Revolution

[Zeb_Carter]

Revolution is a series on NBC. It's about...a bunch of stuff, but mainly about some scientists who let loose a bunch of nanobots with just two commands, well actually four, if you count on/off as two. First, replicate. Second, absorb electricity. In essence they shut the light off. All over the world.

Well anyway, a bunch of stuff happens and the US is no more. Blah, blah, blah.

Problems with the story line...

1. "there are trillions and trillions of them and they absorb all the electricity" - Then how come all life on the planet isn't dead? Everything in the human body as well as all the animals, etc, happens due to electrical impulses. If "they are everywhere, in every breath you take, in you blood stream" why doesn't everyone die?

2. In the season 2 premier they show a lightening bug causing the nanobots to become excited and flash like they do. Problem: The light emitted by the lightening bug is a chemical reaction, not electrical.

I think the writers should do a little more homework.

Will I stop watching it? No, I do want to see Monroe get killed. Probably won't happen, but I can hope.

 

[Handley_Page]

Has Marvel or DC Comics anything to do with it ?

 

[JackLuis]

Revolution is a series on NBC.

1. "there are trillions and trillions of them and they absorb all the electricity" - Then how come all life on the planet isn't dead? Everything in the human body as well as all the animals, etc, happens due to electrical impulses. If "they are everywhere, in every breath you take, in you blood stream" why doesn't everyone die?

I think the writers should do a little more homework.

Will I stop watching it? No, I do want to see Monroe get killed. Probably won't happen, but I can hope.

If they are "absorbing electricity" (collecting electrons)won't their little nanobot butts be repelled from one another after a while?

"Unobtainimum," any one?

It's real hard to come up with a SyFy distopian disaster, and be believable about it. I used a plague.

 

[sr71plt]

Yet another TV show I haven't bothered to watch.

 

[PayDay]

If they are "absorbing electricity" (collecting electrons)won't their little nanobot butts be repelled from one another after a while?

That's the plan

"Unobtainimum," any one?

Worser Joke Ever.

It's real hard to come up with a SyFy distopian disaster, and be believable about it. I used a plague.

Reality exists

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Has Marvel or DC Comics anything to do with it ?

No...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

If they are "absorbing electricity" (collecting electrons)won't their little nanobot butts be repelled from one another after a while?

"Unobtainimum," any one?

It's real hard to come up with a SyFy distopian disaster, and be believable about it. I used a plague.

No they use it to reproduce, among other things.

SyFy? The network it's on is NBC.

 

[hylas_]

I watched the first six episodes or so, because I'm a sucker for post-apocalyptic sci-fi, and I thought the initial premise was really cool ("what if all electricity shuts off worldwide over night?"). There were a couple of other elements I liked: steampunk, crossbows, swordfights, Elizabeth Mitchell, the possibility for political storylines.

But yeah, the whole thing is a dud, for various reasons. The main problem is that writers don't seem to realize, the main appeal of the premise is that the electricity shut down, not why. The lead actress didn't impress me either, the stories stayed almost aggressively apolitical, and the over-all "feel" of the show was off. Way too sqeaky-clean for a show about the end of civilisation.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

My first thought when I saw previews for it was, "Electricity doesn't work like that," and I mirrored Zebs thoughts on it. As such, I have had no inclination to watch that show.

 

[mangydawg]

I couldn't watch it anymore after a few episodes. Too many holes.

You really telling me that with all the guns and ammo in private hands, freaking crossbows and swords will dominate? Really?

Gasoline engines can be converted to run on steam. We would see a lot of steam power if the lights went out.

What about static electricity? Wouldn't the nanobots absorb that, too? There is quite a bit of it. WTH happens during a lightning strike?


I liked the premise of everyone losing electricity. Energy is the base of our economy, constituting $ .80 out of every American dollar. Our access to energy allows us to live the way we do.

If someone were to spread the word about a method of obtaining cost-free energy and it spread, the world economy would crash, most likely. For example, if I said you can string a long (1,000 feet) wire 10 feet or higher to act as a static collector, attach a spark plug to the end at ground level, spark the built up static electricity into an automotive coil, then from the coil into a deep cycle battery to pulse charge it at no monetary cost, and a lot of people believed the automotive coil would lower the voltage and raise the amps enough that each pulse would charge the battery, then energy would become cost-free and clean.

Luckily, no one would even consider such a stupid idea. We really need to keep burning coal and oil if we're to maintain an economy based on scarcity, rather than abundance.

 

[MSTarot]

Haven't seen the show but was told that a lot of it has the feel of a S.M. Stirling series of books.

The Change series.

Don't know yet myself if it does as I just bought the first book today and have other things I'm trying to get read first.

 

[Nightwork1]

I'll admit I'm a fan of the show. Yeah there are some (okay, lots) of holes in the story lines but I'm willing to over-look those. I mean the show is for entertainment, not reality.

A change I've noticed since season two started is the writers have incorporated a little more humor sprinkled with a few pop culture references into the episodes. In last weeks episode where the TV show 'Walker Texas Ranger' got brought-up had me laughing like an idiot.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And now it seems that, after a brief moment of turning on the power, the nanobots can not only bring a dead person back to life but they can heal him and they can kill others. It would seem now that all the rats on earth are dead

Wonder if they come back to life in the next episode?

 

[Nightwork1]

Wonder if they come back to life in the next episode?

I recently got my stepdaughter hooked on this show and the first thing I told her is don't get too attached to any one character because the show is pretty good at killing them off just as you start to like them. The second thing, some of the killed-off characters don't stay dead for long! LOL.

I'm curious about the rat thing as well. Could they be the proverbial canary in a coal mine? After all don't rats have similar circularity systems to humans?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I recently got my stepdaughter hooked on this show and the first thing I told her is don't get too attached to any one character because the show is pretty good at killing them off just as you start to like them. The second thing, some of the killed-off characters don't stay dead for long! LOL.

I'm curious about the rat thing as well. Could they be the proverbial canary in a coal mine? After all don't rats have similar circularity systems to humans?

That I don't know...about the rats that is.