(Part One)
It had originally been my
intention to write a review of the first ten episodes of Revolution while the
show was on its midseason break, but after a series of delays and deciding to
focus on blogging about other TV shows that I knew had potential to bring in a
lot more traffic than I believed a review of Revolution would, I ultimately
decided to wait until the season was over to write my review. I would like to
preface this review by saying that I will be talking about other TV shows in
this blog post. Some of the those shows will be Lost, Flash Forward, Fringe,
Supernatural and as some of you may have guessed based on the headline for this
review: Power Rangers. However, since I don’t know how familiar the people
reading this review will be with those shows, I’ll try to not dwell on those
shows too much. Although, in the case of Supernatural, I don’t have much
commentary to offer on the show since I’ve only seen the first episode at the
moment.
Due to the fact that I have
so many issues with Revolution, I’m going to try and get the majority of my
complaints with the show and its first season out of the way in part one of
this review so I can hopefully end my review on a positive note and ideally avoid
coming across as a total negative nelly by the end of this review. That being
said, here are my thoughts on the first season of Revolution.
When it comes to
Revolution’s first episode, my overall assessment of the series premiere was
that it was rather average, and I constantly found myself thinking about things
that I liked about the first episodes of Lost and Flash Forward, which
ultimately led me to watch the first episodes of both shows in preparation for
writing this review. Watching the first episode of Flash Forward again really
made me wish that the writers for Revolution had taken page from the writers
for Flash Forward’s book in terms of how they structured the first episode. Don’t
get wrong, I don’t think they should have necessarily completely copied the
structure of the episode, but I do think they could have learned a thing or two
from Flash Forward’s first episode.
For those of you who’ve
never seen the first episode of Flash Forward, the structure of the episode essentially
went like this: The episode opened with them showing Mark Benford who was the
primary protagonist of the show waking up after the blackout, he gets out of
his police car where he surveys the damage in the area that was caused by
everybody around him, along with the rest of the world blacking out for two
minutes and seventeen seconds. They then showed the title card for Flash
Forward, when the show returns from the commercial break they went back several
hours before the blackout and briefly introduced most of the characters until
they once again reach the point in the day when the worldwide blackout
occurred, and then the characters each started to deal with the immediate
aftermath of the blackout for the remainder of the episode and the episode ends
with two characters discovering footage of an unknown person who was somehow
still awake when everybody else on earth was unconscious during the blackout.
With Revolution, the first
episode pretty much began with Ben urgently coming home to tell Rachel that
“it” is happening and then called his brother, Miles, to tell him that
everything will turn off and never turn back on again. Ben then proceeds to transfer
something from his computer onto one of the pendants that as the season
continues will play a big role in the show throughout the season right as the
power is about to be turned off. They then showed the title card for Revolution
and immediately jump ahead 15 years after that, only showing flashbacks of Ben
and Rachel dealing with the immediately aftermath of the blackout. Ben gets
shot and killed by Neville, who takes Danny as his prisoner, prompting Charlie
to go off in search of Miles who lives in Chicago with a small group of people.
Charlie finds Miles and after some drama, they all go off in search of Danny.
The episode ends with the reveal that there are people who have the ability to
turn on the power in a limited capacity using pendants like the one Ben
transferred files from his computer right before the blackout and later gave
Charlie after he gets shot when they show Grace talking to an unknown person on
the computer as the episode ended.
One thing that I really wish
the writers had done was after showing the title card for Revolution was for
them to go back a little bit in time and introduce more of the characters
before the power is turned off, much like Flash Forward did, or like the
writers of Lost did in the first episode, show flashbacks of several of the
characters flying on the airplane before it crashed on the island throughout
the episode, as well as lots of scenes involving the characters dealing with
the immediate aftermath of the plane crashing on the island. It really bugged
me that the writers quickly just jumped ahead fifteen years and only showed
snippets of Ben, Rachel and their family dealing with the immediate aftermath
of the power being shut off in some flashbacks throughout the episode.
