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New NBC Show: Revolution - Lost meets Jericho - From Eric Kripke and JJ Abrams
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RumblingRosco
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You want to really be confused, try watching Revenge. I don't think anyone knows wtf is going on in that show.
As for this show... the general idea is each of the main characters are fighting the Patriots. The exception being Neville who seems to want to kill Monroe in order to free his wife from the Patriots, but in all honesty his wife is probably dead/on the Patriots' side and ultimately Neville just wants to kill the Patriots as well. Aaron (and Priscilla, I guess) is essentially fighting the nanites or some shit but he's losing because he keeps falling for illusions.
RatskyWatsky
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Bye Jason. You were boring and I never liked you. I will admit though that the final scene was well acted. Spiradakos be steppin her cryface up.
Now they need to get rid of Rachel (I hate what they've done with her this season), Gene and Aaron.
Now they need to get rid of Rachel (I hate what they've done with her this season), Gene and Aaron.
The only characters I don't think they'd ever kill are Aaron and Monroe.
RumblingRosco
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Think Jason comes back via nanites?
Rafa=FedKilla
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Charlie will never die. Only way I see it is if she puts on a shirt a little too small and she dies of suffocation.
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Not sure if serious but Season 1 got a lot of flak. Season 2 was when the show sky rocketed.
Serious? Holy shit you are serious you think Season 1 was better. I'm actually freaking out that you have that opinion.
Season 1 was so bad. Charlie was soooooooo bad. In Season 2 Charlie is someone I want to root for she's got good reasons for acting the way she does. Huge step up.
Munroe is also dramatically more interesting in every way but you already touched on that so I won't.
The Patriots are the most interesting villains out of every show I'm watching right now (which is 10+). The idea of "America" coming back but being as they are was a perfect choice.
Neville has a real purpose other than traveling around America and we've gotten to see him do what he does best.
The general aesthetic of the show objectively better. It actually looks a lot more like a place without power.
The idea of "retconning" the decision...first of all it wasn't a retcon. What happened happened the bombs were dropped and they had to turn the power back off. It created a nice event in the fiction ("the surge") and most importantly it preserved the entire idea of the whole show. If they had kept the power on I probably would have dropped this show entirely because that isn't what I was told I'd be watching in the first place.
Dropping the bombs was actually an interesting play in terms of writing because there is some risk. They can't even use those parts of America.
We got better villains like Truman, Dr. Calvin Horn (the creepy dude who got lit on fire), and the leader of that war clan. The war clan scenario was interesting in itself.
We even got more interesting locations like New Vegas.
The choreography is better and the show is much more brutal. Despite being on at the time it is they don't really hold back on the shows brutality.
And in closing we got no Danny. The best part of season 2.
RatskyWatsky
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You think they'd be willing to kill Charlie or Miles?
Season 1 was a cheesy show with clear objectives and internal logic. Season 2 is bad in a non-cheesy way with a story that makes no sense, with stories that change all the time. It is just season 2 and they're already repeating plots and losing focus.
They reduced her role, which is the only reason she seems better.
There is nothing interesting about what they're doing. And the 'US government' coming back bad is not even that original. See Jericho, which had the advantage of J&R actually being impressive.
His season 1 role was being the starscream, which he did great. Season 2 has made him useless. He does something for two episodes, and then turns around to go do something completely else. If being an indecivisve idiot is his best point, than yes, we're seeing what he does best.
Undoing the impact of an entire season is a retcon. They could have made Aaron wake up from a dream and pretend season 1 never happened, and it wouldn't have been worse.
Season 1 dropped the bombs. Season 2 has done nanomachines and people that can't die because of nanomachines.
Zeljko Ivanek plays the same creepy dude on every show.
The fighting isn't as interesting as it was in season 1.
And instead of him we got his grandfather who appears way more and is even more annoying.
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I want to respond in a reasonable manner but I don't think I've ever disagreed with someone so heavily in my entire life. Its actually mind boggling.
Different strokes I guess.
