Revolution
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I agree ...
Seemed like the show started moving again, got kinda stale for a bit.
Did you guys think there was a LOT more commercials this past week than other shows ?
But this is an hour show ....
just seemed like every few minutes I was hitting the FF button.
Next Episode: Season 2, Episode 12
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
"Captain Trips": Charlie and Rachel feel compelled to assist when Gene decides to help the town of Willoughby; Monroe and Miles try to survive by working together.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
"Captain Trips": Charlie and Rachel feel compelled to assist when Gene decides to help the town of Willoughby; Monroe and Miles try to survive by working together.
S~
I agree. When Aaron met that lady (can't remember her name, nor care) in some-town-in-Oklahoma and that part of the story was told, I just thought, "please, stop this storyline".
Just looked at a torrent for this episode and one I found was listed as 0:43 in length. I don't know what's typical for a 60-minute show today. I'm sure they're getting shorter and shorter every year.
Boy you can really see that violence is no problem on this show anymore. People getting whipped to bits , throats slashed and the blood sprays out. Seems like gore is in this year and every show on tv is trying to out do each other. When I think back to the hub bub that family groups raised about violence on tv shows that was around in the 70s and 80s, I just laugh. The stuff we have on today's tv would make those people turn purple. I still wonder what would be worse on tv: Violence or SEX? People don't seem to mind watching this type of murder and gratuitous acts of gore, but watch a couple simulate sex acts in bed with a little skin showing and people get outraged. But these days I am not even hearing groups objecting to the sex OR the violence shown on tv. Maybe we are all getting immune to it.
It's becoming the norm to see all this violence and sex on tv. Tv certainly ain't what it used to be. The 70s and 80s were the golden years. Some of the 90s were a little golden too but that is when things started to change.
The groups have seen that the networks don't care and won't listen to the complaints anymore, so they are now starting up networks that replay "family friendly" shows from the 70s and 80s and occasionally produce new programming.
I don't watch much network tv...just a couple of shows, Revolution being one. I mostly watch movies...
I don't watch much network tv...just a couple of shows, Revolution being one. I mostly watch movies...
Networks and the FCC can just point to the myriad parental controls on most broadcast TV devices in response to complaints from parent groups. Those groups are still out there, but I think they are more focused on educating parents on what's suitable for children as opposed to expecting networks to change -- that ship has clearly sailed.
Regarding the number of commercials in last week's episode, I've noticed more TV shows backloading more frequent, but shorter commercial breaks toward the end of the show. 43 minutes total run time for an hour-long episode is pretty standard for the major networks. Only AMC does 48 minute shows that I've noticed.
Agreed, that ship has clearly left port...
It's interesting to look at older shows with respect to total runtime. 30-40, even 50 years ago, an hour long TV show was about 7 minutes (on average) longer than it is today. A 30-minute show ran between 23-25 minutes. Now, 22 minutes is pretty much all a 30-minute show gets and 43 minutes is all a 60-minute show gets. The remainder is ad time and station breaks. 7 minutes hacked off a show probably makes it a bit more difficult to tell a story and not leave out some relatively important story points...
It's interesting to look at older shows with respect to total runtime. 30-40, even 50 years ago, an hour long TV show was about 7 minutes (on average) longer than it is today. A 30-minute show ran between 23-25 minutes. Now, 22 minutes is pretty much all a 30-minute show gets and 43 minutes is all a 60-minute show gets. The remainder is ad time and station breaks. 7 minutes hacked off a show probably makes it a bit more difficult to tell a story and not leave out some relatively important story points...
I'm sure there's a petition at change.org to stop all this violence ! Oh, think about the children !!
In season 1 we saw the nanonites had the ability to heal (broken leg).. when Aaron was resurrected in season 2 after being shot .. why didnt the nanonites fix his eye sight too? Kinda ironic for the man who gets getting repaired walking around with poor eye sight!
He also can't seem to lose weight walking hundreds of miles across desert terrain to Oklahoma in a world devoid of McDonald's, Coca Cola, cheese puffs, and hot fudge sundaes.
His glasses are perfect too - not a smudge or scratch on the lenses, frames look brand new.
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Didn't catch that one...
It's like you're reading my mind. I had the exact same though seeing his fat face next to the wife he abandoned years ago. He would be down to a slender buck-sixty without chips, soda and McPuffaloops.
I like the fact that his glasses ,that should be 15 - 16 years old still look great and the lenses are not scratched. Even though he gets in fights, get's beaten and even dies, & comes back from the dead. I guess we are supposed to think that the optometrist is still up and going in a world with out electricity.
