(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.
