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Starting Wednesday Oct 9th is the newest show from the CW, The Tomorrow People! Wait, no... The Tomorrow People!  Still not right. Hold on, I think I got this. The Tomorrow People!   There we go! As you can see, this idea has been done a couple of times before all sharing a similar premise. The first version ran from 73 to 79 in England. The second version ran from 92 to 95 and was a British/American co-production and is probably the more well known version of the show seeing as it aired in America on Nickelodeon. Basic premise is that the show deals with the next stage of human evolution where these Homo Superior/Tomorrow People begin appearing. They look like normal people except they have extraordinary powers, such as teleportation, telepathy and telekinesis. The series stars the standard CW cast of pretty 20-somethings with the lead of Stephen Jameson played by Robbie Amell and genre staple Mark Pellegrino as the villainous geneticist Jedikiah Price. Early reviews state that the pilot takes its cues from other CW shows like The Vampire Diaries and Nikita in that it takes off running and doesn't stop. Although quality-wise they've been a mixed bag. If you're wondering about the thread title, I got it from this fairly goofy video: Deadpool posted:Wednesdays on CW are all about family this fall.
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Oct 8, 2013 21:25
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I was obsessed with the Nickelodeon version of this series, and look forward to see what the new one's like. I've cleared my Wednesday for this and Revolution. I'm hoping to get hooked, but we'll see. Thanks for creating the OP!
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Oct 8, 2013 21:46
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Yeah, I'll definitely be watching this. I too loved the Nick version when I was a kid, and I even managed to order the DVDs from a site in the UK for about $30. I went so far as to change the region on an old DVD-ROM drive so I could watch it again. I haven't heard if Roger Price is involved at all in the new series, but it'd be nice to see what he thinks of it. I just hope it doesn't end up lovely or ending on some cliffhanger and get cancelled.
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Oct 9, 2013 04:36
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I thought the trailer for this looked really good. CW has a pretty good track record with genre stuff lately. I think it and Arrow will make a good two hour block. X-O fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Oct 9, 2013 05:55
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Echoing the sentiments already expressed -- loved the 90s Nickelodeon series and intrigued to see how technology/better budget changes the show over 20 years. It seems like the CW is starting to expand its shows to appeal more to males, so partnering it with Arrow will be a good lead in.
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Oct 9, 2013 08:02
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One Nut Wonder posted:Yeah, I'll definitely be watching this. I too loved the Nick version when I was a kid, and I even managed to order the DVDs from a site in the UK for about $30. I went so far as to change the region on an old DVD-ROM drive so I could watch it again. I haven't heard if Roger Price is involved at all in the new series, but it'd be nice to see what he thinks of it. I just hope it doesn't end up lovely or ending on some cliffhanger and get cancelled. Price is listed as an Executive Producer but who knows how much he's actually involved. Fun Tomorrow People fact, David Bowie's use of the term "Homo Superior" in Oh! You Pretty Things is actually because of The Tomorrow People. Turns out he and Price (who created the original series) met once when Bowie was doing a TV spot. Price explained the concept of a show he was working on and Bowie liked the phrase Homo Superior so much that he wrote it into a song.
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Oct 9, 2013 11:37
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One thing I do miss from both the previous ones, even before it's started, is that they made a point to have a couple of different accents in their cast, due to the whole global phenomenon/people of tomorrow thing. I'll be keeping an eye on this. I loved the hell out of the 90's version when I was a kid.
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Oct 9, 2013 11:41
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This show looks alright, but "Luke Mitchell" in the main cast used to be on an Australian soap opera and he is one of the worst actors I have ever seen. Stilted does not even begin to describe it. Still I might give it a look, shows like this are a good direction for the CW to go in. And Peyton List is in it, that will go a long way to this being enjoyable.
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Oct 9, 2013 12:22
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muscles like this? posted:They look like normal people except they have extraordinary powers, such as teleportation, telepathy and telekinesis. Now is this just a coincidental short list, or are they actually limited to tele-/mental powers like that?
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Oct 9, 2013 15:05
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Aphrodite posted:Now is this just a coincidental short list, or are they actually limited to tele-/mental powers like that? They have some more, in promotional material one character stops time so there might be ones that are a little more outlandish.
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Oct 9, 2013 17:11
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muscles like this? posted:They have some more, in promotional material one character stops time so there might be ones that are a little more outlandish. That still falls under the umbrella of kinda esoteric mentalist type stuff, I think he was asking "are we gonna see anyone juggle engine blocks or leap tall buildings in a single bound".
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Oct 10, 2013 00:04
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Yeah, I was curious whether those just happened to be the 3 you listed and they also have Human Torches and Colossuses, or if it actually is restricted to that kind of stuff (presumably for plot reasons.)
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Oct 10, 2013 00:34
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I don't know about this show but I have an hour to kill before American Horror Story airs so why not. Just seems like it'll be yet even more teen angst.
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Oct 10, 2013 01:25
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Show's starting. Edit: He's really into self bondage.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:00
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No way this is gonna follow that episode of Arrow. But I won't hold that against it.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:01
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So super gangs?
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Oct 10, 2013 02:03
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Teleportation fight has already sold me.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:04
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Awkward!
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Oct 10, 2013 02:05
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Deadpool posted:Teleportation fight I can't watch this right now but I still think I need to change my pants.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:05
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I wasn't expecting there to be bad guys with powers too.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:05
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muscles like this? posted:I wasn't expecting there to be bad guys with powers too. Did he call them Altereds? Like maybe regular humans that got powers through drugs or something?
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Oct 10, 2013 02:07
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Deadpool posted:Did he call them Altereds? Like maybe regular humans that got powers through drugs or something? I heard Ultras.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:07
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Aphrodite posted:I heard Ultras. That's probably right. I didn't hear it well. Also this show doesn't seem to be wasting any time.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:09
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So no psychic crashed space ship? 
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Oct 10, 2013 02:10
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I wonder if it's Ultra as in MK.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:11
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Aphrodite posted:I wonder if it's Ultra as in MK. If it isn't then that's a wasted opportunity right there.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:17
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It's not bad so far, I will accept this knock off Xmen television series. Oh wow they have all sets of powers. That's kind of bad rear end.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:18
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Its funny how Robbie looks like a lot like Stephen sometimes. Edit: Huh, that's a weird thing to keep.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:18
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Well, this show is almost literally just X-Men. Neat, I guess. Hoping they don't get too excessive with the high school drama.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:19
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Whoa, that's a neat twist.Deakul posted:Well, this show is almost literally just X-Men. Not really. They all have the same powers.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:19
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 I can see failure sucks for an Ultra
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Oct 10, 2013 02:20
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That's a drat fine hook there with them not being able to kill.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:20
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Deadpool posted:Whoa, that's a neat twist. The unable to kill thing? Its something from the older series.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:20
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Mark Pelligrino makes everything automatically awesome.Deakul posted:Well, this show is almost literally just X-Men. Or Heroes. Or Alphas. But hopefully more like the latter. Also I think everyone in this thread is somehow ahead of me by a few minutes.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:21
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muscles like this? posted:The unable to kill thing? Its something from the older series. Never watched the old series. So it's a twist for me.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:21
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Me either although as a evolutionary trait that's a really really lovely one.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:23
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Deadpool posted:Never watched the old series. So it's a twist for me. Be glad we're skipping the huge sparkly belt buckles.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:24
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Kind of okay with Sparkly belt buckles everything looks better with them.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:26
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"I'm gonna jump off a building, can you video it and we'll put it on youtube?"
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Oct 10, 2013 02:28
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Dude, those are all things people who need to be on drugs say.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:28
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