Speaking of the flashbacks
of Ben and his family dealing with the immediate aftermath of the blackout, I
found their reaction to the whole situation somewhat bizarre to watch,
especially since they knew ahead of time that the power was going to be turned
off around the world. Ben and Rachel’s initial reaction to the power being
turned off was to give Charlie ice cream and told her to eat it slowly so she
could really remember what it tasted like.
I don’t know exactly what my immediate reaction to the power being
turned off around the world would be if that happened in real life, but I’m
pretty sure my immediate reaction wouldn’t be to sit around and eat ice cream!
Sure, Rachel had a point when she said that freezer didn’t work any more and
that it was all going to melt anyway, but if I were forced to deal with a
global catastrophe, I think there would be far more important things to do than
eat all of the ice cream in my freezer. Sighs! Seriously, the writing for this
show is beyond stupid sometimes.
It really bugged me that the
writers waited to later episodes to show other characters dealing with the
aftermath of the blackout, and even then if I’m remembering correctly, they
only did that for a few of the characters. One of those characters being Aaron
in episode 1x06 “Sex and Drugs”, which stands out as one of my favorite
episodes of the season due to the fact that it’s an Aaron centric episode, and
Aaron is one of my favorite characters on the show.
While I haven’t seen a large
amount of people liken Revolution to Lost, and thank god for that because the
overall quality of Revolution is the farthest thing from being on the same
level of greatness that I think Lost had; I have seen a lot of people compare
Aaron to the character Hurley though. The main reason I’ve seen people compare
Aaron to Hurley because they are both overweight and were both put in
circumstances where they would be faced with a food shortage, which could
possibly result in people losing weight. I can understand people’s argument
about thinking it’s unrealistic that Hurley didn’t lose any weight since the
characters were initially unaware of the existence of the hatch and that it had
food inside it at the beginning of the series though. However, when it comes to
Aaron it doesn’t really bother me that he’s overweight since I can pretty much
guarantee that there were people who were overweight before people had
electricity. As for the argument that he should have lost weight by walking as
much he did throughout the season, I’m just going to assume that Aaron has some
kind of issues with his metabolism, making it hard for him to lose weight even
with lots of physical activity.
When it comes to Fringe’s
first episode, I absolutely hated it to the point where I had absolutely no
interest in watching more episodes in order to see if the show got better. I’m
not usually a person that gives up watching on a TV show after only one
episode, so I’ve always considered that a testament to just how bad the first
episode of Fringe was. Since I’ve always hated the first episode of Fringe, I
admit that I didn’t watch it again in preparation for writing this review. It
was only after they announced that Leonard Nimoy would be guest-starring on the
show that I decided to give it another chance, and even then I waited until the
first episode that Leonard Nimoy appeared in, which was the season one finale,
to start watching it again. I continued to watch the show when season two
started, but I once again found myself getting bored with Fringe just a few
episodes into the season, so I quit watching it until about the halfway point
of season two when for some reason even I can’t remember I decided to give
Fringe yet another chance. I really liked what I saw, so I continued to watch
the show until the end of the third season, which I thought was pretty bad. To
this day I’ve only seen the first three or four episodes of Fringe’s fourth
season. I plan on getting back to watching Fringe’s fourth and fifth seasons at
some point, but I’m honestly not in a huge hurry to do that, but I digress.
Bringing the subject of this
review back to Revolution, considering the fact that J.J. Abrams was involved
with at least the filming of the pilot, I was expecting the show to be really
awesome. I’ve never expected all of Abrams’ work to be perfect, but I do think
that he’s a very talented writer, producer and director, so I always have high
hopes for anything that he’s involved in. That being said, I don’t think that
Abrams deserves too much of the blame for Revolution being such a mediocre
show.
