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apocalypsosYou know, I haven't had a TV since I moved down here, but for some reason, I'm sorely tempted to get one this weekend to watch The 4400 next weekend. I've always been touch-and-go on alien abduction stuff, but give someone supernatural powers and I'll give anything a chance.
Besides, after reading the official site, 4400 is a pretty odd number, anyway, particularly one so precisely on the dot. And they do this whole line on the website about the return of the 4400 changing the human race, blah blah intergalactic-surprisecakes.
Well, with the set-up for the plot depending on the abductees returning with strange new powers (Yay! Mutants ... kinda!), I have this weird feling I can see the spoilers coming. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that the whole "changing the human race" thing has something to do with blending them into the normal humans and ... well, interbreeding. 4400 seems like a small number in comparison to six billion people, but do the math and within ten or twenty generations -- which is really a pretty small amount of time in the grand scheme of things -- and a good chunk of a population would have some sort of "mutant" ability. (Possibly a majority of a population ... I don't know. When I do the math, I meant someone other than me do it.)
Which makes me wonder, because if that's the way they're going with the plot, did the aliens do it for good reasons (maybe to make the human population more accepting of their imminent arrival) or for bad reasons (just to fuck with us or something)? I don't know, but I'm really debating getting a TV to find out.
(Of course, the weakness in my speculation is the Michael Moriarty character, who's listed as being sixty-one. Not that it means he can't father children at that age, but it seems odd the aliens would abduct a bunch of people with the intent to affect future generations on a biological level and take anyone past a certain age.)
I don't know. Like I said, it's just me being all speculative and whatnot, which never seems to work out well in the end anyway.
In the same vein, yesterday I was at work and somebody was shipping this thing that I was absolutely dying to keep. As far as I could tell, it was a computer monitor, a flatscreen TV with a built-in DVD player and VCR, a digital camera, a phone, a private airplane, a Transformer, a helicopter, and quite possibly a compact thermonuclear device. Every time I passed the box, I kept whimpering as if I did it enough times, the Great and Powerful Electronic Device would have pity and take me home with it.
Also, the VA Lottery is up to 280 million dollars, and I have a ticket. If I win, everybody on my friends list gets a pony. And maybe some gum. Okay, and maybe a car. Matchbox all right with everyone?
EDIT: Nick Lachey is going to play Phoebe's love interest for six episodes on Charmed next season. My brain, it hurts.
ANNOYING BROTHER-IN-LAW OF EDIT: Note to self ... two fics to write this weekend. The weird crossover you might have to pick up the DVD for, and the movieverse fic that's all![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zeelee_penguin's fault for making you think up when you read that Rogue/Pyro fic.
MUTATED WAILING FREAK LIVING IN THE BASEMENT OF EDIT: If you want to kill time today, go read some X-Men Movieverse fic. With fifty-some stories, you'll be there a while.
Besides, after reading the official site, 4400 is a pretty odd number, anyway, particularly one so precisely on the dot. And they do this whole line on the website about the return of the 4400 changing the human race, blah blah intergalactic-surprisecakes.
Well, with the set-up for the plot depending on the abductees returning with strange new powers (Yay! Mutants ... kinda!), I have this weird feling I can see the spoilers coming. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that the whole "changing the human race" thing has something to do with blending them into the normal humans and ... well, interbreeding. 4400 seems like a small number in comparison to six billion people, but do the math and within ten or twenty generations -- which is really a pretty small amount of time in the grand scheme of things -- and a good chunk of a population would have some sort of "mutant" ability. (Possibly a majority of a population ... I don't know. When I do the math, I meant someone other than me do it.)
Which makes me wonder, because if that's the way they're going with the plot, did the aliens do it for good reasons (maybe to make the human population more accepting of their imminent arrival) or for bad reasons (just to fuck with us or something)? I don't know, but I'm really debating getting a TV to find out.
(Of course, the weakness in my speculation is the Michael Moriarty character, who's listed as being sixty-one. Not that it means he can't father children at that age, but it seems odd the aliens would abduct a bunch of people with the intent to affect future generations on a biological level and take anyone past a certain age.)
I don't know. Like I said, it's just me being all speculative and whatnot, which never seems to work out well in the end anyway.
In the same vein, yesterday I was at work and somebody was shipping this thing that I was absolutely dying to keep. As far as I could tell, it was a computer monitor, a flatscreen TV with a built-in DVD player and VCR, a digital camera, a phone, a private airplane, a Transformer, a helicopter, and quite possibly a compact thermonuclear device. Every time I passed the box, I kept whimpering as if I did it enough times, the Great and Powerful Electronic Device would have pity and take me home with it.
Also, the VA Lottery is up to 280 million dollars, and I have a ticket. If I win, everybody on my friends list gets a pony. And maybe some gum. Okay, and maybe a car. Matchbox all right with everyone?
EDIT: Nick Lachey is going to play Phoebe's love interest for six episodes on Charmed next season. My brain, it hurts.
ANNOYING BROTHER-IN-LAW OF EDIT: Note to self ... two fics to write this weekend. The weird crossover you might have to pick up the DVD for, and the movieverse fic that's all
zeelee_penguin's fault for making you think up when you read that Rogue/Pyro fic.MUTATED WAILING FREAK LIVING IN THE BASEMENT OF EDIT: If you want to kill time today, go read some X-Men Movieverse fic. With fifty-some stories, you'll be there a while.
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Date: 2004-07-02 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-07-02 06:16 am (UTC)If they all bred with other, normal humans, there would be 4,613,734,400 of them.
Ummm, yer, let's not trust that figure. Damn, I'm feeling not so good about my Math result now.
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Date: 2004-07-02 07:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 08:16 am (UTC)Aggggh, it's official? (The rumor's been on the TWOP boards for a while. I was hoping against hope that it would fall through.)
They kill Drew Fuller, and bring on Jessica's husband.
This makes me hate the WB.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:48 am (UTC)*goes to sit and wait next to mailbox*
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 12:46 pm (UTC)Besides, I noticed we already have a few friends in common :)