CBS' Jericho: A Familiar Story

[riffjim4069]

So far I have enjoyed the recap...good highlights (suspense), nice narrative by a Hawkins, haunting background music, and a lot less of the soap operatta stuff. I feel it is well done. The 64,000 dollar question is will CBS read the message boards and can the writers produce???

 

[SatelliteGAL]

I'm waiting for a couple new episodes before I decide. Nice to get the recap with the high points before it comes back though because I had forgotten some things.

 

[jbcheshire]

Man i thought they'd never get back to the story!!! At least it wasn't canceled like a lot of the other new shows out there...

 

[TNGTony]

I watched the recap at 15x on my DVR. I now remember all the cheeze soap opera sub-plots. I really just want them to focus on the main story now.

See ya
Tony

 

[riffjim4069]

Man i thought they'd never get back to the story!!! At least it wasn't canceled like a lot of the other new shows out there...

Yep, CBS made it very clear there would be 11 new episode shown over the next 11 weeks.

 

[Sean Mota]

I watched the re-cap in about 5 minutes... It is all too much soap opera and very little about the real story. I hope that Next week we get a good episode but I doubt it.

 

[riffjim4069]

I had a dream last night...I kept thinking about how the town had only one BUD that only tuned-in to a few minutes of a forign news broadcast. I'm sorry, but I seriously doubt a dozen land-based nuclear strikes would affect the entire pay and free-to-air satellite services, much less someone's ability to receive them. Residents of Jerico just needed a little electricity (which many had off and on). Likewise, AM radio is carried hundreds of miles during the evening hours. This has got to be the most unbelievable part of the entire show.

Anyway, my wife said I must dream in stupid-vision...

 

[dfergie]

Still holding on and haven't watched Vox Popli, watched a little of the recap last night from FTA source on replay...

 

[riffjim4069]

Well, we should know this Wednesday night if the next 11 episodes are going to improve or if they're going to tank. Until now, the ratings have been pretty good and CBS is spending a lot of money marketing this series...so the series is going to conclude one way or another. I predict the next 11 episodes will conclude the Jerico experiment. I also predict that we'll see a lot more of these "In and Out" series show in this format: i.e. 11 episodes --> 4-6 weeks of reruns --> followed by a cliff-hanger episode --> 4-6 month hiatus --> recap of first 11 episodes --> another 11 episodes --> 4-6 weeks of reruns and marketing hype --> series finale.

I actually like this format...should have done the same for shows like 24, Lost, etc.

 

[DannyR]

Interview with the show producers in today's paper said that unlike Lost, we'll definately get some answers to question by the end of this season.

Still, executive producer Barbee promises "Jericho" fans won't be "Lost" indefinitely: "By the end of the season, you will know where Jake's been for the past five years. You will know what Hawkins' involvement is with the bombing, and you will also know who was behind the bombings. Why is a different reason."

 

[dfergie]

Good information, they wont keep us in the dark...

 

[Bobby]

I need a second DVR. Tonight I've got AI, Friday Night Lights and Jericho all on at the same time.

I'll watch Jericho on the CBS Innertube site. I'm gonna have to get a bigger monitor here in my office.

 

[TNGTony]

Jerico is rerunning on CBS Saturday at 8pm. That is when i am DVRing it.

See ya
tony

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I need a second DVR. Tonight I've got AI, Friday Night Lights and Jericho all on at the same time.

I'll watch Jericho on the CBS Innertube site. I'm gonna have to get a bigger monitor here in my office.

No OTA you can use? When I get in that situation, I record NBC or FOX OTA (because I get it in good OTA quality here) and then use the two tuners for other channels.

Of course... I may be assuming you have a 622...

 

[Bobby]

Can't get CBS OTA here.

Thanks Tony, I'll catch it on Saturday, or DVR then.

 

[riffjim4069]

Looking forward to being [hopefully] informed and highly entertained...

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Excellent episode. Sure fills in a lot of the gaps.

Kind of makes me want to watch the first half of the season (minus the soap opera) in light of what they revealed.

BUT at the same time, its kind of frustrating; makes me want to find the hollywood writers and line them all up and shoot them. I know they want to provide mystery, yet, I wonder if they could have incorporated some of this into the storyline about half-way through the first half of the season... not necessarily at the beginning, but sooner than now.

 

[DannyR]

I believe he's with the groups who PLANNED the bombings, not the FBI.

yay... nailed him. Do I win a prize?

Interesting setup as well, with the domestic terrorists being a nice change from the ubiquitous muslim terrorists we see everywhere else.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

yay... nailed him. Do I win a prize?

Interesting setup as well, with the domestic terrorists being a nice change from the ubiquitous muslim terrorists we see everywhere else.

A virtual blue ribbon.

But is it fair to say he is with the terrorists, or he was undercover infiltrating the terrorists??

Maybe next week will tell more.

 

[dfergie]

I'm thinking the latter, but watching in a window ... from htpc about to expand again to finish...