Revolution Season One: The Longest Day

The Militia fights back!

The episode begins in Ashland, Kentucky at a makeshift Militia base and several soldiers are monitoring the skies with computer equipment. At the Rebel/Georgia camp Nora regrets spending the night with Miles because they could both die any day though Miles doesn't agree with her. Tom also confronts Jason about what happened at the boat and try to goads Jason into killing him, Jason refuses so Tom hits him and even calls him a coward. Charlie tries to comfort him by saying she doesn't have the best relationship with her mom and then it changes to the Plain's Nations where we see Rachael and Aaron. Aaron is still overwhelmed by the information in Jane's journal but Rachael doesn't have the answers and even wonders why Ben gave the pendant to Aaron, she then prepares to shove Danny's capsule into her leg in an attempt to heal it but says it could blow them both up.

"Relaxing Rachael while I entertain you with a festive tail"

Back at the Rebel/Georgia camp Jason and Charlie spot military drones flying towards them but before they can sound the alarm the drones strike missiles at the camp. We then have a Flashback seven years after The Blackout and Rachel has just left her family to be a prisoner of Miles. Miles is unhappy about this because he wanted Ben but Rachael says Ben isn't interesting in turning the lights back on but she is. In the present Miles comes to and finds both Nora and Tom, the latter wonders how the Militia knew their location to which Miles replies that there must be a Militia spy in their midst. In the Plains Nation Aaron and Rachael find an old electronic store where Aaron wants to try and make sure that Danny's capsule works and heals Rachael's leg and not kill them.


"And everything seemed to be going so well"

At the Rebel/Georgia camp Miles, Nora and Tom head north to where Jason and Charlie where seen and they spot Militia troops coming to wipe out the survivors, meanwhile Charlie is trapped under rumble. At Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Baker is confident that their drone strikes have taken out the Rebels, the Georgia army and even Miles but Monroe does not share this view. Baker convinces Monroe to celebrate with him in a nearby bar and as they are walking down the street a sniper kills all the guards and almost kills Monroe. Monroe is unharmed but is surprised that Baker is too because unlike him Baker had no cover at all.

 

Your last friend in the world Monore

Back at the Plain's Nation Aaron fixes the capsule and it heals Rachael's leg but they are then ambushed by a group lead by a man named Lee Blackmore who wants to know what happened. Meanwhile Miles, Nora and Tom have taken out a few soldiers and have even found Jason who is badly injured and says that Charlie was in the bell tower when the missiles hit. He asks them to leave him but Tom decides to stay with him while Miles and Nora move towards the bell tower. We then have another Flashback and Miles is trying to look for Ben but Rachael says he will never find him. Rachael is really starting to hate Miles now because of the things he has done that has even earned him the nick name "The Butcher of Baltimore". Miles thought they cared about each other because of the affair they had Rachael says she regrets it, Miles says she will regret her stubbornness.

 

Go Monroe Militia!!

In the present after taking them to his camp Blackmore wants Rachael and Aaron to heal his son since he saw what they did to her leg, Rachael says he need to them back to the electronics store. At Independence Hall Monroe accuses Baker of trying to get him killed since Baker was completely exposed for the sniper but was unharmed, Baker denies this saying he is Monroe's only friend but Monroe doesn't want to hear it. Baker than says that Monroe pushes away everyone, like Miles and Tom, and that he will be alone when he takes over the continent. As armed guards enter Monroe thanks him and leaves his office and then the sound of gunfire can be heard. At the Plains Nation Rachel knocks Blackmore out and Aaron wants to know why they are turning the power back on if they don't help people. Rachael then reveals that she is only doing it so that the other nations will kill Monroe, that she doesn't care about helping anyone and that she will leave Aaron if he doesn't help (f***ing b***h).

