Jericho fall finale 11/29

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[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon]
Well, I was making a doll while it was on, so I didn’t pay as much attention as I normally do.

As always, there were glimmers of interesting themes. I liked how Jonah, having created an anarchic band of thugs, gets overthrown and then has nowhere to go. If they had fleshed it out more, it could have been a nice comment on the costs and benefits of the two major post-apocalyptic options: band together or every man for himself.

I liked that Dale popped Mitchell, though you have to wonder what kind of moron, having very first-hand knowledge of the dangers of being the top thug, blithely hangs out alone in the dark, apparently unarmed.

It was nice to finally see Gray doing something bad. Practically every episode has featured him making rather sensible arguments, while the audience is clearly meant to revile him as a power-hungry jackass whose ideas would lead to obvious disaster. He may have been somewhat keen on being mayor, but generally his suggestions were perfectly reasonable. Nevertheless, it was a little jarring to see Mayor Suckerpunch step up as the champion of civil rights.

Anyway, where the hell has Heather been, the spa? I guess if Jake’s not interested in her, she has no purpose.

Regardless, I view this episode as a major winner, if only because obnoxious Gracie is dead. Yay!
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The doll-making really doesn’t affect things too much for a viewer…The show doesn’t require huge amounts of attention, fortunately.
I was not expecting the youngster to kill the fellow at the end.

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Was I imagining things near the end of this episode? I thought I saw a promo for a website “Check us out at whodroppedthebomb.com”

I’ve googled it several different ways and can’t seem to turn up anything.

Bueller, Bueller, anyone??

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[QUOTE=Fir na tine]
Was I imagining things near the end of this episode? I thought I saw a promo for a website “Check us out at whodroppedthebomb.com”

I’ve googled it several different ways and can’t seem to turn up anything.

Bueller, Bueller, anyone??
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I think it just takes you to cbs.com/jericho or whatever.

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[QUOTE=Fir na tine]
Was I imagining things near the end of this episode? I thought I saw a promo for a website “Check us out at whodroppedthebomb.com”

I’ve googled it several different ways and can’t seem to turn up anything.

Bueller, Bueller, anyone??
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I saw it, too, and went to http://www.whodroppedthebomb.com just now. It simply redirects to the Jericho page on CBS’s main site. Perhaps they’ll be doing more with it in the coming days.

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I don’t hate the show. I just think it’s awful. But I still want to know who the heck blew up America.

The acting is awful, the writing is awful, the directing is awful and I don’t care at all about the characters. I fast forward every time Stanley and Mimi are on screen. I just about barfed last week when Stan just took a good beating and Mimi is all, “take your shirt off” (like Stanley is a stud or something) and Stanley is all “ow, ooh, ow, ooh, ow!” while Mimi tends his wounds in a typical “I’m a liberated woman so I don’t know how to dab iodine on your wounds without making you cry like a baby” way. :rolleyes:

Which is why I keep watching, and why I still think the show is awful.

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[QUOTE=levdrakon]

Which is why I keep watching, and why I still think the show is awful.
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Probably the same satellite technology that got the Asian signal from the other side of the Earth. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=duality72]
I have to admit I did not predict this. I thought surely the writers wouldn’t do something that ham-handed. I was wrong. :smack: The drama in the jail cell wasn’t too bad, though.
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Boy was this the season for that! Dexter and his girlfriend finally have sex, in walks her exhusband. The stars of Men in Trees finally fall for each other, in walks his ex girlfriend. The lawyer and the mom on Three Moons finally get it on and in walks the estranged husband! And now on Jericho…

Last year’s over used cliche was the unsuspecting car passengers being crashed into from the side, and the person walking into the street being run over by the bus.

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Just got around to watching it.

Out of curiosity, RikWriter, do you feel some sort of personal connection to this show, or something? You get defensive about in repeatedly in a way that suggests you feel personally about it.
Well, it was nice to finally see someone murder a bad guy. They’ve been dancing around the issue every time they can, to prevent Our Heroes from actually doing what might be necesary, in order to preserve the Cuddly Happy Fun Time apocalpyse theme. Practically, though, the kid should’ve waited till the guy came to collect - he’d be armed, they’d be in the store, and he could make a much better self defense case for himself.

Apparently the street lights are a permanent fixture, the food is getting distributed so people can snack whenever they want, and there are more parties at the bar. Hopefully, when this show comes back in January, it opens with a scene of most of the town frozen or starved to death, in the dark, with the live ones mumbling “should’ve…thought…ahead… I mean… parties… wtf!!! dies”

It’s good to see the nation’s satellite imaging capabilities aren’t being used in some militarily useful purpose after the whole nuke thing. Much more productive to hope to catch a lucky glance of Hawkins outside, and recognizable, amongst millions of square miles of territory. Did you notice the “enhance… enhance… enhance” stage where we went from google earth quality images to seeing hawkins as if we were 15 feet above him?

The issue of how they would conduct justice, the fight in the jail cell, the “tribunal”, etc. was the only interesting stuff in the episode, and even then, it was about 2 minutes worth of stuff, not explored at all in depth, amongst the soap opera fluff. That’s the sort of thing makes post apocalyptic fiction interesting - you get to observe characters in vastly unfamiliar circumstances, and hence, you get to tell all sorts of new kinds of stories, deal with new kinds of issues. Why the hell would you go through the process of creating a situation in which you can do that, and then, instead, examine completely mundane, typical, soap-opera drama stuff?

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[QUOTE=SenorBeef]
Why the hell would you go through the process of creating a situation in which you can do that, and then, instead, examine completely mundane, typical, soap-opera drama stuff?
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Exactly – well said.

I think their first mistake was that they didn’t create a realistic place. The physical stuff is all wrong, and many of the flaws in the story flow from that.

The writers are dolts. They could have borrowed ideas from hundreds of post-apocalypse books and movies, but instead they borrowed from The Young and the Restless.

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[QUOTE=SenorBeef]
the kid should’ve waited till the guy came to collect - he’d be armed, they’d be in the store, and he could make a much better self defense case for himself.

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Yeah, but it would be more difficult; like you say, the guy would be armed. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=SenorBeef]
Hopefully, when this show comes back in January, it opens with a scene of most of the town frozen or starved to death, in the dark, with the live ones mumbling “should’ve…thought…ahead.. I mean… parties… wtf!!! dies”

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and in the background, we hear mournful wailing and moaning, punctuated occasionaly with a guttaral moan of “BRAAAAAIIIIIINNNNS!!!” and hysterical screaming…

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Yeah, but it would be more difficult; like you say, the guy would be armed. :slight_smile:
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Only with a knife, though. And he would expect the kid to be meek and submissive, and would be totally unprepared for a bullet to the face.

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[QUOTE=SenorBeef]
Only with a knife, though. And he would expect the kid to be meek and submissive, and would be totally unprepared for a bullet to the face.
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Aw, c’mon. There’s a zillion acres around, that stream that bridge went over, and someone no doubt is raising a pig or two. If that kid could gear up to hauling all that food five miles from the train, surely he can plop that body into a wheelbarrow or something and dispose of it.

On second thought, there are all those abandonned cars out on the highways. Stick the body behind the driver’s seat in one and leave the windows open. Unless the baddies go hunting real soon, the body should fester away unnoticed.