The Lone Gunmen Are Not Dead

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.

Comments

It was a dream

[fustakrakich]

They all come walking out of the shower

Re:It was a dream

[__aaclcg7560]

From Scully's bedroom, wearing pink robes and slippers.

Original Lone Gunman series was a travesty...

[seven of five]

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.

Re:Original Lone Gunman series was a travesty...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah. The world needs a lesson in faith from the military-industrial-entertainment complex. We should trust our elected leaders and the government more than we do the nutjobs who rant about our government spying on us or reading all our e-mail (really, what hard drive would be big enough to keep all that) or listening to our phone conversations. They've been gabbing on about that nonsense since the 60's, back when they hallucinated that the FBI was undertaking "counterintelligence" operations against enemies on US soil like Martin Luther King Jr and college students. All this baloney about drones and inter-bank rate fixing and whatnot -- when will they ever learn to let go of the paranoia and trust the people with whom the rest of us entrusted our votes?

Re:Original Lone Gunman series was a travesty...

[Raenex]

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.

PHRASING!!!

[otaku244]

If any more "Lone Gunmen" make the headlines, even the NRA might have trouble keeping gun hysteria quiet.

Re:Spoilers

[alvinrod]

I think that the entertainment industry has found out that people don't care about spoilers or that spoiling just enough will actually drive viewership. The Simpsons has become pretty notorious for making advanced announcements of exactly what's going to happen and movie trailers have been giving away practically everything for a while now, but it doesn't seem to have hurt business. I've heard some people suggest that trailers that essentially give away the entire movie are more effective at attracting viewers than those which merely introduce the movie in a more broad manner, but I haven't read any studies to suggest that one approach is more effective than the other, but if it were detrimental to business I have a hard time believing that so many studios would be doing it.

Goddammit, you just did it again!

[wonkey_monkey]

It was supposed to be a surprise twist, you dicks!

How did slashdot manage to spoil the show?

[thegarbz]

I just read the link to the article back in 2002 and the real take home message was:

How the heck did Slashdot manage to get an article up fast enough to spoil the show within a 3 hour time window? I did a double take, did they spoil the previous week's episode after it had been discussed on every other site on the internet?

Was slashdot actually fast enough in the past that it published news rather than olds?

Re:How did slashdot manage to spoil the show?

[CronoCloud]

Was slashdot actually fast enough in the past that it published news rather than olds?

It was, at least some of the time, on some topics. You'd see "new distro release" posts within a couple hours of a new release.

As for why Slashdot isn't as timely you can blame either:

1. Dice

2. VA

3. Beta

4. The lack of a CowboyNeal option in polls.

5. the reduced number of Soviet russia, Natalie Portman and ??? Profit!, and "you must be new here" jokes.

Praise Jesus!!!!

[future assassin]

I got my 14 year old kid to watch X File and The Lone Gunmen a few years ago and he loved it. He's re-watching X Files again. We use to pick out some of the filming sites around here and visit them and compare it to the movies. Even saw the farm house with the black bird covers on Trans Canada Highway past Cache Creek.