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X-Files: The Event Series (2016) [DVD]
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June 14, 2016 "Please retry" | No enhanced packaging | 2 |
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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy/Television |
Format | AC-3, Subtitled, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Dolby, Color, Box set, Dubbed, Widescreen, DVD |
Contributor | Jonathan Whitesell, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, David Duchovny, Chris Carter |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 3 |
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Product Description
Almost 14 years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of THE X-FILESTM is a thrilling, six-episode event series from creator/executive producer Chris Carter, with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reinhabiting their roles as iconic FBI agents FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY. Mitch Pileggi also returns as FBI Assistant Director WALTER SKINNER, Mulder and Scully s boss, who walks a fine line between loyalty to these investigators and accountability to his superiors. This marks the momentous return of the Emmy®- and Golden Globe® Award-winning pop culture phenomenon, which remains one of the longest-running sci-fi series in network television history.
Bonus Features:
Disc 1:
**My Struggle
**Founder's Mutation
**Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
**Audio Commentary on "Founder's Mutation" with Chris Carter and James Wong
**Audio Commentary on "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster" with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Kumail Nanjiani and Darin Morgan
Disc 2:
**Home Again
**Babylon
**My Struggle II
**Audio Commentary on "My Struggle II" with Chris Carter and Gabe Rotter
Disc 3:
**Deleted & Extended Scenes
**43:45 The Makings of a Struggle
**Season X: An In-Depth Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Event Series
**Gag Reel
**Monsters of the Week: A Recap of the Wildest and Scariest from the Original Series
**The X-Files: Green Production PSA
**Short Film "Grace" by Karen Nielsen
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : 35396368
- Director : Chris Carter
- Media Format : AC-3, Subtitled, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Dolby, Color, Box set, Dubbed, Widescreen, DVD
- Run time : 4 hours and 24 minutes
- Release date : June 14, 2016
- Actors : David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi, Jonathan Whitesell, Gillian Anderson
- Dubbed: : Spanish, French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B01BX7WVOG
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #31,171 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #19,480 in DVD
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That being said, from one week to another, there could be a hit, them a miss. In the 1990's, with 24ish episodes a season, most of the time, the average was pretty high. The bad episodes were few and far between. Mostly they weren't even bad, but tried something crazy you wouldn't otherwise see on television, and even if it didn't make the landing, it was still an admirable mess. With 6 episodes, nothing has changed, except that the average is significantly lowered with this logic, and every choice becomes so prominent that it's nearly impossible to make up for.
Objectively:
This event or season 10 averages 50%. "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster" is a classic comedy episode from Darrin Morgan. "Founder's Mutation" and "Home Again" had good performances but forgettable monsters. Carter's episodes were coldly written with unnatural, verbose info-dumps that threw in every possible conspiracy theory, threw away over a decade of mythology, and presented a tone-deaf, islamaphobic episode which spawned Mulder and Scully doppelgangers nobody wanted and separated our leads in what could have been their last episodes together, culminating in a cliffhanger rather than closure. Really, "Babylon" is one of the worst episodes of the entire series (but not for a lack of interesting ideas; they are all developed terribly).
Subjectively:
The event series was never going to be as they put it, "a victory lap". As convenient as it would be to have these six episodes be a massive conclusion to the mythology, where Mulder and Scully finally stop the alien colonization and reunite with their estranged son, that's not what it was going to be. At the risk of sounding like an apologist, "My Struggle I" does a fair job of re-introducing the situation/characters/updating while also having a plot, all in about 42 minutes!
I can understand how some might feel that the 'new' mythology is a slap in the face. Everything was a lie? Really? That reaction isn't unwarranted, especially all the 'proof' seen that is hard to reconcile. But that reaction also seems to forget that the same thing already happened in the "Gethsemane/Redux/Redux II" story between seasons 4 and 5. And is that even the current truth? Mulder's new informant, The Old Man, is shown to be an unreliable narrator, as close viewing of the Roswell flashbacks contradict what he says. Yes, we are being lied to. And in this new age of 'post-truth' and conspiracies in the everyday, maybe such a cluttered explanation is not as wacky as it first seems. No single conspiracy theory has to dominate, and they all are in some way in play? That is at least a powerful way forward.
