Revolution (New JJ Abrams / Favreau show)

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New NBC show air in the fall. Excellent pedigree... produced by JJ Abrams, direct by Favreau and created by Erik Kirpke. I'm kind of excited, it looks like a cheesier Jericho, mixed with Book of Eli. I'll give it a watch come the fall.

Plus the return of Giancarlo Esposito as villain! 😱

Originally posted by srankmissingnin

Plus the return of Giancarlo Esposito as villain! 😱

That alone is reason for me to watch. I'll give it a try but I don't hold much hope for sci-fi shows these days.

something i will watch..

Very solid first episode. Giancarlo Esposito does not disappoints!

Was rated as the best new show ever made.

My faith in JJ Abrams decreases with each show he does. I'll watch this, but I fully expect it to last one season.

will be watching this tomorrow night..

They should do mini series out of shows like this. Maybe one season long shows. A definite beginning/end. Drag it too much and people lose interest and the shows end up canceled.

Originally posted by Darth Vicious
Drag it too much and people lose interest and the shows end up canceled.

That's kind of what happened with FlashForward. They had a mid-season break and no-one cared when it eventually came back on.

That show had so much potential.

Originally posted by Darth Vicious
That show had so much potential.

I thought so too. There are a series of books available that might flesh out the story, not read them myself but I may try and track them down at some point in the future.

first impressions from last night..

i liked the first show.. this show has potential but whether that potential is lost or fringe worthy remains to be seen.. I do hope a few question will be answered by the season finale

Yes, I want some answers too. It makes no sense that all power was gone from cars, cell phones, planes etc. Also, how pressing a button on something so small can bring the power back.

Originally posted by Darth Vicious
Yes, I want some answers too. It makes no sense that all power was gone from cars, cell phones, planes etc. Also, how pressing a button on something so small can bring the power back.

yeah i know.. I hope JJ has some good answers as the season progresses

Originally posted by Darth Vicious
Yes, I want some answers too. It makes no sense that all power was gone from cars, cell phones, planes etc. Also, how pressing a button on something so small can bring the power back.

are you on facebook by chance?

The first episode was cheesy and the pacing was terrible, but it had it's charms. I'll stick with it for a couple episodes.

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
yeah i know.. I hope JJ has some good answers as the season progresses

are you on facebook by chance?

Nah. It became too Myspacey for my taste.

Wasn't too bad. It reminded me of Jeremiah, the post-apocalypse show that Luke Perry did a few years back. Honestly though, what are the odds on that kid stumbling into that woman on the farmhouse and she had one of those locket device things as well?

Apparently Abrams is being sued by a student at Penn State who had this idea almost ver batim, and thinks it was stolen. Abrams's father oversaw the project at the school, or funded it or something. I don't know the details, I just heard the story from a friend at Penn State. He was pretty livid though.

Considering the Star Trek movie borrows liberally from the original Star Wars movie, it's not terribly surprising, but also unconfirmed.

Originally posted by Digi
Considering the Star Trek movie borrows liberally from the original Star Wars movie, it's not terribly surprising, but also unconfirmed.

How is the Star Trek movie akin to the original Star Wars movie?

I'm not arguing with you, I'd just like to hear your opinion.

Originally posted by Dr Mystery
How is the Star Trek movie akin to the original Star Wars movie?

I'm not arguing with you, I'd just like to hear your opinion.

Sure. A loner boy dreams of heading to the stars while driving fast in a vintage car/speeder bike/pod racer. Having lost his father and not knowing his true destiny, he finds himself embroiled in a galactic struggle. One of the main characters has their home planet destroyed by a super-weapon, then the villain sets about trying to crush the Rebel Alliance/Federation.

Along the way, he has a grizzled human mentor (Admiral what's his face/Kenobi), and a pointy-eared alien mentor (Spok/Yoda) who uses strange powers to impart knowledge to him. They also receive tech-based help from a quirky comic-relief duo (Scotty and little alien/R2 and C3PO) who are marooned on an obscure planet until our hero recruits them.

In the end they destroy the massive ship of doom when Spok/Luke destroys the massive ship with their tiny fighter that they intuitively know how to pilot because of The Force/Time Travel, and they all receive medals.

...Cracked did an article about it at one point too, from which I got a couple comparisons that I missed, and there's ones they missed as well that I mentioned. But it was obvious to me even when watching it, almost painfully so. Like how Terry Brooks' first fantasy novel was, almost chapter by chapter, a copy/paste of Fellowship.