NBC’s ‘Revolution’ season 2 spoilers: Where does the series go from here?
On Monday night, “Revolution” said farewell (at least for the next several months) with an episode that can really be described in just one word: Explosions. There were plenty of them all across the board, and at times there were so many that even Michael Bay was suddenly shell-shocked. What in the world is going on with this show? We really don’t have much of an idea, given that its shining moments are often eclipsed (hence the image) by ridiculous storytelling and characters that don’t have any substance to them at all.
However, there was at least something interesting brought up during the season finale which was the presence of the President, albeit at a place in Guantanamo Bay that has only been a setting in real-life for prisoners and a “Harold & Kumar” movie. There is no word yet on who will play this part, but we guess that it will be someone who already has a name and could draw some attention back to the show upon its move to Wednesday. With Nora now dead, the show does need a new series regular.
With the power back on, hopefully the show can move away from senseless action and into a show that is more character-driven focusing on how some of these people can start to recover from everything that they have been through. We’d like to sit here and say that the series really made things better for itself in the finale, but it didn’t. Instead, we’re now just waiting to see if the writers really take any of the criticism to heart over the next several months, and if the production’s move to Austin will have any substantial impact of its own.
What do you want to see unfold during the show’s second season? Be sure to share some of your thoughts below! Also, if you want to read some more news related to “Revolution,” the best place to go is over at the link here.
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June 22, 2013 @ 10:34 pm
I had a lot of hope for this show, but it just got sillier and sillier as time went on.
The writers said they wanted to go for a “believable” reason as to why the power went off. I really did like the nanite idea, but the writers missed a golden opportunity I thought.
The show’s title card changes between “Revolution” and “Evolution”. I honestly thought the route they were going to go, was that the nanites had evolved and become sentient. When the denizens of the Tower were first revealed, I thought it was going to show the nanites had somehow taken those people over (Borg’ed). But nope, none of that.
The writers wanted to go for a somewhat believable idea on how the power went off, but then wanted us to completely forget that even with the ‘ability’ to turn the power back on, that there’s no way the lights would come on like they did at the end of the episode. The infrastructure would simply not be there to support it.
I’d like to know where all the fuel for the helicopters is coming from. Most of the additives in high end petroleum products like gasoline and avgas will break down after 6-12 months, leaving behind a gummy residue. Besides after 15 years of no power, most remaining fuel sources would have been burned for heating purposes.
And there is just no way that complex weapons like ICBM’s are still going to work, after sitting idle in their silos for 15 years with absolutely no maintenance. The writers would have been better off using the idea that one of those satellites in orbit was armed with a kinetic bombardment weapon (like in GI Joe:Retaliation). It would have been somewhat more believable, but I highly doubt that satellites in orbit would still be functioning after 15 years.
j100004
June 8, 2013 @ 9:18 pm
i want more explosions and a show that is less character driven.
mypinstripes
June 6, 2013 @ 1:19 am
The scripts need improvement and it’s really funny to watch the militia always running into the open and getting shot. Are they all that stupid? It would be nice too if Elizabeth Mitchell’s character wasn’t so much like the one on LOST.
Shadoefax
June 5, 2013 @ 8:47 pm
Having power restored does not kill the premise of the show, it just changes the direction of the story. The nanites (as far as the audience knows) have not been destroyed, but merely ‘turned off’ or re-programmed. Perhaps they can be programmed again to control power in only certain locations and/or conditions.
The direction the show seems to be taking is the initiation of a new Civil War. Atlanta, Philadelphia, Austin (or Dallas) will be in-fighting while the President in Cuba covertly amasses troops and re-purposes military equipment that was left to rust after the blackout.
Jr
June 7, 2013 @ 12:30 am
Exactly, it only changes the direction of the show. Not ruin it!
