A FORGOTTEN TV SHOW PREDICTED 9/11 ALMOST VERBATIM: Coincidental or Inspirational?
We react in real time to learning that The Lone Gunmen’s 2001 pilot centers on a plot to steer a plane into the World Trade Center to jumpstart a war. Shock turns into a live research session as we weigh coincidence, influence, and how fiction can mirror risk.
• context on X-Files and the Lone Gunmen spinoff
• summary of the pilot’s WTC plot and timing
• quick dive into ratings, writers, and sources
• questions about coincidence versus foreknowledge
• personal memories from the morning of 9/11
• comparisons to Pearl Harbor and public mobilization
• doubts about building collapses and…
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