Monday, August 08, 2005

Sci-Fi Sunday

The Dead Zone: Vanguard
Johnny Smith returns to the Armageddon prevention storyline. He goes to a reunion of his former science students and finds his star student possible is somehow involved with the end of the world. His former student played by That 70's Show's Danny Masterson is a genius working to perfect a plastic skin for burn victims. There's also a scene with a 1938 buffalo nickel, I just bring up because I like coins, it had little affect to the storyline. Masterson also made a little "you got punked" referenced. Masterson with Smith's help finds out that the plastic he made is also good for blocking radiation. Smith sees the future and Greg Stillson(Sean Patrick Flanery) glowing over making a nuclear bomb using this plastic.
Masterson's boss is the doctor who died in Stargate SG-1 and the Old General helping Stillson is the old general from Stargate, I can only conclude the share a studio. The old general introduces his daughter played by Laura Harris(Daisy Adair of Dead Like Me) they hit it off.
Masterson believes Smith's future vision and decides to destroy his plastic recipe and ends up killing himself. His partner saved 99% of Masterson's data and sells it to Stillson. Why didn't Smith see that?

The 4400: Hidden
Kyle is gone and his father, Tom, is scared. tom is accusing everyone around him of harboring the his and is ignoring his job. He comes to the conclusion that Kyle was involved in Collier's shooting.
Maia warns Diana not to chase the man involved with Collier's shooting or someone will get hurt. NTAC(the agency) is getting closer to finding out who shot Collier. They track down the person down to a public locker.
Tom tracks down his son to the same locker and gets there first to find a gun and typical assassin gear. He confirms his suspicions and follows his lying wife to where she stashed Kyle. He goes to the safe house and bonds with his son over the fact the future people used him. He and his eight year wife decide to take Kyle out of the country.
At NTAC headquarters they find another shooter and the guy goes nuts in the garage so Tom tells his wifee to bring Kyle back.
Diana tells Maia she was wrong and everythings fine but Maia whispers to herself, "Not yet."

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:45 AM

    Okay, was it just me...or did it seem totally insane that they removed the one suspect's handcuffs in the garage on The 4400? Wasn't that totally out of protocol? It just seemed too convenient to move the Maia's "somebody's gonna get hurt" thing along.

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  2. Yeah, it seems the want keep Kyle in the picture free and picked a thin story to wrap up the chasing down of a suspect.

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