This is a “It’s on TV so I might as well start a thread” Thread. You know.
See you later…
You know, one nice thing about this show is that they don’t ever have to have a “last episode” written. If ever they find out that, say, that night’s episode is the last one they’ll be airing, they could just end it with a bright white flash and a big “KA-BOOM”.
Ahh, so THERE’S the Earth-shattering Ka-boom!
A boom n’ a bump
I’m in transit, so I won’t be able to watch it until I get home Saturday.
But feel free to fully spoil it for me before then. Because if I get enough details I won’t have to watch it. 
Bad Jonah.
Good Jonah.
Bad Jonah.
I’m having trouble keeping track.
Jonah isn’t very consistent, is he?
I was confused by what MayorDad was telling the rioting townsfolk. “Don’t take that food! It might be all we have for awhile!” Then “Don’t push! There’s enough for everybody!”
So Gracie gets killed by (presumably) Mitchell, for refusing to give the Compounders storage space for supplies they don’t even have?
If I were an insurance agent, I wouldn’t sell Eric abandonned/preggers wife a dime’s worth of coverage.
Consider: They are playing good vs bad son, and which is which, with the two mayor’s sons. But Eric is dumping his pregnant wife to move in with a bar maid. Which is plenty enough for a lot of people to consider him a cad regardless of anything else.
So, how to clean up Eric’s image a bit? Well, how about having his wife die – either right away, or maybe while giving birth. Then Eric/barmaid can get married and ‘adopt’ the babt if there is one, and presto! Back on the side of the angels.
What stands in the way of that? Well, preggers wife was established as the only doctor in town. So…let’s send the boys out on a mission and have them just happen to come back to town with a standby doc.
Preggers wife is doomed. DOOOOOOOOOMED.
Oh, and frankly, I’m hoping the townpeople vote Mayor McSaint the hell out of office.
Is Mitchell the guy dissing Jonah?
We got a link to who’s who?
Yeah, Mitchell’s the guy who wants to take over from Jonah. I only know his name because Jonah said it.
Was there any hint before that Gracie was trafficking with Jonah’s people? I missed a few episodes.
Not that I recall.
A few points:
My first thought is that they should start shooting bad guys. Jonah ought to catch one. How do they justify that when order is restored? Suppose they shot Jonah or the mercenaries moments ago, and the aircraft hadn’t dropped hot and sour soup but US Army guys with food, medical supplies and MPs asking why these guys were dead.
That’s the sort of thing I’d like to explore in this series.
Looks like there is another crop of corn getting ready. Does it produce two crops per season?
I’d save my candles and gas for my lanterns by putting them out when I left the room, let alone the house.
Lots of light bulbs seem wasted in the chain run by the generator.
Are they making this stuff up as they go along, Chinese provisions being dropped with US equipment?
Oh yeah. I may have mentioned this the first night, but Chinese satellites couldn’t send signals to the US. They’d have to be relayed through US satellites to reach Kansas due to the curvature of the Earth.
I thought it was Jonah that killed Gracie, to prove his manliness. But, even if it wasn’t him, he’ll get blamed for it.
They mentioned it briefly. IIRC, it was one of Mayor Dad’s brilliant ideas.
Honestly, in the face of a disaster of this magnitude, do you really think another person or two missing would even be noticed? I think they could whack the entire gang and bury them in a cornfield somewhere, and no one from outside would ever know.
This really struck me in the church. The disappointed bride wanders in at night, and not only are there a handful of candles on the altar (looking freshly lit, btw, no melted pools of wax) but there were at least four candelabras with five candles each spaced around in the church.
These guys (both the characters and the writers behind them) REALLY have no idea of what scarcity means, do they?
No. Corn is a type of grass that mutated. Grow, set seed, die.
No kidding. Unless that is the only circuit powered up. Which brings up a question: Jericho is what, 5000 people? Could any air-dropped generator power up that many homes? You’d have to be very selective in determining what circuits to power up.
IIRC, Jonah stole StoreBoy’s stock of supplies, and they all entered into a compromise whereby Gracie would sell to the townfolk and Jonah would get a cut.
I can’t imagine anything like that needing to be justified. In attempting to restore post-apocalyptic order, no one is going to bother to investigate murders - the idea just seems silly.
Well, this wasn’t nearly as dumb as I was prepared for. I was only half paying attention to the previews last week, but I recalled them implying that Chinese troops were landing in the middle of Kansas, or… Missouri? Which would’ve been the dumbest thing on tv… since… uh… well, probably some reality show. But really dumb, for reasons this post touches on.
I think it was in the episode “Long Live the Mayor” or the one directly proceeding it. After Jonah stole the food, they were forced to bargain with him. She even mentions it in the scene where they are taking her valuables from the storage room, saying he was supposed to get a cut, not take everything he wanted.
I have been bothered by Gracie throughout the show. She’s selling stuff that doesn’t belong to her and whining about Dale giving back an antique jewelry box that she sold for 24 DIET sodas? Saying he stole from her…what does she think SHE was doing? Granted the people who owned that food will probably never know or care but her hypocrisy is sad. Last night’s comment that she needed to make a living was strange to me, too. Why? No one in town is making a living from what I can tell. There are no banks, no money (why is there no local bank? I guess if there was it would be useless by now)…no one seems to be paying any sort of bills (no electricity or cable to worry about) so why does she need to make a living?
Yeah, Gracie was a bitch- I was happy to see her stabbed. She was the only person in the town making any sort of profit off of the apocalypse. Frankly, if I’d been mayor in Jericho, one of the first things I would’ve done is seize her store and everything in it for the good of the town. I’d make sure she would’ve gotten a receipt for the goods, but nobody should make a profit in that situation. I was rather surprised nobody strung her up much earlier on.
I doubt that is any more legal than Jonah’s way of doing business.