The X-Files: Season 1

Credentials and Summary: I originally saw a few episodes from the later seasons, and some earlier ones in re-run; we are now buying them season by season (finished #1) to enjoy from the start. Recommended for those who like SF/Mystery/Suspense genre, with only a few minor concerns for the discerning, teen-age and older family audience. Bit too spooky for young kids and the more sensitive adults. Thought provoking, if at times absurd, for all. Certainly outshines virtually all other material on TV (faint praise?), and is much better to be watched straight through, without commercials and without waiting for each new season.Season One:I had only seen two episodes before (# 10, 21). Didn't realize virtually all themes and main characters present in first season. Conspiracy and aliens, science/skepticism vs. "believers" (The Truth Is Out There), Smoking Man and Assist. Director Skinner, The Lone Gunmen, Deep Throat, family issues of Scully and Mulder and even a pre-Krycek appearance by Nicholas Lea. The battle over the X-Files themselves is introduced in episode one and they get closed for the first time in the last episode.Package: We have the thin DVD set. Quality is just fine. We get more than enough just watching the episodes; I can't see spending a lot more for the extras in other versions.Episode Summaries (with Themes):X-cellent1) The X-Files: Pilot (Intro, Conspiracy, Aliens) - Does well to sum it all up: Fox "Spooky" Mulder, Dana "The Skeptic Scientist" Scully , aliens, sinister government agents, typical plot (unexplained paranormal mystery, Fox sees it, Dana misses it, government covers it up).2) Deep Throat (Conspiracy, Aliens) - Our favorite agents working against the government to find alien spacecraft. A secret government insider contact is first introduced, nicknamed Deep Throat. Features appearance by Buffy's werewolf ally.3) Squeeze (Tooms, Creature) - Eugene Tooms' Gumby-like ability threatens every 30 years. Mulder's (poor) reputation for paranormal explanations is first exhibited.4) Conduit (Alien, Character History) - Related alien abductions detected via boy who acts as conduit for their continuing communications.10) Fallen Angel (Conspiracy, Aliens) - Mulder almost exposes cover-up of UFO crash. Max Fenig appears as a UFO enthusiast, and the first of various X-Files followers.11) Eve (Urban Legend, Techno phobia) - Twin girls poison loved ones and fight to stay ahead of Mulder and Scully. Super-human clones gone wild?13) Beyond the Sea (Paranormal, Character History) - Death Row psychic knows where the serial killer is and what Dana's recently deceased father is thinking.16) Young at Heart (Techno phobia) - Can Mulder's former nemesis really be stalking him, even tho' dead? Must be a genetic experiment gone horribly right. Connected to Mulder's first case, which went horribly wrong.17) E.B.E. (Alien, Conspiracy) - Deep Throat knows where the Extraterrestrial Biological Entity is; Mulder and Scully follow the clues, and the package, all the way to the empty containment facility. The Lone Gunmen (hackers and conspiracy theorists named for the official theory behind JFK assassination) help track the package.21) Tooms (Tooms, Creature) - Tooms, released on parole, puts the squeeze on Mulder. Excellent scenes before judge and police investigators.22) Born Again (Paranormal) - Mulder and Scully investigate link between young girl and string of murdered police.24) The Erlenmeyer Flask (Alien, Conspiracy) - Alien viruses are being cloned, but Mulder and Scully lose the virus, the clone, the inside contact, and the key to the office.X Marks The Spot5) The Jersey Devil (Urban Legend, Relationship) - Mulder's reputation within F.B.I. really is spooky and so is Scully's date. Wild man of the woods plot is cover for developing status of team within agency and the status of the X-Files.6) Shadows (Paranormal) - Fox and Dana investigate revenge minded poltergeist.7) Ghost in the Machine (Conspiracy, Urban Legend) - Our agents investigate killer computer. DoD wants the software! Sub-plot with Mulder's former partner.8) Ice (Alien) - X-Files version of The Thing/Who Goes There? [SF fans?]. FBI sends our agents to investigate parasitic alien life form at remote Alaskan research station. Features appearance by future Desperate Housewife and C.T.U. agent.14) Genderbender (Alien, Paranormal, Religion) - Gender changing murderer hiding out with religious sect is sent searching for a new sanctuary planet by the FBI. Agent Krycek makes brief appearance, apparently on a special, top-secret assignment.15) Lazarus (Paranormal) - Dana`s turn with the ex, as co-agent who gets possessed by spirit of criminal.19) Shapes (Urban Legend, Occult) - Mulder and Scully search for wolf/man Indian legend.20) Darkness Falls (Paranormal) - Mulder and Scully avoid being cocooned by ancient insects released by unsuspecting loggers in the deep forest.23) Roland (Paranormal, Techno phobia) - Mulder and Scully suspect autistic Roland in murders of aerospace scientists. A favorite of wind tunnel engineers. Roland later joins Bosnian rebels seeking revenge on Jack Bauer.X-Out9) Space (Alien) - Mulder suspects Martian spirit is behind Space Shuttle sabotage. An alien thread not further pursued, and overall lower production values than typical.12) Fire (Paranormal, Relationship) - Fox helps former British girlfriend investigate pyrokinetic man stalking the aristocracy. Early lame attempt to start developing Fox/Dana relationship.18) Miracle Man (Paranormal, Religion) - Our agents investigate healing ministry, when more seem to be dying than living. A bit stereotypically paranoid.- - - - - - - - - - - -

When Mulder and Scully investigate the murder of two men at the exact time at different sides of the country, they discover the daughters look exactly alike. What is going on? This episode Eve in season 1 of the X-Files may baffle some people so watch until the very end.

