Let's see, now. A jetliner, Flight 4400, is flying from Jamaica to New York City when it hits an an unnaturally intense thunderstorm and...no, wait. That's the other one.
Three years ago, a UFO passing by Earth broke up and bombarded various parts of the world with forty-four hundred pieces of debris...nope! Wrong, again.
Forty-four hundred people, stuck in a traffic jam near the La Brea Tarpits in Los Angeles, fall into a sink hole during an earthquake...nope! That's wrong, too.
Oh, yeah! Now, i remember. Four thousand, four hundred missing people, from throughout history, wound up being dropped off at a lake near Seattle, Washington. Each of them ultimately learning/revealing that they'd been abducted by scientists from the far future in a desperate attempt to end some high-tech war-to-end-all-civil wars. Only one problem: their enemies want to maintain the status quo of their history. Ergo, by the final episode of the original series, that aforementioned war was in danger of spreading to the early 21st century and being fought by proxy.
One of the major changes made by CW (the current king of needless remakes) is that most of the returnees in this "new" series are African-American! Ergo, I have to assume that the far-future conflict is the kind of race war the United States has feared since the 1960's. A timely and topical revamp? Indisputably. One that guarantees a second season for this show? I don't see how. Especially given the over-abundance of all-too similar series semi-sarcastically mentioned above.
Add all that to the fact it's airing opposite NCIS (which still has my first loyalty as a viewer), and you've got another CW remake I will be unapologetically boycotting.
Three years ago, a UFO passing by Earth broke up and bombarded various parts of the world with forty-four hundred pieces of debris...nope! Wrong, again.
Forty-four hundred people, stuck in a traffic jam near the La Brea Tarpits in Los Angeles, fall into a sink hole during an earthquake...nope! That's wrong, too.
Oh, yeah! Now, i remember. Four thousand, four hundred missing people, from throughout history, wound up being dropped off at a lake near Seattle, Washington. Each of them ultimately learning/revealing that they'd been abducted by scientists from the far future in a desperate attempt to end some high-tech war-to-end-all-civil wars. Only one problem: their enemies want to maintain the status quo of their history. Ergo, by the final episode of the original series, that aforementioned war was in danger of spreading to the early 21st century and being fought by proxy.
One of the major changes made by CW (the current king of needless remakes) is that most of the returnees in this "new" series are African-American! Ergo, I have to assume that the far-future conflict is the kind of race war the United States has feared since the 1960's. A timely and topical revamp? Indisputably. One that guarantees a second season for this show? I don't see how. Especially given the over-abundance of all-too similar series semi-sarcastically mentioned above.
Add all that to the fact it's airing opposite NCIS (which still has my first loyalty as a viewer), and you've got another CW remake I will be unapologetically boycotting.
