Tomorrow People: Out of those clothes!
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2013
- Seventy Years is a long time and it only takes three or four generations for lessons to be forgotten. The kids today don't know any better but some people are arranging exactly this sort of behaviour.
The Tomorrow People, Hitler's Last Secret, 1978, Thames Television
Fair use: Education and historic context
The perfect spot on truth. This show's concept was so creepy.
And what an ghastly scene it is, poncy moralising at kids on the side of the old folks who have rubbished the kids' era their whole lives and ego swanked yah boo the war at them, lording another era over their own. This scene must have been emotionally unwatchable for many of the show's target audience and contributed to losing its original hippy feelgood and declining into just being formulaic.
I had talked to a fan of this series, and Mike (the boy wearing the SS uniform) in this story had a genetic connection to Hitler. Neither he or I support Hitler but I kind of enjoyed this story.
"More than 30 years ago". Blimey, shows how old this is. Imagine if world war 2 ended in 1988 !
I mean, the very premise of this show (as we both know already) is the sort of thing that Nazis, fascists, racists, eugenicists in general would absolutely SALIVATE over.
This dialogue exchange comes across not as something these characters would plausibly say to each other, as a blunt and unconvincing tirade from an older writer attacking the youth for their lack of unquestioning reverence and servility.
Andrew's Velvet Voice well said Sir.
And as for the previous generation bollocsing things up, you're quite right that for British kids in the seventies, enduring Edward Heath and Harold Wilson, living with ongoing states of emergency, police brutality, military quagmires, economic catastrophe and general privation, this sort of sermonizing must have been extra hard to swallow.
Indeed! While I do have great respect for the Second World War generation, since beating fascism is no small feat and my own grandfather's family endured the London Blitz, the British Empire has an unfortunate past of its own to address that doesn't appear in self-congratulatory narratives about the war where the victors pat themselves on the back incessantly.