Let us know when they give you a TV show – I definitely want to watch it.
I watched most of the pilot, and I wasn’t impressed. The premise is all right, but I feel like I’ve been given zero reason to care what happens to all these people. The characters aren’t interesting or engaging.
Oh, and the perfect clothes and hair drove me nuts too.
I’m really hoping that at some point we’ll be given an explanation that makes sense, not just expected to not notice that batteries aren’t the same as electrical current operating a lighbulb.
Todd VanDerWerff has an interesting piece over at the AV Club that talks about the lack of realistic political fallout in the wave of technological collapse. By moving the central plot away from conceptual challenges (and, as others have noted, more interesting fringe characters) as well as into the hands of adolescents, they have inherently weakened the quality of storytelling.
Subconsciously, I think I’m comparing this show to Dollhouse, which introduced a futuristic technology almost as an assisting plot device, and then delved deep into the social and political ramifications of its widespread release.
Then again, Joss Whedon would have known which main characters to pick (see: Firefly = the Adventures of Han and Chewy), so my expectations of this show are suitably low.
Why wait for an explanation? So you can pick apart its flaws? There is NO plausible explanation. Your choices are no explanation and just go with the premise, or be pissed off at contrived explanation. I choose the former, my eyes roll enough watching TV.
And what moron puts a huge tattoo of the first initial of his last name on his forearm? And how did he get a field commission? Yes, the second question was tongue-in-cheek for the sarcasm impaired.
And how is a tatoo of your first initial considered valid ID to enter a military base? Because he’s known as the only D-bag in the world who would do such a thing?
I only caught the last few minutes so I don’t really know what was going on. All I saw was White Eli, Hunger Games, Samwise Gamgee, and some Taylor Lautner clone with a longbow goning to town on a bunch of extras from The Postman armed with crossbows and muskets.
Emphasis added. Yes, you really do.
I kind of had the impression of some association between Tattoo Jerk and the gate guard.
I’m **really **not fond of the lady with the wavy blond hair. She just aggravates the crap out of me for no reason! Don’t understand it at all.
Maybe because you hated Terra Nova, and she was on that show, too? 
Who is the actor that played the black militia unit head that took the kid? I couldn’t find him in the IMDB entry for the show, and he looks extremely familiar to me.
You betcha! 
I had the impression that the Morgan crowd is behind the lights going out because of the gate scene.
Sydney Glass from Once Upon a Time.
Bingo!
FTR, I’ve never watched Breaking Bad, so I had no clue who Gus Fring was.
I agree. If the show was just about exploring a world in which electricity was eliminated by magic, I might like to watch. But they’ve introduced this overall storyline that the reason behind the change is explainable and that some people still have electricity. That reminds me of the promises we were given that everything that happened on that island in Lost was going to be explained without resorting to the supernatural, but they never did explain everything and the ultimate explanation was supernatural.
Gus Fring from Breaking Bad would have been my first. Or Yaphet Kotto’s son from Homicide.
He had a minor part in OUaT, but his character in Breaking Bad was brilliant. I don’t think you can appreciate his acting ability from the former.
Yeah, that bugged me as well. I couldn’t figure out why the planes would *literally *be falling out of the sky in flat spins.
I had the same problem, but considering they were in Chicago most planes in the area would probably be in the process of descent for landing or taking off. Don’t know how more likely that would make it.
What I wondered was how the wave of whatever happened propagated. Planes were falling out of the sky before all of the city lights were out. And on the highway, the cars were dying in a nice relatively slowly paced progression so whatever it was did move in a wave but a very slow one.
My interest is going to depend a lot on how much attention is paid to the mechanic of electricity turning off and how much is spent on just the reality that it happened. Too much of the former and any explanation they give is likely to be too stupid.