The 4400: Fear Itself
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The USA Network wants you to know that Promicin is NOT a real substance. It won’t get you high. It’s non-addictive. It’s not a gateway drug to Spice or Tek or Dust or Soma or any other drug that doesn’t exist. Seriously, there’s a public notice posted on their website reading: Please be aware that Promicin is NOT a real substance.
I’m very curious about the event that prompted that nugget. How many frantic phone calls have been made to the poison control center? How many doctors have been asked for promicin samples?
In the next few days, I’m expecting USA to post another public notice: Jordan Collier is NOT the ACTUAL Messiah. His appearance on your television does not signal the Rapture, so you can stop genuflecting and self-flagellating.
That will be accompanied by this public notice: Kids with autism will not make you hallucinate stinky people on elevators, clowns or snakes. Kids with autism will not make your hair and teeth fall out.
Of course, there will be this notice: If you see and talk to people who aren’t really there, please contact your doctor.
I figured out that Kyle’s friend Cassie wasn’t really there last week when she suggested giving Shawn a jump start with promicin. I like the idea of her as a manifestation of Kyle’s subconscious (or something like that - if she’s a dead girl, I’m going to have a problem). She could be like Al from Quantum Leap - she’s actually in the future, but is transmitting to Kyle.
But, there’s something else. The Future People originally intended for Kyle to be a channel between our present and the future (episode 1.6, “White Light”). Also, during seasons one and two, Kyle was having blackouts and was being taken over by someone from the future. Cassie could be that person.
The prophecy subplot that was introduced in this episode bugs me. That sort of thing doesn’t fit into The 4400, unless its something planted by another faction of the Future People. We heard last season that they weren’t all in agreement on stopping “the catastrophe.”
Wow. While the show was on tonight, it was kind of boring. In retrospect, I guess it wasn’t bad at all.
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