Power Rangers (2017 Movie): "It’s Morphin Time!" Official Trailer

Here's the official full-length trailer for the upcoming Power Rangers movie. If you ask me, it looks like this movie is going to be awesome. As somebody who has been a Power Rangers fan ever since the show first premiered in 1993, I was already beyond excited for the movie before this trailer was released, but watching this trailer definitely got me even more excited about the movie. :)

Power Rangers (2017 Movie): Official Teaser Trailer

Here's the official teaser trailer for the 2017 Power Rangers movie. I've been a huge Power Rangers fan ever since the show first premiered back in 1993, and I can't wait to see this movie. :) Based on this trailer, it looks like this movie is definitely going to be a lot darker compared to what the TV show has always been like. However, I'm perfectly fine with that, and I think it looks like this movie is going to be awesome. :)

Sustained: Emma Chase did it! She topped Tangled! (My thoughts on Book #2 in the Legal Briefs series by Emma Chase)

If you’ve read my review for Overruled, you’ll know that I said that I thought that it might be very difficult, if not impossible, for Emma Chase to top Tangled when it comes to deciding which of her books is my favorite and how I would rank each of them. The reason I’m bringing this up is because I’m very excited to say that Emma Chase did it. She completely topped Tangled with Sustained, and I definitely think that Sustained is her best book yet. That being said, I’ll admit that perhaps I’m being a bit premature in saying that Sustained is Emma Chase’s book yet since I haven’t read Appealed at this point in time. However, if I had to say which of her books is my favorite at the moment, it would definitely be Sustained; that being said, I’m totally open to the possibility that I’ll end up thinking that she topped herself yet again once I read Appealed.

Based on Overruled and Sustained alone, I have to say that I definitely think that the Legal Briefs series is even better than the Tangled series. As much as I love the Tangled series, it’s not without its flaws, and I feel like the quality of the writing for the Tangled series as a whole definitely had its share of ups and downs. Emma Chase’s writing for the Legal Briefs series on the other hand is definitely a lot stronger and better than even her best writing for the Tangled series was, in my opinion. Things that I felt could have been handled better in Twisted and Tied in particular are handled a lot better in the Legal Briefs series.

For starters, I’m really glad that she switched back and forth between Stanton and Sofia’s points of view throughout Overruled instead of writing most of the book from one character’s point of view and then suddenly switching to a different character’s point of view towards the very end of the book for the epilogue like she did with Twisted. Plus, as I said in my review for Overruled, I thought that Stanton’s dislike of JD was much more understandable and easier to sympathize with than Drew’s dislike of Billy was after Tangled. If you ask me, the resolution of Stanton’s issues with JD was also handled a lot better than Drew’s hatred towards Billy was resolved in Tied.

When it comes to Sustained, there really is a lot to love about this book, and it’s honestly kind of hard for me to know where to start when it comes to talking about what I love about this book. For starters, one thing that I’ve always felt that Emma Chase really excels at when it comes to her books is being able to pretty much instantly get the readers interested and invested in the story right off the bat. Whenever I’ve read one of her books, I’ve always been able to get invested in the story within the first few paragraphs, if not the first few sentences of the book, and that was definitely the case with this book. It’s definitely a good thing that Chase’s books aren’t the kind of books where the reader has to power through approximately 50 or more pages before the story finally starts to get interesting, especially considering the fact that her books are all less than 300 pages long. That’s something I’ve really come to appreciate about Chase’s books since in addition to all of the books that I’ve reviewed in roughly the past three to four months, possibly longer than that, I’ve also been reading the book The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert so I can review it as well. I’m currently seventy pages into the book, and I’m just now finally starting to get into the book.

Power Rangers Dino Super Charge: Trailer

Here's the trailer for Power Rangers Dino Super Charge. I can't wait for the new season to start. It looks like Power Rangers Dino Super Charge is going to be beyond awesome. :)

South Park: I don’t know why, but I kind of want to start watching this show again

As weird and random as this probably sounds, hearing Linkara (Lewis Lovhaug) make a joke about the production of South Park episodes in his History of Power Rangers video for Power Rangers Samurai and Power Rangers Super Samurai, has gotten me interested in watching my South Park DVDs again. I bought the first four seasons of South Park on DVD years ago, and yet I only watched a few episodes way back when I originally bought them and haven’t watched them since then. Honestly, South Park is an incredibly ridiculous and stupid show, and yet I still kind of like it for some odd reason.

