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Rating:  - Simply the Best Show Ever!
The X-Files spun nearly a decade and if it hadn't been for David Duchovny leaving the show, it would've ran much longer. The seventh season, Duchovny's last full season, was the last season that had a lot of good episodes. In this box set you'll get: The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
Hungry
Millennium
Rush
The Goldberg Variation
Orison
The Amazing Maleeni
Signs and Wonders
Sien Und Ziet
Closure
X-Cops
First Person Shooter
Theef
En Ami
Chimera
all things
Brand X
Hollywood AD
Fight Club
Je Souhaite
Requiem For any fan, this is a must-have DVD set! Its loaded with DVD extras and every episode is in widescreen. I can't wait!
Rating:  - On par with the Ninth Season
Like someone else said in a review above, this was a tough season to swallow. Let's start with the mytharc. Since the vast majority of the co-conspirators were dead by Season 7, Chris Carter and his crew thought it was better to destroy the mytharc all together than develop a new Syndicate with those who remined, like the CSM, Krycek and Covarrubias. What started like a promising new mythology in Biogenesis (Sixth Season's finale) turned into a messy business in Sixth Extintion I and II. Then by mid season we learn that after all this years, and after so many said otherwise (the ABH, Cassandra Spender, the WMM) Mulder's quest for his sister was over before he ever started. Now the "Standalones". Season Seven had two of the lowest points in the show's history: "Fight Club" and "First Person Shooter", how these two made it to be aired is beyond me. Other questionable episodes are Chimera, Signs and Wonders, Hungry, Orison, last few minutes of Milennium and the final 30 seconds of Hollywood A.D. Then there was David Duchovny's attitude toward playing Fox Mulder. He had already shown in Season Six some boredom shine through his acting, but in this season (and the few episodes he appeared on the next two seasons) it was too much. In many ways Mulder was not Mulder anymore, and not only because of his acting, but also because many scripts got the character all wrong. But it was not all bad in Season Seven. Episodes like Gillian Anderson's All Things, the COPS crossover "X-COPS", Je Souhaite, Theef, Brand X, or even Rush helped to remember how good this show was. And Requiem was hands down the best mythology episode this season, and one of my top three season enders. It's also good to know that the follow ups to Requiem were good episodes... all before the show changed the possible alien invasion for some crazy "super soldiers", but I'm getting ahead of myself here. All in all the box is a must for die-hard fans, and even those who aren't should check how high was the production value of this one-hour television show. I hope this new set is packed with extras as good as those of previous boxes. Gillian Anderson's and Vince Gillgan's comments should be good. It's a shame Fox doesn't allow two or more to comment on a single episode anymore (like they did with Jose Chung's on the third season).
Rating: - Tired and Weary
At this point, TXF is really stretching the relationship of Mulder and Scully and of the show. They have just about took their 'friendship' and 'partnership' into every direction they possibly can, the bond between the two stars begins to buckle into sexual teritory like never before, this is where they begin to become a couple.Anyway, the stand alones are incredibly weak and tired. The opening mytharc ep's are great, as is millennium, the crossover ep that see's the first propper kiss between M + S, a fabulous scene. The season looks at the revelation of Samantha's whereabouts in the closure two parter, despite contradicting virtually everything withnesses have told mulder, it still leaves you with a warm feeling and a relief that he's found her. We also see an experimental episode entitled x cops. Another crossover, which sees the pair followed by a camera crew tracking down an entity that mimics its preys fear, blair witch style. Other great ep's to look out for are orison, the return of Scully's nemisis, Donne Phaspher, the hair and nail fetish murderer, which reaches an explosive climax, all things, Gillian Anderson directing and writing debut, she takes the pairs relationship onto new levels, as with her character, Scully. Hollywood AD, David Duchovnys second directed and written episode which beats the unatural hands down, Je Southaite, looking at a cursed genie which is the best stand alone of the season. Requiem then ends this rumoured last season, with both characters investigating their original case, coming full circle in their last investigation together. Both achieve the things they have so longed for. Mulder, to experience an abduction, and Scully to mother a child naturally (so it appears). This season had a lot to live upto, following the hugely enjoyable season six. It overdoses the comedy, the standalones get ludicrous and the mytharc literally runs out with requiem. What follows (season eight) is a season returning to the shows horror roots and leaves the show in a complete crisis concerning our favourite pair (there is no comedy whatsoever in S8). Also adding a new formula to the tired show. Hugely underrated, it mixes old characters with new and puts Gillians acting abilities to the limit. Apart from these season seven episodes, the rest are plain awful. This is DD's last full season and Mulder and Scullys final full year together, so it's worth purchasing sorely for that. Its also the last year of what fans acclaim the propper x files. The show needed a boost, and thats exactly what it gets in the episodes and season following requiem.
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