Revolution Season One: The Love Boat

The story of Revolution has come a long way, when you watch it now it seems like its been ages and ages when Charlie left her village and found Miles.

The episode begins with Miles and the group capturing a scientist who was working with several vials and setting explosives to blow up his lab. Two days earlier Miles, now more cold and angry since the death of Emma, oversees the execution of a former friend and Militia comrade by firing squad with Charlie not liking what she saw. Later while Miles is drinking Tom walks in with Georgia reinforcements and though Miles wants to kill him Tom says they are now on the same team and he has orders from President Foster. Turns out Monroe is weaponizing anthrax with the help of a Dr. Ethan Camp and they have to stop it.

Even I admit that's pretty dam cold

The group later makes there way on a Georgian steam powered boat where they are to pose as a fishing vessel and capture Dr. Camp. Charlie is unsure about trusting Tom but Miles only tells her to shut up or stay behind, Charlie choses to go with them. Tom then tries to talk to Jason but Jason only says that he hates Tom and he is only here because he doesn't care what side he is on. This angers Tom who says the only reason he is here is because of Jason who was a traitor, that Julia almost died to get to Georgia and that everything Tom worked for is gone because of him. In the Tribal lands of the Plain's Nation Rachael and Aaron try to barter some food with one of the villagers but he refuses to give them any.

I don't think jewellery has that much use in this world anymore

In Philadelphia Monroe is recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained in Jasper while Randall tries to tell him that his recent drastic and violent measures won't help them stop the Rebels and the Georgia army. Monroe is having none of this however and insists that Randall should know his place as just his I.T. guy. At night Miles and his team have arrived at their destination and it goes back to the beginning of the episode where the have captured Dr. Camp and blown up his lab. Back at the Plain's Nation Rachael and Aaron  are escaping from several villagers who they stole food from and Rachel even had to kill one of them but she trips in a ravine and snaps her femur, Rachel tells Aaron to go one without her but he refuses.

Time to get this operation under way

On the boat Miles threatens Dr. Camp to makes anthrax for Georgia or he will never see his family again and then Tom walks in with them having captured them while Miles got the doctor. Charlie is furious with them both for treating innocents this way and even Nora is who wants to transfer to another unit away from Miles, believing he is no different now than when he was in the Militia. In the morning the boat is boarded by a Militia vessel but they manage to hide the Dr. Camp and keep up their cover as a fishing ship. Meanwhile Aaron has left Rachael who is then found by several of the villagers but Aaron comes back and together they kill them.

Too bad they don't use big pirate ships, that would have been cool

At the boat Charlie believes that the whole operation has gone too far and even says this to Miles and how he has changed but Miles refuses to let the family go saying that this is war, that Monroe will not stop trying to kill them and that it is her fault for finding him in the first place. Charlie then locks Miles in his room and Jason chloroforms Tom and with Nora they take over the boat and rescues Dr. Camp's family on another however Tom wakes up and takes the boat back with several Georgia men. Just then the Militia boat finds them again and opens fire and Miles then has a change of heart and helps Charlie and the others escape, leaving Tom to deal with the Militia.

 

 

All that firepower and they couldn't hit a main character lol

At the Rebel/Georgian base two days later Tom bursts in to Miles's office with a gun and threatens to kill him for leaving him and that President Foster will hear about it. Miles however is not worried because they are winning more victories every day and that is what Foster will care about more, later that night Nora and Miles "make up" with Nora saying that Miles isn't a bad guy after all. At the Plains Nation Rachel wants still wants Aaron to continue on and that it is more important that he does. She then tells him to turn to a page in Jane's journal and Aaron sees an old newspaper clipping of his younger self at MIT, Aaron wonders what he has to do with The Blackout. The episode ends with Grace restoring power to the level 12 in the elevator at The Tower and her guard steps inside to go down there. He gets stuck on level 7 and when the elevator returns to Grace's floor she finds it covered in blood.

 

Like something out of a horror film

I really liked this episode and it has become a favourite of mine in the series and that is largely to due with the fact that it was mainly set on boats. While they sounds like a silly reason keep in mind that we have barely in boats in Revolution so far as it has always been on land. We got some great action on board with Charlie and Nora taking over the boats and then the Militia finding them again. For me this boosts the score up because I really enjoyed a change of setting.

 

"Lets say we call a truce boy"

Glad to see that Tom is back and creating the tension between all the characters, didn't expect him and Jason to bond straight away but I sided more with Tom in the argument between those two. We also get to see another side of Miles here as well and I guess he is acting more like the old Miles back in the Militia. That Miles sure as hell can be cold - hearted, I know the death of Emma must be haunting him but after putting in all the effort to stop a nuke he really doesn't mind the use of anthrax? may not be a nuke but a disease can be just as deadly but I am glad that Miles decided not to go through with it in the end because we still need him to be a good guy. Also like I sided with Tom against Jason I have to side with Miles against Charlie because Miles was right; Charlie brought him back into this life so Charlie shouldn't try to always fight with him so much.

 

If Aaron shaved off his beard he'll probably look years younger

As for Rachael and Aaron's sub plot while I like that we get to see more of the Plain's Nation I didn't feel that it was relevant to the plot. Sure we have to see some of their struggles and the reveal that Aaron might be involved in The Blackout was good but when it changed to them I just really wanted it to back to Miles and the rest. It was a decent subplot with some good action but it just felt like filler to me, just to stretch the episode a bit.

 

"You all don't know who your messing with!"

Lastly there is the ending when we see that's Grace's guard was killed in the elevator. Didn't really reveal much of what could have done that to him but maybe whatever Randall wants on level 12 has more defences in place than he thought. With the guard dead maybe Grace will make a run for it or maybe her curiosity will get the better of her and she'll try to get to level 12.

 

The doctor is having a really bad day

Overall this was a great episode because I enjoyed watching a darker side of Miles and him coming back from it. It was great seeing Tom in a full episode again and like I said it was great that it was set more on boats throughout it.

 

SCORE: 8/10

 

Highlights: Every scene with Miles, Charlie and the rest with them

                   Awesome action sequences

                   The cliff-hanger ending with Grace

 

Let - Downs: Rachael and Aaron's subplot felt like filler

                      Charlie and Jason where a tad annoying

 

 

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