X-files Season 7

The only Episode I bought this Season 7 DVD for is for the "X-Cops" Episode. It's Realistic in many ways, if that can be said about the "X-Files." The ANNOYING portions are "Scully" who still doesn't believe in the Paranormal, after SEVEN SEASONS of PROOF!? It's so SILLY to see and hear her character still "not believing" in things unseen.It's a silly and foolish concept the creator of the series and the writers drag out for an 'Eternity," after all the "Scully Character" has seen and been through. This Season, Season 11, is an ABOMINATION as far as I'm concerned. I stopped watching after Season 7. Enough.

Many of the episodes represent an interesting divergence from the more traditional storylines of seasons 1-5. Not to be missed is the David Duchovny penned "The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati," the inspiration for which was the novel, "The Last Temptation of Christ." You'll also certainly want to check out Hungry, Signs and Wonders, the meta-humorous X-Cops and Hollywood AD, and Sein Und Zeit/Closure- the last of which is the presumed ending of the Samantha storyline. Requiem, the season finale, is the jumping-off point for the mythology arc of the final two seasons- which while uneven, makes more sense on a second or third watch. Je Souhaite is a cute, very sweet episode that ends the Mulder/Scully era on a high note, and serves as a natural stopping point if you're uninterested in the Mulder abduction arc, or the Dogget/Reyes partnership of the eighth and ninth seasons. Overall, this season is a lot more flippant and whimsical than the grimness of earlier seasons, but still has a lot of interesting things to say about Mulder, Scully, and the intersection of humanity and all things weird.

Many X-files fans I talk to consider Season 7 to be a bit of a let down after Season 6. But I enjoyed it almost completely! There's a lot of great TV here just like the previous 6 seasons. Go in in with an open mind and if you've been binging up to this point, you may want to take a break for a week and let give yourself a well needed rest. I think most of the criticism of this season comes from those that are still feeding off the incredible ride that Season 6 is. Season 6 is definitely better than 7. But 7 is in NO WAY bad work. Go in with an open mind and enjoy.

Everyone has got to have a favorite episode and The Goldberg Variation is mine. I go back and watch it every now and then.Willie Garson is a natural to play the serendipitous Henry Weems. He's gullible, naive, sweet and unbelievably lucky--or soScully thinks but Mulder believes his incredible luck is the X file. The way Willie gets out of all the scrapes with the bad guys is absolutely marvelous. It makes you wish it could rub off on you, too.The Rube Goldberg contraption is just as delightful to watch as the episode.And an added treat is to see a young Shia LaBeouf as Richie -- the cute little kid.

