TVLINE | Marla is a Tomorrow Person. What’s her motivation for keeping it secret from her family all this time?
It’s a sad story. She basically had the most nightmarish version of a paranormal coming of age that you can imagine. As cruel as it might seem that she tried to impose a human life on her son even though it was fairly obvious that he was following in both of his parents’ footsteps, it was really done for the purest of reasons. She just didn’t want him to go through the trauma and the isolation that she had experienced. And it is tragic, because she was putting him on medications and sending him to doctors and trying to steer him away from the inevitable.
TVLINE | Does Jedikiah know about Marla?
Jedikiah does not. The bargain that Roger and Marla made when they got married was that she was disavowing her true nature, and that included keeping that secret from Roger’s brother… This is something that Jedikiah wasn’t aware of, and this has incredible special importance for Stephen [as a synergist]. We, generically, refer to him as The Chosen One in the pilot, but in the last run of episodes, we find out what that actually means, how The Founder plans on using Stephen and his abilities and why Roger had to disappear to keep that power from being abused by The Founder.
TVLINE | Since Stephen does have these abilities that are at a higher level, does Jedikiah come to suspect that both of his parents are Tomorrow People?
He does, but he discovers it only after it’s too late. The back half of the season, the big question is: Who is Stephen to believe? The Founder or Jedikiah? You have these two diabolical, dangerous, zealot guys. The Founder [is] 100 percent pro-Tomorrow Person, and Jedikiah [is] 100 percent pro-human, and Stephen, clearly, is the keystone to both of their shadowy agendas regarding both species. Stephen will gradually fall under the sway of The Founder, and the big question is: What does The Founder hope to use Stephen’s powers for?
It’s a sad story. She basically had the most nightmarish version of a paranormal coming of age that you can imagine. As cruel as it might seem that she tried to impose a human life on her son even though it was fairly obvious that he was following in both of his parents’ footsteps, it was really done for the purest of reasons. She just didn’t want him to go through the trauma and the isolation that she had experienced. And it is tragic, because she was putting him on medications and sending him to doctors and trying to steer him away from the inevitable.
TVLINE | Does Jedikiah know about Marla?
Jedikiah does not. The bargain that Roger and Marla made when they got married was that she was disavowing her true nature, and that included keeping that secret from Roger’s brother… This is something that Jedikiah wasn’t aware of, and this has incredible special importance for Stephen [as a synergist]. We, generically, refer to him as The Chosen One in the pilot, but in the last run of episodes, we find out what that actually means, how The Founder plans on using Stephen and his abilities and why Roger had to disappear to keep that power from being abused by The Founder.
TVLINE | Since Stephen does have these abilities that are at a higher level, does Jedikiah come to suspect that both of his parents are Tomorrow People?
He does, but he discovers it only after it’s too late. The back half of the season, the big question is: Who is Stephen to believe? The Founder or Jedikiah? You have these two diabolical, dangerous, zealot guys. The Founder [is] 100 percent pro-Tomorrow Person, and Jedikiah [is] 100 percent pro-human, and Stephen, clearly, is the keystone to both of their shadowy agendas regarding both species. Stephen will gradually fall under the sway of The Founder, and the big question is: What does The Founder hope to use Stephen’s powers for?
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