The Point Radio: REVOLUTION Back With Round Two

  This Monday, REVOLUTION returns to NBC to complete its freshman season. Four months off the air has given Executive Producer Eric Kripke the chance to move the story forward and gives us a lot of answers to the show’s mysteries. Eric, and series star Elizabeth Mitchell, give us a look at what we need to jump back into there series. Meanwhile, DC’s editorial department is shows some turmoil and Neil Gaiman (along with his character ANGELA) are headed to Marvel. Take us ANYWHERE! The Point Radio App is now in the iTunes App store – and it’s FREE! Just search under “pop culture The Point”. The Point Radio – 24 hours a day of pop culture fun for FREE. GO HERE and LISTEN FREE on any computer or on any other mobile device with the Tune In Radio app – and follow us on Twitter @ThePointRadio.

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Hello, it's Mike Raub and welcome to The Point, where all parts of pop culture come together. Revolution is back for a new run of episodes on NBC, but can they help keep the lights on at that network? Eric Kripke, co-creator and star Elizabeth Mitchell are here to talk about that. Plus, Neil Gaiman back with Angela at Marvel and TC, a little problem in the staff.

Let's get to The Point. This is The Point, The Point radio, get The Point radio. After a successful set of episodes in the fall, NBC has brought back Revolution to complete its freshman run on the network. But can being off the air for four months hurt a show like this?

I posed that question to executive producer and co-creator, Eric Kripke. I mean, look, any time you're off the air for four months, you know, you hold your breath and you hope bands come back. But you know, we take solace and encouragement from a few things, which is, you know, I think there's a long history of, you know, genre television really working with these large

breaks in between like Walking Dead or Game of Thrones. And also because the second half of the season is such a different mission and quest and energy than the first half, that it really does feel like a natural break. It feels like it's its own particular season of television and that, you know, the first half and the drive to find Danny was prologue to it opening up into a much larger, more

epic and exciting story. So I think people, I think because there's such a natural break in the storytelling, I think people will be able to jump right in and, you know, watch one recap and, you know, remind themselves of where all the characters were and then dive in the way that, you know, the way that I won't see Game of Thrones for literally a year and then I'll watch one 90

second recap and be right in the middle of it. And then, you know, and then finally, you know, the break gave, you know, the writers and the producers and the actors like a minute to really explore what was working about the show and what wasn't working and how to make it better. So whether we were on the air, whether we were off the air, the risk that it, you know,

the inevitable risk that goes along with it, I mean, that's all true, but it allowed us to make a higher quality, better series. And at the end of the day, that's the thing I have to put it as my first priority. The show is better because we took the break. So therefore I'm glad we took the break.

Going back to work was great news for series star Elizabeth Mitchell, who says she loves this type of show. I have to say I'm a huge fan of adventures. I love to read them. I love to watch them.

They go on in my head. I think that anything kind of epic and adventure wise is always a huge draw for me. It's what I like to watch and to get to actually do it to be in something that's, you know, Lord of the Rings or, or, or any of those things. It's just, it's just what my, my passion is kind of where I go to escape.

So that's what draws me to it. As her character moves forward, is Elizabeth going to get a little more into the action? Yes, we are. And my father will be thrilled because that's really the stuff he likes to watch the most. I think that's Linda Hamilton, who's favorite actress.

So I do get to, I do get to do some, some more acne type stuff. And I have a wonderful time. I love that stuff. Much like her experiences on Lost and V, Elizabeth is again working with a pretty large cast on Revolution.

I asked what were the ups and downs of that? Oh, what a great question. You know, I love ensembles. I think mainly because I started in theater and I just, I love that idea. What keeps people happy and engaged is, is good work.

Great, great words. And then I coming together and there's a lot of, Lost is the same way. We were all very supportive and, but everybody came ready to play. And I think that you have that attitude and there's no ego, which is also the case on Revolution, which I really like.

Then, then it's fun. You go in and it's fun and you play together and you antagonize each other on camera and you love each other on camera and you hate each other on camera. And then you go off and you try to figure out how to make it even better and you come back and you try to do that.

And that's the collaboration of a group is, is and has always been very exciting to me. I think it elevates everybody. You rise to the occasion and I love that. I hear that from all of the actors when we're walking around. How did that go?

