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The X-Files: Season 9 | 
| Studio: Fox Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
UPC: 024543244264
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ASIN: B000F2C76S
Release Date: June 6, 2006
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The truth is here... Season 9 is underrated! March 21, 2008
Jorhan Walsh
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Seaon 9 has some solid episodes like "John Doe", "Audrey" and "4-D"... I think Season 9 was treated unfairly simply b/c Mulder was absent (with the exception of the finale)... The TRUTH IS out there and it's that Scully, Doggett and Reyes held up the series just fine. I'd like to have seen Annabeth Gish become more comfortable in her role as Reyes (Some of the acting on her part seemed a bit stiff -- To me anyway). I'm not a Reyes hater though, I actually am very fond of the character. My main beef with season 9... Is that the finale was boring and that after Doggett and Reyes carried the season (with Scully playing more of a background role than in other seasons), they got a very dull ending. Season 9 is still well worth watching though and I'm giving it my 4 stars.
Tying up the loose ends at the end of the run of "The X-Files" August 2, 2007
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have now watched the entire nine season run of "The X-Files" from start to finish on DVD and my primary reaction to the final season was that it was not Mulder that I missed for most of these last 20 episodes but Scully. Gillian Anderson's character is in most of these season nine episodes, but far too often she comes a bit unglued regarding her absent former partner. Granted, we have enjoyed every one of Scully's emotional outbursts throughout the years, but the explosions strike me as being excessive. When Scully is forced to play the true believer opposite the skepticism of Doggett, in the more mundane cases investigated this final season, things are fine. All things considered, the episodes that focus on Agent John Doggett (e.g., "John Doe," "Underneath," "Release") are the most interesting in the ninth season.
As the final season begins Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) has once again disappeared, but this time of his own choice since he knows his presence is putting Scully and their son William in danger. Agent Doggett (Robert Patrick) is trying to find Muldar ("Nothing Important Happened Today") as part of his investigation of Deputy Director Kersh (James Pickens Jr.), but Scully and Assistant Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) finally convince him to drop the matter. Scully is now teaching at the FBI Academy, helping Doggett and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) from time to time, but fully aware that William is in danger. It is William's fate, even more than Mulder's disappearance, that defines the arc of this final season.
While watching these episodes again, at midnight each night, I found myself wondering if the season could have been stronger if not only Mulder but also Scully had been jettisoned and the season had been about agents Doggett and Reyes. As a general rule in the final seasons I intended to enjoy the standalone investigations (e.g, "Lord of the Flies," "Scary Monsters"), than those that focus on the show's mythology (e.g., "Provenance," "Providence"). The final season is a mix of episodes where one week the focus is primarily on Reyes ("Audrey Pauley") and the next almost entirely on Doggett ("John Doe"). Sometimes Dogget and Reyes work together ("Daemonicus") and then again it could be Reyes and Scully ("Hellbound"), or maybe all three ("Underneath"). Things are clearly progressing more quickly with Doggett and Reyes on the romantic front ("4-D," "Release"), but then you would be hard pressed to name a couple that took longer to be a couple than Mulder and Scully. In the comedy department that standout episodes is clearly "Improbable," which features Bert Reynolds as a checker-playing God (Einstein always said God did not play dice with the universe, but he never excluded any board games).
With one exception, the twisted Brady Bunch tale "Sunshine Days," the final episodes that aired are all about tying up lose ends. "Jump the Shark" becomes the final ride of the Lone Gunmen, "William" finds Scully reaching a fateful decision regarding her son, and the best of the bunch, "Release" brings closure to the unsolved murder of Doggett's son. "The Truth," the double-episode finale, proves to be unsatisfying, but I think expectations were so exceedingly high that it was impossible for fans to view the end with anything other than regret. I like the final fade out, but the trial of Mulder is clearly a mockery, which means we are treading water for most of the story until the big finish because nothing that happens there matters. There is a big bang near the end, but the saga of Mulder and Scully really ends with silence and a set up that will allow Chris Carter and the gang to do anything they want with the planned second "X-Files" movie. Final Note: It would be my recommendation that you watch all of "The Lone Gunman" episodes before or concurrently with "The X-Files: The Complete Ninth Season," so that you end you "X-Files" experience with "The Truth" and not watching "Jump the Shark" a second time.
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