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[roxy]

Dear friends,

Can someone explain Revolution to me?
Thanks.

roxy

Comments

[digitalwave]

I love Eric Kripke but I gave up on it last year, sweetie so I'm not the best to be a help here. :)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I think I'm about to jump ship myself. I wanted to support but...*shakes head*

[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

ahahaha no - scifi show that makes no sense and has crappy writing despite the fact that it has Kripke and Edlund

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I had high expectations right up until about ten minutes into the show and I was all "bee-hunh?"

[chellexxx.livejournal.com]

Not a clue what is going on, but i'm still watching, though i'm not 100% sure why?!?
xxx

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I'll give it two more shows to get me involved. I hate to give up on it because I really wanted to like it!

[chellexxx.livejournal.com]

Love Billy Burke so i might stick with it for a while. Between him, Kripke, Edlund and a host of Supernatural alumni it's worth a little more of my time

We'll see .......

xxx

[cinderella81.livejournal.com]

I loved the first season, but ...if the second season starts going all weird and sci-fi with the radioactive bugs and stuff then I'm out ... I'm crossing my fingers...

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I just tuned in and maybe I forgot last season, but I had no idea what was going on. I don't think that's a good thing!

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

I made it through about 2/3rds of season one, but then Things Happened and I just rolled my eyes and shut off the TV.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I really wanted to stick with it because I liked the idea but now I'm kind of waffling.

[tabaqui]

Oh, man. I gave up at, i guess...the end of the first season? When there was just a veritable *cascade* of incredibly stupid actions and decisions and character goings-on that made me just shake my head.

I mean, seriously, i'm suspending my disbelief here, and our main person is a YOUNG WOMAN, and it's awesome and all, but.....

I just can't take that much stupid.
*sigh*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

There was knee deep stupid happening and I'm debating whether it's going to get better but I'm thinking--no. I only kept tuning in because the main character was a woman. And I liked the guy with the beard, Pittman?

[tabaqui]

Yeah, he was really pretty cool, as was the English woman and even the Uncle. But...damn. I can only take so much.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

You need a snuggle for the psychic pain they caused you!

SNUGGLES!! STAT!!!

*crack team of snugglers leap in, cover you with hugs and back pats and whisper words of encouragement*

There you go. No need to thank them--they do what they can.

[tabaqui]

Heeeeeee!

*smishes*

:)

[fufaraw]

I wanted to like it so much. I mean, post-apocalypse dystopia is my meat, so this would be *made* for me. Plus, Kripke's cast iron siblings and family themes, girl protagonist--what's not to like? I watched faithfully 2/3 through first season and then...just couldn't be arsed to watch eps off the dvr. I ended up being honest and deleting them unwatched. I just couldn't get invested in the primary characters, there were some that I loathed (that I suspect I wasn't supposed to), and most of them left me indifferent. If I didn't *care*, why was I watching them emote through such either awful or indifferent scripts? So I didn't. I'm not sure even Edlund would help, so I chose not to subject myself to another try. (shrug)

...more room on the dvrrrrrrr!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yes, I get that completely. I think I'm in the same boat as everyone else--I wanted to love it. I'll wait and see if Edlund can make some of these characters more likable. Shame to waste so much potential slash...*koff* I didn't mean that. Much.

[anitac588.livejournal.com]

I lost interest somewhere at the end of last season?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

So many people agree with you! :D

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

Dystopian America 15 years after all the electricity in the world has been stopped - no one knows how or why. Everything stopped in a single night, leaving people stranded wherever they were when the lights went out. When the series starts, the country is divided up into various area controlled by warlords with their own militia. There's some kind of keyfob thingy that may or may not hold the key to restoring electricity, and supposedly somebody somewhere knows what to do with it, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

And this concept is why I never watched the show. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like me some rubber science, but this goes past rubber straight to Science!Fail. 1) How did whatever stopped the electricity stop batteries? An EMP won't do it. It'll fry battery-powered electronics, but batteries that aren't hooked to anything are just a little can of chemical reaction. And even if it could miraculously kill all existing batteries, you can make new ones out of produce and scrap metal. The Babylonians made them out of crockery and wine! Which brings me to 2) assuming a phenomenon that stops chemical reactions from producing electricity, WHY ISN'T EVERYBODY DEAD? I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but the human brain? Pretty much one big chemical reaction producing electricity. Every other animal brain in the world? Same deal. If the McGuffin kills batteries, it should kill us, and the whole show should just be plants and microbes. And 3) a flash drive will save us all from the thing that took the electricity. A flash drive. That needs a computer to work. A computer that needs electricity to work. Logic, you fail! *sigh*

--Jessica

[jackien1968.livejournal.com]

The show is inane and idiotic and the season one finale turned me off permanently, BUT (1) an explanation is given mid-season-one which has nothing to do with stopping chemical reactions and which does not involve damaging the batteries themselves in any way, (2) is a huge assumption and a mistaken one and again the McGuffin doesn't harm the batteries themselves and I'm guessing doesn't invade nerve fibers, and (3) the flash drives themselves locally override the McGuffin and were designed ahead of time by the people who designed the McGuffin and the smallness of their range is a major plot point.

BUT BUT the McGuffin should have eliminated all possibility of any 2 computers powered* by any 2 override flash drives being able to communicate with each other across distances EVER. (*well, not precisely "powered" by them but to explain would be to explicitly spoiler everything)

Tracy Spiridakos is hotter than hell, Charlie Matheson is a kickass young female protagonist, and Miles Matheson is kickass and morally ambiguous. Nonetheless I'm ditching on season 2 because the last scene of s1 pissed me off that badly with the stupid and it wasn't even tech logic fail, it was logic logic fail.

Jackie

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

And there you have it! :)

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

It sounds like such a great premise, and then they kind of slow strangled it.

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

Wow, I guess I'm with everyone else here. I started out with high expectations, but then it just got kind of depressing for me. Plus, I had to DVR nearly everything last year, so I had almost full seasons of SPN, Once Upon A Time, Scandal, Nashville and Revolution. I started watching the recordings in that order, then ran out of steam and deleted Nashville and Revolution without watching.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I think that everyone has given me the dispensation I sought to drop kick this show from my DVR. Two more shows and if it hasn't gotten dramatically better--adios!