4400: "Tom, would you like to hang up first or shall I?" - awww, Tom Jordan love each soooo much.
Also next week: Richard's back! Wooo hooo!
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
sumi - Aug 05, 2007 5:01:54 pm PDT #5051 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Ginger - Aug 05, 2007 5:35:08 pm PDT #5052 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've really gotten fond of The 4400. They managed to come back after the original short series with a more solid mythology. Since there are at least two factions from the future with opposite agendas, there's no telling who's on the right side, if there is one. Ambiguity is a wonderful thing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 05, 2007 8:13:01 pm PDT #5053 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What I don't get is how those specific factions in the future managed to survive their own attempts to rewrite the timeline.
Jessica - Aug 06, 2007 2:28:38 am PDT #5054 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What I don't get is how those specific factions in the future managed to survive their own attempts to rewrite the timeline
Handwaving!
I love this show because it's like a no-stress X-Files. It's got a lot of the same elements, but if this mytharc winds up being pulled out of someone's ass, I won't really mind so much. I'm interested in where it's going, but I don't care. It's very relaxing.
Vortex - Aug 06, 2007 5:30:57 am PDT #5055 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I stopped watching the 4400. The people started getting annoying.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2007 6:11:18 am PDT #5056 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That Megan chick annoys the hell out of me. I wanted her dead.
Just learnt that Dead Zone is filming in Montreal now, to cut costs. Which explains the French train in the noir episode and a friend of mine playing the brother almost killed in episode before last.
Now I'll have to keep an eye open for landmarks.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 06, 2007 6:13:46 am PDT #5057 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That Megan chick annoys the hell out of me. I wanted her dead.
I know! Before Sean did the schmuck bait dance of He Who Stares at Cracking Glass Far Too Long, I was hoping that VR death = short circuited brain in the real world.
sumi - Aug 06, 2007 6:14:11 am PDT #5058 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Megan = Isabella?
Ginger - Aug 06, 2007 6:37:32 am PDT #5059 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Meghan = the new NTAC boss. I also wished she had been really truly dead, but then I became conflicted by not wanting Shaun to die. There's a strange cliche in which when someone is put in charge of something even though they don't have any relevant experience, it's always a woman.
One handwave is that people who sent the 4400 back and support the distribution of promicin are being opposed by people from their own time, perhaps a promicin-enhanced elite who don't care that the rest of the world is headed to hell in a handbasket.
I had trouble handwaving the woman who's power was do clean up an entire river. She'd have to stand in the water about a 100 years.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2007 6:38:50 am PDT #5060 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She'd have to stand in the water about a 100 years.
I dunno--once she can clean up any water by standing in it, why put limits on the extent? Maybe she made the water self cleaning, and lightning fast in spreading the effect.
There's a strange cliche in which when someone is put in charge of something even though they don't have any relevant experience, it's always a woman.
Unless they're going to have a disaster-induced freakout whereby they try and pull rank to insure their own safety, and then it's a guy, probably brown-haired and balding.