Jericho

[lurkey]

Is it worth downloading?

What do you use for downloading? I am curious because I was wanting to do that and have looked at utorrent and a few others.......any suggestions?

Get yourself a BitTorrent client (I use µtorrent) and lots of recent TV shows are posted at Pirate Bay

The premiere is also available here from CBS a day after the show airs.

[conestogo_flood]

Is it on tonight?

[Brent]

Is it on tonight?

No, it's on Wednesday at 8pm ET/PT.

[Brent]

Pretty good episode tonight, a little better than last week, but it still has some issues(it drags a bit and some things just don't make sense). I liked the prisoner escape plot, but the ending just came out of nowhere.

[Cookiely]

I enjoyed the episode last night. Post 911, the reality of having the shelters in those deplorable conditions doesn't seem believable, but then we really don't know when Jericho is supposed to be taking place. Do we? The hair stood up on the back of my neck when he was using the push pins on the map. A picture is worth a thousand words. So we have Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, probably New York, Washington DC. There were more pins, who do you think got hit? Why did they hit San Diego? Anyone have any ideas? Is there a large port in San Diego? For those interested here is a link to a forum for Jericho - click on Who do you think did it - someone put a lot of work into a reply, learned a lot.
http://www.tv.com/jericho/

[vbhoutex]

San Diego has a large Navy and a lagre Marine base if I remember correctly.

[Cookiely]

San Diego has a large Navy and a lagre Marine base if I remember correctly.

Thanks. I just thought of San Diego as a small city and wondered why they would bother targeting it.

[Miss Mary]

I caught the last 15 minutes of this show last night. Looks to be a very good concept. Maybe I'll tune in next week. All the elements of a disaster movie in place here.

What is the history with Jake and Emily? Past relationship gone bad? Curious.

I thought the red push pin scene was very eerie as well. Definitely gave me goose bumps.

Anyone buy plastic wrap and duct tape yet? Curious about that as well. We were all supposed to do that, years ago. I never did.

Mary

[Brent]

The "Dancing with the Stars" results show, 10.5/17, easily won the 8 p.m. hour for ABC. "Jericho" posted a 7.4/12 for CBS, retaining virtually all of its premiere audience (and improving a little bit among adults 18-49). "Bones," 4.9/8, put FOX in third, ahead of "The Biggest Loser" on NBC. "America's Next Top Model" delivered a 3.4/5 for The CW.

Very good for a show returning after one episode.

[GalvestonDuck]

Ditto the above about the red push pins and the map. His hand just kept going in the box and adding more and more. I counted three after San Diego. That doesn't sound like many more. However, the emphasis was so well put on his hand slowly going back for another...and another...and another -- just enough to lead you to believe that if we ever get to see that map, it's going to be covered in red push pins.

At first, I sort of thought one of the uniformed guys was one of the sheriff's men (gone bad, obviously) and not an escaped prisoner like the other, because as he sat down at the table, he removed the radio from his belt as if it was second nature. Cops do that naturally, not civilians. Maybe he wasn't with the sheriff's department, but is/was a cop or guard (prison?) at one time or another. Or maybe it was just something weird they had to do so we would be on the edges of our seats as we watched Emily switch through the channels on the squad car radio, getting closer and closer to channel 8. It was more obvious that they were prisoners (besides the "duh" factor of having seen the bus and the dead deputies) when they ate, hovered over their food, using two hands.

Did we know the mayor had collapsed behind his desk before his wife found him or was that the first we learned of it also?

[Cookiely]

That was the first we had heard about the mayor being sick. I did notice earlier she had told him to slow down and seemed concerned. She was very upset when he couldn't be found, and that gave me a clue he might have had medical problems previously. There is no way I would go in the mine and have someone set explosives to close the mine. I would have begged someone to let me stay in their basement. Did the wife and the lover of the mayor's oldest son stay in the same shelter?

[vbhoutex]

I wonder how far away the detonation was from Jericho. Wouldn't that Magnetic Pulse thingamajig affect communications and electronic module in cars or is that just in the immediate area of the bomb blast. Anyone know? Maybe that's why the ham didn't work?

The pulse did affect the Jericho area. Many of thier cars quit working right after the blast, or at least some that were further from town did IIRC.

[GalvestonDuck]

Another comment about the ham radio thing -- How many of us know a ham radio operator? If I do know someone who is, they haven't told me. Heck, if a disaster like that happened and all my friends and coworkers were together, I'd probably be the one they'd assume was a ham (watch it...you know what I mean ) because I'm the weather geek and news freak. I don't think a person can just operate one anyone. Don't you have to have an FCC license? I used to own a base station CB back in the 70's when everyone and their brother had one and it was the "in" thing. Of course, I was just a kid back then.

