Not quite sure what to make of this. Somewhere between good and really bad.

Personally, I enjoyed it. I think I'm gonna tune in and watch this series.

Liked it but I have some nits! A boeing 727 jet is NOT a heavy jet -- it doesn't weigh enough. You do NOT turn off the autopilot be extending the speedbrakes (handle on the left side of the throttle quadrant), and if they were trying to shut off the hydraulics that would result in heavier control forces, and I did not hear a GPWS any time during the flight over NYC ( you would have heard "pull up" repeatedly). But, at least they did put in Boeing 727 panels and exterior shots! And, I can not figure out how someont else was able to control the jet through the nav system. Any aircraft eqipped with the FMS system, somone would have to control the satellites, and not have any errors show up in the box, and those aircraft equipped with GPS would have the same thing. And, Bryers senior would have been escorted off the airport by police after entering the cockpit without authorization. (Some way to hide) Also, why didn't the crew turn the jet instead of climbing it ( I know, less dramatic). But, other than the pilot nits it wasn't bad, and the LA times said that the next two eps wer funny. Why nit the aviation scenes? Just another pilot...

Well, the markings on that particular plane appeared to be those of Canadian Airlines.

Oh, and you recall that highway bridge where Byers' dad's car crashed? It looks a lot like one of the bridges that goes between Richmond and Vancouver.

And on a "did ya notice" note, the actor who played Byers' Dad was in the NextGen episode "First Contact" as Chancellor Durkin.

How wide is the wingspan of a 727? Could it really fly right over one of the Twin Towers without clipping the big radio antenna on the other tower?

Good points and bad points.

GOOD
*The Lone Gunmen, as usual.
*Most of the guest performances, including George Coe as Byers' dad.
*The opening teaser with Langly as the obnoxious tour guest.
*The flashback of what REALLY happened to Byers Sr.

BAD
*Yves. Dunno, but she bugged me.
*The fact that none of the Gunmen suspected Byers Sr.' buddy of being a government agent until Byers Sr. told Byers Jr. about it.
*The ending. Too abrupt.

it looks like the lone gunmen will use my number one pet peeve as a constant plot tool. that is the omnpimotent computer hacker.
look, i know that these guys are hackers, and that they are supposed to be able to break into computers etc. but what i cant accept is the near magic wand ability that they have to access ANY information from ANY computer despite ANY security barriers or physical obstruction. langlet hacking into a commercial airplane black box is the perfect example. not only can he do it, but he does so nearly instantly!. it gets old really fast and it looks like they will be doing that every week.
oh well. the lone gunmen looks way too campy for me. see ya later!
tb

Frohike uses what appears to be a huge ultraviolet wand to locate the remnants of the bloodstain on Byers's father's carpet. He then brings Langley and Byers in to look. None of the three are wearing protective eyewear of any kind, close to this big UV source. They should have been seeing spots--or nothing!--for the rest of the episode.

Maybe Frohike is more inured to the skeptical reactions of others than I would be, but I'm surprised that he casually discusses the theory of Bertram Byers's murder within six feet of the junkyard foreman. That fellow must not have listened, though, since if he had overheard, he would have known young Byers was not who he said he was.

Even as a moment of idle speculation, I find the notion of an assassin walking halfway across someone's living room to kill him, when he could have sniped the moment he got a clear angle, rather silly.

The graphic of the 727's flight plan shows it approaching the World Trade Center from roughly the south, but in external shots we see it coming in from the west, crossing the Hudson(a north-south river) perpendicularly.

Finally, I'm still unclear on how this was supposed to be apprehended by the world at large as a terrorist act. Were the Dark Forces really so sure that some terrorist organization(s) would want to claim responsibility, that they didn't lay any other kind of groundwork? This is the place where real-life conspiracy theories usually fall apart, ironically enough ...

Oh, and if Miss Harlow is really supposed to be Lee Harvey Oswald, let me say that she looks spectacular for someone who would be no younger than her middle fifties. :-)

She dosen't claim to be Lee Harvey Oswald. Her name is a reference to her DISbelief in the Lone Gunman Theory. (wink, wink) Think of her as the "evil" Lone Gunmen, or at least the opposite of the Lone Gunmen.

Harlow	Lone Gunmen
female	male
comptetent	incoptetent
serious	funny
stole Octium chip	failed to steal Octium
etc.	etc.

Oh, and if Miss Harlow is really supposed to be Lee Harvey Oswald, let me say that she looks spectacular for someone who would be no younger than her middle fifties.

Are you sure that just because she used his name to create an alias means that it is in fact Oswald? That, of course, is probably what Frohike was doing with the three words at Lone Gunmen HQ on that pad of paper he had.

Does UV light really spread out like that. I wouldn't have expected it to give off any visible light but it gives off a blue glow that conveniently lights up the Gunmen so that we could see them. Isn't UV not on the visible part of the spectrum.

Nice to see that they finally use the light up magnifying glass correctly. No light in their face.

Finally, is Kimmy the same actor who played Jimmy, the ill-fated Dungeons and Dragons maniac, in "Three of a Kind?"

He sure looks like it, and the name is so close...maybe twins?