History YMMV / TheTomorrowPeople2013

* HilariousInHindsight:[[spoiler:The season ends with John becoming TheDragon for Jedikiah, albeit it unwillingly, putting him on opposing sides with Cara and Stephen.]] After the show was cancelled, Cara and Stephen's actors would go onto roles on [[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]], whereas John's actor would go onto DuelingShows ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', meaning they really are on different sides now!

* InformedAttribute:
** After taking over from John, Cara's "great leadership" is repeatedly [[CreatorsPet shilled]] by several of the main characters, yet all the audience sees is her continuously making poor decisions when she's not being indecisive on an issue, or letting [[HypercompetentSidekick Stephen]] and ''[[TheConsigliere especially]]'' John make all the decisions for which [[ArmchairMilitary she takes the credit]]. Her increasingly [[TyrantTakesTheHelm tyrannical rule]] is not helped when she [[spoiler: kicks John out for repeatedly not following orders, when he's frequently shown championing the ''right'' course of action and plans that actually ''work'']].
** Definite YMMV: There are far more victories once Cara takes charge than beforehand, she frequently either comes up with an effective plan or takes the decisive action herself (twice coming up with the strategy to defeat Julian, rescuing John from a kill squad), while John acts like an idiot and openly belittles her in front of the rest of the group when she calls him out.

* MaybeEverAfter: WordOfGod indicates that Cara and Stephen were considered the OfficialCouple and there's definitely some flirting going on at the end of the finale but they're not a couple when the show ends.

* AmbiguousSituation: Is Stephen's "connection" with Cara because of ThePowerOfLove and because they are meant to be together? Or just his unusually powerful abilities allowing him to break through the normal limitations to reach out to her, which only intensifies after he develops an attraction for her and belief that they are connected?

* HilariousInHindsight: The season ends with John becoming TheDragon for Jedikiah, albeit it unwillingly, putting him on opposing sides with Cara and Stephen. After the show was cancelled, Cara and Stephen's actors would go onto roles on [[Series/TheFlash2014 TheFlash]], whereas John's actor would go onto DuelingShows ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', meaning they really are on different sides now!

* HilariousInHindsight: The season ends with John becoming TheDragon for Jedikiah, albeit it unwillingly, putting him on opposing sides with Cara and Stephen. After the show was cancelled, Cara and Stephen's actors would go onto roles on TVShow/TheFlash, whereas John's actor would go onto DuelingShows ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', meaning they really are on different sides now!

* IdiotPlot: "Smoke and Mirrors" has shades of this, because pretty much everyone except the Founder/Bathory gets beaned by the IdiotBall ''hard''. [[spoiler:Stephen and John try to decide between trusting either Bathory or Jedikiah when obviously neither man is trustworthy. Cara is so jealous of Stephen and Hillary that she won't even try to play it cagey in evaluating Ultra's new agenda with a fairly stupid break-out who uses his powers openly -- and she outs Stephen as TheMole to Hillary in the process. Stephen and Hillary throw aside their rivalry (which escalated to attempted murder by kill-squad) in order to sleep with each other. Jedikiah tries to convince Stephen to side with him not by explaining the Founder's agenda but by taking Luca hostage and outing the family secret to him. Jedikiah tries again with John but -- nope -- doesn't explain things to him, either. And Stephen decides to trust the Founder and climb into the machine.]] Russell manages to be an idiot in his one and only scene as well, but at least avoids his usual degree of [[TheScrappy Scrappiness]].
** The overarching plot it in a nutshell. [[spoiler:Sure, you stop time for all but your species. So how are you going to grow food or water anything you need to survive. The weather won't change, the sun won't rise, none of it. Even if he planned on killing off all of humanity before starting it back up it would take too long and there's no feasible way for them to have done it.]]
*** Also, a pre-break-out child still counts as human. So good luck having kids in your brave, new world.
* InformedAttribute: After taking over from John, Cara's "great leadership" is repeatedly [[CreatorsPet shilled]] by several of the main characters, yet all the audience sees is her continuously making poor decisions when she's not being indecisive on an issue, or letting [[HypercompetentSidekick Stephen]] and ''[[TheConsigliere especially]]'' John make all the decisions for which [[ArmchairMilitary she takes the credit]]. Her increasingly [[TyrantTakesTheHelm tyrannical rule]] is not helped when she [[spoiler: kicks John out for repeatedly not following orders, when he's frequently shown championing the ''right'' course of action and plans that actually ''work'']].

* FanPreferredCouple: John and Astrid are a lot more popular, than the canon John/Cara.

* HoYay: John giving Stephen CPR ''really'' looks like he's kissing him. And [[UpToEleven it wasn't even just once]].
** Cara also comments at one point that Stephen is developing a "boycrush". [[ThreesomeSubtext OT3 subtext, much ?]]

** Next episode, the camera sure took its time with John touching Stephen's shoulder. I expected them to practically start making out at that point.

* TheScrappy: Russell's sole purpose in existence seems to be to create problems through a combination of arrogance and carelessness that others have to clean up.

