I was really looking forward to the new series but I thought it was a little week and I was disappointed. Maybe it is just me but I though it seemed unrealistic and the backdrop was very poorly developed. I will watch the rest of the series and hope that it gets better.

yeah I agree with icrcc, a slow start but I will give it a few more episodes to see if it improves. Have a feeling it will not be as good as the short lived tv show, Jericho.

I took to the opening, and then pretty much lost interest. I'll likely keep watching though, as it's the closest thing to survivalist porn around these days.

I've watched some of the Doomsday Preppers...but some of them make me cringe for various reasons. I was watching The Colony, but it really smacks of the first two seasons of Survivor...you dig it and then you learn the people are in a park or yards away from a resort or something.

I like Jericho. Still have the seasons taped that I watch every now and then.

Runs With Scissors.

I really liked Jericho. it was much more realistic in its presentation.

Yeah, like the don’t tell you about the first 3 month, or during/after the first winter or would that classify it as a horror movie? 😐

I DL'd and watched Revolution as soon as I saw the OP. Have to agree with the others... it's pretty thin.

Just like Jericho... it's going to be crap writing, crap acting and really just another vehicle to deliver cheesy cliche romances to female viewers. Not a show for most men, and definintely won't have the "meat" to satisfy folks with a true interest in apocalyptic possibilities.

I didn't like how it jumped to 15 yrs later. How did they build back up again? All the hardship ...

I could live with the fifteen year leap forward. After all it is probably just us prepper types who are intensely interested in the intervening time period. My problem was with the seemingly unrealistic society that had developed. They started to get it right with small farm-like based communities but lost it with the almost total absence of all technologies. Electricity would not have completely disappeared. Even if it did what about steam? What about coal gas, wood gas, biodiesel? Did everyone suddenly go stupid?

There was also the very annoying fact that the "villagers" were milling around in the background impeccably dressed in "costume" like it was a Saturday at the mall. Not very realistic in my book!

Another thumbs down from me...so disappointed. Such high hopes and now I will never get those 48 minutes back that I wasted watching this show.

I kind of got some decent ideas from the show - I'll keep watching it for sure if they keep those almost missed, backdrop ideas coming. Not too much into double-cross villians and/or heroes. And what's with that special technologie alien-looking electricity-generating-eye? Would love a series if it actually dealt with re-building and surviviing right after.

I'll agree with that...give me Jericho any day...*I miss it lol*
but revolution was a good watch for pure entertainment purposes.

Thinking about it, while doing the dishes, how many innovations there were before electricity. We had coal fired industries, using steam instead of combustion or electric motors. Cartridge rifles were being made as well as artillery shells, steam engines were used to transport goods from one side of the nation to the next. Almost every "civilized" house were using gas lights to illuminate the house and limelight’s for lighting up the stages. So if the lights went out for good, we would shift back into the industrial age of our great grandparents. There is still coal and waterfalls around, we just need the right minds to use them. Medieval ages for a short while maybe, but for the few of us who have been investigating alternate methods, we may be the foothold of a new society. :geek:

💡 Now you are talking. 💡

I am giving it one more episode (episode three) until I completely give up on it. Nothing in this show has been "right" yet. It is not even a good story line.