Good, God! “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt Like a MotherF****r” is a terrible song!

The Maroon 5 song “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt Like a MotherF****r” is definitely one of the worst songs that I’ve ever heard. If you ask me, it’s so bad that it almost makes the theme song for Power Rangers Operation Overdrive seem like a musical masterpiece by comparison, and that’s a pretty bad song. A part of me wonders if Adam Levine and the other members of Maroon 5 made that song in the hopes that it would prompt the producers of The Voice to force Adam to take a break from the show. Honestly, I definitely think that Adam should take a break from being a coach on The Voice for a season or two.

Power Rangers RPM: Ziggy becomes the Green Ranger

I absolutely love this scene from Power Rangers RPM. This is definitely one of my top favorite scenes from RPM, so I just couldn't resist posting it here even though I don't usually post this kind of thing on this particular blog. I love that Ziggy “unintentionally” becomes a Power Ranger and freaks out throughout this entire scene. If you ask me, RPM is truly one of the best seasons, if not the best season of Power Rangers. :)

Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Watch out, Everybody! The monster of the day is out to steal your happiness, and wedding bells are ringing for Emma and Orion! (My thoughts on episode 21x12 “United as One")

I’d like to begin this review by making a disclaimer that unlike many of the other members of the Ranger Crew forum, with the exception of a few clips from past seasons of the Sentai franchise that the Power Rangers franchise is based on and get footage from, I’ve never watched any full episodes of the Sentai franchise. I say this because people on the Ranger Crew forum were making references to the Sentai episode that the producers got footage for this episode from as one as well as the Sentai series that Power Rangers Dino Thunder is based on, which I haven’t seen anything from either of those Sentai seasons. My thoughts on this episode are based purely on this episode and this episode alone. That being said, here on my thoughts on the episode.

Personally, I really enjoyed this episode, and I thought that this episode had a lot of great moments. What I liked the most about it was that this was a fairly lighthearted and fun episode that had a lot of scenes where the Power Rangers weren’t morphed, which meant that it was original footage for the episode. That’s something that I personally feel doesn’t happen all that often on Power Rangers. Plus, it was an Emma centric episode, which I tend to enjoy, because sometimes I feel like she’s one of more fleshed out characters when it comes to characterization for each of the Power Rangers from this season. This episode had a lot of great moments with Orion too though since he was the one who helped Emma carry out her plan to stop the monster of the day, which I’ll talk about more in a little bit.

The episode began with Prince Vekar suffering from a cold. He and his henchmen decided that the best way to cure his cold was to get happiness from humans to give to Prince Vekar. To do this, they recruited Desolar, who has the ability to steal people’s happiness with his staff. He started out by taking happiness from a bride during her wedding. Once her happiness had been stolen, she started crying, confusing the hell out of the groom and the rest of the wedding party. He also stole happiness from a little girl who was flying a kite and another kid at the park.

I like the fact that they made a point of establishing that Orion didn’t know what a kite was, because I think that it a great way to acknowledge the fact that Orion isn’t from earth. Just ignoring the fact that Orion is from another planet for the most part seems like something that the writers would do on Power Rangers, so I’m glad that didn’t happen, at least when it comes to this episode.

The Power Rangers fought Desolar, who quickly made himself grow using a dial on his chest that he could use to make himself grow and shrink himself down to a very small size, allowing him to enter both of the Megazords and attack the Power Rangers from the inside. He used this ability to get in Orion’s Zord where he briefly knocked Orion out and used his Zord to attack the other Power Rangers. Once Orion regained consciousness, he fought Desolar some more before Desolar shrunk himself again in order to get into the other Rangers’ Zord.

Power Rangers: Jason David Frank Interview With IGN @ Comic Con 2014

Here’s a great interview that Jason David Frank did with some people at
IGN. In the interview, Jason talks about the Power Rangers Super
Megaforce team-up episode, his time on the show, the upcoming Power
Rangers reboot movie, and his thoughts on the franchise’s ongoing
popularity.

Covert Affairs: Scoop on Amy Jo Johnson's debut in episode 5x02 "False Skorpion" from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on Covert Affairs from this week's (Posted on 6/24/14) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Every season of Covert Affairs, Auggie has found himself in handcuffs at least once. Any hints as to what kind of trouble he’ll get into this season? —Rhiannon
Ausiello: Female trouble — sans handcuffs (I think). In next Tuesday’s episode, Felicity‘s Amy Jo Johnson makes her debut as Hayley, an investigator with the National Counter-Terrorism Center who takes a shine to Auggie. But first and foremost, “Hayley comes into the show in a spy story-related capacity,” previews executive producer Chris Ord. “So [that] will collide and make their relationship something more than just romantic.”

