TV: Jericho

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I just watched this on yahoo. It’s the show with skeet ulrich about a post apocalypse US. Pretty scary stuff, but good.

I sure hope nothing like that ever really happens.
 
I am absolutely chomping at the bitt for this show to start, cant wait to see it. I think it will be a true show of human effort, humanity and the will to survive. (mind you ive only seen previews)
 
Gee, maybe we’ll get tourists wandering aroung Kansas looking for Jericho now.
 
TarAshly said:
I am absolutely chomping at the bitt for this show to start, cant wait to see it. I think it will be a true show of human effort, humanity and the will to survive. (mind you ive only seen previews)
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how’d you enjoy the premiere TarAshly?

i liked it a lot better watching on my tv than my tiny laptop monitor :). I noticed the soundtrack more on the second time around, they ahve some great songs.

Any guesses as to what has really happened outside jericho?
 
If I’ve go to to listen to that miserable croaking, er…music, through every show, fuggetaboutit. It showed some promise…until the prison bus appeared right on cue; a bad sign it’ll be typical potboiler.
 
The premise is pretty shaky. I live in rural Alabama, and if all the big cities got knocked out, there are still all the small towns and “clumps of houses” in the counties. All of these are interconnected by emergency responder radio and CB. I’m sure the same would be true in rural Kansas.

Nationwide, I would think that a disaster that took out only big cities would leave a majority of the country’s population relatively unscathed, unless nuclear fallout were to be involved.

I watched the premier, and will be watching ensuing ep’s, but so far it seems to me to be pretty formulaic.

DaveBj
 
DaveBj said:
The premise is pretty shaky. I live in rural Alabama, and if all the big cities got knocked out, there are still all the small towns and “clumps of houses” in the counties. All of these are interconnected by emergency responder radio and CB. I’m sure the same would be true in rural Kansas.

Nationwide, I would think that a disaster that took out only big cities would leave a majority of the country’s population relatively unscathed, unless nuclear fallout were to be involved.

I watched the premier, and will be watching ensuing ep’s, but so far it seems to me to be pretty formulaic.

DaveBj
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It was pretty good by I’ve got to say it’s a bummer to be married to a nuclear physicist. He really ruins shows like that one and 24 for me.

As far as the emergency response, CBs and Ham radio, I think the idea is that the magnetic pulse from the explosion would knock out anything electronic leaving the rural areas. It could also knock out repeaters (can you tell I’m the daughter of a ham?)

As far as fallout, it really depends on the atmospheric conditions. Lots of wind, not good. Although, my husband says that being that far away they’d probably be alright just to stay indoors for a few days rather than have to run to a fallout shelter as they try to do in the next episode. I guess it would disperse enough to not be a real danger.

I’m betting the guy from the South who’s been helping them out them out turns out to be a convict.
 
DaveBj said:
The premise is pretty shaky. I live in rural Alabama, and if all the big cities got knocked out, there are still all the small towns and “clumps of houses” in the counties. All of these are interconnected by emergency responder radio and CB. I’m sure the same would be true in rural Kansas.

Nationwide, I would think that a disaster that took out only big cities would leave a majority of the country’s population relatively unscathed, unless nuclear fallout were to be involved.

I watched the premier, and will be watching ensuing ep’s, but so far it seems to me to be pretty formulaic.

DaveBj
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As stated above, the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) would likely knock out and render useless much, if not most, of the electronic equipment. The scenerio could be plausible.
 
Rolltide said:
As stated above, the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) would likely knock out and render useless much, if not most, of the electronic equipment. The scenerio could be plausible.
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Well, at least somewhat plausible. CBs should work if another town is equadistance and on the same side of the explosion but I’m not sure what the range on a CB is. I was really sad to see the ham radio guy portrayed as a loon. They’re ususally the ones who save the world in disasters!😉
 
DaveBj said:
The premise is pretty shaky. I live in rural Alabama, and if all the big cities got knocked out, there are still all the small towns and “clumps of houses” in the counties. All of these are interconnected by emergency responder radio and CB. I’m sure the same would be true in rural Kansas.

Nationwide, I would think that a disaster that took out only big cities would leave a majority of the country’s population relatively unscathed, unless nuclear fallout were to be involved.

I watched the premier, and will be watching ensuing ep’s, but so far it seems to me to be pretty formulaic.

DaveBj
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I think it will become less formulaic as time goes on. The thing is that we don’t know what really happened and I’d imagine there will be a pretty big surprise when we find out the reality of the situation.

Any guesses on how many explosions there have been across the country? We just know of two for sure, right?
 
bear06 said:
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As far as the emergency response, CBs and Ham radio, I think the idea is that the magnetic pulse from the explosion would knock out anything electronic leaving the rural areas. It could also knock out repeaters (can you tell I’m the daughter of a ham?)

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If the police radios were working (and they were), the other types of radios (CB, etc.) would work too.

I think this series is going to go the same route as many other fantasy series–they will pick and choose which laws of physics are operative, in accordance with what’s happening in the plot. Happened all the time in Star Trek.

DaveBj
 
DaveBj said:
If the police radios were working (and they were), the other types of radios (CB, etc.) would work too.

