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Summary: great content - dubious disc quality
Review: I bought seasons one and two at the same time through Amazon and I have the same problem with both - some of the dvd discs seem to be poorly produced and do not play in my DVD player. I have tried other players and eliminated that as the cause so it's the discs - very frustrating, especially as I bought them some time ago and am way past the time where I can return them ( if I want to go thru the hassle of boxing them up and returning them). This is a real disappointment, after all,who buys an entire season in a boxed set and watches the whole thing immediately?? As for the content - the good reputation of this series is already well known. All episodes have strong and interesting plots that , while standing on their own, blend into a well articulated theme that permeates throughout the multi year body of work. The stories are well executed by good actors. The scripts are well written and the overall effect is just great entertainment. So if I could break it up I would score a 5 for content and 2 for disc quality - my advice is to buy them one box set at a time somewhere where you can easily return them, watch them quickly to identify any problems and keep the receipt.
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Summary: Great, but not a lot of extras
Review: Great collection of DVDs. Unfortunately, there is very few extras. I would have loved to see some episode commentaries.
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Summary: Great Package, But coulda been better!
Review: First of all-- this is a great DVD set and worth every penny of even the maximum price. For 'X-Philes', this is a perfect way to own every first season episode and for 'X-Philes Yet to Be', this is an initiation like no other. However, there are disappointments. With only a couple of deleted scenes, the viewer is left wanting for more. Chris Carter's narration is recycled from the older VHS tapes without anything new for the avid fans. Additionally, for those of us addicted to the superior writing, some background on the writing or research behind the episodes would have been a nice addition.
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Summary: A must-have for x-philes
Review: When I bought the season one DVDs last year I'd still not seen many S1 episodes, since I began watching the series during S6 and still had not caught all the reruns. These episodes are great - not *the greatest* of the series, but they're great because they are the beginning of it all. It's fascinating (and sometimes funny) to watch the interaction between Mulder and Scully as a very green David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson feel out their new roles. While it takes Anderson awhile to really become the Scully we see in later years, Duchovny in particular seems to have a grasp on his character right away, making Mulder one of the most unique characters on television, ever. With classics like Deep Throat, Ice, Squeeze and Darkness Falls, season one of The X-files is a must-have for x-philes... and for anyone else looking to gain a real understanding for where this series came from.
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Summary: The Beginning of something great
Review: I've not seen all of the episodes of the first season, but I've seen most, compared to what came later these episodes are quite boring, I don't know if it's because they had a smaller budget, the effects weren't as developed or if they didn't really knew what they had until later. I wouldn't buy this season, you wouldn't be missing anything.
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Summary: Trust No One
Review: If you are an X-Files fan you will love this DVD set. Although it is expensive, it is worth every penny. With Duchovny gone and Anderson leaving at the end of the season, XF's will never be the same. At least if you buy the DVD sets you will have it's true essence captured forever.
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Summary: X-Files Widow --
Review: Ok, the husband loves this series. I have become an "X Files Widow". Need I say any more?
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Summary: Approach The Truth
Review: I bought this box-set yesterday {if you want to get it as cheap as I did you might have to travel to Austria where I live, but hey, you'd save 15 bucks :-)!} - and already watched the first two episodes ... It was like meeting an old friend, like the beautiful dancing queen you were dating with in high school - and know what?! She did not turn uglier than an old attic bat, but as a matter of fact she has become even more beautiful, as has this marvelous box-set of The X-Files (I). I haven't seen a X-Files episode for a long time, but not because I grew tired of watching but the television stations in my country stopped airing it - there's only one channel who plays an episode every monday (pretty modest tv presence). Nevertheless, I watched an episode a week ago and immedeately after that the Fight-the-Future-movie I already owned on VHS for a couple of years which still belonged to pre-dvd era. I always liked the X-Files and always liked Fight The Future and I suddenly realized that I wanted to have the first four seasons on dvd at least (because after the fourth or fifth season the series had to surrender to repetition and descended to a mediocre program - the episode I saw on TV before buying the box-set was "Trevor" from the 6. season and altough it was thrilling, it was not exactly what I used to get from a X-Files episode; so I decided to buy I-IV or V on dvd and watch the others on TV - every Monday if that's what it has to be). I had some doubts about the price first, but... for six dvds and a seventh bonus disc is not that much if you do the math. But as a lot of other people already noted, it's worth it. Every darn single cent of it. The set comes in a very fancy package - although you have to treat it carefully because it is made of very thin cartonage -, the menu design is especially pleasing. On each main menu of the six discs containing the episodes, you got 4 episodes - by choosing one of them you are allowed to enter the specific main menu for the particular episode you have chosen. There you find language selections, special features concerning the episode your watching, chapter selec and of course a play-it. Next to deleted scenes you'll find international clips in the section for the special features, but as far as I know there are only two deleted scenes and and an additional cut (but you have to keep in mind that this is a