Haven’s explaination for the blackouts in Revolution and other theories

Did you see the season premier of Haven? This contains spoilers, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see spoilers about Haven or Revolution or FlashForward.

In Haven, people called the “Troubled” have unusual abilities. Most of the time their abilities are considered curses, not superpowers. The abilities often reveal themselves when the person is stressed and wreck all sorts of havoc across the small town in Maine.

In the Haven season premier last week, the protagonists investigate two missing person cases which are connected to a man obsessed with aliens. The man’s beliefs about aliens are so strong that they start to happen just as he imagines (his “Trouble”).

The man flees from the cops when they don’t believe his alien stories. They pursue, but their vehicle and all of their electronic devices go dead – just like in the man’s stories.

Maybe it’s just me, but I saw this scene as a very obvious reference to the new tv show, Revolution - where the power mysteriously goes out across the world and supposedly know one knows how or why. I saw this as the writers of Haven saying: In our setting, if the power mysteriously goes out and will not come back on using normal logic; it’s got to be aliens (in Haven’s case, aliens via a Troubled’s abilities).

While the aliens are a common reason for blackouts/mysteries in scifi shows, I think if aliens were the reason for the blackouts in Revolution, that in the 15 years since the blackouts occurred, someone would have seen an alien.

Personally, I think the blackouts in Revolution are more of a conspiracy; probably involving some secret scientific experiment. Like in FlashForward, where the people blacked out because of a scientific experiment, but switch people for power in Revolution. Anyway, that’s my current theory for why the power went out in Revolution. What’s yours?

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