Is It Time For "Revolution" To Be Crushed?

Hello,

Last night was another disappointing episode of "Revolution", this episode is titled "Sex and Drugs". There was a lot of drugs, but thankfully very little sex. Most of the drugs and sex were only implied. The previews for this episode indicated that Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) would be having sex as a trade for medicine for Nora. I'm grateful that didn't happen. Although it's shameful that Charlie had that gratuitous nude scene. Of course at that time she decided to rip up all her post cards, which was her childhood mementos. Did she really need to do that nude? A show doesn't need sex and violence if the story telling is good.

I'm glad to see that Spiridakos is actually acting now. The whiny faces were few and far between in this episode. She still has a way to go before she's a great actress.

But she's already better than the horrible Zak Orth, who plays Aaron Pittman. Is he or Graham Rogers as Danny the worst actor on the show? I can't get it out of my head that the producers of "Revolution" were looking for a Robert Pattinson knock off for the role of Danny. Pattinson and Rogers both have that pale look and neither can act. Anyway back to Aaron.  First of all how would Pittman survive 15 years in the brutal postapocolyptic world? Aaron is the last non-action hero. Why hasn't he become tougher since the lights went out? I also don't buy that he was a big shot with Google. Corporate America is a very cut throat world, a world that would have chewed up Aaron and spit him out.

And that duel Aaron had with Nora? Please. I could feel most "Revolution" fans cheering when he shot himself. There goes one of the show's weakest links, goodbye. But it felt a little bit too good to be true. And sure enough Aaron was only faking out everyone and then he shot Drex. Again that's completely unbelievable and out of character for the wussy Aaron.

And what was that with his back story? His back story is he left his wife because he's a wuss? Really is that the best the producers and writers could come up with? I also didn't buy that he was married to someone so capable. Why do I have a feeling she'll be turning up eventually?

To make fiction we care about, there must be characters that we care about. Who do we care about on this show? Any of the Mathesons? No, but Rachel may be able to get there eventually. Although why did she leave her family? It better be a damn good reason. Do we care about Aaron? No. The best character on this show is Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito). But we can't care about him, can we? Should we? As long as he's with the militia he simply can't be a likable character.

Oh excitement, next week we get to find out the secret why the power is going out. Goosebumps! Ok I'm being sarcastic. I'm not sure how much longer I'll be watching this hot mess.

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