I've been watching the old show Powers Of Matthew Star. It only had one season, but I loved it when I was a kid and I love it now just like I did back then. It only had 22 episodes. It's kind of funny because the pilot was totally different than the 21 episodes after and the had that pilot air after the whole series was done. I remember watching and thinking what happened to my show and Walt. Matthew's name was David and there was a guy named Max that David lived with. David didn't even know he had powers. In the first episode with Louis Gossett Jr. Matthew already had his powers. His guardian playing by Gossett was Walter Shepherd who Matthew called Shep. Matthew had a girlfriend names Pam in the first 11 episodes and then she just disappeared in the last 9. She was in the pilot. It's kind of funny to watch the episodes. I like the ones where he is with Pam more than the other ones. It's like they turned Matthew into some playboy or something and he was kissing a new girl in every episode. In the first episodes Matthew and Shep could talk to each other with their minds and then in the last nine they did not. Did the writers just take that out for some reason? In the last 9, Matthew had two new powers, but some of his other powers were just gone. It was strange.
I loved Peter Barton and that's what makes the show for me. No matter what episode I watch, he has the power to make me smile and that's the best thing of all. I don't care about the flaws and other things I've seen. I've been trying to write my own stories and when I do, I will be writing them mainly with the characters from the first 11 episodes because I liked him being in school and having a steady girlfriend. I wish she would have stayed on and eventually found out that he was an alien. That would have been interesting. I've got lots of great ideas, but have not been able to articulate them into a good story just yet.
