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The Lone Gunmen Are Not Dead

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-from-the-dead dept.

He Who Has No Name writes: It may have been one of Slashdot's most memorable front-page gaffes, but apparently there's no harm and no foul — because the Lone Gunmen are set to ride again in the X-Files return. Comicbook.com reports, "The Lone Gunmen, the X-Files' trio of conspiracy theorists, are set to appear in Fox's six-episode event. The three characters were played by Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood. Haglund, who played the gunman 'Ringo,' confirmed his and his compatriots' return on Twitter today." We'll see how see how series creator Chris Carter handles their apparently greatly-exaggerated demise, and whether the explanation used in the print comics comes into play.

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  1. Original Lone Gunman series was a travesty... by seven+of+five · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the X-Files, the three were portrayed as tech-savvy, conspiracy theorist misfits who nevertheless had meaningful contributions and important roles.
    When they got their own series, for some reason, they were turned into silly nutjobs not to be taken seriously. I hope the revival brings back their edge.

    1. Re:Original Lone Gunman series was a travesty... by Raenex · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It was six months before 9/11 and actually the World Trade Center:

      The Sept. 11 Parallel "Nobody Noticed" ("Lone Gunmen" Pilot Episode Video)
      http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... :

      Six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- March 4, 2001, to be exact -- Gunmen premiered with an episode featuring a terrorist plot to fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center. The climactic sequence actually shows the plane heading into one of the Twin Towers, but at the last minute, it's pulled upward and just misses the building.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... :

      Similar to theories posited about the events of 9/11, the episode's plot indicates that the hijacking was committed as an act of voracity by a greedy American arms manufacturer to ultimately increase its weapons sales by invoking U.S. retaliation against a scapegoated anti-American extremist dictator.