A new kind of 4400
By fred | July 8, 2007
(S04E01) I will be honest with you : when The 4400 came back with a new season, I missed the show. No I mean, I didn’t watched it! I missed it, completely. Shame on me. Especially since it’s not like there’s much on TV right now.
Anyways, I’m fixing this and watching the three first episodes now. But let me be honest with you, again : I had forgot quite a lot about the story going on there.
I do hate those “Previously on…� crap that they always have before every episode, it’s always stupid, not in order, blahblahblah… I hate such reminders.
Yet, this one time, I was pretty pleased there was one. I will hate every others to come for sure, but when a new season starts, and after all those great shows we set our mind into, it can really be a nice thing. Once.
Anyhow, now that I remember what the show is about and how we were left, let’s get into it. With this “dream� scene. I’m not sure what is was exactly.
Just a dream, or some kind of “vision”. And if so, did it reveal anything to come, or not.
Either way, it was easy to spot it was a “dream�, and I don’t believe the ability each character had are any signs of anything. I do wonder about the colors a little, though.
You’ve probably noticed that, in that scene, basically everyone was wearing black and/or white. Men were all in black, mostly, probably because, well, jackets usually come in black, not white.
Still, a few of them were only in black. No white shirt, all black. Jordan was one, and so was Kyle. Are those two “bad�, or one the wrong side?
Just like all women were in white, Isabelle included. All but one, Diana. She was in black, nothing but black.
It was probably just to have only black, white and gray (Kevin) all over. But who knows, maybe there’s a bit more…
On the actual story now. I’ll start with Diana, and her coming back. This whole plot sounds exactly like the kind of plots I really hate. When they do something, introducing some changes into the story, or some character’s life, usually when a season ends – like having one to quit her job and move to Spain ; only to get things right back like how they were before on the first episodes of the following season, like nothing ever happened.
That is exactly what’s going on there : She learns about her sister, who might or might not be injecting Promicin, and that’s enough to get her right back, to her old town, and I’m ready to bet, soon her old job as well.
I wish writers would really stop doing such things. If you do not intend to have a character really change, if you know it won’t stick, whatever the reason is, then don’t pretend.
Please stop setting things up only to undo them as fast as they got done, as soon as it starts back. It’s just poor writing in my opinion.
