October 22 – “The Tomorrow People”

We have discovered another new show on Netflix.  This one is called The Tomorrow People.  The premise is kind of like the X Men, actually.  A segment of the population is beginning to discover that they have certain strange powers that develop when they reach a certain age.  Kind of like puberty on steroids, I guess.  The powers are called the three T’s: Telekinesis, Teleportation, and Telepathy.  The show’s main character discovers he is different when he starts waking up in his neighbor’s bed with them.  He has teleported there in his sleep.  Yeah, that one is weird, right?  Apparently that kid’s Dad had the same powers, but he deserted the family years before.

The plot twist comes when a group of the super-powered ones (They are the Tomorrow People) get in contact with the boy and try to get him to join up with them.  Seems a wicked geneticist (Gotta have a super villain) with unlimited resources is on a rampage to completely destroy the Tomorrow People.  To do it he has captured and turned some of them to the dark side.  And the ones he can’t turn or take away their powers, he has no hesitation about killing.  Now the young progeny I mentioned before seems to have all the makings of the super hero Promised One. Absolutely classic scenario.  Super hero versus super villain. 

There are several other intricately woven plot twists that I won’t reveal in case someone wants to check it out for himself.  I do want to warn you that there are a myriad of references to evolution, and their grasp of even that theory is weak at best, but, hey, it’s a TV show, not a philosophical treatise.  And, no, I don’t work for Netflix.  There are other places online where you can find just about any old TV show to watch for free, one in particular being Project Free TV.  I have used it a time or two.     

Romans 8:38-39 says, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Father, thank you that no matter what the future looks like, you will be there, and you will still be God.  Amen.