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The Lone Gunmen Are Dead
Mike Perry (And many,many others) writes: "In an astounding move after the cancellation of the show, Chris Carter killed
off the Lone Gunmen in tonight's episode of the X-Files. After a short
introduction that re-introduced the group as trying to save "a world that isn't too kind
to idealists," the episode progressed until the Gunmen realized their destiny
with Langley's quotes about Joey Ramone, and then Byer's quote "We never gave
up, and we never will. In the end, if that's all they can say about us, it'll
do." The episode then built to an ending where the Gunmen group gave their
lives to thwart a bio-terrorist financed by a business tycoon.I don't know about you guys, but back in the prime of the X-Files, these guys
were as close a role model as I could find on television as a kid. I was
deeply disappointed with the cancellation of the show (sure the pilot sucked,
but the next few episodes were good). I feel glad that these characters were
allowed to retire with dignity before the end of the show."
CD: Oops, sorry about the spoiler, when I scheduled the post I miscalculated the timing. I know, I'm evil. I promise I won't ruin the next 4 episodes or however many they have left.
Actually this was mentioned weeks ago on aint-it-cool-news.com. The episode title is "Jump the Shark", a reference to jumptheshark.com.
But then again, I have been living 23 minutes into the future lately. (I watched the Star Trek episode of Futurama with full end credit this morning.)
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
Hey, you guys on the West Coast, don't take this so hard, you've seen this scene already. It's a straight rip-off from the death-of-Spock scene. Separated by panes of glass...the friends struggle to open the door...but no, can't do that, they're already dead...so we have the mauldin goodbye...at least they didn't say anything about the needs of the many and needs of the few.
Oh, and in the last scene they get buried in Arlington.
And nearly all of the Jedi are killed, except for a small number saved by Yoda bringing the Clone army as reinforcements.
I know it's already been said... Chris was highly inconsiderate to half the population of the country and probably 2/3rds of Slashdot readers.
::Colz Grigor
But there's a way to prevent him from doing it to us again!!!
Edit your homepage, scroll down to the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage" section. In the left-most (Authors) column, four down, you will find a checkbox next to the name "chrisd". Make certain there's a checkmark in it (or whatever the image is, since I'm sure you're all using different skins than I am). Then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click the button marked "Save".
Once done, chrisd will never spoil another show, movie, or anything for you again.
Finally, a personal message to chrisd:
Thanks a lot! What a maroon.
Learn about spoilers!
Editors, learn about spoilers!
You've just told me how my favourite TV characters
end up with no way I could possibly have avoided seeing it (except by not reading slashdot).
Way to go.
btw: Forget the "few hours too early" apology, some of us won't get those episodes for *months*.
Bah.
First of all, I'd like to preface this moment of full-out mainstream sci-fi geekiness by saying this: Anybody who replies by saying I have no life will promptly be ignored. Thank God (or higher power of your choice) I don't live like you.
Anyway, at the end after Frohike pulls the fire alarm and they're all standing there with their hands against the glass talking to Jimmy, it really reminded me of the end of Star Trek II. I couldn't help but think of Kirk and Spock staring at each other across the glass as Spock faces his death. Of course, there are probably a number of similar scenes on film and in plays, but that one stuck out in my mind. The reference may or may not be intentional, but I also couldn't help but think that Scully has attended a premature funeral before. However, it's highly unlikely that they'll bring these guys back since these last five episodes are supposed to be all about tying up the myriad loose ends the scriptwriters left. As I said in my other comment, they've killed most of the good characters (Deep Throat, CSM, Krycek, and now TLG) and these last 4 episodes had better be really good.
Take your med's, bud. You've gotten a little hot under the collar at some dude on a message board.
Seems to me you should just own up to the fact that he scored a point or two on you. So what. Walk it off, champ.
Might want to lay off the bad grammar and fifth grade insults(even bigger loser) if you want to paint yourself as socially capable and yet different. Just sayin'.
Not to mention the fact that the promos for the show for the last week have said that someone was going to die.....