The Tribe: Difference between revisions

The first series was notably darker in tone than later series, and more survivalist-oriented. The first season also had very few of the "fantastic" elements that came to dominate later seasons, such as virtual reality, religious cults, insanely well-disciplined and organized antagonist tribes, and mysticism. The show dealt with many of the typical elements of both a [[Teen Drama]] with a setting that was part [[Scavenger World]] and part [[Cozy Catastrophe]], including problems like pregnancy and bulimia. It also mostly averted [[Dawson Casting]].

 

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Lex's father beat both him and his mother.

* [[After the End]]

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: At least, [[Infant Immortality|anyone over 12]].

** {{spoiler|Though the final episodes of season five reveal a bunch of the people who were thought to have died were really alive, and [[Word of God]] revealed at least one more who survived.}}

* [[The Big Guy]]: Lex and Ryan are treated as such during the first season, Lex is a class one and Ryan a class two. Season two gives us Alice.

* [[Bratty Half Pint]]: Cloe, Patsy and KC.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Java shoots at Ebony, but Siva [[Taking the Bullet|Takes The Laser]] for her, then Ebony kills Java.}}

* [[Canada Does Not Exist]]: Made in New Zealand, and starring an all-New Zealand cast with distinctive New Zealand accents ... but set in '''"The City"''', with absolutely no obvious landmarks anywhere. Not only that, but on the rare occasions early on in the show when old money from before the apocalypse was shown, it seemed to be British coinage.

* [[Fake Defector]]: Tai-San and Pride in Series 3.

** Jack in Series 5.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Zoot, Ebony, Mega.

* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Tai-San started out as an extreme Granola Girl Fundamentalist (refusing even to help Amber and the other girls teach the young children science, though she compromised and help to teach them math, even though she believed math and science to be part of "the old ways"- SEE [[Science Is Bad]] below), but thankfully grew out of it and became a more benign sort of mystic.

** {{spoiler|Mega sacrificing his life to [[Logic Bomb]] Ram's Zoot program before it can complete the Virus Mark II.}}

** While not resulting in death, Trudy allows herself to be taken away by the Chosen to save Lex's life.

** Also many many other actors from various series of [[Power Rangers]], ''Hercules'' and/or ''Xena''. Mostly because all of them were filmed in New Zealand and there's a limited pool of actors.

* [[Jerkass]]: Lex.

{{quote| Sasha "Gentlemen."<br />

Jack "And KC." }}

* [[Neutral Female]]: Zandra.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: We never did see what happened at Lex and Zandra's wedding.

* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: Cloe's return.

* [[Shout Out]]: Several, including one to Orwell's ''1984''.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Lex and Major Brown, it's even in their foreplay.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Both Jack and Dal.

** To "waste" someone was fairly common slang during the time of the show's run (it's still well-understood, just not as popular in 2010 as it was in the '90s).

** Also "Virt" (how the Technos referred to other tribes, derived from "Virtual") ... as opposed to the Technos, who are "real" people, the "Virts" are considered second-class, as though they merely appear to be living.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: One has to wonder how the series would have gone if the producers didn't have to deal with the actors leaving so often.

** Though they never were as large or as organized.

{{quote| Trudy: "Do you remember Jack? When I was just a scared pregnant Girl begging to be allowed to stay here?"<br />

Salene: "We took you in Trudy!"<br />

Trudy: "I was never welcome here! Do you have any idea how that felt?" }}

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Both Amber and Ebony are only 14 when the series starts; you wouldn't be able to tell by the way they act.

* [[Youngsters]]: Half the list.