The new survival related movie series airing is starting on September 17th in the US on NBC. It's called Revolution - a lot of info inside. Looks like a nice cast in natural decorations. Trailers looks somewhat medieval, but might be worth watching.

Spoiler Alert!!

Looks like Lord of the Rings, Brave, and Red Dawn 2012 meet up for the quest of the electricity prepayment meter card to turn the lights back on through out the world after the post Apocalyptic financial collapse of the North Korean owned conglomerate Koenron Inc, apparently after Kim Song-ill secretly became the majority share holder back in 2013. Koenron Inc at the time was the worlds only electricity and carbon trading tax company which provided all electricity for the all the worlds Megacities at the time.

The prepayment card was no doubt to be located within the Temple of HAARP guarded by Iranian Re publican Guard trained Polar Bears on a tropical Island just off the Cayman Islands located in the Adriatic sea in the 7th Season. Boy lets hope not. Can't wait to find out if the Worlds lights and Ipads get switched back on in 2019.

Now where is my Cross Bow! I need some practice.

We're talking fiction/fantasy/make believe - right?

Its getting a little difficult to tell, as we can see from the NBCs unfortunate attempt to make trendy, areas of various parts of the world to appear to be 'hauntingly beautiful' which have been subject to war, economic collapse and nuclear industrial accidents etc;

http://www.nbc.com/revolution/photos/the-haunting-beauty-of-abandoned-places/11373

The synopsis of the TV show



Considering the past Abrams drivel such as 'Lost', this show could go anywhere no matter how ridiculous.

Maybe I'm just not trendy enough to get the message themes that will undoubtedly run throughout the show from season to season.

I'm planning on watching the first few episodes of this show to see if it's any good. But not as a "survival" show. Simply as popcorn-chomping brain-numbing entertainment. Kind of like "Falling Skys" or "Terra Nova".

I believe the most interesting aspect of this series is the fact that on the face of it the "event" can be based in fact... not fiction.

An well-placed detonated HEMP (High altitude Electromagnetic Pulse) could take out the entire US grid, most of Canada's and most of Mexico's... but it gets a bit Hollywood to suggest an EMP is responsible for the entire globe going down. Unless you had around 10+ geo-spaced HEMP explosions all about the same time...

Anyway, one neat aspect to this series is that even though it is set 15 years on and the main plot will be how they lived without power, each episode is supposed to feature one "Flash Back" scene from the event and near-post event activity to build a "back story" for the characters... a glimpse at the carnage just after the event.

My buddy and I are launching a weekly podcast to discuss where the realism and fantasy meet in this series and welcome your feedback and input (we will have a comment line). Come on over and register to get notified of the first episode!

www.RevolutionFanCast.com

Cheers

There is a "fan website" before the show has even broadcast its first episode? Doesn't take much to entertain the fans these days, does it?

Do folks have such little understanding of Electricity, that the underlining premise of this TV fictional show will actually permeate via propaganda and will become fact to a wide proportion of folks who watches such nonsense?

There was rapid progress that was made when the main components of the modern electrical world, such as electricity generation and transmission were invented in the UK by Faraday (Electric Dynamo and Transformer), James Bowman Lindsay (Electric incandescent light bulb) James Clark Maxwell, David Edward Hughes (Radio Communications) etc, even without a previous industrial base for this technology. Would these discoveries by lost forever by today's society?

An electrical grid black start would be problematic but not impossible to bootstrap back from.

Is electricity such a mystery? Everyone must know how a simple electrical circuit is built and works. It was taught to everyone at School. There are folks known as Electrical Engineers still around!

There are even many folks in the USA who can even rig up a Generator to provide electrical power for their homes every other 6-12 months when there is some poor or wet and windy weather.

If the lights do go out over an extended period, it would probably be more likely that the majority of folks couldn't afford to switch them back on again rather than a HEMP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeNOjbvA74g

EMP damages semi-conductors.

We Electrical Engineers have been using semi-conductors as the building blocks of our trade for many decades now.

The younger engineers use software to represent their semi-conductors as they do their designs.

Soldering skill isn't as widespread as it used to be and hand-soldering is likely to be regarded as a niche skill at best.

Even ham radio operators can't be relied upon to know anything about wiring or soldering anymore.

Going back to the technology of vibrator (relay-based) voltage regulators and such would be difficult as the fundamentals of that technology aren't really in the toolbox anymore.

Consider a technology reset to be akin to going back to the days of flint-knapping to build edged tools. It's still out there but it's not common.

Based on the show's synopsis saying that all electric devices (not just electronics) have "mysteriously blacked out forever" I assumed the show would have some supernatural and/or inexplicable reason that there was no power.

Like Am_Fear_Liath_Mor, I don't buy that any natural or materialistic event could make electricity disappear from our landscape completely.