That this tv series was happening escaped, for which I am rather glad, my attention. I prefer doing something useful to doing nothing and having doing it be useless.
Obviously, to me, if to no one else, the surface message of the series, as I discern it from the trailer and the prior comments here, is, "Please buy our advertiser's products." For that message to be effective, and effectively subliminal, the commercials have to be far superior to the series itself.
Perhaps re-reading Jerry Mander's 1978 book, "Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television," would be worth the effort?
The beauty of the total demise of electricity, in addition to what I saw depicted in the trailer, is quite wonderful. Because, in myelinated nerves, conduction between nodes of Ranvier is electrotonic, all myelinated nerve conduction will fail.
On the other hand, that falling airplane in the trailer does falsify both Newtonian and Relativistic mechanics, and puts us back in the days when motion was the result of the inner drive, impetus, inherent in all objects, such that, when an object gets tired, by running out of impetus, its motion will cease for lack of effective will-power.
And, because fire in the false-in-the-series does not involve oxidation (which would involve electrons as an aspect of chemistry", the phlogiston theory is shown to be correct, after all. Only, those fires did not exist. Therefore, the whole movie is a portrayal of intensely vivid hallucinations.
Is not psychosis so florid and pervasive as to be unrecognizable by those who are floridly and pervasively psychotic a marvelous defense against the objectivity of actual reality?
I knew a physician, years ago, who had watched the "Dr. Kildare" TV series, and who could not help but cry out, aloud, things like, "NO! You are killing the patient!" at the TV set...
Halfway through and I would rather be having root canal with a pitchfork.
I think Like Oedipus, I'd rather put my eyes out with gold brooches ...
I can recite the fucking dialog before they say it...
I can think up the cheesiest plot device and BINGO, it appears.
Don't kill him Uncle... And the guy beats him back to the city, And worse, THe fucking horny stud that follows the girl who's too stupid to stop.
ANd then the teary, weepy "I keep this digital camera in hopes that someday I'll be able to see my dead children.... followed by Oh wait, who-ha idiot uncle said this pendant (only the most valuable thing in the world) might let you see the images on that digital camera..
I'm going to go watch the second episode in a little while, but I wanted to leave this note, just in case.
In the event that I do not survive the experience, and some mysterious cranial explosion-type event occurs, I want the cause of death to officially be listed as "Revolution", and I would like to be acknowledged as the first person ever to be directly killed by a television show. Perhaps an incident like this can help protect others from these kinds of shows.
The network announced Tuesday it is picking up for a full-season order the adventure-drama "Revolution" and the comedies "Go On" and "The New Normal."
The network said "Revolution," from producer J.J. Abrams, has averaged a healthy 9.8 million viewers in its first three airings. "Go On," which stars Matthew Perry, is averaging 8.6 million viewers thus far.
After reading this thread I watched the first 3 episodes online. It reminds me of Lost, what with Elizabeth Mitchell and Mark Pellegrino in it. I was expecting Mr. Eco and John Locke to pop up somewhere. Maybe Randall will be played by Jorge Garcia. The show looks interesting.
