Busse in "Revolution" series???

thatmguy

thatmguy

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Just watching a back episode, and it looks like one of his...

Episode "No Quarter" about 12:20 in...
 
I have seen every episode but didn't notice, I have it recorded so I may have to go back and look again
 
I don't think it a Busse.

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The series looks promising!
Hell, if I had my bunch in those settings I'd think I'd be set... well, might need a Rucki, MOAD, Waki, Scrapizashi, AK47 or something along those lines... Need to get a permit for crossbow... soon!!!
 
I'm really not liking Revolution - too many tactical errors.
Like when they come up to the dogs on a deer kill.
First thing that would come to my mind is - take the kill.
I doubt a wild dog pack would leave a kill (to attack) when confronted with humans at that distance.
Projectile weapons (bow & crossbow in this case) should be carried ready to fire,
not stowed. When confronted with a threat (or an opportunity, like the deer),
the leader should just command "guns up", and a couple of volleys would
end the threat from the dogs. Instead they RUN, worst choice ever!
"Last Resort" is better, even "Walking Dead".
 
The consitently poor judgement of the young chick drives me nuts. She allows emotion to impair her judgement to the point of endangering herself and the group.
 
I was expecting nothing from the "science" in this, and I got nothing, so I won't harp on that.

What I will harp on is the characters. It is set a dozen years after no electricity; people have been surviving in a difficult world, on too few calories, with too little medicine, have witnessed murders and stealing and a brutal military dictatorship, and no doubt rapes and probably (though it's not shown) freakout insanity and cannibalism and many deaths from childbirth and simple infections gone septic. And yet the teens act like spoiled white American suburban teens. And the adults around them let them! This is crazy. When you're in a survival situation and the experienced fighter says, "shut up" or "stay there," or "no" or "of course we have to kill this bad guy," the child will not whine and do what they please and run the world, like a suburban kid of professional divorced parents who throws a hissy fit to get the newest wii. They'd do as they're told--or the adult would shoot them very quickly or beat them unconscious because they were putting other lives at risk. It's not today's suburban American with all our cushy values, free time, and needless electronic crap. It's supposed to be a dire survival situation, and yet no one is acting like it. They're all acting as if they have 5000 square foot homes, wall to wall carpet, and not a care in the world beyond their next tooth-whitening appointment. This is, at best, a sad lack of imagination.

Every TV show like this needs to hire a consultant who has actually...oh, I dunno...grown up on a real, struggling ranch and hunted for the table should do it. Those who never had to get up before dawn to go out and crack the ice on the trough, or live on 20000 calories spread over a month because that's all there is, and who do not have the wit to imagine doing so, really shouldn't write this sort of thing.

Watching episode 2 on Hulu, I kept wondering, do the car manufacturers pushing electric cars to me have no sense of irony about advertising such an item during a show that says "electricity might end" and "we can live without it." Maybe they should rethink that strategy.

A combination of stupidities that makes me, again, hope for the end of the human race; if we use our big brains this badly, truly, extinction is what we deserve.
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This review off of IMDB completely sums up my thoughts on the series.
 
I like the show. Its TV not a tactical class, TV will always have its dramatizations and exaggerations. Lets not forget sometimes the ”mistakes” you guys are criticizing are closer to what happens in real life than what is able to be thought up behind a keyboard.
 
That girl would be the kind of person I would leave for bait or to check water sources/berries. Not trying to sound mean, but her stupid decisions will end up getting the group killed. Kids don't belong in a situation like this unless they understand what's going on. Nothing against kids here either.
 
Its one thing to be a stupid kid, yet she justifies her actions with her smug morally superior attitude and continues to make the same mistakes. My Wife feels more strongly about it than I do. I hope she gets offed. The show would be better. I keep watching because I love Fringe and Lost.
 
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