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Jericho's Attack On Corporate Dominance, Sponsored By Sprint

NeoPoliticus — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:26:21 PDT

Corporate nation or ObamaNation? What a choice.

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xtopher — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:15:36 PDT

Why is Gerald McRaney still in the credits? Maybe he'll be a ghost too.

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Log1c — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:50:37 PDT

So anyone think of who the mystery man is? Jennings or Rall? I think that its more a fact that the mystery man wants to end the monster that he created rather than *is this a smart thing to do?* so he is blinded by that fact instead of thinking it through.

That being said, it is definitely a stretch to think it will work. But I think thats what Jake/Hawkins have picked up on and the reason they are trying to stop it.

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sandmanfvr — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:35:50 PDT

Loved it. I like Beck, but I loved to see his character crack and couldn't take his wasn't the boss in Jericho. I hope a new season comes from this. Jericho is a great show.

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mikecoscia — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:43:18 PDT

Bombing all those cities made J&R congregate to one area to really take over the government. That last bomb will to take them all out while they are cornered into one small area, hence wiping them out for good.

The funny thing is when Jake said America is a company, he was not far from the truth. Major corporations manipulate our government.

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royen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:35:55 PDT

@guibom: I agree. Some people cite not getting the bigger picture as the reason they stopped watching. The show is called 'Jericho', though, so I guess the focus on the eponymous town shouldn't come as a surprise.

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guibom — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:02:34 PDT

I agree with basically everything you said. The only thing is that I never cared for the city of Jericho. One of the biggest problems of the first season was that patriotic, we are americans and our city is the best, speech. Maybe it's because I'm not American, but I always wanted to see the overall picture of the aftermath (why, how, who, etc).

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cunning001 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:58:38 PDT

I'm counting this show as a win for the broadcast medium in a way. Even with its imminent demise that these issues got to be portrayed on network TV and entered a little more into the meta-cultural conversation is a good thing imo.

The issues could have been covered in more depth the drama could have been more even and higher in engagement for the viewer, but that it got enough support from all of the constituent pieces (advertisers, viewers, production staff, network corporate, netizens) to get a season and a half televised... win.

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Mister Adequate — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:13:20 PDT

I have much the same feelings about the episode. It was kickass when it was focussed on Jake and all that business, and Beck really started becoming an awesome character.

And then this pretty nonsensical idea comes out. I mean, I can see the whole Gordian knot problem here, but it'd hardly just be J&R for a start, and nobody smart enough to mastermind a simultaneous nuclear attack on 23 cities could be dumb enough to think that in the aftermath the new government would ever be significantly vulnerable to nuclear attack again.

An excellent episode, but that plot point was just... argh. Still, they've done so incredibly well with everything else on such a short timescale, I guess something had to give. I'll give them my time for the final episode quite happily, hopefully it'll be wrapped up reasonably well.

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Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:59:20 PDT

@shadownode: And yet people question whether Jericho is science fiction!

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shadownode — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:45:16 PDT

The only thing that bothers me is the magically secure cell phones.

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saketini99 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:44:09 PDT

I'll be sad when it's all done.... *___* I quite like this show.

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All_Thumbs — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:06:32 PDT

Sorry, I'm all about overly and overtly strong language today. You weren't harsh about what you took issue with, so this might not have been the right place for that comment. But elsewhere on the net (especially on a certain very large man's website) people were most certainly trashing the show. Sorry to offload a couple of days of frustration in the wrong direction CJA.

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Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:16 PDT

@All_Thumbs: Who's lambasting the show?

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All_Thumbs — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:30:51 PDT

Um, I actually kind of like this show, and it might not get picked up. Wish less people would lambaste it. Oh well, guess we'll get another unwatchable sitcom. (Yes I know unwatchable sitcom is redundant)

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Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:06:27 PDT

@steven_scareplanes: Actually, the grandpa did appear in at least one episode of season one.

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slmcdee — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:59:15 PDT

I've watched quite a few episodes online... and all you see is Sprint Proproganda.

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joemoon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:53:50 PDT

Actually, we have seen the grandfather before, in a flashback telling war stories in the bar the day of Eric's wedding. Though, yes, I think showing his father would have had more impact.

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iconoplast — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:59:03 PDT

Didn't we see Grandpa getting drunk at Eric's wedding?

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steven_scareplanes — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:50:36 PDT

man its lonely in here... yeah i agree i thought the grandpa was a little off hand since we hadn't seen him once before this episode. I agree it most likely was written for the dad.

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Bluecell — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:48:20 PDT

I think it would have had more impact if it wasn't a new character, Jake's grandfather, in the halucinations, but instead his dead father. Maybe they just couldn't get the actor back. Too bad, that would have been a nice touch.

I thought the actor that plays Major Beck was fantastic in this episode. He pulled a complete 180 from patsy to badass and it was very convincing.

I also loved the final scene with Jake and Hawkins. They're both exhausted, broken, beaten and they're on their way to save the world. Or at least the U.S....

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