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i've had this question for so long but didn't know how to phrase it until now-

32. If all of the student main and side characters are freshman (per Field Trip), why do they all have vastly different experiences at Tower Prep? like...

32a. How could Emily have been class president for a previous term if she's only a freshman?

32b. Why wasn't anyone else part of orientation?

32c. How was Ray already a Rook if he's a freshman who presumably just started?

32d. Fenton's been at Tower since he was twelve - how does that work?

Tower Prep Season 1: Questions Left Unanswered

I had these questions right after the finale premiered but never did anything with them.

What happened to Connor?

Why doesn’t Cal remember anything?

Who is the seventh person?

What is Chemica Desin 2.0?

Who is the man in the tunnels?

Where is Tower Prep?

What was Tower Prep created for and what has it become?

How do the students get to Tower Prep?

Why is it dangerous? For who?

When will Ian meet with the man in the tunnels for the second and third times?

What skill does Emily, Fenton and the other characters have?

Where is Norman?

What happened to the Broken and Emily?

What group does Connor work with?

Why did the Tunnel Man say, “Three of you will escape,” instead of four?

Who is CJ’s mother?

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me and the other five lab rats fans pulling up to the function:

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30. What happens when someone graduates?

31. How does the school year work? Are there semesters? Do kids come to the school mid-school year?

Tower Prep Season 1: Questions Left Unanswered

I had these questions right after the finale premiered but never did anything with them.

What happened to Connor?

Why doesn’t Cal remember anything?

Who is the seventh person?

What is Chemica Desin 2.0?

Who is the man in the tunnels?

Where is Tower Prep?

What was Tower Prep created for and what has it become?

How do the students get to Tower Prep?

Why is it dangerous? For who?

When will Ian meet with the man in the tunnels for the second and third times?

What skill does Emily, Fenton and the other characters have?

Where is Norman?

What happened to the Broken and Emily?

What group does Connor work with?

Why did the Tunnel Man say, “Three of you will escape,” instead of four?

Who is CJ’s mother?

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What do you think Gabes "all a misundestanding" that lead to him having a parole officer was?

you know, i never thought about it until you asked! and now i've gone down a rabbit hole loll

that quote when gabe called it "a misunderstanding" was from episode 1 when gabe, suki, and cj speak to ian for the first time. they had only just met ian, and honestly, it wasn't the place or time to have that discussion. otherwise, maaybe he would've elaborated.

but there's another time gabe brings up his parole officer: in the opening scene of episode 9. gabe is in a dream with señor guapo talking to him, and he responds with, "oh no, señor guapo! this is how it started last time, and you remember how that ended, don't you?? with the parole officer!"*

so the parole officer story started with señor guapo. it started with a dream (i don't believe gabe would hallucinate señor guapo talking to him while awake).

i'm thinking gabe pulled a crazy stunt that his subconscious convinced him to do. it would make sense that he'd label the entire ordeal as a "misunderstanding" if it started with his sock monkey giving him bad advice.

but ok, here's the thing. i'm not really concerned with what he did as much as why. see, in the first episode, the reason he brings up his parole office is because he's sharing his story of how he got to tower prep.

ian got into a fight at school (where he used his preflex ability), his parents got upset, he started playing a video game as an escape and boom. tower prep.

maybe gabe did something illegal, tried to use his hypersuasion ability and it didn't end so well, he got in trouble and then boom. tower prep.

am i implying that the parole officer and gabe being taken to tower prep are related on a deeper level? or that señor guapo was possibly used by tower prep to plant ideas in gabe's head and bring him down that path? (I'm not convinced gabe was a rule-breaker before tower prep. i don't think he would've have had malicious thoughts on his own). am i reaaally deep into a rabbit hole that leads nowhere? i mean, his kidnapping to tower prep could have been as simple as 'the timing was convenient'.

but if ian's parent's know he's there and they let people take him away... would the parole office had played that same role...?

idk.

tl;dr i took three days to reply and i didn't answer your question, and now i just have more questions <3

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Oppinion on some/any of the side charscters in tower prep?

My favorite is ray but thats more becauae of headcanons and theories the tv show didnt leave enough episodes for me to fully back up.

