I found the show on my Prime Instant Video on my iPad one day. I watched a few episodes and knew I had to get the entire series and couldn't resist buying it.
Keep in mind this isn't a specialized collection. That is it doesn't come in a huge box like you'd find with other collections. Instead it's just seasons 1 through 9 and the two movies wrapped up into a collection. You don't get a special box that you can keep on your movie stand. That is one thing I'd like to clear out. Then again I never was a fan of boxes so just having the show is perfect.
The series is 100% complete in that you follow Mulder and Scully from season 1 through the end. I never really had any liking to Robert Patrick starring in it and really haven't started watching that part of the show yet.
I remember as a kid coming home everyday and watching XFiles among other great shows. I think I forgotten most of the shows and everytime I see it pop up, either by accident or through browsing, I have to check if there's a complete season pack for it or not. I'm very glad this is out on dvd and now I can watch it hopefully forever.
So what makes XFiles so great? Well the reason is rather interesting. The show deals with what I would like to consider two types of episodes. The majority of the episodes centers around some sort of investigation into the supernatural. Mulder is typically interested and much more believable to ufos, mass government conspiracies, super natural beings, and other things of that nature. Scully acts as the skeptic in these episodes. She is more of the audience citing scientific reasons. I think it kind of gets annoying eventually when each episode falls into this pattern where Scully is skeptical, never believing and Mulder is the only one seemingly able to piece things together. However, the show does have a nice way to make it not so annoying but in all the show centers around this theme.
The second type of episodes are generally the connecting episodes, if I can word that right. It centers around a greater plot that Mulder and Scully are in. The episodes loosely connects to one another overall in that some events Mulder and Scully take part in are brought up or connected in other episodes down the line. However, one consistent theme that generates some episodes is the greater conspiracy that Mulder and Scully are in where they fight against an unknown government cover up and they are left to solve it. These episodes sort of pan out throughout the season. One big theme is centered around Mulder and his sister who Mulder believes was abducted by aliens when they were young children. Throughout the seasons, Mulder experiences many explanations and findings about his missing sister. There is one episode that "concludes" it but brings up a lot more question and I don't think it really brings justice to the overall plot they were trying to show.
XFiles have many funny episodes featuring Mulder and Scully. Some of my favorites include a Cop parody where Mulder and Scully unknowingly volunteered themselves to be on the hit TV show Cops. Other funny episodes include where Mulder and Scully go undercover to be husbands and wives in some crazy gated community with a weird home owners association and rules.
The show gets into nearly every imaginable supernatural and conspiracy theories that you can think of. From basic witchcrafting all the way up to super government ufo coverups, the show really never left out anything.
Overall the show is excellent. I think the show sort of had its niche in TV shows. For me, the show has made me read some books and such about the supernatural, ufos, mass government cover up, and so on. The odd thing is that in modern times, I think xfiles would prove excellent with all the recent events that took place mainly after the show ended. I wonder what xfiles would be like if it aired today? Probably more of a documentary than a hit tv show.
My opinion is that everyone should get this dvd if you grew up in the 90s. This is probably one of the best series that ran during the 90s and I really can't imagine anyone not having this in their collection.
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It was also nice to have since for a while Netflix wasn't including ...
The truth is out there! Could not pass up getting the complete series when it went on sale. It was also nice to have since for a while Netflix wasn't including subtitles or any onscreen text in their episodes so if one had a particularly heavy amount of foreign speech in it I was able to watch the DVD instead.
