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SOURCE     : DVD
VIDEO      : XviD 640x352 @ 23.976fps
AUDIO      : AC3 2.0
SIZE       : 25x15mb
DVD date   : Mar 29 2005
Rls date   : Wed Mar 30 2005

EP. INFO

The Lone Gunmen
#1.06: Madam, I'm Adam
Fri Mar 30 2001 (runtime: 60 min)

And now, a word from our Guest Reviewer, Lori Summers:

Tonight on "The Lone Gunmen": Our heroes meet a strange man |
who may or may not have been transported by aliens from a
parallel universe. Oh, and there's goo.

Rating: 9.0 out of 10

Quick summary...Byers and Jimmy meet a man named Adam
Burgess who has found someone else living his life and he's |
not recognized by anyone he knows. He thinks he's been
transported by aliens from a parallel universe where
everything is the same except him, but it soon comes out
that his memory has been modified via electrodes implanted  |
on his brain. There are also little people who wrestle, a
guy with one eye and did I mention alien goo?

In my opinion, this was the strongest episode to date.
These are the Gunmen I know and love. Smart, capable,
determined and compassionate. There was an almost zero
bumbling factor (except for Jimmy, where it's sort of
built-in) and the guys did some great detective work. The
plot was reminicent of The X-Files (neck implants spring to |
mind as an XF sendup) with its own TLG flavor...what seems  |
like the truth turns out to be totally different, and
everyone has a secret to hide.

The episode was well balanced in terms of Gunmen...the trio |
assume their usual roles of Frohike who gets stuff done,
Langly who questions everything and Byers who figures
things out. The Gunmen's initial skepticism about Adam's
story speaks well to their integrity...these guys aren't
out there Muldering about and believing everything they see |
or hear. They don't immediately jump to the paranormal
explanation, in fact, they'd prefer to have an earthly
solution they can do something about.

Madam I'm Adam also featured a satisfactory (I hesitate to  |
say strong) guest turn by Stephen Tobolowski (famous as the |
nerdy insurance salesman in Groundhog Day) and miraculously |
managed to make Jimmy not annoying. I was also impressed
that the little people in the plot, aside from their jobs
as wrestlers, weren't played for laughs but for
feeling...though as a former anthropologist I must object
to the assumption that a midget would necessarily have a
midget daughter. Odds are that his daughter would have been |
of normal height, especially if her mother wasn't also a
midget.

The plot hung together remarkably well. I didn't spot any
huge Mack truck sized holes, though that doesn't mean there |
aren't any. The conclusions made sense and loose threads
were tied up, such as how Adam escaped. Things left
unanswered were clearly meant to be so, such as why Dr.
Lois had an implant in her own neck [editor's note: she
needed one to join in the VR therapy sessions -- or, in
Adam's case, to join him in bed...]. The one thing I wasn't |
clear on was why it was necessary to immerse the subjects
in goo...but I suppose it's an end in an of itself. Hey,
goo is never a bad idea.

And, lest we forget, the episode managed to be hugely
funny. There were too many great lines to go into here, and |
some of the setups were priceless...I particularly enjoyed  |
the Gunmen having a heart to heart chat with thin air, and  |
the deathless line "Did the aliens do this? Or the
government? Or aliens working for the government?"

On the downside, they still don't know what to do with
Yves. She's turning into an all-purpose consultant and
helper. But, I'm beginning to think it's intentional. I
suspect that later there will be considerable mythology
plot involving her and it makes it more dramatic if she's
portrayed as part of their everyday lives here. The Dr.
Lois character was rather sketchily drawn (why *did* she
write herself into his program?) and didn't have much
impact.

In closing I just must mention that Langly was lookin'
pretty cute without his glasses, and I'm always in favor of |
Byers in black turtlenecks.

Special Alerts:

Action Figures: PunchingBag!Langly, GrossedOut!Byers and
MidgetWrestler!Frohike

X-Files Cross Pollination: Frohike mentions calling Mulder  |
about their current case, which is puzzling because if this |
show is meant to run concurrently with XF (and we've no
indication that it isn't) Mulder is currently dead. That's  |
a heckuva long distance call. Or this might have just been  |
a huge spoiler for XF. Like we ever thought he was really
dead, anyway. [ed. note: Spotsy said they made this before  |
they knew the air dates for each individual episode. It was |
supposed to run after Mulder's return in DeadAlive.]

Hair Length Jokes: None

Jail Time: A night in the slammer for the Fab Four plus
Adam.

Amazing Feats of Hacking: Scanning Adam's head with a
homemade MRI, Yves breaks into the virtual reality program. |

Undercover Gunmen: Frohike the city engineer

Jimmy Stupidity: Uttered the line "science shouldn't get in |
the way of love." Cue Frohike's diabetes.

Oops! I Did It Again: And they just stood there and let
that guy saw through the entire wall because...?

Action!Gunmen: Black-gloved intruders (ooh sexy) and
numerous manhandlings of psycho-Adam

Road Trips: Short hops to Maryland suburbs

Smoochies: Numerous for Adam, none for our heroes.

Lori, intrepid reviewer

url: http://tvtome.com/LoneGunmen/

NOTES

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