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X-Files Series Spinoff?
starvo writes "Seems like Chris Carter is weighing the possibilities of an X-Files series spinoff featuring The Lone Gunmen." Normally I'm not a huge fan of spinoffs, but there's enough going on with these guys that it could be a fun show. I doubt it will have the staying power of the original though... unless Gillian Anderson does regular cameos. Yum.
I'd watch them in their own series. They are, after all, the best characters. The suit, the hippie, the creepy old guy. Ah, Byers, Langley, and Frohike: hang in there. We're pulling for you.
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I bet they will.
The episodes with them were always some of the best. Now, what would the focus be of their show? If they're going to hack, is it going to be realistic (heh yeah right), or is it going to be classic X-Files type stories? I doubt they'll be chasing freaks and ghosts, or aliens, but you never know...
Maybe their Alien Episode involves one of their 'puters crunching an important signal block from Seti@Home?
Sure, it sounds like a good idea, but how would a Lone Gunmen drinking game work? Take one drink every time someone admits someone else's kung fu is the best? I don't know...
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I find them to be the best characters on the show... I mean, certainly they lack the sex appeal that scully has, but I think those guys just have way more character than mulder and scully...
I think there is probably enough of a following of those guys that such a show would have some degree of success, tho prolly not nearly as much as the parent show... but I mean, come on, I've got a lone gunmen t-shirt, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who envies their life style, and hey, marketing people have had success before by marketing their stuff toward punks like me...
heh... tho not very often... =)
Wonder how much it would cost IBM or RedHat to buy that spot on a couple of these shows...
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Why do all of you think the X-Files is so great? I'm not trying to be a troll, I just have hell trying to get myself to sit through an entire episode of it... it's boring, the plots are convoluted and make no sense. The storylines are written as if generated on a script: Agents get sent to check out something weird, Mulder goes off on a tangent and Scully tries to be logical, and then the rest of it is eye candy and lame attempts at mind fucking with the occasional weird attempt at humor. The theme song is decent, but that's all i like about the show. I don't get it, can someone please explain why they can actually tolerate watching it? I just hope theres no spinoff just so I dont have to put up with more X-files related crap. And by the way, Gillian Anderson has no sex appeal at all... unless you like pale, boring, stuffy, frigid, pretensious women like that...
Not completely related, but... I had the privilage of meeting Dean Haglund, one of the Lone Gunmen a few weeks ago, at a Fox party. (see obliglatory photo here). He mentioned to me that he had a website up where he talked about upcoming projects.... www.deanx.com doesn't mention anything about this, but I suppose he's not saying it's not true. :)
His e-mail appears to be broken right now, perhaps when it's fixed we can see if he has any comments...
It was pretty creepy - he worked in defence research, too, and had a number of PhDs in really weird, unrelated stuff - hypersonic aerodynamics, radar.
I don't really knwo why I'm shareing this, though....
The Sci Fi Wire, has an article about the fact that that FOX has given the green light for production of this spinoff, to quote the article "The show is envisioned as a light drama with humor and conspiracy themes. Carter reportedly plans to add a new character: a woman after whom the Gunmen lust." so just a tidbit follow the below to the full story.
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No offense, but how are a few 30 second spots/cameos going to benefit Linux and the Linux community in any way?
It's not going to convince home viewers to rush out and install Linux on their home PC's, unless you expect them to hawk the product on the show: "Gee, Mulder, have you ever noticed that Red Hat Linux, which I am running on my laptop, performs much better than any Microsoft Windows platform. Note the superior uptime, the stability, and increased amount of free memory..." It's not going to convince software companies to support Linux... "OOH Linux on the X-Files, must port every program immedietally." It's not going to encourage investors. It's not going to get more quality programmers involved in the open source community.
And to be honest, do you think Red Hat, VA, or the like, is going to pump money into Fox just so a small subset of techie fans will find it more realistic? I think it's already clear that Hollywood doesn't really care if they manage to please small subsets of viewers by making some parts of TV shows or movies seem more realistic?
