* HilariousInHindsight: In "Audrey Parker's Come and Gone", Creator/LauraMennell plays the younger version of the title character. She later played the recurring character Dr. Charlotte Cross in ''Series/{{Haven}}'', the protagonist of which is named Audrey Parker.
* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: When the [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Borg]] [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Queen]] guest stars, you ''know'' she's up to no good.
* NoYay: Isabelle's chronological age, and her lack of emotional stability, can cause Shawn's relationship with her to be seen in a highly dubious light.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Today, the show is best known as an early major credit for Academy Award winner Creator/MahershalaAli.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The idea of forty-four hundred people who've been abducted over the last eighty years or so and then being returned in a giant sphere of light in the present day was already fascinating enough that adding superpowers and a future person conspiracy plot felt like overkill.
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