I hope the character similarities you list above are just coincidence and they largely go new paths.

I would say that in one episode, Shanice has probably shown more depth of character than Lily did in her entire existence. The writers basically didn't give her much in the way of agency or detail, other than love interest to Richard and incubator/mom to Isabelle. 

The notion that the part of 4400 2.0 that have been shown are like 99.999 black vs. OG 4400 where besides Richard and Isabelle, there probably were only a handful of 4400 of color if that. (Gary Navarro, the mind reading baseball player is the only one that I can think of off the top of my head.). 

Similarly, I don't know if there was a single OG 4400 character who was LGBTQ.

Of course, it's hard to tell just based on the pilot, but I think 4400 2.0 is setting up for a lot of thematic differences.

In OG 4400, it was pretty clear that NTAC were overall the good guys and were playing a pretty decent balance between trying to protect the 4400 and protect normal people from the 4400. There wasn't much in the way of larger social commentary beyond Richard discovering that hey, interracial relationships were kinda OK in the early 2000s.

It feels like 4400 2.0 is setting things up to question to motives of Homeland Security from the start, and by looking at folks from the 20s, 60s and 90s, will be looking to comment on the progress or lack thereof that there has been since then.

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