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Century Falls

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Century Falls	comment	Century Falls is a British children's fantasy-drama Television Serial made and broadcast by the BBC in 1993. Written by Russell T Davies, the series was his second original work for CBBC following 1991's Dark Season. Retooled from one of the two planned plotlines for its sequel, it became the next (and ultimately final) instalment in a planned trilogy of separate serials by Davies.The six-part series revolves around the titular remote village; lonely overweight teenage girl Tess Hunter and her pregnant mother have moved there, in the hopes of a new fresh start. Tess quickly realises it has a Dark Secret - it is almost entirely populated by ageing adults, and the only other two children around, Ben and Carey Naismith, have also just arrived to stay with their uncle Richard.Tess befriends the twins, and is plunged into mystery. Aided by the Harkness sisters, wounded survivors of the events that shaped their village decades ago, she discovers the truth about an occult ceremony gone wrong, a strange golden figure behind the waterfalls, and the dangerous pagan power unleashed in a ruined temple. Their darkness threatens to return - and Tess has to stop it.Century Falls ran from 17 February 1993 to 24 March 1993 on its original UK airing. Unlike RTD's previous early 90s serial Dark Season, it was never repeated by the BBC or adapted into a novelisation, and has not latterly received an audiobook or sequel from Big Finish. Davies' drafted third serial, The Heat of the Sun, was additionally never produced. However, Century Falls was later released on DVD alongside its predecessor by 2\|entertain in 2006, and has more recently been made available to stream on Britbox and ITVX.
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Century Falls / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The post-modern, comedic tones of Davies' previous BBC serial Dark Season, which was part high camp and part high drama, are jettisoned for darker pre-modern values here. That series' comic strip villains and quick-witted children conditioned to be ahead of the game by TV seem far lighter when compared to the more understated, hopeless fight against an evil demonic force manifesting in the mindscape of an unborn child seen in Century Falls.
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Century Falls / int_59b9f4df	type	You Are Fat
Century Falls / int_59b9f4df	comment	You Are Fat: Tess gets constant reminders of this. She is often insulted about her weight and loneliness by her own mother (see Loners Are Freaks above), and even the people who are supposed to be her new friends. Some of her sharper dialogue even plays up to this characteristic:
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Century Falls / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
Century Falls / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: First seen at the end of the first episode in Ben's vision of the past.
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Century Falls / int_70e942e6	type	Token Adult
Century Falls / int_70e942e6	comment	Token Adult: Esme Harkness, the 63-year-old who supports the children in their struggle.
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Century Falls / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Century Falls / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: Ben is one of these, to the extent of constantly being referred to as such by characters.
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Century Falls / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Century Falls / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Very much played upon with Century Falls, the dark secret being that its townsfolk have possessed psychic powers for centuries, historically making them targets for witch hunts and other societal panics. In an attempt to stay cut off from the rest of the world, they attempted to manifest a demon... for which they paid a terrible price (see Sterility Plague above).
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Century Falls / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Century Falls / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Tess is a classic self-absorbed and indecisive loner. Although she fulfils her mother's hopes by making connections with the only other two children in the village, the girl's perceived character is later summed up well whilst she is in denial over lives being genuinely threatened by the dark secrets of the village -
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Century Falls / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Century Falls / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Ben. At best, his motives and ideals (or lack thereof) throughout the serial can be seen as ambivalent, and at worst utterly inhumane.
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Century Falls / int_c142c1ff	type	Childless Dystopia
Century Falls / int_c142c1ff	comment	Childless Dystopia: Localised entirely within the secluded village of Century Falls.
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Century Falls / int_d32d01aa	type	Sterility Plague
Century Falls / int_d32d01aa	comment	Sterility Plague: Why are there no children in Century Falls besides the new arrivals? Answers on a postcard...
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Century Falls / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Century Falls / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: Here in abundance. Most significantly Richard (Ben and Carey's dad) at first, then Julia, when her true intents are revealed.
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Century Falls / int_ec7c50af	type	Psychic Children
Century Falls / int_ec7c50af	comment	Psychic Children: At first just Ben, whose powers come to light fairly quickly in the form of clairvoyant flashbacks to the terrible past of the village. It soon transpires that the entire rest of the town, even including new arrival Tess, have powers too.
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