of my top five favorite TV shows, and to have 24 episodes in one package is a dream come true.(...)As good as this package is, I think that just changing a few things would have changed the rating to a 5. First of all, the video isn't up to snuff. I'm forgiving on this because it's a tv show, and wasn't produced for the intense video and audio treatment that movies are made for. However, in some spaces it really gets grainy. Some people say it is because they squeezed 4 episodes on each disc. That is incorrect. Four episode comes up to 3 hours of video. Walking with Dinosaurs, that came out the same year and about a month before this package, had three hours of video, but it had the best video of any dvd I have seen to date, with 30 minutes of extras. The picture looks especially bad in the Chris Carter interviews. I realize these are from VHS tape(I happen to still like VHS), but VHS looks allot better than that! Something happend to it during the transfer, becuase I have the VHS tapes and it does not look that bad. But as I said, I'm so thrilled with having all these episodes(maybe not "Space" ^^') that I can over look that. The extras are kinda on the limp-side aswell. I see only one thing that was created for the dvd, which is the short 11-minute documentary. It is interesting, but is far to short. I also wish the extras were time-coded, but what are you going to do. I've spent this whole review complaining about the dvd's downfalls, but this is a great buy, even with it's flaws.
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Summary: A great buy
Review: I would challenge anyone to buy this set and not like it. I guarantee that you will
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Summary: I LOVE being paranoid and now I see I'm not alone!!!
Review: I thought it was just ME that thought this way!!! I also love X-file tight scripts, teasing character development (taking their time), the foil-foil relationship between Dukhovny & Anderson and that LUSH cinematic SHOOTING that just has been rewinding again and again to see how they shoot that stuff. I also LOVE the humour and love the closed-captioned titles so that I can treadmill and watch w/o feeling guilty. I'm on the 8th floor, BUT many times I HAVE to CLOSE THAT REAR WINDOW...JUST IN CASE SOMETHING CLIMBS UP THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING TO GET ME!
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Summary: Best TV serie ever created
Review: I'd seen many TV series,many of them are now gone for good,but I have to say this serie had always called my attention.I have to admit that I'd only seen like the first two seasons and a few episodes of the new ones which are even greater.I love this serie.The mistery is always present but you'll never now what it is.It's like you're afraid of something that u can't even see.I love the music,story and characters.I started liking this serie since day one.It really got a great and different plot.Lucky me I found an anime serie,"Serial Experiment Lain" that's more or less the same thing.I love this sort of stuff.I watched the movie and it stayed true to the serie.They did something different.Most series are based on movies but the movie was based on the serie which made it a great movie.I recommend everyone to buy it.The serie gets very interesting as u watch it.I hope todays series were just like this one.I'm glad it's now on DVD.It's a master piece!
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Summary: Fans will love this
Review: There's much to the X-Files that's hard to defend. Whole Web sites have been devoted to nitpicking the science. Attempts to fit the X-Files episodes into an entire Universe view creates conflicts between the earliest episodes and later "mythology" episodes. But forget all of that. What makes The X-Files great are the personal strengths and flaws of Mulder and Scully and their relationship. As with so many popular shows, it is hard to reproduce the magic found here, because we don't really understand how the magic works. It's human chemistry, and its science is more myth than flying saucers. To round out the picture of this special series, add some high quality photography, quirky support actors and beautiful externals. Of course, don't forget the often-inspired writing, including some very wry humor: Paraphrasing since I don't have my disks handy: "He's a killer, and a golfer." "Hey, I think you drooled on me." "Can I get this off my hand without betraying my cool exterior." And my favorite, from 3: "You're really disturbing me...On multiple levels." I could go on, but why bother. Either you're a fan or your not. Not familiar with the show? Catch it on repeats and see what you think. All that said, if you are a fan, I can't recommend the DVD collections enough. I have seasons one and two, and I have seasons three and four on my list. I may go all the way to season 6 in the end. Why spend all of the cash? 1) You get every episode, with great picture and sound. Honestly, this alone makes the sets worth having
2) You get the interviews with Chris Carter originally included with the videos. They're often full of behind the scenes info.
3) You get the spots created for the FX reruns, including brief interviews with the actors. One of my favorites, long time cult villain Brian Thompson who plays the alien bounty hunter and comes across as a very mellow, soft-spoken guy.
4) You get some deleted scenes as well. What's missing on these? Well, it looks as though season four finally adds commentary for a couple episodes. This is sorely missing from seasons one and two. In fact, if you had the VHS copies already and caught the spots on FX, you don't get that much in the way of additional extras with one and two. For instance, there is no apparent direct star involvement with these sets, such as interviews with principle actors done just for these colections. After all, extras help make spending so much worth it. It's hard to have too many. Still, those minor criticisms aside, I consider both DVD collections I own a great value. If you're a fan, you will too - especially when you're in the mood for an episode, and the World Series is on one channel, and repeats from season 8 on the other. Whip out an early one and relive the magic: "The answers are out there. You just have to now where to look."
"That's why they put the I in FBI."
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Summary: Now I UNDERSTAND
Review: As a fan who was hooked from the 5th season of the X-Files, the light bulb in my head is FINALLY turned on after watching the first season.....particularly the pilot episode where the alien abduction of Billy Myers starts the X-Files going. Am so impressed with producer Chris Carter as he introduces the themes of an "international conspiracy", alien abductions, and the prelude to the knowdledge of the government and the aliens spawning "super soliders". The episodes introduce these themes and keep the original characters and storylines so solidly meshed throughout the first season and throughout the other seasons that this is prime viewing material. And I love the pilot episode; the X-Files is so raw, so clever from the start that it is so much fun to sense the sexual tension of Scully and Mulder upon first siting of each other. I love, too, that we learn the idiosyncrasies of "Spooky" Mulder (his nickname in the FBI), particularly his habit of eating sunflower seeds while concentrating and that he has a Ph.D. from Oxford University (his thought processes makes perfect sense now!) and how he confides to Scully about the alien abduction of his sister. In Season One, there are 24 episodes. My favorites include: "Tooms", about a very bendable 130 year old young man who resurfaces every 30 years to prey on human livers before he goes into hybernation (Tooms reappears in another episode) ; "Eve," an episode about a set of sinister, ultra-intelligent and powerful female clones (and their offsprings); and "Ghost in the Machine", about the very playful but evil electronic machines (ATM machines, digital clocks, mail-room processors, etc.) that brainwash people into killing machines. The episodes are so intelligent, so clever, so playful and so mysterious that you are hooked from the get-go. And the teasing is immediate, too, as the first couple of episodes introduce the ultra mysterious and super-silent "Smoking Man" who is everywhere. Who the heck is this guy and what is he up to? Who knows.........unless you get hooked (I promise you will) and view the second season and so forth. Very satisfied fan here. Have started to see the Second Season, but we won't get into that here. (Hint: it's better than the first!)
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