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Twentieth Century Fox home Entertainment.
<center><h3> X-Files: Complete Season 3</h3>
Release Date: Out Now!
Twentieth Century Fox home Entertainment
Rating: M15+
RRP: $199.95</center>
<center><b>CAST</b></center>
David Duchovney, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis.
Director: Chris Carter
<center><b>THE X-FILES 3 : THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON</b></center>
Once considered a "cult" television series by many, The X-Files quickly become a very popular main stream phenomenon.
The X-Files may not be to everyone's taste, but there's no denying that this series has become a firm part of television history and has regularly become a weekly (in some cases, daily) ritual for many, many people in not only television form, but also in the way of merchandise, memorabilia, fan clubs, internet sites, a feature film and DVD of course.
Hot on the heels of the popular series 1 & 2 DVD releases of the X-Files, comes what many believe to be the best season yet, and I couldn't agree more.
Season 3 of the X-Files was made with a bigger budget and the show was riding high on the popularity of the X-Files phenomenon. Season 3 contained in my opinion, some of the funniest, scariest and more memorable episodes to date. (I still get a laugh when seeing Alex Trebek (U.S Jeopardy Host) & former Professional Wrestler now State Governor, Jesse "The Body" Ventura play the two "Men In Black" in the episode Jose' Chung's "From Outer Space".)
The X-Files Season 3 comes on 7 discs and is loaded with extra features that contain plenty of good information and some funny stories from behind the scenes.
<center><b>THE EPISODES</b></center>
Disc 1.
The Blessing Way
Season opener and part 2 of 3 episodes.
Cancerman works quickly to recover the stolen computer files while Mulder hangs between life and death and Scully is faced with suspension from the FBI.
Paper Clip
Part 3 of 3 episodes.
Reunited, Mulder and Scully uncover an ugly truth from the past located in an abandoned mine.
This discovery however could lead to their detahs.
D.P.O
A series of bizarre lightning deaths brings Mulder and Scully to a small Oaklahoma town. Their prime suspect is a teenager who survived a lightning strike and Mulder now suspects of having the ability to harness and channel the power of lightning.
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
While investigating a case in which a serial killer is preying on fortune tellers Mulder and Scully come across a man who Mulder believes to be a genuine pshchic who can see how people are going to die.
Disc 2.
The List
A death row inmate promises to be reincarnated -- and to return to kill a list of people who have wronged him. When a mysterious death of a prison guard occurs after his execution, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate.
2Shy
Mulder and Scully track a serial killer with a bizarre and horrifying M.O. The agents find themselves strangely without many leads, although the victims have several things in common.
Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, the serial killer seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.
The Walk
Mulder and Scully travel to a military hospital to investigate a suicide attempt by a patient and the talk of a "phantom soldier" that prevented the man's death.
Oubliette
When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker miles away collapse on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.
Disc 3.
Nisei
Part 1 of 2
Mulder and Scully unravel another thread in the government's conspiracy to hide the truth about extraterrestrial life when Mulder uncovers a video of a "real" alien autopsy.
The investigation becomes much more complicated when the distributor of the tape murdered in his own home apparently by a high-ranking Japanese diplomat.
731
Part 2 of 2
Mulder and Scully's search for the truth becomes even more dangerous when Mulder, having ignored the advice given him, finds himself trapped on the train with a Japanese scientist and the man sent to kill him. Meanwhile, Scully takes X's advice to heart and investigates more into the implant she removed from her neck.
Revelations
Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious death of Reverend Finley, who falsely proclaimed himself a stigmatic. Mulder recalls other murders of false stigmatics, and suspects a serial killer. When a young boy experiences bleeding palms, Mulder and Scully can't agree whether the wounds are self inflicted, but agree he needs protection from the killer.
War of the Coprophages
While waiting out the fumigation of his apartment Mulder investigates a series of deaths in which the only common denominator is the presence of cockroaches which appear to be killing residents of a Massachusetts town.
Disc 4
Syzygy
Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the deaths of several high school students in the small town of Comity which are believed to be the work of a satanic cult in the area.
Mulder however believes the deaths are the result of a rare planetary alignment that is affecting people's behaviour, including Mulder and Scully.
Grotesque
Agents Mulder and Scully join Mulder's former mentor, the FBI's chief profiler, on a case involving a serial killer who claims to have been possessed by an evil force. The case gets even more mysterious when the suspect is apprehended and the murders continue.
Piper Maru
Part 1 of 2
When a French salvage ship sends a diving crew to recover a mysterious wreckage from World War II, the crew falls prey to a bizarre illness and Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation.
Scully's thoughts return to her murdered sister as she goes to the naval base where she grew up to question an old neighbour if he knows anything about the undersea location.
Apocrypha
Part 2 of 2
As Agents Mulder and Scully continue to investigate a bizarre illness that originated with the discovery of a mysterious World War II wreckage buried at sea, Mulder uncovers more clues about a government cover up, Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister and Skinner fights for his life.
Disc 5.
