Tag revolution sucks

When NBC announced the show Revolution I was kind of looking forward to it.  The premise sounded interesting to me, sometime in the near future the world somehow loses electricity (they haven’t revealed why yet).  As a result of the loss of power the planet is plunged back to a feudal times type of existence.

Well instead of being a quality addition to my tv rotation, Revolution has turned into this years Terra Nova.  It basically sucks.   The fact that a show with lots of hype and a big budget sucks is not a new event, it happens quite often.  However in this particular case I am a bit surprised because of the names that are associated with the series like JJ Abrahms and Jon Faverau.

Revolution is weak on so many levels.  The writing is awful with predictable scenarios and outcomes everywhere you look.  I literally laugh out loud at times at just how ridiculous some of the round holes they try to jam square pegs into.

I find the young girl that is the female lead the most annoying of all. It’s not her fault, it’s more the fault of the bad writing that has her all over the road in terms of whom she really is.

Also annoying is the idiotic, random insertion of things into the show that are there strictly because of it’s later time slot.  For example the use of the word “dick”.  He’s a dick, don’t be a dick. I think they even used the word “crap” at one point. Gasp! How shocking.

Then last night they have a total soft porn scene with the annoying young female. For some reason they decide the best way to illustrate her tortured memories is when she is taking a bath. They were millimeters away from nip slip city and did have full side boobage at the end of the scene.  I mean obviously I fully support naked women whole heartedly but in the context of the show it was just idiotic and an obvious attempt to titillate, perhaps because that was all they have to offer.

As another example of the show’s suckage, let me outline a scene from this weeks show.  Yea I guess it is a spoiler but if you are still watching this show, you deserve to be spoiled.

So two of the good people were being held in a compound by about 30 bad ones, headed up by an extra nasty leader of course.   The leader gave each of the good people a gun and said they had to shoot each other.  Whomever shot first would live.  This was the leaders idea of a fun time.

Well the two good people were a dumpy fat guy and a hot latin woman.  The fat guy says he isnt going to shoot the hot woman (duh) so in an act of valor he points the gun to his chest, pulls the trigger and drops.

Evil leader guy comes over, all excited of course.  Well all of a sudden, fat dude opens his eyes and uses the gun to shoot the evil leader dead.  Fat guy had a metal whiskey flask in his pocket that stopped the bullet.

So now for some reason the 30 other armed men in the compound don’t immediately shoot the two good people.  Instead fat guy basically says “listen, all we want to do is just leave, ok?”  They cut to some guy that goes into deep thought and then says “ok get your stuff and get the hell out of here”  I mean wtf is that?

The show sucks.  All I want to know is why the damn power got turned off which is supposedly going to be revealed in the next episode.  Once that happens, I’m out.

Man as we approach the election the ridiculous FB posts regarding it are multiplying like rabbits.  I literally feel a little bit embarrassed for some of the people that post them. Many of the items are just so ignorant and low brow it makes me sad.  I just want it all to be over.

So my buddy Troy loves to poke fun at my extreme concern for animals. I basically hate killing things.  Really the only beings I don’t mind inflicting mass murder upon are fire ants which I am convinced came here straight from the depths of hell.

So anyway here is my latest story. This morning as I was in the bathroom getting ready I saw a small bug in the sink.  It actually looked to be a baby cockroach.  I just wasn’t feeling all that sympathetic so I took a cup of water to wash it down the drain since that is where it probably came from.  I tried to make sure it was well down the drain system by following up with running the faucet for a few seconds.

Well a few seconds after I turned the faucet off I see the bug slowly climb out of the drain, obviously a little disoriented from the near drowning.  Well now I felt bad.  I grab a tissue and scoop it up.  As I am walking towards the front of the house the baby roach climbed off the tissue and onto the middle of my forearm and stayed there.

I popped open the garage door and with one quick exhale blew the bug onto the yard where he will have a fighting chance to survive.

If you asked me to logically explain why I would feel compassion for a baby roach I don’t think I could.  But I do know it does maybe explain some of my thoughts on other subjects that are up for debate in society.

I have no doubt if that bug was in Mitt’s gold plated sink he would have immediately called in the butler to smash it.

This weekend Ali leaves for PA so I take full time possession of the dogs for close to a week.  No highlights planned, just the normal slog plus hopefully a 10 miler Saturday morning.