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Reimagining the American Revolution

Kevin D.

From AICN comes news of a new two-hour movie/backdoor pilot called Revolution from the Sci Fi Channel.

"Revolution" is set in New America, a distant colony on an Earth-like planet struggling for its independence from an increasingly hostile homeland, the United State.

It could be interesting. It could also be very, very bad.

I can't wait for the Boston Space-tea Party! It's gonna rock.

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Chris Lansdown (mail) (www):

What would be really awesome is if the revolution was over a carbon tax.

10.19.2007 10:39am

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Dean Esmay:

Sounds like The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

By the way, "United State?"

10.19.2007 10:54am

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Kevin D (mail) (www):

That's the way it's written on AICN. I saw that too but I left it alone in case they have it written correctly.

10.19.2007 11:02am

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Mike (mail):

My guess is that it will be awful. The obviously political ones usually are.

10.19.2007 11:32am

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Kevin D (mail) (www):

Yeah, I'm kinda feeling that way too since the 'enemy' is called the Unites State(s). I'd rather they have used generic terms like "The United Earth Alliance" or something. Drawing such a direct line to the U.S. makes me wary.

10.19.2007 11:38am

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Andrew Cory (mail) (www):

The difference between awesome and awful is usually in the writing. Even mediocre acting can be overcome with good writing. (See: Babylon5) Even fantastic acting can be undone by awful writing (See: Heroes).

The premise is intriguing. That's about all we know...

10.19.2007 12:00pm

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Brian Finlayson (mail):

Speaking of Heroes. I have been a little disappointed with it so far this year. I thought at the end of last season, all of the Heroes would come together, instead everyone is splintered off into their own little subplots. Plus there has been no efort to tie the ending of last season to what is happening right now. Everybody camtogether in New York and saved the world, and we're supposed to believe they all just said "well, see you around".

At some point the story has to stop introducing new characters. I loved the first season because I thought it was pretty much how people who discovered they had unique abilities would react. Now, however other than Hiro, there is nobody who really wants to use their powers for something.

10.19.2007 12:57pm

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Ken Hall (www):

It sounds a bit like the backstory posited for S.M. Stirling's Falkenberg's Legion series. The tottering Earth government there was called the CoDominium, and was made up of the U.S. and Soviet Union (shades of Firefly's America and China--the series started before the collapse of the USSR, I should point out).

All these governments, of course, are made up of the most pessimistic read possible on the "if this goes on..." meme.

10.19.2007 2:11pm

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John B. Irving (mail):

It sounds a bit like the backstory posited for S.M. Stirling's Falkenberg's Legion series. The tottering Earth government there was called the CoDominium, and was made up of the U.S. and Soviet Union (shades of Firefly's America and China--the series started before the collapse of the USSR, I should point out).

Jerry Pournelle, not S.M. Stirling. It's the same setting Pournelle used with Larry Niven for "The Mote in God's Eye" and "The Gripping Hand."

10.19.2007 3:30pm

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TallDave (mail) (www):

It could be interesting. It could also be very, very bad.

My bet is on very, very bad.

10.19.2007 7:53pm

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Ken Hall (www):

My mistake--the one I read was Prince of Sparta, which Stirling co-authored.

10.19.2007 11:34pm

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