History Fridge / Revolution

** Criticisms of the show have noted other plot holes like this, or if not outright holes, plot laziness. It is possible that Randall was being super-cautious, though, especially if he'd sent someone down (as the arrogant Sergeant decided to do on his own) already and found the elevator coming back covered in blood - it would thus make sense to spend as little time between his floor and the 12th floor as possible.

* Over the course of the first season, one plotline had Randall Flynn trying to get down to level 12 of the Tower. He had Grace Beaumont spend a long time trying to get the elevator working again so he can take it down to level 12. But in episode 19, Randall tells Monroe, when they get stopped at level 11, that there's a stairway that they can take to get from level 11 to level 12. That begs the question: why didn't Randall just take the stairs from the top level all the way to level 12? Were there no stairs for those levels? Did he just want to go down there in style? Was he too lazy and didn't want to break a sweat spending time going down there by stairs?

** And speadking of the successor states not giving up their power, it seems that [[spoiler:the remnants of the US GovernmentInExile holed up in Guantanamo (!) have considered this and decided on a pre-emptive decapitation strike at the Monroe Republic and the Georgia Federation.]] So yeah, there's a lot left for the show to cover even after the power comes back on.

* A number of viewers have expressed confusion and surprise that Tom Neville has turned into a SmugSnake. However, that's because they keep thinking he'll be like Gus Fring from ''BreakingBad''. The fact is, Tom Neville is not the same as that character. He certainly did take at least one level in Badass and Jerkass, but underneath it all, he's still the same weak insurance adjuster who does whatever his boss tells him to do, and he's just terrible at being his own boss.

* The US government, as WMGed, apparently assembled a contingency plan after the Blackout. [[spoiler:The fact that they are willing to nuke cities to forcibly rearrange the power structure in North America back to their liking strongly suggests that the President of the "Government-in-Exile" in Cuba has no qualms about mass murder on a scale that is going to make Miles and Bass look like pikers.]]

** [[spoiler: They could have a self-contained hydroponic farm, along with enough preserved rations to last for decades. As for breeding, they could kidnap people (most likely children) from the nearby Plains Nation tribes and raise them as their own. Depending upon the size of the group, they could manage enough genetic diversity to keep reproducing even without doing so (it would only take 250-300 people). IVF and cryogenically preserved embryos can stretch that even further, particularly since the Tower has access to FutureTech (if only what would have existed in 2028 anyway without the Blackout).]]

** They could have a self-contained hydroponic farm, along with enough preserved rations to last for decades. As for breeding, they could kidnap people (most likely children) from the nearby Plains Nation tribes and raise them as their own. Depending upon the size of the group, they could manage enough genetic diversity to keep reproducing even without doing so (it would only take 250-300 people).

{{Series/Revolution}} is a show about a world AfterTheEnd, so expect FridgeHorror

* It is darkly hinted by Alec that [[spoiler:Miles "did something" to Rachel. Also, President Foster alludes to what Miles "did to her personally".]] Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?

** [[spoiler: Humans are being affected, but so far the effects are positive: the nanites helped mitigate Danny's asthma and have kept Beth alive for 16 years with Stage 3 cancer. Fear of losing Beth has kept Dr. Jane Warren from turning the power back on,which apparently she had the ability to do all along. It's only at Beth's urging that Jane agrees--very reluctantly--to cooperate with Rachel.]]
* Charlie and Miles infiltrate the Georgia Federation wearing stolen Georgian uniforms. Charlie also has a Monroe Militia tattoo on her arm thanks to the events of "Children's Crusade". Isn't she taking an ''enormous'' risk here, even moreso than just being caught in a stolen uniform that could be linked to its dead original owner (for example, if the Georgian military has serial numbers printed somewhere on or in the uniform--if only to keep them straight at the cleaners?) If Miles hadn't managed to gain President Foster's (grudging) trust, or even if Charlie and Miles had gotten separated for a longer period of time, Charlie was at risk of being identified as an enormously incompetent spy and shot out of hand.

** [[spoiler: Humans are being affected, but so far the effects are positive: the nanites helped mitigate Danny's asthma and have kept Beth alive for 16 years with Stage 3 cancer. Fear of losing Beth has kept Dr. Jane Warren from turning the power back on,which apparently she had the ability to do all along. It's only at Beth's urging that Jane agrees--very reluctantly--to cooperate with Rachel.]]

** [[spoiler: Humans are being affected, but so far the effects are positive: the nanites helped mitigate Danny's asthma and have kept Beth alive for 16 years with Stage 3 cancer. Fear of losing Beth has kept Dr. Jane Warren from turning the power back on--which apparently she had the ability to do all along; it's only at Beth's urging that Jane agrees--very reluctantly--to cooperate with Rachel.]]

** Actually, now it started making sense. If it was some sort of field, or something, humans should be affected too, but nanites can be smart. It was designed as non-lethal weapon of mass material destruction.