Despite its young adult badge, CW’s sci-fi drama The Tomorrow People doesn’t completely fall in its trap of having too much melodrama and not enough story, making the show a great watch to have and enjoy.
In a recent interview with
Collider, executive producer and writer Phil Klemmer talked among other things about
where things are heading, the dynamics between Stephen, Jedikiah and the
Founder, the mystery behind Stephen’s father iced body and the not yet
confirmed second season, and more.
When asked about when will we
learn the reason as to why Stephen’s father is being kept frozen by Jedikiah, Klemmer
said:
"It’s going to start unfolding
really quickly, and it’s going to cascade from there. Fairly soon, Jedikiah will get to make his
case for why he killed his brother for all the right reasons. The problem is that you have a he said, he
said with the Founder claiming the back history of Ultra, which ended in
Stephen’s father taking a bullet in the heart.
Jedikiah says it went one way and the Founder says it went another way,
and Stephen doesn’t trust either of these bastards, nor should he. And the only person who can settle the tie is
frozen in a cryo chamber with a bullet in his heart. The fun about the end of this season is that
Stephen is going to have to commit, and he’s got two really crappy people to
follow, in the Founder and Jedikiah. It
really keeps his head spinning. Once you
figure out what everybody did and why, all of the complications of the past get
restarted, in a moment. The dark history
of Ultra becomes a dark presence for humanity."
And how are they writing the
show, particularly the season finale, when they don’t know if they are going to
get picked up for a second season:
"I don’t know. The way we’ve conceived of it now, it seems
impossible to me that it wouldn’t be answered by a Season 2. So many things with the show are working, and
I really feel like we’re honing in on the strength. Our performances are getting stronger, and
the storytelling is getting tighter. The
possibility of expanding that world is so tantalizing that I feel like it’s
something that demands an Episode 201 to re-platform the show. It’s much more akin to a cable show than a
network show. All of the building blocks
that we introduced in the pilot are obliterated, and from the rubble heap, we
assemble new blocks, which are much larger.
Our world is just so alluring.
I’m writing the thing, along with our staff, and I can’t wait to figure
out what happens next."
One of the things the show has
been good at is introducing new characters, or break-outs, and having them
influence and impact the main characters. So will there be more?
"As the series winds down, it
becomes much more contained. The
mythology starts driving it. The
character dynamics of people we already know really starts driving it. We have a lot of recurring characters that
maybe have faded from your mind. We have
Morgan, Jedikiah’s girlfriend, returning.
Irene, our spunky little scientist in the lair, returns. The Founder’s daughter Cassie returns. We have the introduction of one new character
in the lair, named Natalie, who’s going to be destabilizing. You don’t want to let your characters get too
comfortable. We see the Tomorrow People
as being a little bit too clean-scrubbed, so we decided to mess it up a little
bit and make it a little more grey. So,
she’s a really interesting character. By
the end of the season, it’s no longer going to be around Ultra vs. Tomorrow
People. It’s going to be a free-for-all,
with Tomorrow People vs. humans, and humans vs. humans, and Tomorrow People vs.
Tomorrow People. It’s going to be open
war on the streets of New York. It’s a
new incarnation of the show, which I think really sets us up, in an incredible
way, for another season."
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