We follow only out of a sense of morbid curiosity...

Hmm, that title could refer to our current election cycle or the actual subject of my post, the television drama Revolution.  My wife and I watched it last night and I wanted to exercise my right to not watch after about 20 minutes into the episode.  This grew intensely when we reached about the 45 minute mark.  Since the writers have already thrown the scifi plot device that all electricity fails to work in man made devices, I guess throwing out the rules of physics regarding steam power was no stretch.

Spoilers below.

Once again, we were interested and amused to see the adaptations used when the power goes out.  The shot of a car (relatively intact) hooked up to the team of horses in the town was cool.  The print shop in operation was also cool.  Seeing the steam train in operation with pullmans and a caboose was a treat.  However, it was ruined by the storyline and the characters.  Having two highly known wanted people walking a town crawling with troops was a stretch.  Having as the third member of the scouting troop a young person who has already proved that she cannot be trusted to control herself was just icing on the cake. 

We follow this with the man who "built the army" making a huge error in basic prisoner handling.  However, this was followed by the members of said army deciding that they did not need to post guards on the back platform of the caboose, or apparently even needing to look out the window while Butch and Sundance ride up and make a mess of jumping onto the train, then walk across the top of all of the cars.  I guess they missed that part.  Then we are treated to the worst poker face in televised history, the worst unconcerned reaction by one of the most suspicious characters on TV and a magical crossbow that appears and disappears randomly.  But, best of all was one of them reaching into the firebox of the locomotive wearing a leather glove for protection to pull out a flaming log/bomb. 

I was so annoyed with the characters that I wanted to turn it off.  But my wife has stated that she is invested because she wants to see how some of these idiots die.  Unfortunately, the only one I can see dying at this point is Aaron, since he is known to have one of the lockets.  And even if he gives it to one of the others, he's still going to die because they know he had it.  So really, as with the presidential debates, I will watch only out of a sense of morbid curiosity.