Comments on: NBC’s Revolution: high concept, low execution https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Ryan https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-824 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:32:40 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-824 If your point was that there’s no evidence of great, or even middling writers anywhere near this show, I completely agree.

]]> By: Scotty https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-813 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:03:16 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-813 Ryan,
I understand that it’s because “It’s in the script.”
With the great writers around there is no reason for the show to have such poorly written scripts. Instead they went and got writers who have no interest in real character build up. A high school physics teacher could have been their technical advisor and the reality behind it would be believable enough keep our interest up. In no way did they even bring in a sociologist to give them an idea of how people would be 15 years later, instead they write it as if it just happened. How sad that a great concept by SM Stirling is trashed by Abrams.

]]> By: RevSux https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-801 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:44:01 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-801 This show has an amazing premise… but they just screwed the whole thing up… Now next week, their talking about character having to prostitute herself for the team. Sure, it could happen but does it need to? Isn’t the violence enough? I can’t watch anymore… Show 5, I’m out.

]]> By: Ryan https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-799 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:38:30 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-799 They showed a lightning flash in the clouds onscreen, followed by thunder, so it doesn’t seem to block electrical conduction up to a certain altitude, just technology.

The computer worked after 15 years for the same reason the iPhone still had a charged battery, the drugs in the asthma inhaler were still potent, the militia’s canned goods rations are still edible, and the Black Hawk being dragged through the woods will start up and fly in a future episode without a complete overhaul.

]]> By: Ryan https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-798 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:30:04 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-798 The Charlie character is apparently age 20 or older, so Glau would have been credible enough. However, this isn’t a Whedon show, so the guest stars will be pulled from Supernatural and the Bad Robot stable.

Why is it that only the sci-fantasy shows I don’t want to watch get great ratings?

]]> By: Scotty https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-786 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:26:37 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-786 My Two Bits ( and yes there is a pun in that too ).
Ok, let’s get this straight.
First of all yes, J. J. Abrams borrowed heavily (just say it… stole) the idea from S. M. Stirling’s “Dies The Fire”. The differences are that man-made explosives don’t work in his novels. OK, ok… I know that a bunch of you are going to say hey that’s magic. Read the books, they’re pretty good.
Let me give you a paraphrased quote from Arthur C. Clarke… “One man’s technology is another man’s magic”.
Let us go on to Abram’s storyline.
His plot is so predictable.
The way I see it, in this storyline a group of people (most likely anti tech people) develop a tech (yes a contradiction since they have to use tech to send our civilization back to low tech) that neutralizes the conduction of electricity. My guess is that the plot allows them to neutralize the electricity to within several miles above the ground since planes loose power and crash (does that mean if you climb Mt Everest you will have electricity? ). Another guess is that it will most likely be a satellite based devices (how else can one affect the whole planet?). From the end of preview a woman has a small device that allows things to start working again with electricity ( I want to know where she is getting her power source once the device she uses overcomes the problem ), and she talks to someone else on a computer ( how is it that after 15 years of no climate controlled rooms does the computer not have to much corrosion, mold, mildew to make it work) and she gets a reply back ( Holy shades of LOST batman ). Of course the only person who has one for the good guys side is killed but he gave his device to a friend before getting killed ( but then again he doesn’t tell that person what it does ).
So now the plot line will be for the “good guys” to discover the devices ability and then to figure out how to destroy what is neutralizing electrical conduction.
Another sad part is that Abrams does not want his stars to look like people with low tech and I get the nauseating feeling of twilight drama in the background.
Too bad AMC or HBO isn’t making it.
I would rather have watched the show from the time that electricity is lost, the story of the collapse and change of civilization. Then after the show starts slowing down is when they could have moved up 15 years for this story. The already had a prewritten storyline with Dies the Fire.
As for Charlie, how is it that a girl who is raised for 15 years with the collapse of civilization acts like a girl who is teleported from today? There are so many situations that she would not have batted an eye when it comes to protecting friends and family, instead her character acts like a person who is in present day civilization with law enforcement around. She is so boring because she does not react as a real person who is looking for her brother because as I said she would be doing everything it took to get to him and not be concerned about people she does not know.
Oh well, Hollywood never gets it right.

]]> By: Otto66 https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-785 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:23:30 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-785 Right, not renewed, picked up for a full season.

]]> By: Jon https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-784 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:14:24 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-784 It wasn’t renewed. It was just picked up for a full season. Many shows like this one have gotten a full season and didn’t get renewed for a second. The Event and FlashForward come to mind.

]]> By: Simon https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-783 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:57:50 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-783 I watch it and really enjoy it. I’m able to enjoy the story though rather than just nit pick. Sit back and be entertained by the unfolding story

]]> By: Otto66 https://cliqueclack.com/p/revolution-disappointment/#comment-782 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:45:28 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=2331#comment-782 They renewed this show so NBC must figure there are enough folk watching. Who are these people? No one I know, or have met or will admit to it. With the renewal does that mean NBC can now tell the producers how to make it “better” and can move the show to different days and different time slots on a whine? That’s usually what happens.

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