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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 By 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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* [[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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* [[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]] after having ''created'' them in the first place}}. Cass {{spoiler|working for the cartels on Earth and killing a young boy}}.
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