Revenge (TV)
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| Name: | Revenge |
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| Creator: | Mike Kelley |
| Date(s): | September 21, 2011 - present |
| Medium: | Live-action Television show |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| External Links: | Revenge on Wikipedia |
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Revenge is a TV series on ABC inspired by the book The Count of Monte Cristo. It debuted on TV on September 21, 2011, and recently was renewed for a fourth season[1].
Canon Overview
"Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), whose real name is Amanda Clarke, moves back to The Hamptons to take revenge on the people who caused the death of her father David (James Tupper) and destroyed her family. When she was a little girl, Amanda's father was arrested on made up terrorism charges, and was wrongly tried and convicted for treason. He died in prison. The same people who wrongly destroyed her father made sure Emily ended up in juvenile detention. On her 18th birthday, she was released and inherited the wealth of the company in which her father invested. She changed her name to Emily Thorne and decided to take revenge on the people responsible for her father's downfall."[2]
Alternate canon overview:
"The entire premise of the show is that one particularly horrible person returns to an area full of horrible people who've gotten very rich by doing horrible things, in order to wreak horrible revenge on them for doing a horrible thing to her father, and is assisted by another horrible person who sometimes has gay makeouts with a guy who is, you've guessed it, horrible. There's, like, one guy on the entire show who isn't an objectively terrible human being, and he spends most of the time in a state of confusion at how horrible his life is. And there's the dog, I guess, although it's possible that it's some kind of canine supervillain."[3]
Fandom Response
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Revenge was a popular Yuletide fandom for 2011, 17 stories were written for the challenge.[4] It was the second most popular request in Yuletide 2012.[5] Aja comments in The Daily Dot: Returning for the second year, Revenge is a great example of a fandom that is wildly popular offline, but gets generally overlooked by fanfiction writers until Yuletide rolls around.[5]
The non-canon (and speculated by some fans to possibly be incestuous) pairing of (really Amanda!)Emily/Nolan is a popular one.
Resources
References
- ^ Renewed by ABC. TV by the Numbers. Published May 8, 2014. (Accessed 1 July 2014)
- ^ Revenge's Wikipedia page
- ^ From a thread at Fail-Fandomanon, reposted 29 Nov 2011. (Accessed 29 Jan 2012)
- ^ Yuletide 2011 statistics post by hradzka, 1 Jan 2012. (Accessed 29 Jan 2012)
- ^ a b Daily Dot: Top 10 Yuletide fanfic requests (accessed 9 November 2012)