Revolution

[Usagi Pilgrim]

I REALLY like this show, inaccuracies & all, but the biggest complaint I hear, is that "Aren't there any Chemists/engineers/electricians/scientists/steampunk enthusiasts/RPF members around anymore? They'd be able to..."

What I don't think anyone is considering, is that these folks are pretty much restricted to whoever is local. I know that they can travel, but we've seen how deadly traveling can be, so the prevailing idea is to cluster & build a community for the whole communal living/safety in numbers idea. We also have no idea how restrictive this Militia is on what they allow the civilians to have. Anything the locals may have that would give them any means to do anything other than survive would probably be confiscated or otherwise outlawed. Combine that with the fact that we've ONLY seen the small part of Illinois & I think I'll wait til we get a bigger view of the country before I cry foul.

As to why there seem to be no "smart" folks around, they did say that most that stayed in the cities died. I think most of the science-y types would have stayed in the more metropolitan areas searching for a solution, instead of packing up & heading for the country. That could've been their down-fall.

I'm pretty much looking at this show like I'm looking at "Last Resort". When 2 nukes hit Pakistan in that show, I realized,"OK...this show has let me know up front that it's not occurring in the Here & Now, so sit back & see what happens in THIS reality." That's how I'm coming at Revolution & it's letting me enjoy the show.

 

[EyeofSauron]

what im most annoyed by is that it seems that public forces just seized to exist. its not like when the power went out, everyone just went berserk, and all the soldiers, policemen etc, just died with the power.

yet the militia seems to be well organized

 

[Wes R]

what im most annoyed by is that it seems that public forces just seized to exist. its not like when the power went out, everyone just went berserk, and all the soldiers, policemen etc, just died with the power.

yet the militia seems to be well organized

I doubt the cops and soldiers would bother to stay where they were when the crap hit the fan, they'd get out of dodge with their families. If anything i'd see them forming enclaves with other survivors or working as mercenaries.

 

[vt357]

I doubt the cops and soldiers would bother to stay where they were when the crap hit the fan, they'd get out of dodge with their families. If anything i'd see them forming enclaves with other survivors or working as mercenaries.

Plus being a cop is a job. When the check stops coming, you think they're going to keep working? For 15 years especially?

Also let's talk statistics. There are less than 1 million cops in the US. There are a little over 310 million people total in the US. As it stands now the cops don't keep the peace, we as a society choose to be civil for the most part. Cops only investigate and clean up the mess after a small percentage chooses to violate the civility. What happens when those 310 million people go from law abiding citizens to starving, terrified, desperate individuals with nothing to lose and survival to gain.

When Miles and Monroe are walking in the flashback scene and can't believe how bad it had gotten in 6 months I laughed. Try 6 weeks - in the best case. Our society is built on just in time delivery. The grocery store only has about a weeks supply of food - assuming nobody panics and empties the shelves. And they they would - look what happens in half the country when the weatherman predicts an inch of snow. Most people only have a couple days worth of food in their house, half of which will go bad when the freezer defrosts.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Just finally saw the third episode and it was pretty good! I'm liking the development on the series. I'm particularly happy that they added Satan to the cast too!

 

[EyeofSauron]

ok , might rule out the cops. but i cant see that the military will just disappear. i just cant buy into that the whole social structure will just disappear because of no power. there might be a short adaption time, but thats it.

 

[Kerr Avon]

ok , might rule out the cops. but i cant see that the military will just disappear. i just cant buy into that the whole social structure will just disappear because of no power. there might be a short adaption time, but thats it.

I could see the military forming their own local militias to keep order, but just like any organization without any line of communication it'd be pretty disorganized.

 

[Gigatron]

That's an assumption. You don't know what is causing electricity to stop working. The pendant doesn't definitively provide electricity to anything, it may simply counteract the effect suppressing electrical activity.

Whatever the pendant is, it definitely supplies power. If I don't use my phone, the battery is completely dead by the third day. So after 15 years, there's no electrical activity to interrupt. It's not like Apple invented some 20 year capacitor, small enough to fit in an iphone. Whatever it is, it's a small electric field generator, and works like those charging mats that they sell for cellphones.

And if I were the blond woman, as soon as the first Apple repair store opened, I'd take that phone in, and ask them why it did that weird, 1950's era tube TV shut-down thing, instead of just blinking off, like a regular phone :lol.

