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#1 May 22 2014 at 4:51 PM Rating: Good
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Series finale. It didn't get any better, apparently it didn't do any better. And of course the story wasn't wrapped up at all... you didn't miss much if you skipped this one.

But hey, they put a little public service announcement at the end:

"1.3 billion people live without electricty. To help power the world, visit <NBC Website Here> for more information."
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#2 May 22 2014 at 5:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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I wanted to like that show. I tried to like that show. I just couldn't do it.

J.J. had three shows canceled - this, Almost Human and Believe.
#3 May 22 2014 at 5:21 PM Rating: Good
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Awww, Almost Human was cancelled?
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#4 May 22 2014 at 6:30 PM Rating: Good
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I'm honestly surprised this show lasted as long as it did. It was pretty stupid right from the start.
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#5 May 23 2014 at 4:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Karlina wrote:
I'm honestly surprised this show lasted as long as it did. It was pretty stupid right from the start.


Ironically, it got slightly less stupid over time. Strange, yeah. They moved away from the "people without electricity also apparently forget that firearms, steam power, and a host of other technology introduced in the industrial revolution (and some before then) doesn't require it". More correctly, the writers apparently didn't realize this when writing the show. Once they got past that initial stupidity, it turned into a more straightforward action/drama series, and actually wasn't too terrible. Bit heavy handed with the political messages (when they bothered), and incredibly inconsistent with the whole "who's the good/bad guy" bit, but not terrible.

Which I suppose isn't a great endorsement of the series. I've pretty much watched the last season or two purely on inertia. It was more like "Well, I've already watched this much of it, and it's programmed on my DVR, so I may as well watch it". It was consistently the show I'd wait to watch until after I'd seen everything else on the DVR that I cared to watch, even when those things were re-runs and Revolution wasn't. So that kinda indicates where it ranked on my viewing schedule.


Honestly, the biggest issue with the series is that it appeared to have no freaking direction at all. Like literally no one on the production/writing staff knew where the series was supposed to go. So it just meandered from one bit of action to another. Is this about humans dealing with the nano? Is it about Miles and Sebastian getting the band back together? Other people getting bands together? The Patriots against everyone? Do we even care who "wins"? They way overplayed the whole "shifting motivations for main characters so you don't know who to trust or like" bit and kinda wrote themselves out of any sort of believable story. It reminded me a bit of Heroes, where by the 3rd season you literally didn't care about any of the characters, because the writers had broken them all in their desire to "shock" the audience with random personality shifts and behavior.
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#6 May 23 2014 at 5:44 PM Rating: Good
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The finale, and the most of the series, didn't even seem to care about the nanos. Heck, I thought they had forgotten about the nanos in the finale until the last 5 minutes when they said "All your potatoes are belong to us." Idaho, get it?
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#8 May 29 2014 at 10:05 AM Rating: Decent
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Nadenu wrote:
I wanted to like that show. I tried to like that show. I just couldn't do it.

J.J. had three shows canceled - this, Almost Human and Believe.


That pretty much sums up my opinion on it. I really wanted to like it but just couldn't force myself to watch it.
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#9 May 29 2014 at 1:29 PM Rating: Decent
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The finale, and the most of the series, didn't even seem to care about the nanos. Heck, I thought they had forgotten about the nanos in the finale until the last 5 minutes when they said "All your potatoes are belong to us." Idaho, get it?


Hah! They can keep it (Idaho, that is). I always got the impression that all the tiny podunk towns they had stuff happen at in the series were like towns various members of the writing staff came from, or had relatives in, or were otherwise places no one would know about except folks who are from there. Was honestly one of the better aspects of the show actually.
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