X-Files: The Complete Sixth Season Widescreen Collector's Edition 6 Discs: Amazon.ca: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Patrick, Tom Braidwood, William B. Davis, Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund, Nicholas Lea, Annabeth Gish, James Pickens Jr., Sheila Larken, Bryan Spicer, Chris Carter, Daniel Sackheim, Kim Manners, Michael W. Watkins, Peter Markle, Rob Bowman: DVD

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Following the X-Files feature film in the summer of 1998, "The Beginning" quickly crowbars an attempt at fitting the film into the TV chronology before it picks up plot points left dangling from the fifth-season finale, "The End" (note the guard asleep at the nuclear power plant console is named Homer!). Between arc threads are several pleasing excursions: time travel to a Bermuda Triangle boatload of Nazis ("Triangle"), further temporal escapades akin to Groundhog Day ("Monday"), a demonic baby case featuring genre stalwart Bruce Campbell ("Terms of Endearment"), and Duchovny being able to play someone else via personality switching ("The Dreamland, Parts 1 and 2"). Back in the real scheme of things, Mulder chases "S.R. 819," a Senate resolution tying conspiracies together. "Two Fathers" and "One Son" indicate that the abductee experiments are intended to cure the black oil disease. The year finishes with "BioGenesis," in which we're asked to ponder, are we from Mars? A beach-buried UFO leaves Scully wondering. --Paul Tonks

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THE UNBELIEVABLE BECOMES UNDENIABLE. Now you can own the entire sixth season of THE X-FILES(tm). All 22 classic episodes are available for the first time in this exclusive 6-disc collector's edition. From "The Beginning," "Dreamland" and "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" to "Two Fathers," "One Son" and "Biogenesis," these Season Six episodes are a must for every X-Files fan.

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4.0 out of 5 stars X-cellent, if slightly muddled, Sep 19 2002

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David L Jones (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-Files: The Complete Sixth Season (Widescreen Collector's Edition) [6 Discs] (DVD)

This season 1013 Productions moved it's production team down to LA, and they let you know this with the first shot of the first episode of the season, where a glaring sun sits in a blue sky of heat, resting on a desert plateau.
This was the start of something slightly different for The X-Files, some think for the better, some not. There was more of a comedic element involved in many episodes, but the show didn't lose it's dramatic edge either, while still keeping the Mulder-Scully banter very much alive. There were winners and losers in season six, and middle ground to be fought over too. In hindsight, the mytharc episodes of this season accomplished the incredibly feat of not only answering almost all of the questions fans (and Mulder) have been searching for, but also started a new strand of mythology that would not be finally concluded until the show's denouement - and all in six episodes. Other winners include "Monday", "Tithonus", "Rain King", "Drive" and of course the beautifully-constructed "Triangle", which earned Chris Carter some due Emmy attention. Middle ground includes such episodes as "Arcadia", which while a less-than-superb episode with reference to the actual story, did display amusing insights into the continuing affection between Mulder and Scully. There were losers too, of course, but when compared to some of the other "televisual feasts" that have shared history by being on-air the same time as X-Files, the production values of this show alone make the series the acme, not only of the science-fiction genre for the past decade, but also the epitome of that once-dead package: The one-hour drama. It was The X-Files that revived the one-hour drama and the fledling network Fox, and it is this show that endured for nine years because of the incredible amount of hard work that went into it. Season Six may not be the best season of the show, but it is certainly one of the best seasons of television. This season The X-Files was nominated for over half a dozen Emmy awards, and won two Golden Globes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The point of no return., July 26 2002

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Jose (Bedford, New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-Files: The Complete Sixth Season (Widescreen Collector's Edition) [6 Discs] (DVD)

This season was amazing. After the incredible Season 5 ending, the movie gave a vision of the mythology that was very well taken in Season 6. It opens with "The Beginning", where we see Gibson Praise again, as well as Agent Diane Fowley. It deals with the gestation of a new alien out from an infected person from the Black Oil.

Although the Season has its flaws like "The Rain King" (which started so good but had such a terrible conclusion), there are episodes like "One Son" and "Biogenesis" which make this season one of the most interesting. This is a season for answers, a lot of explanation of the conspiracy, the proyect and the syndicate in some big episodes. The tendency to leve more questions than answers is left behind. The Season Finalie ends in an amazing scene where Scully has an alien spaceship infront of her adn Mulder becomes the ultimate proof of the X Files.

Perhaps after this Season, the series mythology becomes more personal to Mulder and Scully, turning them into the foci of attention, but the truth is that this season is the point of no return for the mythology.

Grate Answers and astonishing writting. Defenitly worht of your money.

The Season 6 has 23 episodes:

The Beginning
Drive
Triangle
Dreamland
Dreamland II
Terms of Endearment
The Rain King
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Tithonus
S.R. 819
Two Fathers
One Son
Arcadia
Agua Mala
Monday
Alpha
Trevor
Milagro
Three of a Kind
The Unnatural
Field Trip
Biogenesis

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5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than season five..., Jun 29 2004

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Mitch Weaver (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: X-Files: The Complete Sixth Season (Widescreen Collector's Edition) [6 Discs] (DVD)

Up until a few months ago, I never watched a single episode of the X-Files. However, now that the DVD sets have been reduced in price, I had the opportunity to start watching the show. Right off the bat, I was hooked immediately and with each passing season the show became established in my eyes as one of the best and most addictive sci-fi shows ever created. After seeing the first five seasons, I didn't think that season five could be topped, because it did not have one bad episode. I was also somewhat skeptical about season six, because of how many fans that said the show went downhill after the show left Vancouver to be shot in Los Angeles. I just finished with the sixth season, and it feels like the move to L.A. was a blessing in disguise. The sixth season is without a doubt the best season I have seen so far.

The thing that suprised me the most about season six, was the fact that there were only three mythology episodes in "Two Fathers", "One Son", and "Biogenesis". Season six was the first season to be built almost solely upon stand alone episodes. However, the three episodes did such a wonderful job with the mythology of the show, that three episodes was all that season six needed. In fact, a season that was mainly comprised of stand alone episodes was definately a nice change of pace. Season six is filled with some of the best episodes of the entire show like "Triangle", "Dreamland" pts 1&2, "Monday" and "The Unnatural". Other episodes worth mentioning are "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" in which two ghosts try and convince Mulder and Scully to kill each other, "Arcadia" in which Mulder and Scully pose as a newly married couple, and "Drive" in which Mulder is trapped in a car with a man who forces Mulder to drive at high speeds to suppress a fatal ear condition.

Overall, season six of the X-Files managed to be even better than the fifth season and is now my favorite season. With top notch mythology episodes and fantastic stand alone episodes, this DVD set would be worth owning just for the season itself. However, the extras are also great as well. You get two featurettes, deleted scenes, commentary on "Triangle" and "Milagro", and more.

A solid 5 stars...

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