Home Media Magazine - Agent DVD - July 2008 - (Page DVD35) *TVFILES EPISODE GUIDE THE X-FILES: REVELATIONS Two-DVD set ($22.97) 20th Century Fox Home Ent. PILOT Season 1, Episode 1 Skeptic FBI agent Dana Scully is assigned to work with agent Fox Mulder on the X-Files, first investigating abductions of high-school students. The Cigarette-Smoking Man appears for the first time. BEYOND THE SEA Season 1, Episode 13 In this much-beloved episode, Scully, reeling from her father’s death, works with an alleged psychic on death row to locate a kidnapper. THE HOST Season 2, Episode 2 Mulder pursues a parasitic humanoid creature through the sewers. The success of his mission helps reinstate the shuttered X-Files. CLYDE BRUCKMAN’S FINAL REPOSE Season 3, Episode 4 A psychic insurance salesman helps the agents track down a murderer of professional psychics. MEMENTO MORI Season 4, Episode 14 Mulder and the Lone Gunmen infiltrate a research facility containing human clones — including one of Mulder’s long-missing sister. POST-MODERN PROMETHEUS Season 5, Episode 5 The agents investigate the sighting of a Frankenstein-like creature in Indiana, leading to the discovery of mutant experimentation. BAD BLOOD Season 5, Episode 12 Mulder and Scully recount differing stories about the death of a teen suspected of being a vampire. MILAGRO Season 6, Episode 18 Mulder’s neighbor, a writer, pines for Scully, and is tied to a murderer who pulls the beating heart from his victims. ‘X-FILES’ REV BY BILLY GIL CREATOR CHRIS CARTER GUIDES FANS THROU OLD EPISODES TO PREPARE FOR THE NEW MO W hen “The X-Files” drew to a close in 2002 after a nine-year run, agents Fox Mulder(DavidDuchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) were left with the knowledge that an alien invasion of Earth was imminent, and that nothing could stop it. Now, six years later, The X-Files: I Want to Believe has renewed our interest in the plights of Mulder and Scully. Creator and director Chris Carter says he’s been ready for years to bring his two most beloved characters back to the big screen. However, a mountain of difficulties kept the project buried for years. “We had been contacted by Fox about a year after the series ended, and we said we had an idea,” Carter says. “[Writer] Frank Spotnitz and I sat down and worked on that idea. There were business complications, contractual complications — not movie complications — to the series for several years. Everyone was ready to go, particularly David Duchovny, who was really the cheerleader of this movie.” Once legal issues were resolved, Carter says Fox basically said, “It’s now or never,” with a looming writers strike and diminishing appetites threatening to close “The X-Files” forever. In preparation for the new film, the recently released The X-Files: Revelations DVD serves as a refresher course for those rusty on their “X-Files” mythology. Chris Carter (right) on set with Duchovny and Anderson. “[Revelations consists of] entertaining episodes that served a dual purpose of introducing you to the characters, to something of a mythology arc,” Carter explains. “Mostly they were winning episodes we all liked. They weren’t necessarily the best episodes, but overall they reflect the spirit of the show.” Last year, Fox released a complete-series boxed set of the show. The set also includes the 1998 X-Files movie. AgentDVD.com 34 AGENTDVD JULY 2008 http://agentdvd.com
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