If there were anyone who I
believe deserves most of the blame for this show being so mediocre, that would definitely
be Eric Kripke. After all, Eric Kripke is the creator of the show, so he’s
obviously played a huge role in the development of the story, the scientific
elements of the blackout and what caused it, and I’m sure he played a huge role
in the casting process for the show, which ultimately led to the viewers being
stuck with the extremely obnoxious character Charlie and Tracy Spiridakos’
horrific acting.
One of the biggest problems
that I have about the show’s early episodes is that the show focused way too
much on the character Charlie, and I can’t help but think that the producers
were originally trying to cash in on the whole Hunger Games craze by centering
the show around Charlie and were therefore trying to make Charlie out to be
some kind of Katniss Everdeen wannabe. The way I see it, there are several problems
with that. First off, the buzz from The Hunger Games books and movies seems to
have died down, at least at the moment. Perhaps that will change once The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire comes out in theaters, but if it was the producers
intention to try and cash in on all the buzz from The Hunger Games, they should
have known that probably wouldn’t be a good idea because the buzz from The
Hunger Games would eventually die down. Plus, Charlie isn’t a strong enough or
interesting enough character to center the show around, not to mention the fact
that Tracy Spiridakos isn’t a good enough actress to carry an entire show. Seriously,
Morgan Hinkleman, the little girl who played Charlie as a child in flashbacks
throughout the season is a better actress than Tracy Spiridakos is, and usually
I think that child actors tend to not be very good at acting.
To be fair, Tracy Spiridakos
is definitely not the worst actor or actress that I’ve ever seen, and Charlie
also isn’t the most annoying fictional character I’ve ever encountered either.
That honor definitely goes to Jesse Metcalfe and his character on TNT’s Dallas.
Blake Lively and her portrayal of the character Serena van der Woodsen on
Gossip Girl is a very close runner-up though. I’m going to take this moment to
make a brief side note and mention that my next big project for the summer is
to write a review of the second season of Dallas (The TNT series), so please,
keep an eye out for that.
If I had to say what I think
is the show’s next greatest flaw is, it would be that I feel like the show
lacks a clear-cut central antagonist, which I believe is something a show like
this really needs. There were a lot of times throughout the season where I
believe the writers were trying to make Neville out to be the main villain, but
considering the fact that he’s not the highest ranking officer in the militia,
I have a really hard time buying him as the show’s primary antagonist.
I’ve seen a lot of people
give Giancarlo Esposito high praise for his acting not only on Revolution, but
for his work on Breaking Bad and Once Upon a Time as well. I’ve also come
across threads on I.M.D.B. where fans have been asked the question how long
they plan on continuing to watch Revolution, a lot of people answered by saying
that they will continue to watch the show as long as Giancarlo Esposito remains
on the show. That’s definitely not me. If you ask me, Giancarlo Esposito is an
incredibly overrated actor who lacks the charisma that would most likely ever allow
me to enjoy watching him on any TV show.
Personally, Neville is one
of my least favorite characters on the show for so many reasons that it’s hard
for me to decide where to begin discussing my reasons for hating the character.
I’m just going to start by talking about my thoughts on the episode 1x05 “Soul
Train” since it’s a Neville centric episode that explores his life before the
power was turned off. In this episode, we got some information about the fact
that he was mild mannered insurance adjuster before the blackout. He also apparently
liked to box a lot, which I think helps explain his style of interrogating people,
mainly he tries to beat the crap out of them in the hopes that they’ll break
and tell him what he wants to know.
When it comes to the episode
“Soul Train”, I feel like the writers were trying to make the viewers think of
Neville as being a sympathetic villain by giving him the backstory they gave
him, but I don’t see him as being a sympathetic character, at all. To me
there’s a difference between having a sympathetic backstory and being a
sympathetic villain. In my mind, with the exception of Neville saving Danny’s
life when they were both caught in a storm during a fight in episode 1x04 “The
Plague Dogs”, he hasn’t had any moments in the present where he shows another
character genuine sympathy, while he has shown on several occasions that he’s
not afraid to manipulate other characters into showing him sympathy, only to
have it backfire on them.