I think this series is going to go the same route as many other fantasy series–they will pick and choose which laws of physics are operative, in accordance with what’s happening in the plot. Happened all the time in Star Trek.

DaveBj
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Isn’t it strange how a small town like that had only one ham radio, and yet an staggering amount of giger counters!
 
Sweeney said:
Gee, maybe we’ll get tourists wandering aroung Kansas looking for Jericho now.
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I thought of that. The only real place that matches (anywhere closely resembling the roads) is Oakley (?) Kansas. It vaguely resembles the town structure too.

CBS has the full episode of it, and some online-only clips that show ‘survivors’. Currently, there’s a cheesy gansters & diva clip (with lots of production errors, like you can see the blue sky in the basement when the bad guy closes 2 metal doors on the parkinglot, and no debris comes in either - plus you can see the camera crew in one of the shots).

One thing it had me wondering, if most of the government (congress, senate, president, VP, etc.) were taken out in one hit, who takes over? Next highest ranking military general? (martial law)
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Isn’t it strange how a small town like that had only one ham radio, and yet an staggering amount of giger counters!
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Maybe it was a secret storage depot of giger counters at one point. 🙂

I’m pretty sure there’ll be other obvious mistakes (like seeing the mushroom cloud when realistically, you wouldn’t be able to if it was in Denver). Wikipedia has a list already. It’s fun watching for those mistakes. Sometimes, I like watching shows/movies just because it’s so poorly done.

I do wonder how they’ll drag out the storyline - hopefully it isn’t too slow. Seems upcoming episodes deal with nuclear fallout (predictable), and military convoys coming through, as well as listening to a sattelite TV broadcast on what happened.
BigBuddha said:
I think it will become less formulaic as time goes on. The thing is that we don’t know what really happened and I’d imagine there will be a pretty big surprise when we find out the reality of the situation.

Any guesses on how many explosions there have been across the country? We just know of two for sure, right?
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Known: Denver, Atlanta

The next likely batch:

Los Angelos - TV stations went off the air, and there’s stations there.
New York City - TV stations there too. #1 rule for disater shows/movies: “Always take out NYC. Always!”.
Chicago - Busiest airport. Gotta add drama there!
Washington DC - It’s the capital, although, the speech seemed to go beyond 6:00pm CST.

Probables:

Seattle - One person had a note that said, “Airport - 10:30pm”. I’m pretty sure that’ll be nuked for drama.
Philly - Just because it’s a big east coast city.
Boston - Just because it’s historical.
Miami - They probably need another SE city.

Others they might pick -

Houston
San Diego
Minneapolis
Detroit
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Kansas City (probably just to add to the drama that the town is cut off)

Oddball East Coast City Out: Baltimore. Always is. Although, it was nuked in one movie. (Superbowl at Ravens Stadium? Yeah, right! Only if Global Warming really heats things up!)

My guess is that they’ll keep it at 10 or less.

Denver, Atlanta, Los Angelos, New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle, Philly, Boston - Just because it’s historical, Miami
DWPC said:
If I’ve go to to listen to that miserable croaking, er…music, through every show, fuggetaboutit. It showed some promise…until the prison bus appeared right on cue; a bad sign it’ll be typical potboiler.
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I found that overused plotline hysterical.
 
Pardon the pedantry.

It’s “Geiger” counter, not “giger” counter.😃 The rule “i before e except after c” does not apply here.

You may continue.😛
 
DWPC said:
If I’ve go to to listen to that miserable croaking, er…music, through every show, fuggetaboutit. It showed some promise…until the prison bus appeared right on cue; a bad sign it’ll be typical potboiler.
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I found that overused plotline hysterical. They seem to add drama into every major theme -

6:00 “hide & seek” scene - they have the little girl counting down, and they quickly flash through other scenes with a clock ticking in the background.

mob scene over oil - Fairly predictable. Almost every disaster movie has this plotline.

prison bus - “Oh no! The inmates have escaped!”, and it’s always the old guy that gets killed.

prodigal son rescues the real bus - and nearly loses all of his blood. That’s almost another predictable one. (Something has to be an obstacle for the good guy)

Now, for a midwest town that probably deals with power outages quite often, they sure get worked up over loss of power and TV in just 1 night, and a few vague clues that only a few people heard about (word must spread fast…)
 
Ahimsa said:
Pardon the pedantry.

It’s “Geiger” counter, not “giger” counter.😃 The rule “i before e except after c” does not apply here.

You may continue.😛
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Gah! That’s what I get for not looking it up when I suspected I was wrong. Sorry people!
 
Rolltide said:
Here is the current order of succession:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
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Looks like this answered my question.
For gatherings like the State of the Union Address, one eligible cabinet member is randomly selected and is hidden in an undisclosed location. Thus, if for whatever reason catastrophe struck the Capitol, there would still be a person—the designated survivor—to assume the presidency.
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Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, one Member of the House of Representatives and one Senator from each political party have served as designated survivors concurrently with the Cabinet member so designated; so they can succeed to the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives or President Pro Tempore of the Senate (the offices that are respectively first and second in the line of succession to the presidency after the Vice President).
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I wonder if the storyline will follow that.
 
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