I say I want a Revolution

[andrewducker]

NBC's new TV show Revolution looks endlessly entertaining and over the top:

Largely because it's a silly idea, I'm willing to bet the writers know nothing about physics, and it has completely unrealistic sword-fighting in it. I can't wait.

Comments

[gominokouhai]

Why does the shotgun work? If the shotgun works, then internal combustion engines work.

Looks pretty, though. I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic scenarios.

[andrewducker]

Well, you could make non-electric internal combustion engines work. Are there many cars around nowadays like that? If not then you're talking about getting all sorts of things back off the ground after a massive global die-back. I can see that taking more than 15 years (I'd expect the first 5-10 years to be entirely made up of massive plagues, famines and local wars).

It looked fantastic - the overgrown city scapes are beautiful.

[davegodfrey]

All the steam engine fans should be able to sort you out no problem.

Although I'm a little worried about how they explain "all electricity fails". Because of y'know failing physics and rendering animal life as we know it impossible.

[jack]

Yeah, electricity hardly needs to shut off forever; the technological base would probably crash completely if it shut off for a few months, putting them in just the same situation :)

Except now I've started to find "9 billion people starve to death" stories more depressing and less cozy than when I first read Day of the Triffids. Or is that too pessimistic? Presumably the subsistence farmers might be ok, if they're not reliant on sterile GM crops. How much of the world population is still primarily living on a farm without needing electricity?

[jack]

Also, when someone has a knife to your throat, it's too late for ranged weapons. When someone is standing on a staircase grandstanding with a Katana is the perfect time for ranged weapons, not sending everyone in to charge him :) But yeah, I appreciate the cool: no TV shows EVER have plausible physics or a plot that withstands scrutiny, I'm not going to quibble with this one :)

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

I think I might be quite excited about this.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

That looks awesome.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

mm.

this looks like something I'll cheerfully wait for season 1 to end :)

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Hmm, looks intriguing, but 'high concept' shows don't seem to have done so very well in the last few years. The Event, Alcatraz, Awake, The River, Flashforward - all high concept shows, all crashed and burned after one season.

Production design looks good though...

[andrewducker]

I have to say, I am very fed up with shows that set up a mystery and then spin it out over multiple seasons, constantly teasing the audience.

If there's an answer to why the electricity is off then I want it out in the open by the end of season one, and the plot to revolve around what they're doing about it!

[peadarog.livejournal.com]

ooh, that does look fun...

[skington.livejournal.com]

Seriously? "electricity" stops working, but our nervous system and brains keep on working? Biology and fire carry on working just fine, hell, guns still work, but for some reason the chemistry involved in the internal combustion engine fails? But despite all of that, we apparently have a sufficient quantity of stockpiled clothes, that are somehow protected from the elements despite the lack of refrigeration or any other kind of climate control, that people are walking around with modern-day leather jackets?

Oh, and one guy has a device that temporarily enables electricity in his area, and that somehow spreads across the phone network, across every router, switch and hub?

[andrewducker]

I think that leather jackets will last 15 years.

But other than yes, clearly very silly. I'm looking forward to throwing things at the screen!