Okay, I DVR'd "Revolution" and I watched the premier and I am watching the second episode and it did not take very long to disappoint.
Second episode has the group formed in the first episode (heroine girl named Charlie, fat nerdy guy, British woman, heroine girl's ex-military uncle) trekking around in search of Charlie's brother who was captured by a (evil) militia. But it seems the militia is also hunting the uncle (who is like a kung fu master with a sword) and they encounter a bounty hunter who is after the uncle. They fight. Uncle is about to run the bounty hunter through with sword when Charlie intervenes and begs uncle to not kill him. And he doesn't. ?!
Instead they lock him in a boxcar. And guess what? Yeah, he escapes and captures all of them. They escape in light speed and this time the uncle kills the guy.
So off they go again and this time some other bounty hunter guy with the militia catches up to the girl and instead of killing him she manages to handcuff him to a pole and leaves him. ?! Does she learn anything? No. How then is she still alive in this world?
Then toward the end of the second episode she kills two people and moans and groans over it. She is the liberal. The bleeding heart. And she makes absolutely no sense. It's like she's schizo. Oh, yeah...she's the liberal...what was I thinking?
This world that they live in has had no power and no legitimate authority for something like fifteen years...she is an adult and she hasn't yet figured out that it is kill or be killed? Ridiculous.
They show a flashback to the first days of the power outage. Her mother and her brother and her are sitting outside of some office waiting on dad to get something inside. Some guy walks up and grabs young Charlie and threatens to snap her neck if they don't hand over their little red wagon of canned food. Dad shows up and pulls a 45 auto, threatens to kill the guy if he doesn't let the girl go. Does he do it? Heck, no. The guy is walking away with their food and dad shouts at him to stop or he'll kill him...the guy says, "no you won't." Guy continues walking away and then is gunned down in the back. Except dad didn't shoot him...mom did. Mom should have shot dad next...he's going to get them all killed with his wimpy behavior.
See, here's the thing...I actually like this genre, the post apocalyptic world where everyone is on their own and it's dog eat dog, survival of the fittest. One of my favorite books of this type is the Larry Niven novel*,
"Lucifer's Hammer" where a comet impacts the earth (breaks apart) in multiple locations and instantly plunges the world into a near stone age. Stupid people are killed within a week or two. Or eaten by cannibals...kept alive like cattle and eaten as needed. Liberals who refuse to embrace reality end up dead or eaten. Smart people gather together, collect firearms and ammo, manufacture explosives, secure a still functioning nuclear reactor, devise plans to grow food and keep livestock, etc.
This tv series (so far) flies in the face of what a post apocalyptic world would be like. Fifteen years after civilization falls and you still have bleeding hearts? Liberalism is a luxury of a civilized world. When the sh*t hits the fan on a global scale the libs would be the first to vanish. Most would either be immediately killed or would change their attitudes just as fast. Darwin awards handed out every hour for the first week or two and then there would be no more liberalism. This tv show expects me to believe that a person who grows up in this "Road Warrior" world would somehow, inexplicably not get that you don't leave enemies alive to kill you.
I have a feeling that I won't be able to watch this for very long. I already want most of the major characters to die horrible deaths so that maybe we can find some new, smarter protagonists to root for.
There are many, many more points to bitch about (everyone is inexplicably clean) but there isn't any point in listing them all. I think I am close to loathing this show because it does not respect me as an intelligent person. I may go visit its Facebook page and start openly bitching about how stupid it is.
*it's a 1970's era novel and a lot of the dialogue is dated. Very dated. But it's still a good read.