Taken: Complete Series

Taken is one of the best TV mini-series I have ever watched, I think it was first shown on TV in about 2002/2003, and when I randomly found it while browsing Amazon a few months ago I knew I had to buy it!There are 10 episodes, beginning with the crash in Roswell New Mexico in 1947 up until present day (well around 2002/2003)! It essentially follows 3 familys : The Clarkes, the Crawfords and the Keys. Each of whom are connected in some way to the aliens. It is really interesting to see the plot weave in between these 3 families and the one thing that is in common - extraterrestrial life. The cast were really good, especially two of the young stars Anton Yelchin and Dakota Fanning who are both fantastic.The plot is really good, it may be slightly far-fetched but it is good escapism and a series that could be watched over and over again. I finished it last month and have started watching it again and I am picking up details I missed before!This is an excellent price for such a well written and thought out Sci-fi series. Highly recommended!

This is an excellent series I really enjoyed watching. What a great imagination to be able to co.e up with this. Thanks,loved it.

I ended up stumbling over this mini-series having developed an interest in the UFO phenomenon. Amazing how much historical reporting has been woven into this intense "fictional" narrative. This side of things made the series more enjoyable for me to watch and echoed all that I had been researching over the last six weeks.I agree with a previous reviewer about how addictive the series is. Both my wife and I were hooked after the first episode and are now watching it through again! I think it is also true that episodes occasionally plod along, as another reviewer suggested, but I didn't find this to be a weakness. On the contrary the somewhat slow pace of the episodes gave you plenty of time to gather and formulate thoughts of your own. When you have read a significant number of abduction cases then it becomes clear that there is much to reflect upon. For me the abducted characters were simply portraying this post-reality paradigm shift.Well worth watching, therefore, from beginning to end, with a great cast and some downright evil characters. If there are such beings as "ufonaughts", "space people", or "aliens", then one gets the impression from this series that they are not half as bad as the humans who walk this earth - once you get over what they reportedly look like!

Just been watching "Taken" for the third time. Its a brilliant piece of filming, a gripping storyline, masterful script and excellent acting by all the cast. While the focus is on the alien/human relationship, it manages to be an intriguing reflection on how we came to be who we are and what we might become. The narration by Alison, the child resulting from a massive experiment in genetic engineering, continually presents us with a commentary on the human condition, and a reflection on why we do the things we do. The three families who feature through three generations as the story develops, are presented convincingly and sensitively, even the outright evil ones. The aliens, while seen, with special effects superbly employed, become more and more to be thought forms of our own making-our darkest fears, our greatest hopes.Science fiction,as a category, is too limiting for this. Think possible utopias or the extremes of experience. Think poetic philosophy playfully deployed. Keep on watching the skies.

Where TAKEN's first three discs (6 episodes) concerns itself with it's epic, generation spanning saga of the UFO and alien abduction phenomena in the US - from Roswell in 1947 through to the (then) present day (the early 2000's) - charting the often tragic lives of its fictional protagonists - this show delivers a genuinely gripping piece of event television viewing. This was big budget and shows - each episode is a generous 1:20 minutes cleverly drawing upon the phenomenon's highlights of each respective decade, all very well made.Told through the experiences of three separate families - the Crawfords (who want to control and suppress the UFO phenomenon), the Keys, three generations of fighters the aliens focus on experimenting on and the Clarkes - gentle, more cerebral with whom one of the survivors of the Roswell incident has an affair - TAKEN leads its very human tale by the hand of all the major twists and turns of the UFO mythos adding its momentum all leading to the appearance of one little girl: Ally Clarke, played extraordinarily well by an incredibly talented Dakota Fanning.Seriously, she absolutely is amazing and serves as the shows narrator throughout.It's got a lot of humour as well as pathos, you care about the people that inhabit this story and it genuinely does do a very descent fist of encapsulating what was, at that time, a 50 year saga, bringing the real world UFO phenomena to a distinct point and reason for the whole thing to coincide with the first releases of information on the phenomena under the US freedom of information act.Where TAKEN looses it a little, for me, is the "present day" part of the story.Ally, a human/Alien hybrid the aliens have been striving to create as a means of helping both species move forward in their respective evolution's - is clearly an analogue less of UFO mythology rather of Judo Christian belief.She's basically the Second Coming, a Messiah only this time, instead of created by God, created by Aliens.I like an entertaining story, I do and TAKEN really is lavish as well as incredibly entertaining - where it ends up is kind of disappointed me, just a little. Don't get me wrong, this show really is extraordinarily compelling but come the point where little Ally comes into her own and finally sacrifices herself for the good of everyone else - you are kind of thinking: okay.Enough now. this is one mythos too many. Pick a lane.It's an entertaining idea turning the modern day UFO phenomenon into a meditation on established belief not just in UFO's - but honestly, I found the religious parallels just a little heavy handed, a little too on-the-nose.Other than that though, a damn fine 15 hours of event television viewing.

It arrived on time and in good order

Confused with the Liam Neeson film of the same name this is a Sci-Fi on a higher plain. Replacing a copy previously given away I will enjoy viewing when time permits.