Re: Jericho Season 2 premiere 2/12/08
Anyone notice at least two more nuked cities added to Hawkins's map?
Honolulu, HI and another city in New Jersey. (Newark?)
Despite this, the show keeps insisting on giving us the "23 bombed cities" figure, which is now
WAY too low from all the onscreen evidence.
Also...a civil war is certainly coming.
Anyone happen to catch the "New America!" book that someone was holding in the promo for next week's episode? Published by Tomarchio and Valente's group, no doubt. Very shady, neocon-type stuff.
A hardliner faction. They're starting, ever so slowly but steadily, to remake the country along how the lines of how
THEY want things to be. The nukes were simply the initial, softening-up phase of this greater scheme.
And the fact that Tomarchio reduced Iran and North Korea to radioactive rubble on a completely false pretext...the international community wanting nothing more to do with us is clearly bullshit propaganda cooked up by this group, as evidenced by the aid sent from China and Germany in Season 1.
Jennings & Rall are being established as the Halliburton-esque profiteers of this whole mess -- it's no coincidence that they're the parent-owners of Ravenwood -- and how they gradually shift from "benevolent" crisis-aid to the Allied States of America survivors to the brownshirt-arm of Valente's regime is going to be interesting to watch.
Likewise, will D.B. Sweeney's merc-army be brought back for Round 2 when Jericho finally realizes what Jennings & Rall (and the greater New Order) are
really up to?
Can't wait to see where this is going. Between this show,
LOST, Terminator, and the upcoming new
Battlestar season, we're getting some pretty damned solid science-fiction writing in one window, despite the WGA strike.
Bring it on, I say.
(And did anyone else notice that when they were in Jimmy's hospital room, there was a news ticker running across the bottom of the screen that said something about the "Hudson Virus" being contained? It says the Health and Human Services secretary -- presumably of the ASA -- said, so far, the Hudson Virus has been contained "east of the Mississippi." Might this be a plotline for later in the season, or a potential Season 3?)
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Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt
After CBS cancelled the show, Pamela Reed joined the cast of "Eli Stone" so she won't be back. I don't think anyone else is confirmed as not being back, though.
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Spoiler:
Warning Spoiler! Click to showShe's going to be back for at least one episode, though probably to move her "offscreen" permanently.
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Originally Posted by Adam Lenhardt
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Although, according to what I've been hearing from various sources, the ratings were still pretty good, with a respectable audience carryover from
Big Brother, and
Variety called Jericho's premiere numbers "solid."
Losing to
SVU? I'm not worried. Shows like that will almost always rate higher than "genre" programs like
Jericho.
