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Spartans346
Footballguy
Please let us know what you think of it!!!
Spartans346
Footballguy
Star Trek
shader
Footballguy
Lost was pretty awesome for most of its run. As was Alias for a couple seasons.
Marvin
Footballguy
Hmmm...we'll just have to agree to disagree. And then agree that I'm right.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I really want to be interested in this but after the debacle that was Flash Forward I am leery.
Politician Spock
Footballguy
Marvin
Footballguy
Did you catch any of "Alcatraz"? It was horrid.
shader
Footballguy
First 15 minutes are good. Has a "Jericho" feel with better actors.
Rayderr
Footballguy
If it wasn't for the whole "I have the mystic jewel which will restore electricity to Earth" angle, I'd be all in on this show. A drama about people adopting to olife after electricity stops working would've been kinda interesting. But this, not so much. I suspect it lasts the season but doesn't get renewed.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Great concept, but you're right, bad execution.Shows like this need to learn the lesson that Battlestar Galactica got right - you can't "tease" forever. Eventually you have to have Something Major happen otherwise the audience will give up. That was the greatness of BG, they were always leading up to and delivering Big Stuff.
shader
Footballguy
Just started BG on Netflix...Good show so far.
Rayderr
Footballguy
Also watching it on Netflix. Just about at the end of Season 1. Not bad, but I'm having trouble getting past the fact that the show is basically a game of werewolf.
shader
Footballguy
Mystic Jewel? Isn't is just a USB drive?
Rayderr
Footballguy
Honestly, I have no idea wtf it is. They just show some necklace pendant looking thing that glows. USB drive, mystic jewel, ctrl-alt-delete button for the world's generators, it doesn't matter. the whole mystery angle does not make me want to watch. Especially with the way shows like Lost, Alcatraz, and Heroes progressed. DOn't give me a mystery I have to wait years to maybe find the answer to, just give me a good story.
cstu
Footballguy
"It's about the characters"
Brady Marino
Footballguy
Alias and Lost are two shining examples of an Abrams show: a show that starts hot with a great premise and then just withers and dies, with small peaks sprinkled in. Alias was great for Seasons 1 and 2, dipped in Season 3, recovered nicely in Season 4, and then crashed like the damn Hindenberg in Season 5. Lost was great for Season 1, then things got goofy. Juliette and Ben Linus saved the show from being truly horrid in its last years.
shader
Footballguy
Go back and watch the first five minutes. I don't think it's magical at all.
Drifter
Footballguy
I've been reading China Mieville's books recently and he is absolutely brilliant and taking small characters and involving them in world shaking events very gradually. The story slowly expands their sense of awareness and the things that are important to them until they are finally involved in huge events - albeit as small, yet key players. That's how a story like this should unfold. Don't throw the special gadget at us right away. Save it. Start with the characters and their local concerns and gradually grow it until that is uncovered. Peel the onion back, don't just start by chopping it in half.
shader
Footballguy
Revisionist history. Lost was pretty awesome through the first 4 seasons. You can go look at the season 3 thread and see that the final 10 episodes of season three were just amazing. I think many lost interest when time travel started. I personally loved whole thing, aside from the final episode. I agree on Alias. Me and the wife were freaks the first two seasons. Then the rimbaldi stuff made us totally lose interest.
shader
Footballguy
I agree. The problem is that these shows have to grab interest pretty much immediately or they get cancelled. Catch 22.I think AMC, Hbo, and other shows that guarantee shows for entire first seasons are in much better situations.
Drifter
Footballguy
I think that given the premise there is enough interest in end of the world scenarios that people would watch without the gizmo revealed.
