Friday night, went to my first meeting of
Spaced Out Inc, the Melbourne queer SF club. It was a session at the Richmond Library viewing selected episodes of
The Tomorrow People, a series I had heard of but never seen. We saw the first episode ever (from the Slaves of Jedikiah series), the first episode that introduced
Peter Davison to the world of
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I'd never really considered a queer subtext for The Tomorrow People before. It works, I suppose, but only if you're going to argue that every mutant who develops their mutant powers during puberty and needs/decides to keep it quiet also has a queer subtext. Which you could. Or argue that it's all just about sex generally. Or not at all. *shrug*
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That would come into the category of unknown unknowns: you didn't know that I didn't know. :)
The resonance does not have to be perfect, just have enough overlap to connect. It is an analogy, and that is how analogies work.
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I'm not sure if that leaves us sounding like Rumsfeld... or the cast of Metal Mickey.
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Not up on the Metal Mickey reference.
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If you're watching retro Bitish SF then you need to know about Metal Mickey :)
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