Starz has announced the prequel series we’ve all been asking for: ‘Power: Origins’ – the story of Ghost and Tommy

Starz recently announced its fourth spinoff from the hugely successful Power series: Power: Origins, which follows Power Book II: Ghost (Tariq’s post-Power story), Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Kanan’s origin story), and Power Book III: Raising Kanan” Power Book IV: Force” (Tommy’s story after “Power”).

When we realized we were getting all these spin-offs (including the ultimately canceled Power Book V: Influence, which was imagined to focus on the story of politician Rashad Tate – he appeared in Power Book II as a substitute), every conversation I had with anyone who desired to discuss the series, I asked if and once we would get a series explaining how Jamie “Ghost” St. Patrick and Tommy Eagan became friends and eventually became the drug kingpins they were when “Power” began. How did two kids from Forest Hills, Queens, New York, find yourself at the top of the New York drug food chain?

I, for one, am very comfortable that we’ll get some answers. While Tommy and Ghost’s relationship has deteriorated over the course of Power’s six seasons, at the starting of the show they were like thieves and mostly stuck together. I say mainly because Tommy was an absolute hothead and Ghost was clearly the more level headed, forward facing arm of their drug dealing organization. Tommy was the enforcer, and the guards needed just a little help, but he and Ghost were absolute brothers, and Ghost’s family was Tommy’s family. However, by the time the show ended, Tommy was near killing Ghost, wanted Ghost’s son Tariq dead, and was almost absent from all of Saint Patrick’s family. Oh, and Tommy also killed Ghost’s boo, Angela, during a futile try and kill Ghost.

Let’s say their relationship fell apart. Reminds me of a Jay-Z song “D’Evils” from his 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt, by which Jay raps about how he couldn’t have predicted that his and his best friend’s relationship would end in business and money, to the point where he kidnapped his mother on this fictional story your little best friend to try to seek out his ex-partner. At one point, this relationship was good and fruitful. Or think of Nino Brown and Gee Money in “New Jack City.”

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It’s also wild take into consideration three friends, Jamie (apparently became a Ghost when Angela went to high school and they went their separate ways), Tommy and Angela frolicked as kids and eventually they all went on a mission to trap and catch one another, leaving just one of them alive… BECAUSE of their friendship or lack thereof.

I’m also very curious how Kanan matches into this whole picture. I am unable to lie, I used to be WAITING to see glimpses of Ghost and Tommy in “Raising Kanan.” I do not know much about Queens, but now I’m really curious as to how they arrive into Kanan’s orbit. Kanan is from southern Jamaica, which seems a world away from Forest Hills; Kanan was their mentor in the drug game. Plus, young Tasha can even be nice to see in the mix.

Probably my favorite reason for selecting this particular prequel is that Raising Kanan is so well done – kudos to executive producer Sascha Penn and the entire team behind it – from the fashion, to the looks, to the early 90’s feel New York looked like (in my head – I never set foot in New York until June 2001) that the nostalgia alone makes the series value watching. “Beginnings” would must proceed this tradition. While I do not know how old Ghost and Tommy will probably be when this series begins, it’s going to probably be in the late Nineties or early 1900s, which is a period I do know very, thoroughly. The music and style of the era, in addition to the Internet, made New York (and every other city and sound) accessible to all of us. Early ’90s New York is a time I like, but early ’90s New York is a time I’ve experienced. The thing is, I’m enthusiastic about the constant trip down memory lane.

But if I’m being honest, the most vital thing I would like to handle on this latest spinoff is that this:

I actually need to know who and why Tommy got here across the phrase “cancel Christmas” – the phrase that led to the ultimate downfall of every little thing in the world of Ghost, Tommy, Angela and Tasha. I would like to know where the term got here from and who was the first person to cancel Christmas at Tommy’s a lot that they put it of their lexicon. I’ll watch the entire season not only to see the selections made (e.g. Ghost NOT going to a prestigious school and as a substitute staying in Queens for Tommy’s sake) and how he got here to be conceived with Tasha, but mainly because for a solution to your query about the Christmas cancellation.

Can’t wait.