re: THE 4400 -- "Ghost in the Machine"

byron — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:42:15 GMT

The way the future is presented thus far has always bothered me.
Supposedly: there is a faction of brutal elites who lives in the city. and the people who are outside of the city, forced to live in the desolate wilderness.

and so these people with less power (relative to the people in city) on top of dealing with what are probably harsh conditions have somehow mustered enough resources to pick up four thousand plus people from the past, give them all abilities and send them to seattle, while the so called "elite" only managed to get Isabelle and 10 "marked" agents back.

Seems to me Jordan Collier and his group of "positives" are shaping themselves into the powerful elite who live in last city (Promise City?). They see themselves as superior to the rest of humanity and thus walled themselves off from the rest. Jordan Collier has said in no uncertain terms that he seeks the death and destruction of modern civilization and the normal human beings. Reminds anyone of social darwinism/eugenics/old racism?

So if we assume the 4400 and the positives are the ones who are doing the bidding of the "brutal elites" then the question comes up why the elite who are already in power want to change the past?

It's possible that this "elite" are a minority in the future who want to get rid of the masses living outside the city, and they decided the best way to do that is to wipe them out in the past, turn everyone into a positve and kill the rest(exactly what Jordan Collier wants to do), only then, will there be heaven on earth.

There are, of course, much evidence to the contrary, not the least of which is the evil smile/vibe you've mentioned from the marked agents, this is just my two cents.