The X-Files - The Complete Fifth Season (Slim Set)
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Movie Reviews of The X-Files - The Complete Fifth Season (Slim Set)
Movie Review: Still good, but the decline starts here
Summary: 4 Stars
The fifth season of The X-Files was the year I started to lose interest, esp. with the mythology that was beginning to drag along and go in circles. Add to that a few episodes that were meant to be funny, but I didn't think were so, with the humor becoming more forced than in early seasons.
Watching the entire season on DVD over a few days' time pretty much confirmed this feeling to me, though I still really enjoyed the season. Seasons 2-4 are the zenith of the series for me.
I still just don't buy Mulder's skepticism late in the season. It was a good idea to try, but he'd just seen too much in the earlier seasons to see him so completely believe that alien visitation was 100% faked by the gov't.
Still very good TV, of course, and a more serious decline starts in the sixth season (after the mildly disappointng feature film was released) with some really weak early season episodes that venture way too far into self-parody.
Movie Review: SHAFT!
Summary: 5 Stars
Season 5 is one of my favorites, though it seems to just fly by. I'm not sure why, but after a great season which brings us BAD BLOOD and THE MODERN PROMETHEUS as comical interludes, as well as the eerie faceless alien assassins, the return of "Old Smokey" ,and an accursed doll from Cthulhu's toybox, it's difficult to see how the 6th season is such a let-down. This was the last of the good seasons in my opinion, the writing really cracks inot the six-pack of whoop-ass...unfortunately they seemed to use it all up combatting the Tea Leone/David Duchovny Duo which forced their relocation to LA (and then a season later or so still dropped the ball on them! What a prick!)Movie Review: A very good season
Summary: 5 Stars
The X files- the complete fifth season was a very good season because it has suspense, action, thrills and good story lines. All the elements which make it one of the best seasons and worth buying.Movie Review: Great season for "X-Files" Fans
Summary: 5 Stars
With the focus on "The X-Files" film, the fifth season was shorter but still strong. "Emily" aboutthe fate of Scully's daughter, "The Pine Bluff Variant" about home grown terrorists using a nasty bioagent (with a memorable scene in a movie theater ironically showing "Die Hard with a Vengeance" as two kids discover the audience isn't "all there")and the David Lynch-like "The Post-Modern Prometheus" are all outstanding episodes demonstrating the series was willing to go in new directions. The "mythology" episodes and the stand alones are equally strong.
Although there had been rumors that Carter intended to close out the series with "The End", I personally believe the title was meant ironically. It seemed to me that the series still had much to offer and while seasons 6 wasn't quite up to 5 and 7 spun off into some pretty goofy, wild directions, the series is still worthwhile for its entire run (yes, even the hated season 9 which still has enough highlights to make it worthwhile). The series didn't find its footing again after 6 until season 8 when Robert Patrick breezed in and brought some much needed energy to the series. The best episodes here are every bit the equal of the best from seasons 1-4.
There's a 45 minutes documentary about the challenges of the fifth season. There's also deleted scenes for a number of classic episodes and two commentary tracks one for "Pine" and the other for "Prometheus". Picture quality is excellent with just a touch of edge enhancement but otherwise flawless. With prices dropping (particularly at Best Buy through July 4 at $45.00 for each set), they'll be popular again for fans that didn't buy them the first go round.
Movie Review: The End
Summary: 5 Stars
Season five will always be remembered as the last season filmed in Vancouver, and as the end of the so called "glory years." Also, several people say that it was in this season that the mythology had become too hard to follow, but I don't think so. Some people also say that the mythology episodes are dull. What are they talking about!? Season five has 4 of the greatest mythology episodes in the history of the show. Below I have a summary of some of the seasons good episodes, of which there were alot of.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Redux: Mulder is in fact alive, and he goes to the Pentagon to look for a cure for Scully's cancer. Meanwhile, Scully covers up Mulder's death, but Skinner sees through it.
Redux II: Scully faints and has to be rushed off too the hospital due to her cancer. Mulder gets in touch with CSM who will give him the cure to Scully's cancer if he quits the FBI.
Unusual Suspects: We go back to 1989 to discover how the Lone Gunmen came to be.
Detour: Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of a man in Florida. Some good one liners through out.
Christmas Carol: My favorite episode. Scully receives a phone call that she traces to the Sim residence, where she finds a child she believes to be her dead sisters.
Emily: Scully finds out that Emily is in fact her daughter, and shetries to protect her, but someone is out to kill her.
Kitsunegari: Robert "Pusher" Modell has escaped from a psych ward and begins toying with Mulder's mind.
Bad Blood: Mulder and Scully argue about the events of what happened to them in Texas. Very funny.
Patient X: An alien abductee has Scully beginning to believe in aliens.
The Red And The Black: Scully survives the faceless aliens on the bridge, and she goes with Mulder to try and uncover the truth.
Pine Bluff Variant: Mulder tries to stop a man from spreading a deadly virus, but Scully thinks Mulder is a part of it.
The End: The near assassination of a 12 year old boy has leads Mulder to a stunning conclusion that could be the ultimate proof of extraterrestrial life.
The fifth season will always be remembered as the season of the hilarious self parody episode Bad Blood, but some people seem to forget that season five is home to some of the best mythology episodes in the series.