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Summary: Sixth season has some outstanding episodes
Review: The strain of putting together another season of "The X-Files" and the feature film into production clearly was telling on the sixth season of the show. While there are many outstanding episodes here, the quality of the show sagged a bit during Season 6. Season 7 likewise would have a number of strong episodes but it would mark the beginning of a long, slow decline in the series writing and direction. While the shift from British Columbia to Hollywood made it easier for the cast, the atmospheric look and diveristy of the landscape gave to more generic looking landscapes without as much character or color to them. Among my favorites this season included "Bad Blood", "Christmas Carol", "Travelers" the marvelous and touching "Mind's Eye", "All Souls", "The Pine Bluff Variant" and the suspenseful "The End". The mythlogy episoes varied a bit in quality this season. Eschewing the detour into Indian mythology was a wise move after the disasterous two parter from the previous season. The mythlogy episodes here focused as much on character as plot which was to their advantage. "Patient X" featuring the wonderful Veronica Cartwright ("Alien", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers") gives a multi-layered, emotionally powerful performance. Carter's decision to shift Scully into the role of "believer" and Mulder into "doubter" brings added tension and an unpredictable element to this season that kept the characters fresh. We get a number of extras although not quite as generous as other seasons. In addition to the 22 episodes we get 8 special effects sequences with commentary, commentary tracks on two episodes including "The Post-Modern Prometheus" and "The Pine Bluff Variant" by their writers (Carter and Shiban), 11 behind-the scenes spots, a DVD-ROM game "Earthbound" plus a documentary, 6 deleted scenes. Luckily for those of us who can't remember the titles of various episodes we also get a nice episode guide as well. All in all, a solid season that was consistent.
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Summary: the best
Review: The very best season...with classics such as Dreamland,. Milagro and Arcadia...how can you go wrong?
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Summary: I love the 6th Season!
Review: The X-files 6th season was fun. "Dreamland 1 & 2" are wonderful. Mulder switches bodies with an employee from area 51. He finds out a lot and forgets it in the end. At least he gets a waterbed out of the deal. "Triangle" is a bit "Wizard of Oz", a bit "Titanic", & a bit X-Files (of course). Mulder hits head while looking for a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. He travels to another world where Scully is a tough and beautiful scientist.. Cancerman is a Nazi in the flashback or alternative dimension of 1939. Skinner, Kerch and Spender make appearances as other people on the boat. It is shot with in the same technique as Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope". "Arcadia" is about designed and anally perfect subdivisions. Mulder and Scully pretend their married. Their undercover names are Rob & Laura Petrie, just like on the "Dick Van Dyke Show". "Monday" is the bank robbery they keep reliving daja vu style until they get it right. On the Series Mythology Tip: "Two Fathers/One Son" unfolds the Conspiracy and Biogenesis brings Mulder to the nuthouse (again). Other Great Eps: "The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas", "Rainking" (more Wizard of Oz references) "Three of a Kind" (Lone Gunman in Vegas).
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Summary: THE BEST X-FILES SEASON
Review: This is my favorite x-files season of all. I like almost every single episode because each of them had a very particular interesting story-line and because of the great acting by both David and Gillian.It starts with The Beginning which was a link between the continuation of The End and the development of the X-files fight the future movie conspiracy.The alien virus infects humans developing an extraterrestrial biological entity within the human organism and while in the 1st half of the season Mulder and Scully are suspende from the x-files they investigate some of the most interesting scary stories.These episodes show the formation of an even closer bond between the two agents who seem to feel something more for each other than a simple friendship. In the (2 fathers, 1 son) double episode the conspiracy we so long waited for is fully revealed and the secret government group is finally eliminated by the faceless alien rebels.great episodes I would like to mention are: "the end", "triangle", "dreamland","how the ghosts stole christmas", "arcadia","one son", "field trip", "the unnatural" and "biogenesis". The later introduces a whole new concept in the human evolution theory and poses a lot of questions that will be partly answered in later seasons;leaving place for a great start in the Season 7.This is the best,most entertaining season that everybody who likes science and science fiction should have.strongly recommend you buy it.
