The X-Files - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
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Movie Reviews of The X-Files - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
Movie Review: My Favorite Season
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far my favorite season overall. X-Files fans will not be disappointed. Movie Review: Expect the unexpected
Summary: 5 Stars
As each of the seasons progress, X-Files just gets better and better. Mulder and Scully don't dispoint. This season contains episodes that get you on the edge of your seat. X-Files takes your imagination beyond the world of Science Fiction. Expect the unexpected. Movie Review: X-Cool
Summary: 5 Stars
It was so cool i bought the whole series. the package got here in time and it plays great! Excellent job! Excellent!!Movie Review: conduct
Summary: 5 Stars
The fourth season has all of it. Cancer, the smoking mans past, school kids getting whipped out by a disease carried by bees, and yes all other sorts of Mulder/Scully goodness. Almost complete perfection has been met by Chris Carter along with fellow writers and actors in this season. Movie Review: Technical Notes On The Slim Sets
Summary: 5 Stars
I wanted to point out something technical about the slim set discs that I bought. If you're looking for insight into the episodes or characters - please look elsewhere.
When I put the first disc of Season One into my DVD player, it started the "loading" process and gave me a disc error after about one minute. Instead of cursing Fox (well, I did it later anyway) I turned the player off, leaving the disc inside. After a couple of minutes, I turned my DVD player on and Viola! I heard the X-Files theme and saw the menus (after the obligatory FBI copyright infringement warnings).
For those wondering, the DVD player in question above is a Philips Progressive Scan. The same problem occurred on a newer Panasonic player. No glitches materialized when I tried the discs on the Sony or AKAI players. In all cases, I was eventually able to get to the episodes. With the first two the screen sometimes showed up scrambled and the menus inaccessible. On other occasions I was able to access a root menu similar to one you would see if you "explore" the DVD contents on a PC (Video_TS files, etc.), though the players would not load any content from these menus. Speaking of PC viewing, I experienced no problems with any of the discs on my PC and all four programs my PC has to play DVDs functioned perfectly.
PLEASE DON'T READ INTO THIS TOO MUCH. I don't work for Fox - I'm not trying to encourage sales of the more expensive sets. This was just a personal experience I had, and it seemed to occur less frequently with Seasons 4 - 9. My uneducated opinion: the equipment I have isn't top of the line, and maybe wasn't equipped to handle the way the content was compressed. I was impressed that 4, sometimes 5 episodes were squeezed on one disc. That's three - almost four hours of content. I know - dual layer DVDs and blah, blah, blah. But c'mon - even Lord of the Rings - Return of the King was issued on 2 discs! (By the way, the content looked and sounded great.)
Another side note: Seasons 1 - 4 that I got were full frame, and 5 - 9 are widescreen. At first I thought I had missed the option when purchasing these discs, but these are the only way I've found them at retail stores and online. Nothing major; I just thought I was losing my mind at first. (Which is still a possibility.) I can't remember if they aired this way on television - I just noticed that the cinematography got revved up a bit starting with Season 5. If this observation is incorrect, someone please feel free to correct me.
Okay. If you have read this entire review give yourself a pat on the back, a cookie, I dunno - watch some old Doctor Who episodes or something. A better price, better packaging, and better for you. (They were giving out a carton of Morley's with the bigger sets, right?) By the way - the 5 stars is based on my overall X-Files enjoyment. Sure, there are episodes I can skip through. But for me, it's good bang for the buck. Enjoy!