Yet another
Declined submission (appreciated, but lack of user interest):
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More than a year after its initial airing, some 6 months shy of the event it eerily mirrored, someone has finally noticed that the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen was a premonition of 9/11. This bit of "breaking news" was reported by columnist Ed Martin of the media newsletter The Myers Report (PDF file). Martin writes that after a friend recently mentioned the Gunmen episode and its WTC-located last act, he puzzled at the odd silence from the media when it should have been a fresh morsel to chew on:
This seems to be collective amnesia of the highest order. If any outlets did indeed offer comment or reportage, the rest of the media, in a startling break from the ordinary, failed to immediately re-purpose that timely content.
Joining Martin on his surprise is Frank Spotnitz, who wrote the episode with Vince Gilligan and John Shiban. "I guess so few people saw the show. But it's strange too because that was the pilot and the ratings were actually quite good for [that episode], and yet, we didn't hear anything." After September 11, the government brought together film and TV writers to imagine new terrorism scenarios. Martin reflects that, after reconsidering the work done by Spotnitz & Co., this was probably a good move, though the Gunmen scribe wonders if the government couldn't have come up with their own ideas: "What's disturbing about it to me is, you think as a fiction writer that if you can imagine this scenario, then the people in power in the government who are there to imagine disaster scenarios can imagine it, too." But how come the Lone Gunmen connection has been noted so late in the game, even, apparently, by the Web's smartest readers? Maybe this was all part of a plan on Chris Carter's part to raise his profile and that of his collaborators now that their workhorse has been finally put to rest. No doubt Byers, Langly and Frohike would have dug to the bottom of the case, hadn't they been summarily dismissed, without so much as a thank-you, when the X-Files jumped the shark for the nth time. |
Feedback:
- good story... I heard this mentioned on foxnewschannel the other day, too. I watched the pilot episode and remembered it a few days after 9/11... but I had no outlet to spread the word, and other people I told just shrugged
- Someone *with a news outlet* has finally noticed. Here in Australia the episode had aired only weeks before the event. Spooky.
- I'm 99.9999% sure this was submitted and rejected a while ago... At least, this isn't the first I've heard of it.
- A number of plastards (including me) have brought this up on various threads.
- Sorry I can't find this link, but this is eerily familiar. I know I have already seen this discussed ad nausuem, I just can't remember if it was plastic
- Wow, that's freaky. You know what's really freaky? Listen to dark side of the moon while watching the wizard of oz.
- Two points. First this has been discussed and second considering the near complete lack of viewer interest in the show is this really surprising?
- The write-up should mention what happened in the program.
- I watched the first episode of the Lonegunmen, and all I can remember is feeling like I should have smoked more pot.
 Here's the connection: The destruction of the World Trade Center towers sucked. The Lone Gunmen sucked donkey dicks. End of conicidence.
{Update, June 25, 2003}
A "thanks for linking" goes to Hetty Litjens and her Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio, which picked up this entry yesterday. However, after seeing it quoted as if it were "fresh news," I feel compelled to give some pertinent information on it: this was (as perhaps you've already guessed) a Plastic submission which didn't cut the mustard. It was submitted last year, on June 24.
Not exactly breaking news...
{Edited on June 25, 2003. Added the above picture of the Lone Gunmen. You know, just for kicks.}
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