I wonder what reality TV show they'll replace it with...
Last time, it was Kid Nation.
That worked out
real well...
I'm glad it got cancelled. I watched the entire first season and with every answered question, I was left with another five questions!
IMO, Jericho would've survived if they didn't leave you hanging at the end of each episode.
As someone has said, you should really avoid Lost. Or Heroes. Heck, I think Jericho was probably the best of all the serial shows currently airing at actually giving us some answers every now and then and leaving us hanging the least amount of time.
Should we start a Battlestar Galatic countdown thread? That's about all I'm looking forward to...
A countdown to its final season?
There won't be
anything worth watching on TV after that...
While I enjoyed the story, itmovedreallyreallyfast. Much faster than I've ever seen any other episode of Jericho do. I have to assume what the producers were doing was taking (what would have been) the entire second half of Season 2 and cramming it into a single one-hour episode, a prodigious feat which you really have to admire, even if it made the episode seem very atypical.
I felt this way too, except I actually enjoyed the pacing.
Once I got into things, it felt more like a motion picture than a TV show and it was kind of nice to see so much
stuff happening on one of these types of shows that usually only drops a few clues each week.
Imagine an episode of Lost that had as much plot movement as the Jericho finale? Heads would be spinning!
It sure was lucky for our side that Hawkins, despite having lost the bomb and having no idea where it was, knew exactly where to look. This had all the earmarks of one of those "convenient" plot points. I dunno, if I was the Cheyenne government and I had the bomb back, I'd hide it out in some obscure part of the country, not bring it to the only obvious place for Hawkins to start looking.
Weren't they trying to go after it before they could move it out?
I was under the impression that they Cheyenne government simply didn't have time to get the bomb out of there and that's when they apprehended it?
In any case, this was a situation where I was totally willing to suspend my disbelief...
Too, it was very lucky for us that Jake knows how to fly a plane. I forget if they mentioned that he may've done that for Blackwater at the beginning of the series, but it was just odd to see him get in that Cessna and take off fast without hardly even looking at the controls.
I don't remember with complete clarity, but I think it was mentioned often in Season 1 that Jake was a pilot and that's how he originally became interested in the military (and eventually Ravenwood). It had certainly been mentioned that he knew how to fly and had done so often (and could do it well).
Equally fortunate that Hawkins had so many contacts that got him out of so many impossible scrapes: the Texas embassy, the Texas Air National Guard....
But really, weren't those all tied to the same contact within Texas that just notified the right person (the Governer) and requests were channeled out through there?
If you're the leader of a sovereign nation and someone tells you a friend of theirs is bringing you the smoking gun of the century (a nuclear bomb, no less) and is being chased, wouldn't you immediately send off an all-hands-on-deck call to help this person out?
And it was damned lucky that Blackwater, having supposedly surrounded the Texas embassy, was massively stupid enough to leave an escape route through the property next door!
You got me there...
I should point out that at first, I had one big problem with this series: The entire "Neighbor helping Neighbor" bit. Reason: Well, we live in a culture where people are willing to get into fist fights over parking spaces. Parents routinely get into fights at little league sports events. And when there have been gasoline shortages in this country? Let's not even go there.
That's the strange thing about Americans - sure, if the debate is over a parking space or an Elmo doll, they'll come to blows, but when people truly need help - even when it involves tremendous amounts of danger and self sacrifice - they almost always come through.
From major events like 9/11 and the Minnesota bridge collapse to everyday things like car accidents and fires to the just plain surreal like the follow in NYC who saved the kid from the subway train, this is proven true time and time again.
It is one of those amazing things about the people here. They truly cast aside their differences and put themselves on the line when it matters most...
