Bought the DVD package for year 1 of "Millennium" and in watching the Pilot Episode ("The Frenchman") with Chris Carter's commentary track, I was hit once more by how brilliant it was to shoot both that series and "X-Files" in the city of Vancouver. Because it looks so unlike Los Angeles or New York, and yet can double for each on film, Vancouver has a unique quality from a physical standpoint. The use of Canadian actors who might be nigh unknown to us Yanks is also a real positive because we don't tend to think 'oh, right, him from that other thing' so much as 'that guy's lying to Mulder, I can feel it' --- i.e., we think of the character more than we do the performer because we don't have so much familiarity with his or her work. Carter went on to say how much he liked the fact that he was outside of his comfort element in working in Vancouver and that it pushed the series towards being more creative.