The X-Files - The Complete Seventh Season
by Chris Carter
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Actor: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, X-FilesDirector: Chris Carter
Brand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 999 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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DVD Review: Unparalled Excellence
Summary: 5 Stars
There has been an enormous amount of revisionism concerning the seventh season of the X Files. And it must be said, the seventh season was when many of the X Files' so-called fan community on the Internet began to irrationally attack the show. This is to be expected. For a show to be as challenging, popular and emotionally charged as the X Files was, many people naturally found themselves unable to keep up as the show continued to break more ground. Others were stymied by the breakneck changes in tone that the seventh season reveled in. Others were intimidated as Chris Carter broke off from a predictable and easily digestable good guys-bad guys narrative with the Alien conspiracy and dug even further into the far theoretical reaches of Paranormal and Conspiracy research. The X Files very much charted the intellectual and metaphysical journey of its creators, and in the seventh season the black and white hats were left behind forever, replaced by disruptive and unsettling shades of gray.
But for those familiar with the ground Carter and Co. were travelling, season 7 was a mind-blowing journey that kicked at the doors of consciousness itself. In it, HG Wells and Richard Matheson were replaced by Carlos Casteneda and Zecharia Sitchin. Simple answers and tidy resolutions were no longer forthcoming, because the real-time source material that the show's writers were plundering didn't offer any either. All that was offered was more questions. And questions within questions, and so ad infinitum. What the X Files was doing had not been seen on television before.
The series kicked off with the landmark "Sixth Extinction" two-parter, a hallucinogenic journey into the world of alien astronaut origin theory, clairvoyance, deep parapsychology and radical eschatology. How a show that claimed that human and religious origins can be traced to alien intervention ever got aired is a mystery to me. It certainly couldn't be aired today.
After the rocket ride of that two-parter, we got a light-hearted critique of self-improvement psychology and 12 step programs with "Hungry". But maybe the change wasn't so radical as one might think. As Mulder and Scully struggled with the reality of their fundamentally altered genetic structure in Sixth Extinction, "Hungry" tells us that maybe there are things about ourselves we can't change.
"Millennium" wrapped up the loose strands of that eponymous series and offered a biting yet subtle critique on what level of morality and consciousness the dogmatic Biblical literalists striving to usher in Armageddon really possess.
"Rush" is an homage to the superhero the Flash, and shows the horror of great power put in the hands of moral pygmies. "The Goldberg Variation" is an attack on the very idea of randomness and causality, and the cinematography is bathed in warm, golden tones, as if illustrating the presence of a divine watchmaker unbeholden to our limited physical concepts.
"Orison" is a meditation on the limits of our moral concepts and the impotence of our religious strivings in the face of true evil. It posits that sometimes evil must be fought with evil. Or at least with ruthless clarity.
"The Amazing Maleeni" is a light-hearted puzzle piece about stage Magic, and somewhat of a tribute to the 70's classic film, the Sting. Magicians Ricky Jay and Jonathan Levit bring an air of authenticity to the proceedings. "Signs & Wonders" is a jarring defense of pure belief against hair-splitting rationalizing, with the message being: believe or don't. Don't stand in the middle of the road. In hindsight, this subversive episode was simply a setup for the leaps Chris Carter would ask the viewer to make in the following two-parter.
"Sein Und Zeit" and "Closure" are perhaps the most radical and unsettling episodes of the entire series, and pack a bone-crushing emotional wallop that one would expect more from cinema. The central question of the X Files was always the whereabouts of Mulder's sister, whose disappearance started him on his quest to begin with. With seven years of questions and heart-breaking red herrings, Carter could not simply have her re-appear again. So he put all his chips in and raised the stakes.
In these exquisitely rendered episodes, Carter introduces a concept torn from the farthest reaches of metaphysical speculation and not only makes it work in context of the story, but makes you utterly believe in the story's central premise. Anthony Heald guest stars and puts in one of the greatest performances of the show's history.
Allowing the viewer to catch their breath, "X-Cops" brilliantly satirizes Fox's police verite series and also manages to make a statement on the nature of fear. "First Person Shooter" is a throwaway, however. William Gibson's script rehashes his early 80's riffs and the episode is notable only for being one of the few showcases for the Lone Gunmen in Season 7.
"Theef" is a throwback to Season 2 metaphysical horror and is a perfectly enjoyable standalone. "En Ami" is written by Cigarette Smoking Man William Davis himself, and is a tightly constructed story of a double cross, with a subplot questioning the origin of religious faith. "Chimera" explores the rage and lust lurking beneath the pleasant facade of Suburbia.
"all things" follows "Chimera's"exploration of marital infidelity with a story written by Gillian Anderson about Scully's torrid affair with her mentor/teacher from medical school and the effect it had on his family. The episode also continues the path of Scully's journey from die-hard skeptic to reluctant believer.
The next four episodes are standalones. "Brand X" is the X Files take on the Russell Crowe film, "the Insider." "Hollywood AD" is a hilarious satire on Hollywood phoniness, written by David Duchovny. The subplot seems to posit that Hollywood is the new Vatican. "Fight Club" is a mess and stars Kathy Griffin, an actress whose voice is like fingernails on a blackboard pumped through a stadium PA to my ears. "Je Souhaite" is a wonderful recovery and is a humorous meditation of the futility of trying to interfere with the Divine Plan.
"Requiem" brings the series full circle, back to Bellfleur, Oregon, the site of the series' pilot. This powerful episode is filled with the jarring shocks and unsettling imagery Chris Carter trades in, and is a good jumping off point for those who don't have the taste for the post-Duchovny X Files. In its way it's similar to "the End", the last episode of the fifth season. If you didn't like the post-Vancouver era of the show and wanted to end your experience on a suitably downbeat note, you could stop there.
So, where do you stand on the X Files? Was it simply a good, solid dose of pulp fiction for you, or did you appreciate the exploration and manifestation of deep left field concepts it offered? The answer to that question will determine your enjoyment of this season. But I think on any level, Season 7 delivers and is worth your time. If you think you don't like it, try it again and see if you are willing to go to the uncharted terrain the show's creators want to take you.
Description of The X-Files - The Complete Seventh Season
Now you can own the entire seventh season of THE X-FILES?. ALL 22 classic episodes from David Duchovny's last full season as Agent Fox Muler are available for the first time in this exclusive 6-disc collector's edition. From Scully discovering the alien spacecraft in "The Sixth Extinction" and Mulder finally learning the truth about his sister in "Closure," to Mulder's own disappearance and Scully's miraculous pregnancy in "Requiem," these Season Seven episodes are a must for every X-Files fan!Bestsellers in DVD
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