The 4400

[Dave]

This starts on USA Network on Sunday 11th 9/8C. Apparently there have been trailers running this week. Anyone going to watch this?

4,400 random missing people reappear one day, years or even decades after they vanished. They returned physically unchanged but some of them have been affected in mysterious ways, and some have certain abilities, both good and bad. Each hasn't aged a day.

A large cast is headed by Peter Coyote (HBO's "Deadwood") and an Michael Moriarty (Law & Order). Coyote plays Dennis Ryland, head of the Washington state Department of Homeland Security.

Moriarty plays life insurance salesman Orson Bailey, who disappeared in 1979. He returns home to find his job gone and his wife in a nursing home. He can also crack a man's skull like an eggshell, simply by losing his temper.

Lead investigators Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie) resemble the Mulder-Scully team.

'The 4400' opens with little Maia Rutledge (Conchita Campbell) disappearing into a bright light from the sky during a family picnic on a rainy afternoon. The date is March 3, 1946, and Maia is 8 years old. She's also the first of the 4,400.

She's followed by a fighter pilot during the Korean War in 1951, Moriarty's insurance man in 1979, and a beer-swilling teen out with his cousin in 2001.

Not every reappearance is a happy one. They must deal with traumatic changes, driven by the mystery of what happened and why. Maia's parents are long dead. Lily Moore (Laura Allen) finds her husband remarried and her daughter unaware of her existence. Fighter pilot Richard Tyler (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) finds his St. Louis home gone, and a strict no-smoking policy at a local diner. Shawn Farrell (Patrick Flueger) is derided by his friends as a freak.

Richard Tyler saw a ball of light sailing towards Earth. But other abductees are left with no memory of their otherworldly experiences.

As the returnees achieve cult status around the country, the Homeland Security investigators can only wonder what's happening. "You have to admit, it's a nice round number," Skouris tells her partner. He replies "You mean if 3,781 people suddenly showed up that night, it wouldn't be as strange?"

I've read speculation that the "4400" is from the 'Book of Revelations'.

In Chapter 7, verse 4: "And I heard the number of those who were sealed; and it was a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel."

In Chapter 14, verse 1: "And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father..."

But, surely that is 1,4400 not 4400?

[Krystal]

I tape it but haven't see it yet.

Krystal

[Mariel]

I watched it when USA showed them all along with the season finally. I thought it was a pretty good show. It looks like all the returned have some kind of special power and not all of them are nice people.
I don't know when USA plans on showing S2 but I'll pay more attention this time and watch it on it's assigned night.
:blpaw:

[Krystal]

Well, it was great. I didn't was very sure I would like it but have to say that after I begin to see it I totally get into it. It have a great story, at first one thinks that is something and at the end it gave a really cool turn and it isn't what one thinks. I really get interested in the characters and their dilemmas and still wonder what Jordan Collier is planning. He definitely have his own agenda. As I say I was plesantly surprise with this mini-series, it was very entertaining and the acting was very good.

Krystal

[Dave]

The show will start on Sky One in the UK on Sunday 21st November.

[RangerOne SG13 SOR]

Late November Sky One (UK) is showing a new series called the 4400.

From what I can see in the clips it is about the reapperance of 4400 people who "dissapeared over the last 60 odd years.

Lots of where have they been and why are they back stuff.

Looks interesting anyone seen it?

Is it anygood?

Ranger

[Dave]

Can I merge this with the existing thread?

As you can see, some people here have already seen it, I think I'll be watching. It does sound good.

[RangerOne SG13 SOR]

:blush: oops didnt see this forum...

I spend too much time in Stargate

Cheers I will give the show a go!!

Ranger

[Krystal]

Originally posted by RangerOne SG13 SOR

Is it anygood?

Definitely take a look is very good, I was pleasantly surprise.

By the way, read in other forum that the 4400 was pick for USA as a series in 2005. So they will show Season 2 in 2005, it probably means that they make the mini-series Season 1. Definitely good news because I like to know more about all the things that happen.

Krystal

[Steffi]

I'm looking forward to seeing it, the trailers look good. The concept is also interesting.
I've booked it for sunday night...hope I won't be dissapointed.

[Krystal]

I think probably not, I was pleasantly surprise with it.

Krystal

[Dave]

I thought it was good, but it is a short series (only five parts.)

It has been described as a mix of Close Encounters of the Third Kind with the X-Men. The similarities to the X-Files are easy to see, but then the subject matter and Homeland Security team of a man and a woman, would do that anyway. Diana Skouris name is similar to Dana Scully, but she also has a science background. Tom Baldwin doesn't exactly have a belief in aliens, but he is personally involved (like Mulder was with his sister) because his nephew was an abductee, his son has been in a coma ever since, and his marriage has broken down as a result.

Apart from that it quickly develops these characters as very different.

It's not yet clear if every abductee has a special power, but several do at least. Orson can make glass shatter and buildings shake at a distance, Shawn brought a bird back to life, while Maia has precognition of future events. That seems to help her deal with the situation better than some of the others, even though she is the oldest abductee, but the youngest physical age (8). Richard seems to have the hardest problem fitting in, because for him everything has changed.

[Dave]

The best thing about this short series is that even if they never make another episode (Sky One said that it would return in 2005) at least it did have some closure and a kind of ending.

There are, of course, many unanswered questions:

How far in the future did 'kyle' come from?
(That plot is very like 'Odyssey 5')
What kind of disaster that the 4400 will prevent, befalls the world?
What will the baby look like?
The baby could attack Jordan Collier from the womb, is it the same as the power that Shawn has?
Who is going to run Homeland Security, and will Tom and Diana leave?
Will Tom reveal what 'Kyle' told him?
If Maia know's so much about what is going to happen, why doesn't Diana ever ask her for more details?

[Maria8475]

yeah i was wondering about the last one too - i guess she didn't want to pressurise her.

Overall a good series.

[RangerOne SG13 SOR]

Just caught the replay on Sky Mix.

I must admit I was suprised by this mini series. I thought it was going to be another X Files clone with every week visiting a 4400 whos done something wierd.

But no it had an actual story behind it, which was rather intruiging.

I back up what Dave said and it will be interesting to see where this goes if another series is made.

hopefully there will be

Ranger