History Fridge / Revolution

* Episode 9 also shows that the rebels are adopting military ranks, which Miles finds very cute. The rebels have been shown to be extremely unforgiving towards militia people, and that attitude goes UpToEleven with Miles, the guy who trained the militia in the first place. He had to bargain with them to bring them Monroe's head on a platter in exchange for letting him live and helping him out. Assuming the Monroe Republic gets taken down and the rebels take over, what do you think will happen? They will probably become just as bad as the Monroe Republic. Miles is also quite aware that the rebels and the militia are not so different, and HeWhoFightsMonsters will probably happen. Uh-oh....

* Episode 9 also shows that the rebels are adopting military ranks, which Miles finds very cute. The rebels have been shown to be extremely unforgiving towards militia people, and that attitude goes UpToEleven with Miles, the guy who trained the militia in the first place. He had to bargain with them to bring them Monroe's head on a platter in exchange for letting him live and helping him out. Assuming the Monroe Republic gets taken down and the rebels take over, what do you think will happen? They will probably become just as bad as the Monroe Republic. Miles is also quite aware that the rebels and the militia are NotSoDifferent, and HeWhoFightsMonsters will probably happen. Uh-oh....

** It is a possible UnfortunateImplication that there are so few African-Americans in a large city with a sizable pre-Blackout population. It could be that given the Confederate state call-backs, that the Georgia Federation is at least partly built on sizable army of indentured black laborers in farms and factories.

** The additional UnfortunateImplication of this is - what happens when a recruit gets pregnant? Medical care is not exactly at 21st-century standards...

* Much has been made of the incompetence of the Monroe Militia versus the resistance in general and the protagonists in particular. However, the series has indicated on several occasions that the Monroe Republic faces stiff opposition from the two nations bordering it, and all out war against Georgia is imminent. [[FridgeBrilliance It would make sense]] that Bass has sent his best troops to defend the borders, leaving behind the less-competent people to deal with the resistance (who aren't very well trained or organized themselves). This is probably where all the best equipment (that's not being used to defend the capitol) is being sent as well. TruthInTelevision, as a similar scenario played out in the AmericanCivilWar: in the early stages of the war, both the Union and the Confederacy tended to leave their less competent troops in garrison positions (and, in the case of the Union, on frontier postings) while the better-trained units ended up on the front lines.

* The Monroe Republic Rebels have used code phrases involving Joe Biden. [[spoiler:As it happens, in the timeline of the show, he would be the ''last'' legitimate US President, before Davis seized power.]] So without realizing they are the true inheritors of the democratic, Constitutional tradition of the pre-Blackout USA.

* The Monroe Republic Rebels have used code phrases involving Joe Biden. [[spoiler:As it happens, in the timeline of the show, he would be the ''last'' legitimate US President, before Davis seized power.]]

* [[spoiler: Season 2 shows Mexico post-Blackout for the first time. It's not exactly in great shape, but Miles states that Mexico is wealthier than any of the US successor states; the Mexican army is seen running a border checkpoint; and the characters refer to Mexico as 'Mexico' rather than to a successor state. Mexico is much less 'connected' than the United States, with many rural communities not connected to a power grid at all. With less dependency on technology, combined with a government that ''didn't'' have an inside conspiracy actively working to destroy it, it's no surprise that either the pre-Blackout Mexican government, or a person or faction able to seize control after the Blackout, is able to exert its authority over most of the country rather than the country fragmenting the way the US did. Mexico is wealthier than the remnant US because much of its wealth was less dependent upon the electrical/information grid to begin with (although the substantial portion that ''was'' dependent ''did'' disappear).]]

* [[spoiler: Season 2 shows Mexico post-Blackout for the first time. It's not exactly in great shape, but Miles states that Mexico is wealthier than any of the US successor states; the Mexican army is seen running a border checkpoint; and the characters refer to Mexico as 'Mexico' rather than to a successor state. Mexico is much less 'connected' than the United States, with many rural communities not connected to a power grid at all. With less dependency on technology, combined with a government that ''didn't'' have an inside conspiracy actively working to destroy it, it's no surprise that either the pre-Blackout Mexican government, or a person or faction able to seize control after the Blackout, is able to exert its authority over most of the country rather than the country fragmenting the way the US did. Mexico is wealthier than the remnant US because much of its wealth was less dependent upon the electrical/information grid to begin with (although the substantial portion that *was* dependent did disappear).]]

** And a recent episode demonstrates that now that the nanites have some kind of sentience, they can, at will, allow lightning to happen and even ''enhance'' it to unnatural levels.

* Randall mentions he has access to spy satellites of all kinds. This means that how he deduced the existence of the pendants was to look for suspicious sites of night lighting. One very fundamental human tendency is to devise sources of light which last outside of sunlight hours. Non-electrical lighting could only be based on fossil fuels or wood, which, being flame-based, would have a characteristic flicker[[note]]Actually there is one exception: Coleman lamps, which give off a very steady light and in some cases were based on thorium[[/note]] that electrical lighting cannot mimic very well, especially forms of electrical lighting that purposely create very diffuse, uniform sources of light in a room. In short, the people who had pendants who were insufficiently cautious about using them betrayed themselves to eyes beyond the atmosphere.

* Randall mentions he has access to spy satellites of all kinds. This means that how he deduced the existence of the pendants was to look for suspicious sites of night lighting. One very fundamental human tendency is to devise sources of light which last outside of sunlight hours. Non-electrical lighting could only be based on fossil fuels or wood, which, being flame-based, would have a characteristic flicker that electrical lighting cannot mimic very well, especially forms of electrical lighting that purposely create very diffuse, uniform sources of light in a room. In short, the people who had pendants who were insufficiently cautious about using them betrayed themselves to eyes beyond the atmosphere.

*** Dan and the dwellers trashed the elevators' controls as well as making sure the elevators could not reach level 12, even if repaired from above. If there were stairs top to bottom, the dwellers could have sealed them off after trashing the elevator controls as they barricaded themselves in the lower levels. Randall had not been back to The Tower since he left to ally with Monroe and left Grace in charge of repairing the elevators; he only left a mook there to supervise her. It's likely that Randall knew about the stairs the whole time, but there was no way to go lower than the entry level without a functional elevator which was still not working the last time he was there. He was banking on Grace having fixed the elevators by the time he and Monroe got there since that was the only way he could keep Monroe from killing him. He seemed genuinely surprised that the elevator stopped at 11 (due to it being sabotaged by the dwellers). The dwellers seem to be situated between levels 7 and 11 and dispatch anyone attempting to reach level 12. But, but...how did everyone get back up from level 12 after the systems overloaded and The Tower lost power? My head hurts.

*** Dan and the dwellers trashed the elevators' controls as well as making sure the elevators could not reach level 12, even if repaired from above. If there were stairs top to bottom, the dwellers could have sealed them off after trashing the elevator controls as they barricaded themselves in the lower levels. Randall had not been back to The Tower since he left to ally with Monroe and left Grace in charge of repairing the elevators; he only left a mook there to supervise her. It's likely that Randall knew about the stairs the whole time, but there was no way to go lower than the entry level without a functional elevator which was still not working the last time he was there. He was banking on Grace having fixed the elevators by the time he and Monroe got there since that was the only way he could keep Monroe from killing him. He seemed genuinely surprised that the elevator stopped at 11 (due to it being sabotaged by the dwellers). The dwellers seem to be situated between levels 7 and 11 and dispatch anyone attempting to reach level 12. Plot hole closed?