TV production and they probably did not keep much of the cut material - so this is ok, in the end, it's the x-files that matter and not the deleted scenes) - the access to the deleted scenes is unlike most of dvds produced before: when an X appears in the lower left-hand corner of the picture you have to press the enter-button and get the deleted scene, at exactly the place where it would have appeared in the series if it hadn't been deleted; when the scene is finished the episode continues. The bonus on disc #7 is fun, but as are the spec features, pretty darn modest. For a collector's edition there is not much footage, but as I said before, it is ok. I don't think there will be an Ultimate Collector's Edition or something like that in the future, because if you look at Season 2, there is more material already - because they just have more footage left than from the original season. So do not worry, I don't think we'll wake up one day in bed and realize that we spend more [money] on an incomplete edition, because there now is the UCE with tons of stuff. Fight the Future, man, yeah! The footage, although not much, is very interesting indeed. You get, like on almost every other dvd, the original television trailers from Fox - there a nice feature, but nothing of real interest. The making of is ok, like the behind-the-truth-segments which deal on things like how they got the main theme, or on the character Fox Mulder, stuff like that. I have not watched the interview with Chris Carter yet, but I am sure it will be satisfying. The picture quality is fine - it's slightly better than the TV appearance of the X-Files, but of course you will notice that it is not crystal clear like most of dvd movies are, but there is one perfectly logical reason for that matter: what you get here is the best picture a former low-budget tv series could ever accomplish. Considering these facts, picture quality is fantastic - in my own opinion, a certain "roughness" of the picture only adds to the mystery of the X-Files. The sound is fine too, although Digital 5.1 viewers will be disappointed: The X-Files only come in Dolby Surround 2.0 - which is absolutely fine too me. Conclusion: Good special features, very good sound & picture quality considering that this was made for TV, and 24 helluva episodes, treasured by every true fan, because although the files get better with every new episode, Season One is the true thing, the original first 24 episodes of a very cool series. The first step in a thrilling quest for the truth. Approach the truth ... it's outta there.
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Summary: ¡¡¡Solo para fans!!!
Review: Los Expedientes X se han convertido en una de las más famosas series de televisión d enuestros tiempos. Su éxito se debió principalmente a dos cosas: 1) La buena producción para TV y 2) los guiones basados en mitos (¿o realidades?) paranormales que acogieron con entusiasmo los amantes de lo oculto. En mi opinión las tres primeras temporadas son muy, muy buenas y es una lástima que los productores se hayan dejado llevar más por el dinero que ganaban, que por cerrar con broche de oro la seri de X files. Como resultado siguieron haciendo más y más temporadas y hasta una película con temas muy rebuscados y francamente malos. Sin embargo esa metida de pata no opaca esas primeras 3 temporadas donde Mulder sospecha de un complot mundial para ocultar OVNIS; Scully es raptada por extraterrestres y... las potencias mundiales trabajan en secreto con tecnología extraterrestre. El paquete de DVDs está verdaderamente de lujo. Tiene subtítulos en español, pero no doblaje. Aunque no muy impresionante, el sonido SI está en Surround. Precaución: los DVDs están en área 1, así que se necesita en América Latina un reproductor multiregión para verlos. Yo tengo un reproductor Philco multiregión y fueron bien aceptados. Por último he de mencionar que esta colección es SOLO PARA AUTÉNTICOS FANS. ¿Por qué? ...el 7o disco de la colección, solo contiene unas cuantas entrevistas y cortos. No es muy bueno en realidad. Personalmente no me arrepiento de haber comprado las tres primeras temporadas.
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Summary: The X-Files: The Complete First Season
Review: I recently purchased this DVD box set and I can't tell you how pleased I am with the design and content! This is every X-Phile's dream come true. The design of the fold-out seven-panel box set is fabulous. The first six DVD's in this package contain all of the episodes from season one. It contains fan favorites like "Squeeze," "Tooms," "Beyond the Sea," and "Ice." It is especially nice to be able to see great episodes like "Lazarus," "Fire," and "Miracle Man," none of which make the cut of the twelve Season One episodes released on VHS a few years ago. The only criticism that one could have is that the extra features on Disk 7 are kind of slim. The documentary The Truth About Season One is nice, but it should have been longer (it clocks in at just eleven minutes) and series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson do not appear in any of the interview segments (although I'm sure they were approached for this DVD project and it's not the fault of the producers of this package that they declined). There's only one special-effects segment (for "Fallen Angel") yet I can think of a half-dozen other episodes with much more fascinating special effects ("Squeeze," "Ice" and the pilot come to mind). And finally, I was disappointed to see there are only two deleted scenes included in this entire DVD set. Both are from the pilot episode, and one of them is simply a slightly-altered scene from the pilot (in this unseen version, Scully's boyfriend appears in the background). Surely with 24 episodes having been filmed in Season One, there must have been other scenes that didn't make it on TV. I can remember reading about a cut scene from "Shapes" were Mulder and Scully are driving down a country road and a herd of cattle block their entrance, to which Scully rolls down the window and yells "Leather purse! Baseball glove!" This scene would have been great! And it's too bad the bloopers from the famous X-Files Blooper Reels weren't included (although I imagine they may have been forbidden seeing as many of the bloopers are R-rated). But for whatever this box set may lack in bonus features, it more than makes up for in packaging, graphic design, and picture and sound quality. Many of the DVD box sets of later X-Files seasons seem to have more bonus features and improved packaging quality so it seems things are only improving from here.
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