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This Friday on The Lone Gunmen EP 10: Tango de los Pistoleros

posted 15 years ago by charmedwon666
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originally aired: 4/27/2001

The Gunmen keep blowing Yves' cover as she tries to prevent a tango-dancing smuggler from passing on information about new top-secret military cloaking material. The only way she can stop him is by becoming his tango-dancing partner.

John Vargas Leonardo Santavos
David Palffy Mariano Cuchillo
Silvio Pollio Emanuel Morales
Eva De Viveiros Laundress
Colin Heath Duncan
Alfonso Quijada Hernando
Jim Fyfe Kimmy the Geek (Belmont)
Jodine Baluk Woman #1 [uncredited]
Francesca Burden Woman #2 [uncredited]
Indiana Luna Woman #3 [uncredited]
Gabriela Rojo Elderly Cuban Woman
Rob Daly Dance Judge
Susana Dominguez choreographer (Nita Leon)
Stellina Rusich Carlotta
Jorge Rodriguez The Guard

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[–] both_time_and_space 15 years ago

I was late on last weeks post but this week I'm first?
This one had a lot of entertainment.
Frohike was El Lobo, who would have guessed. Very funny.
I guess that Yve really fell for Santavos and based on the ending, vise versa.
It's amazing that the writers put some very serious pieces into an otherwise light plot.
Yve was looking very sensual in this one. We see little into her secluded self. Quite lonely.
The new geek was a little too much. You wanted to smack him.

I'll give this one a 7.

[–] charmedwon666 15 years ago

Wow I like this episode a lot. Very funny all the way through and the intro kept you watching the whole way. El Lobo very funny though his dancing was totally unbelievable. What exactly was yve doing? Was she just trying to help the country?
Was she in love with the guy?
The 4th nerd was pretty funny to start with but got more annoying as we went along. I thought the 3 boys trying to enter the contest was hilarious.
Some thoughts, 10 episodes in and i'm going to officially claim, I don't get it.
Every single show we have done so far at some point it has occurred to me that even though I may or may not have liked the show I would always say, I get why this show got canceled. With this show I don't get it. All the episodes have been very watchable and most have been good. I don't get it. One would think this show would have at least gotten one more season.
All in all this is my favorite episode to date. I give it a 9 on the TLG scale.

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[–] ckocher 15 years ago

Wow ... I am REALLY late here. Just been crazy-busy, but I'm glad I made time for the episode - because I really think it's the best one so far.

The acting, the dancing, the plot, even the little details all add up to a well-crafted 50 minutes of TV. The intro is so odd but intriguing, and it's only later that you discover the circumstances of Langley being stabbed.

It was great to see John Vargas as Santavos interact with Yves on a totally different level, actually getting her to open up a little and even have feelings for him. You could almost feel the heat between them, and it wasn't just the dancing. That he takes the knife for Yves from his own henchman is surprising yet makes sense at the same time - like a good Shakespearean tragedy.

I also loved Frohike as "El Lobo" the tango champion. The actor's limitations meant that we didn't see all of Frohike's best moves, but the idea of Frohike as a sex god is pretty amusing.

Pretty much all of the Gunmen got good scenes here, except maybe Byers. Langley as the screaming girl on the boat was funny, and Jimmy as the one who sees into Yves' soul is really touching. Their scene together was, I believe, meant to be a precursor to a closer relationship for them ahead.

charmedwon666 wonders why it got canceled. Two things worked against it:

- It was in Fox's Friday night death slot, and the late 1990s to early 2000s were littered with canceled sci-fi shows from there. "The X-Files" was the only ratings success on Friday nights and Fox fruitlessly spent years trying to replicate it - especially after moving "X-Files" to Sundays.

- The show might have had a second season, but after 9/11, I bet execs thought anti-government conspiracies would not have played well - and they may have been right.

Are either of these things fair? Of course not - but TV never is fair.

[–] wlcebtg 15 years ago

Tango de los Pistoleros

Was Eve working for the government or some other three letter agency? The Wolf needs to work a little more on his dance steps. Find it hard to believe he was once a dance winner. He just stood there like I would. They seem to be making Frohike some type of stud with the ladies. Are Jimmy and Eve in love they seemed to be writing this in the last two episodes or is just my imagination? The normally tough Eve showed a little weakness in this episode like she might of starting to fall in love with her partner. I thought it was again strange that they would predict Saddam Hussein using the stolen technology to crash a plane into the White House. It's a little eerie how they predicted the use of planes in a terrorist attack months before 911. The man who played the nerd hacker was a little over the top for me. But the show appears to be more about humor then being serious.

I'll give it a six on the Gunmen scale.

Almost done with this one.