About a month ago Chris and I started watching episodes of The 4400 online, a show that aired on USA for a few years and eventually got canceled because of the strikes and other things. Anybody else ever see this show? I’d never even heard of it until Chris started watching it. Here’s a description:
“In the pilot episode, what was originally thought to be a comet deposits a group of exactly 4400 people at Highland Beach, in the Cascade Range foothills near Mount Rainier, Washington. Each of the 4400 had disappeared at various times starting from 1946 in a beam of white light. None of the 4400 have aged from the time of their disappearance. Confused and disoriented, they remember nothing between the time of their disappearance and their return.”
There’s a little girl who disappeared first, decades ago, and then there are some people who’ve only been gone for a few months. They seem normal at first but it’s soon revealed that some of these 4400 now have mysterious powers, like the ability to predict the future or kill other people with their minds, or even just be fast like a ninja. “Some” of the 4400 turns into “all” of them, and then later on in the series—I’m skipping a lot here—it turns out there’s been a drug made from the special chemical that gives the 4400 their powers. So, anybody who wants to can take a shot and be like a 4400. (Half of the human population will die upon taking the drug, but forget that.)
What would be your power? Chris liked the idea of being a ninja-fast vigilante like one of the original characters, but I think he’d probably have some dorky cute power, like hearing what chipmunks think. That, or one of the more deadly powers. He’s one of those quiet people you’d never suspect.
MY superpower, if I could be so lucky to choose, would be the ability to heat things up with my hands. Like, superheat. I’ve thought about this a lot. I would use my hands to instantly bake things, like cupcakes, by just holding the pan. I’d also use them to boil water and to keep my hot drinks warm. Another genius use would be to dry my hair with them. Wouldn’t that be AMAZING? I could dry it wavy or straight without needing other styling tools. Because the one thing I definitely can’t ever do is blowdry my hair with a stupid round brush.