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I don't think the Stephen King references are deliberate.
My issue with Revolution is that Kripke hasn't shown us enough of his backstory yet. In Supernatural, he didn't burn off all of his backstory until the end of Season 2, but he used a huge event at the end of Season 1 (the killing of Meg Mallon) followed by a huge event at the start of Season 2 (the death of Sam and Dean's father at the hands of Azazel, the Yellow-Eyed Demon) to keep us watching until the end of Season 2 (which ends with Dean killing Azazel). All of the backstory was used up by then, but Kripke had a plan to develop a power revealed in Season 2 (Sam's demon blood power) into the focus of the next two years, ending with Sam mistakenly starting the Apocalypse by using that power.
I presume Kripke has a similar plan for Revolution. Thus, I figure that we'll learn all the rest of the backstory during the second half of Season 1 and then Season 2. There are some fascinating issues in there, such as the relationship between Miles, his brother, and his sister-in-law, as well as why it became the "Monroe Militia" when it seems to have been all about Miles.
Up until now, the action has been contrived to give us enough backstory to be shocked by the loss and then partial return of power. But the pace has necessarily been slow; it will pick up now that Rachel is free and Nate/Jason is going to join with the Miles faction. We'll probably find out in the second half of this season (1) why Randall Flynn and the U.S. DoD pulled this blackout in the first place, (2) what the pendants actually do, and (3) why it's not the Miles Matheson Militia. We may not find out until Season 2 (1) why Rachel abandoned her husband and kids and marched off with Miles, (2) why Rachel and Ben let this happen and didn't do anything to stop it except for the guerilla activity of making the pendants and (3) what transpired between Miles and Bass to cause Miles to flee his own troops.
With the disaster that Season 8 of Supernatural has become under Jeremy Carver, I'm expecting more of Kripke's old colleagues to end up joining him on Revolution.
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