Watching The 4400

I do apologize for the lack of posts lately, things have gotten a bit like the Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” around here, like I said over at Watching Jericho. While I’ve been silent, though, some of the great actors from the 4400 have been very busy, popping up all over the place on other shows that I watch regularly and have usually fallen in love with recently.

So I’m watching Journeyman the other week (you’re watching it, right? Really, you should be!), and who should show up on my television screen as the father of Dan Vassar (The time-traveling Journeyman from the title), who Dan had to go to for some information but our very own Joel Gretsch! I was so excited to see him on this show, and thought that he did a wonderful job and I really hope that they keep sending Dan back to this point in the time line so we can see more of Joel and the great character that he’s playing.

Also, who should I spy as the Baddie - of - the - Week over on Life as a slimy Russian mobster who’s been selling information to the Feds but Garrett Dillahunt, our very own Matthew Ross. He’s far, far too good at slimy, people, considering the plot for the episode centered around him not only killing a girl by throwing her out of a window, but also caging her secret boyfriend up with his dogs which he used in dog fighting activities. They left the episode open at the end to allow for him back also, which I hope happens just as much as Joel Gretsch over at Journeyman.

Have you seen anyone else from the 4400 out on the new shows for this season that I’ve missed? Leave a comment below, ok?

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While his Marked persona recently inhabited our tortured Tom Baldwin, Garret Dillahunt (who played the slimy Matthew Ross, of course) will be joining the cast of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, adding another 4400 Alumni to the cast along with Summer Glau.

He’ll be playing a “mysterious” character named Cromartie on the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which, in Network TV Speak always seems to equate to Evil, at least in general. The article seems to center more on his recent role as Jesus on the quickly cancelled “Book of Daniel”, but also mentions his roles on “Deadwood” and “John From Cincinnati”, which the former I vaguely remember and the latter I have never actually watched. But for some reason, it seems that he gravitates to the excessively “Good” characters, or the excessively “Evil” characters, and not much in-between.

And while it has been a little longer since he was on the 4400, it was mildly annoying when there was not a single mention of his Matthew Ross role listed in the article from Zap2It. I mean, the numbers for the 4400 really couldn’t be all that different from “Deadwood” or “John From Cincinnati”, could they? Of course, I could just be a little sensitive on that issue, since I’m a touch hyper-aware because of this blog.

What do you think, and during our in-between seasons (yes, I’m a bit Pollyanna-ish about us getting a Fifth Season at the moment, but there’s always hope) will you be watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles?

Read the whole article here.

Hat-tip to 4400 Spoilers.

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