TV Show Had eps. w/ Planes hitting WTC

[Guest Astro]

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Fans of the short-lived X-Files spinoff series The Lone Gunmen may recall that the pilot episode ended with an eerie foreshadowing of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center. Though the show aired six months before the attack, its final scene featured a commercial airliner aiming at the [World Trade] center, veering away at the last minute, TV Guide Online reported.

But for some reason, the show's images escaped notice in the months following the real-life attacks—something that mystifies one of the show's writers, longtime X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz. It wasn't until the industry newsletter The Myers Report ran a story about the show this week that it caught the notice of TV Guide.

"I know! That's what I've been wondering," Spotnitz told TV Guide. He, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban wrote the episode. "I thought, 'Nobody noticed!' I guess so few people saw the show. But it's strange, too, because that was the pilot, and the ratings were actually quite good for [that episode], and yet we didn't hear anything."

Myers Report columnist Ed Martin wrote that "this seems to be collective amnesia of the highest order. The final act of the Gunmen pilot, which seemingly made no impact last year, now contains some of the most deeply disturbing images ever created for an entertainment program," according to TV Guide.

"I woke up on Sept. 11 and saw it on TV, and the first thing I thought of was The Lone Gunmen," Spotnitz told TV Guide. "But then in the weeks and months that followed, almost no one noticed the connection. What's disturbing about it to me is, you think as a fiction writer that if you can imagine this scenario, then the people in power in the government who are there to imagine disaster scenarios can imagine it, too." -Sci Fi Wire (6/21/01

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

October of 2001 is calling and it wants its news story back.

 

And the show sucked, thats why no one cared about it.

[Guest Astro]

October of 2001 is calling and it wants its news story back.

 

And the show sucked, thats why no one cared about it.

*insert random point making insult here*

[Guest Astro]

CIA Checking if Life Imitates Art

Thu Aug 5, 2004 08:10 AM ET

 

By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the plot thickens, the CIA calls in the professionals -- Hollywood screenwriters.

 

Addressing what the Sept. 11 commission said was one of the main failures of government -- imagination -- a senior CIA official said Wednesday the spy agency was willing to "push beyond the traditional boundaries of intelligence."

 

"We had our terrorism and counternarcotics analysts meet with Hollywood directors, screenwriters and producers. People who are known for developing the summer blockbusters or the hit TV show that often have a terrorism theme," said Jami Miscik, CIA's deputy director for intelligence.

 

"It was an attempt to see beyond the intelligence report, and into a world of plot development," she told a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations about analysis and the need for imagination and creativity.

 

The CIA also ran a round-table discussion with 10 science-fiction authors so intelligence analysts could see how the writers spun possible scenarios.

 

"An invaluable opportunity for analysts to push the envelope on where a nascent development might lead," Miscik called it.

 

"To truly nurture creativity, you have to cherish your contrarians and give them opportunities to run free," she said.

 

"Leaders in the analytic community must avoid trying to make everyone meet a preconceived notion of the intelligence community's equivalent of the 'man in the gray flannel suit'," Miscik said.

 

To address a key election-year issue, House and Senate committees are holding hearings during their summer recess on the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission for an overhaul of the intelligence bureaucracy.

 

The hearings come amid heightened alert in the United States for a possible al Qaeda attack in the run-up to the November presidential election.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Most irrelavant topic ever.

[alfdogg 0]

What did you expect.

[Guest Vitamin X]

A more relevant topic?

[Guest Astro]

We need more conspiracy theorists here

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

OMG, Terrorists watch FOX!

 

Fox is making money by providing Terrorists with shows that the Terrorists can use to get ideas on how to attack America (24 anyone?)

 

Thats about the best conspiracy theory I can muster.

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

I don't think he meant the terrorists watched the show, I think he was just pointing out the irony and spookiness of it all

 

 

Boo_Bradley tends to due that

[Shooting Star 0]

The show was great I loved it even though I only watched 1 episode.