Revolution 1.01: Redux
Sep. 19th, 2012 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tartysuzThe first episode of Revolution was mostly meh.
The plot was a crazy quilt of ideas from past, mostly failed serial sci-fi mysteries like Lost, Fast Forward, The Event and V (mostly because Elizabeth Mitchell is in both).
None of the characters have the crazy chemistry that Jared and Jensen had from the get-go on Supernatural. With a huge cast, there's room to grow, as long as they're willing to drop the uninteresting characters. So far, I like the woman who harbours a key character, the bad sheriff and the potential for stepmother/stepdaughter bonding best, although I worry because not-Katniss is less expressive than her crossbow.
It lacked the humour of Kripke's work, but that might be due to all the set up the first hur had to do. It was entertaining to spot the Kripke tropes:
- a pair of guys in a muscle car listening to classic rock
- contrasting siblings
- kids tasked with taking care of younger siblings
- dead moms
- central character who dreams of a normal life that was never really there
- overprotective dad, keeper of arcane secrets (like using a modem!)
- and last but not least, nostalgia for toilet paper.
The plot was a crazy quilt of ideas from past, mostly failed serial sci-fi mysteries like Lost, Fast Forward, The Event and V (mostly because Elizabeth Mitchell is in both).
None of the characters have the crazy chemistry that Jared and Jensen had from the get-go on Supernatural. With a huge cast, there's room to grow, as long as they're willing to drop the uninteresting characters. So far, I like the woman who harbours a key character, the bad sheriff and the potential for stepmother/stepdaughter bonding best, although I worry because not-Katniss is less expressive than her crossbow.
It lacked the humour of Kripke's work, but that might be due to all the set up the first hur had to do. It was entertaining to spot the Kripke tropes:
- a pair of guys in a muscle car listening to classic rock
- contrasting siblings
- kids tasked with taking care of younger siblings
- dead moms
- central character who dreams of a normal life that was never really there
- overprotective dad, keeper of arcane secrets (like using a modem!)
- and last but not least, nostalgia for toilet paper.
