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donutsweeper) wrote2018-08-10 10:49 am
donutsweeper) wrote2018-08-10 10:49 am
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The Tomorrow People
Youtube's random algorithms cued up an episode of the 1990s version of The Tomorrow People (probably because Christopher Lee was in it) and had such a wonderful Classic Who-esque WTF kids show quality to it I wound up watching the whole serial and then the entire run of the show (which is only 5 serials of 5 25min or so ep each). I never saw the 70s verion (which apparently is unrelated other than the name and a few powers/backstory aspects- that The Tomorrow People are teenagers who can teleport and have telepathy and maybe some other powers and are the newest stage of human evolution) and don't remember much of the CW's 2013 version (which, again, seems to only share the basics and was much less of a kids show than this one) but none of that seemed to matter.
The show was hilariously trippy as hell. In Christopher Lee's ep, "The Rameses Connection" he's first seen as that kind of creepy weird powerful guy who controls minions and plots evil from a secret place. We soon learn he has powers of his own (because, of course he does) and has an awesome henchcat who can shoot laserbeams out of its eyes (awesome evil kitty is awesome) and it turns out he's a 4000 yr old immortal Egyptian priest who was gifted powers due to star alignment, worshiping the right gods and ~reasons~ and now the stars have aligned again and he wants... (well, that was unclear- a more, super special version of immortality?) and it's up to the Tomorrow People to stop him. (It was nice to see that the kids actually looked like kids- they were supposed to be probably 15-17ish and the oldest of them looked at most 18/19 and the youngest actually 15/16, unlike the CW's version where they were supposed to be in High School and looked in their mid 20s at a minimum.) The kids are helped by randomly appearing (only to be kidnapped) kind of kooky woman and then her... living doll/bizarre sprites/I don't even know friends. Christopher Lee was awesomely evil but of course ended up thwarted by the hero teens and the power focusing/transferring thing gets mucked up and he blows up (but kitty survives to go off and be evil elsewhere, I guess?) and happily the world is saved. And there was much rejoicing. Or something. I dunno, but it was a fun watch.
Anyway, silly show is silly and fun and easily findable on youtube/daily motion/etc. Some of the serials work better than others, but it's fun mindless entertainment.
This has been a donutsweeper-avoids-responsibilities/to-do-list update. Now back to your regular programming.
(Huh, googling tells me one of the kids was Naomie Harris who went on to play Moneypenny in two of Craig Bond films. Things you learn.)
The show was hilariously trippy as hell. In Christopher Lee's ep, "The Rameses Connection" he's first seen as that kind of creepy weird powerful guy who controls minions and plots evil from a secret place. We soon learn he has powers of his own (because, of course he does) and has an awesome henchcat who can shoot laserbeams out of its eyes (awesome evil kitty is awesome) and it turns out he's a 4000 yr old immortal Egyptian priest who was gifted powers due to star alignment, worshiping the right gods and ~reasons~ and now the stars have aligned again and he wants... (well, that was unclear- a more, super special version of immortality?) and it's up to the Tomorrow People to stop him. (It was nice to see that the kids actually looked like kids- they were supposed to be probably 15-17ish and the oldest of them looked at most 18/19 and the youngest actually 15/16, unlike the CW's version where they were supposed to be in High School and looked in their mid 20s at a minimum.) The kids are helped by randomly appearing (only to be kidnapped) kind of kooky woman and then her... living doll/bizarre sprites/I don't even know friends. Christopher Lee was awesomely evil but of course ended up thwarted by the hero teens and the power focusing/transferring thing gets mucked up and he blows up (but kitty survives to go off and be evil elsewhere, I guess?) and happily the world is saved. And there was much rejoicing. Or something. I dunno, but it was a fun watch.
Anyway, silly show is silly and fun and easily findable on youtube/daily motion/etc. Some of the serials work better than others, but it's fun mindless entertainment.
This has been a donutsweeper-avoids-responsibilities/to-do-list update. Now back to your regular programming.
(Huh, googling tells me one of the kids was Naomie Harris who went on to play Moneypenny in two of Craig Bond films. Things you learn.)
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... Which is when I discovered where a surprising number of my ludicrous character/narrative/trope kinks come from, thank you very much. I'm a little terrified to watch the rest of it.
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"I thought my Thing for Australian accents came from watching Strictly Ballroom a zillion times!"
"Wait, THIS is why I got weak at the knees during that ADR!telepathy moment in Code 46?"
"Telepathy, teleportation, and now TOUCH HEALING?!"
A true embarrassment of riches, that one.
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