There's a TV show in its first season called Revolution which is supposed to depict a time 15 years from the day someone cast a magic spell across the planet which acted as a universal "off" switch shutting off everything that ran on or used electricity.
It looks like another of those serials that goes on for season after season with sympathetic characters in an endless quest for some holy grail of electrical power, which somehow involves a dozen magic medallions.
Anyway, the citizens of the former United States become unwilling subjects of a militia run by a ruthless leader. But take heart, there are some revolutionaries out amongst the people. And our handsome heroes and beautiful heroins have teamed up with them.
And here's the reason for this particular post. In the latest segment one of the revolutionaries connects with a fellow revolutionary by way of a pass phrase which assures each of them that the other is a brother/sister. Here it is:
"I'm looking for a biography of Joe Biden."
Hilarious. Gold plated irony.
Good fiction has to be believable. And this was one of those moments that strained credulity to the breaking point.
It was a laughable attempt by the writers to dabble in today's politics, and here's why it's so funny. The revolutionaries in the show are supposed to be the good guys. And the rulers, with their harsh anti-gun rules, suppression of opposing ideas, and disregard for the U.S. Constitution, are the bad guys. That describes the current administration. And Old Joe is a big part of that administration.
The script writers are supposed to be injecting propaganda for "Obamacare" into their shows, but maybe they just couldn't fit Obamacare into the script knowing that it required a bureaucracy bigger than anything else so far revealed in the series. So "Joe Biden" was the best they could come up with. It's every bit as out of place as the scene in the last episode of Life on Mars when the hero is told that one of Barack Obama's daughters is president in the year 2035.
It's almost enough to make a TV viewer yearn for a blackout.
This is pretty funny. I give props to the writers for working this little piece in. I’m a big fan of sci-fi, so I’ve been nerding out over the show quite a bit lately. I even convinced a few buddies that work with me at DISH to tune in, and now they are hooked. I’ll be saving this entire premiere season to my Hopper, for those moments I need to understand an Abrams mystery; I’m just glad that I have DVR with plenty of memory.
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