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I just watched the pilot episode of lone gunmen, the x-files spinoff. it was about a government plot the fly a 747 into the world trade center to create a new conflict to replace the cold war against terrorist nations. it aired in march of 2001... a little creepy aye.

How is that show? Me and my girlfriend are on the fifth season of the x-files. Is it worthy?

I just watched the pilot episode of lone gunmen, the x-files spinoff. it was about a government plot the fly a 747 into the world trade center to create a new conflict to replace the cold war against terrorist nations. it aired in march of 2001... a little creepy aye.

So Shrub and company all watched some crappy tv show and said to themselves, "Gee, that's a really great idea, let's start planning it right away.

GMAF'inB.

First off, it wasn't a 747 that flew into the WTT's, but two 737's.

Also, the only Cold War the US ever fought was against those filthy commie bastards.

Meh, it's probably just a fluke...

Q Why shouldn't this be seen as an intelligence failure, that you were unable to predict something happening here?

DR. RICE: Steve, I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html

So Shrub and company all watched some crappy tv show and said to themselves, "Gee, that's a really great idea, let's start planning it right away.

GMAF'inB.

First off, it wasn't a 747 that flew into the WTT's, but two 737's.

Also, the only Cold War the US ever fought was against those filthy commie bastards.

I think he's just saying its a weird coincidence...

So Shrub and company all watched some crappy tv show and said to themselves, "Gee, that's a really great idea, let's start planning it right away.

GMAF'inB.

First off, it wasn't a 747 that flew into the WTT's, but two 737's.

Also, the only Cold War the US ever fought was against those filthy commie bastards.

And suddenly the resemblence goes away:rolleyes: who cares? the point is it was about a jumbo jet flying into the WTC

it was profoundly disturbing to watch the plane fly directly toward the trade center about to hit the building in roughly the same place it would really be hit, only to be pulled up and over it at the last second as the good guys regained control. i watched the series but i must have missed the original pilot because i don't remember it at all. no wonder i've never seen the series rebroadcast on tv since.

How is that show? Me and my girlfriend are on the fifth season of the x-files. Is it worthy? if you like the x-file lone gunmen character it worth watching. the series never really found it tone, its too comic in places and unfocused but its okay,.

it was profoundly disturbing to watch the plane fly directly toward the trade center about to hit the building in roughly the same place it would really be hit, only to be pulled up and over it at the last second as the good guys regained control. i watched the series but i must have missed the original pilot because i don't remember it at all. no wonder i've never seen the series rebroadcast on tv since.

I saw it when it aired.


funny, tho... the scene that sticks in my mind was the assassin slipping on the newly shampoo'd rug and shooting himself.

I saw it when it aired.


funny, tho... the scene that sticks in my mind was the assassin slipping on the newly shampoo'd rug and shooting himself.well actually the sticking in the mind thing hasn't really happened for me yet, i just watched it 30 minutes ago... it was just weird, my wife and i talked about how the plot was getting creepily prophetic before we ever knew the target was the wtc, and even though it was at night in the show, watching the plane actually fly toward the towers was really disturbing.

Wow. Is this true? Can a link be provided?

Damn, was the Lone Gunmen 2001? I thought it was earlier.

Wow. Is this true? Can a link be provided?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen

So Shrub and company all watched some crappy tv show and said to themselves, "Gee, that's a really great idea, let's start planning it right away.

GMAF'inB.

First off, it wasn't a 747 that flew into the WTT's, but two 737's.

Also, the only Cold War the US ever fought was against those filthy commie bastards.

Are you trying to ironicly agree with the idea that there's a connection?

You talk as though there's a world of difference between crashing two 737's and one 747, as well as pretending that "new cold war" means only US and Russia.

It's pretty funny if you're being ironic. It's a bit silly otherwise.

Wow. Is this true? Can a link be provided?
First Aired: Sunday March 4, 2001
http://www.tv.com/the-lone-gunmen/pilot/episode/14827/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;0

--> Call it freaky, but this episode was first aired in Australia just 4 days before 9/11

--> 12-D is nearly the exact plan that was executed on 911

--> A note for the techies in the crowd: the air scene of the plane approaching the World Trade Center was actually shot by the aerial photographer from a helicopter, so the skyline and approach you see is real. The airliner was CGI'd on top of it, and it's extremely well done. A very exciting sequence. Kudos to the crew for such a wonderful bit!

what if this was a publicity stunt to push up interest!

Actually the aircraft that crashed into the WTC, Pentagon, and Shanksfield PA was 757s and 767s.

i listened to the dvd commentary and it wasn't that interesting. it was probably recorded a year or so after 9/11 and they just seemed uncomfortable and almost embarassed about the connection. its was like they had to acknowledged that it was a strange unsettling coincidence but they really wished they didn't have to talk about it at all.

i listened to the dvd commentary and it wasn't that interesting. it was probably recorded a year or so after 9/11 and they just seemed uncomfortable and almost embarassed about the connection. its was like they had to acknowledged that it was a strange unsettling coincidence but they really wished they didn't have to talk about it at all.

That's pretty understandable.

evidently i predicted it too when i was 5. I have a picture at home in an old desk(just found it last yearish)and it was a picture of a plane flying into a tall skinny building and people jumping out.. :eek:

If i get a chance to scan it, I will :)

That's pretty understandable.

yeah i listen to the whole episode commentary, but i actually felt kinda bad for them when it came to the 9/11 stuff. it was obviously too soon after the events for them really to want to discuss the issue. it was disturbing for me to watch 5 years later, i'm sure it was really hard for them to have to talk about it without seeming ghoulish or profoundly insenstive so soon after it happened. as they said however, it was the elephant in the parlor, you couldn't do the series dvd and not say something about it.

Shit, I remeber watching that when it first cone out on DVD, I'd watched the show when it first came out, but had completly forgot the plot to the pilot that was creepy seeing it again, the commentary was also interesting they commented on how they had assumed when doing this that they weren't the only ones to think of something like this so they figured the goverment probably had some type of plan for a situation like that, it was eire.

So Shrub and company all watched some crappy tv show and said to themselves, "Gee, that's a really great idea, let's start planning it right away.

GMAF'inB.

First off, it wasn't a 747 that flew into the WTT's, but two 737's.

Also, the only Cold War the US ever fought was against those filthy commie bastards.

If you are going to correct someone, get it right.

The two WTC planes were 767's, the two others were 757's.

Wow. Is this true? Can a link be provided?


http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/lonegunmanpilot.mpg

Actually the aircraft that crashed into the WTC, Pentagon, and Shanksfield PA was 757s and 767s.

UA 175 (South Tower) was a 767-222 and AA 11 (North Tower) was a 767-223ER.

Also, the aircraft in the Lone Gunmen was a 727.