The question I am asking is, quite simply, why? Sure, maybe giving Gillian a Linux box will be cute and appealing to the geek demographic that watches the show, but the mainstream public will hardly care less. Besides, we don't need any more product plugging on our TV shows, even if it is to make things more realistic or to help a "good cause?" The waves of commercials are enough as it is... maybe RH and the like should purchase commercial time instead. Sorry to seem critical, but I just don't see what kind of point you're trying to make here.
It's interesting how Fox, being Fox, feels the need to put in a "competing theorist in the form of a beautiful young woman". While I have absolutely nothing against beautiful women, I wish they'd put as much thought into creating a believable character as they do on their wardrobe. It seems that every science or science fiction-oriented show seems to have that beautiful, 23-year old nuclear physicist who doesn't act or sound like a scientist, who is put in just so she can be seduced by the male protagonist, the tough, working-class, cerebrally -challenged all-American guy.
I had the privilege of working with Dean Haglund in Vancouver in Theatresports in the 80s. He has a clever wit, and a sharp nose (oops) for comedy. I would entirely endorse a spin-off of him and the other lone gungeeks.
Mr Showbiz had this too: http://mrshow biz.go.com/news/Todays_Stories/204/lonegunmen02040 0.html.
No flamebait meant, but why was this rejected when I suggested it some days ago?
Giving the lone gunmen their own show would be a great idea. Me and my friends would all watch this show. Hell, I like them better than Sculley and Moulder. The few shows that had these fellows in them were the best X-files. These three are actually funny and can act.
Someone with a clue needs to setup a five year plan and hire some good writers to setup a complex plot that wraps up before the interest in this show ends.
The trouble that three people not associated with the government could get into boggles the mind. Whenever Moulder shot someone he could just hold up his badge and say "FBI." These three can't do that without ending up in jail. They are going to have to think their way out of jams.
I see possibilities from Mission Impossible as well as Get Smart in a show with the Lone Gunmen.
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Let's face it, 90% of x-philes don't watch the show for the special effects, the confusing and sometimes contradictory mytharc, or the spookiness factor (no inside joke intended).
We watch it for the Mulder/Scully interaction, the jokes, the character development, the morbid curiosity of watching a dysfunctional couple stumble through the steps of their relationship under extreme circumstances. The most irrelevant parts of the storyline (to the average x-phile) tend to be the ones that have least to do with the characters. Mulder and Scully are fully fleshed out, nuanced characters that long-time viewers identify with. It helps that the actors are both attractive, without being oversexed, and they can play their parts convincingly without being pompous or suffering from William Shatner Syndrome.
The reason I'm laying this out is that it would take an incredible amount of work to similarly flesh out the Lone Gunmen to evoke the same kind of viewer response. While they're a breath of fresh air whenever they appear on the X-Files, they are meant to play the foil, the comic relief, the supporting cast. I've watched the Lone Gunmen-centric episodes of the X-Files, and while they're enjoyable, frankly the best parts (read: most involving) are the ones where Scully or Mulder are included. While a select minority (especially the tech-oriented) would probably watch such a spin-off, the large majority of the X-Files fan base would probably lose interest.
Just my 2 cents.
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I submitted this, but it got rejected, so here it is in thread post form:
As bad or hypocritical as it is for me to bring this up in this forum, FOX has announced the X-Files (Season 1 so far) will be released on DVD in a full box set - 7 Discs with the entirety season 1 including the pilot. You can preorder your copy at DVDExpress for $90. Personally, I think it's quite a deal, but I dunno if I'm going to buy it with all this MPAA stuff going on...
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..I have to say I'm somewhat sceptical about this. IMHO the lone gunmen (along with CSM) are the best characters in X-files, but I think that has a lot to do with fact that they are shown very rarely. Give them their own show and they will probably run out of the "good stuff" pretty soon. When the lone gunmen have an appearence in the X-Files, you can always count on it being funny or weird, but I'm not sure that can carry a whole TV-Show.
Personally, I think that Scully would be a Mac geek. Is that a contradiction in terms?