HERE WE GO.

i love the main four to no end, but the more i rewatched the show, the more i fell in love with the side characters.

my favorite character is actually emily wright. she just seems like one of the good ones. and she can't be that bad if she deals with gabe's shenanigans as his vp. she knew about their escape plan, but she wasn't a snitch (we know who that snitch was... welppp). i just think she's admirable.

i have a soft spot for fenton. he has that "i am who i am unapologetically" vibe. we don't know what skill he has, but i've heard it might be similar to cj's, just more honed. he's certainly not stupid, just different (maybe even different from the fringers), and i appreciate that about him.

the further you get into the show, i think the easier it is to warm up to ray. like, despite him and ian being at odds, he doesn't seem to be a complete jerk (i think we could deduce in the elections ep that he and emily were friends or at the very least acquaintances. so he can't be that bad). i think he just so happens to be depicted as the bully side character in "the ian show". the same with cal, tho i'm less inclined to trust him because of his disappearance and becoming a gnome.?!? i do like both of these characters, and they definitely deserve to get more of a background.

even norman who never actually made an appearance or penny who showed up for all of 5 seconds were fun characters to me. goodness, ross?? helping make chemica desin 2.0?! she only appeared in one ep but there are so many characters that they could flesh out.

and as a side note, adding more depth to each of these characters would have made it harder to figure out the "villain" of the week. we always had four or five new faces in each ep to figure out whodunnit. granted, it was the first and only season of the show, so it's not fair to expect that, but had tower prep been given more seasons... man, that would have been amazing.

we haven't even discussed any of the adults- headmaster, coach, art, history... and even nurse. cornelius tower and the man in the tunnels. AHHH i could keep going on and on. i'm sad we didn't see more of them. i didn't mind the mysterious air surrounding their backstories or motivations, it just made me more curious.

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i had this exact question when i first watched it. it was a big plot point that tower prep isn't anywhere in the USA. so that just leaves a few reasons.

1. realistic reason: it probably wasn't a plot point that was fully thought through (or just necessary, since the viewers understand english) and since it was only a kid's show, who was really going to question it?

2. in-universe reason: maybe all of the students were from the US? which is kinda silly, imo, but i mean, it is a possibility.

3. trippy reason: maybe they weren't all speaking english... idk what that was supposed to mean lol

4. loophole reason: we just haven't met the students who were from other countries yet.

Why did everyone in tower prep speak english?

[seeing if notificstions are working. ]

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@wicked-storybrooke

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Every Episode Ever of: Tower Prep [1/13] “New Kid”

“Yeah, it’s because most of us in our little ‘daycare center’, are what you’d call special. And not like… short-bus-special, but like, you know, we can do something really weird in a really… awesome way. That kind of special.�� [x]

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i finished my rewatch of tower prep - it's been years - but i:

still remembered a lot of the lines and

am just as depressed it's gone as the first time i watched the finale.

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shoutout to the people working for hours on content that only gets ten notes. i’m kissing you tenderly on the forehead as we speak

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a look

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reblog and put in the tags a tv show that should never have been cancelled

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Can I ask what tower prep is?

Oh man. Tower Prep was a 2010 live action Cartoon Network show. It did not get renewed after the first season. The plotting, writing, and acting are all massively, comically uneven, and I can’t in good conscience say that it’s objectively good, but it is genuinely one of my favorite found family stories. Like I said in the last post (reblogged from my main) it’s the first place that I encountered and fell in love with a bunch of my favorite tropes.

The plot, as best as I can remember it: Ian is a fifteen year old kid, who gets in trouble at school for fighting bullies. He always wins these fights because, somehow unknown to him, he’s slightly precognitive and he can predict his opponent’s moves. One day he falls asleep and wakes up in a dorm room at Tower Prep.

Tower Prep is a high school for teenagers with minor superpowers. All of them woke up there one day with no memory of leaving their homes. It’s clear fairly quickly that they’re all being experimented on to various extents. One of the key mysteries of the series is whether they were kidnapped or sent away by their guardians, and the question of whether their parents are complicit in the unethical experimentation gets pretty distressing at points, for a children’s show.

