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.
She growls?! You made her so she growls?!
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
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§ ita § - Sep 17, 2007 2:33:18 pm PDT #6584 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
fialka - Sep 17, 2007 2:45:28 pm PDT #6585 of 10001
I am leaving. You are about to explode. ~Teal'c, 'Talion'
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.
Polter-Cow - Sep 17, 2007 8:43:49 pm PDT #6586 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 18, 2007 8:08:00 am PDT #6587 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Happy Eureka day!
Liese S. - Sep 18, 2007 8:22:27 am PDT #6588 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yay, Eureka day!
And on the menu today? Hot Lunch!
sumi - Sep 18, 2007 8:44:22 am PDT #6589 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Bwah!
fialka - Sep 18, 2007 10:26:34 am PDT #6590 of 10001
I am leaving. You are about to explode. ~Teal'c, 'Talion'
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.
DXMachina - Sep 18, 2007 4:02:04 pm PDT #6591 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Rommie!
amych - Sep 18, 2007 4:03:25 pm PDT #6592 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm wondering how many new nicknames Sheriff Grabass CFerg is going to have by the end of the episode.
Also, the whole ape thing? NOT TRUE FOR BONOBOS.
SailAweigh - Sep 18, 2007 4:05:54 pm PDT #6593 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
She rattled that crap off so fast, I'm going to have to go back and listen to it again. Bonobos are very different from common chimpanzees.