History Headscratchers / Revolution

** I figured it was probably along the lines that nobody really knows how, and worse, nobody really cares. While possible, crossing the pond isn't going to be easy, and no crew is going to risk their lives, or god forbid, being stranded across the Atlantic just so one woman can see her kids again. As for the militia confiscating some of the bigger, better ships, i guess it could be just so they have them when/if they need them, and to make sure the rebels and/or Pirates don't get a hold of them. In the end, this is just one of the many cases of FridgeLogic this show has to offer.

** Monroe has focused only on domestic authoritarian power, leading to MR becoming a banana republic. Georgia has focused on economic power and internal development, leading to industrialization and a higher standard of living. So where MR is a third world dictatorship, GF is a capitalist democracy. It'll be interesting to see how the other governments are -- my guess is California Commonwealth, from the location, name, and accusations of "heathens", is socialist. Not clear what Plains Nation is.

* It's decidedly not clear ''where'' the border is. The show'w writers seem to have not really taken their mapping into account when writing out place names for the post-Blackout world - for example, referring to "Oklahoma" repeatedly when Texas now occupies that former state. Indeed, the opening shot over "the border" would seem to imply that actually the border still falls along the Rio Grande - and regardless, where are the "70% of Texas's troops"?

* Take a look here: http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/revolution-logo-500x301_1561.jpg
* What could that light represent? The Tower? Was Kripke foreshadowing the Season 1 finale even before the show started?

** There have been scattered references to gold, and [[spoiler:Drexel even hands Miles a bag of something in the "we're square" speech]]. Also, some supplemental-to-canon material on NBC's website indicates that gold is *very* valuable, and coexists with a paper currency; a rough exchange rate is 1600 Militia Trade Dollars per (troy) ounce. If the post-collapse societies don't care and use [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoirdupois avoirdupois]], then 1250 Militia Trade Dollars per ounce (avdp).
** They use avoirdupois. 10,000 dollars to one pound was equated to 1250 dollars per ounce.

*** Textiles are among the easiest manufactured items to make, and traditionally were the first industry to industrialize. The New England area was at one point famous for textile mills powered by water wheels; the basic plan is still available and it wouldn't take much to set up such a facility (or even reactivate an old one). As for the pins, we mostly see them on the officers, implying they aren't common items (the [[{{Mook}} mooks]] just get branded on the forearm). Having a jeweler make a few dozen (or even a few hundred) from pre-existing jewelry for the elites is not quite the same as making thousands or millions of bullets, or making precision tools (which require both materials and skills that may not exist post-blackout). Making modern bullets is considerably more complicated, as smokeless gunpowder requires both mercury fulminate and nitrocellulose, both of which are extremely dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Note also the drab colors most of the Monroe Republic troops are dressed in (as opposed to Georgia's brown uniforms and the Patriots' khakis). Fabric dyes probably aren't happening either, indicating a very primitive chemical engineering infrastructure in the Monroe Republic.

* [[spoiler: How far apart are Willoughby, Texas; Spring City, Oklahoma; and Puesta del Sol, Mexico (none of which are real communities) supposed to be? Miles, Rachel, and Bass can reach the Mexican border by horseback in roughly a week from Willoughby. Aaron can walk from Willoughby to Spring City in about the same amount of time, implying that Willoughby and Spring City are both relatively close to the Texas-Oklahoma line, placing Willoughby in north Texas (possibly the panhandle given how the terrain and vegetation look). Keep in mind the southern border of Texas extends well beyond the Rio Grande post-blackout, and is fortified or at least patrolled on both sides, meaning any attempt to evade border guards will add time to the journey. Miles, Rachel, Bass, and Connor make the return trip from Puesta del Sol in about a week as well, apparently on foot. Do the Nanites give favored characters the [[Franchise/TheFlash Speed Force]] along with rapid healing and pyrokinesis?]]

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* So, if the power goes back on ([[spoiler:It does]]), then what happens to them? Do they just die? Or just become inactive? What happens next? Do they still play a role in any way?

** Washington DC was established as the nation's capital well before electricity was in use, and under blackout conditions the location still makes sense: it's centrally located to the bulk of the nation's population. The Patriots setting up shop in the White House makes sense as a symbolic move, although one would expect it to be in a greater state of disrepair than has been shown thus far (the furniture, walls, and paintings would likely be infested with mold, for example).

[[folder: Age of Munroe's son]]

* So Munroe's son Connor is around 25. That means that before the Blackout he was ten. Does that mean that Munroe never went back to his hometown between his fling with Emma and the Blackout? And why wouldn't either of them tell him, as he seemed reasonably stable before the Blackout? And Miles was still best buds with him until around eight years ago. Surely he would've mentioned it?