Anybody watch "Revolution"?

[Netpackrat]

Another thing that Alaska does not have any shortage of is water. You just may have to obtain it in solid form at some times of the year.

[Jericho941]

I sat through three episodes of that crap.

Someone should round up the writers, make them watch the show, only pausing it every five minutes to play this for them.

You see... the problem isn't just that the premise is stupid. It isn't that nobody knows what diesel or steam engines are, or how to make ammo, and hair and beauty products remain in abundance. It's not that the bad guys somehow manage to brutally enforce gun control in America WITH MUSKETS. These are background annoyances. Most of the time. The show insists on shoving these in your face from time to time.

The real main problems with this show are that:

There isn't a single likeable or even sympathetic protagonist. The only people who are remotely interesting are in the Bad Guy Militia. You've got a fat whiny neckbeard, a thin whiny Limey, a whiny teenage girl with a crossbow and a whiny teenage boy with asthma. He's managed to have two life-threatening attacks in as many episodes. He gets captured and the others have to try and save him, but get distracted by ass-pull plot twists every fifteen minutes.

They TRY to add some interesting characters but fail. There's the supposedly alcoholic antihero uncle with a super dark past... but all he basically does is whine about how stupid the stupid girl's ideas are before going along with what she wants, and then says "I told you so" when it all goes to hell. Also, apparently they teach you how to use swords perfectly and start dictatorships at Parris Island. Then they added some chick with the rebels who's supposed to have her own tragic past and whatnot, but I honestly can't remember anything about her beyond the fact that she looks uncannily like a hispanic Sarah Silverman.

They keep trying to twist the plot... but you have to establish a plot before you start twisting it. Most shows manage to go at least ONE season before the writers let everything fall apart in a convoluted mess that shows they never really knew what they were doing. These guys decided that they couldn't wait that long. I don't know how to describe it besides saying "This show has ADD." By jumping around and trying to twist things every five minutes, it completely kills my interest in everything happening on-screen. I mean, there's fighting and stuff, but I just don't care. Especially because what fighting there is is incredibly stupid. Like how they managed to acquire a bolt-action sniper rifle before being trapped in a restaurant. "GET UP TO THE ROOF. ANYONE COMES WITHIN TEN YARDS: FIRE."

I am not making up that line. And so some jackass rebel manages to defend a Bennigan's by sniping from the rooftop... right out in the open... at anyone who dares to get within spitting distance. For about twelve hours. At no point was the ENTIRE MILITIA PLATOON able to just say "screw this," retreat to a safe distance and throw a musket volley or two at him or even just take cover and shoot back sporadically. Their brilliant plan was to throw men at him, one at a time, until he ran out of bullets.


"Thirty feet. A true test of marksmanship!"

All that makes the rest a background annoyance... most of the time. But since they decided one of the subplots must be "fixing the stupidpocalypse," they insist on dragging that out wad of sandpaper and rubbing it all over your face once an episode. No, having your fatass neckbeard who constantly whines about how he used to be rich working for Google come right out and say "it cornholed the laws of physics!" (another actual line) DOES NOT MAKE IT BETTER.

[Draven]

a whiny teenage girl with a crossbow

A whiny teenage girl with a crossbow which still works even though its prod and string are completely reversed....



(someone correct me if there are crossbows that work like that...)

[Frankingun]

Crossbows with reversed limbs are in fashion right now. I guess that keeps the weight of the limbs between the hands. I have a low end recurve crossbow, so I may not be totally correct.

[Draven]

Ah ok, wouldn't surprise me if the bolt leaving her crossbow was CG most every shot anyway.

[Yogimus]

It's called a "Bullpup" crossbow.

[Draven]

*waits for Chris to chime in on bullpups

[Highspeed]

Don't start me on bullpups either

[Jericho941]

Did you just bring a Bullpup on the line?

[merll2005]

The 10 Dumbest Things on TV So far This Season

aka scab refeerees and Revolution.