Revolution is STUPID. It is probably the stupidest show on television right now. Do not bother watching it. And it is a shame because the general plot concept contains many interesting topics:
a. What happens to society when all sense of law and order disappears?
b. Is our society too dependent on technology?
c. What happens when we as a society give up basic rights like the right to bear arms?
d. Would people just become stupid without electricity?
With respect to the last question, it seems that the authors of this television show are STUPID, even with electricity. Lets see:
1. Not all planes require electricity. Once a jet's engines are lit they are not going to go out until you put them out. A jet would not lose control simply because of an electric failure. All Airbus jets are fly by wire (requiring electricity) but most Boeing jets in service today are hydraulic and would not just fall out of the air. You'd lose radio contact, radar, GPS, interior lighting, electric lighting, but you wouldn't fall out of the sky.
2. Diesel trucks would still run because they need no spark. The would need to be started, but once started they would run until their fuel has run out. Same with Diesel locomotives, Diesel ships, etc. So Maggie should have no problem getting to the UK.
3. In this STUPID television show there are an unlimited supply of candles which these morons light even during the day. How stupid can the writers be? Or how stupid do you think your audience is? 15 years after all electricity stops candles will be in very very short supply. Certainly nobody in their right mind would ever use a candle during the day.
4. Bullets are easy to make. Just save your shell casings and melt new bullets out of lead. Plenty of led things can be melted down for bullets. Like the weights on tires. In fact most roads are covered with lead weights which have fallen off wheels. There will never be a shortage of bullets.
5. Maggie dies of a knife wound which cut an artery. In this STUPID show we have 6 people who have all been surviving without electricity for 15 years and nobody knows how to make a tourniquet? Nobody knows that when you cut yourself you should lay down and elevate the injured area so that blood does not flow out of your body too quickly? Two of the people are military (1 US military, 1 militia). This is basic training which every soldier should get.
6. All sailboats were destroyed making an Atlantic crossing impossible? Not likely!!! STUPID.
7. After 15 years with no electricity there would be no fat kids like the one we are viewing from behind during the first scene of the first episode. Whose son was that? Go on a diet you fat little pig. People get fat from lack of physical labor and from eating processed foods. Without electricity processed foods would disappear very quickly and fat people would disappear fast as well.
And I do not buy for one minute that this show is fiction so it should just be stupid. What kind of fictional world would exist where people forced to survive in the wilderness for 15 years wouldn't learn basic survival instincts? Wait, they have very good survival instincts and they have adapted very well, but they have no idea that somebody bleeding should lie down? Not fiction, STUPID fiction.
It is like this television show was written by a bunch of idiots who have never been camping before and lack basic basic survival knowledge. The incredibly annoying thing to anybody who understands just a little bit of survival rules is the common, basic mistakes made in this movie.
