Comments on: 5 Questions Raised By The Revolution Premiere

By: Vince Rossi

Vince Rossi — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:48:00 +0000

Actually they can be massed produced. The problem is that they would have to forgo the “smokeless powder” and go back to black powder. And that stuff got the English killed when they fought the Zulus because of the clouds it created.

By: gaz

gaz — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:28:00 +0000

if this ever happens can u be in my group please

By: Jeff Hanson

Jeff Hanson — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:17:00 +0000

Almost line for line what I posted on another forum lol. The inconsistencies and use of some crazy conspiracy to explain no power instead of a natural realistic event are just annoying.

By: Bruce Cameron

Bruce Cameron — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:37:00 +0000

I stand corrected! Crazy.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:32:00 +0000

Don’t forget that guns require a spark to fire.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:26:00 +0000

No, you don’t http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeEl9wZyabc

By: Ttony59

Ttony59 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:55:00 +0000

I love these post apocolyptic shows but this has a few holes in it.
Guns are a hanging offense but it you had the guns you would be the law.
I understand billets being an expensive commodity but do you have any idea of the amount of 223 and 9mm ammo out there. I have a thousand rounds of each plus 45 cal cache.
Is that little devise that cranked up the computor a generator? Because every one talks about the power coming back on but no one is talking about power generation . Like Centerpoint is just going to flip a switch .
Last, I have never seen that many crossbows … Not even in a store.
Disappointed in this show

By: kneesus

kneesus — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:37:00 +0000

Come after me with a sword to hang me and I have a gun, that’s not the best idea is it?

By: kneesus

kneesus — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:34:00 +0000

Steam engine, use a train. Diesel engine, runs on compression. There was a time when you started a car with a crank or push start it. Better than trying to feed a horse and ride one too.

By: kneesus

kneesus — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:34:00 +0000

But they don’t run on glow plugs, just to start them.

By: kneesus

kneesus — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:32:00 +0000

Fabricate bullets? Really? It take heat and lead to make bullets. Hobbyists do it all the time. The Chinese made gunpowder without electricity, and then there’s this thing called a steam engine. Arrows are easier to make but about 10x harder to kill somebody with than a bullet. So, nope not buying it. “Dies the Fire” takes the time to fix all of that, this show is just lazy.

By: kneesus

kneesus — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:30:00 +0000

“Dies the Fire”, I hope this makes succeeds so SM Stirling can get money when he takes you guys to court.

By: Aepheus

Aepheus — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:07:00 +0000

1. Guns – few are using them because they require either bullets or musket balls and gun powder. You’d need to fabricate bullets, and since all that infrastructure is gone, it’s probably not happening. What bullets were around probably got used up in the previous 15 years, and are now horded by the militia. They can probably make gun powder and musket balls, but since it requires mining or scavenging, it’s probably a luxury. Compare to sword or bow, no ammo or pull that arrow out of that body… Arrows would be significantly easier to make as well.

2. The computer thing working is related to the little device she had. I’d go to say it’s only partially usb storage – that probably had some software that allows it to work. The dad downloads something in a hurry when he gets home to put on it. It emits a field that negates what ever is causing electronics not to work. The lights come on when she turns the thing on too, not just the computer. Seems like a specific group of people have these. And, they are hiding. Perhaps that have some base of operations where the guy on the other side was, it could feasibly have power, since they seem to be able to undo the power problem. The computer just looked like an opened up desk top to me. You could see the fan and what not. Maybe she had to do something more to get it to work.

By: corrosivepress

corrosivepress — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:45:00 +0000

Thank you for point #5! “Revolution” is supposed to take place in America, right? Where we have more guns, rifles, shotguns, street-sweepers, assault-cannons, grenades, and ammunition supplies on nearly every other street corner than any country in the world. NO WAY that would be used up in only 15 years. And just because some militia man says guns are outlawed, doesn’t mean people wouldn’t still have them (especially if they have to worry about an ‘evil’ militia conscripting their children by force). And let me add that in the entire history of humankind, governments and people were able to function pretty darn well before electricity. So we lose electricity after a little over 100 years having it, and everything falls apart? Maybe for a couple of years, sure. But after 15 years? Please! Oh, one more thing: if staying in the cities means death, as stated at the beginning of the show, why do the main characters find so many people still living in Chicago? Move over “Terra Nova,” you now have company in the crappy, badly-executed so-called TV sci-fi category!

By: Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:11:00 +0000

I enjoyed the concept but really found the “henchmen always miss” sword fight quite annoying. Having 15 men lying around dead after fighting one man was quite frankly, stupid.

By: Abraxsis

Abraxsis — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:03:00 +0000

I never said anything about a battery … I said they take electricity. Even a vehicle being pull started is running off the alternator. Even little 2 cycle engines get electricity from a magneto device. Diesels could theoretically run since they combust using only compression, its getting them started that would be the issue. May be able to pull start them, of course there is the detail of powered fuel pumps, etc. If they got everything back on the serpentine belt a diesel could probably run without any power what so ever.

By: Tank0

Tank0 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:40:00 +0000

fuel : ethanol , i saw plenty of corn in the pilot . sure it would cost alot but in dictatorships slave labor is cheap. and again i am not talking about 2012 cars but model T kind of cars should be doable

By: Tank0

Tank0 — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:37:00 +0000

No i am talking about returning to old techniques already used in the dark ages. i agree they aren’t wide spread anymore but my country takes pride in the zimmer tower and i know the swiss have similar hobby groups. those people would adapt and become rich very fast. even modern universities study the wind up techniques , google Trevor Baylis and Atkin D&D, heck even philips and sony have a research department on it . sure the production of it would be slow compared to today but after 15 years you’d see plenty of such devices

By: Richard Schafer

Richard Schafer — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:05:00 +0000

We have pull started an M35A2 with no batteries installed, we just jumped the wires and it ran great. It may have been running off the generator, but no battery was required.

By: Writerbynature

Writerbynature — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:05:00 +0000

They explained the gun issue with a throw away line in the beginning- It’s illegal for the normal people to have guns, a hanging offense.

Secondly, she went into her attic (up the stairs, not down) to get to the computer

By: Christopher Tkachuk

Christopher Tkachuk — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Actually, watching the swordfight scene between Miles and the Militia, one wonders why the commander said “Shoot!” if they want to take him alive.

By: Christopher Tkachuk

Christopher Tkachuk — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:53:00 +0000

In answer to question two, that device for activating the power was very obviously NOT a flash drive. It was a triangular device with a button in the middle and didn’t plug into the computer. I would guess that there’s some sort of anti-technology field of some sort (probably inhibits the flow of electrons in metals or something like that) and that device nullifies that field. It’s an interesting idea and premise, but it’s not a flash drive.

By: Bear Fullerton

Bear Fullerton — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:20:00 +0000

but good point on diesels.

By: Bear Fullerton

Bear Fullerton — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:19:00 +0000

yeah, but the first cars that used a hand crank to start, did they use spark plugs or was something else done to ignite the engine?

By: Kenton L Miscoe

Kenton L Miscoe — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:12:00 +0000

My point is there is not a whole lot of .44, and almost no .50 AE lying about.