I think things were up in the air for next season, so they wanted something with closure, but also with angles to explore.

If this turns out to be the last season, they certainly went out on a high note. The body count was positively Minearian. Somehow it hadn't hit home until the scene at the cemetery with Shawn, Tom and Kyle how much that family had come to symbolize the three sides of the conflict. I'd like to see what Tom's ability turns out to be and how Diana feels about never being able to have an ability. I'd like to see Shawn's election campaign. I just don't know if they can sustain having all those people with abilities. For one, it's such a tempting deus ex machina. "We need someone who can smother a nuclear reaction. Hey, isn't that X's ability?" Also, the abilities are already becoming pretty outre. We'd probably end up with 4400s who can sharpen pencils or project images from all the WWF matches.

I think things were up in the air for next season, so they wanted something with closure, but also with angles to explore.

In which case...success. That's exactly how it played out.

So, while I'm here on time for once, let me ask -- in Maia's dream, Diana had an ability. Everyone else who had one in the dream does indeed now have one (save for Tom, but I'm guessing he wouldn't resist taking the shot now that it can't possibly be illegal to be P+ anymore). So...was Maia wrong, or could it be a flashcard that Diana being resistant doesn't mean entirely immune? I'm thinking latently developed nick-of-time ability of some sort developing in 5x06 or so. That is if there's a 5 to have a 6 of.

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I don't have an answer, Fialka--I'd never thought about it. But I'm re-crept out by Maia's proclamation of rightness at the end of the ep.

Ah yes, but that's what I like about Maia. She's alternately sweet and creepy. I like that no one ever seems to be completely one way or the other in this show. Apart from maybe Alana, who was just awesome. Sniff.

I've been watching from the start and I sometimes get the feeling they took a sharp left at the end of season 1 and found themselves someplace entirely else, said the hell with it, and ran like hell towards some goal in the misty distance which they seem to have finally reached.

What I read back then was that initially, they were planning on saving the revelation that the 4400 were people abducted by the future and reseeded for much farther down the line, but USA wanted the miniseries to have some closure in case they didn't pick it up for series. So I think your assessment is pretty close. And it's bizarre because I can't imagine the series without us knowing about the future and the Catastrophe and whatever.

I do hope they get renewed. It doesn't look like the story's over. Because if it is, I suppose we can only assume that the entire world ends up p-positive. That Jordan Collier wins.

Happy Eureka day!

Yay, Eureka day!

And on the menu today? Hot Lunch!

Bwah!

Because if it is, I suppose we can only assume that the entire world ends up p-positive. That Jordan Collier wins.

Again, this is what I like about the show -- the underlying ambiguity about Collier's vision. Would it really be paradise on earth -- well, possibly. *If* everyone who is P+ is also a benign, altruistic presence wanting only to make things better. But then again, if we were all benign and altruistic we wouldn't need promycin or abilities to make a better world. And we all know that humans are -- sadly -- not all wonderful and that kind of power in certain hands would be indeed catastrophic. So maybe Collier's vision is ridiculously naive. Or maybe even quite evil and it's all a power play for an agenda that's not yet been revealed.

Heh. I hope we get to see, but I'm actually fairly happy with the open ending as well.