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What would you do without it all? In this epic adventure, a family struggles to reunite in an American landscape void of electricity: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology -- computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights -- has mysteriously blacked out forever.
Fifteen years after a permanent global blackout, a group of revolutionaries seeks to drive out an occupying force posing as the United States Government.
Technically, this is a good show with nice sets, good CGI, and decent acting. Viewers will recognize many faces such as Juliet from "Lost", Paul from "Dexter", and of course Gus Fring from "Breaking Bad".
The premise is very interesting: 15 years after a global blackout, various factions are competing for power in what was previously the United States and ordinary people are struggling to survive in a world without electricity. The trailer is just excellent.
After having watched the first season, I felt quite disappointed, though. My problem with the show is that it does not convey the atmosphere of a post-apocalyptic world (or let's say post-cataclysmic, the world has not ended after all). You hardly ever see the protagonists struggling to cope with issues such as hunger, thirst or disease, which you would expect in such a scenario. In "Jericho" or "The Walking Dead", people are faced with shortage of food, medicine, bad harvest, bad weather, diseases, etc., while in "Revolution", our heroes can easily walk from Chicago to Philadelphia without ever worrying about food or health issues, always wearing fresh clothes and looking perfect (I just cannot stop staring at Norah's white teeth). In a symbolic scene (ep. 16), Charlie complains about a fellow soldier who refills his bottle at a river, stating that he slows down the group (being the heroine who the world revolves around, she obviously never has to worry about something as basic as refilling one's supplies).
Speaking of fellow soldiers: I found it also quite annoying that hundreds of people can drop like flies without anyone seeming to care, but try to hurt one of our main heroes and the camera goes into slow-mo and everyone loses their minds. It's like there are 2-3 noble families whose survival is crucial to mankind while the rest can go to hell. Likewise, the revolt against the evil militia dictatorship is triggered by the abduction of Charlie's brother Danny. If the militia hadn't touched Danny, his uncle Miles - the guy who can easily take out dozens of enemies with his bare hands - would have just retired in a run-down Chicago bar. Like Aron bluntly asks in ep. 5: "What can be more important than saving Danny?" Personal issues within the clique that represents all the major positions in this world (Miles' brother and sister-in-law invented the whole blackout-thing, his former best friend is dictator General Monroe, etc.) motivate all the rampages that kill thousands of less important people. At some point you wonder how Monroe or the rebels can have any soldiers left. And at some point I stopped rooting for Miles, Charlie & Co., who would always appear at the scene all of a sudden, kill all evil enemies effortlessly, and with a fierce look on their perfectly painted faces continue to do whatever they were doing.
You also wonder how large the US population can possibly be at that time. My guess would be 20,000 or so. Otherwise, these many coincidences become just too unlikely. For instance, Aron (a guy who can starve for days without losing weight) walks from Atlanta to a random village in Missouri just to find his wife that he abandoned years ago. There are many other things that you just don't buy. I'm not talking about magic amulet pendants although I could have gone without them. But, for example, it is well-known that people tend to become more patriotic in a crisis or depression, so why should a militia come to power that outlaws the use of a US flag and seeks to suppress the American identity... It seems more plausible that they would add their emblems (such as the Monroe M) to the existing symbols. To bring up the obvious analogy: The Nazis didn't come to power banning (pre-1919) German flags and imposing a whole new identity onto people.
What bothers me most, however, is that the show centers too much on overly long fights where Miles, Charlie and Nora kill dozens of evil henchmen without ever taking a critical hit, and on melodramatic dialogues concerning the main protagonists' personal problems that do not seem to fit into a world in crisis.
Fans of realistic portrayals of cataclysmic worlds in a dystopian future will prefer movies such as "Children of men", "The Road", or TV series "Jericho". Fans of long fight scenes in nice surroundings where the good guys always kill the bad guys with cross-bows from 80 yards while the bad guys alway miss the heroes with machine guns from black-hawk helicopters will like "Revolution".
I'll watch this and continue to watch it because I like TV and science fiction. However, this show has so many unreal situations it gets very maddening to watch. I find myself yelling at the stupidity of so many of the scenes shown like yelling at a football game.
There is an episode where they walk through a series of tunnels that get closed off by an explosion. There is no way they would run out of oxygen as fast as they do. The tunnels are too big and the amount of people and time involved is too small. The show uses this main premise to spend most of the show on the characters hallucinating. It was the worst episode I've watched so far, through 11 episodes.
