"Tomorrow's End" follows on almost directly from "The Girl From Tomorrow", which dealt with Alana (Katherine Cullen) an Australian teenager from the year 3000 stranded in 1990. This sequel continues the story, with Alana successfully returned to the future with Jenny Kelly (Melissa Marshall), a girl from the present who was injured trying to help her along with Silverthorn (John Howard), the villain from the year 2500 who tried to manipulate time travel for his own selfish ends.
Returning Silverthorn and Jenny to their own times, Alana discovers to her horror that the Great Disaster that nearly wiped out the Earth was precipitated by her own time travelling. When Silverthorn returns to his old tricks, teaming with the tyrannical Draco (Marshall Napier), it's up to Alana to stop him and save the future...
The plot is far more complicated this time and deals with themes of ecology vs. technology, psychology and the cause and effect of time travel briefly mentioned in the first series. With all this plus new characters to introduce, the pace in the early episodes is a little bit slack. Once the story gets going, with characters constantly jumping time periods, it gets really enjoyable and you're rooting for Alana and her friends all over again.
Sure it's a bit predictable, and at times the set-ups and dialogue are a little bit too infantile but it remains good fun throughout.
Katherine Cullen is back as a much tougher but still compassionate Alana, bonding brilliantly with Melissa Marshall's Jenny. John Howard as Silverthorn is still a consistently charismatic bad guy, and he gets fine support from Marshall Napier as the deeply unpleasant Draco. All other performances work very well, with not a single weak link among them.
The concluding image, with Jenny and Alana saying a final good-bye, moved me to tears and made me glad I'd rediscovered this series.
"Tomorrow's End" is available to watch online at www.youtube.com.
Returning Silverthorn and Jenny to their own times, Alana discovers to her horror that the Great Disaster that nearly wiped out the Earth was precipitated by her own time travelling. When Silverthorn returns to his old tricks, teaming with the tyrannical Draco (Marshall Napier), it's up to Alana to stop him and save the future...
The plot is far more complicated this time and deals with themes of ecology vs. technology, psychology and the cause and effect of time travel briefly mentioned in the first series. With all this plus new characters to introduce, the pace in the early episodes is a little bit slack. Once the story gets going, with characters constantly jumping time periods, it gets really enjoyable and you're rooting for Alana and her friends all over again.
Sure it's a bit predictable, and at times the set-ups and dialogue are a little bit too infantile but it remains good fun throughout.
Katherine Cullen is back as a much tougher but still compassionate Alana, bonding brilliantly with Melissa Marshall's Jenny. John Howard as Silverthorn is still a consistently charismatic bad guy, and he gets fine support from Marshall Napier as the deeply unpleasant Draco. All other performances work very well, with not a single weak link among them.
The concluding image, with Jenny and Alana saying a final good-bye, moved me to tears and made me glad I'd rediscovered this series.
"Tomorrow's End" is available to watch online at www.youtube.com.