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5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent beginning to an iconic show, May 9, 2010
This review is from: The X-Files Season 1 (Amazon Instant Video)
I was one of those people who caught Xfiles in syndication, thank you so much TNT and SyFy channels that I caught up just before the shows ending, I was avid, staying up all hours of the nite to catch the episodes I had missed. To bad they didn't release these dvds much sooner, but had it not been for syndication just as we are finding with Lost, and being able to watch it on the computer it reached an audience that never would of been able to catch up to its mythology had it not been for repeats bless em. Pilots and Finale's are the hardest of all to catch again if they even rebroad cast them. The finale I had caught again however I was never sure what the pilot was, I certainly didn't catch it as the original x-file watchers did those lucky few to have been sitting at home on a friday nite waaaaaay back in 1993 now 17 I can't believe it years ago.
For those lucky enough to have caught this pilot no wonder they came back for more, it set them up perfectly, just enough about the characters it was so smart it made you care about them right away...that is amazing.
It also told you why we were here...the character had his sister stolen in the nite and was hell bent on finding out what happened to her, and was such a gallant knight that anything nefarious was going to be exposed if he had anything to do with it, it showed a naive Scully who during the pilot clearly believed that the laws were created to protect people and that the goverment actually gave a damned and upheld them, poor Scully we find out later.
1993 was the first year that Fox channel had regular programming for every prime-time slot it had been around since late 80's but was piece meal until this year and X-Files was its huge break out, watch me show, besides the Simpsons and Married with children.
Creator Carter loved "Kolchak the nightstalker", and seems Scully was borrowed a big from Jodie Fosters "Clarise Starling" of Silence of the Lambs.
1993 a time when people who were raised on science fiction and horror films of the 80's came of age, it used stories it read in papers and I am sure conspiracy websites and such to get lots of storylines from....excellent writing, excellent acting, an hour on t.v. when the rest of the world fell away and we were totally engrossed in what was going on in the lives of Scully and Mulder. Fringe/Lost are the only shows that even come close to how interesting this was..and still doesn't quite match it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent value, November 20, 2011
This review is from: The X-Files Season 1 (Amazon Instant Video)
I have always been a fan of the X-files, but have never had the opportunity to see all the episodes. Amazon Prime now gives me that opportunity. The reviewers that gave negative marks obviously don't understand the concept of Amazon Prime and the value it provides, which is as bizarre as any given X-file episode.
This first season is fantastic and doesn't have a bad episode. Good start to a great series.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best sci fi series ever!, December 18, 2011
This review is from: The X-Files Season 1 (Amazon Instant Video)
With out a doubt, X Files has no parallel in today's TV shows - forget the vampires! Really! X Files combines science and religious allegory in unbelievable storytelling. Has not been topped yet.
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