Welcome to our forum for USA Network's The 4400!

[Lesa]

Someone recommended that I set up a forum for this, as quite a bit of interest has been shown here already. The concept of people disappearing for years or even decades, then coming back unaged, not knowing where they've been, and having supernatural abilities... I've never seen anything quite like it, and if I had cable, I would definitely check it out.

Welcome to our new The 4400 forum!

[MrEMahon]

It's definitely a cool concept, it's like X files meets The Philadelphia Experiment, and you're right, there is nothing on TV quite like it.

Mr E

[fafnjaf]

It is my understanding that the new episodes will air on Sundays at 9PM on USA. The only problem with that is, that it will be on opposite Desperate Housewives! Luckily, USA usually repeats it's shows during the week, so I will be able to watch the repeat showings.

[Lesa]

How could they put it on opposite Desperate Housewives?   At least they should be repeating it, though.  Whew!  But wouldn't it make more sense to originally air it in a different slot and then re-air it opposite Desperate Housewives (or better yet, opposite a show that's not popular)?

[spenser9870]

I know why the 4400 experiment failed in the future and the people were sent back with powers intact. The answer is in the child Isabelle. Everyone taken was enhanced, changed and manipulated somehow. These future beings thought they had control of this situation, at least pretty much. Then 2 of their altered beings have a child, a child born already gifted, already enhanced without being given any control over these powers. These powers in fact controlled this child, and anyone who came in contact with her. Because these future beings could not control her, could not maintain their domain over the taken 4400, their plan, as benign as it was originally, crumbled. They could not manipulate Isabelle because the powers were hers genetically, not by means of genetically bioengineered implants, like her parents. Suddenly these future beings were now at the mercy of a population of kidnappees who could now raise their own generation of supermen, uncontrollable superman. These beings of the future in this unforseeable, unfixable dilemma saw their only way out to be to send the 4400 back with an explanation of what had been done to these people, why they chose to do it, what went wrong, why they were sent back, and how to fix everything so that we would be OK and so that our future would be OK. The hitch - Their communique got messed up in the transit, and suddenly 4400 people were standing there in the middle of nowhere, after we tried to shoot them down, thinking they were a comet or something. Now we have 4400 people we don't know what to do with because no one is listening (hardly), and because the FBI is as it is, they almost always shoot first and ask questions later, only to find out that the last person they just killed was the one person they should have kept alive in order to more easily break the code of the 4400. My quandry with Isabelle, our child here, is in the quiet, simple way she takes to kill her enemies. For instance, the way it was so easy for her to just attempt to kill a 12 year old girl, her step-sister, who seemed to mean no harm to her. Or the way she kept coming on to Collier like everything was OK between them now, and he wasn't going to die, and she really liked him now. I'm thinking these are the actions of a sociopathic evil being, completely soulless and devoid of any good. I'm getting images of Talking Tina for any of you old Twilight episode fans out there. Was this all the conscious, rational thought of an evil twisted mind or was it just the actions and reactions of a baby? I mean babies act like babies whether they are angry, happy or sad. They act and react for attention - they coo, they giggle, they cry and they throw tantrums. The one thing a normal baby as a baby doesn't do, is plan a murder. At first Isabelle, when threatened, lashed out, instinctively, like a baby, she hurt, she killed. But when did she start playing cat and mouse in order to trap her prey like a Venus Fly Trap? Is she just getting smarter or is she getting crueler? Is she devoid of a soul, or does she just have this ability to kill with her mind at an unfortunate age when it is an uncontrollable urge within her? And until someone steps up who can teach her that what she is doing is wrong, providing she has a conscience and a will to accept such reproof, I forsee no change in the near future. However, it will be interesting to see what the writers and creators of this series have in store for Isabelle, maturity and control or wild sociopathic mayhem.

[Joxcenia]

Welcome to Whoosh!

spenser9870

[Lesa]

 
Welcome, Spenser! This is one of those times that I wish I had cable, because your post makes me want to see this show. I should have my mother tape it for me sometime.