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I don't watch TV but I couldn't help but watch Jericho on CBS's website. Anyone else here a fan? Its not 100% accurate/realistic but its very impressive as far as network TV shows goes!

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Yes! Its a fun show - I don't watch it for research, I watch it for entertainment escape........tho it brings up some interesting questions.

Unfortunately, last week there was an article about falling TV ratings on all broadcast networks - possibly due to the change in daylight savings times, possibly due to other options people have - like DVDs, or just crappy shows..........

And they were saying that in the last couple of months, ratings for shows that were doing very well, are suddenly down.........one new one that was doing great and now might be cancelled.........Jericho.

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It's barely 1% accurate. Everytime you turn around, they have 10 sources of light burning in a house....just like the electric was still on....they must have an endless source of fuel and candles.

Last week was a hoot. They get attacked by that other town...the Jerhico bunch gathers up in a little low spot behind some cars/etc. The bad guys pull up in a some trucks and whip out an machine gun. Jake then runs, under fire, up the hill on on side to "take out the MG"......WHY the heck didn't they already hold that ground....the obvious better position ?

And this whole fight is over some farms on the outskirts of Jericho......not that they bothered to stop and figure out what good is the number of acres when you have no fuel to run the machinery, no seed to plant and no fertilzer to boost the yeilds.

The whole show is one big running joke on what Hollywood thinks the SHTF will be like. I roll in the floor laughing watching it.

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My favorite last week was the guys standing their ground behind a pallet and a piece of corrugated tin. HA! It might have stopped a snowball.

I think it's inacurrate poop, ...but i watch every episode!!

Anybody else laugh when they got a couple of windmills and all of a sudden all the electricity is back on in the town????

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From reading these posts, I will not watch this show.:signs14:

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You are not missing much, believe me. A SHTF story written by a woman. Not that some of the fine gals here couldn't write a good one, but I doubt that the screenwriter post here.

The ONLY good quality about the show was the fact that common folks/farmers were using guns in self defense. Otherwise nada.

I hope ya didn't like it cause it won't be back next year.

The last show had a 2.1 rating, think the very bottom of the time slot.

m

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As I said - I watch it for entertainment (fantasy) NOT research..........

But that being said, sure, there are huge holes and silliness within it.........I am a couple of episodes behind, tho I expect to catch up this weekend........

But one thing that cracked me up..........in the first half-season, you have this SHTF situation, panic, no one knows whats happened yet........and yet they take time out to celebrate Halloween!

Oh yeah, first thing I'd do!

"Its the end of the world as we know it.........let's take time out, put on costumes and masks (so that, if we are under attack, we don't know those attackers might be infiltrating within our group) and have a town-party!"


Like I said - entertainment..........nothing more.....tho it DOES make one think about what one would do in a REAL situation, how one should possibly be prepared....in terms of that its not totally useless..........but like most entertainment, we don't turn off "Everyone Loves Raymond" or "Seinfeld" (neither show I watched regularly) because its not true to life or teachng us anything.


Well, actually, aome of TV's worst shows DID teach me something..........where the on-off switch on the TV was.

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That was pretty funny, the fight at the end. I really love how they let the other town that was attacking, have the time time to drive up close(30 FEET away!), get out of their trucks and find cover or get prone on the ground!!!:haha::haha::haha::haha: that was hilarious! If the screenwriters had any smarts the folks in Jericho would have picked them off at a distance, shooting the incoming trucks to disable them. The Jericho folks had plenty of good bolt action scoped hunting rifles and AR-15's that could have done the job. Once the trucks were disabled, they could have shot the New Bern folks from the other town as they were getting out.

Even though we make fun of it here ...It really is a show worth watching though, as it is entertaining and there is some pretty good acting. :smile:

Other things that are funny:
In one of the early episodes, one of the characters exposed to radiation drinks Iodine to get rid of it. Iodine is a poison and can kill you! Iodide is the stuff that can help (some) with radiation.

Jake, the main hero guy has lost or given away at least 5 guns. Those would be like gold and would be hard to replace.

