A link to an interview with Dean Haglund where they talk about the demise of TLG and, apparently, a possible "resurrection" of the crew (I can't listen right now but will later):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/xfiles/interview...und/index.shtml

I was felling a little emotionally raw the other night, and then I turned on Three of a Kind and actually fully teared up over Byers's happy-family fantasy at the beginning, and the look on his face right before he turns down Suzanne's offer to come with her at the end. (I was going to add a screencap, but they don't do it justice.) "Go, Byers!" I yelled. "Go with her! Some things that I will never admit happened will happen to you if you don't! Bring Frohike and Langley if it's that big a deal!"

Jump The Shark. I've never EVER seen it. I planned on watching it when it aired again, but that was during the huge blackout and I decided to consider that a sign. I shouldn't see it and I have absolutely no need to. The DVD just stares at me, daring me to do it. I refuse.

That picture of him! Very freaky.

You are not missing anything in Jump the Shark.

I cried at the end of Jump the Shark. I sure did love the Lone Gunmen. I would be quite happy if they just quietly returned in the 2nd movie, without explanation. What? Us Dead? Never happened...

Except having your heart ripped out of your chest and stomped on by 1013.

I haven't seen "Jump the Shark" yet, and I don't think I'm ready to admit that they're dead. How is it that people like Bill Scully live, and the Lone Gunmen die? Alas, cruel fate, why do you mock me so? My favorite guman was Byers, but Langly was a close second.

I always had a little space in my heart for Frohike. His crush on Scully was adorable. I remember a random episode from years ago where Mulder meets up with the Gunmen and Frohike asks where Scully is.

"She wouldn't come. She's afraid of her love for you."

Hee.

That's cute. Does anyone know from which episode it is?

'Tis Blood.

Another nice thing about Frohike was that he was always the most demonstrably sad whenever Mulder was dead. He was the one who showed up at Scully's door with an empty liquor bottle in Blessing Way, and who drank more liquor at Mulder's wake in Field Trip, and who hugged Mulder after he came back from the dead in Three Words.

I always wanted to see a scene in which THE LONE GUNMEN questioned Mulder's relationship with Scully. They were his only friends, so it would have been to have a few throwaway lines or comments about the status of their relationship.

I always liked the line from Parabiosis (the fanfic):

Because I'm dorky like that.

Is that the one where they go to the party?!? I read that years ago and loved it! Thanks for the linkage, Slip!

Topic? Lili and I saw (most of) that season 7 gunman episode on TNT the other night. I thought it was a bit too pathetic that Byers had been looking for Suzanne Modeski for 10 years. That was just.... almost mean.

The closest we get to that is the line is Three Words, when Langley says they were wondering what Mulder's involvement was re: Scully's baby. Of course Mulder doesn't get answer, because that would make sense.

I can't decide if Byers or Frohike is my favorite (sorry Langley!) Byers is the gentleman and old-fashioned romantic but you know Frohike would always be loyal. OTOH, I could borrow Langley's cool t-shirts.

I've always loved Frohike the most, he has the best one-liners. Especially all the "just-this-side-of-creepy" comments to Scully that manage to be cute and endearing. Byers is a close second, though.

I always liked Frohike the most, at least as a fictional character with whom I have no contact in real life. If I knew them personally, I think Byers is the one I would like the best. (Because he's normal, and I'm boring).

Hmm, favorite Lone Gunman... Usually it's whichever one happens to be speaking at any given moment. I've been friends with guys with the personalities of each. I think I actually dated a Langley/Byers amalgam once. In fact, I might be a Langley/Byers amalgam, with a little Frohike dark humor thrown in.

I have Jumping the Shark and others of that ilk on tape. I just can't bear to tape over them. As for my favourite, can I have all three? At once? No? Oh well. Byers it is, then, if Sorcha's will to share him. Safe, but with an edge. And I do love a man in a suit.

Favorite Lone Gunman??? They are all like family. Langly is my secret television boyfriend, Byers is my wise older brother whom I can go to for help with my homework, and Frohike is my crazy uncle who is always hatching get rich quick schemes and wanting me to go along.

I was just watching En Ami the other night and Byers cracked me the hell up with his disguise. The spiked hair and the KoRn shirt. Too, too funny.

And Frohike's toupee? LOVE. IT.

http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season7/enami/enami209.jpg

Had to be done.

My favourite? Frohike, definitely. The unrequited love for Scully, his genuine friendship for Mulder...I miss that little troll.

My favorite is definitely Byers; he's just so cute. "."

I remember watching the show, but I can't remember much of the episodes. I know that I was really angry when it got cancelled =\

I liked Frohike in Three of a Kind, he was great. He's my favorite.

I like the Lone Gunmen, but I to me they are the XF equivalent of Ugly Naked Guy. Great in small doses, but lose something when they have too much screen time. I love the fact that they frequently come along and help out/save the day, but I don't think I'd be bothered in watching just them.

Although I think its very cool that Tom Braidwood started out as an A.D on the show.

London - here they come! The Lone Gunmen!!!

http://www.londonexpo.com/

(and Lance Henriksen, too)

I think I missed the reason why they were dressed up like that in EN AMI. Someone please enlighten me?

I think they're in disguise while tailing Scully:

Byers definitely falls into the "Where are all of the guys like him?" category. After "Unusual Suspects," I was a confirmed Byersphile.

Plus in FTF, there's the whole "Strip Byers Naked" line. Cute.

