Praise the Paranoids! It really looks as if Chris Carter has been paying attention to the demands of ‘The X Files’ fanbase, and ensuring the upcoming revival is going to be everything we wished it to be: Our favorite trio of tinfoil hatted musqueteers, John Fitzgerald Byers, Richard “Ringo” Langly and Melvin Frohike, a.k.a. the Lone Gunmen, will be featured in the 6-part miniseries.
Details are scarce (as in ‘non-existent’) at the moment, but news of the reunion was confirmed by Dean Haglund –who played Langly– on his Twitter account last week:
yep, it's true. https://t.co/w718E0y6i8
— DEAN HAGLUND (@dhaglund) July 22, 2015
This makes me *very* happy indeed. Not only were the Lone Gunmen some of my all-time favorite characters in the X-Files universe –especially Frohike, for sharing my crush with Scully– but I remember how I actually cried on the episode “Jump the Shark”, in which they self-sacrificed themselves in order to contain an outbreak of a genetically-modified virus; I felt it was the perfect homage for characters which were always depicted as social outcasts, who had sacrificed any sense of a ‘normal’ life for their self-appointed moral duty of “fighting the Man” through their small newspaper The Lone Gunman –must be the lapsing Catholic in me.
Then again, the ‘sacrifice’ was only in appearance, since in the X-Files Season 10 comic book series published by IDW and produced by Chris Carter himself, it was revealed the trio of subversive Freedom fighters ‘faked’ their deaths so they could continue with their investigations undisturbed. Will that be shown in the upcoming mini-series? Will Byers be shown as conservatively-dressed as the good ole days? Will Frohike finally go out and tell Scully in her face that “she’s hot”? Will Langly remain a “46-year-old virgin”??
Stay tuned!
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