I know, I know I have not really reviewed this series all season because truthfully, I wasn’t sure how it would hold up.  There have been some great episodes with intense action scenes and great plot and also some very lame episodes that didn’t seem to go anywhere or contribute at all.  At first the show was on right after “Arrow” which seemed a good fit since the audience watching “Arrow” was already committed to super heroes and Stephen Amell and the main character of “The Tomorrow People” Robbie Amell is Stephen’s cousin in real life.  But it must not have been doing well because they have since changed it to a different day and time slot.  There were several shocking moments in the final few episodes of this show, the first of which caught me completely by surprise when Robbie’s character’s partner and girlfriend who has seemingly betrayed him solidifies her true feelings for him and in a redemptive move actually blows herself up in an effort to kill “The Founder”.  I really did not see this coming, and as it was kind of a shock I wish the network had paid a little more detail to her sacrifice.  Robbie’s character, Stephen, hardly seems all that pained that his girlfriend Hillary is dead.  While he may not be devastated I did think his acting needed to pay her a little more tribute.  Hillary’s death happened in the pre-cursor to the season finale and then in the season finale Steven loses his father again, after not having him for years and thinking him dead they are able to bring his father back to life only for him to die again—kind of anti-climactic.  Stephen’s eventual killing of The Founder was not surprising, and brought all of the events of the season to a close and I was wondering what exactly the network’s plans for a second season were going to be now that the ultimate bad guy is out of the way.  However, in the last few moments of the show it shows John, played by Luke Mitchell, who had been the Tomorrow People’s leader for years and was only recently stripped of his powers, receiving his powers again through the blood of Stephen’s father and in a turn of events having his memory wiped clean.  Jedekiah, played by Mark Pelligrino, is Stephen’s uncle and the person responsible for giving John these powers again and wiping his memory in an effort to create a super soldier for the government.

I don’t know that it will matter if Season Two can carry out this new plot of not, because there is a lot of talk that the show will be cancelled.  Even if it does manage to squeak past, Jedekiah was already the “seemingly” bad guy for most of the first season until the show switched its focus onto The Founder as the real bad guy and Jedekiah was somewhat redeemed and now they have had him relapse and he is bad again.  You can only flip flop a main character from good to bad so many times before the audience gets irritated.  Reminds me a little of the character of Arvin Sloan, played by Ron Rifkin, on the series Alias—he is ultimately evil but would have redemptive moments and go back and forth constantly between which side he was on.  Was interesting at first but then lost its appeal.  So if you missed this series, and it is not renewed it might just be a good thing that you didn’t waste your time.

I give the overall season a 6!