Millenium on DVD
Sunday, December 17th, 2006 - 4:52pm
Anybody here a fan of the Fox show, Millenium? I've seen that the series is now out on DVD. This was truly one of my all-time favorite series. The first two season were pefect, but the third season was beyond bad, which really led to an awful demise of the show.
I'm hoping to score the first two season for Christmas. Seems like a fairly underated sci-fi show. I wish SciFi channel would show this series, even though it lacks enough for true syndication.
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Season two was some of the best television to ever air in my opinion. It's really a shame that the show took such an amazingly bad downward spiral in season three. I wasn't aware that it was out on DVD, I'll have to keep my eyes open for it now.
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I love that show. The funny thing is that Season 1 was all Carter. Season 2 was his best writers (he was busy directing another show or on vacation). After Season 2 ended, he got pissed at what they did with the show and tried to return Season 3 to its roots while minimizing the "damage" of the last episode of Season 2.
But I truly do love that show. It's awesome and way ahead of its time.
I remember Chiggie watching those over a year ago, maybe two. Is this special edition or something? One of the badguys was a man-bat/spec ops guy that looked like he inspired Sam Fisher.
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Another huge fan here. Season 3 is quite bad, but there are a few episodes that come very close to the quality of Season 1 and Season 2. I agree that Season 2 is some of the best television I've ever seen, especially the conclusion.
Hope you get them, Jayhawker!
After X-Files, Millennium and Harsh Realm I no longer hold Carter in the esteem I once did. It appears that he has great ideas, but give him enough rope and he'll surely hang himself.
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Other Millennium lovers! Much love for Millennium.
When it first aired I loved how fresh it was compared to other shows. Very dark, graphic and full of occult themes. I had only seen the first season during its original broadcast, but a while ago I picked up the second season DVD set. I'm only a few episodes in, and I do find it different than the overall flow of the first season. Not bad, just different.
AS you've all said, I've heard bad things about season three, but I intend to pick up the final DVD set and see it through when I get the chance.
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Out of curiosity, where is Chris Carter these days? It seems like after X-Files ended he just vanished. I would've thought for sure by now we would have seen something new out of him.
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I need to finish my xfiles addiction and get the other 5 seasons before I get Millenium....
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I'm a Millenium fan too. Such a shame that it went all wonky at the end. I think it was yet another "no plan, flying by the seat of our pants" kind of series that started out strong and drifted due to lack of long term thinking.
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I caught the first season and enjoyed it. For that matter I was pretty much always a fan of Lance Henrickson. On a similar note: Did anyone ever watch the Fox show "John Doe" staring the guy from Prison Break? I got a few episodes of it and loved the premise, but sadly it went the way of "Firefly" and was canceled after only a few episodes.
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My favorite episode of Millenium was the one they put into one of the later seasons of the X-Files.
I keed, I keed! Although that was a pretty good crossover, imo.
That was quite good. The acting was a bit spotty (eg the policeman), but the mystery and final revelation made it worth watching. There were definately more than a few episodes though.
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Lance Henricksen has stated several times in interviews that the series was canceled by Fox exec's at the time who were scrambling to get more reality shows on the air. It never seemed to drift away to me, it always felt that the plugged had been pulled too early.
My mom was actually buying the seasons as they came out on DVD knowing that I'd love it too. We used to watch it together when it came on Fox. A year or so ago I watched season 1 and 2 over a period of something like 2 or 3 weeks. I don't know if my brain has ever recovered.
I hope Lance Henrickson and a violinist give my eulogy when I die. I will except Robot Lance Henrickson.
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For my fellow Millennium fans:
http://www.fridayknights.com/medic/gwj/Frank%20Black%20-%20The%20Future.mp3
Many many years ago I made a sound bite from the last minute of an episode, the source being one of the many VHS tapes that I would record the show on. It was Frank narrating as his daughter walked down some stairs. In the years since it aired I've used that sample as the basis for a toast at weddings (pretty much verbatim). I am constantly amazed on the response it gets. People can't believe it when I tell them it's from a show they've probably never heard of or probably never watched.
I liked season one, and Carter should have gone along with the superlative season 2 happenings. Moron.
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Agreed. It was my opinion that the writers were scrambling to shorten what was a much longer timeline. Some of the results were questionable but I feel for their situation.
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It's been a while since I've seen it, so bear with me. I remember the big nastiness coming at the end of season 2, and then it seemed to be almost entirely retconned at the start of season 3, with only the one noticeable change (I'm being vague so as not to give spoilers to those who haven't seen it yet). It just seemed to me at that point like there was no one at the helm.
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