The Lone Gunman would be constantly fighting over which distro to use. Byers use Redhat with the KDE Desktop on his custom built Dell machine. Langely would be a Slackware/Debian fanatic with a dozen partitions on his hard drive and no case on his computer. Frohike would just sneer disdainfully at them as he upgrades the OpenBSD machine that he built in '95 with hardware that he steals from the IBM booth at Comdex every year.
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why would they want to do a spinoff ? i mean, X hasnt even reached 4.0 yet.
and how does fox have anything to do wi... oh.
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Ever see the K-9 spin off though. Very 80's hi-tech. It had most amazingly cheesy intro ever. The intro also had K-9 dynamically sitting on a wall, and Sarah Jane smith sipping wine.
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While it would be great to have a spin-off of the Lone Gunmen, I'd hate to see Chris Carter suffer another dead series. Harsh Realm was violent, dull and plotless. Millennium usually put me to sleep at a time slot of 9 on Friday. Damn, that's LATE for a Friday, aside from the fact that it's one of the deadest nights of the week. If TGIF could be on top of Friday nights for the past ten years, it's no wonder that these two failed.
I like X Files, in fact, it's one of my favorites. I hope The Lone Gunmen turns out to be a good spin-off, and not something like Poltergeist: The Legacy. Aside from its irritating knock-off of a White Wolf Games title, it probably shows off the worst Canadian acting and writing. I watch a great deal of Canadian televison, since it is heavily in syndication.
sidenote: a list of good Canadian TV shows:
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Due South, Forever Knight, First Wave, Sliders, Lexx, Stargate SG1, The Outer Limits, and Earth Final Conflict. Not to mention the questionable "Me Too" adventure shows that came after Hercules and Xena, which can be painful to watch. And let's not forget TekWar. Oh, and the first 5 seasons of X files, but that seems to be a mostly American Production.
Most of these are shot in Vancouver, BC.
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I'm not so sure a show about the Lone Gunmen would be a good idea. Often characters are best left mysterious; if you know too much about them it takes away half the fun. Fonzie was more interesting when he was a mysterious side character, and Hawk from Spencer for Hire shouldn't have gotten his own series.
i hear the new show will be called "the grits files" and will be about how mulder eats hot grits out of his own pants. thank you.
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unlesss Gillian Anderson does regular
cameos. Yum.
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Am I the only one who remembers Harsh Realm? Carter's other spinoff that lasted about 3 episodes before Fox yanked it. It sucked, all of Carter's stuff sucks. I treat X-File popularity much like the Mac's popularity. A bunch of fanatics who have convinced themselves that Carter can do no wrong, no matter how crappy, overdone and hackneyed the show gets.
Here's why.
First, X-Files are great.
More importantly, if the suits at the movie studios see a drop in demand for DVD, they'll shuffle content to some new proprietary format. By keeping demand for DVDs up, we keep a proprietary format we can already access...at least for now.
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hopefully it lasts longer than "Harsh Realms".
That was shaping up to be a great show, and then, after 3 short episodes, nothing.
Now we get to watch Judge Judy 5 nights a week. Who watches that, I can't believe that gets better ratings than MASH re-runs.
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Don't you think there is enough blatant commercialism on TV and in movies as it is without us joining in. One thing that is so appealing to me and a lot of other people about the geek community is our stedfastness toward conformity. This would be one of the worst forms of conformity that I can think of. Linux get enough publicity as it is, so much so in fact that I'm starting to worry that it, itself will soon become an institution
I see all these "yum" references, presumably implying that Scully is hot. Do many people think this? Why? She looks pretty ordinary to me as far as tv people go.
MPAA be damned. X-files season 1 on DVD is MINE. I hadn't heard about this thanks for the info.
It could allow some great possibilities for scenes with David Duchovny during the inevitible cross-over of the LG series into the X-files new movies.
Yes, IMO the Lone Gunmen stink. They reinforce every bad stereotype about geeks/hackers. Socially inept, wacko conspiracy theorists, dangerous...etc.
I don't watch X-Files, but the times I've had to I've groaned whenever the Lone Gunmen appear.
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That he doesn't offer it to the Fox network. Fox'd kill it faster than you can say "Harsh Realm".
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I guess I'm in the minority here, but I watch the show 'cuz I still have a shred of hope that Chris Carter (and Frank Spotnitz) can actually pull the main storyline together, despite evidence to the contrary.
