2005-12-01 
 

an entry in two parts - part one

Recently I've been going through the Tomorrow People DVDs in the Netflix library. (in order, of course)

I remember watching the series on Nickelodeon as a young teenager and how it marked a bit of a turning point for me. I had always loved fantasy, but until that point felt uncomfortable with SciFi because the sometimes frightening ideas and possible negative paths for humanity that the stories depicted followed laws and logic that I knew deep down could allow those ideas and paths to become realities.

It scared the shit out of me.

Then I found the Tomorrow People which showed a world with a bit of hope, where people chose to live a caring life because it felt like the right thing to do and not because there was someone standing above them enforcing codes written by a select few with oft skewed viewpoints. It was around this time when I went from being afraid of SciFi to craving it; precisely because of the challenges it presented. The frightening ideas turned into warnings and encouraged me to think of alternatives.

Alice's six impossible things before breakfast suddenly had quite a few variations that I'd never considered before.

Rewatching the series, I'm forced to admit that the acting wasn't always top notch and that the dialouge sometimes left a bit to be desired. All the same, I'm still completely sucked in as the 14 year old I was relives his wish to "break out". To share in the three T's of Telepathy, Teleportation and Telekenisis, and to rejoice in finding others who shared the dream of making the world a better place.

Labels: dose of mikey, memory lane, random review

* posted by me at 12:42 AM

Comments:

I have never even heard of that show! I'll have to take a look at it. These are the things you miss growing up abroad...alas

# posted by names : 8:40 AM, December 01, 2005

 

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