Once again, sorry for the tardiness in my update for The 4400. When we last left our favorite basic cable sci-fi series (or second favorite now that BSG is back in our good graces), Jordan Collier had just been assassinated. Although we aren't sure that Kyle "More Blackouts than Tom Sizemore" Baldwin was the shooter, we pretty much know that he was involved. It's hard to imagine how his dad is going to take the news when he finds out. I know my parents would be a little disappointed if I had shot a public figure, and that's probably enough to keep my crazy ass out of Turtle Bay. (Note to FBI/NSA/CIA internet monitoring software - that was a joke). Anyway, let's get back to the recap. And apologies to Andy Dehnart for the unauthorized mashup of the name of his excellent blog for the use of this title.
Everybody has experienced the feeling of waking up in the morning and not knowing where they are. Or at least I hope a lot of people have experienced it, because a lot of the next paragraph is going to sound pretty crazy if that is not the case. So, you wake up, and you are kind of lost. Usually this comes right after a dream that is a little too real. This happens to me during one particular dream sequence I've had. In my dream, I am still in college (I graduated in 2001) and I am about to walk into a test. As I go into the test, I realized I have no idea of the subject matter. I also find out that this test will determine if I graduate or not. I curse myself for having spent the night before getting tanked, stoned, or chasing co-ed tail, but just before pen goes to paper, I wake up. I look at my surroundings, and I realize that I am in my true reality. The sun is coming through the window in my bedroom, and I have to get to work.
Now imagine if you woke up and you were in your alternate reality? Wouldn't you be so confused, especially if you could remember what happened in your "real" life? This is what faced Tom Baldwin in the last episode of the 4400. He wakes up, and everything is different. His son is actually affectionate, and when he goes into work, nobody knows who the 4400 are, including Diana. What the hell is going on? Was the entire thing a dream?
I know what you're going to say, and the whole "what if this whole story we concocted was really a dream" idea has been kicked around in many a television show. I remember when they suggested Buffy was simply crazy and imagining her vampire slayer stylings, a lot of fans of the show almost completely went off the deep end, and to be honest, it is usually a plot line that shows pull out in their fourth or fifth season when things are moving slow.
What about Tom? Like anybody who is going through this type of experience, he first thinks it is a trick, but how can so many people be in on the joke? They tell him that he just got back from medical leave after having been tortured for three weeks after going undercover and then being discovered during a dirty bomb investigation. Tom has no idea what it means, and instead, tries to find what some of the 4400 are doing. He looks up David Navarro (the mind reading baseball player) and he is a hall of famer. He looks up Richard Tyler and he's been killed in action. He looks up Maia Rutledge, and there is actually an address is Seattle for her. When he goes there, he sees Maia Rutledge! Finally, somebody remembers the 4400, except it isn't Maia Rutledge, it is only somebody who looks like what he thinks Maia Rutledge is supposed to look like. It is Maia's granddaughter of course, and Tom realizes that he must be crazy.
« Julie Chen - Now Photoshop Enhanced! | Main | It's Just Chaos, And I Love It »
Comments (7)
Alana was the hot lesbian, Martina, from the first season of the "The L Word". She outed Jenny (Mia Kershner) in a torrid affair that resulted in Jenny getting divorced from that hotty Eric Mabius. Martina got wrote out of the second season (the unwatchable train wreck season) of the "The L Word" for undisclosed reasons. Anyway, you can see her naked, I'm pretty sure, if you rent the first season of that show. I don't specificially remember her boobies, but everyone except Jennifer Beals and Pam Grier (oh PTL) seemed to have to show theirs. Why would I know this? Some sort of strange kinship with my lesbian sisters, I guess, it certainly wasn't for titillation. Bottom line, I got a kick out of her getting another decent walk-on and escaping just in time from the train wreck to come on "The L Word".
1 of 7 | Posted by Bob | Posted on July 24, 2005 8:30 AM
I read that Karina Lombard was let go from the L Word due to an affair with one of her female co-stars that went sour. She was a great mindfuck as Marina and the way they wrote her off the show was lame.
2 of 7 | Posted by laura | Posted on July 24, 2005 9:18 AM
speaking of blurred remember the episode they blurred Colliers ass? well USA showed that stupid Samuel L Jackson movie and showed Sam's ass for a good 15 seconds at the end and this was during the day!
3 of 7 | Posted by GNARKILL | Posted on July 24, 2005 7:13 PM
the movie was formula 57...oops
4 of 7 | Posted by GNARKILL | Posted on July 24, 2005 7:14 PM
Agreed on Karina Lombard and the poor way they treated her on "L Word" - thanks for remembering her name. I hope she has a bright future - perhaps she'll be back on "The 4400". It's a great show that I would have never found, except through the beloved TVGasm.
5 of 7 | Posted by Bob | Posted on July 24, 2005 8:29 PM
What was interesting were the hints given about the difficulties to come. The future person seemed to imply that there were events in motion that might jack their plans and they were not about to let that go down. But what does that mean? Is Assassin!Kyle a hijack that is thwarting their goals? Was Jordan Collier not meant to die? Is Isabelle working for or against the orchestrators of this plan?
How do these people keep their plan on track even as the future changes by every shift in the present caused by their interference?
6 of 7 | Posted by Lady J | Posted on July 25, 2005 12:30 PM
Has anyone else noticed Kyle's prodigious nostrils?
7 of 7 | Posted by theory | Posted on July 25, 2005 9:48 PM