SuitabookThe TV Time Travellers
Pete Johnson
- Reading
- If reading together, pause when contestants are voted out and ask what the vote changes for them. Afterwards, discuss what the story does and does not show about 1939.
- Themes
- Competition and public judgement: Contestants compete to win while viewers vote participants out. The premise places public judgement at the centre of the contest, but does not establish whether the story supports or questions that arrangement.
- A simulated past: Contestants are expected to live as if it were 1939, at the start of the Second World War. The historical period is part of a television premise; the outline does not show how accurately or thoughtfully it is presented.
- Worth knowing
- Contestants are voted out, and the outline says problems arise as they compete to win. The nature and intensity of those difficulties are not clear.