Pusher
A man is apprehended yet escapes after he claims to be the hired killer of 14 people whose deaths had previously been ruled as suicides. The man, who seems to have the ability to control others, desires a challenge, leaving clues for Mulder and Scully to follow as he sets up his contest of wills.
Teso Dos Bichos
When a series of deaths occur immediately after an ancient artefact is brought to Boston from an excavation site in South America, Mulder and Scully go to investigate.
According to Scully, the deaths appear to be the result of political terrorism, but Mulder suspects something more improbable.
Hell Money
When the night watchmen discovers a man being burned alive in a funeral home, it brings Mulder and Scully to investigate the deaths of many Chinese immigrants in the San Francisco bay area. With the aid of a Cantonese speaking detective, they chance upon the clues which lead them to a game where you truly bet your life.
Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
Famous writer Jose Chung, who wishes to interview Scully and Mulder for his latest book on alien abduction has come to obtain Scully and Mulder's version of events of the apparent abduction of two teenagers and two grey aliens by the Lord Kinbote.
Disc 6.
Avatar
Dealing with having to sign the divorce papers from his wife, Assistant Director Skinner inadvertantly spends the night with a prostitute and wakes the next morning to find her dead by his side. Unable to explain the events, he half-believes he may have killed the woman.
Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation to clear their supervisor's name. As they unravel the threads of a conspiracy, they also learn more about Skinner's personal affairs.
Quagmire
The disappearance of a federal wildlife official at Heuvelmans Lake sees Mulder and Scully
headed to Georgia to investigate. Mulder suspects the perpetrator is Big Blue, a legendary Loch Ness like monster that is reported to inhabit the lake.
Wet Wired
While investigating a pair of multiple homicides the agents discover row upon row of video tapes at the home of one of the murderers. When they view footage of the cable news shows on the tapes, Scully begins to act very strangely. Her trust in Mulder is put to the test while Mulder sets out to prove it isn't what you see on television that causes violence, but what you don't.
Talitha Cumi
Season Final - Part 1 of 2
Agents Mulder and Scully's search for a man who seems to possess the ability to heal with a touch leads to the discovery of a dangerous secret from Mulder's past. The secret could bring Mulder and Scully to the brink of exposing the truth about alien existence.
Disc 7.
This is the Extra Features Disc.
<h3>Find out more in part 2 of this review which can be found in the thread below this one. </h3>
Size restictions on messages here in the site require me to split the review between 2 threads.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
<center><h3> X-Files: Complete Season 3</h3>
Release Date: Out Now!
Twentieth Century Fox home Entertainment
Rating: M15+
RRP: $199.95</center>
<center><b>CAST</b></center>
David Duchovney, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis.
Director: Chris Carter
<center><b>THE X-FILES 3 : THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON</b></center>
Once considered a "cult" television series by many, The X-Files quickly become a very popular main stream phenomenon.
The X-Files may not be to everyone's taste, but there's no denying that this series has become a firm part of television history and has regularly become a weekly (in some cases, daily) ritual for many, many people in not only television form, but also in the way of merchandise, memorabilia, fan clubs, internet sites, a feature film and DVD of course.
Hot on the heels of the popular series 1 & 2 DVD releases of the X-Files, comes what many believe to be the best season yet, and I couldn't agree more.
Season 3 of the X-Files was made with a bigger budget and the show was riding high on the popularity of the X-Files phenomenon. Season 3 contained in my opinion, some of the funniest, scariest and more memorable episodes to date. (I still get a laugh when seeing Alex Trebek (U.S Jeopardy Host) & former Professional Wrestler now State Governor, Jesse "The Body" Ventura play the two "Men In Black" in the episode Jose' Chung's "From Outer Space".)
The X-Files Season 3 comes on 7 discs and is loaded with extra features that contain plenty of good information and some funny stories from behind the scenes.
<center><b>THE EPISODES</b></center>
Disc 1.
The Blessing Way
Season opener and part 2 of 3 episodes.
Cancerman works quickly to recover the stolen computer files while Mulder hangs between life and death and Scully is faced with suspension from the FBI.
Paper Clip
Part 3 of 3 episodes.
Reunited, Mulder and Scully uncover an ugly truth from the past located in an abandoned mine.
This discovery however could lead to their detahs.
D.P.O
A series of bizarre lightning deaths brings Mulder and Scully to a small Oaklahoma town. Their prime suspect is a teenager who survived a lightning strike and Mulder now suspects of having the ability to harness and channel the power of lightning.
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
While investigating a case in which a serial killer is preying on fortune tellers Mulder and Scully come across a man who Mulder believes to be a genuine pshchic who can see how people are going to die.
Disc 2.
The List
A death row inmate promises to be reincarnated -- and to return to kill a list of people who have wronged him. When a mysterious death of a prison guard occurs after his execution, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate.
2Shy
Mulder and Scully track a serial killer with a bizarre and horrifying M.O. The agents find themselves strangely without many leads, although the victims have several things in common.
Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, the serial killer seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.
