Lazer Tag Academy

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Basically, the plot revolves around a criminal "mastermind", Draxon Drear, who woke up from suspended animation in the year 3010 and was able to use a device called a Starlyte, used in a competitive sport called Lazer Tag, to travel through time and do other stuff. He is chased by 13-year-old Jamie Jaren, who is the only other person from the time who could use the Starlyte in that manner. I do have some observations and from the first episode.

- The other students at the Academy were aware that Jamie could time travel using the Lazer Tag equipment. Has no one ever been concerned that she should have such power? Why does she have unsupervised access to the Starlyte? Jamie could rearrange history- if she had thought through the implications of her abilities. (This will be discussed further below.)

- Draxon Drear was retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean, and was taken straight to the Academy, located in Los Angeles. Was there any reason he was not first taken to a hospital on a city on the Atlantic coast?

- And why would an academy even be involved in reviving Draxon Drear? Would not the police or the equivalent of the Department of Social Services take charge of reviving Draxon Drear and adjusting him to society?

- Furthermore, after examining Drear and finding out he has the same genetic quality as Jamie that allows him to use the Starlyte as a universal tool, why would they entrust him with it, especially given his criminal past?

- Drear frees his cronies (genetically-engineered simians called skuggs) and uses the Starlyte to travel back to 1987 to threaten to kill an ancestor, Beth Jaren, who invented the Starlyte projector. The flaw in his plan is pretty obvious.

- the Academy apparently has time travel monitoring equipment, which is consistent with the knowledge that Jamie traveled through time before.

- Jamie impulsively travels back to 1987 to chase after Drear. She did not do any studying of the time period to at least be familiar with society, nor did she take a grown-up with her. And of course, she did not take period clothing. (Although it would have been a funny scene if she took the wrong period clothing, e.g., dressing up as a '60's hippie flower girl.)

- when she meets Tom and Beth, she tells them who she is at the outset, instead of, you know, shadowing them.

- Ice cream cones are apparently unknown in 3010, as Jamie puts one in her pocket.

- In the end, Jamie decides to stay in 1987 ( at least until 1988) instead of going back to 3010, where and when there is time travel monitoring equipment at the Academy. There was no reason to believe Drear was still in '87; for all they knew, he could have gone back to the year 1980, or forward to 3000, and lay low to plan further ahead and strike again. (They had no reason to believe at the time Drear sucks hairy ass balls when it comes to criminal masterminding.)

- Jamie also decides to give Tom, Beth, and Nicky (the youngest) their own Starlytes, as they have the power too. It is one thing to save their lives from Drear and preserve history. But trusting them with the Starlytes and to not do stuff, as say, travel forward to their eighteenth birthdays in the 1990's and play the winning California Lottery numbers? Jamie clearly does not think things through. Of course, if she did, she would have brought a grown-up with her who would tell her not to trust the 1987 Jarens with their own Starlytes. Then again, grown-ups entrusted Draxon Drear with his own Starlyte.