CBS' Jericho: A Familiar Story

[mike1973]

Yeah, the story has been a little weak. I had high hopes for this show. The one thing I do like is that we have been getting some back stories of the characters but its not enough to make up for certain elements of the show.


Mike

 

[DannyR]

What happend to the Radiation Fallout. Was it just one Rainy day and that's it... I mean shouldn't these people do some research about the implications of detonating an atomic bomb and the consequences... WTF? is this fantasy land of the "day after".....

Actually they have this right. Based on the info we learned last week, that the cities were leveled by ground based 20KT nukes (this is Nagasaki level, not anything close to a "big" bombs in the MT range we have today), then there wouldn't be significant fallout to worry about a few hundred miles away from the explosion. Even with a dozen or so bombs all going off around the country, it still wouldn't have a huge impact at that low of a yield.

Read up on the Castle Bravo experiment to see what a "real" weapon will do. It was a rather dirty explosion of over 1000x the power of the bombs used in the show. And while traces of it were detected around the world, the worst effects of a deadly nature were seen only within 300 or so miles.

Whoever was on the recieving end of the ICBMs we saw launched, each likely armed with multiple MT warheads, would have been hit far far worse than what the US got in the show.

I wouldn't want to be eating varous foods that concentrate heavier elements (various fish, etc) in the future, but otherwise the situation is plausible enough.

 

[dfergie]

From TV Guide
According to a CBS press release, Jericho will air repeat-free in this, its freshman season, albeit with a hitch: the drama will take a 10-week breather after staging a cliffhanger finale on Nov. 29, then return with all-new (and nothing-but-new) episodes on Feb. 21, 2007, starting with a flashback to how life was in Jericho pre-nuclear attack. During the hiatus, fans can find new, Jericho-related content at CBS.com, and streamings of episodes aired to date at Innertube.

Filling Jericho's Wednesdays-at-8 time slot during the month of December be double helpings of The King of Queens, which premieres its ninth season on Dec. 6. As for what happens come January, when the King scales back to single-episode outings, CBS says an announcement will be made at a later date.

 

[dfergie]

Just finished last weeks and this weeks... Jakes brother screwed up...

 

[rockymtnhigh]

From TV Guide
According to a CBS press release, Jericho will air repeat-free in this, its freshman season, albeit with a hitch: the drama will take a 10-week breather .

Missing 10 weeks for this isn't nearly as bad as LOST. I wonder if people will come back to it.

 

[dfergie]

I will, I never got into the King of Queens...

 

[BlackHitachi]

I will, I never got into the King of Queens...

DITTO!!

 

[BlackHitachi]

Oh man good episode Jakes brother should have stayed home.

 

[dfergie]

I would have exploded if I was Hawkins, but he did the right thing and is above all suspicion now...

 

[BlackHitachi]

I would have exploded if I was Hawkins, but he did the right thing and is above all suspicion now...

Yea true but the guy asking question was right to ask..

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Finally saw the episode -- it was excellent! Ten times better than the past few weeks.

 

[DannyR]

would have exploded if I was Hawkins, but he did the right thing and is above all suspicion now...

Yeah, but he's no more an FBI agent than I am.

 

[dfergie]

would have exploded if I was Hawkins, but he did the right thing and is above all suspicion now...

Yeah, but he's no more an FBI agent than I am.

Very true... But Anderson bought it... I think last weeks episode was a "set up" episode with Emilys fathers thugs... I think from seeing next weeks promo's that maybe they will come into play and help save Jericho... (or maybe thats for the Cliffhanger)

 

[BlackHitachi]

would have exploded if I was Hawkins, but he did the right thing and is above all suspicion now...

Yeah, but he's no more an FBI agent than I am.

Really what is he with all the stuff he has?

 

[Sean Mota]

Jericho is going to be split like LOST according to the zap2it story.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Jericho is going to be split like LOST according to the zap2it story.

Yup, see http://www.satelliteguys.us/showpost.php?p=718186&postcount=83

I think this new strategy is a really dumb one, particularly with new shows. LOST might be able to get away with it - since they have such a strong audience (and Evangeline Lilly ) but Jericho is not quite as compelling. Ten weeks is a long time to be off the air.

 

[TNGTony]

I don't know if it's a bad idea or not. HBO and Sci-Fi channel have been doing this for years with success.

These shows are expensive. There are only 22-26 episodes of the show a year. That means there are 26-30 weeks (minus the occassional special event) where you would normally have re-runs! Most can now catch reruns whenever they want on the net or DVD eventually.

So why not have the show on hiatus when statistically there are many, many less eye-balls watching?

 

[SatelliteGAL]

I will, I never got into the King of Queens...

definitely not

The brother did mess up bad though. You know trouble is coming now.

 

[mike1973]

Finally watched this weeks episode. I agree that this weeks was much better, a little suspense, a little violence, etc. Hope this is a sign of good things to come.



Mike

 

[dfergie]

definitely not

The brother did mess up bad though. You know trouble is coming now.

And still mad at CBS for axing Still Standing... yup trouble with a Capital "T"...