Daniel
June 5, 2013 @ 7:04 pm
I think that in order to stop the missiles from hitting atlanta and philidelphia they wil shut down the power again. Last second.
peter
June 5, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
I got tired of watching this series in the middle because of the pathetic characters in this show. Charlie is like a wrecking ball going thru and sabotaging the best plans and acting like she knows it all. I don’t understand why Miles put up with her when he had been so ruthless with everyone else. Except for being a cute blonde, she had no other positive contribution to the plot. Others suffer the consequences of her stupidity and rash actions. And it seems a bit ludicroius that the govt didn’t have some contingency plan in case things went wrong and they had to shut it down. They also don’t explain what the point of turning it on in the first place was. Stop all the electrical power in the world? Why?
SunshineGal85
June 5, 2013 @ 3:45 am
What I found intriguing when I saw the first previews for the pilot was the fact that there was no power. I didn’t care for all the military themes (though I guess that’s what a revolution is). Now they go and turn the lights back on? WTF?! Honestly, the most intrigued I’ve been about the entire show is that scene in the pilot where Charlie’s dad gets killed. But not that her dad got killed. I loved seeing their little village, with their little school, the stockade fence, and a vegetable garden in the trunk of a Volkswagen.
When I first heard that this was a show where there’s no longer any electricity, I was excited that this could mean a respite from all the high-action shows on television. Clearly, I was wrong.
Farnoud
June 5, 2013 @ 2:37 am
More flash backs i have billions nd billions of idea for the new revolution :) just need someone to ask me I would write a 8 hours of movie ;)
randall
June 5, 2013 @ 1:02 am
I wish they would stop making the actors look so clean. For real, Charlie’s hair is ridiculously well-manicured and lush and grease-free. It’s too unrealistic for me. Danny also looked so well-pampered. They do alright with Bass and Miles and Nora, but sometimes hair and make-up crew need to get a little more creative.
DarthLocke4
June 4, 2013 @ 9:11 pm
I think it will ruin the show if the power stays on, as it is it’s retro active with sci-fi mix that makes the dystopian working towards utopian story much more compelling and unique (it also then plays to our own history). IMO they will find away into the missile launch computer room and Aaron and maybe Grace will have to shut the power back off, because I think this scene with Randall is a real wake-up call, especially to Rachel, as now I think the reality of having this kind of power will not solve anyone’s problems, but make them worse.
If you go back to the beginning (“The Pilot”), it’s obvious a conspiracy had to be brewing. –Monroe was able to get access to the military base on the night of the black out without his military id, but rather with his “logo”, suggesting it “already” meant something before the black out occurred. Additionally in “No Quarter” an aluminum Monroe-logoed pop can spills out of a Monroe soldier’s back pack when Miles tackles him after chasing Charlie through the woods. I don’t think you could manufacture these cans without electricity, so again there is something “pre-planed” here.
Then we have Texas: This episode basically paralleled and/or fed into Cuban Missile Crisis/Cold War, The assassination of JFK, and President Bush portrait with key card extending us to G. Bay.
Nora was from Texas (so were her parents, which her father might be a point of interest) and Texas was dropped a lot of the second half of the season including Priscilla residing in Texas, to Neville calling Miles “Tex”, and the fall out with Alec stemming from some other assassination gone wrong, where Alec was sent to Texas to fight a war, which seemingly the Monroe Republic lost.
It also should be noted that Revolution is changing filming locations from N.C. to Texas!!!
There are also parallels with Alias’ series finale “All the Time in World” and by extension Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
IMO there are things here that have been pointing to this all along.
Jr
June 7, 2013 @ 12:29 am
No it will not ruin it! Its going to be boring if it stays off. It has to come on someday! Dumba**!!!
DarthLocke4
June 7, 2013 @ 12:37 am
Hmmm your comment seems to imply that you’re the one that might not be so smart, since you couldn’t even respond without name calling.
IMO the show’s uniqueness lies in it’s aesthetic, which plays homage to humanities past with just a dash of advanced tech and beautifully in it’s spiritual aspirations, which play nice to ‘man in the wilderness’ themes.