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Revolution...a review, well sort of.
Sep. 18th, 2012 10:32 pmSo did anyone else watch Revolution? Not seeing any reviews on the old flist, so assuming not?
It's rather silly. And, sigh, been done elsewhere, better. Lost, this ain't.
Feels very..I want to say, comic-bookish?
Here's the set-up: ( spoilers - plot summary of episode )
TV really doesn't tend to do sci-fi all that well, generally speaking, does it? Makes sense why people make fun of this genre. Was thinking much the same thing while flipping through recent sci-fi/fantasy flicks on netflix. They are all cheesy horror flicks.
Mainly because television writers don't tend to have science backgrounds (they skipped science in school - it's not a subject you have to take if you are film, business or theater major or English Lit major for that matter) and therefore skimp on the details. It's sort of like watching sci-fi by way of Stephen King or worse, Marvel comics. There are exceptions of course.
Revolution, alas, feels more like Lost in Space by way of Terra Nova, than Lost, Caprica or BSG. Or even Dollhouse or Walking Dead for that matter.
And it has some of the same problems as Lost and Alias, which is the premise doesn't make any sense. So you have to suspend your disbelief in a major league way from the start.
I normally, as you know, don't have that much difficulty with this sort of thing. But,
the dialogue is not exactly stellar here. The best line to date, was, I'd give 80 million dollars in the bank for a roll of charmin, which is only a good line if you don't ask yourself in the next breath - "wait, why isn't there any charmin or toilet paper, when you have shampoo?"
It's also a bit on the predictable side. With a lot of cliche set-ups. The star-crossed romance, the reluctant hero (who was a bad guy once upon a time), the distrusting step-mom,
the missing/allegedly dead Mom...enough for me to realize this particular trope has reached its saturation point and been done to death. Yes, I have a weakness for it. But no one can do it well, damn it. This is not Issac Asimov folks, or even Stephen King for that matter.
I may try a few more episodes to see if it gets better, there's a few interesting characters in there and I like the female heroines, but overall, it doesn't appear to be much of a keeper.
D+
It's rather silly. And, sigh, been done elsewhere, better. Lost, this ain't.
Feels very..I want to say, comic-bookish?
Here's the set-up: ( spoilers - plot summary of episode )
TV really doesn't tend to do sci-fi all that well, generally speaking, does it? Makes sense why people make fun of this genre. Was thinking much the same thing while flipping through recent sci-fi/fantasy flicks on netflix. They are all cheesy horror flicks.
Mainly because television writers don't tend to have science backgrounds (they skipped science in school - it's not a subject you have to take if you are film, business or theater major or English Lit major for that matter) and therefore skimp on the details. It's sort of like watching sci-fi by way of Stephen King or worse, Marvel comics. There are exceptions of course.
Revolution, alas, feels more like Lost in Space by way of Terra Nova, than Lost, Caprica or BSG. Or even Dollhouse or Walking Dead for that matter.
And it has some of the same problems as Lost and Alias, which is the premise doesn't make any sense. So you have to suspend your disbelief in a major league way from the start.
I normally, as you know, don't have that much difficulty with this sort of thing. But,
the dialogue is not exactly stellar here. The best line to date, was, I'd give 80 million dollars in the bank for a roll of charmin, which is only a good line if you don't ask yourself in the next breath - "wait, why isn't there any charmin or toilet paper, when you have shampoo?"
It's also a bit on the predictable side. With a lot of cliche set-ups. The star-crossed romance, the reluctant hero (who was a bad guy once upon a time), the distrusting step-mom,
the missing/allegedly dead Mom...enough for me to realize this particular trope has reached its saturation point and been done to death. Yes, I have a weakness for it. But no one can do it well, damn it. This is not Issac Asimov folks, or even Stephen King for that matter.
I may try a few more episodes to see if it gets better, there's a few interesting characters in there and I like the female heroines, but overall, it doesn't appear to be much of a keeper.
D+