The 4400 season 3 premiere

I have to say I've really liked the first two seasons of The 4400.
Unfortunately, the season 3 premiere left me cold. Talk about 2hrs worth
of nothing much.

Casey McDonald's Guidance Counsellor, Ian J. Ball...

Totally.

To me, Lily was the emotional heart of the show. Without her, I find my
enthusiasm for this show more than halved. (And that's not including the
whole "rapid aging baby" Skiffy cliche which already put this show on
shaky ground at the end last season.)

I'll probably continue watching it because there's nothing else on
Sundays, and it leads into TDZ. But, honestly, if it weren't for TDZ, I
might have just dropped it entirely after this premiere.

It's a shame but it really smacks of a series where the creators really had
no thought to where it was going and are now having to work something out on
the fly.

Bill Steele...

This looked to me like a wrapup movie they had written to use as the
final episode in case the series was cancelled. It produced satisfying
conclusions but still left doors open.

EGK...

I didn't think of it like that at all but I suppose the scene at the end
with the wheat field could be seen like that. "work with us for a better
future or perish".

I was thinking more about all the unanswered questions. It seemed to me a
lot like Lost. Rather than explain any of the past plot, they simply went
on to other things and in completely different directions.

shawn...

It did lack a certain punch. I'm hoping that's something that they can
fix. They've had long enough to come up with a good idea of where they
are going. Actually I think the events that happened and what they
mean were pretty good ideas. It's just that things moved so slowly in
the episode that it detracted from the possible impact. Part of the
problem was in the trial sequence which tried to make us scared of the
4400, but it did such a poor job that there's no why a huge percentage
of the population would agree with what's his name.