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Let's face it, that Home Page of mine was getting way crowded. So in the interest of brevity, I've moved all the "Last Words and Testaments" to this little ol' page, for posterior-- um, posterity. Though it's probably not like anyone was reading them anyway... :^D
Coda:
Sunday, 16 May 2004
I heard some great Lone Gunmen news from Dean
Haglund himself at the Motor City Comic Con,
Saturday 15 May 2004. Check it out...
All pages now interlink properly, and the Contact
the Gunmen page is updated.
Coda:
Thursday, 1st May 2003
For (probably) the last major update to this
site and my reaction to the X-FILES finale, see the
Post-Finale Content Page.
All future page updates will be listed below:
Contact page--info for Zuleikha Robinson/"Yves"
added and Stephen Snedden/"Jimmy" updated 28 October.
Webmistress--small bio change 9 June.
Post-Finale--Petition address added! 2
August--website links added 28 October.
Post-Finale Contact page--Marvel comics and
Petition address added 2 August.
Third Postcard page--HTML code for petition
buttons corrected, new buttons added 2 August.
Fourth Postcard page--added 28 October 2002.
Hooray! The Lone
Gunmen Resuscitation Petition (co-authored by Yours Truly) was
mentioned in STARLOG #311 (June 2003)! Check out the FANLOG
column on page 18. Of course, the info was submitted in August
last year... but better late than never, I guess. Go
Gunmen!!! --1st May, 2003.
"Last Word and Testaments" moved to
new page, and minor edits-- 22 January 2004.
Post-"Jump the
Shark" link replaced-- (oops)-- 22 January 2004.
Not-so-Last Word and
Testament (Again):
Tuesday, 7 May 2002
No, the pictures aren't gone--they, and more fun stuff, are located on the Post-"Jump the Shark" Content page. There you'll find postcards, banners, fanfic and more! All updates will be on that page from now on.
Not-so-Last Update and Testament:
Tuesday,
23 April 2002
It appears that all may not be
lost. I've received e-mail that says the Gunmen might, just might,
show up in the XF finale... which means they might not actually be
dead.
I'm reserving judgement.
If it's true... they still played an incredibly
cruel trick on all the Gunmen fans who've
supported them... but if they are
alive, I will display...well, something softer. (Fair's
fair.) And just in case it's not,
I'm leaving up my little rant from the other night... I'll admit, it
isn't pretty, but it was written in the heat of the moment and if
nothing else, it's an honest reaction to the episode. It's what
I felt...and what I still feel.
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Last Update and Testament
Sunday, 21 April 2002
An open letter to Shiban, Spotnitz, Gilligan, and all the "creative" people at 10-13 Productions responsible for tonight's X-Files episode, "Jump the Shark":
Gee, thanks a lot, guys.
Thank you oh so much for tonight's
"conclusion." Was it ever.
Thank you for bringing to life such
amazing characters, three brilliant (if wacky) dreamers who stole
their way into our souls over the years, making it cool to be geeky,
admirable to be idealistic, sexy to be smart, three true heroes to
anyone who has ever felt outcast or misfit, three voices for the
average man and woman...and then destroying them before our
disbelieving eyes.
Thank you for taking the time and
efforts of hundreds of fans across the country, and the world,
who spent precious time in crafting schemes to resurrect your craftwork--stamp
after stamp to send letters, postcards, various objects to FOX
Network in hopes that Our Heroes would return--hours and hours
researching phone numbers, addresses, e-mails--weeks and months of many
late nights deciphering HTML and JavaScript and graphics
programs to build dozens of pages supporting TLG (over a year
in my case)--and treating it all like so much toilet paper, making it
worthless, collectively giving us all the finger.
Thank you for creating a light in the
darkness--one of the too-few pleasures of this last year--and making
it painfully gruesome, snuffing it completely--in the end, leaving
one less escape from the harshness of reality.
Thank you for raising our hopes,
teasing us with rumors and snippets and promos into fantasies of a
happy resolution to the TLG cliffhanger, making us wait weeks and months
in giddy anticipation...and then dashing our spirits, ruining our
illusions, reminding us that even in the fantastic dream world of the
X Files, that it's useless to try, hopeless to strive, impossible to
win. I know, I know, "noble sacrifice" and all that
bull$#!%. But in the end, the Morris Fletchers of the world
survive and succeed yet again, and the hopeful dreamers get crushed.
Again.
Harsh words? Unquestionably.
Overreaction? You betcha. "Grow up, it's
just a TV show"? Too true. But damn it, tonight HURT.
Reality's dark enough; why did you have to ruin our dreams?
There had to have been half a dozen ways, at least,
for the Gunmen to prevail without paying that oh-so-terrible
price. They were silly stories, silly characters, a silly TV
show...maybe not worth much in the grand scheme of things.
But...it was so nice seeing heroes that weren't perfect,
weren't so pretty, heroes who didn't always get it perfectly right,
were kinda clumsy, but who believed, no matter how insignificant they
might have seemed to others, that ideals were worth believing in,
that what little three average people could do would make a
difference. They were heroes, but human...like those of
us who watched. They were so easy for us to identify
with, so when their show was threatened, we joined the
fight...like they would have. We did it for ourselves, for the
Gunmen, and for you. We've fought so hard for
your creation, to give you guys a second chance, to share
those wonderful stories you wanted to tell. I think after the
first few months we knew it wouldn't work...but we still tried.
And tonight, you made it all futile. It would have been so easy
to give them--and us--a way out, to let us dream of them off
somewhere in our collective dreamland, righting wrongs and fighting
the good fight, forever...a little hope, however unreal, in a world
already choking and drowning in death, destruction, killing,
hatefulness. But no, you couldn't give us that much,
even after all we did to give you another chance. You made it
all worthless, in the most painfully possible way.
You killed them.
You destroyed their dreams...our
dreams, and wounded that part of us--of me--that wanted to believe.
You made me cry like a lost child.
You broke my heart.
Thanks a lot, you bastards.
Never again yours,
CrusherJen
I don't yet have the heart to
take this site down, no matter how futile, because I can't yet bring
myself to destroy over a year's worth of work. It might as well
stay up, a testament to a lost dream, a virtual tribute for Our
Heroes, and a hell of a lot of wasted time. Not that it made
any difference.
-----1:58 A.M., Monday 22 April, 2002
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Basically, for anyone who's still following this, there isn't much new to say, but I'll make minor changes and additions from time to time in order to keep this site from going the way of most old sites, vanishing due to inactivity... :^D
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