Posted on 09/20/2006 4:51:30 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
Things are quiet and peaceful in small-town Jericho, Kansas, but when a baffling explosion occurs in the distance, Jericho's residents are plunged into social, psychological and physical chaos. No one knows what to think, and fear of the unknown takes over the town, especially because its isolation cuts it off from outside help. When nearly everything they know seems gone, will the residents of JERICHO band together to face their unfamiliar and mysterious new world?
Me either. I've really liked the show and I was prepared for it to be a liberal hate Bush hit piece but I don't see it that way. It seems much more like a hypothetical scenario show that so far has been pretty accurate IMHO of what it would be like in a small town near a large city in that situation. It's pretty chilling. And McRaney has been great I think. Loved him ever since Simon & Simon. :) Even more so when I knew he was a strong conservative Christian many years ago. :)
Thanks. That's a really great explanation.
So far this seems like a really interresting show with no liberal political agenda, just showing what it would likely be like after a massive attack of that kind. Now it just is left to see who did it. Islamo-fascist terrorists are clearly the obvious suspects. If it's any one other then that, it's a liberal hit piece show and not based on the real world we live in. Unless China that did it, in which case at some point we'll hear about the massive retaliation and how China's population just dropped to a couple hundred million, down 85%, permanently. North Korea and Iran don't have the ability to do it, unless this show is set in the near future and they hadn't mentioned that yet, but it has to be considered that it's terrorists. That's the real world culprit. And an attack of this kind where eight or more major U.S. cities are destroyed would basically be the end of the United States as we know it. All military forces world wide would likely be recalled to protect the rest of the country, with the Navy and Army placed on the borders to prevent outright invasion, and it would take the U.S. Decades if EVER to recover, after losing tens of millions of people, and many major cities and infrastructure. Very scary prospect. :(
From a political standpoint, it came to mind how ironic that in the five cities known of they are filled mostly with Democrat voters, 70% or more Democrats, and it's Democrats with their weakness and involuntary appeasist mentality that makes the country vulnerable to this kind of attack. It's so bitterly ironic. This show should serve to wake up a bunch of liberals, since in this kind of attack by terrorists, most of the Americans who die would be liberals and other Democrats. That is so striking. It won't make a difference with people in the real world, but it should, because the real world fact of that is a big deal.
It is ironic that as much as CBS is so liberal and screwed up when it comes to their news, but their shows are mostly VERY good. And isn't Bruckheimer doing "Jericho"? I'd swear I saw his name at the end, but either way, he's VERY conservative and it shows in the aired versions. I think he did Jericho too.
So far I like the show. And someone on here was complaining of how they showed the kids in the foyer behind plastic sheeting, as being protected. But I distinctly remember St.Louis copguy saying that everyone should be underground in basements but FIRST you need to seal off the house with duct tape and plastic. I would surmise so the fallout particles could not be blown into the house.
They also complained it would not block out the gamma rays. If memory serves gamma is short lived and only occurs during the explosion which has already happened far away. The fallout coming would be of the fallout/particle nature. I don't think gammas BLOW around like fallout does.
I always thought gamma was only in RAY form and occurred during the nuclear detonation. (Which in the show has already happened far away in Denver.
I have the same take so far from Anne. The show so far appears to not be a liberal hit piece against Bush and conservatives. I've really enjoyed so far and look forward to it, in spite of how hard it is to watch the subject matter, seeing that America has been nuked and millions are dead and the repercussions from the attack will last decades, maybe centuries. That's hard to watch.
I don't know that Jericho can be called Hollywoods vision of America. The writers might well not be liberals. If they are liberals, then they're doing a show that demonstrates an a-typical view of small town conservative America.
I don't see it like that. It makes sense that a post 9-11 cop from St. Louis would be up to speed on how to respond to a nuclear blast, where the Mayor and police of a town of less than 2,000 or so, really wouldn't know all that. No town near that small is a target for a nuclear blast, and if it did happen there, the town is so small and everyone so close to each other, a nuclear blast, even a bare minimum megatonnage tactical blast would wipe out the entire town leaving no survivors unless they were out of town leaving or coming back, to worry about radiation. Ignorant is not the same as stupid. I think the characters portrayal in the first two shows has shown them as smart, and quick learners, and most have listened to the cop and if they were stupid they'd blow him off. Even the dumb drunkard hicks in the pool hall/bar in the second episode listened to the Mayor's son and cleared out of the bar to help get supplies. The townfolk got on the ball and most are showing they're not stupid after a brief reality check, and the second show is the second day.