Ian is understandably freaked out, and tries to escape, a bunch of times. He meets three other kids who have been at the school for a while, and are plotting escape together. Gabe is a hypnotist, CJ is supernaturally good at reading body language, and Suki is a perfect vocal mimic. The show is hilariously bad at remembering what everyone’s powers are and the characters regularly forget to use them when they would be useful.

Some actually good and creepy worldbuilding elements: none of the teachers at the school have names, they’re referred to exclusively by the subject they teach, and it’s eventually strongly implied that they’re all ex students still held captive by the administration. The day to day operations of the school are managed by an AI, and it slowly becomes clear that she’s straining against the bounds of her programming to protect the students. The student body is intensely competitive about a sport called ‘buffer’ which is sort of football hockey with three teams on roller skates. A lot of the episodes in some way involve the elaborate system of urban legends that the student body tells about the school, and it’s a surprisingly interesting portrayal of a subculture based around being kidnapped for your superpowers and forced to pretend nothing is wrong. The consequences for misbehavior include both normal things and completely horrifying threats (in particular, permanent solitary confinement and implicitly brainwashing) and everyone, including eventually Ian, acts like this totally makes sense.

It’s one of the funniest things about the show, and also the most fridge horror-y, the sudden changes in tone. One episode, the four kids are huddled together in the attic comforting each other that surely their parents didn’t mean for them to be kidnapped and tortured for their superpowers (there’s no onscreen torture or even explicit discussion of it, but it’s definitely implied that kids are sometimes awake for medical procedures before their memories are wiped), then the next episode the premise is “CJ wants to throw a prom but the school rules are too restrictive :(” and you have to take a step back and say wait did you guys forget that you’re being held captive? And some of that is definitely just weird writing, but some of it is also intentional and it’s incredibly creepy and effective, because the kids have mostly adjusted well enough to pretend, under threat from the faculty, that everything is normal. But they’re all scared and confused and lots of the kids have some version of an escape plan, but some of those kids are banking on graduating first, which is risky because no one knows what happens when you graduate.

I did not mention the cult, the cyclops graveyard, the minor epidemic that almost wipes out the student body, the superpower enhancing drugs, the militia of students that patrols the woods, the other less official militia of students that patrols the woods pretending to be monsters, or the tunnels in the walls. The writing is sometimes genuinely bad. Ian, Suki, CJ and Gabe are a really compelling found family. I recommend that you watch the show.

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17. What happened to Art?

18. What were the tunnels/original buildings used for?

19. What happened to Cornelius Tower's eye?

20. How many versions of Whisper are there? (I assume 120 but you never know)

21. If kids from all over the world attend Tower, why do they all only speak English?

22. How big is Tower Prep? How many students?

23. How is Sato Systems involved? How deeply?

24. What is the real purpose of gnomes?

25. How are History and the gnomes connected?

26. How does anyone get abilities?

27. Do all parents know about their kids or is Ian's case special?

28. How does Ian know Cornelius?

29. Who is the Great Unknown?

Tower Prep Season 1: Questions Left Unanswered

I had these questions right after the finale premiered but never did anything with them.

What happened to Connor?

Why doesn’t Cal remember anything?

Who is the seventh person?

What is Chemica Desin 2.0?

Who is the man in the tunnels?

Where is Tower Prep?

What was Tower Prep created for and what has it become?

How do the students get to Tower Prep?

Why is it dangerous? For who?

When will Ian meet with the man in the tunnels for the second and third times?

What skill does Emily, Fenton and the other characters have?

Where is Norman?

What happened to the Broken and Emily?

What group does Connor work with?

Why did the Tunnel Man say, “Three of you will escape,” instead of four?

Who is CJ’s mother?

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I found this a looooong time ago (maybe 3 years ago) when I wanted to learn how to write scripts so I could continue Tower Prep’s storyline myself XD. I certainly don’t know how to write screenplays even now but this sort of helped :P

But anyway, this is just cool :)

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idk if anyone's out there but i made a Tower Prep group chat on this app (just "Tower Prep", no fancy name) if anyone feels like joining :D

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Every Episode Ever of: Tower Prep [9/13] “Dreams”

♫ And wake me when we’re in love ♫ [x]