 

Bye Baker

At the Rebel/Georgia camp Jason can't understand why Tom won't leave him and Tom says that even after everything he has done he won't leave his son for dead. Tom then manages to defend Jason by killing several Militia but is wounded in the arm. Miles and Nora are still getting to Charlie but they are surrounded and Nora decides to run and distract the Militia, something Miles was planning to do, so Miles can rescue Charlie. It works and Miles manages to get to Charlie and even kills someone who was trying to kill her. At Independence Hall Monroe is informed that the sniper who tried to kill him was a Georgia spy and that he was working alone, Baker had nothing to do with it.

 

"Four to try to take me down? Now that's f***ing insulting"

Later in Atlanta Jason wakes up in a hospital and see Charlie standing over him and they kiss, Tom sees this in the hall way. Meanwhile President Foster is angry that she lost most of her army and that the Militia has threatened to carpet bomb the city unless they surrender. Foster sees no choices since she has to save as many as see can.....unless Miles has a brilliant plan. The episode ends with a captured Nora being thrown at Monroe's feet.

 

"Now what shall we talk about Nora"

Now this was quite the great episode and that is because finally the Militia have won a victory over the Rebel/Georgia forces and almost wiped them out. I know there the bad guys but I'm just glad that Monroe now used the pendant on something that was really effective, makes you wonder why he wasted time on nukes and anthrax. Anyway I really liked the beginning when the drones strike the camp, it was so epic with some cool explosions and the results where really devastating.

 

Time for Miles to arrive in the nick of time

All of the action post - drone strike was awesome as well, some of the best I have seen. You can really feel the desperation with Miles, Nora and Tom as they try to look for Charlie and Jason as the Militia forces hunt for them. Got some great gun fighting with Tom as he defended Jason, also looks like they might be able to repair their relationship between them since Tom confessed that he still cared for Jason. The scenes with Miles and Nora fighting where good too, especially with Nora sacrificing herself for Miles even though she is now captured by Monroe I doubt he just wants a friendly chat. We also got some great scenes with Monroe and Baker and it really shows how unhinged Monroe is and how far into paranoia he is. It is kind of sad that Baker is dead now because I really like his character but it is tragic for Monroe again because he has lost someone else and it was by his own hand. Baker is right Monroe is just pushing everyone away and he is going to be alone. 

 

I'm sure there's an explanation but these should have been used at the start

As for what I didn't like about the episode, you guessed it, Aaron and Rachael's subplot because again it just felt like filler and took you away from the more exciting drone strike storyline. Not just that but Rachael's attitude was once again annoying (and she was alright these last couple of eps), with her revealing her true colours to Aaron after knocking out Blackmore. She is just as bad, no worse, then any antagonist in the series, she cares about absolutely no one but herself; she says that she is doing it for Danny but I just don't believe because of how much malice she acts with to turn the power back on. Aaron is right; this journey to The Tower should be to help people not so that Rachael can just forget she has been the worst mother in the world to Danny and Charlie. Her stubbornness is annoying as well, why couldn't he just tell Miles everything in the Flashback? Also I seriously doubted she regrets the fling they had because of how much she obviously liked Miles more than Ben but also like in the other Flashback and she tired to be the better person over Ben when dealing with the Department of Defence she tired to be the better person over Miles over their affair. I hate that Aaron is paired with her because he is a great character but Rachael could care less about him from what she said and is really only using him to turn the power on. Annoying F***ING B***H!

 

I think it would have been better if Rachael and Aaron made friends with them and asked for help 

Overall this episode could have ranked as one of my favourites if only they just focused completely on Miles's group, the drone strikes and the scenes with Monroe and Baker because those parts where so, so good. You might think its unfair to mark an episode down because of one character and their plot but Rachael just ruins everything so damn much. I have the DVD of Season One and I always skip the part with Rachael and Aaron and Flashbacks in this episode, I don't for previous episodes because I can tolerate her and as I said before I still enjoy the whole series even with her (even when its just her scenes because I admit she's important to the plot). However I just can't in this one because this is one of those episodes where the writers just took her attitude too far.