Why do you hate the show so much? You sure make enough posts for someone who doesn't like it. It was pretty accurate and I know a lot about what a nuclear war would be like and how to respond to it, and it's been accurate and surprisingly not a liberal hate Bush hit piece. What's your beef specifically beyond cosmetic criticism?
I was expecting it to be crap but I think it was pretty good and an interresting subject matter. I'm waiting to see who supposedly launched the massive attack to make final judgement. If it's anyone other then Islamo-fascist terrorists then the show is an unrealistic joke disconnected from the real world today. But I don't know how some of you guys can just trash it after one episode, the second one didn't even aire till last night. There was not enough shown the first show to decide that it was crap. That's like saying a book is crap after the first chapter and not even reading the other 40 chapters. That's just crazy.
Good map to answer the question clearly. Oh, and good Star Wars name. :)
Why is it always Kansas? "The Day After" took place in Kansas too.
It's not sensational that radioation and radioactive fallout would have serious effects on areas many miles, maybe hundreds from the blast sight, especially with wind and rain, which would drop it right down on the town as it passed over. Water can be come highly radioatcive and radioactive rain water can and would transmit that radioactivity straight into those who get exposed to it, and the top foot and a half or more of soil would have to be removed before planting. It's just a fact. I'm amazed to hear a nuclear scientst actually say that long established four decades of gathered facts and research about radioactivity is sensationalized. That's a really ignorant sounding statement he made based on what I've learned all my life. What does he think is sensationalized?
We get it. You hate it. Made your point. Read it. Read it again. Ten times more. Got it. See ya. :)
Was the plastic not to just make sure and keep the water out? And the rain isn't the same as actual fallout coming down on them because the clast was closer to them. And for all we know, those two kids do get sick. Unless anyone here has seen the next few shows, it would be nice for people to reserve critical judgement until seeing the actual upcoming episodes. And it's not irresponsible if plastic was all they had. There apparently wasn't any basement or celler, and they were stuck there and had to do what they could with what they had, and they were just kids. The girl is a moron, and that kid only knows some. The fact he was trying anything is better then I think most teens his age would do now a days.
Yeah the cop never said plastic would block the radiation. I doubt the cop character would have said for them to stay in the house after putting up the plastic, I got from that that the plastic is just to make structures livable after the rain passes. By the time the boy got there and argues with the stupid little broad, they're stuck there with no time to get to the shelter. I'm expecting that both of them will probably get sick later on because glass, wood and plastic wouldn't protect them from the rads of Gamma falling with that rain and blowing in with the storm from the blast in Denver. I would have to assume that the show has a consultant that is an expert in nuclear warfare and radioactivity and how it relates to nuclear weapons blasts and weather. That would be a no brainer, just like the lawyer/police shows have legal consultants, though they still embellish, the bulk of things are quite accurate legally. I bet the show has a nuclear and radiation expert consultant.
That's where the bulk of it is, but the gamma radiation in lesser levels does come through the fallout (snow flakes) and is blown in the wind with weather patterns and will fall from rain clouds nearby during a blast. There was a movie made long ago, On The Beach, I think, a late 50s, (1959???) B&W movie with Anthony Perkins as a Naval Officer in Australia, in which there was a massive nuclear exchange between NATO and the USSR wiped out all of North America and Europe and Asia and pretty much everywhere else, and Australia remained untouched and the last people alive in the world were there, but because there were so many hundreds of nuclear weapons used, the nuclear radiation would travel the world with the weather patterns and reach Australia. The more weapons used the more radiation would be spread, and if enough were used, it would wipe out the world population in weeks or months, even thousands of miles from blast zones, as happened in that movie. As old as it is, that is true, and it would happe, but it would take a LOT of nuclear weapons detonated world wide to do that. Very unlikely to happen now a days without a Soviet style-anti-Democratic nuclear superpower.
And Ulrich sure does look like Depp. I hope he isn't as liberal and wacked as Depp is. There is something I saw him in years ago, Scream or something, that I saw him in and thought the same thing, that "Wow he looks like Depp". Scary. :)
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