The 4400 returned with its second season tonight, with a more or less average installment, I thought. Not really bad or anything, but for me the only real highlights were seing Summer Glau (River of Firefly) and Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun, Brunt, and Shran, of various Star Trek series) together on screen. Even that wasn't the best, though. She was apparently just hired to do her "crazy chick" routine (which wasn't nearly as powerful without Joss Whedon dialogue driving it); meanwhile, he was hired to deliver two lines of dialogue total in a two hour episode. What a waste. Unless they bring his character back for future episodes, anyway.
I wonder if any part of my lukewarm reaction to the show's return is due to the fact that in the time since the first season of The 4400, some truly stellar shows have started up -- shows like Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars, and Lost. I'm not saying there isn't room to enjoy them all, just that since last August, when the last 4400 episode aired, the bar has been seriously raised.
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