The "Revolution (NBC) will probably suck" Discussion Thread (spoilers)

[stevew]

They need to bring in a storyteller to save this. They've established "wasteland' pretty well. But I'm just over the whole "surprise twist character allegiance" thing that they've done 2weeks in a row.

And nice ripoff of Breaking Bad season 3 finale.

I'd probably kill off the main baddie, the girl, the nerd and have Gus Fring take the controls.

[stevew]

Dola. More of Randall and the black lady. We need to know if they are shit characters too.

[Raiders Army]

Originally Posted by stevew

Dola. More of Randall and the black lady. We need to know if they are shit characters too.

At first I thought they were also creating an amplifier. Now, I think they have the device that has shut down the grid.

[Raiders Army]

Originally Posted by stevew

We need to know if they are shit characters too.

Also, that's the funniest thing I've read in the thread.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Raiders Army

At first I thought they were also creating an amplifier. Now, I think they have the device that has shut down the grid.

I thought the pendants were a fail safe created by the team in case the weapon was deployed in a large scale. Randall def has the device

[Surtt]

Originally Posted by stevew

I thought the pendants were a fail safe created by the team in case the weapon was deployed in a large scale. Randall def has the device

I though they were developed to let "our" side have the advantage.
Give one to all your pilots and tank commanders then zap the battle field.

[DanGarion]

Wait... did everyone give up on this show?!?!?!

[gstelmack]

I gave up on this show when they explained how they made a device that will shut down electrical signals, then demoed it in an isolated chamber. Yet somehow the guy they were demonstrating on didn't just keel over when every single electrical signal in his body shut down. Have they explained how it shuts down everything EXCEPT living nervous systems yet?

Plus just not finding any characters I cared one whit about.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by DanGarion

Wait... did everyone give up on this show?!?!?!

I'm still watching.

LOL that the chopper would just instantly work perfectly.

I hope the show will kill off everyone but the nurse from FNL and Billy Burke and start over, but i doubt the chopper will do that.

There's just something so off about the main girl character. She looks unsettling or something.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by DanGarion

Wait... did everyone give up on this show?!?!?!

Yep

[Surtt]

Originally Posted by stevew

There's just something so off about the main girl character. She looks unsettling or something.

She is solidly in uncanny valley.

[stevew]

No new episodes until late March. That sucks.

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally Posted by stevew

LOL that the chopper would just instantly work perfectly.

I loved that:

(1) It worked first time
(2) The pilots were still able to fly it perfectly (considering this is what 15+ years on in time from the last time they flew).
(3) They had usable fuel for the helicopter available - bearing in mind that those things EAT fuel for breakfast and I expect require fairly specialised fuel.
(4) Even given the opportunity for 'power' you'd expect them to have to charge the batteries etc. as they'd be flat after being idle for 15 years surely.

(what can I say I think too much )

[stevew]

Solid enough return. I won't pretend that this show is great, cause it's not. I think there's a few things that do work pretty well though. I really like Giancarlo as the evil baddie and the guy from Twilight is pretty solid as well. Saracin's jump off from FNL is an interesting character as well.

Spoiler

Good call on killing off that kid. He sucked. Charlie should be, but won't, next

[stevew]

dola-
I have a feeling this was network notes done right.

[stevew]

Am I the last fan standing?

[DanGarion]

I thought it was solid.

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by stevew

Am I the last fan standing?

Still watching. I'm not sure if I'll watch next season, but I've invested enough in it that I'm hanging on this season. It was a decent return I thought.

[saldana]

did anyone else watch the finale last night...the only word that comes to mind is...stupid.

[Toddzilla]

I haven't seen the finale, but I've been watching this season out of curiosity to see where it goes. I thought the show was a cool concept - and face it, I probably got pulled in by the exterior shot of Wrigley Field in the opener - but I HATE HATE HATE lazy writing, and the whole nano-technology concept is just lazy writing and a lazy writer's way to explain themselves out of tricky situations. When they healed Elizabeth Mitchell's leg - THAT was the end of the show's last shred of integrity.

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

I started the thread. I'll stay in for the duration, because that's what I do for sci-fi shows. Its decent. Definitely in more on the "why the blackout" than I am on the whole Katniss and Young Hercules storyline.

I lied. I dropped out prior to the mid-season break.