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Summary: The beginning of the L.A. era
Review: This is the season where they moved to L.A. The wet, green, shadowy and cloudy environment of Vancouver was lost... One must give credit to the L.A crew because they were able to maintain the look of the series: it kept being and feeling like The X-Files. This season has many light episodes (particularly in the beginning of the season), so that is minus for me, because they were not as clever as the ones from previous seasons, and there were too many of them for my taste. In the other hand, the main mythology came to an end around episodes 11 and 12, and they were not what I expected. Mulder and Scully had not much to do in them, and the center seemed to be around Jeffrey Spender and Diana Fowley. Why not integrate the main characters more in such important episodes? even with these problems, I recognize that they are more about my own personal likes. The X-Files gave still some of the most interesting episodes in this season.
After the movie, the FBI reopens the X-Files, but in The Beginning Mulder and Scully must struggle to show that they are the right people to conduct these investigations. The first half of the season we see Mulder and Scully assigned to background checks while Spender and Fowley conduct the X-Files investigations. This half of the season includes great episodes such as Drive (if Mulder reduces the speed of the vehicle, the head of a racist could explode), Tithonus (a man is searching the Death through photographs and Scully could end up in one of his photos), Triangle (the kind-of- no cuts episode in which Mulder goes back in time) and SR 819 (Skinner is infected by someone, and while they investigate how senator Matheson and a resolution are involved in this, Skinner's hours are about to finish)... Then we have Terms of endearment (good, not much, but entertaining: a demon wants to have human babies), The rain King (too too light for me... too much, sorry), Dreamland (this comedic episode in which Mulder changes bodies with an Area 51 employee, lacks the edge of the third season comedic episodes and the clever humor from Small Potatoes and Bad Blood).
In Two Fathers and One Son, Cassandra Spender is returned in between the flames of the rebels, who have just burnt alive the doctors that were operating on her. She has become the first real human-alien hybrid, but she has come in the worst posible moment because the rebels' operations threaten to expose the syndicate's secret agenda: to produce a human hybrid inmune to the effects of the black oil. The CSM and the syndicate decide eventually to bring forth the colonization. Fowley helps CSM execute his plans while Spender finds out the truth not only about aliens, but about how his own father has tortured his mother through years and years of abductions and experiments. Finally, the syndicate meets in a hangar in order to meet the aliens and give Cassandra up... and save theirselves. This long description and no Mulder and Scully? well, that's how it is... it is a good plot, but where are the main characters? Well, Mulder keeps thinking Diana is good and Scully losing her temper (along with us) with Mulder's stubborness. In the end, Mulder and Scully are reassigned to The X-Files while CSM shoots his own son in the very same office where Mulder has worked for seven years.
The second half of the season is less light than the first, but even so, it has some very regular episodes, like Alpha (a werewolf with a twist, but nothing special), Arcadia (for shippers this is an excelent episode because Mulder and Scully infiltrate a community as a young couple, while they face a garbage monster) and Agua Mala (the agents face a creature from the deep ocean, which surfaces due to a tropical storm). But there are many noticeable episodes: Monday (can you imagine living a Monday over and over? And on top of that the day in which you are blown up in an explosion?), Trevor (a man walks through matter burning it behind him... he is looking for what is his... is it money? is it revenge? is it a second chance with what he has long lost?), Field Trip (while living hallucinations, Mulder and Scully are being devored by a giant fungus... how can you escape from what is built to seem real to you in a condescendent way... to the extent of insanity?). The unnatural is one of those strange X-Files... but I didn't like the tone at the end of the episode... it was too lighthearted. Three of a kind is another Lone gunmen centered episode, but it doesnt work as well as Unusual suspects (okay... it is always a good thing to see Scully acting weird and funny).
Finally, the two really great episodes of this season are: Milagro, one of the best of the whole series if you ask me. Events are an excuse for writer to get close to Scully... this is a mesmerizing, bewitched, haunting episode with a wonderfull score from Mark Snow. And Biogenesis: this is a great season finale. While Mulder goes mad because of the inprint of an artifact, Scully ends up going to Africa only to discover the one thing that can turn her into a believer.
The package is great, the extras, too. This is a must have item.