I know that there were
apparently a lot of people who hated the character Danny and some people viewed
the writers killing off Danny a step in the right direction. I personally
actually kind of liked Danny. Sure, he wasn’t my favorite character on the show,
and I thought he was really annoying in episode 1x03 “No Quarter”, but there
are characters on the show that I’ve found far more annoying, such as Charlie
and Neville. That being said, one moment that really pissed me off in terms of
Danny was when he chose to save Neville’s life later on in that same episode
after Neville used the memory of his father, Ben, to guilt him into saving his
life.
The reason why that moment
made me hate Danny was because it really made him look stupid in my eyes
because after he saves Neville’s life, Neville immediately captures Danny
again. That moment was also serious low point for Neville in my humble opinion.
I mean, come on, Neville shot and killed Danny’s father, Ben, in the first
episode of the series, and then he goes and uses the memory of his father in
order to manipulate him into saving his (Neville’s) life when his life is in
danger, and instead of showing Danny any amount of gratitude for saving his
life, he promptly captures him (Danny) again. Seriously, Neville, how low can
you go? Sighs heavily.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t
the last time that Neville managed to manipulate people into helping him.
Neville also managed to manipulate Nate and everybody else with him into
freeing him in episode 1x13 “The Song Remains The Same” since he was being held
prisoner at the time, but thankfully they ultimately only tricked him into
believing that he was being set free. If you ask me, any time a character decides
to help Neville in any way, it only makes that character incredibly stupid.
One of the other things that
I don’t like about the character Neville is that he constantly comes across as
being downright bizarre to watch, especially when it comes to his habit of
making weird speeches. Personally, I loved it when Danny mocked Neville in
episode 1x05 “Soul Train” about his habit of making weird speeches since that’s
one of the things that bugs me the most about Neville. It really was great to
see Danny call Neville out on that.
Honestly, the only time I
truly liked Neville was when he was accusing of Monroe of having a borderline
homoerotic fixation with Miles in the season one finale (“The Dark Tower”),
because I feel like there might be some truth to that. I definitely got a
homoerotic vibe between Monroe and Miles quite a few times throughout the
season, especially in the episode “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” to the point where
I’ve been wondering if I should be trying to decide on a “shipper” name for
them. A part of me has also been half expecting the writers for Revolution to
take a page of Scandal’s book and start having them make declarations similar
to Olivia’s “…You own me! You control me!...”, or Fitz’s declaration to Olivia
“I exist for you!” at any moment.
Okay, mentioning Revolution
and Scandal in the same sentence was so painful for me that I almost winced in
agony as I was writing that last paragraph. Before Scandal came on the air I
always felt like Shonda Rhimes was a genius storyteller based on her writing
for Grey’s Anatomy, but now I can’t help but view Scandal as her true
masterpiece, and I absolutely love Grey’s Anatomy beyond words. Quality wise,
Scandal is perhaps the best TV show that I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched a lot
of TV in my lifetime, so when I compare the overall quality of Revolution to
Scandal, I can’t help but think of Revolution as being on the same level of
quality as a horrific school play that’s being put on by a bunch of
kindergartners that the adults are only pretending to enjoy in order to spare
the children’s feelings. Okay, I’m exaggerating here, Revolution isn’t really
that bad, but by comparison Revolution isn’t simply in a different league of TV
shows as Scandal is in, it’s in a totally different league in a completely
different sport.
I’ve come across some
comments from people online who have said they feel like there’s been some
homoerotic subtext on Supernatural over the years as well, which makes me
wonder if Eric Kripke has some kind of fixation with homoerotism. Since I’ve
only seen the first episode of Supernatural, I’m going to have to take the
fans’ word on that. For the record, I’m bisexual, so I’m not offended by the
homoerotic subtext on Revolution, it’s merely something that I’ve picked up on as
I watched the first season.
