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Tuesday Brings The Almost-Last JERICHO!!
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“Jericho” may finally have hit the wall. Word is the ratings are underwhelming; the post-nuclear drama is not among the many shows renewed early for next season. A reader writes:
Are you gonna cover Jericho, as it airs its penultimate episode tomorrow (Tuesday) night?
So I confessed I was a little behind on my Jerichos and asked the reader if anything interesting happened last week. His reply?
* The incestuous nature of J&R and the Cheyenne govt. goes beyond the bald guy.
* Local Blackwater thug played by DB Sweeney (whom my wife had a crush on) got shot in the head point-blank by someone we know.
* The New Bern guys took his body and hung it outside new Bern, much to Maj. Beck's annoyance (and we thought he was gonna help...).
That'll teach them to ventilate the town's hottest deaf teen!
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* Local Blackwater thug played by DB Sweeney (whom my wife had a crush on) got shot in the head point-blank by someone we know.
* The New Bern guys took his body and hung it outside new Bern, much to Maj. Beck's annoyance (and we thought he was gonna help...).
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always wanted to say that....hope it gets renewed...been even better than last season
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I really tried with this show. I saw the pilot and thought it was pretty good but never followed it up. Then the season 1 dvds came out. I watched the first 20 or so episodes but but that time the show was so frustrating i couldn't bring myself to watch anymore. it seems every time they introduce a cool idea the just develop it in completely the wrong way and fuck it up. Maybe i was just expecting more action and thriller stuff and less gilmore girl small town antics and melodrama. Don't get me wrong, gilmore girls is teh shit, but i just didn't like the mix here. Didn't work for me.
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Right? I have this feeling that it won't be a satisfying conclusion and things will feel rushed.
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Red_weed, if you've already seen most of the first season, then why not just finish it (Season 1 was 22 episodes) and watch the 7 episodes of Season 2? Season 2 runs a lot faster, and there's more action and plot advancement.BTW, everyone, can we even call it a real "second season"? It feels like an extended wrap-up of Season 1.
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I really don't know why but I've hung in and enjoyed this show with it's soap operaish storylines. Probably just as well that it's fading out as the paranoid backstory would only spin more and more out of control (sort of like Lost)and that's where I jump ship.
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it is peaking, creatively.That said, we're not talking Mt. Olympus, more like a hill. The first 2/3 of the season one was pretty lame, but it got entertaining toward the end.I guess we'll know the fate of the show if they choose the tidy and not cliffhanger ending next week of the two they shot.
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The show started off suggesting that it was another country or countries that nuked America (China, Iran and North Korea were suspects), but it eventually was revealed that it was a domestic false flag conspiracy instigated by super neo-cons. I wonder if the original viewership consisted mostly of red staters who salivated at the idea of the USA being attacked by nations they've thought of as enemies. But as the truth was revealed, these viewers become quietly annoyed/pissed off and tuned out, writing off the series as liberal propaganda.
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Dont expect it to pull off that trick a second time. Like the Harrydusa from Clash of the titans
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then has to suggest the show has "hit a wall" to explain not covering the show... but actually just repeats the non-news that it wasn't given an early renewal... as if this was new.
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The show did very well in the 8:00 timeslot early last year (before CBS killed the ratings with a long hiatus that left people wondering where the show had gone).
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Because everyone else watched it on showtime, and it's in vetween seasons. What's airing in CBS is like two years old, and has been talked about already. (Don't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it)
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I hope they don't oull the plug. I'm begining to think that in ten years, all we'll have to watch is reality shit.
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in vetween the oull and all that
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As much as this show was an interesting concept... it kinda dropped the ball on execution. Perhaps it was budget restrictions, but everything in the show is way too "clean." The town is in great condition (other than some power problems)!? People were supposably rationing food, but the town bar is open for business?! And I never, ever, thought I'd say this... the women... they are WAY too hot! During the Second World War, America was rationing and restricting consumption on everything from tires to nylons... but it seems in this verse, the ladies still have the time to get hair extensions (I talking to you Ashley Scott). These people are survivors of a nuclear attack for God's sake, in WW2 there was not even a major attack on the US mainland?! In the series, most of America's cities are destroyed. The world flipped out when the twin towers came down, if 15 or so of the largest urban centres in the US had vaporized I think the fallout (nuclear or otherwise) would have been worse - look what happened during Katrina. Anyone who remembers the modestly budgeted film THREADS will know what I am talking about. Of course this is all dependent on what the writers have revealed so far... If this turns out to be some kind of national conspiracy where the Government wanted to see how a small town would react to a national emergency when completely isolated and everything turns out to be fine - sort of the TWILIGHT ZONE with twist - then that would be REALLY Disappointing.
