From Time Travel To Rewriting THE Bible
THE FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED (4400) — 2004–2207
I will not enter what the producers say about the number in the title. It is naturally magic because it is FOUR (crucifixion) multiplied by ELEVEN (a magic prime number that contains some imbalance and yet is not ominously bad). But 11 is the number of apostles after the elimination of Judas. In other words, this number, FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED, is naturally fascinating in some non-terrific way. And yet…!
Basic concept. 44 hundred people extracted from the present earth (between 1945 and 1995 or so (over fifty or sixty years) were all returned together around 2004 or so: they had not aged, and they all had been experimented upon by the humans in a distant future just before humanity would disappear. These future humans invested and embedded in these 44 hundred some special power or powers, and they are supposed to do in our modern time what is necessary for a big catastrophe that could eliminate humanity to be prevented in some distant future.
Little by little the long-distance objective is pushed aside and replaced by a very banal objective. How can we change humanity from hostile factions fighting against one another and imagine what it becomes when the factions are reduced to two, the Democrats and the Republicans, to two old overaged men (men of course)…