History WMG / Revolution

* [[spoiler: As WMG below, Jossed by episode 7. ]]

* [[spoiler: Verified as of "Children's Crusade". The project was funded by the military. Episodes 11 and 12 reveal that a secret facility called the Tower, seen at the end of episode 8, is the source of the blackout.]]

*** [[spoiler: The satellite theory may still be on the table if the Tower is in fact a transmitter facility sending commands to satellites which are relayed to the nanomachines. Satellites in geosynchronous orbit will still be there after 15 years and would not have been affected by the blackout. Shut down the Tower, or send the appropriate command, and the nanomachines can be nullified.]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed.]]

* The character's actor Graham Rogers has only been acting since 2011, and in only six works to date. He simply needs experience. Besides, the first season finale revealed that there was nothing wrong with his brain, it was just that his lungs weren't formed and he was born premature. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: nanotech capsule repairing his lungs but not enough to prevent him from having asthma]], he would have died. So it's Jossed.

* [[spoiler: Confirmed and Jossed. Monroe is a bad guy who used to be good, but he reveals in the first season finale that he never really cared about the stuff he was doing, and that he was only following what Miles wanted to do. He does get away at the end, but he loses all his power, and Tom Neville calls him foolish, deranged, and suffering from a borderline erotic obsession with Miles Matheson]].

So you have a world where physics have been turned on its ear, and can only be temporarily fixed by the application of one of the pendants. And when has the pendant been sen to be used? By Aaron, when he was angsting out in Grace's living room, and then again when he was sure he was going to die, and by Grace when she was either alone in her big empty house or sure she was going to die.

* [[spoiler: Episode 13 has Neville on the run with his wife after Jason defects to the rebels and foils Neville's mission to obtain the nuke. Neville knows his days with in the Republic are numbered now that Randall seems to be calling the shots. It's unlikely that Neville would choose to join the rebels (or that they would accept him even if he were so inclined) but very likely that he's assembled his own faction within the Monroe Militia with which to lead a coup. Or the whole thing will be Jossed when Bass or Randall stop Neville at the city gates and have him shot.]]
* At the end of Episode 15, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Neville is defecting to Georgia, giving them high-level secrets, and will probably be assigned to replace Dixon in overseeing Miles' Georgian team. (Hilarity will ensue...)]]

* [[spoiler: Episode 18 has Monroe learning about the Tower's existence. He confronts Randall Flynn about it and threatens to have him killed on the spot. Randall only survived because he managed to convince Monroe that the Tower has weapons more powerful than Monroe's helicopters. As it is, Randall got reduced to a mere toady to Monroe. It will take a lot for Randall to make a comeback from that]].
* [[spoiler: Confirmed as of the season finale. Randall was aiding Monroe as part of a XanatosGambit to get the Monroe Republic and Georgia to destroy each other, and use Monroe's resources to get to the Tower and turn the lights back on for a presumptive successor US government that would then take control of the East Coast.]]

* There's some good news and some bad news. The good news is that [[spoiler: Julia Neville is alive and well in Atlanta, Georgia, as of the first season finale]]. The bad news is that [[spoiler: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles are headed to Atlanta and Philadelphia. Unless those missiles are stopped in some way, she's going to go up in a mushroom cloud]].
** [[spoiler: Jossed. Julia fled Atlanta just before the city fell to the Monroe Militia when the bomb hit, and survived. She returns in "Everyone Says 'I Love You'" and apparently is once again scheming with Tom, this time to undermine the Patriots.]]

* Episode 18 has Randall Flynn being forced to explain to Monroe about the Tower. [[spoiler: Apparently, it's a Department of Defense building that contains ''things'' in there, besides turning the power back on. Things that the President himself knew nothing about, and would make Monroe's helicopters and drones look like mere toys in comparison. Not only that, but there's an unknown group of people inside the Tower, who are experiments or super-soldiers for all we know]].

* [[spoiler: Rachel has as of Season 2 admitted to having an affair with Miles while still married to Ben. In "Everyone Says 'I Love You'" we learn that they were involved with each other six years prior to the blackout, which just about works out for Charlie's age at the time of the blackout. It's entirely possible Miles ''is'' Charlie's father after all. Which, unfortunately, makes Ben the series' designated ButtMonkey ''even before he was killed in his first appearance!'']]
* [[spoiler: Not helped by Rachel's "20 years is enough foreplay" statement.]]

* [[spoiler: Jossed. Miles told Bass before his apparent execution that his son is alive, and that Miles had him hidden for his own protection. Miles is keeping Bass locked into their alliance of convenience by promising Bass the location of his son. In Season 2 episode ''Three Amigos'' we get to meet Connor Monroe, now a grown man and leader of a small band of cartel enforcers and every bit the DeadpanSnarker his father is.]]

* [[spoiler: Will it be revealed that Aaron was actually subcontracted by the Mathesons to write the code? (Or more likely ''a'' program which was subsequently modified--which is why Rachel doesn't want him looking at it?) While he knew his end of the project he didn't know any more than was necessary, which is why he didn't know the significance of the pendants. It would explain why they took him in when he didn't have any useful skills at first to contribute to the community: he was a friend and was trustworthy.]]

