‘The Tomorrow People’ Reboot (Will Probably Rape My Childhood)

Why is it that Hollywood, whenever it begins to run low on ideas, feels the need to plunder my dreams?

Perhaps I shouldn’t take such things so personally, but after the upcoming (?) reboot of “Space: 1999,” and now “The Tomorrow People,” I am beginning to wonder.

The original series of the “The Tomorrow People,” there was a reboot in 2007 that I never saw, came out in the 1970’s, and it occupies a special place in my memories, though not for the reasons that some would think.  The special effects weren’t all that great–in fact, they weren’t even on a par with those of Doctor Who from the same period (which is saying something)–and while the acting wasn’t remarkable, it was at least earnest (something British actors seem to better able to get across than their American counterparts, in any case).
Though what the show had, to its credit, was an awesome score by Dudley Simpson, which I have linked to below.
No, what made “The Tomorrow People” so great was that it was “mine.”  Sure, I had nothing to do with the show, in terms of its production (and anything else related to it, for that matter) but if you were to ask five random people who “The Tomorrow People ,” are I can almost guarantee you that virtually no one will have any idea what it is that you’re talking about.
But I knew, which I thought no one could take from me.

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