When I wasn’t thinking that
Neville was meant to be the central antagonist of the show, I got the feeling
that Monroe was meant to be the main villain of the show. After all, Monroe
outranks Neville, leading Neville to frequently be treated like he’s meant to
be Monroe’s personal bitch. If the writers were trying to have one character
fill the role of the sympathetic villain on the show, I feel like it’s Monroe
who should be viewed as the sympathetic villain, at least in my eyes.
Whenever I think about my
initial thoughts on the show, I can’t help but think about what I thought about
Fringe when it first started, which would be that I thought it was beyond
horrible, especially when it comes to its first episode. I hated the first
episode so much that I didn’t watch the show again until the end of Fringe’s
first season, and that was mainly because Leonard Nimoy guest-starred on the
show.
Revolution on the other hand
was fortunate enough to capture my attention pretty quickly. As I said earlier,
I didn’t think that the first episode was terrible, it was merely rather
average. I felt like the first episode had a major “Been there, done that” feel
to it, and that’s something that I found myself thinking to a certain extent
quite a bit as I was watching the entire season in preparation for writing this
review. However, I saw enough potential for the show to be good as I was
watching the first episode, so I decided to watch the second episode, partly
because I was interested in seeing if they revealed anything else about what
had happened to Rachel. The main thing that I wanted to know about Rachel was whether
or not she was still alive since Elizabeth Mitchell being a part of the show’s
cast is one of the main things that made me decide to watch the show in the
first place.
The second episode (“Chained
Heat”) was definitely a slight improvement from the pilot, and the fact that
the episode ended with the reveal that Rachel was still alive and was being
held captive by Monroe was enough to maintain my interest Admittedly, I didn’t
actually watch Revolution again until episode 1x07 “The Children’s Crusade”,
but that was mainly because I already had a lot of shows that I like to watch
on Monday nights, one of them being The Voice, and I simply didn’t like
Revolution enough at the time to watch it every week after watching a two-hour
episode of The Voice.
Yes, I know that I could
have recorded it on my DVR and watched it later, but that most likely would
have meant that I would have had to miss watching a TV show that I liked more
and at the time I didn’t feel like taking the time to watch it online every
week either. However, did continue to read recaps for the show that were
written by the writing staff for the TVLine website from time to time. It was
reading TVLine’s recap for the episode “The Children’s Crusade” that prompted
me to give the show another chance by watching that episode on Hulu. I loved
the episode so much that I decided to buy a season pass for Revolution’s first
season on iTunes.
One of the biggest problems
that I have with the show is that with the exception of Rachel, Aaron, Maggie,
Danny, Monroe and Miles, I’ve had a really hard time liking most of the
characters on the show, and even Rachel had some moments throughout the season where
I found her rather unlikable. Plus, the fact that they killed off Maggie in
episode 1x04 “The Plague Dogs” meant that the show got rid of one of its few
likable characters very early on.
Revolution may have more
flaws than I can keep track of, but one thing that I feel like the writers did
a much better job of than Once Upon a Time did is how they handled the death of
several of the characters throughout the season compared to how Once Upon a
Time has handled deaths on the show, particularly Sherriff Graham’s death
during the show’s first season. I’ve always felt that they didn’t feature the
character enough for the viewers to form very much of a positive attachment to
Sherriff Graham before they killed him off the show. Plus, the fact it was revealed
that he was romantically involved with Regina definitely tarnished my opinion
of the character to some extent right before he died. My reaction to Sherriff
Graham’s death was basically “out of sight, out of mind”. I know they brought
him back for flashbacks of life in the enchanted forest before Regina enacted
the curse, but once they killed him off, I pretty much forgot about him for the
most part.