Even on a show written by mostly liberal screen writers they are realizing that hey it's important to have guns! This is a good thing. :banana::banana:

One thing that does bug me is that there is hardly ANY mention of religion on the show. In a small Kansas town, it would be very central to the life of the people in the town , especially in tough times. But that's the liberal CBS bias at play.

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Seems like more people hate it than love it, but at least you've all seen it :P

In my opinion, its better than anything else on TV :P Definitely beats watching "The News"

I enjoy the lack of realism to an extent, because it gives me the chance to think about various situations and how I'd handle them different :P

That last episode is a great example, some of you pointed out how poorly they planned that out. I don't mind, its still entertainment, and after its over I can think about how I would have planned things to go down.

While I'm on that subject, I dunno about you guys, but the first thing I would have done was taken 2 other dudes, some dirt bikes or horses, a LOT of stanley's fertalizer, some oil, some bolts, screws, nuts, various hardware and set up some serious surprises for that convoy every couple of miles along that road :s13:

Also, I thought the idea of a road block was to ambush a convoy, not fight it face to face, so I agree that was real dumb of them :P If they would have had a few 2 or 3 man teams with some deer rifles in real good spots, and a few 3 mean teams closer up with various AR's and shotguns, and maybe improvised anti-personnel explosives, all of which scattered throughout the area, they could have trapped that forward group, killed most of them, and scored some more ammo, guns, trucks, etc. :P

But no, it looks better on TV to throw a mortar round down the barrel of a tank and blow stuff up :elefant:

Anyways, I just thought it was cool because it'll get people thinking, it got me thinking :)

OH, and market neutral is on the money :P

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absolutely, it is a good show for "getting you thinking". There's a lot of people that haven't prepared for anything that started watching it and I guarantee you they've done some preparation since.

The point about some roadside bombs is very valid, especially since Jake was in Iraq, he would know something about them. They also could have gotten explosives from the salt mine.

Fun show though and that lady is easy on the eyes. We need a heat wave in Jericho though, it's winter and she's been all bundled up!

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This nuclear sitcom/soap opera is getting canceled, on one of the survival forums many folks went "NUTS" ( get it TnAndy?) about this teevee show.
I started a humorous thread with weekly Jericho survival tips on that forum, but it was quickly shot down
If you have cable with the old teevee programs watch these for better survival tips than Jericho

Urban survival
Beverly Hillbillys

Wilderness survival
Gilligans Island

Detention/relocation camp survival
Hogan's Heroes

Homesteading/self sufficiency
Green Acres

Good luck

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This is the THIRD SHOW that depicts (or shows BG's planning) the detonation of nuclear devices on the sovereign soil of the USA. 24 and Sleeper Cell are the other two.

Funny how none of the shows ever address our 'response' to being attacked with nuclear weapons. They just 'assume' we will absorb the hit and then do nothing.

PLEASE. If the USA IS attacked like this and Washington DC IS anihilated, trust me when I say the scenario's that would 'play out' include numerous land based missles that would respond, PLUS a fleet of nuclear powered boomers that have enough firepower to turn the rest of the world into a nuclear wasteland would occur. If we had been hit so decisvely that our infrastructure collapsed because of all the main cities were destroyed, trust me when I say that MOST of the rest of the world would have 'ceased' to exist. Those plans have been in place since the late fifties/early sixties.

On to Jericho.

When the 'season finale' ended, you had:

Jake and the people from Jericho opening fire on the oncoming convoy of New Bernians. Yeah, that was tactically smart. Line up all your trucks that you plan to use to attack Jericho on the ONE ROAD that is being guarded. Yeah, that's flat brilliant. Yet, in this or the previous episode the New Bernians were 'smart enough' to send out flankers...

You have the black guy Robert Hawkins, sitting on what is 'supposed' to be an M1A1 Abrahms tank, watching the approach of several boxcars FULL of New Bernians in a steam locomotive. He has NO ammo in the tank. But is planning to some how stop the train.

You see a flight of six US helicopters fly over the tank.

In previous episodes, you had 'the criminal' Jonah Prowse's gang come to the rescue of Jericho just as the BG's from 'Ravenwood' are about to open fire on the towns defense force who is about to 'blow the bridge'.