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like someone else said, second season should have been about self-suffeciency, survival, scavenging, moral issues. more like mad max in the midwest.
THEN for third season have the scary government come and try to take back over.
i love the show to death but have been a little disappointed how fast they have sped things up, and this season was so far ahead on it's own timeline it almost felt like a different show.
also, 10 o'clock sucks.
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If Hawkins doesn't show up on the next season of "24", there is no justice in the world. I've increasingly felt that Jack's capacity for casual torture would pale into comparison next to Jericho's resident hard-man.
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is what I hoped Jericho would become, a long way short of the quality of those games so far, but shows promise, worth keeping around I's say. Perhaps they can have another nuke attack to end this season and then season 3 could be 50 years later, Jericho could be 'Shady Sands'. That would be awesome. *waits patiently for Fallout 3*
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about the mayhem and ugliness that happened in other cities.
watching a repeat on sci the other day, i saw an episode i missed where jake was on the road with someone and they pass a dead woman and her wrecked car. it was a nice punch in an otherwise smarmy episode, the series needed more of those reminders of disaster. -
I stuck with the 1st seasons beginnings, with all their waltons-y like country melodrama, but the 2nd part of the 1st season was pretty kick-ass.
Too bad that the audience had abandoned them by that point.
i have enjoyed this season, and will miss the show. But, like others have said, i DEFINTIELY feel that they moved too fast this season, with all the government stuff. I would have preferred to see more of the town trying to survive against the unknown.
this season seems like a different show.
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God I hope they don't screw that up - and they shouldn't, using the Oblivion format for Xbox 360. Can't wait for the fall ! And I go even further back than Fallout ... I kicked it old school with Wasteland on my Apple ][ back in the day.
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took this season a couple to hit stride,but they are rolling now..they should do a mini season every year..less bloat
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season one: keep pretty much as is.
season two: survival struggle and slow establishment of thier own perfect small town utopia, showing that governmentless, people can thrive on their own.
season three: introduction of new scary government, where not only are they fighting to uncover the truth but to protect their new hard earned freedoms and way of life.
i guess that's pretty much the arc of the story anyway, but i feel the second act was really glossed over and only hinted at. i would have loved to see more makeshift survival tactics, some more post apoc macguyverisms, leading to an eventual new kind of agrarian society in jericho. they just shot to fast to things being 'okay' -
Mar 18, 2008 9:00:57 AM CDT
"Red staters who salivated at the idea of the USA being attacked
by zacdilone
Which would amount to about, what? Twenty inbred folks in Montana and the members of Westboro Baptist Church?
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a traveling gang of biker survivors. it's a given. they would be the most mobile and hard ass.
the obvious twist would have been if they would have seemed threatening but actually have been quite helpful, carrying information and trading supplies and stopping over for a bit and maybe helping in a skirmish.
they would have been good reoccurring characters, the kind that jennings & rall would probably love to round up in season 2 or 3. -
Thanks Herc, you finally give Jericho a talkback, only to talk it down. Be honest and just say you don't like the show so you had to be a prick about it. That being said. Wow what a series, and for all you mouthbreathers out there, the whole premise of the season about Jennings & Rall and the whole conspiracy was about getting us to step back and look at how we are trading our freedom for security and putting it into the hands of people who are out for power, Red State - Blue State its all the same from the tin-plated dictators on your local city council to the megaopolis Mayor who gets caught with hookers all the way to the fractured fake 2-party system who jams poor choices for president down our throats. There in lies the truth of Jericho. If Jericho falls so does the rest of America
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People are saying "they moved too fast" this season. What did you expect them to do? They had SEVEN episodes to make an impact. It is not like they had 22 episodes to stretch out the story.
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As soon as I had a hunch that somehow America had attacked itself, I jumped ship and stopped watching, and I imagine many others did, as well. I just thought to myself, "well, that figures".
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I think we're just getting sick of the post XFiles "it's all an evil government/military conspiracy!" plotline that seems to dominate every straight to SCIFI movie of the week. It's just lazy writing. The only thing more trite would be to throw in some time travel. They had a chance to tell a complex story of morality, politics and survival and they chose not to. Cancel it.
