Good storytelling is something like telling a good joke.  If it’s well told, you don’t mind hearing it again, now and then, but after about the fifth time, it starts to feel like an act of war.  Human beings were never meant to be bored.  If you’re being paid to entertain, you have an obligation to bring something new to the table.

By jove, even journalists know that.

Now, at the outset, we haven’t all heard the same jokes, so our taste is a subjective thing, and I’m quite willing to admit I may have missed something very, very profound in the new NBC show “Revolution,” but after trying very hard to watch an episode and a half, I’m thinking the only thing remotely novel about the project was the premise: a world without electricity.   Continue Reading »