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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

WEll, it looks like the Lone Gunmen series (the X-Files spin-off) will begin soon.

Any comments on this?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

They are so geeky. Especially the blonde "Van Halen"-guy. No thanks...

Have you yanks gotten to see Robert Patrick yet, is he good? I think he's a bit typecast, with the hissing, "trust-no-one", leatherneck attitude.
We know he'll be knocked out from behind and thrown in a trunk at least twice per season... They never learn.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

He doesn't buy any of the 'paranormal crap' - I just saw last week's ep (in Australia) the one where the guy is going backwards through time... a good episode - and it was mostly Doggett... he was being the 'FBI' guy... Interesting.

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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

The Lone Gunmen is ok, but it's like the X-Files for kids. I do like "Eve" though. Very sexy.

It simply seems impossible for me to believe, though, that 3 geeks like this could get involved in government cover-up crap every week and not have a sniper pay a visit to their garage. I mean, Hell, they'd have been dead along time ago...

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Well, in all fairness, it's not ALWAYS a government conspiracy...

In fact, out of four conspiracies so far, one was in the DoD, one was from some non-existant former Soviet republic, one was big oil, and one was a couple Germans.

Oh, and her name's spelled "Yves".

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

BEGINS soon? It began a few weeks ago.

I don't care for it much -- but then, I've never been a big X-Files fan. I got tossed out of the theater for laughing so hard during the movie (that was not Montgomery County!).

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

I got it from an older article. I didn't know it was already running.

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Terry: "Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, ...."
Max: "And?"
Terry: "I forgot."
Max: "Come on, Clinton was the fun one, then came the boring one."
Terry: "They're all boring."

- Batman Beyond (aka: Batman of the Future)

Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

That's right. Doesn't her name spell out Lee Harvey Oswald when you rearrange the letters? It's obviously an alias. It says "Unknown I.D." on her computer readout during the credits.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

It isn't a bad show. It's pretty fun at times. The one problem I do have with it is...well, a little hard to relate.

When The X-Files started, it presented a world full of possible monsters and dark secrets and what have you. And it was good. As the show progressed, more and more of those monsters and secrets became real. As the show stands now, we know for a fact that there are aliens trying to take over the world.

To me, once you do that, you have an obligation to follow up on it. The Lone Gunmen are searching for threats to life, liberty, etc, but in the universe they're in we already know what those threats are.

Does that make any sense?

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Yes.

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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

Sol: That makes an ungodly amount of sense. In fact, I think you hit my feelings exactly. It's hard to get into a car that runs on water when you know that Scully is out there being chased around by an alien that's trying to make us all slaves.

Or something.

Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

Sol's right. If this show had been on when all the evil, neato stuff on the X-Files, it would rock hard.

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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

Well, I was wondering how long the show would go before making reference to the X-Files... One of the guys mentioned a "friend in the FBI" in this week's episode.

Yves is HOT!

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"The sons of the Prophet were valiant and bold,
And quite unacustomed to fear.
But, of all, the most reckless, or so I am told,
Was Abdulah Boul Boul Ameer."
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