The Crossing on ABC

[Spider]

It occurred to me how similar The Crossing and The 4400 are. You get a bunch of people show up from out of nowhere on a beach or a lakeside, who are either from the future or UFO kidnappees, which by the 2nd episode we learn are split into two groups who's single agenda is to stop the other groups agenda, and you then have four sides, the two returnee sides, the government, and the local authorities (the good guys) then the family lives of the main characters ensue with someone always screwing someone from another side.

Same thing. LOL

 

[Christopher]

The 4400 was a lot different and a lot better. It sped through the arrivals' internment and acclimation into society (too much so, if anything) and went on to build a larger story about how their presence transformed the world. The Crossing is much more decompressed, moving very slowly through what's evidently been only a few days' worth of story so far.

Also, the fact that the returnees in The 4400 were from the future wasn't revealed until the end of season 1, as the answer to the season-long mystery of who had taken and altered them.

The 4400 also had better characters. The Crossing can't seem to make up its mind who we're supposed to root for or who's even a series regular. The likeable characters keep either getting killed off or revealed to be not so nice, the guy who seemed like the bad guy initially has now been softened, and the one consistent viewpoint character we're expected to root for, the sheriff, is the dullest character on the show. I'm this close to giving up on it.

 

[Spider]

I thought the first couple seasons of The 4400 were excellent, but not so much the last two. And of course it gets canceled before they could do a wrap up story. I think both of these series start strong, but The Crossing has so much going on you practically have to have a pad and pencil to make notes while watching it. I don't give The Crossing much of a chance of survival, but I hope it does.

And retreads are what Hollywood does. I'm always a sucker for these fish out of water type themes anyway, people coming back that aren't supposed to, stuck in the wrong time period from your last time travel jaunt, that sort of thing always gets my eye. At least until the sharks start jumping.

 

[Christopher]

Honestly, aside from the opening gimmick of the mass arrival, The Crossing reminds me more of Netflix's current series Travelers, which is about people sent back from a dystopian future on a mission to prevent it from ever coming about. Although there, it's the people trying to prevent the future that we're supposed to be rooting for.

 

[Morpheus 02]

More than anything...this is more like The Event from NBC...


We really liked this show...sorry it has ended...but the finale gives a nice endstory with a possibility for future stories...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Leah and Maia look alike.

(And their names rhyme.)

 

[kitik]

Just watched all 11 episodes in one day. Boom! What do I win?

I guess I won a decent show. I was aware going in that it had not been renewed for a second season, so I was really relieved that the finale provided a fair bit of closure. Sure, they left quite a few things open ended in case they got to tell more story, but there was some very pleasing closure going on. Roy found his proper calling. Caleb miraculously found his daughter (without even having the foggiest notion that she was in the past). The refugees escaped execution.

Decent enough show, decent enough characters, not a bad way to waste a day. Not many huge shockers in it, probably the biggest surprise was that they killed Agent Ren, seemed like she was one of the main characters for sure.

I can easily live without a second season. I have no great need to see the further adventures of any of these folks.