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

the first season of the x files intruduces how everything works out between mulder and scullly. how she was sent to spy on him but then became his friend. all of the episodes are great and are at a great prize. Im looking foward for the second movie. currently untitled. it will be released on july 25th, 2008.Dont forger to watch it.

I had never watched the X-Files as a kid but decided to check it out... with an unbiased point of veiw, not clouded by childhood memories. The series shows such promise yet it was as if Chris Carter had'nt found his niche on what to do with the show. I found that some of the episodes dragged a little, but were thrilling enough to keep my interest. It picked up toward the end of the season... when the viewer sees a moderate amount of characterization (Mulder and Scully)... but although the first season was choppy at best, which most first seasons are, I very much enjoyed it, with the exception of a few not so good episodes like "The Jersey Devil", "Space", and "E.B.E". They were outweighed by the great episodes such as, "Squeeze" and "Tooms" (which featured a very eerie X-Files villain), "Ice" (my personal favorite), "Shadows" and "Born Again" which take on a more ghostly storyline. All in all The X-Files shows promise... which I'm sure will blossom in later seasons.

Another great season from the days when this show was still fresh and TV viewers everywhere were on the edges of their seats waiting for the next bit of alien mythology. Whatever one may think of later seasons, there were quite a few highlights here. Two ambitious two-parters advanced the overall arc in intriguing directions. Other stand-out episodes include "DPO" (this excellent episode about a disaffected teen with the power to control electricity benefits from pre-stardom appearances by Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black), "Pusher" (an assassin with the power to control minds wants to defeat Mulder in a game of cat-and-mouse), "Grotesque" (a demon possesses men and turns them into murderers), and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (Peter Boyle is clairvoyant in a funny and touching episode). David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson continue to deliver strong performances, while secondary cast members like Mitch Pillegi (Assistant Director Skinner) and William B. Davis (the Cigarette-Smoking Man) get a little more screen time.

This finely crafted and involving series, created by Chris Carter, kept intelligent people home on Friday nights to watch Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate the strange and paranormal. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson became two F.B.I. agents no respectable TV viewer could live without. Right from the start, it set the arc for the entire series and we watched in awe as Carter and his fine group of writers turned television into something new.

Mulder was an Oxford educated profiler with such a great success rate it allowed him to indulge himself when he latched onto buried boxes of case files dating back to J. Edgar Hoover called The X-Files. They were cases which couldn't be explained or solved by any normal investigative methods. Mulder, however could solve them, not only because he was good enough, but because he believed.

The reason Mulder believed was the story arc for his insatiable need to discover the truth about what the government knew about alien abduction. Muldor himself, as a young boy, had been unable to save his younger sister Samantha the night she was taken, and it both drove and haunted him. Despite his brilliance, he had been tagged with the nickname, "Spooky Mulder" because of his belief that we were not alone.

His sucess had drawn attention from those within the circles of power trying to keep hidden the truth, so Agent Dana Scully, a beautiful and bright F.B.I. operative who was also a doctor, believing that science was the key to explaining what could not be explained, was sent to be his partner, and keep an eye on Mulder. What happened, however, was quite the opposite, as Scully became Mulder's champion, and buffer between his obsession and the powers lurking in dark corridors attempting to keep the truth just out of his grasp.

The show wasn't just about U.F.O.'s, or even simply the paranormal. It was an incredibly involving, complicated, and mature study of two people who formed a bond so deep that each found themselves unable to work or live as they wanted without each other. It never moved in the direction of a physical relationship, but something much deeper. Perhaps it is that maturity which Carter instilled in the story arc which made it so darkly romantic. Viewers knew that they belonged together, and probably would be someday, but not yet.

Each episode was exciting and so interesting that it made everything else on television seem boring. Muldor found a contact within the dark circles of power who came to be known as "Deep Throat." But when he got too close, it was Scully who would risk everything to save him in "The Erlenmeyer Flask." Mulder and Scully would tackle native legends, downed U.F.O.'s, murderous cults who themselves might not be from earth, even a couple of young innocent twins who might be part of an experiment gone chillingly wrong.

Always smart, humorous, and fascinating, season one set the tone for the entire series, and raised the bar for television drama for years to come. No one who loved this series will ever forget phrases such as "trust no one" or "purity control." Beautifully packaged, this boxed set contains six discs in three slip cases. The episodes which made us life-long fans of Mulder and Scully are as follows:

Pilot Episode--Deep Throat--Squeeze--Conduit--The Jersey Devil--Shadows--Ghost in the Machine--Ice--Space--Fallen Angel--Eve--Fire--Beyond the Sea--Gender Bender--Lazarus--Young at Heart--E.B.E.--Miracle Man--Shapes--Darkness Falls--Tooms (Squeeze Part II)--Born Again--Roland--The Erlenmeyer Flask

This was fantastic television, which would eventually find its way to the big screen. We can only hope that Duchovny, Anderson, and Carter will give us more somewhere down the line. The X-Files was one of the finest shows we ever had, and it reminded us what the medium is capable of, yet rarely reaches. Muldor and Scully were one of the great couples in television history, and Carter's creation may well be something so fascinating, so well-written, and so involving, we may never see anything like it ever again.

Outstanding season of X-Files, one of the best. Pass up the later ones but don't pass up season 3. Scary romantic and puzzling.