'Revolution' Season 1 Episode 5 'Soul Train'

I swear the guy on the right looks familiar!

Warning! This season is incredibly confusing, hopefully you can remember names better than I can! if not, just go down to the 4th picture to match faces to names!

Revolution had an awesome episode. Not as good as 'The Walking Dead', but let's face it; what could be better than Walking Dead last night!

Oh right, Breaking Bad.

Nah, Revolution tonight was awesome. The scenes and cameras were really well done, and I'd like to point out that the start of the episode had some extremely vibrant colours, which always makes a person like me very happy! They have also began to start to use the setting a bit better. Little things like an overgrown dish goes a long way in a shot.

Very Pretty indeed.

Straight as the episode begins, you see Captain Neville floor an unknown character, to which I assume is one of the soldiers. I thought this was a bit of a strange scene, but I'll explain later, unless you solve it yourself! Captain Neville (Who is the character on the right of the two man picture at the top of the post) then asks Danny to come into his little ring. This starts a pretty cool fisticuffs match between the two, with Neville ultimately beating up Danny. Just so you know, Neville is actually Gus from Breaking Bad, so he really fits in as the awesome officer to be feared of.

This is Danny, who is the main Characters little brother.

After this, you see the burying of another character. This character, named Maggie, died last episode of a stab wound to the leg. Both the scene showing her burial area and the scene of her actual death was surprisingly gut-wrenching for me, and I'm not exactly a softie. Something that made me go 'Oooooo!' was the awesome green grass in the scene. I really want to be there, it looks so nice.

From left to right: Miles, Nate, Nora, Charlie, Aaron.

I guess that's one thing about the whole 'Revolution' scene. The scenery is awesome. I've always been interested in overrun buildings and structures. I think it's just a really cool thing to look at and admire. Secretly I can't wait for society to fall apart and having the world as a little bit of a playground. Plus, you could climb vines, and... Wow, that would be cool.

Anyway, while the group, consisting of Charlie (The main character, and youngest in the photo, standing), Nora (The crouching female), Miles (The male with his back to the shot), Aaron (The other standing character) and hostage Nate, were walking through the trees, a horn can be heard from the distance. Of course this scared the living daylights out of me, because I'm super tired, but once again I digress.

All aboard the (Karma) train!

After this scene, it cuts to the Commander Monroe. This is basically the main leader of the militia forces, who have taken Danny from the group. Now, because you guys and girls don't need a whole breakdown, I'll just tell you to go watch the darned show (It's only 5 episodes, so a quick catch-up!). Basically, he is holding Danny and Charlie's mother hostage, trying to figure out what Ben (who is Danny and Charlie's father) was working on before he died. Supposably, Ben knew why the power went out, and how to turn it back on. *insert super shocked face here* The mother won't say a word, and so Commander Monroe is going to use Danny as a bargaining tool.

Woah, that is so confusing when I go back through it. Hopefully you followed it all!

Anyway, after this scene (which is the obligatory boring scene in the episode) It shows some backstory of Neville. I won't go into the details, because it'd take far too long, and I don't want this turning into the last post.

Simply put, Neville goes home after losing his job (on the night of the blackout), his son runs up to him and gives him a big hug. to the left, the wife can be seen as well.

I really believe that this particular flashback is incredibly important, even more important than present day content, as Neville needs more fleshing. This particular flashback shows the innocence of him to begin with, and how he was just a simple family man before the Revolution began.

| 'Will tea still be a little away?'

Neville goes downstairs to the basement to vent some anger out on his punching bag. This is when the power shuts out.

This was my favourite part of the episode to this point. As much as I like series, I love background lore and content. Neville and just the actors roles in general have always intruigued me to another level. I think that he is very capable of every role, and so when background information come out in the way of flashbacks, you get to see what the character (in this case, Neville) was like before the blackout.


Anyway, I'll jump forward here. The main objective is to get the train stopped, as it's heading to Philadelphia, to take Danny to Monroe. While this is happening, Charlie is trying to figure out where the heck Danny is and actually runs into Neville.

This scene also blew me away quite a bit. I could see that Neville could see straight through the lies fed to him, but decided not to act.

Once the conversation is over, Charlie follows Neville and I right away facepalmed. Obviously Neville knows you're not doing what you're supposed to, so stop following him you idiot. She doesn't listen to the advice I shouted at my screen and this happens.

This is the kind of thing which frustrates me about television, and one of the things that hold back this show from being 'incredible', when it's just 'very good'. The idiotic moves by Charlie cause the loss of the element of surprise, and Miles comes in to save them.


Meanwhile, Nora and her rebel buddy who isn't given a name, go and create a bomb. But no, this ain't no ordinary bomb. It's a bomb inside a piece of wood! The reason for this is so that the feeder for the fire to run the train throws it in, detonating the bomb.

Once again, I'm going to jump forward, because I'm getting tired (2:18AM). The log is placed on the pile of the train, and Neville decides it's time to move the train to Philadelphia to get Danny there. This causes an issue, with both Danny and the bomb being on the train.

So guess what, we go Wild West!

I think this may be one of the weaker points in the episode, so thank goodness it lasts for about a minute. They board the train, and...

You know what. I'd like to convince people to watch the show, so I won't say the ending. I think that the 1000 words that you've just should be enough to likely make you go and watch this!

Instead, go out and download the Episode. You won't regret it. You can find the links yourself, as I'm not going to endorse illegal downloading!

Until I don't ruin another grand experience, keep on Televisioning!