Revolution: Not since Power Rangers has a TV show forced me to completely leave my brain at the door in order for me to be able to enjoy it (My thoughts on season one of Revolution) (Part 4 of 4)

(Part Four: Conclusion/Follow-up)

All things considered, Revolution is very flawed, but as I said earlier, I definitely saw potential for the show to be good when I watched the first episode, which is why I was willing to give it another chance and watched the second episode. While the episode “The Children’s Crusade” is ultimately the episode that won me over as a viewer and convinced me to start watching the show on a regular basis, I feel like the show slowly started to hit its stride starting with the episode “The Plague Dogs”, especially considering the way they handled Maggie’s death. The show definitely got a lot better throughout the course of the entire season though, especially in the second half of the season.

If there’s one episode that I think more highly of compared to the rest of the season, it’s definitely “The Children’s Crusade” since it’s the episode that got me hooked on the show in the first place. It did a really good job of explaining why Rachel and Ben chose to get involved with something that went on to have catastrophic consequences for the entire world. They did it because they believed it was the only way that they could ultimately save the life of their unborn child, Danny, who needed a special kind of medical treatment in order to live. I’m not a parent so I’ve never been in a situation like Rachel and Ben were in, but for some reason whenever I think about that aspect of the episode, I can’t help but think of Star Trek and Spock’s famous line in the movie The Wrath of Kahn: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

I don’t think Rachel and Ben should have necessarily let Danny die just to spare the rest of the world from being hurt by the turning off all the power, but the whole thing definitely sounds a little extreme to me just to save Danny’s life. It reminds me a lot of Once Upon a Time and how Regina/The Evil Queen cast a curse that sent everybody in the enchanted forest to a town in “our world” where time was frozen, they couldn’t leave Storybrooke or remember who they were all to get revenge on Snow White for telling her mother, Cora, about her plans to run off with the man she loved, prompting Cora to kill him. Not only did it seem beyond extreme to me, it was definitely a serious case of misplaced blame, but I digress.

If Rachel and Ben took some time to think about it and negotiate with the people who wanted their technology, I just think they might have been able to come to an agreement that was less extreme. I suppose the writers having their decision to get involved with those people be motivated by them viewing it as the only way to save the life of their unborn child is a much better motivation than perhaps having their motivation be driven solely by greed or money. Regardless of the fact that I think their actions were rather extreme, “The Children’s Crusade” is still a great episode that answered some of the audience’s questions, had a nice blend of drama and comedy and was simply an altogether awesome episode. While I hold the episode “The Children’s Crusade” in very high regard, which is part of why I’ve mentioned it so many times throughout this review, I also think very highly of the season finale (“The Dark Tower”).

At the risk of sounding redundant, the award for being the most annoying character on the show goes to Charlie, although, Neville is a very close runner up.

As I was writing this review, I really struggled with what I would give the first season of Revolution for a final rating, because I usually give individual episodes a letter grade. However, I was afraid that if I gave the season a letter grade it would send the wrong message about how much I liked it. I didn’t want to give the season a grade that made it look like I disliked the season more than I did, but at the same time I didn’t want to give it a grade that made it look like I enjoyed the season more than I did either. Ultimately, I decided to score the season by giving each episode a score on a scale of one to ten, and then determined my final score for the season by averaging the scores for all 20 episodes of the season. That being said, here are my scores for the episodes, as well as my final score for the season as a whole:

Episode 1x01 “Pilot”: 5

Episode 1x02 “Chained Heat”: 6

Episode 1x03 “No Quarter”: 6

Episode 1x04 “The Plague Dogs”: 8

Episode 1x05 “Soul Train”: 2

Episode 1x06 “Sex and Drugs”: 6

Episode 1x07 “The Children’s Crusade”: 10

Episode 1x08 “Ties That Bind”: 2

Episode 1x09 “Kashmir”: 9

Episode 1x10 “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”: 10

Episode 1x11 “The Stand”: 10

Episode 1x12 “Ghosts”: 10

Episode 1x13 “The Song Remains The Same”: 10

Episode 1x14 “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”: 8

Episode 1x15 “Home”: 10

Episode 1x16 “The Love Boat”: 4

Episode 1x17 “The Longest Day”: 9

Episode 1x18 “Clue”: 3

Episode 1x19 “Children of Men”: 10

Episode 1x20 “The Dark Tower”: 10

Final Score: 7.4

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