1.8 Thanatos Jedikiah is now in the heart of the Tomorrow People’s resistance headquarters, and it’s only a matter of time before they have to do something with him. Let him go? Kill him? There are multiple options, all of them bad, because Jed is the only person who might be able to explain what Thanatos means, and why Stephen saw his father say it to him during a near-death experience not too long ago. Of course, there’s another problem with keeping Jed around, and that’s the fact that Ultra can track down people by their brain waves and arrest them. Jed’s both the Tomorrow People’s biggest asset and biggest enemy, depending on how long it takes them to make him crack and reveal what he knows. Cue the race against time. That said, the show this week is lousy with flashbacks. There’s more time spent in the past than in the present, and at some points it’s tough to follow along with what time frame this is supposed to be taking place in. Using flashbacks is practically a Tomorrow People trademark at this point, and while the relationship between Jed and John is interesting, it’s not so interesting as to take up the bulk of an episode, either in the past or in the present. Of course, John and Jed (and Cara, to some extent) remain much more interesting than Stephen, who continues to fall in the trap of always making the right decision, from letting Jed’s Tomorrow Person girlfriend get away from Ultra after revealing her presence to Ultra’s founder The Founder—who we finally see in person—to making the decision to poke around in Jed’s mind in the first place. Granted, he doesn’t find out much information about Thanatos, aside from the fact that it’s a person’s nickname and they go visit a nice old man named Aldous Crick, who has something to do with the early days of Ultra before it became a front for Jed’s hate of people different than he is. That’s a fun enough wrinkle from writers Phil Klemmer and Alex Katsnelson, but it seems too little to make much impact. Most of this episode remains your standard interrogation scene dialogue, with Jed responding sarcastically or snarkily while, say, Cara beats the crap out of him or Russell gets the crap beaten out of him. The fact that John goes to eliminate Jed only to get captured by Ultra doesn’t give me much of a thrill, because Cara got caught earlier this season and Stephen actively works for Ultra and should have already had his cover blown dozens of times at this point due to general incompetence, so I’m sure the show will find a way to get around its predicament without much stress. Characters on this show can get shot, captured, and otherwise entangled, and it doesn’t really matter, because this isn’t The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or even Teen Wolf and nobody’s going anywhere until (more than likely) a season finale. Until then, The Tomorrow People remains about as exciting as a glass of warm milk. Read Ron’s review of the previous episode, Limbo, here. US Correspondent Ron Hogan is rapidly running out of goofy jokes and comments to make in this little italicized blurb at the end of the article. Find more by Ron daily at Shaktronics and PopFi. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
