Posted on 05/09/2014 5:02:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Today is a big but mostly bad day for fans of NBCs programming. Community has reportedly already failed to reach its goal of six seasons and a movie and now it seems there is more bad news on the NBC front. Word on the street is that Revolution and newcomer dramas Believe and Crisis have all been flushed out of the NBC lineup. (Good news for Hannibal fans though!)
Id like to say that these cancellations are surprising, but NBC has been dealing with a paltry lineup for some time and the aforementioned dramas really werent helping to improve things. Take Revolution for example. While the seasoned drama did well during its first season and had a J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke pedigree to boot, the show faltered in the ratings toward the end of Season 1 and was close to a failure this seasonespecially considering the sci fi dramas expensive budget. It honestly seemed clear that the show would not get a third season when the headlines for the Season 2 premiere made it clear that the ratings were way down from the show's initial outing.
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Ahh well, there's always The Black List.
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
Very good!
I liked the show at first. I stopped watching it when I saw that episode where they captured a scientist who worked for the enemy in Biological research with the intent to make a disease weapon.
The good guys capture him. The Girl (I can't even remember the names anymore) decided to incite a mutiny so as to free this horribly deadly man. She and her accomplices aim weapons at their superior officers, disobey orders, commandeer a vessel, and attempt to unite this scientist with the rest of his family.
They end up getting several of their fellow soldiers killed, and they end up losing the boat. It was an utter disaster.
What would have happened had the story been real, is that the entire group of mutineers would have been shot or hung, and it wouldn't matter that she was the niece of whatshisname. No army could tolerate that level of mutiny, especially a mutiny resulting in the deaths of fellow soldiers, the capture/destruction of a very valuable watercraft, and the near holocaust which could have occurred had this scientist fallen back in enemy hands.
What happened in the episode is that the Uncle tut tutted her youthful indiscretion, and they all walked away with no consequences for what they had done.
At that point, the show jumped the shark. There was no way to redeem it, it had simply broken the rule of "suspension of disbelief". It was no longer in the realm of plausibility, it had become utter nonsense fantasy.
I do not consider my criticism to be a "nit pick". I consider that episodes' violation of the norms of expected human behavior to be so egregious that the show was simply irredeemable afterwards. I never watched another episode. I simply couldn't stand to watch what an utter farce it had become.
So yeah, I agree with you that "Revolution was a great idea that was poorly executed."
I really tried to watch Revolution. Thought the first part of the first season was pretty good but wow it went downhill fast. I didn’t find any of the characters likeable enough to root for them.
I liked Believe a little (enjoyed the pilot, but every other episode seems to have the exact same plot) & Crisis a lot...hope they tie up the storyline for Crisis (bus full of DC private school students, including First Son, kidnapped by disgruntled ex-CIA parent) in the last episode.
Revolution I think I watched a few times but it was too depressing.
It was why I quit reading S. M. Stirling's Dies the Fire. The Nantucket series was really good and I wanted more but the Emberverse? Time travel I can accept. That when you mix charcoal, saltpeter and sulfur you don't get big boom I can not.
Get caught, get beat up, escape. Get caught, get beat up, escape.....throw in a nuking of Philadelpha just for spice.
Then the nano-bots showed up.........
I don't think the writers had a clue where they were going, just write some silly crap to keep the episodes coming.......
the old networks continue to thing bad programs which attack Americanism and promote deviancy are viable. Advertisers should wake up and realize that left wing programs COST them profits.
Yes, but there was a sly sense of self-parody during the second season that made watching the performances fun.
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