The Walk
Mulder and Scully travel to a military hospital to investigate a suicide attempt by a patient and the talk of a "phantom soldier" that prevented the man's death.
Oubliette
When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, a fast food worker miles away collapse on the job, apparently experiencing exactly what the child is feeling. When Mulder learns that the woman was kidnapped and held hostage for years as a child, he begins to believe that she may be the key to help find the missing girl.
Disc 3.
Nisei
Part 1 of 2
Mulder and Scully unravel another thread in the government's conspiracy to hide the truth about extraterrestrial life when Mulder uncovers a video of a "real" alien autopsy.
The investigation becomes much more complicated when the distributor of the tape murdered in his own home apparently by a high-ranking Japanese diplomat.
731
Part 2 of 2
Mulder and Scully's search for the truth becomes even more dangerous when Mulder, having ignored the advice given him, finds himself trapped on the train with a Japanese scientist and the man sent to kill him. Meanwhile, Scully takes X's advice to heart and investigates more into the implant she removed from her neck.
Revelations
Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious death of Reverend Finley, who falsely proclaimed himself a stigmatic. Mulder recalls other murders of false stigmatics, and suspects a serial killer. When a young boy experiences bleeding palms, Mulder and Scully can't agree whether the wounds are self inflicted, but agree he needs protection from the killer.
War of the Coprophages
While waiting out the fumigation of his apartment Mulder investigates a series of deaths in which the only common denominator is the presence of cockroaches which appear to be killing residents of a Massachusetts town.
Disc 4
Syzygy
Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the deaths of several high school students in the small town of Comity which are believed to be the work of a satanic cult in the area.
Mulder however believes the deaths are the result of a rare planetary alignment that is affecting people's behaviour, including Mulder and Scully.
Grotesque
Agents Mulder and Scully join Mulder's former mentor, the FBI's chief profiler, on a case involving a serial killer who claims to have been possessed by an evil force. The case gets even more mysterious when the suspect is apprehended and the murders continue.
Piper Maru
Part 1 of 2
When a French salvage ship sends a diving crew to recover a mysterious wreckage from World War II, the crew falls prey to a bizarre illness and Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation.
Scully's thoughts return to her murdered sister as she goes to the naval base where she grew up to question an old neighbour if he knows anything about the undersea location.
Apocrypha
Part 2 of 2
As Agents Mulder and Scully continue to investigate a bizarre illness that originated with the discovery of a mysterious World War II wreckage buried at sea, Mulder uncovers more clues about a government cover up, Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister and Skinner fights for his life.
Disc 5.
Pusher
A man is apprehended yet escapes after he claims to be the hired killer of 14 people whose deaths had previously been ruled as suicides. The man, who seems to have the ability to control others, desires a challenge, leaving clues for Mulder and Scully to follow as he sets up his contest of wills.
Teso Dos Bichos
When a series of deaths occur immediately after an ancient artefact is brought to Boston from an excavation site in South America, Mulder and Scully go to investigate.
According to Scully, the deaths appear to be the result of political terrorism, but Mulder suspects something more improbable.
Hell Money
When the night watchmen discovers a man being burned alive in a funeral home, it brings Mulder and Scully to investigate the deaths of many Chinese immigrants in the San Francisco bay area. With the aid of a Cantonese speaking detective, they chance upon the clues which lead them to a game where you truly bet your life.
Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
Famous writer Jose Chung, who wishes to interview Scully and Mulder for his latest book on alien abduction has come to obtain Scully and Mulder's version of events of the apparent abduction of two teenagers and two grey aliens by the Lord Kinbote.
Disc 6.
Avatar
Dealing with having to sign the divorce papers from his wife, Assistant Director Skinner inadvertantly spends the night with a prostitute and wakes the next morning to find her dead by his side. Unable to explain the events, he half-believes he may have killed the woman.
Agents Mulder and Scully join the investigation to clear their supervisor's name. As they unravel the threads of a conspiracy, they also learn more about Skinner's personal affairs.
Quagmire
The disappearance of a federal wildlife official at Heuvelmans Lake sees Mulder and Scully
headed to Georgia to investigate. Mulder suspects the perpetrator is Big Blue, a legendary Loch Ness like monster that is reported to inhabit the lake.
Wet Wired
While investigating a pair of multiple homicides the agents discover row upon row of video tapes at the home of one of the murderers. When they view footage of the cable news shows on the tapes, Scully begins to act very strangely. Her trust in Mulder is put to the test while Mulder sets out to prove it isn't what you see on television that causes violence, but what you don't.
Talitha Cumi
Season Final - Part 1 of 2
Agents Mulder and Scully's search for a man who seems to possess the ability to heal with a touch leads to the discovery of a dangerous secret from Mulder's past. The secret could bring Mulder and Scully to the brink of exposing the truth about alien existence.
Disc 7.
This is the Extra Features Disc.
<h3>Find out more in part 2 of this review which can be found in the thread below this one. </h3>
Size restictions on messages here in the site require me to split the review between 2 threads.
Sorry for any inconvenience.