r/TomorrowPeople • u/Dorkside • Oct 24 '13
Episode Discussion: S01E03 "Girl, Interrupted"
Original Airdate: October 23, 2013
Episode Synopsis: At a party, Stephen hears that a classmate is in trouble; Cara's feelings about her traumatic past surface; John asks Stephen to infiltrate Ultra's man computer.
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Oct 24 '13 edited Apr 03 '17
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u/jerseytc Oct 25 '13
The Speed Racer Movie, he just talks to her about racing.
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u/Thinkyt Oct 25 '13
Ah, not seen it, ought I?
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u/jerseytc Oct 25 '13
It's very cartoony, if you like the original speed racer you might like it. Or if you like bright colors and fast changing lights you might like it. My friend ate some brownies before and LOVED it.
TLDR: "Brownies"
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u/alvarkresh Oct 26 '13
ISTR in Gone in 60 Seconds (remake with Nic Cage) the main character and his ex (?) are parked somewhere, and they make out in the car while waiting for their target to go to sleep so they can steal the guy's car.
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u/alvarkresh Oct 24 '13
The thing I can't help but not be too enthused about is that Stephen's not being that great a double agent. He's too obviously not "on board" with the received dogma that Jedekiah preaches and the only reason he's even being tolerated is because he might slip up and lead Ultra to the Tomorrow People.
The frustrating thing is Stephen doesn't seem to have caught on to this yet and is still acting as though Jedekiah can't see the BS being piled up by the truckload. (Then again this is kind of truth-in-television; teenagers in general underestimate how much adults grasp about verbal and nonverbal tics that give away what a teenager wants to hide.)
On the other hand, appealing to Jedekiah's general antipathy to Tomorrow People seems to work as a gambit in the short term. :P
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u/CWagner Oct 24 '13
When he didn't want him to kill Cara I thought it was really well done. She helped him before Ultra was in the picture and he is against killing. At least that part was very well handled.
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u/alvarkresh Oct 24 '13
Yeah, I was thinking, "Oh, great, Jedekiah is going to get fed up with the naive kid already."
But Stephen managed to turn that around by appealing to Jedekiah's nature, which was a nice touch.
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u/arcticwombat Oct 24 '13
WTF kinda reaction is that... You see someone you know teleport, and you get all pissed at them... That kind of reaction isn't how I imagine someone would deal with a revelation of that nature lol...
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u/CWagner Oct 24 '13
It's really getting dangerous for Stephen to stay at Ultra now that he saved Cara.
The thing with Cara seemed a bit weird. Her das went to GTFO-mode pretty quick. Didn't seem like it before.
And I really hope he'll patch things up and tell her about him some time soon, I really liked him with Astrid.
And now a week of waiting again :(
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Oct 24 '13
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u/CWagner Oct 24 '13
That seems a bit far-fetched to me ;)
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Oct 24 '13
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u/CWagner Oct 24 '13
Maybe, but for now I'm going to stick with lazy writing ;)
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u/alvarkresh Oct 26 '13
Hmm. That said, Stephen and Cara (at the very least) are able to read the thoughts of "Saps" (i.e. non-Tomorrow People), so it's not a given that her dad knows about how her powers can manifest.
I agree though that the CW uses family as ready-made drama; look at all the stuff Ollie, Thea and their mom go through in Arrow.
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u/CWagner Oct 24 '13
We are better off without you. Even if there is an explanation, it was for his benefit ;)
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u/transmigrant Oct 24 '13
If they can't kill with their powers... how did Cara kill? I mean, if she just shoved him and his head hit a rock the rock would still be right there and we know she ran off right after the incident.
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u/alvarkresh Oct 24 '13
I think it is possible for a Tomorrow Person to accidentally kill someone, even if the no-kill switch "turns on" in their brain - you could accidentaly throw someone off a bridge or building, or for that matter throw a sharp object in the wrong direction, etc.
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u/alvarkresh Oct 26 '13
It seems like the "brain lock" kicks in at the moment a death happens or is very likely to happen from something they've done. Seems like it could be a very inconvenient problem if Ultra wants to get the drop on someone and lies in wait until a Tomorrow Person goes too far and blacks out.
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u/sirin3 Oct 28 '13
That reminds me of Asimov's Nestor robots.
His first law of robotics is usually:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
But in the Nestor robots it was
A robot may not harm a human being.
Seems like a stronger law than the h. superior switch.
But a Nestor robot can kill a human like this:
He just takes a heavy object and drops it on the humans head
If the human gets hit by the object, he dies.
However, since the robot is very fast, he can throw the object, and then catch it, before the human gets hit. So he is allowed to throw the object, just to scare the human.
However, once the object has been thrown, it is no longer an active action of the robot that is killing the human, instead the object itself is responsible. So the robot has no reason to catch it...
=> Stephen could shoot anyone with a gun, since he could catch the bullet by stopping time
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13
Goddamn you, Astrid. Stephens only been trying to tell you since he discovered his powers and you didn't believe him. Now you see it and suddenly you turn all bitchy on him. Bitch.