The Lone Gunmen Aren't Dead?

A reader writes: "With the series finale of The X-Files rapidly approaching, the official site has recently been updated with a brief description and a few images from the final episode. Normally, this would not be a notable occurance - except for the fact that one of the images, which are said to be from the final episode, is of The Lone Gunmen!"

posthumous appearences

[Saint Nobody]

keep in mind that both deep throat and mulder's father appeared posthumously in dream sequences in the third season, and scully's father appeared posthumously in a dream sequence in the second season. there's probably more, but it's been too long since i've watched the show, and i don't remember others. there's also been some occurences of people appearing in flashback sequences after they've died. that's how deep throat got into the fourth season. not to mention shapeshifters taking the forms of dead people. that happened a few times. most notably at the beginning of season 4.

then again, "killing" characters only to have them turn out to still be alive has happend more that its share of times. mulder, krycek and the smoking man have all died and come back a few times.

News, not Rumours

[KoopaTroopa]

Are rumours of what characters appear on the XFiles what Slashdot is all about? I mean, "News for Nerds" and all, but if I want analysis of publicity pictures of a television show I can go to any number of other rumour sites. I come here for some nifty Science, Computing, and Social news, along with some often interesting talking on the boards.

Oh well, it's just my two cents.

Did it AGAIN!

[Trickster Coyote]

Geeze. First you guys spoil it for everyone by blabbling about the Lone Gunmen are dead before half the people here get a chance to see the episode, and now you are doing it again, blabbing about how the Lone Gunmen _aren't_ before the show is even on the air.

If Slashdot keeps on blaring all these spoilers on the front page, I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy watching the X-Files again.

But...

[ziggy_zero]

This could very well be a dream or a flashback sequence. Or they could be clones! (sorry, still in Star Wars mode)

No making up for past sins...

[Colz Grigor]

Hemos, try as you may, you can't use this story to make up for Slashdot's (or chrisd's) horrible "The Lone Gunmen Are Dead" headline. Because your typically-intellectual readers are well aware of the possibilities of flashbacks, dream sequences, and other such plot devices, there are other explanations than what seems to be your "See... chrisd wasn't correct in saying the Lone Gunmen are dead! California needn't be pissed off at us anymore!"

Maybe the best possible solution would be for Slashdot to stick to computer-related stuff and avoid the "Entertainment" subject altogether? Though I must say I'm pretty pleased with simply exlcuding every story posted by chrisd [slashdot.org].

::Colz Grigor // It was appropriate that in his review of Attack of the Clones, Taco used "lone gunmen" as a verb... Long live CmdrTaco!

A little spoiler warning please!!

[onetrueking]

Well, there goes that surprise from tomorrow's show.

Re:Way to ruin it *again*!!!

[dimator]

Can we all stop the "Anakin is Luke's father????" jokes? They've been old for a few years now.

Are the editors on crack?

[EvilNTUser]

You've apparently learned nothing from the last time you revealed something about the X-Files in advance.

And don't try to explain yourselves by saying it's not a spoiler, just a rumor. For some people, rumors are too much.

I stopped visiting Star Trek boards because some people just couldn't keep themselves from accidentally revealing small details about the next movie. Those small details weren't clearly spoilers either, but eventually details pile up to form a bigger picture... One I don't want to have yet!!

Will I have to stop visiting Slashdot too? Hope not...

Re:It's not over yet?

[BigBir3d]

"it's comments and attitudes like that that led to the falling viewing figures that led to its demise."

no, that would be the significant drop in quality of the shows episodes.

Im glad Im not an X-Files fan....

[NanoGator]

Im getting really tired of Slashdot spoiling it in the headlines.

Re:From TVGuide.com

[X-ViRGE]

Sounds to me a lot like the last episode(s) of Seinfeld, where they got to go through a bunch of repeat footage as they explained what the characters were doing the past few years.

Re:It's not over yet?

[phaze3000]

Too true.

The X-Files was a great show up until around the end of season 2. After then things went downhill - and fast.

X-Files should have never tried to run for more than a couple of series - there are only so many times the main charecters can almost see something eerie, but not quite, maintaining that skeptic vs believer thing. Once Scully believed Mulder, the show was over IMO.