Of course, after this week's episode we know that the radio works now. But I couldn't help but think about that when I was watching.

[Cookiely]

Another comment about the ham radio thing -- How many of us know a ham radio operator? If I do know someone who is, they haven't told me. Heck, if a disaster like that happened and all my friends and coworkers were together, I'd probably be the one they'd assume was a ham (watch it...you know what I mean ) because I'm the weather geek and news freak. I don't think a person can just operate one anyone. Don't you have to have an FCC license? I used to own a base station CB back in the 70's when everyone and their brother had one and it was the "in" thing. Of course, I was just a kid back then.

Of course, after this week's episode we know that the radio works now. But I couldn't help but think about that when I was watching.

My uncle is a ham radio operator (the only one I know). My mama still has her CB and listens every night for a little while. Very few people on the CB anymore.

[azsnowman]

San Diego has a large Navy and a lagre Marine base if I remember correctly.

SD has many bases, both Navy and Marines. One is the Navy Seal training base...at Coronado Island, there's also a Naval Air Station (one of the largest in the nation), it's a BIG TIME military town.

[x-y-no]

Another comment about the ham radio thing -- How many of us know a ham radio operator? If I do know someone who is, they haven't told me. Heck, if a disaster like that happened and all my friends and coworkers were together, I'd probably be the one they'd assume was a ham (watch it...you know what I mean ) because I'm the weather geek and news freak. I don't think a person can just operate one anyone. Don't you have to have an FCC license? I used to own a base station CB back in the 70's when everyone and their brother had one and it was the "in" thing. Of course, I was just a kid back then.

Of course, after this week's episode we know that the radio works now. But I couldn't help but think about that when I was watching.

I am - Advanced Class - KS4FF - but I'm ashamed to say I didn't renew my licence when it came up last time. I really should.

The lack of ham radio communications is one of my biggest beefs with the program - rural areas in particular have lots and lots of Advanced and Expert Class operators who would be on the air in no time after an event like this. Not to mention the thousands of operators in other countries (presumably the whole world wasn't blown up.) I understand they wanted the dramatic effect of only gradually learning the extent of the disaster - but it still kind of bugs me.

[Cookiely]

Another comment about the ham radio thing -- How many of us know a ham radio operator? If I do know someone who is, they haven't told me. Heck, if a disaster like that happened and all my friends and coworkers were together, I'd probably be the one they'd assume was a ham (watch it...you know what I mean ) because I'm the weather geek and news freak. I don't think a person can just operate one anyone. Don't you have to have an FCC license? I used to own a base station CB back in the 70's when everyone and their brother had one and it was the "in" thing. Of course, I was just a kid back then.

Of course, after this week's episode we know that the radio works now. But I couldn't help but think about that when I was watching.

I am - Advanced Class - KS4FF - but I'm ashamed to say I didn't renew my licence when it came up last time. I really should.

The lack of ham radio communications is one of my biggest beefs with the program - rural areas in particular have lots and lots of Advanced and Expert Class operators who would be on the air in no time after an event like this. Not to mention the thousands of operators in other countries (presumably the whole world wasn't blown up.) I understand they wanted the dramatic effect of only gradually learning the extent of the disaster - but it still kind of bugs me.

Congratulations on having your license. Get it renewed. We would need all the operators we could get in an emergency. Just read an article in the Tampa Trib about the overloaded emergency rooms and how they could not meet a terrorist or natural disaster influx of people when they can't handle the everyday load. I think we all realize how lack of communications caused so many problems during Katrina and seemed to set the clock back a hundred or so years.

[conestogo_flood]

I missed it!!!!!! I have no idea what happened in the last episode, someone care to summarize the events? Thanks.

[Cookiely]

I missed it!!!!!! I have no idea what happened in the last episode, someone care to summarize the events? Thanks.

I read on another Jericho forum I posted the link that you can go to the Jericho website at
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/
and watch the episode.
I guess my computer is too old. I couldn't get it to load, but its free for those that meet the requirements.

[MomH]

The show is certainly bringing back some memories. Things like bomb drills when I was a kid living in Laguna Beach, CA (between San Diego & LA) and the sales of bomb shelters about the same time. Even as late as '76 I remember a college instructor giving an assignment about having to decide who should be allowed into an underground shelter in our community. Brought up a lot of discussion and a realization that the younger students had no idea what to do, how to do it, or how they could survive if they managed to live through it. That may be the best thing this show will do for the country--get people a little more aware and possibly a little more prepared.