Talk > Anime/Sci Fi > Revolution (NBC, Sept 17)

reply to PX Eliezer

Re: Revolution (NBC, Sept 17)

Can't find any links to the whole thing, but here's a synopsis.

»ascentionist.blogspot.com/2012/0···ory.html

reply to darcilicious
Pilot is up on Hulu:

»www.hulu.com/watch/397518

The episode has been captured and is available on usenet. Maybe torrents also but I didn't check.

Hulu... uhhhhh....yeah......Hulu.... that's where I'm getting my copy from.......

reply to darcilicious
I just saw the pilot... and been there done that.

they lost me while; defying the laws of physics
I hated this, and hope it dies a half season death.

I don't even care what the back story was; some
posters here could write a better one themselves.

reply to darcilicious
I agree that anyone with a college level degree in the field of Science would have a really tough time with this show’s premise.



In addition the asthmatic brother story arc seems strained because I don’t see how someone with his condition would have realistically survived childhood without proper meds. He’s on borrowed time as it is.

I also don’t like that in the first episode they killed off two of the more seasoned actors “Tim Guinee” and (seemingly) “Elizabeth Mitchell”. The performance of Giancarlo Esposito was excellent though.

I’m getting a kind of General Omar Santiago type of vibe from the show and that’s not good since “Harsh Realm” didn’t even last a full season.

Still as I said before, sometimes you just have to overlook all this in order to enjoy the hot chick with a crossbow,…

And the hot guy with the sword, whew!
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reply to Octavean
Well back in the olden days, people with asthma did live into adulthood. There are lots of medicinal herbs that they were able to use.

I'm sure plenty did survive but certainly not all and recall that the average life expectancy in the era we are talking about was much lower then it is today even for healthy people.

Additional illnesses, which are inevitable, also likely cannot be properly treated and only serve to complicate the issue. Someone gets a cold or some other virus that is basically easy to recover from by anyone with a healthy set of lungs all is good and well. Not necessarily so for many with Asthma even when treated properly with modern medicines. Deaths with Asthma as a complication even today are not uncommon and I have seen people struggle with it where one medication wasn’t enough (they had to have additional meds to bolster the first).


Now add to that the stress of seeing your father killed in front of you (stress is a trigger for Asthma attacks), being physically attacked / abducted by the militia that killed your Father, freeing yourself by attacking your abductors and “running” away all without the benefits of meds,……no I don’t think so.

I would have bought it more had they taken the same route as with “The Walking Dead” where scavenging meds from pharmacies and hospitals was commonplace. Picking the bones of a dead society.

Disregarding the early stage of the show, I’ll also add that I don’t see the brother as being very significant in any way beyond giving the more interesting characters a goal.

reply to Packeteers
Same.. watched the pilot and it's going to either be cancelled mid season, or at the end of the season.

Acting, IMO, is terrible.

Giancarlo Esposito is amazing. Love his acting.

reply to darcilicious
So if there was a 15 year long black out we'd be reduced to muskets and bows......interesting.

I just don't get how society fell into the way it is in the show. Before electricity was discovered, Empires rose and fell, Societies grew and prospered.

Steam engines, wind power, hydro power, geo-thermal power, solar power (maybe), would've also powered new machinery to keep society and civilization from sliding back into the dark ages. Smh... Such bullshit.
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo

reply to darcilicious
Is actually watching the NBC Revolution Pilot right now on XBMC 1Channel Plugin-You have to search for it. However, I'm not going to post any direct spoilers to the show itself.

Here's a spoiler:
Dumb dee dumb, dumb.

reply to darcilicious
Watching the show right now, past my bed time. The acting so far is crap. After the show I'll read all your posts.

reply to Wily_One

Wily, be sure to let us know when to watch for any post apocalypse wet t-shirt contest.

reply to Rob