TV-Blogging: REVOLUTION
So this is when I blog about television or the-thing-that-keeps-me-awake-and-unproductive-for-days.
Disclaimer: this isn't a very good review, I'll admit. It's a lazy one; a very very very very lazy blog. And I was supposed to talk about Glee but I guess I'll watch this week's episode too and blog about it afterwards.
Today I review Revolution, produced by J.J. Abrams and apparently from the director of Iron Man, but I've never watched Iron Man so I'm not excited about that. I was excited about Abrams since he produced/directed (one of those) Lost and that's like, an epic mindfuck of 100 + episodes that I cried and screamed at when it was on.
Revolution is set in a post-apocalyptic world with no technology or electricity, or what they call the Blackout (very reminiscent of the Blackout from Flashforward) and very ironic since this is a television show, powered by electricity and technology and such.
I didn't watch the trailer before I watched the show. I watched it based solely on my love for post-apocalyptic stories and J.J. Abrams. And the first five minutes of it were satisfying... the urgency of impending doom and how oblivious some characters were to this huge blackout. The kids were playing on the iPad, watching TV and the mom was speaking to grandma on her iPhone. In another scene, another character was texting and using GPS. And all oh-so-techno-filled!
I find that interesting since TV and movies haven't quite completely incorporated how much we use technology on a daily basis and the characters usually just use it a little but never to the real extent that we actually do.
Anyway, I thought that part was a little... cheesy. Then the lights went out and some sockets blew up. The planes started falling and crashing which freaked me out but apparently didn't freak out many others.
Then pan out to the WHOLE EARTH, GOING DARRKKKKKK!! and boom, 15 years later.
Basically, just watch the trailer and you've watched the whole first episode.
What I thought (in bullet points):
I don't really see this show going very far at this point just because none of the characters were likable or memorable and all seemed very much like cut-outs from a how-to book. But I am looking forward to figuring out what's so important about Charlie's dad and her uncle and why he only knows why technology disappeared. What did Charlie's dad do anyway?
Overall, this show reminds me of that show about the dinosaurs and the time travelling (the name escapes me) and just how stock-ish the characters are. It's all very much like a book written only to fulfill the desires of the public audience and not really to break boundaries or explore a concept that could go very deep and be awe-inspiring.
Have you guys seen the trailer for Beauty and the Beast? My god, the acting looks horrible.
Disclaimer: this isn't a very good review, I'll admit. It's a lazy one; a very very very very lazy blog. And I was supposed to talk about Glee but I guess I'll watch this week's episode too and blog about it afterwards.
Today I review Revolution, produced by J.J. Abrams and apparently from the director of Iron Man, but I've never watched Iron Man so I'm not excited about that. I was excited about Abrams since he produced/directed (one of those) Lost and that's like, an epic mindfuck of 100 + episodes that I cried and screamed at when it was on.
Click to viewRevolution is set in a post-apocalyptic world with no technology or electricity, or what they call the Blackout (very reminiscent of the Blackout from Flashforward) and very ironic since this is a television show, powered by electricity and technology and such.
I didn't watch the trailer before I watched the show. I watched it based solely on my love for post-apocalyptic stories and J.J. Abrams. And the first five minutes of it were satisfying... the urgency of impending doom and how oblivious some characters were to this huge blackout. The kids were playing on the iPad, watching TV and the mom was speaking to grandma on her iPhone. In another scene, another character was texting and using GPS. And all oh-so-techno-filled!
I find that interesting since TV and movies haven't quite completely incorporated how much we use technology on a daily basis and the characters usually just use it a little but never to the real extent that we actually do.
Anyway, I thought that part was a little... cheesy. Then the lights went out and some sockets blew up. The planes started falling and crashing which freaked me out but apparently didn't freak out many others.
Then pan out to the WHOLE EARTH, GOING DARRKKKKKK!! and boom, 15 years later.
Basically, just watch the trailer and you've watched the whole first episode.
What I thought (in bullet points):
- The beginning set up was good yet anti-climatic with the 15 year jump but they allude to that gap throughout the episode and will probably continue on doing that as the show progresses. Again, very much like Flashforward.
- The kids in the beginning of the episode grow up and Charlie (older daughter) reminds me of a clumsier, weaker version of Katniss from The Hunger Games. She's more wide-eyed and... lame. She's missing the badass component that I think is what the show wants her to be.
- Danny grew up nice and good looking as Charlie's younger brother. He has asthma and hair like Sam Evans from Glee and is weak and rash.
- Are all the characters here weak and rash? Like Nate, who is the militia and supposed antagonist group against Charlie and her group. He played the pretend-nice guy well but then, reveals that he's not nice only to go on to un-reveal that he's actually nice but embarrassed 'cause omgz he lykes the main charac, charrlieeee!!!!
- The uncle of Charlie is Miles and he's all like "omg, i is sao cool and drunk cuz i used to be in the military and even after 15 years, i am still badass and look exactly the same." He's basically the Haymitch from The Hunger Games in this show.
- I wanted bloodier fight scenes. There's something very pleasing about blood actually staining the knife and blasting out of split arteries and open skin. But this is American TV and played on a weekday so it's gotta be PG-ish.
- I don't understand how Charlie has such cool, not worn out boots.
- I like the lady that saves Danny though and who is the one typing on the ghetto computer.
I don't really see this show going very far at this point just because none of the characters were likable or memorable and all seemed very much like cut-outs from a how-to book. But I am looking forward to figuring out what's so important about Charlie's dad and her uncle and why he only knows why technology disappeared. What did Charlie's dad do anyway?
Overall, this show reminds me of that show about the dinosaurs and the time travelling (the name escapes me) and just how stock-ish the characters are. It's all very much like a book written only to fulfill the desires of the public audience and not really to break boundaries or explore a concept that could go very deep and be awe-inspiring.
Have you guys seen the trailer for Beauty and the Beast? My god, the acting looks horrible.