The last episode of Revolution was one of the best. Granted, the plot development was minimal if not absent, but we got a chance to know the characters better which was sorely needed. Basically Charlie was captured and rescued once again (sorry not really a spoiler when it happens every episode) and Neville and Danny got to spend some unneeded time with one and other. At the end we are again left with more questions that we began with, but I am very pleased that we don't have to care about what happens to absolute strangers anymore. Revolution is my favorite distraction during the week. I just watched this week's episode while I my wife was driving us to California and the time absolutely flew by.
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I enjoy it but....
scottkursch27 May 2019
The show is more than passable for me, but a lot of the complaints that people make ARE somewhat justifiable. I really try to overlook as much as possible.
Just the thing that got me in the beginning of this episode was... with the dogs.
They hear a noise in the dark, notice where it's coming from, and Miles takes a torch, their only source of light and throws it on the ground near the noises. Now if he didn't want to get too close, out of fear, why on earth toss the torch ? I just can't imagine getting rid of that torch. Everybody knows to use a stick of FIRE to ward off wolves, tigers, wild dogs ...dinosaurs, cavemen, whatever.. Let's just forget the torch and have the dogs chase us around. Ok sounds like a plan. I know, people don't think when in crisis mode... Only this is Miles, the go-to military man. Oh well, just wanted to get that off my chest. Torches, man, torches.
They hear a noise in the dark, notice where it's coming from, and Miles takes a torch, their only source of light and throws it on the ground near the noises. Now if he didn't want to get too close, out of fear, why on earth toss the torch ? I just can't imagine getting rid of that torch. Everybody knows to use a stick of FIRE to ward off wolves, tigers, wild dogs ...dinosaurs, cavemen, whatever.. Let's just forget the torch and have the dogs chase us around. Ok sounds like a plan. I know, people don't think when in crisis mode... Only this is Miles, the go-to military man. Oh well, just wanted to get that off my chest. Torches, man, torches.
Did common sense disappear with electricity and got replaced with NAIVETY??
TvTobbe11 October 2012
Warning: Spoilers
It is an exciting show if you are able to disregard all the holes in the story and just see it for what it is, a fantasy-science-fiction.
It is entertaining.
But what I don't get is the siblings universally naive minds, that is just to much even for a fantasy-science-fiction. They have lived for 15 years among brutality, deceit and murdering for food and STILL she goes "please don't kill the armed henchmen who want to kill us, oops he came back for us, thats weird, I thought that he would leave us alone". Only to be exceeded by the brother when he helps the psychotic general and then goes "you s.o.b.??" when he gets re-arrested. W T H man!? Did common sense of survival disappear with electricity and got replaced with NAIVETY??
It is entertaining.
But what I don't get is the siblings universally naive minds, that is just to much even for a fantasy-science-fiction. They have lived for 15 years among brutality, deceit and murdering for food and STILL she goes "please don't kill the armed henchmen who want to kill us, oops he came back for us, thats weird, I thought that he would leave us alone". Only to be exceeded by the brother when he helps the psychotic general and then goes "you s.o.b.??" when he gets re-arrested. W T H man!? Did common sense of survival disappear with electricity and got replaced with NAIVETY??
wander ruins of the Midwest again, find mean dogs & a guy who trained them, But problems arise- you learn more in flashbacks- so ; who will be a token 'RedShirt'.
bicyclerepairman578 October 2012
Still the main problem with this is that old devil 'Verisimlatude': I might buy the "electrical grid" going down, but Batteries? stand-alone circuits like generators? Give me a break. I'll stop complaining only to see where the next plot twist takes the storyline- but parts of the 'set-up' were a bit insulting.
Another problem is, everyone looks too clean & well fed. Motorized transport seems to be non-existent, sailboats are in damned short supply, so how come everyone decides to live in the interior of the Midwest? And as for getting around: okay we're walking across the continent...some folks for years...how come everyone looks so 'soft'. You have people burning up calories, doing hard-scrabble farming to survive, and no-one should be living large- and one guy weighs about 300#, and everyone else looks like they showered twice a day. Some of the settings almost work- but Production values seem to be a lot off. You don't get a feeling for how damn long it would take to go anywhere in the world of this show, with the reduced mobility resulting from having no motor or animal- based transportation. I mean going from 'somewhere in Illinois',to the city of Chicago, seemingly in a few hours on foot, with little effort? This is getting tiring- NO pun intended. The basic idea- Civilization collapsed due to no communications and no mobility, is a rich and used-often concept....but please- there would be a greater number of people looking pretty damned tired & dirty, far more than this crew was, as they wandered around the country. And how come so many of the men do not have beards? Or does the one thing that survived from before the power went off was 'really Good Razorblades?'
Another problem is, everyone looks too clean & well fed. Motorized transport seems to be non-existent, sailboats are in damned short supply, so how come everyone decides to live in the interior of the Midwest? And as for getting around: okay we're walking across the continent...some folks for years...how come everyone looks so 'soft'. You have people burning up calories, doing hard-scrabble farming to survive, and no-one should be living large- and one guy weighs about 300#, and everyone else looks like they showered twice a day. Some of the settings almost work- but Production values seem to be a lot off. You don't get a feeling for how damn long it would take to go anywhere in the world of this show, with the reduced mobility resulting from having no motor or animal- based transportation. I mean going from 'somewhere in Illinois',to the city of Chicago, seemingly in a few hours on foot, with little effort? This is getting tiring- NO pun intended. The basic idea- Civilization collapsed due to no communications and no mobility, is a rich and used-often concept....but please- there would be a greater number of people looking pretty damned tired & dirty, far more than this crew was, as they wandered around the country. And how come so many of the men do not have beards? Or does the one thing that survived from before the power went off was 'really Good Razorblades?'
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