Which first episode of a short-lived TV spin-off series has become relatively popular on DVD because of what real event it seemed to predict?

lanfranco

I didn't know anything about this, never having seen the show (or "The X-Files), but it seems to be the first episode of "The Lone Gunmen:" http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/Lone%20Gunmen/The_Lone_Gunmen_Episode_1.htm Sep 24 05, 12:34 PM

gmackematix

Yay Frankie! Well, "The X-Files" was usually about two FBI agents called Fox Mulder (believer) and Dana Scully (skeptic and pathologist) who would investigate deaths due to a different encounter of the Fortean kind each week. However, sometimes, they broke from the entertaining monster-of-the-week episodes to indulge in some lengthy labyrinthine plot about the abduction of Mulder's sister, a buried train carriage and so on involving some big conspiracy. The Lone Gunmen were three computer nerds who made infrequent appearances in those episodes, where they were able to uncover major cover-ups thanks to their hacking skills. Presumably, they did something similar in the spin-off series. No doubt the conspiracy theorists who watched this show would have had a field day witn a first episode that depicted a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre within a few months of it happening for real. Sep 24 05, 3:20 PM

lanfranco

I should introduce you to my brother, gmack. I just explained your question, my total ignorance, and your response, and he yelled, "How could you possibly be my sister and never have watched 'The X-Files'?!!!" And THEN it turned out that my mother watched it! Really, this is quite humiliating. Sep 24 05, 3:41 PM

gmackematix

Without wishing to sound offensive (uh-oh) I think real X-philes tend to also be the sort who queue for "Star Wars" films and go to Trekkie conventions. Do your family watch a lot of sci-fi? ;) Sep 24 05, 5:55 PM

lanfranco

Only my brother, but since he lives closest to our mother, he has a way of dragging her into his latest crazes while he's doing such things as stripping the wallpaper in her house. Sep 24 05, 6:06 PM