NBC's Revolution - Thoughts?

So last Monday and replayed on Wednesday was the latest attempt by a network to recapture the success of Lost, NBC's post-apocalyptic drama Revolution.

So .... did anyone else watch it? What did you think?

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I liked it, but much like The River and Terra Nova, I don't think it's going to last more than a season at most.

One massive WTF...you have guys who mark themselves with a brand, but you don't think to check any potential party members for said brand? That should be a no brainer.

If there's combustion - YUNOSTEAMPUNK?!

Also having a magguffin in the pilot MIGHT be a new record.

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

I just realized that this show is probably the closest that we'll get to a Fallout-esque tv series.

No electrical devices work anywhere on the planet but human life still manages ?

Little hard to work past.

Muskets, or at least muzzle loader rifles, make a good amount of sense. Primers for reloading modern-day bullets are going to be hard to come by after a while so it makes sense to save the 'good' rifles/guns for conflicts rather than day-to-day operations, unless you're a higher ranking guy like that captain or whatever he was.

I find it a little odd about the whole electricity being gone. Electric current going through wires is usually either generated from nuclear processes or from burning coal plants. However, batteries are a chemical process that generates electric current.

How does someone/something block that different of a source? Why does gunpowder work (chemical process) but batteries don't? You'd have to have a hell of a good reason why this is so selective...

Something seems to be inhibiting free electrons from flowing beyond a certain threshold.

Of course that's the mystery. Why did Katniss Clone's Dad know the power was going to go out and why did he wait until he got home to assemble the nullifier? Why are their others who have similar nullifiers? The blackout is obviously man made but why? Secret government/military project goes terribly wrong? Eco-terrorists wanting to restore Gaia? Quickest way to stop an impending nuclear exchange? Hiding from Aliens? Preserving the electrical infrastructure due to massive continuous geomagnetic storms because the Sun went super active (opposite of the Maunder Minima)? Not sure if we'll ever find out the truth or even if it's important.

The dad probably worked on the project that caused the black out. It was most likely. IMO, a military project designed to remove an opponent's major defenses and got out of hand/did more damage than was theorized.

The 'nullifier' wasn't so much a nullifier as it was (apparently) a data repository. He was downloading a bunch of data into a usb stick and then putting the stick into the pendant. He was just barely able to finish before the lights went out.

I'm talking about nullifing locally the power dampening field.

The other doctor lady used her fancy broach to start up a computer and communicate with someone else. And it looks just like the one Dad assembled at the last second and later gave to X-Google.

Ever see the movie The Quiet Earth? Odd little Kiwi SciFi movie from the mid 80s that reminds me of Revolution for some reason. Maybe it's the "science experiment goes horribly wrong" as a possible explanation in this series.

I like Revolution, except I am a Hard-SciFi person. I get that this is a "hunger Games" genre, but...

All the world Electricity shut down for many years; why have they not rebuilt their power? There is still obviously Magnetism as the Birds can still Navigate and the Atmosphere/Ionosphere is still intact. So... Why no Electricity yet?

I liked it since post-Apocalyptic fiction is right up my alley. I'm just not gonna think about it too much it since it really doesn't stand up to that. I'm not gonna get too attached to the show either.

All I shall say is read the books by S M Stirling and it will start to make a bit of sense including a big discusion on WTF how is it possible [nope they dont know] best guess they came up with is some super powerd being god alien etc.....

Maybe Hami?????

First off the massive agriculture conglomerates that supply nearly all the food here in the US would be shut down overnight without electrical power. Small time farmers and meat producers could probably still be in business however milk production will also be seriously curtailed without electricity to operate the automated milking machines.

You aren't going to feed 300 million with ox and plow. The chaos in the first few years after the outage is going to make The Walking Dead look like a vacation in Disneyworld. Mass starvation is going to make things ugly really quick.

New aluminum production would vanish overnight, it's a process that entirely relies on electricity. A lot of smaller steel smelting plants are now electric and not coal.

It'll take time to build the infrastructure needed to build down to a pre-electric society. Given the fact that no power tools will work, how do you build a steam engine from scratch? And once you have a steam engine, we're talking belt pulley central drive for drills, saws, lathes, etc for manufacturing anything in quantity. And of course you are going to need peace for that to flourish so you might start to see that starting some 15 years after the black out.