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''Outcasts'' is a British SF show broadcast by [[The BBC]] in 2011, produced in collaboration with South African and German partners.
 
The series is about a group of colonists attempting to survive on a planet called "Carpathia", after [[Earth -That -Was|Earth got nuked]] in [[World War III]], which apparently was caused by a major confrontation between the USA and China over Taiwan. The hardness of the SF steadily decreases over the series. The initial tension develops from disputes among the humans about [[Romanticism Versus Enlightenment|the best way of surviving and organising]], with the majority of the colonists, led by President Tate, wanting to set up a stable community, and the military Expeditionaries, led by Mitchell Hoban, wanting to strike out further into unknown territory. But there are even more serious tensions between the standard-issue humans and the "Advanced Cultivars", [[Bio Augmentation|genetically-engineered]] humans created to have a greater chance of surviving hostile environments. And there is also the question of whether the planet really is uninhabited by sentient life.
 
While the show has [[Love It or Hate It|attracted some fans]], it received some strongly negative responses from other SF fan commentators, and generally hostile reactions from the mainstream press reviewers. From the sixth episode on, it was moved from its original weekday primetime slot to [[Screwed Byby the Network|a desultory Sunday late-evening slot]], suggesting that the BBC had pretty much given up on it. A second season <s> looks unlikely</s> was not commissioned.
 
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=== ''Outcasts'' provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Action Girl]]: Fleur, who shows no hesitation in shooting people or chasing down suspects.
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** Stella's capable of being one, as we see in episode 5, but she's really more of the cerebral sort.
* [[The Atoner]]: Cass.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Tate tries to be this. [[Evilutionary Biologist|He doesn't]] [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|quite]] [[Playing Withwith Syringes|succeed]]. Stella more or less hits it, though, as long as you don't cross her.
* [[Bio Augmentation]]: Of both the physical and mental kind.
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Lily, right down to the sulking and stealing for attention.
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** {{spoiler|More likely it was a troopship carrying an occupation force.}}
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: PAS officers wear blue, XP's wear white/brown. You can tell Berger is [[Sinister Minister|evil]] because he tends to wear pinks and purples.
* [[CosyCozy Catastrophe]]
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Cass, frequently. Although his lapses from the rulebook are often motivated by believing in the innocence of someone who his bosses think needs to be locked up.
** Jack is bordering on a dangerous example of this. His {{spoiler|ordering the assassination of Rudy}} just may be his [[Moral Event Horizon]].
*** He does all right in the end, though, when he {{spoiler|stops Berger, using his power as interim president}}.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: From the pilot-
{{quote| '''Tipper''': I'm the voice of liberty.<br />
'''Cass''': Well, I'm the voice of f-<br />
'''Stella''': Deep brain visualization, have you heard of it, Tipper? }}
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Cass, who apparently owes Tate for something.
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* [[Doppelganger]]: {{spoiler|The duplicate Josie.}}
** {{spoiler|Tate gets one in episodes 7 and 8. Apparently it's a life-form that can look like ''anyone''.}}
* [[Earth -That -Was]]
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Tate, for {{spoiler|1=creating the ACs}}.
* [[Fake -Out Make -Out]]: Cass and Fleur, in episode 8.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The whole "Advanced Cultivar" situation.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: A few people have said they "know who [Cass] really is", including Mitchell. It finally comes to a head in episode 7, where it's revealed {{spoiler|he's a former criminal, guilty of murder}}.
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* [[The Main Characters Do Everything]]: Probably inevitable, given the small number of people on the colony.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Josie.
* [[May -December Romance]]: Stella and Tipper, though it may have just been a one-time thing.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Cassius Cromwell, who is not an innocent man, named for two of history's greatest betrayers (Cassius, murderer of Julius Caesar; Oliver Cromwell, genocidal dictator).
** Elijah, the [[Scary Black Man|scary, black]], prophetic Advanced Cultivar.
* [[Mental Picture Projector]]
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: May be anywhere between 3 and 5, depending on how far Carpathia is from Earth.
* [[Mother -Daughter Threesome]]: Not actually simultaneously, but Tipper got pulled by Stella in the first episode, and then got some heavy [[Ship Tease|Ship Teasing]] with Lily.
* [[Mountain Man]]: Pak.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Tate {{spoiler|exiling and attempting to wipe out the [[A Cs]]ACs after having ''created'' them in the first place}}. Cass {{spoiler|working for the cartels on Earth and killing a young boy}}.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Stella, who seems to be a neurologist, meteorologist, medical doctor, and geneticist, and Tate, who knows biology, medicine, and agriculture, but is also called a "geneticist". Possibly a side effect of [[The Main Characters Do Everything]].
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: President Tate is President Personable on the surface, but is a [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]] underneath.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Lily feels Stella abandoned her for fifteen years.
* [[Pedophile Priest]]: Some squicky insinuations about Berger.
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* [[Space Western]]: No Stetsons, but strong overtones in the setting and the philosophical divides among the characters.
* [[Spiritual Licensee]]: To ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. You can tell the writers REALLY liked BSG and want to duplicate its tone.
* [[Stay Withwith Me Until I Die]]: {{spoiler|Pak's motivation}}.
* [[Team Dad]]: Tate
* [[Team Mom]]: Stella
* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: {{spoiler|Fleur, who was genetically engineered like the AC's}}.
* [[Used Future]]
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Both Richard Tate and Julius Berger believe this, but are polar opposites on how said utopia should be run.
* [[Visionary Villain]]: Berger.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: {{spoiler|<s>The duplicate Josie.</s> All of the planetary entities.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: In regards to the AC's, and in episode 8, {{spoiler|in regard to the Omegas, like Fleur.}}
 
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