Please note that in a previous episode (one or two back) that this same criminal Jonah Prowse and his gang KILLED about thirty New Bernians who were about to open fire with mortars on Jericho (for the fourth time). This same thirty New Bernians also 'slaughtered' the Jericho Rangers who attempted a frontal assualt without checking their flanks, as was demanded by Gerald McRainey (who is now dead - so the show wouldn't be worth watching much longer anyway without his 'solid actor' status). Then Jonah and his gang took all the weapons, food, ammo, etc that were the spoils of the battle of killing all the New Bernians.

Last, but not least you had what was left of the US Military about to 'quell' the disturbance of the New Bernians attacking Jericho.

You have both Jake and the black guy Robert Hawkins KNOWING where the spare nuclear device is hidden (aka the worlds LARGEST smoking gun that the attack on the USA was an inside job). Which is WHY the US military was going to 'occupy' Jericho and search for the terrorists (Hawkins and the 'shadow group' that he worked for).

Didn't ANYONE find it unusual that the black guy Hawkins had a storage room FULL of firearms, but had NO IED's or the ability to make them or any other kind of non-nuclear explosive devices? Kind of odd, given when Stanley tried to tell him how to drive the tank, Hawkins responded with 'this is NOT my first time'.

LOTS of intrigue and suspense. Too bad it's going to go down the 'cancelation' drain so quickly. Maybe the SciFi channel will pick it up and let them make one more season. Or one of the HD channels on DirecTv. Maybe it's gone forever. Who knows.

It was strictly entertainment. Too bad we won't get some kind of 'finale' to wrap it all up. I sure hope it comes out on DVD, as I like McRainey as an actor. Yah, the girl wasn't too bad lookin either.

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ahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhaaaa..... Yeah Brewer, I know exactly which forum you refer to......they have very little sense of humor there. That list of shows is priceless.....ahahahahaaaaa

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Camo Bikini

:call: What wisdom this audience will take away from this series

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I will assume that most of you have already read LIGHTS OUT "by Halfast" over at Survival Monkey.

If not then do download it and give it a read. All these screenwriters of Jericho needed to do is just read that book, and they would have had one hell of a show.

Good read, even the wife liked it and she very seldom agrees with me for some reason. :proud:

m

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Crud! I can't believe they cancelled it! It was one of the only new CBS shows pulling in decent ratings. It was good entertainment even if it was hokey in a lot of ways, I liked it.

They leave us hanging as Gerald McRaney is dead (WONDERFUL actor, loved him in Simon and Simon too) in the middle of a huge gunfight, with the Army closing in too. This sucks. Sci-fi would be smart to pick it up.

Replacing with a %^$%%^$#% vampire detective series? CBS why not just set fire to money it will have the same effect.

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I have never seen this show. I watch almost nothing on tv other than the weather in the morning, a couple minutes of squak box in the morning at the gym, and maybe 1 hour max on the weekend. I am too busy and you gents are more interesting than what the Hollywitzim have dreamed up as socalled entertainment, which is really nothing more than toxic anticultural filth poured down the gullets of the mentally enslaved Americanos like so many geese being fattened to make into pate de foie gras.

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another skinny beyotch with a tramp stamp. why would you want to watch her. you want to look at a beautiful woman in motion there are lots better than that-

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Every time they have a show I start getting intrested in they cancel it. They will probally replace it with another mindless reality show. Regardless of the flaws in Jericho, I still enjoyed watching it. Spliting up the season like that was just stupid.

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Yeah she's great at clearing jams too! Cough!:wub::haha::wink:

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Gerald McRaney :( I was sad when they killed him off. For all it's faults, it was still pretty good :)

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GEEZ, CBS came up with a NEW SHOW.

A VAMPIRE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR.

It's called 'ANGEL' - OH, WAIT, that was on FOX wasn't it.

So now the dweebs at CBS programming think they have a new concept for a show. Sheesh, NOTHING is new anymore.

As bad a Jericho might have been, at least it was semi-original.

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I heard that the first two seasons got picked up, and they are planning a third season! WOO!

I like the show.