This week we believe in aliens. Next week, they'll start invading! Ooh, a brain-eating monster, let's go chase it instead! C'mere Chompy, hee hee hee. The Super Global Mega Conspiracy who keeps killing people off can't hurt us while we're wandering off to investigate Killer Monster of the Week, no! Wait, I don't believe in aliens this week. Maybe next week!
Is it too much to ask that Chris Carter focus his attention on the X-Files long enough to give it some creative direction, instead of "Two goofy FBI agents investigate something so strange and bizarre that lovable weirdness ensues! Oh, and have the monster of the week chew on somebody by the end of the second act. Just don't have CSM stand around looking menacing. That's OUR bit."?
Boy, I sound bitter, don't I? Sorry.
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I was hoping that this would happen. Maybe Rob could swing a cameo or two. No, BS I was saying to my wife when I found out that this season would be the last that I hoped that they'd spin off a Lone Gunmen series and it now looks like I've gotten my wish.
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That "Invisigoth" character made me fall out of my chair and wet myself.
The 2-parter about the mysterious blond was far better.
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As I see it, the Lone Gunmen are primarily journalists, trying to get the word out, maybe get that big break that will let them spread the Truth to everyone. Maybe this female nemesis could be a reporter for a big-name news agency, and she keeps poaching their stories.
One problem they're going to have is that at first nobody wants to listen to them, and then when the story gets out, everybody watches it on CNN instead. So they're stuck on the bleeding edge of journalism, turning over rocks to find something interesting, and then trying to make themselves heard in the stampede.
Another difference between Mulder and the Lone Gunmen is that Mulder never gets a false lead, probably because anything that comes to his attention has already been filtered once through FBI investigators. It's always a real monster. The Lone Gunmen aren't going to have nearly as good a hit-to-miss ratio, because they're tracking down rumors and innuendo. But maybe they could come across something worth investigating while tracking a false lead, too...
Lastly, if the Lone Gunmen are Mulder's wild and out-there contacts, I wonder what their wierd friends are like...
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This is a serial after all, after the great childrens cinematic tradition of the 40's and 50's. The genre dictates that every episode end in a cliffhanger. If CC pulled the story together and actually resolved something, it would only be entertaining for that episode and then people would stop watching. Interest in the underlying premise is built by adding new plots and more complexity. Unfortunate, but that's just the way a serial works.
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In the X-Files, the show is balanced between Mulder's crazy ideas and Scully's scientific explanations and that is part of what makes it cool. I think a lot of us are scientific types and Scully helps make things not totally unbelievable. A show focusing on the lone gunmen, described in the article as "the Mulder-worhsipping Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists," would be too unbalanced. I, and most people I think, like to see some elements of realism in any TV show. It gives us something to relate to.
The Lone Gunmen are the coolest characters on The X-Files. Yet, I don't think they're deserving of their own series.
I have read most of the threads on this article, and two stood out in my mind, both negative - 1) That a LG spinoff would deteriorate rather quickly because of lack of material, and 2) That the X-Files was boring, because of material that was "too out-there"...
My response on both of these - Do any of you troll the web? I mean, so many times I come across article, rants and various other discussions about how the web is so commercialized and how there is nothing interesting on it, only to shake my head knowing these people are wrong. With a few search engines and some clicks, I have found all manner of strange things - as long as people can publish their own stuff, there will always be fun pages out there...
Here is one - which, strangely enough, I found while trolling Ebay for something or another:
http://table.jps.net/~einc/index.html
It is called the Constant Society - I can't figure out if the guy who wrote this page believes this stuff, what portion is real and fake, or whether it is all a joke (probably the last). At any rate, I think this has to be one of the stranger pages. The material on this site alone could last the LG a season, if tweaked right.
And this is only one site - keelynet and eskimo could last a few seasons (both LG and XF), and there are many more sites out there. Considering what has been done on the X-Files, I can't believe the amount of stuff that hasn't been covered in that show (and if you read a fair amount of occult and high strangeness material, you know what I mean).
