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By Chris Snellgrove
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In The X-FilesCircular characters are hardly more popular than the lonely gun men, a trio of uber-terds that often help mulder and scully with their strangest investigations. Each member of this group has a very unique personality, including Melvin Frohike, a character who is known primarily for hitting scully and being a general pervert. According to actor Frohike Tom Braidwood, his X-FilesThe Horny Nerd Personality characters were cemented in the episode “Ebe” by his two -word description of Scully: “She’s Hot.”
Frohike and Scully
As recorded in the excellent book The Complete X-Files: Behind the series, the myths and moviesBraidwood looks back a little ruefelly on his character is so much perverted throughout the series. The frequent X-Files Guest Star said, “It was all derived from the first episode where my line was ‘She’s Hot,’ which was drawing me to be a slate for the rest of my career.” And certainly, Frohike became a scully risk in one of the defining elements of this character throughout most of the series.
By the way, when X-Files Former Sunster Braidwood claimed that the “hot” line had devoted his reputation for the rest of his career, he was only half Kidding. For the first five seasons of the show, he served as Assistant Director, and made appearances on screen as Frohike was something he did when he called the episode. Although he has appeared on screen in other projects, his acting career is still primarily defined by appearances in 40 episodes of The X-Files and 13 episodes of The lonely gun men A spinoff show did not, and his character in this universe never shook his perverted reputation.
Why, though, this would be dear X-Files‘The character has his reputation simply sealed by saying, “She’s hot” for scully (especially considering that the whole fandom agrees)? Reading between the lines, this seems to be because the writers and producers were not quite sure what fans loved for the characters. The lonely gun men were presented in the episode “Ebe,” and were based on a real -life trio of people who met Glen Morgan meeting in a UFO convention he was forced to include in his show (albeit fictional adjustments).
The lonely gun men are loved
However, Morgan and his writing partner James Wong were initially convinced that they had done a bad job introducing the lonely gun men into this exciting fictional universe. Later, the producers informed them that the trio of characters were very popular with fans on the internet, and fan feedback often determined what the writers did. For example, early shipping on -lein is why Mulder and Scully became an ultimate romantic item. Because the lonely gun guys were so popular in their first chapter, they appeared dozens more times, eventually having their own spinoff series.
What is this X-Files History is about Frohike and his crucial statement of, “She’s hot?” The writers did not like what they did with the lonely gun men and were surprised that fans love these characters so much. Because the writers did not necessarily know what they did right in the first place, this trio became very static and changed little from start to finish; So Frohike started the show as a strange little Horndog and the show ended the same way.
While it may be a bitter pill for fans to swallow, Tom Braidwood’s story about Frohike is a fun reminder of the early X-Files Authors and producers flown at their pants seat. No one knew exactly who or what would be popular, and once they had the joint internet ruling, the show’s creative people tended to go in on what fans wanted to see , down to include a trio of paranoid geeks obviously. Also, Braidwood can only complain so much. Certainly his character could be a “slate,” but in our estimate, he has been the amusing From this trio, on screen and off.
