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10-04-2006, 06:57 PM
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Jericho 10/4 (spoilers)
So will they finally start acting like apocalypse survivors?
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10-04-2006, 07:33 PM
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What kind of moron puts his wife and his mistress in the same bomb shelter?!
 And when's Miss not-good-enough-to-be-on-Joey gonna die? 
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10-04-2006, 07:44 PM
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Better. Not good, yet, but at least they're sending out scouts and playing with the satellite dish.
I have no idea why they think we'd be interested in doggy-eyed orphan and his failed attempts to woo the brattiest girl in town. And hey, Mayor Dad lays down some martial law. Still too much soap, not enough survival. At least there seems to be less attempt at being Lost Light.
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10-04-2006, 08:01 PM
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The cookout – I can see people doing that. We’ve done that when the power stayed off for awhile. Empty plane! Woulda been nice if they’d turned the music down while we were trying to listen to the flight recorder. Cool when we heard the F-16 fly by. I always want to stand and salute when I see them. Is that what flight recorders look like? They use tape? It’s not digital? Hawkins – what’s in the barrel? "What’s that black stuff?" "That used to be Denver." I liked Stanley making friends with the IRS agent. I also loved watching Mayor Dad get his Heart on with his political rival. Actually looking forward to next week!
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10-04-2006, 08:03 PM
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Things are a little too upbeat for a show taking place in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. What's next, casino night? And strange-boy finding the food train, what luck? Now where are they going with black-guy? At least next week we look like we'll find out what happened to the train and plane crews. And wouldn't farmboy's harvest and livestock be ruined after being exposed to so much radioactive rain?
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10-04-2006, 08:07 PM
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10-04-2006, 08:10 PM
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Oh, and I think the Chinese newscast was a red hering. I think the real enemy are domestic terrorists (a la McVeigh).
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10-04-2006, 08:14 PM
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10-04-2006, 08:26 PM
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10-04-2006, 08:29 PM
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10-04-2006, 08:37 PM
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Are the recordings of Flight Data Black Boxes really made on little reel-to-reel tape? I wouldn't think so. But then I wouldn't think you could use an old reel-to-reel tape recorder in a small town city hall to separate the tracks with the flip of a switch either. Would flight data recordings even be multi-track?
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10-04-2006, 08:37 PM
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10-04-2006, 09:42 PM
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I didn't see the whole show, but when they showed the abandoned planes on the highway, it really didn't look like a 757 -- or at least, they didn't have the kind of establishing shot a show with a bigger budget would have.
Don't know anything about the writers of this show, but I know how I'd do it. I like to think that they're lulling in typical CBS viewers by starting out in standard family-drama territory, with the nuclear explosions merely as background -- and that they'll then get darker and more realistic with each episode, gradually deepening into a brutal, nightmarish, yet totally believable Hell on Earth. Episode 20 should be called "Do We Bury Her or Eat Her?" Why is it that apocalyptic stories always cheer me up? Those of use my age (45) or older grew up with the shadow of the Cold War over us -- any day, ICBMs might be flying over the Pole at us. I started reading science fiction when Pres. Johnson was in office; a Hell of a lot of stories based on the assumption that it was going to happen sooner or later. That was a fear you could sink your teeth into. (For a great '80s movie about nuclear Armageddon, I recommend Miracle Mile; it's a real-time movie about a group of people who have an hour's warning that the missiles are coming.)
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10-04-2006, 10:07 PM
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Jericho's writers have some interesting ideas. I just wish there wasn't so much silly unnecessary stuff. I have a feeling this season, condensed, might make one decent two-hour movie.
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10-04-2006, 10:11 PM
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10-04-2006, 10:51 PM
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I just had another thought regarding the mayor; are they actually going to hold an election in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, cause that would just be stupid.
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10-05-2006, 02:20 AM
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Random question: Do we know what year this takes place in? I was thinking it might all be in the '80s, but the SUVs they were driving looked like recent year models.
This does remind me of Lost in that no one has the "how on earth did US cities get nuked? by whom? and how? wtf is going on?" conversation.
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10-05-2006, 06:00 AM
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No, it takes place in the present.
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10-05-2006, 07:41 AM
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I had trouble with the scouts they sent out.
One guy per vehicle? I'd want a partner who had my back. No weapons? You're a farming community. I know there are rifles and handguns around there. Take them. Minivans? Again, you're a farming community. I know there are 4-wheel drive vehicles around there. You don't know what you might need to get around or what conditions the roads might be in. They just seemed really unprepared for it being such a big deal. Also, the store owner lady bugged the crap outta me. "If I don't get that shipment, I'm out of business." Uh.... hello? You're pretty much out of business anyway, lady. And any real human wouldn't have been worried about people not paying when people needed her stock to, you know, survive (previous episode). I'm pretty sure after a nuclear war, the dollar bill isn't going to be worth a whole lot.
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10-05-2006, 08:24 AM
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10-05-2006, 08:53 AM
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10-05-2006, 10:14 AM
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What I want to know is what happened to everyone else outside of town. There's the convicts, and farmer guy saw some tanks, but everyone else has just vanished. Where's the survivors from the planes? That train was within walking distance, someone had to be driving it. Aren't there any other small towns closer than the major cities? Wandering refugees? FEMA or military personnel dropping by just long enough to give some clue as to what's going on?