 

SCORE: 7/10

 

Highlights:  Drone strikes

                    All the action after the strikes

                    Every scene Philadelphia/Independence Hall

 

Let - Downs: Rachael was finally and completely unwatchable in this

                      Flashbacks

 

 

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Revolution Season One: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

Time for a Revolution review.

The episode begins with Monroe hearing the news that Tom and his wife are missing and that Jason has been spotted with the Rebels. Believing that Tom might be with the Rebels and angry at that fact he shoots the messenger in the head. Elsewhere at a Rebel camp a dying Rebel member manages to deliver a message to Miles before he dies and it turns out that Monroe has managed to sneak the nuclear device to its neighbouring Nation; The Georgia Federation. Miles decides to infiltrate Georgia's capital of Atlanta and stop the Nuke and Charlie and Nora also come along, with Charlie even pointing out that this will be her first time outside of the Monroe Republic.

Don't worry Monroe there are more we he came from

When Miles and his group have crossed the border they decide to get some Georgia solider disguises however at an outpost they find several soldiers dead and uniforms missing; someone had the same idea. Miles finds a knife that is left behind and then has a Flashback seven years after The Blackout and he his drinking with a young protégé of his named Alec Penner (Dayo Okeniyi). Miles decides to give him the same knife we saw in the present, that is also Matheson family heirloom, to Alec. It then changes to Rachael and Aaron who are trying to find another colleague of Rachael's named Jane and are shortly saved by her who sets two Militia soldiers on fire with a strange blinking device. At Jane's house Rachael explains that she wants to turn the Nanites off, Jane does not understand why because they where keeping Danny alive but Rachael explains that he is dead. Jane however still refuses to help because the same technology is keeping her wife alive and doesn't want to sacrifice her just because Danny is dead.

Fatality

Disguised as soldiers Miles, Nora and Charlie sneak in to Atlanta and they split up to find Alec and it is not long before Miles find him and the two fight it out. Miles however looks to be overpowered by him but Alec suddenly gets an arrow in the shoulder and retreats but Miles and Charlie chase after him. Miles manages to catch up to him but Alec has just killed an Atlanta policeman and leaves Miles to get captured by others. Later Charlie runs in to Alec who warns her that Miles can never be trusted even if Charlie is her niece then runs off. Before Charlie can run after him a Monroe helicopter is seen flying above and raining down hundreds of letters that asks for the surrender of Georgia or face a nuclear holocaust.

Miles vs. Alec

Miles is taken to Georgia Federation President Kelly Foster (Leslie Hope) who has heard of Monroe's warning and wonders why Miles is here. After some talking, made hard because of some hinted bad - blood between them, Foster lets Miles go to find the nuclear device. While the citizens of Atlanta are evacuating Miles meets up with Charlie and Nora and they split up again the find Alec. We then Flashback nine years after The Blackout and Miles is welcoming back Alec from a mission in Texas. However it turns out Alec failed his assassination and they even saw his face so Miles, wanting to avoid a war with Texas, decides to send Alec back. Alec is distraught and feels betrayed over this but is soon dragged from the room as Miles looks on, presumably to be a prisoner of Texas. Meanwhile Rachael is searching Jane's house for information on The Tower but is soon found out and tries to convince Jane that she wished she could have done this earlier and would have sacrificed Danny after seeing what she did for Monroe. Jane does not believe her and is unwilling to sacrifice her wife, Beth, just because Danny is dead now but Beth over hears and convinces Jane to help Rachael, Jane then gives her a book with all her information on The Tower.

It's for the good of the Republic Alec

Back at Atlanta Miles finds Alec preparing to blow himself up with the nuke that has a pendant attached to it and tries to convince him out of it. Alec however is having none of it because he never hated Miles for sending him to Texas since it was the mission and the right thing to do but what he does hate him for is leaving while he was away so it made it seem like it was for nothing. The two have a brutal fight but Miles kills Alec with the knife he had given to him before, an angry Monroe tries to order Alec to blow the nuke over the radio but is met with only silence.

"This thing does work right?"

Later on Charlie tries to get Miles to talk about her mother but Miles only tells her to back off and is soon ordered to meet with Foster. Foster is furious that the nuclear material is missing from the bomb but Miles refuses to hand it over because he doesn't want Georgia to use nukes either. Foster says she will go to war with Monroe and will use her money, army and navy to attack his southern border and wants Miles and the Rebels to attack from within while they attack from the south. Miles says he does not have the manpower or the weapons to help but Foster shows her the two hundred men armed with a thousand weapons that will reinforce the Rebels and asks if Miles is ready to be a General again.

Let the war begin

Got flashbacks again!

Finally after thirteen episodes we have left the Monroe Republic and we get to see what other parts of America is like, namely the Republic's biggest rival; The Georgia Federation. I really enjoyed seeing how different Georgia is to the Republic because Miles was right in saying that it is like a completely different world. They use steam powered buses, they are filthy rich, they actually occupy skyscrapers and their capital of Atlanta seems to flourish more than Philadelphia. Life just seems a lot more better in Georgia and makes you wonder why everyone in the Republic doesn't move there but then again remember all of the dangers Charlie and the group faced while travelling through the Republic. As I have said before experiencing new places is a real pull for me when watch adventure/action stuff like this so obviously my favourite parts was just looking at the new place we got to see.

This is fair because last time Nora had to pretend to be the slut

We also got a great story between Miles and Alec and we got some great Flashbacks with them as well. Again its the stuff that Miles has done in the past that really makes it hard to take his side like when he first killed during the early days of The Blackout that could have influenced Monroe, ruining the new life Jim had made and now it is betraying Alec to Texas since Miles obviously must have treated Alec almost like as son. They had some really brutal fights in this as well which was great to see and it seems Alec might have planted the seeds of doubt in Charlie's mind so we will see where that goes. I think that the story between Miles and Alec is one of my favourites in Revolution because it is kind of tragic overall that whoever's life Miles gets involved does seem go badly lol.

Free Monroe Dollars!

A plot that I really didn't care for at all in this was Rachael's and Aaron because once again it just shows how much of a b***h Rachael is. I can not sympathize with her character at all and the reasons why she is doing it because like Jane I just don't believe her, she has gone on this journey only for her own sake and her own damn ego nothing else. It was interesting that the Nanites are constantly healing certain people while they are on but it also made me hate Rachael even more now because it again shows that she is not turning the power on for the right reason. Just because her son is dead she now thinks it's alright to let die everyone else who depended on the Nanites? Jane really should have burnt her f***ing ass!

"Behold my army Miles"

Other stuff to mention it that I really liked the scene at night in Atlanta with all of it's citizens evacuating and I guess that was the fear Monroe wanted to put in them. However I wonder if it really was the best option to use a helicopter to drop cards warning everyone and not to have done it in secret? Anyway it looks like the plot of the nuke is now over and now Monroe is going to have to think of another plan. Also I really liked the ending in this showing that an all out war between the two nations is about to commence with Miles leading it all.



"See you soon Monroe Republic"

Overall this was a great episode with seeing Georgia and the story with Miles and Alec but I felt they wasted a bit of it with Rachael's plot at Jane's house, even if she wasn't annoying in it I just didn't much care for it. Also just want to point out that since it looks like Georgia is going to reinforce the Rebels at the end but shouldn't the Rebels also hate Georgia? They say they are trying to bring back the United States so shouldn't that mean they need to get rid of Georgia and not just the Republic?

SCORE: 7/10

Highlights: The Georgia Federation/Atlanta
                   The plot with Miles and Alec
                   The searching for the nuke during the day and night

Let - Downs: Rachael
                      Rachael's whole plot at Jane's house

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