Oh, I had a scene with John Carlo and I learned so much. It was fantastic. Or I did this or I did that. So I think just that respect and passion. So yeah, that, that keeps it going and makes it really nice.

Despite what some may think, there are some big differences here between lost and Revolution and as Elizabeth told me, especially behind the scenes, you know, it's really interesting. And I don't know if this will make sense to anyone, but it is slightly different. You know, last week we started, we started with why we'd come in middle, we get right in tight and then we'd go for the eye.

Like we get in really close and on Revolution right now, we're shooting a lot of long lenses, which means that I don't necessarily know when the camera is right on my face. It's been something of a surprise. And what, what it's, what it's done is that it felt more in some ways like a play. You're doing all of this.

Our operators are catching all of this, but, but they're not right exact. So it's, it's, it's been really interesting. Yeah. Isn't that kind of, it's, it's been really interesting how that is because I was so used to having the camera just right there.

But the thing that I have found very similar is that we, as the actors are all very excited to know what's happening next. And I really, I love that. I love the fact that we want to sneak in and who has a script and if anyone's seen a script and does anyone have a script and should we call Eric?

Should we ask Eric? Oh, we'd like to not ask him. Well, maybe we will. Everybody can I get your phone from the beginning and everyone's like, okay, I asked it. I think, did you know what happened?

Well, you know, it's about my character. Come on. So I love that we're all so excited and we were that way on lots too. And that, that to me is a huge, a wonderful common commonality. There's more coming up on revolution in the meantime, lots of cool stuff to see at NBC

dot com and new episodes of revolution now every Monday on NBC. Check this out. It's the latest in pop culture. Well over a decade ago, Neil Gaiman created the character Angela and it appeared in image comics spawn series early on an action.

A well led to a lawsuit between McFarland and gaming that was settled just a little over a year ago. Now Neil is bringing that character to the Marvel universe in cooperation with Brian Michael Bendis. Angel will appear in the final issue of Bendis age of Ultron and also Neil will co-write

to guardians of the galaxy number five as well with Brian. The news here is twofold. First of all, moving a character like this is pretty unknown in the comic business. Probably nothing like this has been done since DC acquired captain Marvel years ago. But also that could mean that Neil will become a part of the Marvel talent stable sometime

in the very near future. Celebrated TV writer Jane Espenson will be doing the once upon a time spinoff for ABC. She's been consulting producer of the show and now we'll team with Zach Estrin who was recently involved at zero hour to produce a spinoff from the show that'll take place allegedly in wonderland.

No complete details on that note, but it is said to air on ABC sometime late this year or early in 2014. Meantime Jane and her other writing partner Brad Bell who've done Husband's the much celebrated online web series will be touring 10 US cities all in cooperation with Dark Horse. Dark Horse as you know originally did the digital online version of Husband's and now

is collecting that in an entire graphic novel that's said to be in stores very soon. The tour starts in WonderCon in just a few days. That ends at the end of the summer or just about at San Diego Comic Con. As another indication of a lot of disarray in the editorial department at DC, Andy Diggle has ended his run on action comics almost as soon as it began.

On Twitter a few days ago Diggle said that sadly I've decided to walk away from action comics for professional reasons. Tony Daniels who was the artist on Diggle's first action comic story and he's only one so far will be taking over writing chores on the book as well. Surprisingly enough it doesn't end there.

Green Lantern also got assigned a new writer a few weeks back. Joshua Hale Feakoff was to pick up both Green Lantern Corps and Red Lanterns and now he will be leaving that project before his first issues actually hit comic stores. Writer Van Jensen is picking up the Corps book. Meanwhile recently added Swamp Thing writer Charles Soule gets the assignment to take

over Red Lanterns. As for all this both on Twitter and online seem to all point toward a change in editorial direction. Seems like it's all but official Jimmy Fallon will replace Jay Leno on The Tonight Show and even better than that The Tonight Show will be moving its home base from California

to New York. Reports are that Leno will step down and Fallon will step in in the fall of 2014. By the way this is the first time The Tonight Show has been hosted in New York on a permanent basis since 1972. That does it for the podcast.

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