1st Season Jericho - 9:02 - 5 star poll

"9:02"
10-25-06 Jericho

5 stars (...p.m., Omaha Beach)

0-1 stars (...a.m., Omaha Beach)

kaydigi...

0.0

Wow I just marathoned all the episodes in 1 sitting. Everything was going
great until this episode. It really reminded me of an episode of Texas
Walker Ranger. If an episode like this happens again, i'm bailing.

cloud dreamer...

3.9

Like Lost, I think they planned quiet episodes tonight because of the
World Series. People here complained that they don't see enough of the
town's inner workings...they've seen it tonight.

jewahe...

2 - "This week on very special episode of Little Town on the Prairie..."

marc0ni...

The biggest waste in this series is that the writers are dealing with
the problems of a post-apocalyptic world in only the most superficial
way.

This episode was another example: how are goods and services exchanged
after the economy collapses? Hasn't anyone in town (besides Hawkins and
Jake, perhaps) tumbled to the fact that the federal government has
probably gone up in a mushroom cloud? And that now there is *nothing*
backing the paper that everyone used to call "money"?

wdstarr...

One of the factors, I think, is that perhaps the only person in town
who might have both the authority and goodwill to lead the community
in making and accepting important changes necessary to prevent a
breakdown of society seems to have spent the last two weeks of show
time flat on his back with a case of the flu that just won't quit.

I've been wondering what the reason, on the meta-level of
show-writing, is behind Mayor Green's illness since it was
introduced. My *guess* is that the show's producers initially only
signed Gerald McRaney up for thirteen episodes, so they built in a
trapdoor by which they could gracefully remove his character if he
didn't want to sign on for more. But if so, they've unintentionally
reaped a useful side-effect in that they've made it more credible
that the community is being a bit slower on the uptake than it
otherwise might be. People are waiting for guidance from their
leader-figure, and through little fault of his own they aren't
getting any.

Steven L....

I think many townspeople are still in a state of denial. Notice that
the IRS agent lady still expects to go back to Washington and resume her
job collecting taxes. She offered tax relief (!!!) to the brother in
exchange for room and board at his farm. And either due to compassion

bklyntv...

I guess your triple exclaimation is the same reaction I had, "Um,
that's not YOUR money to barter with... It belongs to the American
taxpayers..."

wdstarr...

And an employee of said taxpayers needs a place to stay[1]. Is it
really technically wrong for her to try to arrange to pay for the
employee's room and board via a reduction of the
room-and-board-provider's debt to the taxpayers?

1: No, I don't know why. I don't think we've been told where she's
been staying since her arrival in town, or whether she's been
kicked out or it burned down or what.

jayembee...

I don't see the problem. The IRS was obviously paying for her room
and board at whatever hotel or b&b she was staying at. If she stays
at the farm, there's no reason why part of his overdue taxes can't
be charged off her expense account.

I like her character mostly, she's kind of a half dumb-ass, half
smart-ass.

wdstarr...

What was it she said last week as Farmboy was about to light the
gasoline on fire? "Oh my God, I wish I prayed?"

or ignorance, nobody in town has bothered to tell this woman that she
needs to start looking for another job.

bklyntv...

Does anyone other than Mr. Hawkins know that DC was hit? I can't

BTR1701...

Judging by the previews, the whole town will know next week.

remember. But no, she ain't going home.

Some folks are beginning to catch on though. The shopkeeper demanded
half his crop as payment for her pesticides. That sounds like the start
of a barter economy.

bklyntv...

I'd give them some time because denial is a very powerful mechanism

How soon does a barter economy emerge, backed up by force of arms?

Mark Nobles...

As soon as a corn farmer realizes he needs pesticide, and lots of it,
to save his crop. The pesticide owner might demand half his corn as
payment.

bklyntv...

I don't know, I can see your being curious about what is going on
outside the boundaries of Jericho, but this narrative to me, seems
realistic. I mean, most people in places like that WOULD be out of the
loop. I imagine their might be an uprising of young men running off to
find an army battalion to enlist in but otherwise.

I mean, our IRL country's supposedly at war now, but MOST people just
go about their days like any other.

David...

2.3

Was this a special 2-hour episode? Because it sure felt that way.

Mike Allegretto...

It did feel like a not-so-great show. none of the nail-biting tension
of previous episodes. i was thiking that i hope this doesnt degenerate
into a prime time version of green acres(with the people of jericho
taking the place of eva gabor.)

David B...

4. We found out a little bit more about Jake but not much. They're
dragging it out too long.

pkj0891...

3.5. Other than the silly, mushy scene of the harvest, I really
enjoyed it. I have to disagree about dragging it out too long.
Compared to "Threshold" and "Invasion", "Jericho" is moving at
practically lightening speed.

Steven L....

2.9
The pacing was noticeably slower than the previous episodes. And I
definitely didn't like the saccharine note of all the townspeople
showing up in the nick of time to pitch in with the harvest. Gee, not a
single one of them had a phobia about touching the corn with their bare
hands after the fallout got on it? Even the black mom let her kids
touch it without any qualms? I didn't like the "cliffhanger" either.

Let's hope this episode isn't a harbinger of how the series will go.
Even great TV series can have a couple of subpar episodes, and for
Jericho, this was definitely one.

1st Season Jericho - 9:02 - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !