Watching The 4400

*Editor’s Note* Don’t you hate it when you swear that you’ve set a “post to the future” feature, and then realize that you haven’t at all. Yeah, some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed.

Don’t forget, mark your calendars, and anything else… Tonight is the chat with Chad Faust, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Jenni Baird on USA Network’s Official Site at 8 pm ET (5 pm PT).

From the email sent out earlier today:

Can’t wait until the 4400 Season Finale for the answers to your most urgent questions? Then join Chad Faust, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Jenni Baird for a LIVE Video Chat this Friday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

Joel (ed., I think they meant Megalyn), Chad and Jenni will put a wrap on Season Four and answer your questions via a Live Video Feed while you chat with fellow fans in anticipation of the 4400 finale. Click below to register now and remember to return Friday night!

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Amy Berg, writer on the “Daddy’s Little Girl” episode of the 4400, talks about writing the episode over on the Writer’s Blog over on the official site, and shares some of her thoughts about the episode.

This episode featured the return of some fan favorites we haven’t seen in a while. We’ve really missed Mahershalalhashbaz Ali. It’s great to have him back. He has such a wonderful presence on screen and his scenes with Isabelle (all three versions of her) were incredibly compelling. In case you’re wondering, the two-year-old Isabelle, the one you saw at the very end? She was played by Jordan Lasorsa-Simon. Jordan was our original baby Isabelle, whom you watched and adored all throughout season two. As for the eight-year-old Isabelle, she was played by Madison Pettis. It was a casting stroke of luck to not only find an amazing actress, but one who looks so much like a young Megalyn Echikunwoke. Both Madison and Megalyn did fantastic work in this episode. I thought both performances were stand-outs.

She also talks about how great it was to have Tess and Kevin back, which I think was actually my favorite part of the episode on review.

Read the whole blog entry here.

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Richard’s really got a screw loose, along with developing his ability to amazing levels. Considering how much he struggled with his ability for so long, it was really cool to see him go from throwing a pylon away like it was nothing around Promise City to the detailed minute ability of cutting off the flow of blood to a person’s brain just for a moment to knock them out.

And, the secondary story of Tess’s 16th birthday party that she never got to have was just beautiful. Summer Glau does seem to have a knack for getting the horribly flawed characters, but in part that’s because she does so well with them. I did love how Shawn slipped in the solution for the two-day-long dance party straight out of the 1950’s by using Tess and Kevin’s love for each other for her to calm down enough for Shawn to heal her.

My favorite part has to be Tom hiding Kyle away from the NTAC agents outside of Richard’s safehouse, and Diana helping him. I love the teamwork from those two, though the explanation of what he was doing was for the audience, not Diana.

What I’m not so fond of? How they’ve done the love interest up between him and Meghan. And this whole “Marked” thing with him. I just didn’t find it worked with the flow of the story this episode, which I hope will turn around next week.

USA Network has a great series of interviews up on their site with multiple actors, including Megalyn Echikunwoke (who plays Isabelle Tyler, of course). What I like about the way that they have the interviews listed is by subject snippet, instead of all in one chunk.

The listings for her interview are:

• This Season
• Isabelle’s Evolution
• New Romance?
• The Fans
• Roots
• Promicin

See all of video snippets here.

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Trying to get my daughter’s stuff together to send her off for a visit with the grandparents has seriously limited any time that I have to do a decent recap until after Wednesday, so I’ll leave you with some great links to keep your attention while I pack for a 5-year-old to go out to New Mexico for two weeks.

• TV Guide.com has a great interview with Jennie Baird, new NTAC Director Meghan Doyle.
• Joel Gretch talks to Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn from the Associated Press.
• Troy Rogers interviews Megalyn Echikunwoke for Underground Online.
• BuddyTV>com talks about the new film that Patrick Flueger is starring in called Last Resort.

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I adore E Online’s Watch with Kristin, and she never disappoints me with all of her spoilery goodness, and this time she’s got some really great dirt on Isabelle’s character in the coming season of the 4400 (Near the bottom of the page, under spoilers).

**WARNING! SPOILERS BELOW THE FOLD!!!**

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What we do here every Monday is spotlight an actor, just to show y’all what these great actors are doing outside of the show. Our next actor is Megalyn Echikunwoke who plays the creepy Isabelle Tyler, recently de-powered by Tom Baldwin.

Along with the 4400, Megalyn has a long history with Television, from a recurring character on 24, an appearance on Buffy and a recurring character on That 70’s Show. Like Joel Gretsch, I know that her face was familiar when I saw her the first time on the 4400, but I just couldn’t place it. After googling her, though, I realized that it had to be from watching Buffy, as I’ve never really gotten into 24 and I’m only now coming to appreciate That 70’s Show.

Interesting Trivia from Megalyn Echikunwoke’s IMDB Profile:

Grew up on a Navajo Indian Reservation in Chinle, Arizona.

Loves to sing and is passionate about pursuing a career in music, as well. Other hobbies include surfing, dancing and traveling.

Her last name is Nigerian and it means “leader of men”. She is half Nigerian.

Has a brother nicknamed Miki.

Megalyn Echikunwoke’s IMDB Profile.

Megalyn Echikunwoke on 4400guide.com.

Megalyn Echikunwoke on on tv.com.

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I open my feedreader today to see that TV Squad has a juicy tidbit of spoiler in regards to USA Network’s the 4400 that makes me squeal a little in regards to how the plotline will progress in the coming season.

**WARNING - SPOILERS BELOW**

When the series returns, it seems that Isabelle will be power-less. However, in episode 4.02, the government want to inject promicin in her saying it’s just to make sure her powers will never come back. [Source: TV Squad]

I was really hoping that they wouldn’t drop the fallout from Isabelle losing her powers, since Tom was actually a decent human being and didn’t kill her as the “Others” instructed him to, and this makes things interesting again, injecting her with, in a way, her own promicin to see the effects.

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