* WhatAnIdiot: Yeah, Russell. Not like it's suspicious that [[spoiler:the captured leader of Ultra starts "Choking"]] or anything.
** Yes, Natalie. [[spoiler:Go ahead and get the tracer because you'd rather let humanity get killed off. I'm sure we can trust the guy who ran the evil organization not to put a kill switch in it. And hey, let's cause a panic by telling everyone and trying to sell out Roger while holding his kid hostage.]]

** Double horror if Roger and Marla cooked up that plan between them to "protect" Stephen from the likes of Jedikiah.
*** Doesn't appear to be the case as Roger was completely out of the picture well before Stephen's breaking out. And [[{{Irony}} ironically]] it was Stephen's psychiatric record that allowed Ultra to find him. However, this does spawn its own FridgeHorror idea: That Marla was using the mental illness story on Stephen to try and prevent him from turning out like his father. It failed big-time, obviously, as [[GenerationXerox Stephen is exactly like his father.]]

** John verges on this at times, especially in the early episodes where he comes across more as TheRival than TheLeader, seeming to exist solely to tell Stephen not to do the right thing and be ignored, as well as bullying Kurt and threatening to throw him out for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous visiting his mother]], being prepared to let Irene die, and getting into a bar fight and risking exposure for no reason, before finally being revealed as a cult leader keeping the Tomorrow People in line with a lie of a promised land when he actually shot and apparently killed their messiah years previous. He improves slightly once he stops being leader but still spends an inordinate amount of time sulking.
*** Definite YMMV on John: The majority of reviewers have commented that John is the most compelling of the leads, with a genuinely [[{{TraumaCongaLine}} traumatic backstory]], whining a lot less than both Stephen and Cara, playing the realist to Stephens harebrained plans, an intriguing relationship with Jedikiah and having a FanPreferredCouple status with Astrid. Check out most reviews, especially in the second half of the season, and they'll claim he's carrying most of the show, and is definitely more popular than Stephen or Cara.

* HilariousInHindsight: The season ends with John becoming TheDragon for Jedikiah, albeit it unwillingly, putting him on opposing sides with Cara and Stephen. After the show was cancelled, Cara and Stephen's actors would go onto roles on TVShow/TheFlash, whereas John's actor would go onto DuelingShows AgentsOfSHIELD, meaning they really are on different sides now!

*** Definite YMMV on John: Most reviews have commented that John is the most compelling of the leads, with a genuinely [[{{TraumaCongaLine}} traumatic backstory]], whining a lot less than both Stephen and Cara, playing the realist to Stephens harebrained plans, an intriguing relationship with Jedikiah and having a FanPreferredCouple status with Astrid. Check out most reviews, especially in the second half of the season, and they'll claim he's carrying most of the show, and is definitely more popular than Stephen or Cara.

** Averted with Hillary. Her bloodthirstiness and Jedikiah's unsubtle reminders to her about what Ultra thinks of Homo Superiors are reminders of why the Empire is bad. Until you factor in that she's a Homo Superior who was entirely on-board with having a normal civilian girl killed just to advance her career. Then Jedikiah's rebuke to her not only seems justified [[EvenEvilHasStandards but welcome]], even if it is just another example of Jedikiah's FantasticRacism and hypocrisy.
** [[spoiler:And killing or depowering [[CompleteMonster Julian]] would be quite ''welcome'', thank you, which finally does happen. It's mostly down to the Tomorrow People though, after Jedikiah has let him MindRape a young girl (who he's planning to experiment on himself once Julian's finished) and tried to deactivate the explosive that killed him, possibly because he's worried Stephen is in the blast area.]]

** Cara is becoming this. The fact that she is acting pretty much like a tyrant (and a hypocrite one, chastising people for doing things ''she'' used to do back when she wasn't the leader) is definitely not helping her case. [[spoiler:She publicly kicked John out for doing pretty much the same thing she used to do when he was the leader — "doing what I think is right". The only difference is that ''he'' never punished ''her'' at all (although she was never ''quite'' so openly dismissive of his authority). And then risking Stephen's family well-being by not only interfering with capturing an accessory to murder, but then hiring him to try and kill Jedikiah when he's the only thing stopping the Founder from killing Astrid (although the latter point is debatable, since Jedikiah and the Founder both flip flop over whether they want Astrid dead or not and once Jedikiah's removed from Ultra nothing actually happens to her).]]

** Averted with Hillary. Her bloodthirstiness and Jedikiah's unsubtle reminders to her about what Ultra thinks of Homo Superiors are reminders of why the Empire is bad. Until you factor in that she's a Homo Superior who was entirely on-board with having a normal civilian girl killed just to advance her career. Then Jedikiah's rebuke to her not only seems justified [[EvenEvilHasStandards but welcome]].
** [[spoiler:And killing or depowering [[CompleteMonster Julian]] would be quite ''welcome'', thank you, which finally does happen.]]

** John verges on this at times, especially in the early episodes where he comes across more as TheRival than TheLeader, seeming to exist solely to tell Stephen not to do the right thing and be ignored, as well as bullying Kurt and threatening to throw him out for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous visiting his mother]], wanting to let Irene die, and getting into a bar fight and risking exposure for no reason, before finally being revealed as cult leader keeping the Tomorrow People in line with a lie of a promised land when he actually shot and apparently killed their messiah years previous. He improves slightly once he stops being leader but still spends an inordinate amount of time sulking.