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1st Season Jericho - Federal Response - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !
18 Oct 2006 18:40:47 -0700
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georgeavalos0...
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"Federal Response"
jayembee...
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Clever twist on the title. All episode long, it appears to refer to
the restoration of power, communication, etc.
But that last shot shows us what the *real* "federal response" is.
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10-18-06 Jericho
jewahe...
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3. I liked the fact that they furthered Jake's story and Hawkins' story
another step, but they didn't further either enough, other than to set
up a potential adversarial relationship.
I really don't like that the show is turning into a "crisis of the
week" in which Jake gets to be a hero and everyone gets to sit down for
a nice dinner by the end.
Gerald McRainey is being way underused.
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5 stars (Pentagon)
0-1 stars (FEMA)
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Lee K. Gleason...
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The morse at the beginning said "There is a fire", if anyone's wondering.
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ravenlynne...
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4.0 I still love the show although I feel they're not telling me
enough. Mr. Raven tells me that they're telling me enough, but that
I'm just nosey.
Yeah, the blonde beeatch got shocked! I can't stand her.
Why were the firemen carrying out books from the library when they
could have been putting out other fires?
Victor Velazquez...
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I think the other fires had been resolved by then.
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Jake didn't tell his dad about where he was. How about letting us
know?
Victor Velazquez...
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His dad doesn't care, why should we? ;-)
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What language was that website Hawkins accessed. Looked like Russian?
Victor Velazquez...
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Da, comrade (or Polish, Yugoslavian, etc.).
Eric D. Berge...
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Nyet. Neither one of those are written in Cyrillic characters.
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Why was jake looking at him through a scope when hawkins could see him
with his eyes and no scope?
Victor Velazquez...
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Jake was looking for something else and just happened to spot Hawkins.
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Dammit I want to see the president's speech, don't cut back to the
"Emergency Screen"!
Cool ICBMs! Where they headed?
wdstarr...
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More like four or five, perhaps -- didn't last week's episode start
with a title card saying that it was four days after the explosion
in Denver?
And it was a coordinated launch, I noticed[1]. Meaning that there
was at the very least communication among the launch officers in the
silos, and probably between them and somebody, somewhere, with the
launch codes.
1: Does anybody know whether it's truth or just legend that the
officers in silos are authorized to make the go/no-go decision
*on their own* if they've been out of communication with superior
authority for N hours?
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Victor Velazquez...
Ian Galbraith...
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Yeah the response was way too late.
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Ar Q...
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Still a fast-paced drama full of excitements.
4.8 stars.
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bklyntv...
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3.2.
I'm tired of them wasting time on mundane things. This ep half the show
was given over to fire fighting, an earlier ep had escaped convicts.
It's annoying to me because the premise--what happens after nuclear
war?--is so rich and full of possiblities that I really don't see why
they need to sidetrack us from that. (I know, so they can drag it out,
but I wish they wouldn't.)
ravenlynne...
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The premise of the show isn't to show us what's happening to the world
after a nuclear war. The show's pr people said that in the beginning.
The focus of the show is supposed to remain on the people of the small
town and how they cope. Anything extra is wonderful but irrelevant to
bklyntv...
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Yes, and I'd like to see them cope with things that arise organically
from nuclear war. The fire is pretty tangental and the escaped convict
were not at all organically tied to nuclear war. And that's why I gave
it a fairly low score, the show *I'D* like to see isn't about
firefighters (that would be "Rescue Me").
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the point.
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Ian Galbraith...
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I now don't think it was a full on nuclear war and I don't think the show
overall is a post apocalyptic scenario or at least not yet. The
co-ordinated response at the end betrays the fact that someone is still
in control.
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David...
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2.9
In a macro sense enticing enough to keep watching. In a micro sense
every episode is like a disaster movie of the week.
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John Schilling...
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Two stars.
One more emergency du jour, neatly dealt with by Mystery Guy
Number One. One more cryptic hint about Mystery Guy Number
Two. A bit of character development that mostly didn't go
Mark Nobles...
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Are these Mystery Guys both former pool guys?
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anywhere. And the contrivances necessary to keep Jericho,
and us, in the dark about what is really going on, are more
ridiculous than ever.
I mean, really, Homeland Security can simultaneously repair
every power plant, telephone exchange, radio, and television
transmitter in Kansas, or whatever, but they can't record
five minutes of timely and relevant information to go with
their Emergency Broadcast System?
But, credit for the last minute, at least.
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Alex W...
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2.5 stars.
Because of the CBS pickup, I decided to give this show a second chance and
now I'm questioning my judgement. There's just not enough there there.
And the geeky guy and the popular girl thing is SO played out. I have no
idea what that plot element is doing here.
Ken from Chicago...
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Plot by committee? Gotta appeal to the young folk to balance out all the
"old" folks?
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Pumpkin Escobar...
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2.5 Stars at the best.
This episode was SO full of holes that it was hard to watch. A few:
- The obviously poorly (read prop) placed transformer on the Library.
Looked like it was hung by a child, small wire coming out and all.
- Fires were obviously cheap CGI
- Hawkins sitting out in plain site hacking away with a satellite dish,
and immediately looks over at Jake on the roof. Hawkins then tracks
Jake down in minutes.
- The endless supply at the Bar. If the grocery was emptied, why not
the beer and liquor supply there, too, with everyone congregating and
drinking.
From the beginning I thought it strange that Jake was gone for 5 years,
no one in town seems to know where, and his car was in a parking garage
in Denver for the whole time?
wdstarr...
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I'm not sure what you find strange about that part of the story.
Unless (a) people were actively trying track the black-sheep son of
the Green family _and_ (b) he obtained and made payments on that
long-term parking space in his own, real name, how would anybody in
Jericho know where either he or his car were?
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Is it me or is the show just one constant crisis after another?
ravenlynne...
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Well I can't imagine why it would be, what with it being a nuclear war
and all. Did you really expect smoothness?
Ian Galbraith...
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Well this episodes disaster was unrelated to the nuclear crisis. They can
surely build stories around rebuilding.
ravenlynne...
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And part of that rebuilding process is "working out the kinks."
Ian Galbraith...
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Which this episode wasn't.
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David B...
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4.25. I wonder if Jake was in the military. He has a military style
haircut in the passport photo that Hawkins was looking at. I suppose
it's possible that Jake had a military style haircut just because he
wanted really short hair. When Hawkins first went on line...was that
Russian?
Pumpkin Escobar...
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Jake stated that he was 32 and has been gone for five years. While
possible, entrance into the military at age 26 or 27 seems kind of late
to me, unless it was a post-9/11 thing.
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Deke...
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Yes. Wasn't Chinese. Just looked again, definitely
Cyrillic.
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