From: asr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angus "Furry" Rae)
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Subject: The Tomorrow People, today....as it were
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:36:26 GMT
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Well, I just finished watching the "All New" The Tomorrow People. It
looks as if it might be not too bad, thankfully. I wasn't paying maximum
attention as I was preparing to dash out, but here's a quick synopsis
anyway.

Opens with somebody (unnamed during first show, but Adam (Kirsten
Schmidt(sp)) from credits) waking up on a beach having apparently been
half drowned. He wanders up the beach and finds a stange tailfin like
object emerging from the sand. There is a round panel with strange
markings round it next to it. When he investigates, it glows and opens
sucking him inside. He falls into what is obviously a spaceship, and
explores a little before finding a bridge of some sort, with what seems
to be a Slave rip off at the centre...

Kevin (didn't read credits well enough, British though) is first
introduced seeing an image of Lisa falling into water, and telling a
friend about strange dreams he's been having about this girl called
Lisa.  They then fire at a couple of local heavies with waterpistols
from the bus.  (Idiots!) When he sleeps over at the friends house, they
start playing an ESP style game which involves the other kid (nickname
of Megabyte, I think) looking at cards and Kevin guessing them.  He
scores 100% and also sees an image of a car magazine that MB looks at
inadvertantly.  Later he reveals that he's been able to do this for a
while but it's getting worse and now he has these dreams... he falls
asleep.

Lisa (didn't read credits again, American) is introduced being prepared
by her mother for a talent contest which se doesn't want to enter.  When
she gets onstage she freezes completely, and when the audience starts
laughing she suddenly vanishes to a little glowing dot, which fades... 
(yay!)

She plunges into water off a coastline. Kevin, meanwhile, is having a
nightmare about this and calls her name, and then promptly vanishes as
well. He also plunges into the water, but can't swim and has to be
rescued by Lisa. They make it ashore, and both think that they're
dreaming. Lisa asks Kevin to slap her, get's fed up by his not very
enthusiastic slaps and slaps him a cracker. He promptly vanishes again
and reappears back on the bed, covering it in sand and water. 

Lisa explores the beach, and finds a tent which she pinches a change of
clothes from. She then finds the same tailfin and hatch and is also
sucked in.

Back at the talent concert, a British science intelligence agent and an
American science intelligence agent start to set up shop in the hall.
The British agent mentions that they usually reappear where they left
from, and they nearly caught one last month, but they used too much power
and there wasn't much left. "We're still in a sort of learning curve
situation." He sets up devices around the point Lisa left from.

Back in the UK, Kevin and (whatever his name is, I'll check the video)
set out for school, with much discussion of experiments later. They run
into the heavies again, and escape on a bus, which stops at the
lights... The one called Hulk (heesh!) grabs Kevin and starts banging
his head off the roof while the other holds the other kid. Kevin
vanishes again... and appears over the sea and promptly starts to drown.
End of episode...

I hope I got everything there.

Now, interpretations...
Compared to the earlier TP, Kevin is grossly powered. He has strong
precog (he saw Lisa falling into the water before she did so by a good
12 hours) and strong telepathy with non-TP. I can't recall any of the
others having precog or telepathy that strong. (Alternatively, the other
kid might be also a TP, and Lisa is the precog...)

There must be something guiding these jaunts - Lisa should have jaunted
somewhere she knew. Kevin might have jaunted to Lisa. Also, Adam must
have jaunted there (unless he was in the tent and went swimming in his
clothes or something...)

The ship... now, if that isn't sent by the Galactic Trig I'll eat my
hat... it must be an "auto break out" detector or something... and I'll
lay strong odds that the Slave ripoff is actually a Tim ripoff minues
the lava lamps. (Shame!)

All in all, it looks not too bad. But I'll reserve final judgement until
they finish scene setting.



-- 
Angus G Rae, the Cuddly Vampire Teddy Bear [asr@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk]
"Let me explain about Genetic Engineering. That's where you take a cell
from a human being and put it into a sheep, in the hope that one day it
will go out and buy something."           Neil Innes, More Jam Tomorrow
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