From Chris Snellgrove
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The X files Has many great supporting characters, but none is as popular as the lonely armed men, a trio of nerdy computer types that often help Fox Mulder. It is not difficult to understand why these characters are so popular. Finally, “Nerdy computer types” describes a large part of the fan base, especially in the 90s, when the show was new. Fans who always think in lonely shooters are particularly fascinated that these nerds have been inspired by some participants in an UFO convent.
The real lonely armed men
When the lonely armed men were introduced as a result of the first season “EBE”, nobody had reason to assume that they are based on real people. In fact, nobody knew whether these characters would appear another appearance. That was certainly for the episode writers Glen Morgan and James Wong, who thought that they had done a bad job with this episode until they learned how much online fans loved these new characters. And it was Morgan who later revealed that the lonely armed men were inspired by a real trio of people, which he was on a UFO The X files.
He visited this convention X files Episode “shapes”. Morgan claims that this trio of conspiracy theorists left an impression on him, and when he started writing for the series, he thought: “Well, these people have to make it somewhere.” He wanted to write her on the show earlier and complained: “It only took a long time to get it in.”
If you are more of a scully than a Mulder, you may be skeptical of how much the lonely armed men we saw on the screen resembled the real men, whom Glen Morgan met at the UFO convention. After all, these fan favorite-X files characters are legendary quirky, so it is only natural to believe that their personalities or mannerisms were exaggerated compared to their real analogues. However, Morgan is firmly convinced that this is not the case and that I have almost literally installed it into history. “
In fact, the outskirts of the lonely armed men in “EBE” were inspired directly by the Posses of the Real Nerd Trios at the UFO Convention. According to the DVD special features for this episode, Glen Morgan and James Wong were particularly impressed by the real nerds who gave a speech about how the money of all magnetizes and nobody knows. This inspired the moment in the episode, in which byers a 20 dollar bill, a funny stunt on the screen, was so difficult that the Frohike actor Bruce Harwood (in Morgan’s estimate) destroyed about 120 US dollars on invoices, Before he did it right.
The lonely armed men seemed to be like a survival trio of conspiracy theorists when they appeared in “EBE”, but it turned out that they were inspired directly by real participants in a UFO convention with similarly outdated personalities. That makes these beloved buddies a bit like most of the best X files Stories: a mixture of truth and fiction. And as far as the UFO participants are concerned, we suspect that, like the truth, they are still out there and hopefully very proud of the iconic pop culture characters that inspired them.
