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A Few Spoilers On JERICHO 2.X!!
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CBS’ second day on the TCA press tour brought a few hints on what to expect for the seven hours of “Jericho” ordered for midseason. Highlights are cloaked in invisotext:
* The Cheyenne government’s army breaks up the fighting between Jericho and New Bern, but we can still look forward to some postwar scores being settled secretly.
* Cheyenne will work to bring water and power back to Jericho.
* Titus Welliver, who played Col. Robert Hoffman in the first season finale, was unavailable to reprise the role for the new season.
* Most of 2.1 takes place a good while after all the battle with new Bern.
* Stanley and Mimi get engaged.
* Rob Hawkins and Jake Green go on a mission to save the world.
* Sprague Grayden will be back as schoolteacher/fix-it girl Heather Lisinski.
* Gerald McRaney is not expected to appear in any flashbacks during the seven hours.
* The seven hours begin shooting Monday and should be wrapped by September.
Read all of Premium Hollywood’s story on the matter here.
Mike Ausiello of TV Guide adds this:
* Heather will return to Jericho find Jake and Emily coupled up.
* Heather will get another potential romantic interest, but there will still be some "pull" between Heather and Jake.
* Had the show received a bigger second-season order, a big part of the action would have been set in New York. As it is, the stories will again be largely confined to the title municipality.
Read all of Ausiello's report here.
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Yep.
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Bill Frist, that is
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Now I can go back to bitching about the emmys.
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this show will not see a 3rd season
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But I'm glad it got at least this. Maybe they can tie things up and go out with a bang. Bang, get it, ha ha. no?
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i started watching it, and mostly enjoyedit, but it wasn't "appointment tv". it kinda fell off my radar, and i didn't see a single episode after the break. (the last episode i saw involved the deaf girl or something and at the end the whole town converged at a corn field and had this real cheesy moment. i'll definitely watch season two when it airs, provided of course i've made it through the dvds.
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bitch is fierce!
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It's the occasional victories that make life worthwhile. Jericho was written off as just another fan favorite that died before it's time. But this time stubborn fans snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. If all we get is 7 more episodes, it was worth it.
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So there.
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We won.
I sent nuts.
I am proud of being a part of bringing the show back, even if it was a small part.
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come on - you seriously had nothing better to do than post to a talkback about a show you care nothing for??
In the wise words of Tyrese Gibson, BRING IT!!
The season cliffhanger was perfectly executed and while I agree this is not exactly what you might call "appointment TV" the second half of the season KICKED BUTT and the second chance the show was given was totally well-deserved.
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... the town pulls together to get through some crisis or other. Man this show got real old real fucking fast. /cancel series.
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Take that Len Wiseman!
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Shame, I can only imagine the awesome visuals we are being deprived. Ah well, 7 more episodes are better than 0 more episodes.
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Ever so glad, am I. Some NYC nuke on nuke action, with Jaked and Hawkins being badass would have been nice though. People never gave this show a chance. Loved the fact that the nerd, when given the town store, became a ruthless capitalist with his own private army. The finale was fantastic! Gray was Chamberlin and Johnston was Churchill (which probably makes Jake The Army and Hawkins the SAS).And they had a tank!!!! They were going to crash it into a train!!! Aw, I miss Jericho.
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If the story is supposed to go to New York, they should go there. Don't waste time on the soap opera. If you hold back and leave people hanging at the end of this mini-season in hopes of getting renewed, you deserve cancellation.
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I just don't care any more. The guy with the beard never survives the first season. The show was just too predictable... add to that the partial order for Season 2, and I'm just not willing to invest myself in any more Jericho.
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And looks like it won't have any proper end this time too XD XD
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Based on these spoilers, I get this feeling that the Season 2 premiere will not pick up right where the Season 1 finale left off. In other words, I fear we'll get a cheesy "Six Months Later..." cop-out.
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I imagine the budget, along with some of the cast, has been reduced for this abbreviated season. The money that would have gone to film the Jericho/New Bern War is probably no longer available. I can live with that.
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was a poorly staged shootout... is the direction still the same??
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If you're going to sacrifice decent, town-on-town drama and replace it with the cheap-ass fluffy, soap opera drama that was responsible for the first half of season one being so "meh" and people tuning out left-right-n-centre, then you're completely MISSING THE POINT of this series being brought back from the dead!!
Hopefully it's just the network not knowing how to sell this thing and the "mini-series" will actually kick some ass - but you're absolutely right - if the story was supposed to go to New York (did someone towards the end say New York wasn't actually bombed to the stone-age and those kids' parents are probably alive?) THEN GO TO NEW YORK DAMMIT!!!
