The Tomorrow People

Interesting enough to make me watch a couple more. I don't think you can ask for much more from a pilot really.

thing that slightly bothered me, they explained everything to us, but dude didn't ask any questions

sadly going to guess their powers will only be defined by what the plot calls for. their porting ability already seems godlike compared to other examples i can think of.

The thing I liked about this show is that in a way, you can understand both sides of the fight. Kids/teenagers suddenly finding out they can teleport/use telekinesis would be a very big danger to society if they were not properly educated about when to and not to use their power. I was a bit surprised about the apparent number of potentials. Seems a little bit high and uncontrollable for both sides if that map were a true indication. I assume "the man" has many branches throughout the world? This begs the question as to who is actually in control of the hunt and destroy/control campaign. Maybe they go all Star Wars and you find out that the Dad was converted to the dark side and thus was "Killed". Should be interesting as this is pretty much an X-men kind of story.

The "Unable to kill" is an interesting control element for the story...

rewatched the scene with the map and he says "so many outbreaks....all over the world", but pretty sure the map was just some eye candy and not really showing them

the map(anyone know what program that is, lol) is the Earth at Night series from Nasa and it is cycling through so at one point japan is nearly all white then it goes nearly dark

yea if that map were a true representation of the "outbreak" then there is no way normal people would not know at this point.. that's a HUGE amount of white on that map.

Yeah, the unuse of power is going to really shit me.
Hey lets have a chase where we'll use out teleportation power to go throw a wall and appear on the otherside, rather than anywhere else in the city, country world that would instantly make you safe.
Here's something that will stop them reading your mind, but it won't be sus at all that all of a sudden you're a blank where before they could pick up on things. etc etc

faille_sl said:

Yeah, the unuse of power is going to really shit me.
Hey lets have a chase where we'll use out teleportation power to go throw a wall and appear on the otherside, rather than anywhere else in the city, country world that would instantly make you safe.
Here's something that will stop them reading your mind, but it won't be sus at all that all of a sudden you're a blank where before they could pick up on things. etc etc

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I agree that the mind read aspect is going to be a tightrope that the writers will constantly be walking. Why not just read the person when they do not expect it...as an example. I also think the mother knows..everything, and might even be one. The part that kind of burns me is the whole " They cannot kill somebody without getting a headache" portion of this story. It reminds me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Spike had the anti-human chip in his head. I want to know the rules behind this. They showed that a person could be pushed to the edge and in that way bypass the no kill clause. What happens if they just shoot a person in the head? Would the shooter's head explode or would it just be painful for a split second? If just painful, I am pretty sure that killing Lucifer would be worth the small temporary migraine associated with the act.

Yeah, the inability to kill is pretty retarded (can't remember if it was in the original series), and we're only in the second episode and they've already bent/broke that rule. Also, they haven't really explained the limitations of the teleportation. In the old show their range was pretty short but they had belts/bracelets that gave them a major boost.

They cannot directly kill but I don't think it really stops them from say having somebody walk out into the street or even potentially walking off a roof you are just telling them to walk straight so that is what they do and at the point you tell them to do it its not directly fatal.

kaid_sl said:

They cannot directly kill but I don't think it really stops them from say having somebody walk out into the street or even potentially walking off a roof you are just telling them to walk straight so that is what they do and at the point you tell them to do it its not directly fatal.

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No, dude, just no. There's no observer watching their actions and pushing a button if they try to kill someone. It's supposedly a genetic mutation, just like their tele abilities. All it takes is the *intent* to kill. Let's just agree it's retarded and leave it at that.

Well that got real shit. Real quick. I was rolling my eyes *hard* throughout that whole episode. Disbelief got suspended real quick, the family sub-plot is cliche-ridden, the 'conflict' over the hot chick too teen drama and the fact that the baddy knows just way too obvious.
I will give this a few more episodes but it better get a lot better soon.

Only actor I like is john and his dad. Jedikihah? Episode 4 was the only good episode. Main actor can't hold the show like his cousin

That reveal finally makes sense except the camera incident during the hike. Unless she was stalking them. The brother seemed to young for a breakout considering it just happened to Steven.

Kaio_sl said:

That reveal finally makes sense except the camera incident during the hike. Unless she was stalking them. The brother seemed to young for a breakout considering it just happened to Steven.

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If I remember correctly the mom met up with them like 2 seconds after the camera incident, so she could have easily done it.