The first episode of NBC’s Revolution is available On Demand so I checked it out and it really isn’t bad. Sure you can nit pick it: the civilization after the blackout they present seems more stable than I would expect after only 15 years, it seems a lot like it came from a “Hunger Games was popular, let’s do that” pitch meeting and the very end of the episode can be seen coming from a long way off but it flows pretty well, the characters are interesting enough that I want to see more of them and the special effects are pretty good for TV (I liked just able every image they showed of an abandoned landmark). I will be coming back for Episode 2.
As for that ending:
Was there any way the episode wasn’t going to end with someone secretly having electricity? The only question was who.
I saw the preview episode (although I didn’t watch all the way through). A big problem I have with this show is that like Lost (both produced by J.J. Abrams) the show’s storyline is built around a larger mystery. Spoilers ahead, so I’ll box this.
In this case, the question is what happened to disable all technology fifteen years prior, and what did Ben (the father who was killed in the first episode) know about this? I mean, he was calling his brother to warn him and made a point of downloading some data to a flash drive right before it occurred. And how is it that all of the characters have really clean hair and nice, well-fitting clothes? The daughter looked like she just stepped out of a Gap store. And even if all of the electrical stuff no longer worked, wouldn’t steam power still be an option?
If the show just stuck to a story-of-the-week format, I might watch it. But I don’t want to get sucked into another multi-year story that never resolves all of the plotlines.
Sorry to disagree, but my SO and I also saw this preview On Demand and all I could think of was “here we go again - another one-season series wonder…”
There were plot holes you could drive a truck through - so many bits of info that don’t make sense.
We already have the makings of the love story/soap opera crap starting to bud.
If I hadn’t already been duped by several series that look, sound and smell the same, I might have fallen into this and said, “Yeah, let’s see where they go with it!”
However, I have been duped many times and watched series like this crash and burn and be canceled without so much as a kiss goodbye - just up and gone.
So, I think it would be wiser to wait until it is in Season 3 or 4 before I even think of watching episode 2 of the first season. Will have to see if my SO wants to put this on our DVR list, and if there are any other shows we like at the same time.
But otherwise - sorry, this looks like another same-old, same-old wander through the ruins of famous landmarks, wonder who is friend and who is foe, and always have some “big secret” revealed at the end of every damned episode until you wonder if the writers even have a clue where this story is going.
My guess is when other see this show, there will be many returning to this thread to say, “hmm, this seems a lot like that canceled show [fill in blank]…”
I’d like to know why electricity stopped working. I imagine I could take a seventy year old Briggs & Stratton engine and figure out a way to make electricity.
That’s what I was wondering about myself. Do they explain it on the first episode? Have the laws of physics been changed so that copper can no longer conduct electricity?