Whatever you say about them, kids in The Tribe echoed the kids we know now in an awful lot of ways, especially when it comes to love--first, last or always. Yep, they went hormonal & had to make it through the same crazed situations a lot of us cringe when we think back on. There are waaay too many instances to cover here--believe me, no one was immune--so I'm pulling out a specific example from each season.
The most in-your-face example from Season-1 was Ebony. Her connection with Zoot had to be a craving for power because we know her love-fixation was always on Bray. Did Zoot love her back? Well according to her nightmares it was, "Eat a rat, Ebony. Prove you're worthy." Of course she couldn't, didn't, and then Zoot died & she was back on her own. And it was Trudy who had Zoot's baby. To say the least, Ebony chose poorly.
Season-2? Ahhh, our wayward Salene. She too had a craving for Bray. When Bray finally made everybody understand Amber was the girl for him, Salene did what a lot of people do. She settled for somebody who cared for her. Did it matter she didn't love Ryan? It should have. A lot of pain & anguish could have been avoided if Sal had been honest.
In Season-3 it was the return of Amber & the downfall of
Pride. He didn't understand the depth of her feelings for Bray or what it did to her when Bray found her with the Eco-Tribe. So what does our Pride do? He follows Amber to the city. He gets his heart broken. He starts sleeping around & breaking hearts on his own. It wasn't pretty.
Season-4 gave us the Technos &
Ram with his mini-harem, Java & Siva. He successfully added Ebony to that harem, but Siva wound up going off & bonding with Lex. When Ram found out Siva stole from him to save her new boy-toy's life, what was Ram to do but throw a fit & punish her? And then throw her out... ah, Ram. Power corrupts, huh?
Then there was Season-5. So many to choose from. Let's go with Ruby. Dear sweet Ruby who agreed to a one-off with Slade. That became a second night... And suddenly Ebony was moving in on her
territory, so Ruby had to sleep with Slade again so she could throw it in Ebony's face & ultimately start this amazing cat-fight. (Which, for the record, Ebony would've won.) Slade wasn't very good with making the choices. It was really a wonder Ebony didn't succeed in killing Ruby when the girls all thought Ruby was pregnant.
Ahh...the things we do for love...
Isn't it great we can get older & conveniently forget most of them? Or at the very least deny we were ever that strange. Unfortunately for our Tribe guys 'n girls, their crazies are forever on film for the world to see.
-Chyna
photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"
