I give Lori from "The Walking Dead" a lot of crap for not realizing she's living in a zombie apocalypse, and whining about giving her kid a gun, or driving off by herself and not paying attention to a road that has not been patrolled or cleaned in months. The stupid "heroine" of Revolution, on the other hand, does not have 30+ years of life in the normal world that she has to get her head past. She acts like she was suddenly transplanted to this world from 2012, when in fact, she grew up in it. She has NEVER known a world of safety, security and plenty. She acts like an entitled snotty child who has lived all her life in a consumer economy in the society with the highest standard of living in human history. EVERY word that comes out of her mouth in Episode Three is stupid or wrong. To paraphrase what an American hero once said of someone in the real world, if she were merely stupid, the law of averages would make some things she says be sensible or accurate.

Her moron brother is no better. Despite getting whaled on by a thug soldier while a prisoner, you can't help but root for the guy battering him, because the soldier's dead buddy really WAS the fault of the idiot kid back in one of the first scenes of the pilot episode. Not only is the plotline seeming increasingly like something out of an old Nintendo RPG, but the two kids act like they are characters in one such game, with more hit points and damage than any other normal humans or hostile soldiers. How else do you explain two kids who have grown up their whole lives, cringing in fear of soldiers and having no experience of automatic weapons or other 20th century inventions that allowed one man to defeat more than three or four at once, talking and acting like standing up alone to more than a dozen armed men is not only possible, but a reasonable idea. And so far, everyone is dying from such courses of action except for them! And Uncle Miles, but honestly, him & the evil colonel (and now maybe Mark Pellegrino's character) are the only things worth watching in between fight scenes and explosions. Fortunately, there's still fight scenes and explosions.

And now, it looks like another potentially cool show "Last Resort" is going downhill fast. The pilot was great. There was lots of cool submarine action and ethical command dilemmas, and nascent political intrigue... and then they took over an island. So now, the show is going to be "Lost with uniforms" and the occasional angry Skyping scene, since they have removed all conflicting viewpoints and dispersed the protagonists from the confines of a submarine where they would have been forced to work together. I can understand how budgetary constraints might have imposed this alteration from the implied setting of the show, I can see how the implied original format would have been limited in its plausible duration and I'll give it a chance to make things work, since Shawn Ryan is involved and I have never seen a bad Shawn Ryan show (and watched three series he has created or co-created in their entirety), but promising a submarine thriller and giving us arguments filmed in Hawaii is dirty pool.

Ironically, I have not been able to get out of my head a direct-to-video horror film of the same name, where the word "resort" had the vacation-site meaning. While I have been annoyed at myself for recalling the recreational connotations of the word "resort" since I first saw a preview, it turns out, they've taken over their own tropical island getaway, making the title a pun.

Oh well. At least Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, Person of Interest and Homeland are looking good this year, Boardwalk Empire is tantalizing me with the idea that anyone who isn't a historical figure can die, giving me hope that Margaret might just eat some lead at some point, and How I Met Your Mother looks like it's trying to go out in a ball of flame, rather than sputter to a halt. As disappointing as the new shows have been this fall, the old ones are still carrying the load.