Lost at least is on an island. It makes sense that no one else is around to provide some answers. Unless there's some supernatural type weirdness going on out there (and if there is, I'm out of here, I already watch Lost, thank you), it doesn't make sense that no one from out of town has come through.
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10-05-2006, 11:54 AM
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I'm totally freaked out when people are going around alone. I'm waiting for the zombies to jump out (*not a spoiler, just funny speculation)
Especially Dale. Everything he did, looked straight out of a horror movie. It was only the fact that there wasn't any sounds except the non-horror soundtrack that kept me safe. I think Hawkins is storing up supplies for later use. Gas and Guns. I had a problem with the big BBQ. I would like to have seen them turn the meat into jerkey. Something storable in room temp, and still maintains its nutrients. Of course I'm thinking as if it's a holocaust and they will need to ration food fora long time. Unlike these folks who are expecting the Chinese to come in and bring them food. As for the reel-to-reel black box recorder. In the movie "Millenium" they listened to a FDR using the same type of reel-to-reel machine. So yes, I think they still use tape for FDRs. Lastly, I don't like losing contact with people. My strategy would've been to send 4 cars out in a chain. All 4 go together until you lose contact, then send one back to the edge of town-contact range. The three remaining go until you lose contact with him. Those three send one of theirs back to the edge of first-man contact range, and then two continue. That way, each person is always in contact with two other parties (except the last in the chain). Would this get them to the big cities they were going to? As it is, they've got 3 parties out on the loose, with information about their town, which as Hawkins suggested might be a bad idea.
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10-05-2006, 12:10 PM
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10-05-2006, 02:32 PM
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At this point I would be wondering if it was infact a nuclear attack.
Correct me if I'm wrong but buddy who was in the rain for 20 minutes was fine. When they used the geiger counter outside city hall it didn't blip. Maybe it was a conventional bomb(s), not nuclear. As far as the prison bus, maybe there were only the 2 prisoners on it. I'm sticking with this show just to see who the hell this Hawkins guy is. It totally looked like the barrel he was bricking-in in his basement had some kind of a explosive device on the lid. I'll give it a couple more weeks, I need all my brain power for "Lost" on Wednesday nights! MtM
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10-05-2006, 02:48 PM
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10-05-2006, 05:58 PM
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Absolutely impossible that it's all faked. If nothing else, how could anyone cut off all transmissions from the nearest network affiliated TV stations without tipping off the rest of the country that something bizzare and illegal was going on.
My W.A.G.'s: Hawkins is someone in the know who relocated his family to Jericho because he had knowledge (a few weeks warning?) that something was going down sooner or later. He picked Jericho as one the comparitively safe areas of the country. Here's how I would write it: there was no missile or bomber attack. All the nukes went off almost simulaneously around the country; apparently they were planted. Maybe they were left over from a Cold War operation by either the USSR or China to have an instant-attack option; years later, someone got ahold of the still active detonation codes, and used them. I think that between his mom's store getting stripped and the profound lack of gratitude by Bitch Girl, that teen guy is going to move the goods off the train to his mom's basement secretly and say to hell with everyone else.
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10-05-2006, 06:19 PM
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10-05-2006, 06:45 PM
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How will he keep milk and meat from going bad?
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10-05-2006, 06:48 PM
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10-06-2006, 08:33 AM
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10-06-2006, 09:08 AM
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I'm starting to wonder if it was really a nuke as well. When they came out of the bomb shelter after the rain, Jericho should've been so hot it would've glowed at night. But no, there was barely even background radiation on the Geiger counter. Also, what are the odds that we'll start seeing most of the population losing their hair thanks to radiation- I mean, that would seriously cut down on the shampoo ad revenue for the show.
Also, I thought it was funny that they sealed the rest of the population in the mine by collapsing the mine's entrance. "Hey guys? When it rains, all that radioactive ash is going to be collecting on the ground... and we'll have to dig the rest of our neighbors out? Care to think this through again?"
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10-06-2006, 10:05 AM
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Between the plane crash and the huge supply of shipment of food at the end of the episode, I was surprised to see the labels NOT read 'Dharma'.
That said, do you think this show would have been better on a different network? It seems to be a gentler, softer apocalypse rather than anything really gritty. Even the 'killer outlaws' weren't THAT bad once we met them (they talked a good talk but were ultimately useless).
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10-06-2006, 10:31 AM
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10-06-2006, 10:49 AM
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I missed the first two. Has there been any reference to their water supply? I don't know if groundwater would become radioactive after the rain or not.
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10-06-2006, 11:08 AM
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10-06-2006, 11:36 AM
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10-06-2006, 01:16 PM
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I'm normally not much of a spoiler guy at all, but I did go to Spoilerfix (thanks alphaboi. I think it's a good read for anyone who's still up in the air about the show, as (if accurate) really shows the utter shash that this show has in store. Definitely less survivalist and more family drama.
Damn! (disappointed)
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#49
10-06-2006, 02:09 PM
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Spoiler box what annoys you. Maybe I can save some disk space.
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10-06-2006, 02:20 PM
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