There doesn’t seem to be as much interest in the show this year as there was in past seasons, but still the season finale is tonight. I thought I’d start this thread and see where it goes.
USA is having a 4400 marathon this afternoon. I will catch a show I missed last time around at 5pm EST.
I liked the first mini-season, and season two. This third season has been pretty disappointing. It’s like the executives just didn’t know what to do with it so they rammed it through the Hollywood TV show creation grinder. Then they crammed it through a couple more times and what they ended up with was a really jumbled mess of bits & pieces of a “winning TV show” that the writers, directors & actors never managed to put back together into something I enjoy watching. They started out killing main characters off. What, they all got different jobs? Other main characters are missing. Little sub-plots popping up here & there which seemed to develop & move too fast. I have very little sympathy for any of the characters. They’re all under-developed & I don’t really care that much what happens in their uninteresting boring little lives.
I’ll still watch the finale, of course. But I wonder if this show is even going to get renewed? I was far more involved with Invasion. Too bad that one got canceled.
It did get picked up for season 4.
I liked the first season, where they explored a 4400’s ability and showed how that had a ripple effect. Isabelle is just plain annoying, and I don’t know if that’s the writers or the actress’s fault.
I’ll keep watching it, but it’s not like it used to be.
Yeah, Isabelle is obnoxious. Her father is far more interesting and I keep hoping it turns out her father is the “anti-Isabelle” and he’ll telekinetically snap her annoying little neck.
Loved season one, but season two sort of crashed and burned and watched about 2 shows of season three and just kinda stopped watching.
Plus, Joel Gretch, who plays Tom Baldwin, has to be the worst actor on television…if he were any more wooden, they would need strings to move his arms and lips. Watch how he reacts to comments a split second before the comment is made - and note how he stands stiff like a photomodel and you can hear those gears in his head say “move to the left and look up when little Billy says Hello…”
Oh, I don’t mind Tom Baldwin. He’s easy on the eyes. Thing about him is his main acting talent seems to be making his eyes well up with tears. For heaven’s sake, his reaction to everything is making his eyes well up.
“Good morning Tom. Nice day today, huh?”
::eyes well up:: “Yes, (sniff, sniff) it… is.”
I agree that he’s stiff, but David Caruso makes Joel Gretch look like Laurence Olivier.
Wow! I just checked the IMDB, and Joel Gretsch did guest on CSI: Miami! I have to see that!
I got the impression, after watching last night’s ep, that they set it up so they could end it right there if they decided to. I saw someone else posted that they were renewed, but… It certainly felt like a farewell to me, and a big part of me is saying it should go quietly into that good night.
I liked the first season, and bits of the second, but I’ve been debating for a while now as to whether I want to watch anymore. If I didn’t have a DVR, I’d NEVER watch it again. I just find myself not caring.
Ok. One thing that annoyed me… The Future People (or whatever they are called) told him to KILL Isabelle. Not just to shoot her up with whatever’s in the syringe. What’s up with that?
The fact that the shot did not kill Isabelle is proof that their future guys are the good guys. :smack:
The season finale coincided with a dorm hall meeting (how rude of them!), so I missed it! Anyone care to clue me in?
I can’t remember. Did they tell Tom to kill her, or stop her?
Well, I didn’t get everything I wanted, but I was close.
I thought the note in the envelope said only, “Kill Isabelle” and nothing else. But I don’t have access to the episode to review…
[Spoiler] The receptionist at the 4400 office gives herself a shot of promycin, and it is brodcast all over the internet, along with information about how people can obtain promycin for themselves. Only problem is that her body doesn’t tolerate the shot well, and she dies just as Ryland’s people find the place that she, Jordan, the scientist and Shawn have been hiding out. Everyone but Shawn escapes, and he gets taken to NTAC for interrogation. It also turns out that Ryland knew that anyone taking promycin had a 50/50 shot of dying, but didn’t let that info out, so that Jordan would be discredited as a savior, when people started to die.
Tom asks Alana to use her powers to find out what Shawn knows about the whereabouts of the promycin, but before she can, Ryland sends in Isabelle to interrogate him. Isabelle can’t get Shawn to talk so she uses her powers to put him in a coma. Ryland and his men think they’ve found Jordan and the promycin, so the soldiers and Isabelle go inside of the building to get it while Ryland waits outside. It turns out to be a trap though, and the person that they believed was Jordan was actually a shape-shifting 4400. The promycin is fake and rigged with a bomb, that blows up, killing all the soldiers. Since Isabelle cannot die, she isn’t harmed, and decides to draw Jordan out by going to the 4400 center and killing people. After this, the real Jordan is shown paying people to give away promycin.
The scientist and his girlfriend are holding Richard hostage (he no longer wants to be a part of the promycin distribution plan) when they get the call about Isabelle killing people at the center, so they go there. Isabelle ends up in the classroom with Maya, and the other children, and chooses one of them to kill. Maya tells her that her plan isn’t going to work out, and just as she does this Tom and his partner (forgot her name) come in. Tom tries to inject Isabelle with the syringe he got from the lady in the future, but Isabelle overpowers him. She’s just about to kill him when Richard comes in, and begs her to stop. She won’t listen so Richard uses his power to pick up the syringe and inject her. Instead of killing her, it strips her of her powers. Richard begs Tom not to hurt her, but he shoots her anyway.
At the end, Tom’s partner and her bf decide to take Maya away for six months to try to live a normal life. Alana tells Maya that they’ll see each other again, but Maya says “we’ll be back but you won’t be here.” Later, Alana is shown being warped away by something in the sky (she’s alone, so no one sees this). Maya’s aunt is shown getting promycin from a distributer. Shawn and Isabelle are shown lying unconscious in hospital beds. [/Spoiler]
I think that’s everything.
This season hasn’t been as good as the others, but I still want to see where the story is going to go. I agree with the person that said this season was very jumpy, and that lots of things weren’t properly fleshed out, some of the shows really didn’t have a point (like the magical herbs episode). The first season was definitely the best.
Don’t forget Tom’s son Kyle is also eyeing a syringe of the promycin.
I really like Tom and Alana together, and I hope she comes back. I wonder why the future pulled her away again?
A 50/50 shot of dying or getting paranormal powers? Would you do it? I wouldn’t…the odds are too bad.
And Isabelle’s powers are gone. I wonder what’s up with that? And why didn’t Future Lady just tell Tom that the syringe wouldn’t kill Isabelle but would just strip her powers? Did they want him to get so desperate that he would try to kill her?
I realize it’s a stretch, but maybe they meant “kill that which makes Isabelle a threat”?
Ah, naaa…just some less than terrific writing. Still, I’m sure I’ll be watching next season.
Well, the futute woman never told Tom explicitly that the contents of the syringe would kill Isabelle, but as we saw, without the promycin-erasing power of the syringe, Isabelle would have been unkillable. So I don’t see it as poor writing at all.
And I’ll definitely be watching nest season. 
Yea, we’re not sure how the shot removed her powers at this point. If it didn’t make her resistant to promycin forever, then she could just go out and get some more for free, and the 4400 would still be in danger. Killing her would take care of the problem once and for all.