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Summary: The Weird files
Comment: The X files just get a little stranger and a little stranger. Each season stretches the limits of the imagination. Fans of the Xfiles will love this season. Non-fans will wonder what it's all about.
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Summary: OK: Vocal Film Critic
Comment: This was bought as a requested birthday gift for a college student. Since I did not hear a peep about it, I will assume good things. (The recipient does not hesitate to offer negative remarks about cinema of any sort if they are warranted.)
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Summary: My favorite season
Comment: I've rewatched a lot of these episodes in anticipation of the new movie coming out. It only confirmed my opinion that Season Six was my favorite season of this show, with more stand-alone episodes that I rewatch again and again than any of the other seasons. I love "Triangle," the episode where Mulder finds himself on a World War II era ship and Scully goes into overdrive trying to get him help. "Dreamland Parts One and Two", a sort of body-switching episode, is also fun. "Tithonus" is a spooky episode about an immortal photographer who always knows when someone is about to die and waits around to take pictures. "Arcadia" is the episode where Mulder and Scully go under cover as husband and wife to investigate a series of deaths in an uptight planned community. Very funny. "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" is an X-Files classic, Mulder and Scully scouting out a haunted house on Christmas Eve. "Monday" is The X-Files version of "Groundhog Day," as Mulder lives the same crappy day over and over until he figures out how to stop a bank holdup from turning fatal. Carol Burnett's daughter, who led a somewhat troubled life and later died of cancer, does a particularly good job here as the bank robber's desperate girlfriend. It's creepy watching her, knowing her background and what happened to her a few years later. "Milagro" is a strange one about a writer who fixates on Scully to the point that one of his characters nearly rips her heart out. It's strongly implied here that Mulder and Scully are in love. The two that I rewatch most often are "Rain King" and "The Unnatural." "Rain King" is a valentine of an episode, about a guy whose unrequited love for his best friend results in unexplained weather phenomena in a small Kansas town. It's sweet and romantic and has some great comic moments as the guy and the girl (and Mulder and Scully?) make their way to each other. "The Unnatural" was written and directed by David Duchovny, who is quite a gifted writer. It's a great story about an alien who fell in love with the game of baseball. Duchovny also throws in some commentary about race relations, the meaning of life and love, and the dangers of obsession, all without hammering the viewers over the head with it. The episode also includes some nice scenes with Mulder showing Scully how to play baseball. I don't care for the myth-arc episodes, but those who do should find some meat in "Two Fathers" and "One Son" and "Biogenesis." I thought "Alpha" was a bit of a dog (pun intended) and didn't particularly enjoy "Trevor." "Three of a Kind" is a Lone Gunmen-centric episode and "Field Trip" has its comic moments. If I could only buy one season, this is the one I'd pick.
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Summary: great dvds - broken cases
Comment: All of the cases were broken and the dvds were loose and knocking into each other
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Summary: Out With The Old, In With The New
Comment: Starting with the sweeping landscape shot of Los Angeles, the show's new home after filming five seasons in Vancouver, Canada, The Sixth Season of the X-Files epitomized the concept of change in nearly every aspect. Coming on the heels of "Fight The Future: The X-Files Movie", which did not provide the kind of closure that was expected, the writers/producers knew that serious changes to the show needed to be made, as the mythology plotlines were beginning to bog down due to overly-complex storylines. This need for change even spilled into the stand-alone episodes, developing the Mulder-Scully romance more than at any other time up to this point.
In regards to the mythology episodes, the season starts with the aptly-titled "The Beginning", in which the "new mythology" plotline is begun, centering on the notion that perhaps mankind is itself extraterrestrial in origin. After a two-part episode ("Two Fathers" and "One Son") that wraps up the original Syndicate mythology by explaining the ultimate fate of the alien-human hybrid program, the finale ("Biogenesis") again returns to the "humans as aliens" plot, where Agent Scully makes the greatest scientific discovery in human history on the African coast.
Also during this season, the stand-alone episodes were of excellent quality (in my opinion, the best the show ever produced). Focusing on the Mulder-Scully relationship, as well as adding larger doses of humor to each episode, the stand-alones that really shine are "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas" (a merry romp through a haunted house), "Triangle" (a fantastic nod to the Wizard of Oz), "The Unnatural" (Mulder's love of the National Pastime is explored), and "Field Trip" (one of the best episodes, concept-wise, of the entire show). Also, "Dreamland 1 & 2" is a unique episodes that showcases the humor, fantastical plots, and relationships of the show all at once!
To conclude, I have always considered the Sixth Season of the X-Files to be my favorite single season of the nine. Viewers are given resolution to the main mythology, taken down a new mythological path, treated to some of the best single-hour plots of the show's history, and rewarded by the flowering of a subtle Mulder-Scully romantic relationship.
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