Comments on: Revolution May Fill The Sci-Fi On TV Void

By: Evan Fowler

Evan Fowler — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:19:00 +0000

Revolution is on NBC.

By: kneesus

kneesus — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:28:00 +0000

Such a ripoff of “Dies the Fire”, in the book it’s called “The Change” which makes everything electrical stop working, you can’t even generate electricity, things that used to build pressure now do it but very slowly, so guns and engines don’t work. Very good series of books, sad to see they ripped it off and refer to “The Change” as “The Event”. The book is very well written and entertaining.

By: Eric Kammerud

Eric Kammerud — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Even the picture above is an almost identical representation of the main Portalnd Public Library. Yes we can safely say it is a heavy rip-off of Dies the Fire.

Agree that this series needs a better treatment.

By: Repo Man

Repo Man — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:12:00 +0000

Wow. A future where they are fighting with weapons from the Iron Age. That’s sounds like cutting edge Sci-Fi. No, wait, I’m sorry…where is the actual Sci-Fi? That they wear leather boot, dirty coats, and shoot arrows? Or that they endlessly talk about how this future world should be Sci-Fi but are oppressed by the dystopian society that hordes all the Sci-Fi, and the goal of the rag-tag group with bow-and arrows is to make such tech available to all the people? There, I just gave you the first season of the show. And I’m drunk and not even getting paid. If any half-brained TV-types wanted to do a real Sci-Fi rebel-against-oppressive-government show — they’d re-brand “Blakes 7.”

By: The Angry Jew

The Angry Jew — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:42:00 +0000

Well, its nice to see that dusters will survive

By: UnRiel

UnRiel — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:21:00 +0000

Rip-off of Steven R Boyett’s Ariel/Elegy Beach books/world except tech is replaced by magic.

By: Echelon

Echelon — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:57:00 +0000

Now I’m not sure, could you say they are ripping off “Dies the Fire” with tech suddenly stopping, or is this actually tied to that book and/or series in some way? Is the idea copyrighted? Or is this something where as long as they get nowhere near the story or characters in the book, they can use the ” no-tech” idea?

By: Echelon

Echelon — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:53:00 +0000

Yep, I was gonna say…. Please tell me they aren’t trying some half-assed attempt to put S. M. Sterling’s “Books of the Change” into a crappy NBC series. If there is a book series out there that deserves the “right” treatment its this one, and its less about the dystopian future and more about the survival through the initial “die out” and the amazing new societies they spawn. How much you want to bet though, these folks wont be starting any new culturally mixed society, but just flying from one disaster to the next trying to survive and not kill each other. Little to no character development, no gains made, just the basic ” we have found a spot to squat, now lets hold it, for no good reason”.

By: Jason Gonzales

Jason Gonzales — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000

Ya’ll weren’t paying too much attention. It’s not going to be ON Syfy, it’s going to be on NBC. Yes, I know, Syfy is owned by NBC, but since they’ve filled that up with a bunch of reality crap and wrasslin, I guess they need to put it somewhere, so hey, why not actual network television where everyone can watch it for at least half a season before they cancel it. At least they’ll do it before we really get hooked in case it gets good. That’s FOX’s spiel. Either way, bleah. Space opera or nothing is my opinion.

By: Pitchy

Pitchy — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:01:00 +0000

The only revolution should be in the upper echelon of SyFy’s executives. They should be taken to an island and forced to fight to the death. Every executive at SyFy should be fired as they have no idea how to run the station now. It’s just a left over flap for stuff that doesn’t have times slots on NBC and USA.

By: Pitchy

Pitchy — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Fringe isn’t on SyFy… SyFy has 13 new series coming out and 9 of them are reality based shows. It’s basically saying that SyFy is moving away from science fiction and into a bunch of crap none of us really want to watch.

By: Margaret Blum

Margaret Blum — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:22:00 +0000

Gone are the days of Farscape and Firefly. This POS is definitely NOT either one of those.

By: Dale Hoppert

Dale Hoppert — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:43:00 +0000

People standing around arguing, throwing rocks at each other and trying to fashion crude firearms isn’t scence fiction just because you throw the words “dystopian future” into the pitch. It’s just low-budget. Gimme a damn SPECTACLE whydon’tcha? A nice space opera. Just bring back ruttin’ Firefly!

By: Brian C McKinley

Brian C McKinley — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:40:00 +0000

This is the exact back story of “dies the fire” already done guys…

By: Evan Fowler

Evan Fowler — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:32:00 +0000

So… Fringe isn’t a sci-fi show? What is it then?