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Next on ‘Revolution:’ Crazy Battles, Twists, and more Good Guys vs. Bad Guys

Well, as the creators explained at the Television Critics Association press tour, the second half of Revolution will indeed focus on, well, the revolution aspect of the show. And with that, says star Tracy Spiridakos, comes not only a faster-paced show but “a little bit of a crazy battle.” “There’s going to be good guys versus bad guys…and some twists and turns will happen pretty quickly,” she says. As far as what awaits Charlie in the second half, Spiridakos says we’ll continue to see her grow into “quite the warrior” but the actress wonders of the stresses of her current situation may start to sully her good girl image. “I’m interested to see whether she’s going to be able to hold on to her humanity or not in the process of it all.”

Source: EW.com

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Girl Power Fuels ‘Revolution’

Much like Katniss Everdeen, Charlie Matheson is a teenage archer girl in the wilderness faced with staying alive in extraordinary circumstances.

However, that’s where the similarities end between Tracy Spiridakos’ main character in NBC’s new drama Revolution (premiering tonight, 10 ET/PT) and the literary and cinematic heroine of The Hunger Games.

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Created by Supernatural’s Eric Kripke with Lost’s J.J. Abrams as an executive producer (and a premiere episode directed by Iron Man’s Jon Favreau), Revolution is set in a USA 15 years after a worldwide blackout, where nature has taken over in the absence of electricity and machinery.

Charlie is a headstrong girl whose brother is taken by a militia leader (Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito) for mysterious reasons, and she teams with her Uncle Miles (Billy Burke) and others on a quest to find her sibling and discover the reason behind the permanent power outage.

“The electricity being gone isn’t what the problem is. The problem is her family not being together anymore and all the tragedies that have happened,” says Spiridakos, whose character brandishes a crossbow that is “a very cool, very powerful little tool.”

It’s akin to The Hunger Games in that sense, but Revolution is much more influenced by worlds that have meant a lot to Kripke creatively, such as Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and the plague-ridden America of Stephen King’s The Stand.

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Tracy Spiridakos & Billy Burke At Fan Expo Canada 2012 (Interview)

Murtz Jaffer interviews Tracy Spiridakos & Billy Burke from Citytv/NBC’s new show Revolution at Fan Expo Canada on August 25, 2012 at the Intercontinental Hotel. Topics discussed include the pressure whether there is room for another post-apocalyptic premise, the fascination with the end of days concept on television, whether the series examines the question of humans being good or evil and their characters. I also asked Burke if he plays the toughest guy named Miles on TV.