If done right, there is a lot of material to be covered - heck, pull some stories based on stuff from Weekly World News (like the Ape-Man story that recently ran - what was funny about that story - it is TRUE. One of the few true stories they run every now and then, I had previously watched on TV a show detailing the life and times behind that strange chimpanzee, with video of the animal walking upright and such - makes me want to go out to that zoo in Texas to see for myself!)...
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Actually from what I've seen of their monitors the lone gunmen seem to be usning a lot of dos(or simmilar text base) and some non windows GUI. I think a fictional OS would be best. I figure if they us open source then they'd probably customize it up the yinyang.
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This isn't flaimbait or a troll, though some may choose to interpret it as such. It is merely the very puzzled question: why do so many like the most damaging show on TV?
When I was a teen, all of the wacko conpiracy theorists were quietly tolerated, and the National Enquirer was their rag. Generally they were John Birchers/KKK'ers/Aryan Nation nutcases. Nobody had heard of the "New World Order" or black helicopters or FEMA's evil plots and Christian Identity groups were just a perverted nightmare. However, after the X-Files gave crackpots and paranoids respect, all of the aforementioned were suddenly "cool." Abducteees are no longer laughed at or pitied, people talk seriously about alien proctologists on Art Bell, and thousands of certifiably commitable lunatics have stopped taking their medication.
I also believe that the resurgence in homophobia/racism/creationism/flat-earthers/etc. has a direct connection to "X-Files chic." More times than I can count I've listened to otherwise sane people discuss episodes of the X-Files as if they were literal truth.
Doesn't this scare anyone else? Or am I just alarmist and a loon?
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my view of X-files lately (minus this last year of course... since I haven't bothered):
Mulder: "...this conspiracy is everywhere, touching the entire earths population... Scuzzy, are you listening to me?"
Scully: "What, were you droning again? Yeah, whatever, I need proof and scientific method, blah, blah, blah... unless of course YOU are the sceptical one, then I will be all over this crap!"
Mulder: "Uhhh, why can't we ever be casted in a cooperative role, and actually both believe or disbelieve in something at the SAME TIME, and not spend the ENTIRE episode convincing each other of something stupid...?"
Scully: "WHAT?! You mean actually treat episode plots as cohesive, more than just vague references? MOULDer, you're not actually suggesting..."
Mulder: "Yes, I think it would be nice for our characters, and the supporting characters as well, to actually be cognizant of events outside of each individual episode... Imagine if everytime a massive city sized spacecraft, or some such conspiracy related nick-nack, appeared over thousands or millions, that they would actually remember it, and peoples' outlook would change..."
ENTER LARGE SPACECRAFT WITH SEVERAL MILLION WITNESSES... BEHAVING IN SUCH A WAY THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT IT IS ALIEN
Scully: "WOW!"
Mulder: "Hey, you were conscience this time!"
Scully: "Don't worry, I will press this "History eraser button" and everyone will forget this ever happened... except for you, of course. What a block-head"
Mulder: "Not again! Good Grief!"
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Yeah, my dad says the same thing about the X-Files, only he doesn't phrase it as well; he mostly says it's making people "believe in aliens." I remind him that a RADIO show, of HIS time, actually caused people to panic about the presence of aliens-- War of the Worlds. It's not like there's no precedent for people believing in TV too much; the X-Files isn't anything new. And what are you going to do about it? I'm always one to argue that the system of media we have now be completely overhauled, and that kids be educated to be better media consumers. But in the end I don't want to sterilize TV and make it only have messages that don't hurt or mislead us. besides, we all know that War of the Worlds was REAL. regards, John Bigbootie
back when anderson and duchovney said they were leaving the xfiles, i made this post:
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"I think if anything else happens with the show, it will spawn spin-offs. Kinda like Star Trek/TNG/DS9/Voyager. Other than that, the show is going to die."
right on the money, eh? it's post #63 <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/06/16492
I watch X-Files intermittently, but during the first or second year there was an episode with the LGs where one of them made a remark about laughing at the scientific inaccuracies on (the short-lived NBC series) Earth II. It seems to me that there were four of them on that episode. Anybody remember it better than I do?
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