Why would an LCD screen go all "staticy" and then get all wavy? None of that even makes sense. It seems more like they had an extra $20, in the effects budget and had to burn it off.

-Fred

 

[Kerr Avon]

You're assuming they have any scientific or technical advisors. The writers may not simply understand that a battery goes bad after a period of time, or that LCD screens don't have interference like cathode ray tube screens.

 

[letmebestormy]

That's actually Istatic. It's an app that makes your phone flicker old school when you turn it off. Nice little product placement.

 

[groone]

It sounds like what ever is effecting the electricity blocks the flow of ion discharge. If the flow of positive and negative ions are blocked then batteries and such would hold their charge until those ions were able to flow again in retrospect a battery could remain charged indefinitely until such time ions flowed again. SO I'm thinking the pendant doesn't create electricity but rather counters the effect of the force that is preventing ionic discharge.

 

[NormanF]

So what keeps everyone and thing from dropping dead?

Sent from my Etch-A-Sketch

 

[groone]

So what keeps everyone and thing from dropping dead?

Sent from my Etch-A-Sketch

Faeries

 

[Kerr Avon]

Yeah, impeding the flow of electrons would be fatal to all life too. I'm hoping they come up with some semi-scientific explanation of what's happening, but it's likely magic.

The Google guy is also a bit of an idiot. How has he not managed to find the USB Flash drive in the pendant? And why he never tried pushing the round thing. If he knows the object is important, then why wasn't he fiddling with it?

 

[The Rock-a-who]

The Google guy is also a bit of an idiot. How has he not managed to find the USB Flash drive in the pendant? And why he never tried pushing the round thing. If he knows the object is important, then why wasn't he fiddling with it?

Agreed. Perfect 'discovery' of the pendent is for him to fiddle with it and it turns on. Instead, it just flips on by itself with no interaction - which also frustrated me about this show so far.

Unfortunately, this is starting to turn into a show I'll love hating and keep watching it. :wacko

 

[AdamNightmare]

Your friendly, neighborhood Power Systems Engineer checking in.

This show makes absolutely no ******* sense.

It's still fun, though - and if I can willfully suspend my disbelief, you can too!

 

[NormanF]

Your friendly, neighborhood Power Systems Engineer checking in.

This show makes absolutely no ******* sense.

It's still fun, though - and if I can willfully suspend my disbelief, you can too!

I thought so too until I saw the "Total Recall" remake with the train that goes 1000+ miles per hour through the center of the earth.

 

[Gigatron]

- and if I can willfully suspend my disbelief, you can too!

Just because you CAN suspend your belief, doesn't you SHOULD have to.

Yes, there are certain movies, where it's expected - movies about monsters, aliens/alien planets, and wizards.

Revolution, doesn't seem to be working on any particular basis. There has been no mention of aliens knocking out the power (ala Falling Skies). No mention of monsters who suck the energy out of everything, or nutjob wizards who are controlling the powergrids. It's supposed to be taking place, in our universe, just a few years in the future.

This show is, bassically "For some reason, some power has stopped, but not all; some chemical reactions work, but not others; and everyone in the world, has become an imbecile, without the slightest bit of knowledge of pre-industrial age mechanics".

Do axes and rivers still work? Make paddlewheels. Does fire still work? Make steam powered devices.

I don't get the whole "bullets are precious" crap, either. Did every single person with the knowledge of gunpowder, just disappear? How about all the books written on making gunpowder? Did libraries just vanish?

Shell casing asre absolutely reusable. There are entire, non-electrical machines, dedicated to the home bullet-loading hobbyist. Get lead, melt it down, pour it into a wooden mold, pack the gunpowder and bullet into the casing, and move on. Lead, obviously isn't hard to come by - somebody is making all those musket balls.

This show is just poorly thought out.

-Fred

 

[The Rock-a-who]

There's a part of me, especially seeing everyone carrying around swords, that wants me to believe this is the beginning of Earth turning into Grimjack's Cynosure

Now if that happens, I can easily accept this for what it is.

:lol

 

[blakeh1]

While I inderstand some basic technology is "black box" technology to most people, i.e. so few understand the technology that other technology is built on, that if you somehow eliminate those people and the machines that make the technology that you destroyed all technology based on it

Somehow though I don't think steam powered stuff and gunpowder fits that bill