pantherclub
Footballguy
Lost was in fact a horrid show
pantherclub
Footballguy
From Wiki:
Revolution takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. Fifteen years earlier, an unknown phenomenon disabled all advanced technology on the planet, ranging from computers and electronics to car engines, jet engines, and batteries. People were forced to adapt to a world without technology, and due to the collapse of public order, many areas are ruled by warlords and militias. The series focuses on the Matheson family, who possess an item that is the key to not only finding out what happened fifteen years ago, but also a possible way to reverse its effects. However, they must elude various enemy groups who want to possess that power for themselves.[6]
No effing thanks
sounds horrible
Revolution takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. Fifteen years earlier, an unknown phenomenon disabled all advanced technology on the planet, ranging from computers and electronics to car engines, jet engines, and batteries. People were forced to adapt to a world without technology, and due to the collapse of public order, many areas are ruled by warlords and militias. The series focuses on the Matheson family, who possess an item that is the key to not only finding out what happened fifteen years ago, but also a possible way to reverse its effects. However, they must elude various enemy groups who want to possess that power for themselves.[6]
No effing thanks
sounds horrible
Rayderr
Footballguy
Lost had 2 main problems. 1. There was the fight with ABC over how long it should last, so we got about 2 seasons of just treading in water until they agreed on an end date. B. They had no ####ing idea where they were going with it. Hence lots of unanswered questions and an ending that made no sense.
Brady Marino
Footballguy
While Melissa George (Vaughn's squeeze while Sydney was missing) nearly destroyed my interest in the show, Mia Maestro (who played Nadia) rekindled it big time. Big fan of that character, which I understand I'm in the minority on.I thought the Rambaldi stuff was fine and you knew it was going to play a role at some point from the very get-go. But they could have easily ended it in Season 4 and instead we had the dreck that was Season 5.
Parrothead
Footballguy
sounds more like a video game than a series
pantherclub
Footballguy
Yeah but the whole "secret key" angle just promises to muck up a promising storyline. Instead of a mad max in America type deal we will have to navigate through the stupid key cliffhangers etc.
cstu
Footballguy
Socrates11
Footballguy
Flash Forward could have been so good. It's a tragedy that it turned into boring, cliched crap so quickly. :(
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I'm guessing something with this description is probably more your speed:
mcintyre1
Footballguy
Fringe has been getting much better as the series goes on, IMO. I don't think there's enough of a permanent trend in JJ-branded shows to label them all, yet. But yeah, Lost really went off the rails toward the end. I would say more like season 4, though, not season 1.
Brady Marino
Footballguy
Things did start to get a little weird with Season 2, though. But you're right, things really didn't start careening off the rails until after Season 4.
mcintyre1
Footballguy
Ah, sure, I guess that's where the difference is then. I'm good with weird, I just can't take weird for the sake of being weird with no end result.
I would have used an Excellent Posting icon if one existed. This was my exact thought process. When I saw the first commercials about a planet that no longer has electricity, I was pretty excited about it. I thought it would be very interesting seeing how people adapted, survived, what the writers thought the world would look like 15 years after the event. Then I saw another one and it had the girl trying to unravel the mystery of her father's death and his involvement in the incident, and my interest dove straight in to the ground. Will probably watch a few episodes, but fully expect it to go sappy soap opera after the first couple.
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Socrates11
Footballguy
Gregg Easterbrook, writer of the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for ESPN had this to say about 'Revolution'...http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/story/_/id/8363360/is-green-bay-sync-san-francisco-next-nfl-powerhouse
Marvin
Footballguy
Oops. The rest of the show happened.This thing is pretty lame. Started off on a fairly even, if not mediocre keel, but soon morphed into ridiculousness. That fight scene was laughable. And how many times did we have to see a character facing a death-blow only to be saved by an unexpected arrow or knife in the bad guy's back. Freaking cartoonish.
mlball77
Footballguy
Sounds like I'm in the same camp as many others with this show. The general premise of surviving years after total power outage is interesting and has promise. Where this show appears to be taking things looks sort of lame and hokey based on the couple of commercials I've seen. That said, I'll still give it a shot and see what happens. I'm not that optimistic, but I did Terra Nova a full season (ugh).
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cstu
Footballguy
So did I and despite my better judgement I will watch this one too.
Thunderlips
Footballguy
That's the problem with Network TV....they have to sell you a hook (CAN WE GET THE POWER BACK ON?) in the first couple of episodes. A show like this would work better if that hook happened at the end of the second or third season.
Rayderr
Footballguy
I'm at the point where I skip the first season, and if it gets good reviews and gets renewed, then I'll rent the first season on DVD and start watching. DOne it for shows like Fringe and Grimm. Wish I had done it for Alcatraz.
But did this show need that sort of hook? I would have actually been much, much happier without it. Not sure why they even feel the possiblity of turning power back on needs to be there.