[saldana]

Originally Posted by Toddzilla

I haven't seen the finale, but I've been watching this season out of curiosity to see where it goes. I thought the show was a cool concept - and face it, I probably got pulled in by the exterior shot of Wrigley Field in the opener - but I HATE HATE HATE lazy writing, and the whole nano-technology concept is just lazy writing and a lazy writer's way to explain themselves out of tricky situations. When they healed Elizabeth Mitchell's leg - THAT was the end of the show's last shred of integrity.

i wont spoil it for you unless you want me to, but if you hate lazy writing, better have a couple stiff drinks before you watch

[Toddzilla]

oof

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by saldana

i wont spoil it for you unless you want me to, but if you hate lazy writing, better have a couple stiff drinks before you watch

spoil it please? i dropped out early.

[saldana]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

spoil it please? i dropped out early.

ok, here you go DT

Spoiler

so we left off last week with Rachel and Aaron meeting up with all these other scientists/commandos with rail guns on level 11 of the tower, and the head guy telling Rachel that he wouldnt let her turn the power on...Grace explained that it might destroy the nanites and turn the power on, or it might blow up the planet, and they werent going to take the risk

fast forward to last night where Rachel drugs her friend Grace and she, Aaron, Charlie, and Nora try to get down to level 12. Nora rigs up a bomb to blow up all the scientists/commandos with rail guns, but in the course of setting it off Nora gets partially hit by a rail gun in the abdomen...(cue the first stupid part) they lock themselves in an office when they realize that Militia soldiers (now being directed by Neville, who has turned the entire army against Monroe in the course of a couple hours) are inside. Rachel knows that Nora is gonna die, but instead of going back to try to save her, insists on going forward to turn the power back on.

Charlie gives a fucking horribly written little speech about how saving Nora is more important, and Rachel basically ignores her, taking Aaron to head down to level 12. Miles now arrives (just in time to save Charlie's ass again) and they try to get Nora to the infirmary, but she bleeds out before they can get there.

Rachel and Aaron are now at the elevator to go to level 12, when they run into Neville, who is about ready to kill them when yet again, Miles shows up at the last second...a running firefight ensues where Miles one shots all the guys coming at him from 3 directions at once while none of them can hit him, but then when he shoots at Neville, he misses. (that was the next stupid part)

Our 4 heroes make it into the elevator and go down to level 12, where Aaron sits down at a random computer and follows the instructions of Rachel (who said she couldnt do it herself) despite the complicated nature of the programming "go to the root menu...go to the command line...execute the program" (seriously...that was it...super advanced technology destroyed by a dos command)

Now for the uber-stupid parts....Aaron hits enter and deactivates the nanites and within seconds, power comes back on all around the world (dont ask me where it was being generated from, or how it was being transmitted...i am sure that power stations and electrical lines were all still perfectly functional)...cut to the president of Georgia, and to Neville's and Aaron's wives reveling in their new electricity, followed by the Pres lady ordering all her tanks to march on Philly and destroy the Militia, and also to Bas standing in the middle of a field where a massive lighting display is going on (i think this was just so he could have the realization that the power was back even though he was no where near anything electric)

cut back to the tower, where our 4 heroes are still standing in the exact same spots waiting to see if they air is going to explode like Grace said it could and you hear a single gunshot...Flynn (the DoD guy) had somehow gotten down stairs and has shot the electric lock to keep him inside a bullet proof room...while in the room, and in the span of less than 2 minutes, he launches 4 ICBMs from somewhere in the midwest, targeted (2 each) at Philly and Atlanta...apparently, the 6 digit code he punched in and the one big red button he pushed were enough to launch them in a matter of minutes (because of course, they did not degrade at all since the blackout, and were already targeted at locations INSIDE the USA)...he then did a little speech about how he was eliminating both factions because he was a patriot and ends by shooting himself in the head.

cut away to the last scene, which was a dark room with a 17th century sailing ship moored outside the window and a very old american flag..enter some guy we never saw before who says "mr president, Randall Flynn has done it, we can go home"...screen pans back and a caption shows up that says "USA outpost, guantanamo bay cuba"

[Lathum]

Solid first episode, really liked the twist of killing? a main character. They set up some cool story lines for the season

[stevew]

You know, this is never going to be a great show but they did an appropriate amount of retconning and I enjoy this season more. Still hung up on the Aaron has walked 3000miles in the past 12 or so months and is still fat thing.

New episodes don't pile up on my DVR anyways

[Lathum]

some people are always gonna be fat. My mail carrier is fat.

[stevew]

Apparently they're providing closure in a 4 part comic.