Episode 18 ~ AKA
Okay people, this is going to be the last time I link to my new blog from here, this weeks episode started out strong, Hawkins looking terribly guilty of all the bad, but ended the show as a seemingly good gut. Jake came really close to being a real hero, and a real dead guy; had Hawkins ended up being a bad guy.And wasn’t Mimi a hoot tonight?? Talking to the chickens, asking them to not run around the yard without their heads, too much.
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Stay safe everyone, and remember to hug your loved ones!
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One Mans Terrorist ~ Episode 17
As I said last week, this blog has been moved to a new home here, and that is where i will be placing my posts for each weeks episode, this weeks was so so, but if you want to read the rest of my post that is where it will be. 
March 29, 2007 
No episode for this evening –
For some unknown reason, we are once again left without a week of Jericho, is this a programmers thing to keep viewers off balance? Anyway, Winters End will be airing next Wednesday at 8 pm on CBS.
I will spend this evening instead of watching Survivor Fiji ( ewwwwwwwwww) catching up on the videos I have not viewed yet on the Jericho Official Site, and will post here with my thoughts.
The Day Before, Black Jack and Heart of Winter
March 9, 2007
Filed under "Black Jack", "Heart of Winter", "The Day Before", Episodes, Weekly Episode discussion
Ok people, I am back on-line! All computer woes are for the most part taken care of ( I need a Vista compatible graphics card, but hey I am here now and that is all that matters.)
So, after missing two of the newest shows thanks to my local CBS station and Basketball, I have been able to view the last three and I have some feelings that I would like to share.
The Day Before -
This is one show that I think they could have done without , except for explaining Jake’s past a bit more. I am guessing that Jake was a mercenary , but I still think he was military at one time; maybe undercover? As for Emily, she came off a spoiled at first glance but then thinking about it, she was showing her reluctance to marry Roger then, because she still had feelings about Jake. All in all, this was a filler show as far as I am concerned and I was thinking that they were leaning to far in the same direction as that “other” show did.
Black Jack -
In this episode, we finally see where Dale and Heather went off to.I had thought that they were going to drive Heather away, she stands in the way of Jake and Emily (:-( Dale giving that stuff Gracie had gotten from the townspeople was a good idea, but when he stole that machine part for the windmills he acted like the kid he still is. Actually, one cant expect any more than Dale is giving in the situation, given he lost his parents. If I had been the one to see a place to steal that part, I would have! It is all about the needs of the many out weighing the needs of the few ( Thanks to Mr. Spock for that line, and yes I know mangled it horribly!) In this situation, we need to remember that no one is going to be keeping their do right hats on, I for one will be prepared.
In this episode we get to see that “girl” Sarah, who Hawkins was involved with become ingrained into his family life, which I knew he was going to end up regretting, she is bad news. Its strange how Darcy just lets this chick wander in, my husband would not even stand a chance of getting that past me I would smell the two faced reek right off, ok… I am a very suspicious person. But now at least with her character being included, we can see what Hawkins was about, who he was allied to and what his objective was in all this. We also saw a attempt at connection for Emily and Roger, which seems to be fizzling, I wonder how she will break it off, since that is definitely coming. I hope they don’t make this “more” soap opera-ish, and have him die some weird way. I will give Emily credit, she is trying.
I like how Jake’s mom is handling Mary, coming to talk to Mary with a list that said “be nice, she will be family one day” shows her spirit. I don’t blame Mary because the whole situation is really Eric’s fault. I guess no one would do anything any different,I mean watching the world blow up around you makes you see things in different light.
While at the trading post, we see a huge board with news written on it about how things are going around the country. Here we get our first glimpse of what happened. ( here is where I saw clearly how giving the Democrats or the Republicans too much power in Congress can lead to terrible consequences) The Country has apparently been split into sections (six if I am correct) and each is lead by a Congressman ( or King if you like) and each apparently has their own army too! In reality, this scenario is not so far fetched either. More on this later though. We end up watching Jake, Dale and the rest almost losing their lives at the trading post because of Dale’s stealing, but end up getting help from a friend of Heather’s, and since they have a machine shop there in that town, she decides to stay and try to help them make the parts needed for the power generating windmills.
Heart of Winter -
This episode almost made me cry, when I thought that maybe it was poor Stanley who was going to die in the cold, but I am so proud of Mimi! She is my favorite character on the show, she is strong, honest to a fault and funny. She will be perfect for Stanley. Where is his sister though? Did I miss something about her? Anyway, we see them run off the road by masked men in a mean looking truck, and Jake and Stanley are hurt (Jake is stuck under the truck) The armed men arrive right after they crash, ignore the “body” of Jake and steal all their survival gear. Mimi is the one who has to walk back to town ( about 10 miles) to get help before Jake and Stanley die of exposure to the cold.
She makes it almost all the way there, and then sees a vehicle coming in the dark, she tried to hide and thinks it might be the same bad guys come to do her in. It turns out to be Jake’s parents who then go to where the truck is, and since they can’t release Jake either, Johnston tells Mimi, Stanley and Jake’s mom to go back to town for help. Johnston stays with Jake in the cold dark night. We then see as Jake begins to fall into hypothermia that his past was not just exciting but also full of death. He admits to his dad that he was involved some how with the death of a 12 year old girl, and this obviously pains him. To his credit, Johnston tells him to not talk about it, to just hold on.
