# Revolution - new TV series

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolution-new-tv-series/629672>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 28, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolution-new-tv-series/629672 "2012-07-28T12:49:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolution-new-tv-series/629672/41 "2012-09-17T18:48:40Z")

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I watched it… it wasn’t terrible.  
Seemed way more influenced by Jeremiah and The Postman than I imagined.

I have the feeling a good 1/4 of the show is going to be flashbacks.

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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolution-new-tv-series/629672/42 "2012-09-17T19:04:55Z")

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It was also available on Hulu as of last week. Not sure if it’s still out there.

In Revolutions it seems that gunpowder still works just fine. It was interesting, if a bit silly/predictable, but I’ll give it a shot. Hell, I’m still watching Burning Skies, and that show is terrible.

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**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolution-new-tv-series/629672/43 "2012-09-17T19:55:53Z")

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I find the premise difficult to accept.  
If all electricity were somehow suppressed, the neural networks of all multicellular life would be disrupted. Does lightning not happen anymore? The linked article boasted about how the idea was run by a physicist and he was all, 'Oh yes, that could work!" Hmmm. Perhaps he wasn’t a biophysicist or a moderately informed lay-person.

In reality, the idea is quite literally fantastic, as in based upon fantasy.  
So, I can imagine that. After all, in several AD&D worlds that I have created, gunpowder and electricity don’t work. It makes for a more entertaining milieu. I hope the series’ creators don’t try to make the reason for this sudden change ‘scientific’. That would be a game-spoiler for me.

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**Author:** ![Dana2012](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Dana2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dana2012)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolution-new-tv-series/629672/44 "2012-09-17T23:52:45Z")

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Every time I see the promos for the tv show “revolution” I can’t help but wonder if Stirling is getting some credit for the idea of the show, it is clearly derived from the series of books he wrote. I enjoyed them very much especially the first book “Dies the fire”.

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**Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revolution-new-tv-series/629672/45 "2012-09-18T04:09:39Z")

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So no explanation yet, or did I miss it?  
If the cause turns out to be the tease that we’re supposed to tune in for in lieu of plot and character development I’m bailing (but I still have some hope after seeing the pilot).

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