Love this season of the X-Files along with all the other seasons of the X-Files.

The X-files. Most enjoyable.

All DVD worka great

good. always surprises and the unexpected mysteries

As one of the fan group for those who "boldly go where no one has gone before", I'd like to advance a plug for a series which does a fine job of going where the paranormal has ever intersected our domain, and brings it into the house just across the street, or around the corner.X-files producers consistently preserve their protagonists and often re-package and re-introduce their best antagonists, which goes a long way towards inducing a sense of viewer familiarity. The mythological and the arcane are welcome guests in the modern world of paranormal investigators Spec. Agent Fox Mulder, and Spec. Agent Dana Scully.X-files do not presume to always conclude with a Disney Fairy Tale type happy ending. You won't know at the beginning of the episode that you can always expect to be subjected to an autopsy, although forensic science is frequently employed. And you can't rush to conclude that the episode will always result from or result in a tragedy. Paranormal investigation, while often probing the unfortunate, doesn't necessarily preclude the humorous. (Quite the contrary!) But the unknown is ever present, from the opening credits philosophy, (The Truth is Out There) to the Ubiquitous presence of Fox Mulder's prominent UFO poster, "I Want To Believe."Simply for the sake of avoiding redundancy, I'd prefer to post a few comments here about the overall series in connection to the pilot episode, which purports to examine an account resembling events which actually did occur. };-) Simply stated, the occurrence of alien-abduction is reported as an international phenomenon. What's rather more disturbing is the discovery on video of facsimile devices, not far removed from the kind of surveillance employed by our government against citizens in general. They often bring up devices which are proto-type-related to technology that is built into NASA exploratory vessels. And since the NASA program receives corporate investment for research products, on top of USGovt. tax subsidy, American investors have an interest only second to the military. You can read about advances for any orbital interplanetary device, assured that it's undergone advanced testing for military usage before it was ever approved for a space rover project.There are two episodes of Season Seven, which I would characterize as the most heart-wrenching in the series."Sein Und Zeit" on disc 3, and "Closure", also on disc 3 in sequential order. The FBI searches for a missing child and uncovers many awful secrets. The theme revolves around finally answering the disappearance of Mulder's sister Samantha, which has been driving him on, since her abduction at age 8. The Old Souls, and the Songs, and the Star-light, all are reminiscent of Alfheim or the American Indian view of a bridge over the line where sky meets the earth. You can catch a glimpse of the feelings involved by viewing that Georgia O'Keefe painting of a loose suspended ladder, seemingly floating above the desert landscape amidst an aqua cloudless sky. The answers were meant to be, to remain elusive, because they insulate us against a truth incomprehensibly awful.In contrast, the theme that "We Are Not Alone" is, I think, most favorably illustrated by three episodes, the first of which concludes season 2, called: "Anasazi" on disc 6, and followed consecutively by two more episodes which open season 3, "The Blessing Way" and "Paper Clip" both on disc one. I am admittedly biased towards the Navajo reservation people who assist the agents in their quest. But the events which are precipitated by an earthquake are described in memorable (for me) terms by the Navajo Elder, as he warns his grandson to leave the snakes alone, "they will be angry, and frightened." But, of course, Mulder can't leave the 'snakes' alone. I only mention said episodes by name, because Amazon features each episode as available Video on Demand. That's all new to me. I didn't see all the episodes originally because I was either working, or the FOX channel they were broadcasting on wasn't available in our area.If you're familiar with the Catholic tradition of 'stigmatia', you might find an episode of Season Three, disc 3 titled: "Revelations" of interest. I am intrigued by the seemingly open-ended treatment of this episode. I don't recall seeing it revisited at all, though it is suggested that there is more to come.

I have been a sci-fi what if, conspiracy theory guy for years. The X Files may be more true in some aspects than anyone thinks. The characters are great and story lines well done.

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El producto llego de un día para otro en excelente estado, la diferencia de calidad de imagen y sonido comparado con la versión DVD es enorme, totalmente recomendado comprar las versiones de bluray

Fan nostalgique de la série x files qui est un grand succès à la fois populaire et artistique, la saison 1 est très réussie, variée, intéressante, où les personnages et acteurs se révèlent vite. Le DVD était un import anglais donc VO sous titre anglais.. Bien pour s'entraîner mais pas facile de comprendre tous les jeux de mots et expressions de Mulder..

As a said before in my previous reviews great series