The Tomorrow People (TV Series) Son of Man (2014) User Reviews

Intriguing yet Troublesome Finale!

[galet09 · 9/10 · 8 May 2014]

First off, I knew that Roger's days were numbered on the show. I couldn't see how he would fit in as a regular. There were twists and turns though as usual for this episode. Was very disappointed that John who had been stripped of his powers, looked as if he was going to get them back through the DNA from Roger. But oh no, he got a little bit something extra, thanks to the enemy you love to hate, Jedikiah. Every time I think I was wrong about him, and he is after all decent, he turns out to be the opposite.

He tells John, that he is giving John a part himself and Roger, by restoring the powers. But now John is his pawn and God knows what Jed is going to be having John doing for him. The only thing we were told is that John is supposed to bring Cara to Jed.

This is SO f'd up. Also I don't quite understand Natalie. I mean the Founder was destroyed though I somehow feel he will come back somehow, but I mean he's gone, and yet she is still acting as though she's following her king's agenda?

She lived with The Tomorrow People and was loyal to them for a lot longer so I don't get it. And then she pops in and tries to take down Cara. That was a very cool scene btw when Stephen showed up.

Anyway I am so looking forward to Season 2. I am pretty certain this show will be renewed from what Executive Producer Phil Klemmer said over at zap2it. He pretty much indicates that there will be a season 2. Thank goodness! I look forward to it.

That's really how you want to end it?

[skteosk · 6/10 · 10 June 2014]

The opening of this episode is a bit of a mess, feeling more like we've just come back from a commercial break, with a confused action sequence, John, Cara and Astrid inexplicably sitting around in the lab instead of trying to help Stephen and Roger being killed far too early for it to have an impact.And someone seems to have twigged a bit too late that giving Jedikiah powers was a dumb idea that distracts from the main plot, so he immediately loses them again.

What follows isn't much better:The lair, deserted at the end of the previous episode, is suddenly full of Tomorrow People again(who disappear again when the hit squad turns up), there's no sign of Irene who was last seen apparently depowered, and all the attempts at character moments feel like an attempt to please everybody.So we get John and Cara having a talk about him not being able to hear her anymore before she barely notices him for the rest of the episode.John pops by to see Jedikiah, who has a vaguely homoerotic video collection of him, and inexplicably takes the man who's hunted him for years and just attacked Irene calling him his son as a compliment.The Founder suddenly being able to make paranormals kill whenever he wants is a horribly convenient plot device, although at least it adds to Stephen's heroism when, with a bit of help from Cara, he makes the choice not to kill.Someone also apparently twigged how nonsensical the Founder's plan is so they announce that once humans have been frozen they can't be unfrozen...then flatly contradict it by having John and Astrid recover. And why is Russell still hanging around with Ultra? Things kick into high gear once the heroes somehow work out which café they all need to go to to plan a counterattack.What follows is some great action sequences although Cara just gets thrown about by the Founder and the Russell/Natalie showdown is just forgotten, with Russell not even appearing again until the closing scenes.It's lucky that the Founder left a human on guard so he could get frozen but the final battle between Stephen and the Founder is really cool.Sadly, it's let down by Cara's absurd "death", where John must be blind not to notice Natalie standing right behind her.Fortunately, someone on the writing staff saw Superman:The Movie that weekend so Stephen gets to wind time back and save the woman he loves.

And then, in a pleasing callback, Stephen and Cara keep the promise they made to each other and set up a refuge for paranormals, while being as coupley as they've been in ages.That should have been the end. Unfortunately, someone seriously thought they'd get a second season.So in addition to Natalie's frustrating escape and some odd attempt to make Cara's resurrection seem ominous, there's some nonsense about Jedikiah, who everyone has still forgotten is a monster, going back to Plan A and setting up an army of paranormal soldiers with a brainwashed John as his right hand man.

And so Tomorrow People 3.0 ends with less seasons and less episodes than either previous version, although it probably edges out New Tomorrow People in terms of minutes.It's been a guilty pleasure at times but it really doesn't deserve to supplant the far superior earlier versions in the public consciousness so hopefully it will soon be relegated to a footnote along with the equally misguided remakes of Survivors, Bionic Woman and Knight Rider.

Stop time and disable the machine!

[anantharamnv · 1/10 · 11 October 2014]

Rodger is supposed to be more powerful and would be able to control time. It just doesn't make sense to see him make a plan to take the founder head on without considering to stop time and then disable the machine then do whatever he wants with the founder. Can anyone so dumb get to be a series writer? This is one of the lamest shows i have seen ever, what the hell is wrong with the Founder and Jedikiah? Why do they make stupid not so useful plans and fail to even half-assedly implement it? The finale is taking the worst turn when Stephen suddenly get the power to time travel when the plot so conveniently required it, why doesn't he do the same to go and save his father, why not extend it even further to go and save everyone who had died? No wonder they canceled the dumb show written by stupid writers!