On the other hand when it
comes to Maggie’s death on Revolution, I managed to become attached enough to
the character Maggie in the four episodes that she did appear in for her death
to have a profound impact of me. To me, that’s a sign that the writers for
Revolution were able to succeed on at least one occasion where the writers for
Once Upon a Time failed. That being said, while I think the writers did an
amazing job developing the character Maggie in a way that I was able to become
very attached to the character in just the four episodes that she was in before
she died, my reaction to Nora dying in the season finale was very similar to my
reaction to Sherriff Graham’s death on Once Upon a Time. My reaction to Nora’s
death was similar in the sense that it didn’t really register with me
emotionally, and Nora had really become a rather forgettable character by that point,
at least for me. I did like Nora in the episode “No Quarter”, but after that
Nora quickly became a very forgettable character that I lost interest in, so by
the point the writers did the Nora centric episode “Ties That Bind” I didn’t
really have any interest in watching storylines involving Nora, which is why
it’s one of my least favorite episodes of the season.
If I had to point out a
specific moment where I found Rachel rather unlikable, it was in the episode “The
Love Boat” when Rachel’s leg is injured. When Aaron refuses to leave Rachel because
he believes she wouldn’t leave him if the situation were reversed, Rachel
quickly corrected him, saying that she would leave him behind if he were the
one who was injured. Ouch! Rachel once again had another moment where she came
across as being rather cold and heartless in the episode “The Longest Day”
where Rachel and Aaron encountered a boy who was dying and they could
potentially have had the means to save the boy’s life, but Rachel told Aaron that
she didn’t care about saving the boy’s life. Ouch again!
My reaction to the character
Rachel was frequently rather mixed throughout the season. On the one hand, I
think that Elizabeth Mitchell plays the role very well, especially when it
comes to the second half of the season after Danny was killed. I also found
myself being pleasantly surprised by the character Rachel and her backstory throughout
the season. At first, I thought she was merely Ben’s wife and that the only
knowledge that she possessed regarding the technology that caused the power to
be turned off around the world came from watching Ben develop the technology.
Because of that, I was frequently left wondering why Monroe would allow Rachel
to continue to live after keeping her as his prisoner for the fifteen years
that the writers skipped over and only showed flashbacks of throughout the
season.
That’s a big part of why I
found the whole thing with Rachel telling Miles in episode 1x17 “The Longest
Day” that she was the project leader for the development of the technology that
caused the power to be turned off around the world and that she probably knows
more about it than Ben did rather surprising. Personally, I think that the
writers should have revealed that tidbit of information in the second episode
of the series when they revealed that she was still alive and was being held
prisoner, or at least in an episode soon after that episode instead of waiting
seventeen episodes into the season to reveal that information.
As for why I mentioned Power
Rangers in the headline of my review, I did that because as the season
continued I saw that this show had enough potential for me to enjoy it as long
as I don’t overthink things when I’m watching the show. This is the mindset
that I pretty much always put myself in whenever I watch Power Rangers now that
I’m twenty-six, and therefore I’m no longer a part of the show’s target
audience, which is kids. It’s hard for me to explain all the reasons why I
still love Power Rangers as an adult, but a big part of why I love Power
Rangers is simply due to the fact that I love TV shows and movies about super
heroes, and Power Rangers is definitely where my love of super heroes stems
from. Now that I’m an adult I realize just how cheesy and ridiculous the writing
for Power Rangers has always been to the point where you basically leave your
brain at the door whenever you sit down to watch it and accept it for the
flawed cheese fest that the franchise really is. The older I’ve gotten over the
years, the more I realized that the writers for Power Rangers have constantly
taken a baseball bat to scientific principles and shattered them into a million
tiny pieces.
Well, I have to admit that
after watching the entire first season of Revolution, I feel like I can safely
say that the scientific principles that are portrayed on Power Rangers make
more sense than the way the writers for Revolution have handled the science on
this show and just about anything else that requires logic or somewhat
extensive thought. For the record, I feel like I should point out that in the
Power Rangers universe, the moon has regular gravity and a breathable atmosphere,
not to mention the fact that they once had one of the Power Rangers floating
around in outer space unmorphed, and yet he was still alive. I used to think
that those aspects of Power Rangers and other scientific situations presented
over the years on Power Rangers sounded beyond silly, and I still do, but after
watching Revolution the way science is presented in Power Rangers seems more
plausible to me. I’ve really come to love Revolution, but Wow! Congratulations,
writers of Revolution! You’ve managed to create a show that’s constantly being
even more ridiculous and silly than Power Rangers has been over the years. Just…wow!
