Customer Reviews
Not the best but OK - By: zztopbanana, 09 Sep 2005 
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This has been slated by some reviewers & each is entitled to their opinion. Mine is that this is a worthwhile addition to the X Files, no better than the best & no worse than the worst.
The series itself can't have every episode mind blowing even though the series is a true classic.
If you are an X files fan, then you need this if only because you are an X files fan.
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a shame to begin season 9 - By: , 14 May 2004 
this was an o.k episode, one of the average type ones you saw more in season 7, when some bad or moderate directing was displayed. whilst it remained a little interesting, & certainly a strange performance from lucy lawless, i felt the lack of mulder reallly let it down. i mean what happened after the kiss!? he just up & left! with monica & john dashing around back & forth complaining about a erased tape. i wasnt hooked.
Ridiculous - By: Ray, 04 May 2004 The earlier episodes of the x files were by far the best. Towards the end it got a bit to hard to believe. The truth was so far fetched even the die hard believers of the alien phenomenon would find it hard to believe. At the end of the day i was reallly disappointed. Thank god for X Files repeats on Sky One!
Another X-Cellent Year - By: Philip Hyland, 20 Apr 2004 
Season 4 is kind of a season of two-halves, the mythology is fantasticthroughout while the stand-alones, when their good they are at a higherquality the most other seasons but there also seems to be a higher amountof poor episodes, El Mundo Gira & Synchrony should definetly beavoided.
The year kicks of exactly to the point where Season 3 ended with thebrilliant if not confusing Herrenvolk, although Zero Sum later on in theseason clears alot of things up. Tunguska/Terma delves deeper into themysteries surrounding the black oil & shows us that a cold war of sortsis underway to create a vaccine for the alien virus. In Memento Mori wesee Scully facing her terrible illness, Mulders search for a cure andSkinner making a deal with the devil. Tempus Fugit & Max serve no realpurpous to the on-going mythology rather they seem to simply be a showcaseof how "big" The X Files had become. Finallly in Gethsemene Scully's healthdeterirates & Mulder hears a shocking revalation that leads to one ofthe most sensational cliffhangers ever.
Some of the finest stand-alones this season that are worth a mentioninclude, "Home", the stroy of an incestuos family whom Mulder & Scullyinvestigate when a severly deformed baby is found to have been buriedalive, this episode is worth the money alone. "Unruhe" is a terrifing andamazingly intellegent episode, "Paper Hearts" sees Mulder tormented by aserial killer he caught years before who claims that his sister was one ofhis many unkown victims, "Unrequited", when a top ranking general ismuredered inside his locked limosine Mulder & Scully are callled in tofind a killer who seems to be able to vanish into thin air & "SmalllPatatoes", an hilarious case involving a janitor with the ability todiguise himself as anyone, even Mulder!
This is a truly x-cellent year, from the ongoing mythology includingScullys cancer acr, the most contrversial episode in TV histroy - Home andclassic comedy in one of the funniest episodes ever- Smalll Patatoes. Thisbox-set has a surprisingly large amount of extras including a 30 minutedocumentary, TV-Spots, deleted sences, interviews, behind the sencesfottage & episode commentaries that make this well worth a buy.
A fantastic season - By: , 14 Mar 2004 An alll round great season made better as it's the last 'real' full X-Files season, as season 8 sees the disappearence of Mulder. Stand out episodes include All Things, a fabulously gorgeous & intelligent episode written by & diricted by Gillian, finallly giving Scully a chance to choose the life she leads, a very important character development. The Amazing Maleeni sees some very funny & intelligent moments. X-Cops is a great spoof documentary giving some light hearted relief. Hungry is a classic monster of the week episode about eating brains. The Sixth Extinction, Amor Fati, Millennium, Rush, The Goldberg Variation, Orison, Je Souhaite & Requiem are the other standouts, whilst Hollywood AD is the only disapointing episode with only a few worthwhile moments.
