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Worldwide blackout sparks 'Revolution' By Jacqueline Cutler © Zap2it er J.J. Abrams' epic drama coming to NBC Monday, Sept. 17, there's a world- wide blackout. Unlike most, the lights In "Revolution," produc- don't go back on. Ever. However, there are deeply hidden and cov- eted vestiges of electric- ity. The series questions what happens when not just the lights but anything that turns on switches off permanently, and we don't know why or how. "I feel like people need this show now," says Giancarlo Esposito ("Breaking Bad"), who stars as the show's vil- lainous Capt. Tom Neville. "People feel like we are in danger of the end of the world, and doom and gloom. And the show is about the end of an old way of thinking and a new dawn blooming. We are on the precipice of real- izing that humanity is all we have. I see it in my children. I see it in our spiritual essence. We are forgetting what we know. "We losing our connec- tion to electricity is just an analogy of us losing our connection to each other as well," Esposito contin- ues. "The deeper recon- nection is to have to rely on each other." Expect to hear people talk about "Revolution" in terms of a post-apocalyp- tic or a dystopian society, but no one knows if this blackout was the result of an apocalypse. Life as everyone knows it has changed so dramatically that cities no longer exist. A few people such as Ben, a mild-mannered guy with a wife and two kids, expected the cataclysmic event that launched the series. He quickly down- loads valuable information onto a flash drive camou- flaged as a pendant. Captain Neville and his henchmen come to seize Ben 15 years after the power ceased. The arrest goes wrong, Ben dies, and Neville winds up nabbing Ben's son, Danny (Graham Rogers). This all happens very early on, so it is not a spoiler. Charlie (Tracy Spirida- and struggling to get the lights back on and figure out the solutions to the mystery, there's Charlie's generation, who see this almost as a pastoral, simple place that they grew up (in)," co-execu- tive producer Jon Favreau ("Iron Man"), who directed the pilot, says in a press conference. The pilot has a sweep- premise of the show could happen, says creator Eric Kripke ("Supernatural"). "It's about electricity, ing, cinematic feel to it: planes crashing, hideous accidents, and then in the new world — really a hear- kening to an old world — fights are waged with bows and arrows and swords. Miles is a swashbuck- ling and reluctant freedom fighter. In one scene he slays so many men with his sword, one expects him to hoist the Jolly Roger. "His mission right now kos, "Being Human") is determined to rescue her brother, Danny. She seeks their long-lost uncle Miles (Billy Burke, "Twilight"), who is tending bar in Chi- cago. Incidentally, there isn't wheeled transporta- tion or toilet paper in this world, but there is booze. Ultimately, the world is divided into two gen- erations: those who knew what it was like to click on a device and be enter- tained and in touch with the world, and those to whom Wrigley Field was always an overgrown ruin. "So while people are struggling to hold onto shreds of the old society is only to help Charlie get her brother back," Burke says. as you will get to a mod- ern-day cowboy (story)," Burke says of the series, which also stars Zak Orth ("Romeo & Juliet"), Eliza- beth Mitchell ("Lost") and Anna Lise Phillips ("Ani- mal Kingdom"). "It's a grand action-ad- "This thing is as close so it's about anything that throws a spark," Kripke says at a press confer- ence. "Any circuit that car- ries an electrical charge. It's that alone, and that is the simple, clean rule, and everything expands from that. So that means batteries and spark plugs, which means engines and everything that comes from electricity." "And then in terms of the guns, I mean there's that line that Giancarlo so brilliantly delivers in the pilot where he says, 'You know, firearms are a hanging offense.' Guns are possible in the world. They're confiscated be- cause we're living in the Monroe Republic, which is a dictatorship, and they've taken away people's rights to bear arms." Neville is well-armed, considering no munitions factories churn out weap- ons. venture series with a sci- entific secret that is char- acter-based at its essence but an epic drama at its core," Esposito says. Using the international from themselves," Esposi- to says. "He is protecting them from anarchy and protecting something they do have — a home base, stockpiles of ammunition." Since it is the Monroe icon for power for its logo, "Revolution" is intriguing in its premise because this could happen tomorrow. 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