So, now I have experienced The Tomorrow People

[erudito]

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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[usuakari]

Oh, if only I'd known you weren't aware of Spaced Out's existence... While I'm very rarely an active member of any fan group for anything I do like to keep an occasional eye on the scene and have been aware of Spaced Out for a few years now.

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*

Resonances

[erudito]

Oh, if only I'd known you weren't aware of Spaced Out's existence...
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.

Re: Resonances

[usuakari]

That would come into the category of unknown unknowns: you didn't know that I didn't know. :)

I'm not sure if that leaves us sounding like Rumsfeld... or the cast of Metal Mickey.

Re: Resonances

[erudito]

Rumsfeld's original statement made perfect sense: it was the people who sneered at it who were being dumb.

Not up on the Metal Mickey reference.

Re: Resonances

[usuakari]

Agreed on Rumsfeld. While he may not have pulled off that particular press conference particularly smoothly, and was... well... one of the Garden Gnome's cabinet, the premise in question was sound.

If you're watching retro Bitish SF then you need to know about Metal Mickey :)

Re: Resonances

[erudito]

Wow, retro British SF weirdness indeed!