The X-Files - The Complete Second Season (Slim Set)

I am a big fan of the X-files and decided to slowly purchase all the seasons up until David leaves the show. I noticed that Season three didn't follow Season two and it appears the last episode (the Finale) is not on Disc six. I contacted Amazon and they sent me a replacement but it also was missing the final episode on Disc six. I am now stuck without Season two and have to wait for the problem to eventually go away. I wouldn't purchase it unless you have some sort of guarantee that it is going to have all the episodes as advertised. Even though Amazon admits there is a problem they will not send me another set and instead want me to just wait and then re-order. How I am supposed to know when they have corrected the problem is beyond my telepathic abilitites.

X-Files "The Complete Second Season" is INCOMPLETE! They list the episodes but some episodes listed are missing from the disc!
I want to return it for a refund!

Freaks, geeks, and smart people were nowhere to be found on Friday nights. Club floors usually packed with twenty and thirty-somethings looking for a casual hook-up over liquor and loud music were thin. Comic shops, arcades and other dives haunted by the young and smart dropping out seemed like tombs. And no upwardly mobile corporate-type wanted to be out of the loop come Monday morning when everyone was discussing at the watercooler what Mulder and Scully had discovered Friday night. Everyone had been home, glued to the tube, at least for that one wonderful hour, watching Chris Carter's "The X-Files." It was the hipest, most intelligent show on television.

Fans who had been there from the very first episode and watched their favorite show become a media obsession were worried that the sudden glare would ruin the show. But Carter proved as immune to the powers that be as Mulder was. Fox Mulder was still on a quest to discover the truth, and Carter was still on a quest to make the most original and interesting show on television.

Picking up right where season one ended, with Duchovny's Mulder somehow lost within the conventional cases assigned him after the X-Files had been shut down, we watched with sympathy and anticipation as the separated F.B.I. Agents found ways to work together. Gillian Anderson was perfect in every way as the beautiful Dana Scully. She found ways in her performance to convey the deep attachment to Fox and his his quest to out the men in the shadows controlling and hiding the truth about alien abductions and other secrets.

With Deep Throat dead, the Agents discover they have another "friend" in the halls of power. Some of the show's most memorable episodes came about in season two. Cases involving both the paranormal and monstors of the man-made variety (The Host) were explored. Carter still managed to inject humor into the show at times (Humbug). It usually came through Mulder's sardonic wit or the often fact-based paranoia of The Lone Gunmen. Season two proved somewhat darker and more dangerous, however. Mulder's insatiable drive for the truth the government was hiding from the public had not gone below the radar screen of those responsible for keeping their dark secrets buried.

Season two was filled with startling revelations regarding Mulder's father and "Smoking Man" (Anasazi). The story arc where Scully herself was abducted and Mulder searched in desperation for her would have ramifications only discovered in following seasons. Genetic memories and voodoo, deadly shadows and alien plans to colonize Earth, ghost ships and vampires, all populated and galvanized viewers to the show each week. It may indeed have had distant relatives out there in TV land, but nothing of this scope and originality had ever been attempted before.

Through it all, it was the relationship between Mulder and Scully we found fascinating. Watching them work a case together was like watching Fred and Ginger dance. You couldn't take your eyes off the couple, even if they weren't officially a couple, and even though the dance was darker and more dangerous. Mulder and Scully have become so imbedded in the minds and hearts of fans that years later we still await Carter's new big-screen venture to discover their plight. Dramatic and funny, scary and touching, it may just have been the coolest thing ever on television.

Being a die hard fan of x files ( ever since the series came out ) and being connected to it and the various alt.tv.xfiles newsgroups etc for a while, i thought it was great when the slim set was introduced,as personally speaking i don't care that much about what the actors think of the show or what they are doing or any bloopers etc ( i have been through that phase when i was kinda still in schooling mode ). So the slim set seemed excellent with "so - so" price option, i still think 30s is a bit high, i would like to see this dvd starting from 25 - 30 $ max, the justification for this is simply because of several reasons :

( In NO order of importance in particular ) ...
1. ) its a Slim Set ( and DVD 7 is supposed to be ok )
2. ) Quality of DVDs ( the quality as seen on 24 inch flat lcd monitor ) seemed so so or decent at best.
3 .) Blu Ray or HD DVD world - Well this is connected to above point but still, with blu ray or Hi def content upon us, i doubt people would be interested on getting dvds ( for people who would want to keep the sets they would want comparable quality anyways, so it should stack up against it in some ways ... i in fact believe that it doesn't ).
4. ) X Files is somewhat been out of vogue for a while now, yea granted that there are fans like us who still order x files, but still even the re-runs on scifi are shown in 2 AM slot! so one can imagine that it is not very popular anymore. ( d-oh! )

apart from all of the above reasons, if you are an X Files fan, well off course there is no other treasured collectible than this plus 8 other DVD sets ( i think 8, 9 were ok although to a lot of folks it was a drag, but some of stories were good, especially in season 8 )

Regards
Vyas, Anirudh

Love the more reasonably priced slim sets. Don't care one iota about not getting the "bonus" material. I just want the episodes on DVD. That's enough for me. I thank Fox for re-releasing these complete seasons in a more affordable package.