There's nothing revolutionary about Revolution. It's J.J. Abrams and NBC
There's nothing revolutionary about Revolution. It's J.J. Abrams and NBC repeating all of their past mistakes.
An article posted after the Season 1 premier in 2012 nailed it:
NBC's 'Revolution' suffers from a lack thereof
Michael Ross
Bad TV Examiner
September 22, 2012
NBC still evidently hasn't gotten over the loss of Heroes.
In Heroes, the usually fourth-ranked network had a rare hit. It was a far-fetched concept with a very high production cost, but boy did it ever pay off for them, earning the highest ratings for any NBC drama in over five years.
Exactly one year later, NBC is trying it again with the equally heavily promoted and vaguely named Revolution, courtesy of J.J. Abrams, who knows exactly how NBC feels.
Abrams, of course, was one of the masterminds behind the series Lost, which once boasted ratings higher than Heroes.
Yet, also like Heroes, the ratings of Lost steadily declined over the years. For many reasons, though predominantly because viewers began to suspect that all the answers were being kept from them because the writers didn't have any.
This culminated in the most epic letdown of a final episode since the ending of The Sopranos, in which it was revealed that the island was a sort of limbo, something many fans had speculated as early as the first season and which the writers had originally flat out denied.
The sad truth was that, while J.J. Abrams and co. were great at creating hooks -- great at creating very intriguing plot devices that would guarantee viewers keep coming back to learn more -- they were not good at giving them foundation.
What quickly became apparent, however, is that J.J. Abrams hasn't learned his lesson about any of the writing techniques that resulted in the Lost letdown any more than NBC has learned its lesson about giving huge production budgets to a brain-dead writing team.
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-revolution-how-it-came-and-how-it- will-go
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