Better Late Then Never

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Blistering performances.

I just stopped by to post a review of how idiotic I remember this show. The lights have been turned off what, 15 years? Everyone has cool leather gear, nice looking shoes, hair looks shiny. This show was beyond idiotic. I turned in every week just to see how dumber it would get. With Kim Raver in the cast, you will not be disapointed.

Thought it would be as good as Lost series:I just started watching Revolution on Netflix and I thought it would be as good as the Lost series since it has the same writers and producers but so far I am so disappointed! The story line is good. The actors are great. Recognize Jacob from Lost? Okay..some of the actors aren't that good but you can ignore those but most are worth watching. So whats wrong? The outrageous action scenes! They are laughable and frankly embarrassing, unrealistic and corny! I'll keep watching in the hopes that it gets better but I won't get my hopes up.Those corny action scenes. What a huge turn off.

This is a series of mostly pointless actions of the protagonists, striving for a goal but not really focusing on it. While they try to get there, they stupidly and constantly get themselves into trouble without reason and then have to fix it. Mostly they manage, often enough they don't. Seriously, when something goes wrong it is usually not the bad guys being smart, but the good guys being incredibly stupid. It's their own fault. It just hurts. Encounters with the antagonists are often sadistic scenes. The characters are rather one dimensional and super shallow, both antagonists and protagonists. Relationships between the characters are pretty stereotypical. The only interesting aspect of the show is finding out what happened, but it is coming in very slow bites.

I watched this show streaming the two seasons on Netflix over a months time. Like all science fiction, there are areas where the extension of current technology and concepts quickly hits flaws. After reading many negative reviews to all those fixated on flaws in the extension of technology I dismiss as being focused on the wrong aspects of the show. The technology that facilitates the blackout is programmable and selective. So your missing a significant point that the laws of physics seemed to have changed overnight, but they weren't, the technology that caused it made it appear that way because it was designed to selectively perform tasks (and its fiction!). The point that it had only been 15 years and the level of decay in the infrastructure is disproportionately extreme is accurate. There was no war, why is every overpass on every highway int shambles? Take a way cars and go back to horse and buggy and you still have roads, so they definitely missed on the staging of the state of the infrastructure. The muskets were a shot lived portion of a few episodes, and it wasn't that they couldn't still create ammunition, they obviously could and did. It was without mass production the supply and demand was a problem and thus the farther you got away from the power bases of the various "governments", the more crude the weapons became. NBD which makes sense. The loss of mass production is the element to the whole backdrop is the source of reliance on older tech in various situations. They still manufactured viruses and bullets and many things, just after an apocalypse that would be brought on by any reason that would produce the inability to provide urban population centers with supplies. The positives are the real reason behind the loss of availability of power being quite creative with unlimited potential for where it could have taken the story. The characters are diverse and an odd bunch of personalities all with issues. But society has issues and the storyline is built on the typical post apocalyptic story of going from the rich, smart and powerful being suddenly overthrown by the strong, ruthless sociopaths which over time are organized by the smart but for far different reasons that they would be in current society. But that is exactly what made the show good and have a lot of potential. A dynamic technology that changed the world and evolving. The power shifts that occur when the rulers are eventually still the intelligent, but motivated by far different factors than modern society towards different ends by different means. This is where the potential for the story to develop into something quite interesting was and why I think Revolution could have become very good. The backdrop to the story was good, even the intro graphic with Revolution being displayed as evolution with the R added at the end implied the story was about both and the effects of one on the other. Bottom line is I watched the first few episodes, noted that the level of decay after 15 years was absurd, recognized the difference between not being able to create things and not being able to mass produce and distribute them and then enjoyed the story. As I did I quickly saw potential for a story that could become quite complex and interesting. Unfortunately after two seasons we had a solid foundation, an interesting development going on behind the scenes and a power vacuum as the US was exposed as the liars they were and the after affects of the elimination of the eastern powers reset back to more of where the end of season 1 had left us. But we'll never know as the story ended in the midst of huge changes being thwarted and initiated. I believe a show I enjoyed a lot could have made a long run if it had the backing. I enjoyed what I got to see and am disappointed it wasn't given a chance. Oh well. Another show I enjoyed on the pile of those not really given a chance.