It was early in Season 7 that I stopped watching "The X-Files" regularly. Maybe, after the pretensions and anticlimax of "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati," I had lost enough interest in the mythology to abandon the show (until the series finale). Whatever reason it was, it was only via syndicated reruns and this DVD set that I was finally able to catch all of the episodes from Season 7, which, in many ways, continued where Season 6---one of the most creative and inventive seasons of the show, I think---left off.Mythology-wise, Season 7 was basically about tying up loose ends. The opening two-parter "The Sixth Extinction" and the aforementioned "Amor Fati" picked up from the Season 6 finale "Biogenesis," which found Scully pondering the origin of man while Mulder was suffering from an unknown mental condition. Of course, everything turns out all right in the end, but not after Mulder has undergone a LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST-type evaluation of the choices he made in his life in "Amor Fati"---an interesting idea that is done in by drearily ponderous, rather pretentious treatment. And then there is "Sein und Zeit"/"Closure," which supposedly resolves the mystery surrounding Mulder's sister Samantha's disappearance, but which left a lot of fans feeling disappointed, even angered. I dunno...I thought the resolution worked well as a spiritual release. While "Closure" did not end the way many fans preferred, I thought it was a creative way of allowing Mulder to let go of that pain he's been carrying for so long---even if, at this point, most fans had understandably lost faith in Chris Carter's concluding everything neatly.The mythology, though, is, I suppose, not necessarily the focus of Season 7. The standalones, to me, are really the thing here, and it's a truly varied lot. While there are inevitably some mediocrities ("Millennium," "First Person Shooter," "Fight Club") to be found, it's still rather amazing how many good things there are to be found in this late season. Season 7 episodes like "The Goldberg Variation" and "The Amazing Maleeni" continue Season 6's penchant for clever, almost wacky plots; on the other hand, there are some interesting explorations of the Cigarette Smoking Man and Scully in, respectively, "En Ami" (written by William B. Davis himself) and the very uneven but generally effective "all things" (written and directed by Gillian Anderson). In the mix, there are some creepy returns to the old pre-L.A. "X-Files" form in episodes like "Signs and Wonders" and Theef" (which is possibly a better voodoo story than Season 2's muddled "Fresh Bones"). Meanwhile, David Duchovny returned to writing and directing with "Hollywood A.D.", a farfetched religious mystery that turns into a funny (if perhaps a bit too facile) satire of Hollywood. And writer Vince Gilligan---creator of previous classics like Season 4's "Small Potatoes" and Season 5's "Bad Blood"---returned with more delightful episodes, including "Hungry," "X-Cops" (a "X-Files" episode in "Cops" garb), and the lightly cynical "Je Souhaite." All in all, there are still quite a few flashes of brilliance to be found in Season 7, even if the strain in creativity may have been starting to show in some of the episodes (certainly more so than in Season 6).Finally, there is "Requiem," a season finale that arguably serves both as a bookend to the first seven years and a look forward into the future. The episode was intended as a possible series finale until a last-minute decision extended the show for at least another year. Whether that decision was a good one in light of the subsequent, controversial final two seasons is open to debate; but "Requiem" at least managed to create a compelling-enough cliffhanger for Season 8 while closing out the so-called "Duchovny era" (this was to be Duchovny's last full season on the show).The seventh season of "The X-Files," continuing where the equally divisive Season 6 left off, will probably never be as much of a consensus fan favorite as, say, Seasons 2 or 3. Those who believe the show began to decline in Season 6---when the crew moved to L.A. from its original Vancouver location---will only see more signs of it in Season 7. (Naysayers may also have ammunition regarding stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, both of whom occasionally look rather bored onscreen.) Despite its pits, though, I think there are enough fine episodes and good moments in this season to warrant a look. It may not be among the top "X-Files" seasons---Season 3 is still probably the best of the 9---but Season 7 is still worth seeing. Recommended.

I've been watching the entire series in order from the first episode. For me, the X-files had hit it's stride in season 6 and continued that trend into season 7. The effects and production quality improved and the stories, with all the twists and turns remain interesting. Season 7 contains one of my favorite episodes, 'First Person Shooter'. One that is more light and light-hearted than many. The boy in males comes out in Mulder. This is also about the time that the producer began indulging the stars and their writing and directing aspirations, with mixed results. Still. another good season of the X-Files.

While many people were writing the x-files off, after the move to California, and so many critics saying that we had seen the best of one of the greatest TV shows ever, season 7 although not one of the better seasons I thought was nevertheless a very good series indeed.Yes I do have to agree that the story arcs on what had gone before had lost its way, but I think this is more that they had run the course rather than the so called mythology episodes had gotten a little thin. However the x-files are more than just about Alien conspiracies and Mulders lost sister (which has now been put to bed in this series) but the x-files are also about the other weird goings on in the world and just flying saucers, and I think the last 2 series has produced some of the best single part x files to date, inparticular in season 7 we have Millenium and Hungry, which for me are 2 of the best episodes of the x files ever and certainly for a long time, ok we might not have the superb episodes such as the cliffing hanging end to series 4 (redux)and the begining of series 5 but the individual episodes stand out to all that have gone before and are a tribute to the writers for being able to still churn out such terrific epsisodes, I would have given the Series 7 a 5 star rating, but for the dreary end to the sixth extinction, following on from the cliffhanger from season 6 the first epsiode of series 7 was just as good, but the way it was finished was like toothache, as Mulder lay infected by a virus turned on by an alien artifact that had landed,(second episode of season 7) and the painful dreams Mulder was having, while he was abducted by cancer man and used for testing, was honestly the most boring thing I had ever watched.But the single episodes soon picked up speed as nealry every episode was fascinating bringing in much needed new aspects of things and changes that are made for the next 2 seasons, such as the episode the amazing maleeni, an extremly cleverly written episode which left you guessing as to who and what although at a very mildhearted pace, which again I found refreshing.All in all, not everybody liked the season, but for one I enjoyed it as much as some and more than previous seasons of what has been a terrific show for nine long and happy years.

This completes my collection. Despite watching it years and years ago I still sometimes get a chill from it. The first series was incredible and I remember I was doing a college course where the tutor decided we started early and finished early to be home to watch that series. It did not end there as I watch all the series when I could and they all had a quality continuing throughout.

I've always found the X-files super creepy, but also, really cool at the same time.

They don't make them like this anymore brilliant

The best sci-fy show so far