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It really is horrible. The acting is some of the worst I've ever seen. The plot lines are lame. There are more technical errors in this than anything else I've ever seen on the big screen or T.V. I'm talking about everything from gun fights to nukes going off and the aftermath. It's like, no research was ever done in order to make this a plausable story.
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"I want town on town action!" "We need more war!!" "They were going to crash a tank! "Seeing New York after the destruction would be awesome!" "I hate all this drama!" "Why aren't the shootouts better staged?" "It's too bad there wasn't more fighting!" "There aren't enough good visuals on it!" "There are too many technical errors!" "This show needs to kick more ass to survive!" "Why are the people in the town working together to solve problems? They should be at eachother's throats with mysteries and fighting, nonstop!"
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Pilot: We start with a screen showing a radar pulse, flashing over and over a map of the continental United States, grey shiny lines on black. We hear a coded message in morse code with static: the morse code, when translated by people on the internet, later goes into details about the nuclear threat that has hit the US in the show. Animation on the map shows the missiles striking a single target. Then, as the static gives way to the suitable haunting percussion mixed with echoey synth piano, we see blast after blast going off, with a little timer in the bottom corner ticking away the number of hits and the times and places where the hits took place: we make sure to include all the major cities, with big red letters instead of little white ones when the biggest cities get struck. When the town of Jericho gets hit, we fade out the map and bring up the main titles even as the word JERICHO appears both in the bottom left for the map (the only part of it remaining onscreen) and the main title, and the percussion becomes haunting-er and the piano ceases, and then we cue massive static and jump to black screen. Then, the first shot we see takes place AFTER the nuclear attack has hit the town. Everyone is suffering, and no one is working together. We need shots of the kind of chaos that filled the screen during the final moments of MIRACLE MILE just before the attack actually happens. People scream at eachother, and we make sure to focus exclusively on wanton suffering and show no kindness or friendship of any sort. Blood and injuries fill the screen, as well as destroyed buildings and debris that ironically resembles things we know of small towns (signs from local car dealerships, fast food chains, etc.). We get a few shots of jets flying over battle-ravaged schools and playgrounds, while our FX team makes sure silver dust falls over every set and outdoor shot via CGI inserted later. We add in a few CGI helicopters, too, with perspective shots from over the shoulder of kids on the ground looking up so you see how scary and mysterious the helicopters are. People love scary and mysterious helicopters. We get some guy with a digery do and the choir Terrence Malick used for THE THIN RED LINE. This should all take no more than two minutes' time, TOPS, because by minute three the audience needs a character with which they can identify - namely, an incredibly fit badass who finds three racial/cultural stereotypes and beats the crap out of them to show off how awesome he is. This is our main character, portrayed by Barry Pepper looking scraggly and unshaven and mean. Barry's character will ironically be named Sherrif John Green, and eventually fans across the world will put up banner ads on their websites saying KEEP JERICHO GREEN in reference to the eventual subplot in which he will have to take over the town and the characters in the town adopt said slogan as their rallying cry (never spoken, as it would be stupid - but placed on windows and storefronts). As the world reels on the brink of destruction, Sherrif Green will week after week need to beat the crap out of people and torture them in the name of brining order to the lawless jackals of society (everyone, including Sherrif Green in the past, because, of course, he lost his girlfriend in a tragic moment of injustice and has a very mysterious past that will only be told in every-other-week flashbacks). Sherrif Green will get help from a wheelchair-bound computer expert who will help him get the infrastructure back up because, of course, a guy with a computer and a wheelchair can fix anything. The HOT town mayor played by a supermodel wanting to be taken seriously for her acting ability will play a bespectacled reporter for the newly-formed JERICHO FREE PRESS that will print damning articles about the Mayor, who will be played by an Older Actress Whose Career is Over but Who Younger Guys Still Find Hot, like Holly Hunter or Geena Davis. The mayor will disapprove of Sherrif Green's tactics and methods, but will tacitly accept them while secretly plotting with the Underworld Elements (who will have a name like "Section Five" because they're holed up in a bunker called Section Five from which secrets, flasbhacks and high-caliber weapons pour constantly throughout the series to make sure every epsiode is action-packed, and who have a mysterious agenda that goes All the Way to the Top!). Tagline for the TV guide for the first actual non-pilot episode: TONIGHT - JUSTICE WILL COME TO JERICHO. But Will it Be Too Late?
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We'll call you - we especially liked the bit where the music gets haunting-er... (*SARCASM*)
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I'd bang her. As for Jericho, I would have loved to see some of the New York stuff - could have been very interesting.
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