** [[spoiler: Most of the above is confirmed. Season 2 has taken place mostly in Texas, and Miles ''was'' as of the most recent episode attempting to maneuver Texas into a war against the Patriots. While Miles was hoping to do so with actual evidence that the Patriots had ill intentions, Bass was a little more straightforward. In a fit of PragmaticVillainy he shot the Texas official Miles was negotiating with and framed the Patriots for the murder.]]

To try to explain, the show is going to have a second season. Several characters have talked about the Tower as the means to turn the power back on, but they don't know that for sure. In fact, episode 16 showed that someone or something will kill anyone who tries to go down the levels of the Tower. Not only that, but episode 18 reveals that [[spoiler: there's a group of five or six individuals in the Tower who can apparently keep Randall Flynn himself from entering the Tower]]. Are they unable or unwilling to turn the power back on? When you think about it, the power couldn't be turned back on just by pulling a switch. Finally, the blackout is the premise of the show. Usually, you do not end the premise of the show without ending the show itself.

** [[spoiler: Depending upon what Obama and the rest of the line of succession were doing at the time of the blackout, it's possible that the entire Constitutionally-mandated line of succession was wiped out or left isolated during the blackout and events afterward. The 2012 election being in progress doesn't help matters: because the power is out, no election can be held, and a significant faction that wants Romney to be elected may claim a conspiracy to stop the election (note that this does not implicate ''all'' Romney supporters, or Romney himself--who may not have survived after the blackout either). Amid the confusion and chaos, a small group of officials decides to take charge 'for the duration'. The rump US government in Cuba may consist of opportunisitic lower-level officials who had access to contingency plans and appropriate security clearances to access facilities like the Tower, and under the Constitution may not be legitimate at all (particularly if the 'President' in 2028 was never elected, or is still the same man or woman who headed the plot in 2012).]]
** [[spoiler:Dan and the rest of the residents of the Tower may have been aware of this, which is why they were so adamant about keeping the power off: they were, in fact, the last representatitves of the true United States seeking to keep the Tower out of the hands of this power-hungry clique. Which means that our heroes (and DiscOneFinalBoss Monroe) actually ''enabled'' the real bad guys. Note that Randall was an ''Assistant'' Secretary of Defense--high enough up in the food chain to have access, yet low enough to fly under the radar. This allows the writers to posit an evil US government without rendering judgment on either political party (since the Speaker of the House and Secretary of Defense--#3 and #6 in the line of succession--are Republicans in a Democratic administration). The 'President' may be a similarly-titled political appointee, general officer, or career civil servant who saw an opening and took it.]]

After their plot to distract from the impeachment proceedings by nuking Pakistan fails, the administration resorts to the blackout in an attempt to stay in power and avoid uncomfortable questions raised by the ''Colorado'' incident. [[spoiler: When this fails, they hide out in Cuba and bide their time until they can forcibly take back the United States and remake it into their own image.]] Note that the official who ordered the strike on Pakistan (and subsequently on the ''Colorado'') was an Deputy Secretary of Defense (similar to Randall's title, Assistant Secretary of Defense).

** [[spoiler: Seems to be confirmed with Aaron; he's starting to turn into a PhysicalGod with the ability to smite his enemies using the nanites. He did that with Cynthia's husband after catching him cheating on her, and again with the two Patriots who were about to kill Miles. Once he gets this ability under control, Aaron will be a GameBreaker.]]

** [[spoiler: Jossed; see below.]]

* [[spoiler: Jossed. Jason is killed by Charlie in "Austin City Limits" (episode 2x18) when his Patriot programming is activated and he is ordered to assassinate the President of Texas.]]

That's why flashlights can be operated long after the batteries should have died, lighthouses work, [[spoiler: Atlanta lights up without an operating power station]], etc. They connect up to the copper wiring and supply the charge.

* [[spoiler: "Dreamcatchers" tells us that it was literally AllJustADream, set up by the nanites to trick Aaron into repairing their code.]]

Charlie will grow to enjoy being in power, especially after [[spoiler: getting command of the fighters/mercenaries from New Vegas,]] and will eventually help Connor retake and run the Militia.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Why Aaron failed to stop the Nanites in "Dreamcatcher"]]]]
[[spoiler: Aaron should have recruited ''everyone'' he's known from the series to fight the Nanites. That is, he shouldn't have ignored Nora when he ran into her at random on the streets of New York; he should have called Tom Neville's insurance agency to recruit him; etc.]]

The fact that the elevator stopped at [[TheDarkTower a special balcony]], which basically stranded him with [[EldritchAbomination The Crimson King.]]

[[WMG: The series is written by the lazy writers from ThatMitchellAndWebbLook.]]

* This is the Nanite Event. The theme song to ''GeneratorRex'' is "Revolution" for [[StealthPrequel a reason]].

[[WMG: Revolution began as a CareBears fanfic]]

[[WMG: The current US President is [[ParksAndRecreation Ron Swanson]]]]

[[WMG: The lights were turned out by the [[DoctorWho Weeping Angels]].]]

* Possibly Jossed. Bass is torturing her old friends, as well as using her son against her as a hostage for her good behavior.