Different strokes I guess.
RatskyWatsky
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Uh, no. Nope. She was whiny and weak and naive in season 1. In season 2 she's a killing machine who rarely cries or complains. She's a totally different character.
That doesn't make any sense. So they turned the electricity back on at the end of season 1 and immediately turn it off in the first scene of season 2. That doesn't erase all of the plot or character developments that took place over the course of the first season, which is exactly what would have happened if Aaron woke up from a dream and pretended that season 1 never happened.
Dreams-Visions
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Show worth watching?
hemtae
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There's four more episodes. Starts back on the 23rd.
Tokubetsu
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That depends. Do you like yourself or not?
RumblingRosco
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I enjoy it, but don't expect greatness and you should probably be ready to laugh at the stupidity of it all.
Jason Frost
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So, when is the next episode?
It seems like a month since the last episode aired.
It seems like a month since the last episode aired.
RatskyWatsky
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Next week.
It will have been a month. NBC is messing up the scheduling real bad.
RatskyWatsky
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Looks like they pushed the episode back to the 30th.
Jason Frost
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God damn it, this will be cancelled.
lol, this week's episode was titled "$#!& Happens"...
hemtae
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Imdb says it should have been called "National Race" but then again it still has the air date as today.
RatskyWatsky
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Maybe, maybe not. We won't know for sure until half way through next month.
So, it took them 19 episodes to wheel back to the whole mystery shed burning scene from the beginning of the season. I usually love it when shows do these sort of callbacks, but that wasn't nearly as interesting a reveal as I'd hoped, just the Nano being an asshole again. I also didn't recognize Charlie's dad for the first few minutes of that conversation - looks a lot different with a beard.
I liked the scene with Charlie and Neville. Felt bad for them both. It'd be nice if Miles was a little less awesome and MacGyverish though. After a while all the "perfect shot/can improvise his way out of anything" business gets a bit tiresome.
Also this show is hilarious with how everyone comments on the whole Bass+Miles thing. (Followed right up with the reveal that Bass and Rachel slept together to underscore the fact that Bass is completely straight, no gayness here, no siree!)
I liked the scene with Charlie and Neville. Felt bad for them both. It'd be nice if Miles was a little less awesome and MacGyverish though. After a while all the "perfect shot/can improvise his way out of anything" business gets a bit tiresome.
Also this show is hilarious with how everyone comments on the whole Bass+Miles thing. (Followed right up with the reveal that Bass and Rachel slept together to underscore the fact that Bass is completely straight, no gayness here, no siree!)
Kripke loves his bromantic sexual chemistry.
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The fact that I can't find a review of the last episode from any on my regular sites and the cfact that only 3 people posted for the last episode tell me its getting canceled.
Which is a damn shame because the show has gotten a lot better. It still has some issues but if S1 was as good as S2 I bet this show would have been a hit.
I liked this episode too it exemplified how fucked the main characters are. But sadly soon it'll get canned and shit will have indeed happened.
Which is a damn shame because the show has gotten a lot better. It still has some issues but if S1 was as good as S2 I bet this show would have been a hit.
I liked this episode too it exemplified how fucked the main characters are. But sadly soon it'll get canned and shit will have indeed happened.
NBC's fault. I didn't even realize it was coming back on till I went through what my PVR recorded.
rocksteady1983
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Exactly, I don't see how anyone can stay interested when they show one episode a month. It's stupid. I like the show enough I hope it doesn't get cancelled but wouldn't surprise me one bit with NBC's ridiculous sporadic showing of episodes people just aren't sticking with it.
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I've actually been really enjoying this season and hope it gets another. Far worse shows have been renewed.
RatskyWatsky
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Episode was sort of filler, but I think it worked due to the fact that the Charlie + Neville scenes contained some of the strongest character moments in the series to date.
Was the shed burning scene teased in the beginning of the season? This is the first time I recall having seen it.
Was the shed burning scene teased in the beginning of the season? This is the first time I recall having seen it.
Miles so tsun
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