The 4400 - 07/22/2007 - S04E06 - "The Marked"

I think it'll be more amusing when they all discover the Nazi-like scenario eventually occurs because Shawn won the election.

As to the rich guy showing up to gloat, that's a classic behavior of someone who believes they're better than someone else. They can't just leave it alone. So that fits with the storyline.

 

I don't think it was because he thought he was better than everyone else...he knew that they "knew" and was simply trying to give his side of the story...

don't understand why buy the guy off when you can just kill him...

 

I thought the acting in this episode mirrored the cheesey movies made by Peck; it was just awful. Perhaps they did it on purpose?

 

I wonder if the Robert Shaftoe/marine character (from the JFK film) was a reference to the Shaftoe marines in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon/Baroque Cycle characters?

I still love the "original recipe" vs. "extra crispy" stuff.

 

Great episode. This reminded me alot of an episode from the first season and just reaffirmed my interest in this show. IMO, probably one of the best 4400 episodes.

 

I agree. Even though the battlelines were drawn before (that there were two groups fighting it out from the future) it became even clearer here. And we really don't know who the good guys are for sure, though they're leading us to believe it is the 4400. Still Kyle strikes me as never being right so who knows?

 

I really loved the Pope complaining about having to be gone at Easter for the meeting. That had me laughing. The acting in those "movies" was so bad, it was indescribable. Even Plan 9 from Outer Space wasn't that bad.

The only way to avert the consequences of one of Maia's visions is to change what you had been planning to do. Shawn saying that he was NOT going to change his plans leaves her vision intact. Someone has to change something BECAUSE of the vision.

 

His behavior toward the man changed: he warned him, he's watching him, etc. Plus, he told Colier about him, who probably did have him attacked.

 

I really liked this episode. I think the last season was really just a collective hallucination on our part. This is what the second season should have been.

 

As I said last week, I'm pretty sure this is what last season was meant to be, if Billy Campbell hadn't gone sailing...as it stands, last season was just a holding action until he got back and they could return to the story.

 

Good episode.

Does anyone think the NTAC director is one of the marked? She seemed to be poo pooing the whole 'marked' thing a little too much plus a couple of times she looked like she'd been caught at something.

 

Yes.

 

Yep, I was definitely suspecting it with the way scenes in the episode played out.

 

There was a small detail that is inconsequential but that did catch my off-guard...when the director was talking about the meeting in 2005, he said it happened in Tunis, not Tunisia...

Tunis is the correct name...later, the NTAC people all said Tunisia...

small detail...not sure why the writers wrote the script that way...

 

I was thinking the same thing. One thing that confused me about this theory however was that she had Shawn heal her 'father' recently. Maybe that was just a rouse to make her seem sympathetic to the 4400's but I would think the Marked wouldn't want to use or benefit from 4400 abilities, but maybe I am giving them too much credit.

 

I don't see why...she is perfectly normal for being skeptical...it's a fantastic story that's quite not believable...

 

I agree completely.

 

The acting in this show has been awful since episode 1. Tom is just terrible. Still, I watch every episode and enjoy the plot lines quite a bit.

 

What I liked most about this episode was the the interplay between Tom and Diana. One would say something funny and the other would react in a natural way... by laughing. IIRC it was the first time we saw them behaving like that.