Link to the full article:Michael Chiklis in ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ — Married to Angela Bassett | TVLine

Barbie: Life In The Dreamhouse: Seasons 1 through 3 (Web series)

Here's a video of the first three seasons of the web series, Barbie: Life In The Dreamhouse. I recently discovered it on YouTube. It's pretty silly, but I still think it's kind of funny and it's definitely entertaining, so I decided to share it with my readers. If any Power Rangers fans happen to be watching this, Nakia Burrise (Tanya, the yellow Power Ranger from the Zeo and Turbo seasons of the franchise) does the voice of Nikki. Nikki is one of Barbie's best friends.

Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Now, that's how you start a season! (My thoughts on 21x01 "Super Megaforce")

I watched the first episode of Power Rangers Super Megaforce on Nickelodeon’s website earlier tonight, and I have to say that I absolutely loved it. It was beyond cool seeing the Power Rangers access the powers of the previous teams. I loved the bit where Jake asked Gosei why he was becoming the green ranger and Gosei told him that there was a simple explanation for it, only to be interrupted by another attack from the villains before he had the chance to explain it to him. I would love it if it became a running gag throughout the season to have Gosei always be interrupted whenever Jake asks him why he was made the green ranger of the team.

I also love what they showed of the new villains. I think it’s pretty cool that the villains can make more than one monster grow at a time. The only thing that bugged me about the episode was how chatty the Power Rangers were about their new powers during the fight scenes. That got pretty annoying after a while. 

All in all, it was a great start to the new season, and the episode definitely exceeded my expectations for the first episode. My final score for the first episode of Power Rangers Super Megaforce is 9 out of 10.

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Preview—Scoop from Ming-Na Wen-TVLine

Here's an interview that Ming-Na Wen did with TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich. In the interview, Wen talks about her character on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Melinda May and why she accepted the role.  Wen also gives some scoop on what will be happening on the show down the road. Here's an excerpt from the article where Wen talks about her character:

TVLINE | What do you love most about Melinda May?
I love everything about her. But the thing I love most is where her heart is. It’s very, very masked and covered up, but she has so much inner strength. Everybody knows that she’s kick-ass and that she has a lot of ninja skills, but for me, playing where she soldiers up and overcomes whatever trauma that she had experienced that pulled her out of the field, and is willing to do her job and protect not just people at large, but her team…. That, to me, is her best quality.

TVLINE | Well, you talk about her trauma, and it’s hinted at in the pilot. How soon are we going to get some insight into what she’s been through?
Gosh, I can’t say, “Hey, in Episode 10….” I will say that it will be a slow reveal, but that’s going to be true for all the characters, which is what I love. It’s back to the kind of television I grew up with, where you don’t know everything all in the first two episodes of a series. For me, this is an amazing novel that unfolds little by little, chapter by chapter, maybe even goes into a second book and a third book, but it’s definitely a story that reveals the characters slowly, so that you really get to know who they are. That’s the luxury of doing a television show with the Marvel title as opposed to a Marvel movie.

TVLINE | Are you privy to information about Melinda? Things that will eventually come out in that slow reveal?
I have some stories that I go on, from what Joss has told me. He’s a good storyteller. You should ask him!

TVLINE | How would you describe Melinda’s dynamic with Coulson? Is she merely his muscle?
In a way. She can be his bulldog, but at the same time, there is true camaraderie. He pulled her out of the field, he’s the one that gives her that second chance. He believes that he was saved from “the great white light” [after the events of The Avengers] and everyone deserves a second chance, so there’s great friendship and history between the characters.

TVLINE | And who would you say she experiences the most friction with?
Right now, she sort of is observing a lot of things, because for her to get back into the field is still a tug of war, as is connecting with everyone. Her most suspicious relationship is with Skye. She’s not quite sure why Coulson recruits her, and I don’t think she trusts Skye. So, in that sense, maybe her biggest friction is with Coulson as well, because there is some tension about that particular choice that he’s made.