A part of me thinks that
next season the writers of Revolution are going to get in the habit of ending
every episode with a scene where the characters talk about friendship, the
importance of teamwork and believing in yourself like Power Rangers often does.
I’m being serious when I say this, but I really do think that watching Power
Rangers when I was younger ultimately ended up serving as preparation for
watching Revolution and being able to cope with all of the silliness and
absurdity that this show constantly exudes. If I were the writers of
Revolution, I really think they should send the producers of Power Rangers a
letter thanking them for a making a show that’s so cheesy and ridiculous that
the people who have watched Power Rangers in the past are now able to tolerate the
constant absurdity that the writers of Revolution throw at the people who watch
the show on a weekly basis.
Revolution does actually
share a small connection to Power Rangers in the sense that Dan Southworth who
starred on Power Rangers: Time Force as Eric, the Quantum Ranger guest-starred
in the pilot for Revolution as a guy that found Charlie, Maggie, Aaron and the
others in the airplane that they were hanging out in. Sure, his role was
relatively small in the grand scheme of the episode, but it was a real treat
for me to see him on Revolution considering the fact that Power Rangers: Time
Force is perhaps my favorite season of Power Rangers and I hadn’t seen him in
anything else since then. I’ve also always thought of Power Rangers: Time Force
as being one of better-written seasons of Power Rangers. Plus, the cast’s acting
for that particular season was definitely above average for Power Rangers’
standards, and I’m including Dan Southworth when I say that. Honestly, I wasn’t
sure that he was even still acting since the majority of actors who have
starred in the Power Rangers franchise over the years went on to quit acting
relatively soon after their seasons ended, but I digress.
One more side note that I’d
like to make about Power Rangers is that there’s a guy who goes by the name
Linkara, and he does a video series called “History of Power Rangers” where he
reviews each season of the show. If anyone who reads this review happens to also
be a fan of Power Rangers, I strongly recommend checking out his videos. They
are all very entertaining, informative and altogether very well done.
Apparently, Linkara got the inspiration for his “History of Power Rangers”
series from a guy who goes by the name SF Debris. SF Debris reviews episodes
from every Star Trek TV series, all the Star Trek movies as well as other
science fiction TV shows. His videos are also pretty good and extremely
entertaining, so I definitely recommend checking them out as well.
I’m definitely relatively
inexperienced when it comes to writing reviews for entire seasons of a TV show,
so I ask that you bear with me if my reviews of an entire season of a TV show
aren’t the greatest at this point in time. Linkara’s style of commenting on
Power Rangers is very similar to my thought process when I’m watching TV shows
and writing reviews of TV shows, so he has definitely had a bit of an influence
on my approach to writing reviews for an entire season of a TV show, such as
the first season of TNT’s Dallas (Dallas (TNT Series): (My thoughts on season 1)). I’ll put links to Linkara and SF
Debris’ websites at the end of this review in case anyone is interested in
checking them out.
Given
the fact that this review is much longer than my reviews usually are, I’ve
decided to break this review into four separate posts. Considering the fact
that I’ve talked about pretty much all of the things that bug me about the
show, this concludes part one of my review. In part two I’ll try to focus
mainly on the positive aspects of the show, and I’m going to talk about my speculations
and hopes for Revolution’s second season in the third part of the review with
the fourth part serving as the conclusion and follow-up of this review.
Part 2 of 4:Revolution: (Part 2 of 4)
Part 3 of 4:Revolution: (Part 3 of 4)
Part 4 of 4:Revolution: (Part 4 of 4)
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