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Forty Four Hundred

  • 23-08-2004 10:21am
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Watched a couple of the shows. It is an ok series, but I don't like the department of the homeland security pieces.

    I am not sure if they showing all that is bad about DHS or they are trying to desensitize people to them. Some examples.
    1. One episode, a newspaper reporter is told to drop a story or they will make her "Disappear".

    2. A person is told to be co-operative or they can get all their phones tapped without a warrent and information can be blackmailed from them.

    3. A person is blackmailed to find evidence on a reporter

    4. Same reporter later on is arrested with the evidence (which would of been thrown out of court).

    5. A person in hospital is taken from his sickbed without being arrested and made to "Disappear".

    6. A bomber is arrested and read his rights of "You will be treated as a terrorist, You do not have the right to remain silent, you do not have the right to a lawyer, you do not have the right to a trial, etc".

    Disturbing. Apart from that the show is ok'ish.


Comments

  • #2
    Raoul Duke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭Raoul Duke


    I was thinking about "watching" it as well but chose not to. I'll wait till Sky shows it. How do you think it compares to something like Taken or other sci-fi shows in the past?


  • #3
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    It is not what you think it is.


  • #4
    Raoul Duke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭Raoul Duke


    Hobbes wrote:
    It is not what you think it is.


    You're not talking about this ?


  • #5
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Raoul Duke wrote:
    You're not talking about this ?

    Yea I am talking about that. However I've seen about 5 episodes and it explains more of what is going on and it is not about what you think it is about.

    Don't want to put it as a spoiler. :)


  • #6
    doh.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭doh.ie


    You've only seen about 5, cos there are only five (so far, anyway). Seems like it is likely to come back for a second run.

    I did enjoy it - the pilot was especially strong - but it did drop in quality after that.

    Some good actors there, though, even if I couldn't remember the name of the Home Sec female detective for almost all of its run.
    And I think it would have been stronger if they didn't go so far in explaining the reasons why the 4,400 had been abducted so early on in the series


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