Can’t believe no one else started a thread! Am I the only one left watching?
This episode was actually pretty good. I did guess the identity of the “Marines” before it was given away.
Still can’t quite make up my mind about Hawkins. What did you all think?
this was the first episode I watched since the first two. I actualy really liked it. Was this a typical episode or better than usual? Either way I might start watching it and try to catch up on what I missed.
The tvguide description ruined the twist for me. If a blurb begins with " A group claiming to be Marines shows up…" you know they aren’t real marines.
I liked it, except for the way Jake was gushing all over that girl “marine.” What happened to still being in love with his old flame?
As usual, Jericho fails to disapppoint. True, the bar set is relatively low, but I can count on it for a solid hour of entertainment. I try not to think about it too hard, because then everything falls apart.
(for example Farmboy aka Stanley only owns 19 cows? Who’d bother with 19 milk cows? Its too many to use yourself and too few for sales production. I figured him for 50 head at least. Maybe he had a breeding operation. The point is, it doesn’t bear thinking about too deeply).
It just angers me to think about this show…I only watch it because my my husband agreed that we could spend lots of time pausing to complain about the plot holes.
The only thing anybody has done believable on this show was when Dale (the teenager) shot the jerk who killed Gracie. Other than that, these folks are all idiots.
Did they eat the horses? If so, no wonder they can’t hunt effectively. If not, why aren’t they either riding the damn things or eating them? Are they killing and eating stray dogs? Why not? If everybody is running out of food, they need to eat what’s out there.
Ahhhh, just thinking about it is driving me crazy!
Then you think too much about stuff they aren’t likely to waste time on in an hour show. They SHOWED someone riding a horse just this episode. But the fact is, there are likely very few horses, not nearly enough for everyone who needs one to use one. As for stray dogs, it hasn’t been long enough and they aren’t hungry enough (in town) to eat them yet. As long as there is ANY other alternative, most Americans would avoid eating dog.
Another possibility is the tax advantage. My evil brother keeps a few cows in a pasture so he can call all his property a farm. Much lower property taxes.
Snark much?
I haven’t watched this episode yet…because I have to wait until mr.stretch is ready. If they were riding this episode, why weren’t they riding to hunt last episode? Since those horses are in Jake’s family, and he was the one hunting, you’d think he would of thought of that instead of using most of the town’s fuel and having it stolen by guys that they shouldn’t have run from in the first place. Idiots all around.
They were talking about not having enough food just last week…and then they saw a pack of dogs that were scavenging. If they were really hungry and worried about the food supply for the town, those dogs would have been dinner.
There are tons of things in this show that are just plain stupid. I can’t suspend my disbelief if even the writers aren’t taking their premise(s) seriously.
Only when people keep constantly complaining about a show and moaning about how bad it is, yet seem to keep watching it and posting about it. It gets a bit old.
We started watching at the beginning for the cool premise - we thought it held a lot of promise. Then we kept watching to enjoy the stupidity - and even if you like the show, you have to admit it has more than it’s share of dumbth. With this season, we are starting to enjoy the actual show despite the stupid bits. I think they’ve improved it a lot.
I do have to wonder, if there are people freezing to death, and it looks like the whole town is heading in that direction, why they aren’t concentrating people in a few dwellings, redoubling insulation, etc.
And why they’re running a jukebox.
But despite that, this was a pretty good episode. Nice to see baby Hawkins using her new gun skills. While telegraphed by promos, the marine scam was fairly well handled, and most importantly, seems like something that would actually happen. They are letting the show get darker, which is just what it needs.
By the way, are we the only ones who think that Siena Goines (evil girlfriend/operative) eerily resembles Katherine Heigl ? They even have similar voices.
I wonder if the writers will let the townspeople get desperate enough to consider cannibalism? The way this show is going, (and I agree it’s improved since the first half of the season) I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some of the townspeople discussing it. Maybe, last ones in, first ones eaten? *
Stanley’s land is already used for agricultural purposes-- remember all that corn? Nice try though. 
He most likely also has some acreage in hay – there’s no way he’s buying at this point so he must have his own. Unless he was oh so clever and baled his cornstalks for fodder (not common in the US so far as I know, but I’ve observed it in Italy). And I do [heart] Stanley, so that must be it. 
Cornstalks are bailed all of the time. I’m no farmer but I get out in the country a lot during harvest season. FYI
The show has actually gotten considerably better in the last few episodes.
Not good, but starting to move back from watching to MST3K it to watching because it’s bordering on interesting.
I’ve been saying for a long time that cliched stupid soap opera conflict set in an extremely interesting post-apocalyptic setting is a complete waste of the premise and time, and just laughably boring.
But recently, they’ve started addressing real issues. The town is running low on resources. There was a makeshift trading post, run with brutal laws to keep things together in a brutal world. There was some sort of news network. Mention of governmental fracturing. An encounter with mauraders on the road who knocked people off for their resources.
All of that stuff is a million times more interesting than the stupid cliched boring “oh my god you’re cheating on your wife and she’s pregnant!” stuff. If they start taking the premise and background of the show seriously, and exploring that aspect of it, it may actually become interesting.
I watch it on my computer now, and as soon as I detect an upcoming Very Special Soap Opera Moment, which takes about 2 seconds into the scene, I go off and read the SDMB or whatever for the duration. I’ve had to do that less lately.
I did find the sudden concern for resources amusing. Someone was saying “at the rate we’re consuming fuel, by running the hospital 6 hours a day, and the town hall 3 hours a day…” and I mentally added “and the bar 24 hours a day”.
I was rooting for all of the people of that town to run out of fuel, and as they’re starving and freezing to death, say “maybe… we shouldn’t have used… all the fuel… on the bar…”
For what it’s worth, I didn’t catch the network previews (really, guys, I recommend you steer clear of them. There’s no benefit to seeing them. If you’re know you’re gonna watch the show, why be spoiled?) and so the marine thing was genuinely a surprise for me. I’d imagine your enjoyment of the episode was significantly less if you knew something funky was coming.
