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Summary: Deja Vue
Review: It's fun seeing Mulder and Scully as fresh faced characters. No alien takover cover up conspiracy stories here, just the self contained stories of the bizarre in each episode. (The producers were not sure there would be a second season to carry that storyline along). There is not much in the way of extra content, mostly dubbed clips in other lanquages. I do like watching a complete episode in 40 minutes. My wife and I put a CD in when there is nothing worth watching on TV and watch two episodes. Video and sound quality is great. Enjoy!
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Summary: The Good Ol' Days
Review: Finally splurged and purchased S1-3 all at the same time. Okay, so the wallet is feeling a little pained, but having commercial-free eps at my disposal is absolutely worth it. It is stunning to see David and Gillian eight years ago, naive and oddly confused about their surreal new roles. The hairstyles. The Clarice Starling knock-off suits. The Vancouver production values. The cinematography. The *good* plotlines. Viewing the eps for a fourth and fifth time at all hours of the night reminds me of a time when I was a truly dedicated fan and why I was exactly that. There are some classic gems in Season 1, "Squeeze" and "Beyond the Sea" namely, but some that I had forgotten about, including "Darkness Falls." Of course, there's still no excuse for "Space" after all these years.
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Summary: I'm sure it's excellent but...
Review: I'm keeping this in mint condition because it is so gorgeous. The first season of the X-Files was amazing so it's got to be worth every single penny doesn't it, even if you don't open the box and watch 'em it'll still look good on your mantelpiece!
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Summary: X-Files Season 1 DVD set
Review: I love it. It is so nice to be able to go back and see all of these episodes in such a nice clear format. Watching them in order also allows you to see the develop of these two very beloved characters and how their relationship changed over this first year together
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Summary: The truth is here....
Review: For those of you like me who were not sure if they should spend over a hundred dollars on a box set, let me say it was totally worth it. After putting in the first disk I had no doubt this was money well spent. I immediatly purchased season two and three and now find myself waiting for the next box to be released. Its all here, the first 24 episodes and bonus materials on seven disks put together in a very nice fold out box package. It was nice to go back and watch the episodes in order and commercial free; back in the day when Deep Throat was Mulder's informant and the first appearance of the Lone Gunmen in E.B.E. Season One had some great episodes, some of my favorites were Pilot, Beyond the Sea, Fallen Angel and Ice. You follow that up with a great season finale in The Erlenmeyer Flask and you have a show that will have everyone hooked.
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Summary: good performance,good stories
Review: If you are an x-phile,you can't miss it!The stories are fascinating and spooky.Very much x-files.The actors are,IMHO,not perfect but really fit their jobs.The first season is a milestone of the whole series.Though it's not the best season,it has its own style and charm.
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Summary: Nostalgia
Review: I bought the dvd set about a week ago and have been patting myself on the back for that. I have been following TXF ever since it started and the DVD does bring back fond memories. Many reviews do point out the benefits of having TXF on a DVD which are my sentiments exactly. People who have complained about the picture quality may either need to check their connection (move to s-video or component video) or replace the DVD (worst case scenario).
I would definately reccommend this set even if you are not an xfile aficanado, cos you'll become one once you watch it. and watch it. and watch it....
Regards,
Mallik.
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Summary: A Must Have for any serious DVD Collector
Review: I rarely watched X-Files on TV but I became a true fan when we bought the first season. We eagerly waited for seasons 2 and 3 and snatched them up when they first came out. This Season 1 DVD has that weird "tooms" episode that they seem to show repeatedly in syndication, but also the earlier version of tooms in "conduit"Also if you want the first episode to see how Scully met Mulder ... well, this one is a must buy! If you have never seen X-Files before then here's the brief skinny. It's about FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Scully is the skeptic with the medical background and Mulder is the guy who believes in psychic phenomenon and earns the somewhat odd title "Spooky Mulder" by many of his associates. You keep wanting Mulder and Scully to get together in this series, which is the one thing Chris Carter (the creator) didn't want to happen. It kind of reminds a bit of the old Twilight Zones but often with endings which leave you fascinated that you learned that ... the truth is out there.
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Summary: When the X-Files ruled the world
Review: There is good news for X-Files fans who weren't there in the beginning. This package is the entire first season, every last episode, Chris Carter commentary, tv spot, coming attraction and FX inter-commercial spot. Here is the original show, before the mythology, before the plot archs that moved at glacial pace, before Chris Carter started beating a dead horse and trying to keep a sinking ship afloat with a God-awful sixth season and a virtually dead seventh (6th and 7th season fans can now flame me with awful threats!) Watching these early episodes, you can sense the freshness, the original flavor of the show, the inventiveness and unique stylings of both the writing and the acting. Gillian Anderson is one of the most important acting finds of the last ten years and it will be a great relief when the show is finally moribund and she has the freedom to move into the land of film as American's own Emma Thompson. Here in this first season you can see her outshine everyone, bringing to life the character of Dana Scully, a cold hard skeptic with a soft heart, a sad-eyed suffering woman who has performed autopsies of horribly mutilated crime victims, who can use a handgun in combat-like police action, but who is also struggling with her own loneliness and strange fascination with her alien and paranormal obsessed partner, Fox Mulder. In the episode "Beyond The Sea" which featured a tour de force performance by Brad Dourif, Anderson does an extraordinary job with Scully's pain and loss and fear of the supernatural. David Duchovny was also a unique find. Twin Peaks fans may have been thrilled to recognize Denise the Transvestite FBI Agent as Fox Mulder. And the X-Files bears more than a passing resemblance to Twin Peaks, which also went off the map with the FBI meets shamanism, Tibetan mysticism and European-style surrealism. In these early episodes, Fox Mulder is still flying under the radar of the evil powers behind the conspiracy. He is a little bug up against a powerful syndicate of para-military, industrial-complex Pentagon-based shadow governments. In "Deep Throat" and "Fallen Angel", Mulder stretches beyond FBI protocol to penetrate behind enemy-lines, his every move monitored, not just by the sinister Cigarette Smoking Man of the Pentagon, but by groups like NICAP and MUFON who look up to him like a hero. It is to Chris Carter's great shame that in later episodes, he neglected to follow up the connections between Mulder and the conspiracy groups. There was an attempt to concentrate them all into the Lone Gunman, who didn't appear until the second season, and then only fleeting, but Mulder needed a whole network of grass roots helpers. There is more of a sense on this in the early episodes. On the other hand, these episodes were done when the show was still taking shape. The powerful UFO episodes were interpersed with Monster-of-the-Week episodes like "The Jersey Devil" and the truly awful "Space" which is an essay in bad writing. But some of the gems that stands out as individual little masterpieces is "Eve" and "Ice." The later, clearly inspired by the 1950's sci-fi film "The Thing" is one of the tightest dramas that the X-Files ever produced. Those who want to trace the full arch of the conspiracy that spanned the entire run of the show, would do best to catch the final episode "The Erhlenmeyer Flask". It was a big bang finale for the first season and a powerful teaser for viewers to suffer through an X-File-less summer waiting for more.
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Summary: View it on a WEGA using video component!!!
Review: First of all, it's a must for any X-Files fan. The aspect ratio (full screen) makes that viewing the discs using video component output, be a real privilege. I recommend it plenty.
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