Link to the full article:‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’ Preview — Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May - TVLine



My thoughts: I absolutely loved the movie The Avengers, and I've been interested in any movies or TV shows involving super heroes since I was about six years-old and I started watching Power Rangers, so Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the new show that I've been most excited about this year. I really hope that the show lives up to all the hype surrounding it and that it gets good ratings. Based on all of the promos that I've seen for the show so far, it looks like Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to be really good. Since I'm looking forward to the show so much, I'll probably write reviews of the episodes from time to time. The only reasons why I might not review the show are if the series premiere ends up getting really bad ratings and it looks like it will only be a matter of time before it gets canceled, or I simply end up not liking the series premiere very much.

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”).

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 3 of 4)

  (Part Three)

For the third part of my review, I thought that I would spend some time talking about my speculations regarding season two of Revolution. First off, it’s going to be really interesting to see how NBC moving the show to seven o’clock on Wednesday nights will impact the ratings. Hopefully, the show will be able to avoid suffering the same fate that Smash did in its second season when it wasn’t airing after The Voice, especially since I like Revolution more than I ever liked Smash, but that’s not really saying much though. Personally, I’m not sure that The Voice was ever a very compatible lead-in for Revolution to begin with, so whatever help The Voice provided Revolution in the ratings department didn’t last very long, at least that’s my guess having followed the ratings throughout the season.

After all, The Voice is a singing competition, while Revolution is a science fiction show, so I don’t think that there’s much of a crossover between the audiences for the two shows. Sure, I like both The Voice and Revolution, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s also the case for the people who watch at least one of the two shows, and I think the fact that Revolution repeatedly lost about half, if not more of The Voice’s viewers in the ratings throughout the entire season proves that. If I had to guess what the NBC network executives’ logic was behind scheduling Revolution on Monday’s after The Voice, they were probably thinking that since they obviously had high hopes for Revolution they should give it the best lead in that they could offer one of their new shows, which is The Voice. They were also probably thinking that while Revolution and The Voice are obviously not the most compatible with each other in terms of the kind of audience that the two shows attract, The Voice is at the very least one of NBC’s highest rated shows. That’s just my theory regarding the decision to air Revolution on Monday nights after The Voice for its first season though.

Honestly, I feel like the ratings for Revolution looked a lot more stable by the end of the season compared to the ratings for Smash’s first season. The fact that Smash didn’t seem to hold onto very many of The Voice’s viewers is something that really surprised me, because I thought the two shows would share the same audience, at least to some extent. Season two is definitely going to be a big test for Revolution, in my opinion. First off, it’s going to have to prove that it’s strong and stable enough to stand on its own since it will be kicking off NBC’s Wednesday night lineup now and unlike the show’s first season, it won’t have The Voice to provide the show with at least somewhat of a cushion in the ratings.

On a more personal level, the writers of Revolution are going to have to prove to me that the show is capable of maintaining my interest for the duration of the series, or for at least the foreseeable future and not quickly once again lose me as a viewer like Fringe did once its second season started. Honestly, I’m fairly optimistic that they will be able to keep me interested and invested in the show considering the fact that they managed to capture my interest a lot sooner than Fringe did, and they’ve kept me interested in the show since the episode “The Children’s Crusade”. Plus, as I mentioned earlier, they still managed to keep me interested in the show after not being all that impressed with the first episode, but at least I saw that the show had potential to be good, unlike Fringe’s first episode, which didn’t really show much potential in my opinion.

As for my predictions regarding the show’s second season itself, I’m not entirely joking when I say this but there’s a big part of me that’s half expecting that the season two finale cliffhanger will be that Miles and Monroe are shown lying asleep in bed next each other, naked, leaving the viewers to spend the entire summer wondering if they slept with each other, especially considering the homoerotic subtext that a lot of their scenes together had throughout the season. Like I said earlier, I was very surprised that the producers not only revealed the cause of the blackout fairly early on in the series, the characters also turned the power back on in the first season as well. As I said earlier, I was really expecting the producers to stretch that out for several seasons.

I haven’t been able to find the interview, but I read a comment on the IMDB message board for Revolution from a poster who claimed that Eric Kripke apparently said at one point that the show isn’t supposed to primarily be about turning the power back on, but instead it’s supposed to be about the characters rebuilding the United States. If that’s indeed the case, I think that sounds like a very interesting direction to take the show in, so I kind of hope that’s where things are headed.

As for the reveal that the President of the United States has secretly been hiding in a U.S. Colony at Guantanamo Bay, I can’t wait to see what happens when he returns to what used to be the United States. It would be nice to see the writers address the whole issue about how he can still be considered the President when the Constitution is supposedly no longer valid and there’s a law about term limits, not to mention the fact that fifteen years have passed since the power was turned off. Who knows how far into his presidency he was when the power was turned off? I’m not holding my breath about whether or not they will answer those questions though. The writers do have a tendency to overlook details like that at times.

