# Jericho 10/4 (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325 "2006-10-04T23:57:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/1 "2006-10-04T23:57:46Z")
So will they finally start acting like apocalypse survivors? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/2 "2006-10-05T00:23:26Z")
20 minutes in. No. More stupid stuff, but if I don’t watch, I won’t be able to bitch. If it weren’t for Hawkins, I’d be bailing. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/3 "2006-10-05T00:33:20Z")
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? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/4 "2006-10-05T00:44:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/5 "2006-10-05T01:00:13Z")
Mr “Ex St Louis cop” said his kids weren’t “ready” to go to the party. Ready as in “haven’t learned to keep their mouths shut” ready? Makes me think he might be an enemy spy… ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/6 "2006-10-05T01:01:32Z")
Good things: 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! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/7 "2006-10-05T01:03:10Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/8 "2006-10-05T01:05:32Z")
I meant, Mayor Dad get his **Hearst** on with his political rival. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/9 "2006-10-05T01:07:32Z")
[QUOTE=RikWriter] Mr “Ex St Louis cop” said his kids weren’t “ready” to go to the party. Ready as in “haven’t learned to keep their mouths shut” ready? Makes me think he might be an enemy spy… [/QUOTE] I too am thinking he is a sleeper agaent. Also, my guess is the barrel is another bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/10 "2006-10-05T01:10:31Z")
Oh, and I think the Chinese newscast was a red hering. I think the real enemy are domestic terrorists (a la McVeigh). ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/11 "2006-10-05T01:11:02Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Hawkins – what’s in the barrel? [/QUOTE] I believe they showed it: an arsenal of M16s and possibly heavier weapons. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/12 "2006-10-05T01:14:14Z")
[QUOTE=RikWriter] I believe they showed it: an arsenal of M16s and possibly heavier weapons. [/QUOTE] There were all kinds of weapons in the storage unit, but I believe that the barrel is something different. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/13 "2006-10-05T01:26:26Z")
[QUOTE=EvilAsh] Oh, and I think the Chinese newscast was a red hering. I think the real enemy are domestic terrorists (a la McVeigh). [/QUOTE] North Korea or could probally manage to sneak one or two nukes into port cities, but an attack on this scale is beyond them. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/14 "2006-10-05T01:29:30Z")
[QUOTE=Menocchio] playing with the satellite dish. [/QUOTE] If they had a generator for a TV, they would have power to rotate the dish. The receiver knows where satellites are moves from one to the other. The signal wouldn’t have been directly from a foreign country because of the curvature of the Earth. Someone in the USA had equipment and power to take the signal and uplink it to a satellite. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/15 "2006-10-05T01:37:00Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/16 "2006-10-05T01:37:50Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Is that what flight recorders look like? They use tape? It’s not digital? [/QUOTE] They record over the media, so they aren’t reel to reel. I would think that they would be digital, a chip to survive a crash. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/17 "2006-10-05T02:42:15Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/18 "2006-10-05T03:07:08Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] (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.) [/QUOTE] That movie gave me nightmares, and I love apocalyptic stuff. Shudder. 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. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/19 "2006-10-05T03:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] Episode 20 should be called “Do We Bury Her or Eat Her?” [/QUOTE] No, no, no. “When Did We Bury Her? Can We Eat Her?” Get with the program. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325/20 "2006-10-05T03:45:14Z")
On 24, Jack has near superpowers and it doesn’t bother me. On this, the dude whose name escapes me seems to be able to do everything and it just pisses me off. I have no explanation for the pissed offness. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jericho-10-4-spoilers/375325.md?page=2)