From that link:
Any speculations about how it could happen?
I’m getting “Lost” flashbacks and I don’t like it. Guess I’ll wait until the series wraps and is out on DVD before I dive in.
“Sure, we’re barely hanging on in this post-tech world but last year you slept with my brother!”
Geez, people… priorities!
All the images of the hot chick with the bow had me thinking “Hunger Games” clone.
Planes these days are fly-by-wire. Without electricity there’s no way to move the control surfaces and the aircraft will go ass over teacups pretty damn fast. It won’t so much glide as plummet and tumble with some forward momentum.
I’m also very curious about their explanation. I originally thought massive EMP – maybe from some gigantic solar flare, but then my daughter ask why the hell the guns would stop working and they’d have to rely on bows.
So, will we see people riding bicycles? Those still work, right?
Could you start a fire with flint?
No, but I could with Lady Jaye! 
There are candles, so I assume fire works.
Brian
I’m sure it’ll be standard TV soap opera fare, just set in that world. Networks rarely do anything new or experimental or the least bit challenging. They gotta’ sell ad time. “Terra Nova”, anyone?
I just feel burned by so many of these types of shows that may or may not start off really good, and they turn into a puddle of lame soap opera subplots and stereotypical plots and flashbacks and…then canceled.
I know there are some LOST fans here, but for me, the first few seasons were pretty good but then it got to be almost impossible to follow what the hell was happening and I pretty much didn’t care anymore. Seemed like they were pulling things out of their ass and it made no sense whatsoever. They tried to wrap it up in a pretty bow at the end, but it just pissed me off.
Thus, I will read threads on Revolution and wait until they are in season three or so before even bothering to waste my time on what probably will be another crash and burn series that will be canceled before it is resolved.
I would almost watch the last few seasons of Lost if someone cut out all the flashbacks. Almost.
After reading the article (and sitting through roughly 3,000 promo spots on NBC), I’m picking up an unsettling similarity to Y: The Last Man. If you recall, the premise of that lengthy graphic series was that every male human in the world except one died under mysterious circumstances. So naturally, we’re treated to scads of pointless violence, torture, power ploys between treacherous, bloodthirsty factions, and plenty of catty sniping. And of course, the almighty ironclad law that no one can even talk about sex ever at all*, including the ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY scene where the hero walks in on two women having sex (after which, of course, they act shocked and stop completely and never never never think of having sex again instead of just throwing the damn klutz out of the room). Swear to god, this made 300 look like a Nobel Prize winner.
That’s what I can’t stand, introducing an amazing, novel concept and then utterly wasting it with predictable cliche crap. I can almost guarantee you that we will not get any serious discussions about reshaping government, remaking society, nihilism, religion, resource conservation, nature, traditional gender roles, etc., let alone any kind of plot or action along those lines. From the linked article, what we can expect is plenty of cheesy TV-safe chopsocky and lots of nitpicky squabbling over what should and shouldn’t still work.
Blech. Fine, I’ll catch the first couple of episodes, but if this turns into a poor man’s Xena: Warrior Princess, include me out.
- Alison Bechdel knew that this would be an issue for Dykes To Watch Out For and handled it skillfully and maturely. The best one, IMO, was where Lois admits that it’s a little pathetic for someone to be so obsessed with sex, while at the same time acknowledging that that’s not going to stop her from having it.
Yeah, I was wondering about bicycles too. But as far as no electrical power, wouldn’t there have to be something suppressing the use of electricity? I mean, even if everything got wiped out in an EMP or something, we’d still have the knowledge to make things work again. We wouldn’t be starting from scratch. Ancient people didn’t harness the power of electricity, but eventually humans figured it out and that stuff was written down so, couldn’t someone just say “oh, hey, here’s how you do it.”
The first novel in the series is called Dies the Fire. What is left when a fire dies?
Without electricity, your ems get cold.
I watched the first episode. It was okay. The minor twists they revealed early on were telegraphed and easily guessed. I liked the characters well enough so far to keep watching.
The backward crossbows bugged the shit out of me. I can’t figure out how those are supposed to work. Are they real, or made up for the show?
I watched the pilot tonight also, and thought it looked like it might be good. The actors seemed a tad “pretty” but that’s TV for you, I guess.
I liked the “ice cream” scene.
Just a reminder that the 1st episiode airs tonight on NBC
(mostly a reminder to myself tio record it as I won’t be home)
Brian
You also have to add to the explaination the twist that somehow the power does still work for someone and that there is a way to turn it back on. So whatever happened is not permanent, yet somehow prevents steam power, solar power, wind power and hydroelectricity to fail.