As much as I loved the reveal about the President, it kind of bugged me that they had the President talk, but they didn’t show his face. Since the producers did that, I’m guessing that they will just to expect viewers to simply ignore the fact that viewers will have already heard the President speak if they end up casting an actor whose voice sounds nothing like whoever it was that said the President’s lines in the season finale. From a practical standpoint, I’m guessing the producers did that so they can decide who they want to cast as the President later on. They’ll probably want to find an actor who’s at least somewhat of a big name actor to play the part. What I think would be interesting if the writers have the President become the main villain of the show in season two. Like I said earlier, the show definitely needs to have one clear cut central antagonist instead of flip-flopping back and forth between acting like Neville is the main villain of the show at times, and then act like Monroe is the central villain of the show the rest of the time.


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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 2 of 4)

(Part Two)

As I said in part one of my review, while I thought that the first episode of Revolution was rather average, I still managed to see enough potential for the show to be really good to make me want to watch the second episode, which was definitely a slight improvement upon the first episode, and I became gradually more and more satisfied with the show as the first season continue. I know the producers haven’t been making the show in order to please me as a viewer; after all I’m almost certain the producers are completely unaware of my existence. Although, whoever is in charge of maintaining the NBC’s official Twitter account for Revolution did tweet me on one occasion, thanking me for posting things related to the show on my blog, so perhaps they will end up coming across this review and reading it.

Anyway, I thought it was very smart of the writers to reveal Rachel’s fate by the end of the second episode, because wanting to know whether or not Rachel was still alive was one of the main reasons why I decided to watch the second episode even though I wasn’t blown away by the first episode. I don’t know the producers’ reasons for deciding to fire Andrea Roth and replace her with Elizabeth Mitchell, but I’m really glad that they did because I never really liked Andrea Roth on Rescue Me. Personally, I always thought that she was very annoying on that show whereas I’ve loved Elizabeth Mitchell in everything I’ve seen her in over the years. Elizabeth Mitchell is one of the main reasons why I decided to check out the show in the first place when it started, aside from the fact that the premise of the show sounded interesting to me.

Personally, I think revealing that Rachel was still alive and had been held prisoner pretty much all the years the writers skipped over in the second episode illustrates what I believe is one of the greatest strengths of the show. That strength would be that the writers answer questions and move storylines along at a nice pace for a serialized show instead of dragging things on forever like Lost often did, or like The Event, which was even more guilty of when it came to dragging things out too much. That was at least the case with Revolution’s first season, and I pray to God that the writers will continue to maintain that pace at which they reveal things throughout the rest of Revolution’s run, however long that may be, because it’s one of the few good things the show has been able to do at least a little bit better job of than Lost did throughout its run.

If the producers of Lost were working on this show, they would probably wait until at least season four to reveal the cause of the blackout and turn the power back on. Something tells me that they would also reveal the cause of the blackout as if it were merely some kind of afterthought with just a few quick bits of dialogue. After all, that’s essentially what they did when they finally revealed the significance of the numbers and their explanation for the numbers’ significance was ever dumber than the fact that it was power-inhibiting nanites that caused the blackout. I for one thought the writers’ of Lost were being extremely disrespectful towards the views when it came to explanation for the significance of the numbers and how they revealed that information. Revolution may have numerous flaws, but at least the producers seem to have more respect for the show’s viewers than I often felt Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse had for Lost’s viewers. They definitely gave the reveal of what caused the blackout the time and attention that it deserved, which is something that I felt Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse often failed to do on Lost when it came revealing the many mysteries of the show.

When it comes the writers revealing what caused the power to be turned off, I was shocked that the writers not only did that in the show’s first season, they also turned the power back on. Maybe it’s because I was so used to Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse taking several seasons or in some cases waiting until the sixth and final season of Lost to answer some of the show’s biggest mysteries, but when Revolution first started I was totally expecting them to wait several seasons to do that and perhaps even longer to actually turn the power back on. I’m really glad the producers of Revolution didn’t go that route, because as much as I love Lost, I always hated that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse constantly waited way too long to answer a lot of the show’s biggest questions. In some cases, the writers left several of the show’s biggest mysteries completely unanswered and unresolved when the show ended.

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 1 of 4)

(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.