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The X-Files: Season 8 | 
| Studio: Fox Video
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Language: English (Original Language)
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Release Date: June 6, 2006
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The truth is here... Season 8 is underrated! March 21, 2008
Jorhan Walsh
I thought Season 8 sort of took viewers back to the good ol' days with stand alone episodes like "Patience" and "Roadrunners"... I think Season 8 was treated unfairly simply b/c Mulder was absent for the most part... The TRUTH IS out there and it's that Scully and Doggett held up the series just fine. Give this one a chance!
Agent Dogget replaces Agent Mulder working with Agent Scully on the X-Files July 12, 2007
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
My first favorite television series was "Twelve O'clock High" and I remember being total shocked when the main character, General Frank Savage, was killed on a mission in the first episode of the second season. The idea that actors leave television shows was news to me and while having a second Darrin is one way of solving the problem without radically changing the dynamic of a show, that is much more the exception (Becky on "Roseanne," Miss Ellie on "Dallas") than the rule (especially since the original actors came back on both of those examples). Going into the eighth season of "The X-Files" having David Duchovny as Fox Mulder for the entire season was not going to happen, which meant Chris Carter and his staff were going to have to reboot the show with a new male lead. Enter Robert Patrick, best known as the T-1000 machine from "Terminator 2 - Judgment Day," as Agent John Dogget. br / br /Mulder had finally been abducted by the aliens in the finale of the previous season ("Requiem"), so Dogget is assigned by Deputy Director Alvin Kersh (boo, hiss) to head the search for Mulder ("Within"). However, with a tip from the Lone Gunman, this turns into an effort to stop the alien bounty hunter from destroying Gibson Praise ("Without"). No good deed goes unpunished, so Dogget ends up running the X-Files with Scully as his less than willing partner who is hiding the fact that she is pregnant. So of course their early cases involve a bat-like creature ("Patience"), a slug-like creature that is supposed to be the second coming of God ("Roadrunners"), a little boy who vanished ten years ago showing up and had not aged a day ("Invocation"), a killer who can see through walls ("Surekill"), and an Indian mystic ("Badlaa"). One of my favorite episodes from Season 8 is "Redrum," which brings in another "T2" actor, Joe Morton, as a man living the murder of his wife backwards, and which finds Dogget and Scully playing supporting roles in the story (there is also a great in-joke when Dogget complains to Scully about having to track a metallic man in "Salvage"). br / br /There seems to me to be a concerted effort to break up the formula here, so that sometimes Dogget has to go it alone ("Via Negativa," "The Gift"), and once you pick up on that idea you see more variations on the theme. Scully's pregnancy comes into play when she stays behind as Dogget checks out some strange deaths in a Boston subway tunnel ("Medusa"). Scully's fears about her baby comes to a head in "Per Manum," which is just before the search for Mulder is over ("This is Not Happening"), and then all Scully has to do is to find a way of bringing him back from the dead ("Deadalive"). Scully's search for Mulder is reminiscent of his quest to find his sister, or at least what happened to her, but there is a big advantage in that this story arc lasts a dozen episodes and not several seasons. Add to that Anderson's performance in these episodes providing more of an emotional weight than we are used to on the show. br / br /Obviously pairing Dogget with Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully reveres the dynamic that existed at the beginning of the show when Scully was the skeptic and Mulder the true believer. Now it is Dogget who is the skeptic, but more of a "knee jerk skeptic" than the rational scientist that Scully was, just as Scully is now the believer but without the burning passion of Mulder. Dogget, who was first a Marine and then a police detective before joining the bureau, is also 40 when he joins the X-Files, where as Scully was only 28 when she first showed up). Ironically, by the time the tension between Scully and Dogget is resolved, Mulder is thrown into the mix and since Scully's pregnancy is coming to full term we get several Doggert and Mulder episodes. We also have the introduction of Annabeth Gish as Special Agent Monica Reyes, setting up season nine. Mulder clearly cannot stand Dogget and wants back on the X-Files, but Kersh denies the request ("Three Words"). Then Reyes comes to Mulder for help investigating the death of Dogget's son ("Empedocles"), which gives Dogget a chance to make it clear he does not like Mulder either. No wonder the next episode, "Vienen," finds Mulder and Dogget trapped on an oil rig manned by crewmen infected with the black oil virus. br / br /The funniest moment in season eight comes at the end of "Alone," with Scully on maternity leave and Dogget partnered with young Agent Leyla Harrison (Jolie Jenkins). She might be from accounting but she has followed the adventures of Scully and Mulder, so joining the X-Files is a dream come true. Of course it turns into a nightmare, but when she finally gets to meet her heroes and ask them about the snowcat running out of fuel in the movie, it is absolutely hysterical. Then things get really serious at the end as Billy Miles starts killing people and has Scully on his target list ("Essence"). Scully needs to be protected, and Dogget turns to Reyes, who takes Scully to a remote location to finally give birth to that baby ("Existence") and bring the Mulder and Scully saga of the X-Files to a tentative close (a ninth season was still up in the air at that point). br / br /How much you like season eight comes down to how much you like the character of Dogget, and I think he is a solid character. I like the way the different vibe the show has just because everybody know calls each other "Agent Scully" and "Agent Dogget" and "Agent Mulder" (and eventually "Mister Mulder"). Plus, you had to know that in the end that unless he was dead and in the ground (and not coming back) that Mulder was going to be canned by the FBI. The most unrealistic thing on the show is not the alien conspiracy but how long it takes Kersh to pull the trigger. For extras on this DVD there is a featurette looking at season eight; profiles from the international videos for x, John Dogget, and Alex Krycek; FOX's promos for all of the episodes; a look at special effects by Mat Beck with commentary by Paul Rabwin; and all of those deleted scenes you never saw because you missed the "X" when it went by with optional commentary7 by Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban (the real father of Scully's "baby").
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