In the episode where the mother makes the amplifier, why didn't she build in a timing device to make it fail if she wasn't there to reset the timer or any number of other ways to sabotage it without them knowing until she escaped or was killed. Why didn't she take two seconds to grab the pendant instead of drooling over the man she had just killed and then it was too late to grab the pendant.
Too many times when the good guys get the upper hand they just sit there gloating or moaning or lost it thought while the bad guys come in to take away their advantage.
In episode 10, why did the main character drive right into the battlefield with the precious surface-to-air missile and risk having it destroyed instead of driving up on the helicopter's blind side to blow them up. Why didn't the rebels have people staged at different places all over and outside the compound and hidden, in order to attack the helicopters with precision gun fire instead of bunching up all nicely to be slaughtered.
And what I hate the most about this show is the small force the show follows never seems to get a break or make any headway. Thousands more rebels are killed than Monroe forces. This show is way over-balanced in favor of the bad guys. It doesn't give you much to cheer for.
Guns do work. There's many scenes of characters using guns. However, the country the main characters live in, The Monroe Republic, has outlawed private firearms ownership. Most of the guns are in the possession of the authorities or criminals.
In addition, it's been commented by several characters that ammunition for modern, pre--Blackout, firearms is essentially impossible to manufacture* and thus rare. It's use is reserved mainly for important militia uses. Even rank and file militia members have resorted to using black powder weapons. A flashback scene in the first season fall finale shows fierce fighting in the early years of the blackout and General Monroe comments that they are running out of ammunition and will soon need to ration it.
*This of course doesn't explain how people in the pre-electricity era had copper jacketed bullets for use in their S&W six-shooters and Winchester rifles. Most local gun clubs have members that regularly make new ammo by refilling their spent cartridges and casting their own bullets. Not every technological ramification of the Blackout will be shown immediately, but we do see across the first season that some of these technologies do still exist. There's at least one working steam train in the Monroe Republic and bicycle are in use in some urban areas for transportation. Diesel is used to power electric engines, so just as gas powered engines do not work, neither does diesel engines.
There are some diesels that will start without glow plugs, but they are larger industrial engines. But, even so, getting such an engine started in cold weather would be very difficult as hand cranking would not be easy to accomplish. While obesity rates have increased in the modern era, and particularly among wealthier nations, obesity is by no means dependent on a modern consumer society. There have always been obese people and will always be obese people. The in story explanation is that whatever happened caused systems to fail over the course of several seconds. Some failed before others. Modern airplane controls are electronic so the rudder and flap control would have been lost along with the shutdown of the jet engines but there is no good explanation why every jet would enter a flat spin instead of just diving at high rates of speed. Pilots on one of their discussion forums claim it is hard to put an airliner into a flat spin so having all of them perform the maneuver would not have occured.
But not all modern aircraft would go into a dive. 737's would revert to manual reversion. If would make the aircraft very difficult to land but it could be done.
The real reason that the lighting was still on is that television is a visual medium and it's much more visually effective to allow the characters to look around and see the lights flickering out than it is to have them all just suddenly go out for no reason.
The cities were largely abandoned, soon after the electricity stopped. The Matheson family was shown walking away from their home, with what they could haul in a child's wagon. As they walked through the streets, they were nearly alone. Almost everyone has fled from the city.
All cities would become uninhabitable, soon after such a disaster. In the immediate aftermath, there would be widespread looting, and other violence. Then there would be shortages of food, medicine and other essentials. Within weeks, disease would spread throughout any areas of concentrated population. People would flee, to escape the violence and disease, and to seek food.
Well-built buildings can last a long time -- if they're occupied and maintained. Deserted buildings soon start to fall into disrepair, and then decay. In the second episode, we see buildings burning, and no fire departments to respond. The fire fighters have probably left -- and even if they were still there, their equipment no longer worked. It's apparent that looters have vandalized many buildings. Vandalized buildings decay rapidly.
We don't need to imagine what happens to unoccupied buildings, that have suffered from vandalism. Just search for photographs of the urban decay in Detroit, over the last couple of decades.US Governments created a nano technology that absorbs electricity. It was originally used to remove the power of a third world country as a way to quickly win a war, yet a problem occurred which resulted in a world-wide blackout.
There are several hundred trillions of these nano technology robots around the world It takes days to weeks to properly shut down a nuclear plant so that there is no meltdown of the core and years to decades to properly decommission a plant so what happened to them? Why no nuclear fallout?
It's possible they are still running or have been shut down carefully after 15 years.. The nanites that absorb electricity might be destroyed by the radiation of the fuel or there maybe a field around the plants similar to how the amulets work to shut off surrounding nanites giving the military time to shut down the plants. a5c7b9f00b
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