I didn't want to give up hope that they could find a way to make this post-power world work, but their new fixation on turning the power back on so soon has really curdled what was a potentially rich idea. Now, I'm wishing the show had chucked that idea far out the window to begin with, hence my embrace of The Stand's…

Elizabeth Mitchell just slides back and goes into a haze of remembering her time on LOST.

An interesting interpretation. I could entirely see that as the direction of a second season, if this one ends with the Tower being reactivated.

He did have a bullet in him to be fair. But yeah, the half-season I spent learning to like David Lyons has been sabotaged in this second half.

One thing Revolution has done is make me thing its characters could play roles in a potential remake. Billy Burke is who I'm picturing as Stu Redman as I read, and Colm Feore would make a sensational dark man.

Apologies if I gave that impression. I do try to review the show as is, rather than how I think it should be - the problem is that the structure is turning into such a mess I can't help but speculate how a different approach could have worked out much better.

Big yellow joint, big yellow joint, I'll meet you down at the big yellow joint…

And glow-in-the-dark monster makeup!

They were pretty thin last season too. Sadly between the HBO and AMC juggernauts, nobody pays as much attention to poor Rodrigo Borgia.

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I definitely do give more blame to the writers than Lyons in this case. But he certainly didn't help things.

I liked Monroe when they're using him in a quietly unstable way, but when they ask him to play big, it doesn't work.

Well hey! These things just snap right off.

"Also, maybe just get the kid who played Danny for the role, because who the hell cares."

If the NBC promo department hadn't already ruined that line, I'm sure it would have had much more impact as being over-the-top bananas and cliche. It's like that moment in the first Spider-man movie where Willem Dafoe yells "We'll meet again, Spider-man!" without a trace of irony.

The screencap was selected prior to the episode, and since I'd started drinking to deal with the episode by the end I decided to leave it up there as it mirrored my reactions to what was happening.

Travel times are driving me insane. Almost as insane as the nanomachine wizard-did-it explanations.

Once Happy Endings is canceled I'm sure they'll find a way to work Elisha Cuthbert into an episode.

I didn't realize that until this morning, but it really is getting ridiculous.

So basically Miles was just looking for an excuse to shoot him. And he needed to die so Giancarlo Esposito could slide back into the story.