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As much as I like the show, it has suffered from a lot of missed opportunties (some outside its control). Let's face it. The extended break during winter last year and putting it up against American Idol when it returned killed this show, but I think creatively they made mistakes too.
As discussed last year, they took a little too long to get going with the action. But I think they blew it this year by basically dumping the whole New Bern/Jericho war that was a huge part of build up for the last quarter of the season last year. I know with only a seven episode commitment, they wanted to get to the storyline they were eventually moving to and also there were budgetary concerns about a war. But I felt that this season lost a lot of momentum built up from last year and the whole Cheyenne government thing was really rushed and not nearly as satisfying as it could be. -
i see the whole thing as a great parable for modern events, and of course that's how it was intended.
i mean BLACKwater...RAVENwood...i imagine jennings and rall is a metaphor for haliburton or the like. in all honesty, i think jericho is the best vision of what is probably coming for america. if you look into some of the events happening around phoenix arizona lately (suspicious activity, muslim arrests, etc) it sounds very much like or government today is set to let an attack of some sort happen with phoenix as the hub or either the attack, or some new government...(do you see the subliminal irony or having our nation be 'reborn' from ashes because of events in phoenix? yeah, the conspirators are often that blunt...9/11+911 emergency, etc)
anyhoo, enough ranting, suffice to say jericho is probably more realistic than most people want to admit. -
Has been much better to me this year... I'll hate to see it not come back if that's the case.
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I was luke warm on the first season of Jericho with to much talk about family and not enough action and reveal of story. BUT, this second season really cuts a good action adventure path. I'm actually looking forward to the show now.
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Ahhhh Wasteland... what a game.
Serious, this show just needed to hit its stride, and it's there... deep, thoughtful, and it's got that Palpable Sense of Dread that, come on, you just don't find anywhere else on TV right other than Lost and BSG.
Chill out before making judgements... we still don't know who's behind what. We know that people will take advantage of situations and that people make mistakes and come to regret them. This is a great f***ing show, and everyone complaining about the BBQs and bake sales... they were in shock, people, didn't know WTF was going on, and just wanted to get back to a bit of the familiar. That's what real people would do... then s***t happens and the BBQs are over. Are you happy now? There will be no more. -
In an effort to save the show they jump to the Sci Fi Network and go hardcore.
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
U.S. simulates 'dirty bomb' attacks on Phoenix, Portland
WND invited to central command post as interagency team springs to action
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Posted: November 12, 2007
1:00 am Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, and USNORTHCOM, the United States Northern Command, invited WND staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi to visit Peterson Air Force base to observe Day Three of the NORAD-USNORTHCOM exercise Vigilant Shield 2008.
Corsi was the first outside news reporter allowed inside the Joint Interagency Coordination Group, or JIACG, to observe command center operations during a real-time national training exercise.
This article is the first of a six-part, exclusive WND series.
Joint Interagency Coordination Group responds to simulated attacks
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A dirty bomb explodes in Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific.
A few hours later, two more dirty bombs detonate, this time on the continental United States.
One bomb goes off at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, killing an unknown number of people and spreading radiation throughout the airport.
Almost simultaneously, a dirty bomb goes off in Portland, Ore., detonated on the Steel Bridge, one of the city's main arteries across the Willamette River to the downtown area.
Within minutes, the news media broadcast these disasters to the world.
Is the U.S. facing another 9/11, this time with dirty bombs set off by another wave of Islamic terrorists?
How many more dirty bombs are set to go off, and where?
As much as the scenario may sound like the screenplay of a Hollywood thriller, these terrorists events were being simulated as part of a national training exercise conducted by NORAD and USNORTHCOM in October.
11/2/2007
Pipe Bomb found at Phoenix Nuclear Plant
Filed under: Terrorism — DRJ @ 11:12 am
[Guest post by DRJ]
Phoenix’s Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, the largest power plant in the US, was locked down today after a pipe bomb was found in the truck of a contract worker:
“A suspicious item seized Friday morning from the truck of a contract worker at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station turned out to be an apparent pipe bomb, plant operator Arizona Public Service Co. said. The plant declared an “unusual event” and locked down the facility in response. The plant has several hundred contract workers on site working on upgrades.
APS said in a press release that the vehicle was removed from the security checkpoint, which is at least a quarter of a mile from the parking lot. APS security, who check identification and search vehicles at the checkpoint, did not detect explosive material on the small, capped pipe, the company said. But the bomb squad from Maricopa County Sheriffs Office confirmed it was a “credible explosive device,” APS said.