JTS is one thread in my quilt of late-seasons-X-Files-bitterness. Why, oh why, did anyone at 1013 think this was a good idea?! I agree that it was probably just pissiness on CC's part. So I ignore it, just as I ignore everything after Requiem. (Well, I ignore Scully saying something to Skinner there at the end, too. "I'm getting a permanent"? Somehow my DVD always fritzes out right there.)

Favorite Gunman? I want to be cool and say Frohike, but honesty compels me to choose Byers. He's just so sweet. When he wants to tell the MPs that he was the one who hacked into the Defense Dept. computer? is the dorkiest nice guy thing ever.

Here's a new interview with Dean Haglund.

This excerpt gels with my thoughts about the deaths of The Lone Gunmen:



Dean Haglund

That would make me very happy...
From that same link:

Thanks for that news. I'm very pleased to hear FUX is releasing that episode for the DVDs. I didn't get all of TLG eps on tape, so bonus there too. I'm impressed they've sorted out putting XF episodes on the discs with it -- is that a first melding of series?

[OT]There was a plane episode of Night Visions that same summer that has never reaired on Sci-Fi, so maybe FUX will finally put it and the NV season on DVD, too?[/OT]

Also -- love Byers in that shirt with the big hair!

I'm be curious as to what they mean - do you they mean ALL the XF-TLG episodes? That sounds doubtful to me. Perhaps it's just the ones that aired during the run of TLG's series? And JUMP THE SHARK? That's my guess...

Another guess -- I'd imagine they'd only have the three XF eps in which TLG were main characters: UNUSUAL SUSPECTS, THREE OF A KIND, and JUMP THE SHARK.

That makes even more sense, AnnieF...

Update on LONEGUNMEN DVD:

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/rumormill.html#1117
Some quick 20th Century Fox news for you today. The studio has tentatively set Chris Carter's The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series for release early in 2005. Also on the way for 2005 is Space Above and Beyond: The Complete Series (although the specific release timeframe has yet to be decided).

Further update from TV Shows on DVD:

It will be released in March 2005 and will include the X-Files episode "Jump the Shark", which (sort of) wrapped up the series. Well, it didn't, but at least it had sort of a nod to the plot of TLG.

"Wrapped up the series" until it's discovered they didn't really die, that is.

Look! A squirrel! In a grassy knoll!

You know, I must admit I never watched one episode of TLG - I'm not sure why, I just didn't. How was it?

I did watch it in the beginning due to some warped sense of responsibility, but I got tired of it real fast. Some was fun (this is TLG we're talking about, after all) but there was a lot of adolescent boys' stuff, IMO, and it wasn't exactly... elegant.

At some point, I suddenly realised I hadn't been watching it lately, and then - poff - it was gone.

I did enjoy the guest apperances of Morris Fletcher and Mulder though. There was a little thrill when they showed up. Silly, but there it is.

I watched a couple episodes, actually! I'm not sure why I did, since I wasn't a huge TLG fan. BUt I thought they were entertaining! Also, I thought the big dumb blonde guy was way-hot. :D

I enjoyed it, but it wasn't really very good. I'm not sure why I decided to watch it, since I'm not really an X-Files fan. The weird thing about the show was that they decided to make the Gunmen comic relief who didn't really know what they were doing, so they had to have a competent sidekick.

Then they decided the Gunmen weren't funny enough, so they had to have a comic relief sidekick.

Then they threw in a whole lot of ill-defined conspiracy backstory for the sidekicks that fell apart when you looked too close.

It still had enjoyable moments, though.

Well, they better have the never-before-seen alternate ending for "JTS" where it doesn't end in Arlington (what??). Just saying.



Not just you. And Zuleikha Robinson was also ridiculously hot. Stephen Snedden's humma-ness totally snuck up on me. Hated him the first couple of episodes and then bam!

HEE! Yeah, when "competent sidekick," "comic sidekick" and "ill-defined back story" don't work, add "eye candy!" :)

Hmmmm...that sounds SO familiar... ;-)

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

My problem was that I really didn't care about Yves, and so much of the plot centered on her. Jimmy was cute, but even so, the Lone Gunmen were who I was really interested in, and I didn't want to be distracted by new recurring characters. (Actually, Mulder and Scully were who I was really interested in, but that's another matter.)

I watched all the shows (my obsession demanded it) but the only ep I really loved was the one with Skinner. Mitch Pileggi was hilarious when he was channelling Jimmy.

I had the same reaction. And I always felt bad about that, because those three guys deserved better than what they ended up with (for the most part).

I didn't catch every single episode, but I watched a few times out of loyalty's sake, and most of that time there was cringing of some sort involved. There was one story about a baby (not William, although we all know how well that turned out) that the Gunmen had to protect, or take care of, or something, for some reason I can't recall. And at one point Frohike puts this poor child in some awful contraption that really was just - well, awful. It was meant to be funny, but I remember wondering why the hell any parent would allow their kid to take part in a scene like that. It was just too, too much.

There were a few good moments, though. I definitely came around to the Jimmy love, and Morris Fletcher was great ("Hold your Geek Flag high!" always cracks me up). And of course, I got a ridiculous thrill when Mulder showed up in that parking garage. I think that was that last episode, and the only one I didn't end up taping over.

Oh, and Langly getting that face full of blue paint!!! Comedy gold right there. Loved it.



Oy. Tell me about it. After awhile she seemed like nothing more than a (really obvious) male fantasy, and that got real old, real quick.

Not to mention the fact that there was always someone who felt the inexplicable need to explain (in what seemed like EVERY SINGLE EPISODE) the "real meaning" of her name. Seriously guys, enough already with the Lee Harvey Oswald crap.