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Where did you hear that? All I see is rumors of a possible movie being made.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805663/news

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Jericho Third Season Still Possible
We told you it wasn't over yet...
by Travis Fickett

April 8, 2008 - At this point, any news of Jericho's demise should be considered exaggerated. Once a show proves that it can rise from the ashes based on fan support – it becomes a unique commodity in television. While Jericho's audience might not be CSI-sized – they are far from the regular casual viewers. They are dedicated, and they'll follow the series wherever it goes. Exploiting the value of such an audience is just good business – and it looks like others are starting to figure that out.

Possibly taking a page from the book used by Friday Night Lights, CBS Paramount is – allegedly – looking into a deal with cable provider Comcast. According to a report in the New York Times, discussions have already been underway involving a possible deal to revive Jericho. This certainly seems to go along with what Jericho producer Carol Barbee said, when she referred to such talks.


- CBS"All right, let's go close that Comcast deal!"
Comcast, which serves roughly 24 million subscribers, would likely get an exclusive window on broadcasting the series – though at the moment it's not sure where the show would end up following that window. In the cast of the Friday Night Lights deal, those episodes will ultimately air on NBC after the exclusive window with DirecTV. While the Comcast/Jericho deal is unofficial, and sounds far from certain – questions remain as to whether the series will continue in some form on CBS – or will there be more movement as the deal changes?

One thing is for sure, the show is interesting to many parties – and not just the fans. There is money to be made from this audience, who has proven itself extraordinarily loyal and supportive – and one thing the television business knows how to do is find the money. While Jericho fans will surely be following this news closely (as will we) – it'll also be interesting to watch if this sets a precedent for shows that develop an audience on network TV but cannot sustain network expectations.

Source:
http://tv.ign.com/articles/865/865229p1.html

and

http://digg.com/television/IGN_Jeric...Still_Possible

Mind you, I should not have said "Planning" a third season. I should have said "considering" a third season.


EDIT - I just noticed the date. Sorry. Maybe this is old news.....?

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QWAK,"Dead like ME" is coming back TOO!:yes::23_30_104:


Geting the 'SHEEPLE" ready for the SLAUTER :questionm:dontknow::goodnight

the DUCK

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It's all good, it would be nice though. At least the movie rumor is still going on. The problem with jericho as I see it is $$$. The show had a lot of costs involved, huge cast, special effects, weaponry, etc. Even if it was a good show, it had to bring in a huge amount of viewers to justify its expenses.

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Actually it is not, that is just a one-time followup and it's already out. I watched it on DVD last night in fact. Not as good as the tv series, but worthy of viewing.


If you liked "Dead Like Me" you should rent the other short-lived tv series by the same guy: "Wonderfalls" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361256/
It is pretty wacky, right up your alley Duck.

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speaking of Master Ho has he posted recently..?

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Last post was Dec 10th. Last login 2 weeks ago.

Yeah I missed him also Avalon.

Hey HO! Where are ya?

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QWAK,I realy injoyed Firefly,still mad it was not continued!:36_1_28:

the DUCK

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QWAK,specsaregood, I'm just a little CRISPY around the edges:yes: but OK in the MIDDLE:yes::111: some people like Me that way!:yes::4_1_72::shine:

the DUCK :confused_m::36_1_25::15_1_70v:

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One of the reasons i think a collapse will be so scary is that people will not be able to organize and work together to get through it.

Anybody else sence this?

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Yes. But, hopefully after the panic blowoff, survivors will get a "reality-slap-in-the-face" and realize cooperation is essential to their own self-interest.

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HA HA, Dang I made a great post in the way back, I had a chuckle and so did TnAndy.
Jericho 09' same ol soap/sitcom I just hope the folks in this TeeVeeshow have enough candles for the Halloween pumpkins left over from their first show.
I'm still laughing...oh I love the MSM for a laugh.

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I liked it... I mean aside from the SHTF aspect being WAY off base.. It was a pretty good story line and as for the basic premise - it could happen- or something LIKE it could. mehhh - I'm over it any way.

I've been getting Battlestar Gallactica on Netflix...
I'm lovin that - it's my new fav.

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looks like the "third season" will happen in comic book form and a possible movie to follow if sales are strong...
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=22250

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Not exactly the season 3 I was hoping for.

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I guess I will be buying this when it comes out.

I doubt it will do well enough in comic sales to earn the movie spot. Damnit I hope it does though.