Revolution...Follow

Series finale. It didn't get any better, apparently it didn't do any better. And of course the story wasn't wrapped up at all... you didn't miss much if you skipped this one.

But hey, they put a little public service announcement at the end:

"1.3 billion people live without electricty. To help power the world, visit <NBC Website Here> for more information."

Awww, Almost Human was cancelled?

Ironically, it got slightly less stupid over time. Strange, yeah. They moved away from the "people without electricity also apparently forget that firearms, steam power, and a host of other technology introduced in the industrial revolution (and some before then) doesn't require it". More correctly, the writers apparently didn't realize this when writing the show. Once they got past that initial stupidity, it turned into a more straightforward action/drama series, and actually wasn't too terrible. Bit heavy handed with the political messages (when they bothered), and incredibly inconsistent with the whole "who's the good/bad guy" bit, but not terrible.

Which I suppose isn't a great endorsement of the series. I've pretty much watched the last season or two purely on inertia. It was more like "Well, I've already watched this much of it, and it's programmed on my DVR, so I may as well watch it". It was consistently the show I'd wait to watch until after I'd seen everything else on the DVR that I cared to watch, even when those things were re-runs and Revolution wasn't. So that kinda indicates where it ranked on my viewing schedule.


Honestly, the biggest issue with the series is that it appeared to have no freaking direction at all. Like literally no one on the production/writing staff knew where the series was supposed to go. So it just meandered from one bit of action to another. Is this about humans dealing with the nano? Is it about Miles and Sebastian getting the band back together? Other people getting bands together? The Patriots against everyone? Do we even care who "wins"? They way overplayed the whole "shifting motivations for main characters so you don't know who to trust or like" bit and kinda wrote themselves out of any sort of believable story. It reminded me a bit of Heroes, where by the 3rd season you literally didn't care about any of the characters, because the writers had broken them all in their desire to "shock" the audience with random personality shifts and behavior.

That pretty much sums up my opinion on it. I really wanted to like it but just couldn't force myself to watch it.