Two elementary schools and a high school in the area were locked down briefly when a plant employee notified the district, Superintendent Robin Berry said.
“This is not a threat to the public,” said Jim McDonald, a spokesman for plant operator Arizona Public Service Co. earlier Friday. “If it had the potential to be, the security guards stopped it.”
The plant has returned to normal operations and the worker is being questioned by law enforcement. The odds are it’s an explainable, low-threat event but it’s good news the facility handled things well.
crazy religious people having dreams about something happening to phoenix- http://amightywind.com/guestprophets/phoenix.htm
more-
http://www.etpv.org/2002/phoenix.html
glen beck-
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/1994/
but the wierdest thing is there was a BUNCH of phoenix/conspiracy doomsday stuff on the internet just about a year ago and now i can hardly find any. -
i placed those out of order, but one day a migrant worker brings a pipe bomb to a nuclear plant, and the next day they are running dirty bomb simuations that were planned in advance? odd.
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http://www.city-data.com/forum/phoenix-area/27067-terrorist-phoenix.html
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0613tue1-13.html
hey i don't make it up. and i'm not the one who's been connecting dots either.
i mistyped 'migrant' instead of 'contract' worker because i'm at work and read that blurb quick. -
is this tb not even in the top 10? is there really that little love for j-ko on aicn?
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The walls come a tumblin down
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This show is done.
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But I'm kinda hoping that this is it. I love the show, but it's not as exciting as it used to be. Hopefully these last two episodes will end it.
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"but it eventually was revealed that it was a domestic false flag conspiracy instigated by super neo-cons"
Really? Geez, how trite and cliche. Someday somebody will break all convention and film a movie where the US is attacked by an ENEMY. Unthinkable! -
I saw him yesterday in Los Angeles. Looked like he was giving what looked like a rather impromptu interview to a couple of media types, and said that he hoped the show would renew, but that it would be unlikely he would return even if it did.
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And his pastor, Robert Wright, ends the episode with his "not god bless America, God DAMN America!" speech. ...Right before the legitimate US goverment nukes the city. Fade to black.
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"Also, too bad about creeps like Zom-Bot, who will eventually cut to the chase and start providing links that reveal the evil Jewish conspiracy."
i'm not right wing or neo-con or rascist or anything, i was just posting shit i'd heard about suspicious shit in phoenix. i love how you losers here jump down each other's throats at the first misconstrued post that doesn't fit your plan of the world and entertainment. -
this season, I have 4 words: Post-apocolyptic mutant rape gangs. Or is that 5 words ? I don't know.
Killing the boring deaf girl and making the screeching mom disappear were both positive moves though. -
Feels that way. Suddenly Beck is a heartless bastard, the town is on the verge or revolution, and out of the blue Hawkins has to go to Texas.
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Maybe a slight ray of hope, but the preview said next week was the season finale, not series.
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This show is good and getting better every week. Again. Give this show some fucking support and it will work, dammit. And yes, Gambit, tonight feel forced, but that's the kind of shit you have to deal with when they only get 7 episodes to advance a plot AND make it interesting (ie, action packed enough) to attract viewers.
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CBS needs to step up and support this show. Yes the show has had to advance quickly, but it is a good show and should be renewed for a real run.
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like what NBC did. Great move by NBC to renew a great show that got low ratings. Got to applaud them. Really wished CBS would do the same thing with Jericho.
Any chance the Jericho creators are shopping the show around? Sci-Fi might be a good fit.
This season started off slow (the 1st 3 eps were a bit blah), but has really picked up since. It'll be such a shame if it's not picked up by somebody.
And I agree with everyone else, why aren't the fans watching? I really wonder how many there really were in the campaign. -
I agree with rainbowtrout, I had a casual interest in the series until once more they took the "how much do we hate ourselves?" route. I know it's important for these HW writers to send a metaphorical message how we are the biggest force for evil in the world today. But, here's a clue.... nobody wants to watch that tripe. Here or BATTLESTAR GALACTICA or all the anti-American polemic flicks which bit the dust last year.
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Why is it that the last few episodes of Jericho are the best? When I first watched season 1 I was bored until the last 5 episodes or so. This season the last 2-3 have been great. Oh well, you nutheads had your chance. At least they shot 2 endings in case they were canceled.
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