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Summary: So it doesn't really end with "The End"
Review: This review is for anyone who thought the show ended with season 5. In a way, it did. But you will rob yourself of a great ending (Hollywood style) that pretty much concludes the story of a human high cabal conspiring with the alien colonists, not to mention a bunch of great episodes. I almost feel like the whole story has been revealed to me with this season (6). The movie, seasons 1-5 and now 6, have been some of my favorite television ever. Even these days, I will still not watch the show on the tube because of the commercials, box sets are the way to go.
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Summary: X-cellent, if slightly muddled
Review: This season 1013 Productions moved it's production team down to LA, and they let you know this with the first shot of the first episode of the season, where a glaring sun sits in a blue sky of heat, resting on a desert plateau.
This was the start of something slightly different for The X-Files, some think for the better, some not. There was more of a comedic element involved in many episodes, but the show didn't lose it's dramatic edge either, while still keeping the Mulder-Scully banter very much alive. There were winners and losers in season six, and middle ground to be fought over too. In hindsight, the mytharc episodes of this season accomplished the incredibly feat of not only answering almost all of the questions fans (and Mulder) have been searching for, but also started a new strand of mythology that would not be finally concluded until the show's denouement - and all in six episodes. Other winners include "Monday", "Tithonus", "Rain King", "Drive" and of course the beautifully-constructed "Triangle", which earned Chris Carter some due Emmy attention. Middle ground includes such episodes as "Arcadia", which while a less-than-superb episode with reference to the actual story, did display amusing insights into the continuing affection between Mulder and Scully. There were losers too, of course, but when compared to some of the other "televisual feasts" that have shared history by being on-air the same time as X-Files, the production values of this show alone make the series the acme, not only of the science-fiction genre for the past decade, but also the epitome of that once-dead package: The one-hour drama. It was The X-Files that revived the one-hour drama and the fledling network Fox, and it is this show that endured for nine years because of the incredible amount of hard work that went into it. Season Six may not be the best season of the show, but it is certainly one of the best seasons of television. This season The X-Files was nominated for over half a dozen Emmy awards, and won two Golden Globes.
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Summary: Not The Best of Seasons
Review: This season really showed that the writers were getting a little bored with the storylines. I don't know you said this but "a bad season of the X-files is better than a good season of most shows on television."
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Summary: The point of no return.
Review: This season was amazing. After the incredible Season 5 ending, the movie gave a vision of the mythology that was very well taken in Season 6. It opens with "The Beginning", where we see Gibson Praise again, as well as Agent Diane Fowley. It deals with the gestation of a new alien out from an infected person from the Black Oil. Although the Season has its flaws like "The Rain King" (which started so good but had such a terrible conclusion), there are episodes like "One Son" and "Biogenesis" which make this season one of the most interesting. This is a season for answers, a lot of explanation of the conspiracy, the proyect and the syndicate in some big episodes. The tendency to leve more questions than answers is left behind. The Season Finalie ends in an amazing scene where Scully has an alien spaceship infront of her adn Mulder becomes the ultimate proof of the X Files. Perhaps after this Season, the series mythology becomes more personal to Mulder and Scully, turning them into the foci of attention, but the truth is that this season is the point of no return for the mythology. Grate Answers and astonishing writting. Defenitly worht of your money. The Season 6 has 23 episodes: The Beginning
Drive
Triangle
Dreamland
Dreamland II
Terms of Endearment
The Rain King
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Tithonus
S.R. 819
Two Fathers
One Son
Arcadia
Agua Mala
Monday
Alpha
Trevor
Milagro
Three of a Kind
The Unnatural
Field Trip
Biogenesis
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Summary: The last perfect season.
Review: This season was excellent. But it also marked the end of The X-Files "perfect season" streak. Seasons 7 and 9 were really good, but not perfect like the previous six. In this season, we start pretty much where the movie left off. And we also have a conclusion to the syndicate, and dive deeper into the conspiracy of Mulder's sister. We also find out more about the alien rebels. Lastly, we end the season with a great cliffhanger that takes the season in a new direction, dealing with an interesting (although highly implausible) take on the genesis of life on this planet. Great season, great DVD.
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