Then, as luck would have it, the re-confirmation (or backtracking) of actual aliens during the original run occurred a few episodes later in a cliffhanger in which the climax involved Scully on a bridge, looking up into the light cast down from a large triangular UFO ("Patient X"). Moving on to the examination of "My Struggle II", the comparison is more apt to The X-Files' sister show "Millennium", whose second season finale "The Fourth Horseman"/"The Time Is Now" also featured a pathogen apocalypse. That story, however, paid off complex, long-building character arcs, whereas here, Scully's action flies by at breakneck speed and Mulder rehashes the same beat of confronting the arch-enemy that has already been done (with far better results) in "One Breath" and "One Son". Which brings me to the Cigarette Smoking Man. I understand he is iconic and masterful in the role. Part of me was overjoyed when he came on screen! But this was yet another return from death too many. The 'phantom of the opera' survival from missiles I can't buy. After everything that had changed, he was still living the opulent life, and had orchestrated everything (Reyes' complicity I can live with. Meh).
While the impression that the series had a complicated mythology plot permeates cultural memory almost as much as the more popular monsters, that isn't really the case. Alien colonization with human complicity had been advancing. When the series became popular, side avenues were formed and extraneous elements were added. Eventually, the original conspiracy collapsed in on itself. But the Cigarette Smoking Man survived and continued on. He really is such a great actor/character that it's hard to let him go, even when they really should have. "Requiem" was the perfect exit. "The Truth" was at least different and seemingly final. "My Struggle II" does no one favors. The consistent insistence on explaining the known was the bane of the original series finale, and trying to return our characters to an archetypal place before that (M&S as FBI agents, CSM alive) is a jarring juxtaposition of comforting nostalgia while insisting that there is new mythology is it is still moving forward.
I hope that there is development. The best parts of the event series was showing how the characters/situations had changed. The existential crisis on "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster" amid the constantly narcissistic world of Darin Morgan. Scully dealing with her ailing mother in "Home Again". The former is a stone cold classic and provides a resounding rationale to The X-Files' return and future continuation. Hell, Morgan's episodes are so good that it makes everything else in these 6 episodes worthwhile!
Looking ahead to Season 11, I'm hopeful. Another Darin Morgan story! Ten episodes is a lot more breathing room for a now (re-)established series. Unfortunately returning are Agents Einstein and Miller. Hopefully they won't feature much other than the resolution to the cliffhanger. Speaking of which, Millennium's third season struggled with reinventing itself while continuing on after its end of the world finale. The issue was ignored, re-contextualized, and adjusted out of the corner they had written themselves into. We'll see how "My Struggle III" deals with this disaster!
Okay, whatever.. The X files was also before the internet culture of hate voting everyone who disagrees with you so I'll cut my losses :) I'm on the third episode and I think they did an exceptional job of capturing the feel of the original series. Especially the third episode about the were-lizard which was as good as any of those campy and funny episodes they occassionally gave us. I was a really big X Files fan, though by the end I took it about as seriously as I took True Blood. And I really started to get annoyed by Mulder's conspiracy theory double talking rants, 'they're sacrificing the past to save the future from the present by tomorrow-- that's why there's ten alien races at war while the first humans are trapped in the Keystone pipeline and am *I* the baby daddy or is it a hybrid mind reading supersoldier that can only be killed with an ice pick..' Yeah, after the fifth variation of that, as well Scully's Faith and her baby and new partners and Lone Gunman spinoffs.. What's that phrase the kids are usin'? A hot mess? But after I saw the intro (and isn't it awesome that they didn't modernize it) I think I musta put on my rose colored glasses 'cause I only remembered The Good X Files, not the trainwreck it eventually became. I admit that part of my 5 stars is probably due to nostalgia, and so I'm not sure how the X Files will come off to the younguns used to watching Agents of SHIELD and Arrow on their phones. But I suspect they won't find it amazing. 'nuff said. D Bag out.