Last night I watched the season premier of Heroes.. At the end of last season NBC decided they would cancel 4400 which was a sci-fi drama that aired on their sister network USA. Apparently now they have decided to move the 4400 plot line into Heroes.. Why would they do that? Because 4400 was a better show.. Jessie's rebuttal last night was "Heroes has better actors".. If you have not seen 4400 I recommend watching it, they are coming out with a new DVD Box Set in Oct that will have longer versions of every episode, filmed but never aired episodes and lots of other stuff..
So, why am I saying they are taking their plot? In 4400 the scientist character found and isolated a part of the 4400 blood stream that caused special powers and created shot that would give you 4400 powers. In 4400 they called is Promicen, the scientist who made the shot was the first one to take the shot because he didn't want to test it out on other people. He ended up having his skin peel off and ended up getting 4400 powers. The shot became a political rally point, some of the 4400 were against handing it out and some of them thought they needed to give it to everyone. In Heroes last night the scientist character found and isolated a part of the blood stream that caused special powers and created a shot that would give you powers. The scientist who made the shot was the first one to take the shot because he wanted to have his own special power and when he woke up he noticed his skin was peeling off.. Now in Heroes there is some formula that has been hidden for generations, there are Heroes who want this formula/shot to be public and there are Heroes that want to hide the formula.. Huh, I think I saw this one already..
To me the difference between the shows is that 4400 was a serious sci-fi drama that took it's time in presenting the story (the time from figuring out that there was a part of the blood that was different to the time the scientist took the shot was almost an entire season in 4400, in Heroes it was less than 10 minutes).. Heroes is a flashy comic book style sci-fi show which feels the need to jump around and throw things at their audience in an almost MTV style..
Plus who else is sick of people dying all the time and coming back.. Oh, speaking of dying... One of the characters in 4400 was assassinated by another 4400 and ended up coming back as a messiah type character who believed that the 4400's job was to protect the people of Earth and that they (the 4400) were brought back to save the world. On Heroes Nathan was assassinated by another Hero (Peter) and ended up coming back saying how the Heroes were born as hands of god and they were angels whose responsibility was to protect the people of Earth and to help save the world!!
I really wish I made this stuff up... So, if you want to know how the 4400 story plays out you can either watch Heroes or read the new 4400 books. They published one in June, there is another coming in Oct and two more scheduled for 2009 which will finish the 4400 story arc. Although the 4400 books are not out on audio I'm choosing that route.
Heroes has been removed from my TiVo lists.. Based on a few people's advice I am recording next weeks episode of Big Bang Theory, figure I can give it a shot..
In other TV news: Daily Show and Colbert Report both won Emmy Awards, Boston Legal was up for 5 Emmy Awards and didn't win any..
In other non-TV news: The Mets won last night, I know it's hard to believe but the bullpen even managed to protect the lead in the 9th inning! Oh, and the Phillies lost!! We are not back to 1.5 games behind the Phillies.. We are 1 game up on Milwaukee for the Wild Card.. Houston and Florida are out of the Wild Card hunt.. So, with less than one week left in the season the playoff spots that up for grabs are: AL Central - White Sox lead the Twins by 1.5 games. NL East - Phillies lead the Mets by 1 game. NL West - Dodgers lead DBacks by 3 games. NL Wild Card - Mets lead Brewers by 1 game. If the Dodgers and White Sox hold on both Chicago and both Los Angeles teams will be in the playoffs.. The Cubs and Angels have already clinched their divisions.
---- Comic of the day
http://xkcd.com/112/
---- Thought of the day
What percentage of time needs to be ok/fun/non-argumentative in order to say that it's a healthy relationship/friendship? Well, what's a passing grade in school? What percentage of games do you need to win to be considered a good team? What percentage to be considered a great team?
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