The X-Files - The Complete Fifth Season (Slim Set)
starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John O'Hurley, Pattie Tierce, Stewart Gale
directed by: Allen Coulter, Brett Dowler, Chris Carter, Cliff Bole, Daniel Sackheim
directed by: Allen Coulter, Brett Dowler, Chris Carter, Cliff Bole, Daniel Sackheim
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Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 12/02/2008Run time: 820 minutesRating: Nr
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The midpoint of what would be a nine-season show, the fifth season of The X-Files (the first to be put on DVD in anamorphic widescreen format) gives fans a heavy heaping of what they love. For the mythology buffs, riveting episodes from the season bookends "Redux" and "The End" to several episodes in between tease with new revelations about the vast government conspiracies and alien invasion plot lines sketched in earlier seasons. But enough questions are left unanswered for the theatrical X-Files movie, which was released the subsequent summer, and the seasons that followed. Supporting characters like the Lone Gunmen, Agent Krycek, the Pusher Robert Modell, and Fox's father and sister Bill and Samantha Mulder are flushed out in more detail in several episodes that occasionally jump back in time to cover the prehistory of the X-files. New chess pieces are introduced, each raising new questions: the clairvoyant child Gibson Praise, Agent Spender, faceless alien resistance fighters with pyromaniacal tendencies, a child who may be Scully's, and Mulder's old flame, agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers). All the time, no one knows who will be assassinated next, who is or isn't dead, just who isn't potentially a child of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and why the base of the neck is everyone's vulnerable spot. The creature feature stand-alone episodes vary in quality, but all are redeemed by the outrageously funny self-parody episode "Bad Blood," a fan favorite that guest stars Luke Wilson as a small-town sheriff who catches Scully's eye.
Finally, "shippers" (fans who would love nothing better than to see Mulder and Scully act upon their feelings for each other) get a heavy dose of the usual sexual innuendo and lingering, tender glances between the attractive costars. Mimi Rogers and Luke Wilson incite palpable jealousy between the leads; the appearance of a wedding band on Mulder's hand in a back story hints at stories not told; and the usual extreme and dimly lit crises illustrate just how far Mulder and Scully will go for each other. In the end, the complexities of their relationship may be the most tense and intriguing of all the mysteries explored by this epic television series. --Eugene Wei
Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 12/02/2008Run time: 820 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com:
The midpoint of what would be a nine-season show, the fifth season of The X-Files (the first to be put on DVD in anamorphic widescreen format) gives fans a heavy heaping of what they love. For the mythology buffs, riveting episodes from the season bookends "Redux" and "The End" to several episodes in between tease with new revelations about the vast government conspiracies and alien invasion plot lines sketched in earlier seasons. But enough questions are left unanswered for the theatrical X-Files movie, which was released the subsequent summer, and the seasons that followed. Supporting characters like the Lone Gunmen, Agent Krycek, the Pusher Robert Modell, and Fox's father and sister Bill and Samantha Mulder are flushed out in more detail in several episodes that occasionally jump back in time to cover the prehistory of the X-files. New chess pieces are introduced, each raising new questions: the clairvoyant child Gibson Praise, Agent Spender, faceless alien resistance fighters with pyromaniacal tendencies, a child who may be Scully's, and Mulder's old flame, agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers). All the time, no one knows who will be assassinated next, who is or isn't dead, just who isn't potentially a child of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and why the base of the neck is everyone's vulnerable spot. The creature feature stand-alone episodes vary in quality, but all are redeemed by the outrageously funny self-parody episode "Bad Blood," a fan favorite that guest stars Luke Wilson as a small-town sheriff who catches Scully's eye.
Finally, "shippers" (fans who would love nothing better than to see Mulder and Scully act upon their feelings for each other) get a heavy dose of the usual sexual innuendo and lingering, tender glances between the attractive costars. Mimi Rogers and Luke Wilson incite palpable jealousy between the leads; the appearance of a wedding band on Mulder's hand in a back story hints at stories not told; and the usual extreme and dimly lit crises illustrate just how far Mulder and Scully will go for each other. In the end, the complexities of their relationship may be the most tense and intriguing of all the mysteries explored by this epic television series. --Eugene Wei
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- X-Files equals sweet Sci-Fi action!
Another fantastic season of the best scifi based TV series ever. With great episodes including redux I and II, as well as the critically acclaimed Post-Modern Prometheus and Kill Switch written by William Gibson. One of my favorite seasons.
Rating: - X-files DVD's
We were very pleased with our purchase of X-Files DVD's.Of course, we already knew we would like the subject.But in addition, we were pleased with the price, ease of ordering, and speed of shipping.Amazon is an excellent source of...nearly anything you need!
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- 4.5; a good hit-and-miss season
The fifth season of the X-Files is one of those kind of seasons where if there's any moments that aren't as stellar as previous years gets at least a bit excused. Reason is that this was mainly the time when the crew were also working on the X-Files feature film, "Fight the Future". As such, certain episodes were either entirely centered on one of the agents, or they appeared in a support kind of way and not actually directly involved with the case. So trying to get a big-budget movie up and going ... Read More
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- Disc 5 is BAD
Disc 5 will not LOAD/PLAY.Long story made short:I'm stuck with it, and only recourse is to deal with the manufacturer, for which I can't find any direct contact info.
Enjoy my money Fox DVD
Rating: - The Bedrock Is Shaken
During the previous four seasons of The X-Files, a similar theme was followed in all of the show's "mythology" (or over-arching) episodes: Agent Mulder is the unshakeable believer in aliens, while Agent Scully is the staunch skeptic.In this Fifth Season, that formula is thrown out the window.Let's quickly examine the three types of X-Files episodes in order to see where the show deviates from that traditional pattern:
Mythology: Picking up from the shocking (yet rather anticlimatic, ... Read More
- X-Files equals sweet Sci-Fi action!Another fantastic season of the best scifi based TV series ever. With great episodes including redux I and II, as well as the critically acclaimed Post-Modern Prometheus and Kill Switch written by William Gibson. One of my favorite seasons.
- X-files DVD'sWe were very pleased with our purchase of X-Files DVD's.Of course, we already knew we would like the subject.But in addition, we were pleased with the price, ease of ordering, and speed of shipping.Amazon is an excellent source of...nearly anything you need!
- 4.5; a good hit-and-miss seasonThe fifth season of the X-Files is one of those kind of seasons where if there's any moments that aren't as stellar as previous years gets at least a bit excused. Reason is that this was mainly the time when the crew were also working on the X-Files feature film, "Fight the Future". As such, certain episodes were either entirely centered on one of the agents, or they appeared in a support kind of way and not actually directly involved with the case. So trying to get a big-budget movie up and going ... Read More
- Disc 5 is BADDisc 5 will not LOAD/PLAY.Long story made short:I'm stuck with it, and only recourse is to deal with the manufacturer, for which I can't find any direct contact info.
Enjoy my money Fox DVD
- The Bedrock Is ShakenDuring the previous four seasons of The X-Files, a similar theme was followed in all of the show's "mythology" (or over-arching) episodes: Agent Mulder is the unshakeable believer in aliens, while Agent Scully is the staunch skeptic.In this Fifth Season, that formula is thrown out the window.Let's quickly examine the three types of X-Files episodes in order to see where the show deviates from that traditional pattern:
Mythology: Picking up from the shocking (yet rather anticlimatic, ... Read More