The towns folk return shortly to get Johnston and Jake, and they are brought back to town. Once at home, Jake and Johnston have a bit of a talk about the past event in Jakes life, and Johnston tells him he also had to do things while in the military that he had to deal with internally. Makes me feel bad for our soldiers, the things they have no choice but to do, so that they can insure our freedoms, and defend us from those who would see our demise.
As for Sarah, watch that chick, she is a no good two face, wonder if Hawkins is playing idiot on purpose or is he really that obtuse? And who sends the army, and whose army is it in next weeks episode, Semper Fidelis.
I think I have gotten the highlights, but as I was trying to do three shows at once, I might have missed a bunch of important facts. If so, please give me a holler so I can include!
Next weeks show post will be more in depth and hopefully more folks will realize I am back on-line and come back to posting here.
A huge thank you to all the soldiers out there who are protecting my family, and giving me the freedom to write this blog, you guys are in our prayers.
Vox Populi ~ episode 11
Just a few quick comments, as its late. First, at the end of the show a web address was posted
“www.whodroppedthebomb.com”, which I went to. It redirected to the Jericho website, which now has the links to its chosen community and message boards. I went briefly, and its going to be nice to have a place, but needs to have us regular and faithful belong or it wont really matter. ( Just my opinion anyway). I am a bit miffed that they waited until now to bring these two sites up, when the discussions we have been having here and especially over at the Yahoo group have been going on since day one. Oh well, at least it is done now.
I am happy about Stanley and Mimi, as I have said before. I like her, she is honest.
Gray is a very bad thing for Jericho, and the reason he is acting like he is , is because of his guilt over the murder he committed in the mine. ( Again, just my opinion)
For the last two shows, Heather has been AWOL, and I have to wonder at the sloppy way they are all of a sudden making her disappear. Shame on the writers.
I am confident that Jonah is not gone for good, and for the towns sake, I hope he comes back. He is the only one besides Jake and Hawkins who displayed any real survival instincts.
I am glad that Hawkins is getting along better with his family, but the problems are who is he talking to on the laptop, ( my opinion, Government take over for the record) and this I am sure of in my own mind; by the satellite link showing his wife and boy in the yard.
That is not something a small group would have access to , has to be a Inside coup. On the website I put up at top, the one shown tonight, is a discussion about a mysterious women who was stopped outside St. Louis by a police man? What is that? Says she has been lurking around Jericho, again, who is this? I have not seen any person so far that stood out that could be this mysterious woman.
Tonight’s show, for me was not well written, the way they had the election, not much discussion about it, nor preparations seen during the show. Seems to me the writers knew that they needed it in the story, but were not prepared to expend any real time on its writing.
As for Jonah, his almost being killed outright was a very good barometer of how Gray’s Mayor-ship is going to go until someone stops him. I think they ( the towns people) are very shortly (well in February anyway)going need Jonah.
Dale, Dale; where do I being? I knew it was Mitch who killed Gracie as I am sure most everyone did. But to have Dale go and just shoot him, I think it is not really how Dale would have done it. I could be wrong, but the kid doesn’t seem like a cold blooded killer, and that move of his was just that. Not that Mitch did not have it coming, he surely did. This just doesn’t seem to be how the town would fall apart realistically. Any basic 101 in Sociology will show that the disorder would have either begun immediately and in full swing or not at all. We see the town basically acting like everything is the same, from when the bombs dropped until now; then they begin to slowly go nuts, but in small increments.
Ok, now for the arrival of the new comers. In this crowd we see Roger, makes for a sticky place as far as Jake and Emily are concerned. But with her daydreams about not really wanting to marry him, we know where this will go. I am betting Gray has the kick em out attitude.
Last thoughts:
the food – should have been taken care of before now, but I stick to my guns about winter coming and their needing to stockpile. Hand it out now, and just like kids on Halloween, it will be gone the next day.
Stanley’s little sisters radical behavior, not what I would have expected from her character, but in reality is what a teen who is ticked off at their parents, would do.
Rating for this show (since it is the last for a while) I give it a 8/10.
I will post about the countdown vid when I get to see it, probably tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a great week.
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Red Flag
I thought tonight was going to be an important show, and in many ways it was. One we saw the beginning of Jonahs downfall, two we saw Stanley get to have someone in his life, Mimi. I like her, she has spunk but can admit when she is acting wrong. We also see the first death due to this ongoing feud between Jonah and the town, but I know it was not Jonah who killed Gracie, it was that Mitch 
. I had planned on talking more about the food stuffs that were dropped, with those posters that said Do Not Fight; and about how Eric is being absolutely dumbass. I will tomorrow in-between baking my pies and turkey.
I have not had a chance to go see the newest countdown vid, and will post about that as well.My questions for tonight show, why did they ( who “they” are I cant guess yet) drop this stuff on the people of Jericho? I mean, how did they know that there were people in Jericho? I think that the death of Gracie was coming, my husband said no more than 10 seconds before she was killed that she was going to be in serious trouble. She played on the wrong side of the playground, and she got burned.
look for my post about the show tomorrow about mid afternoon, as soon as I stuff that big T into the oven.
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Thanksgiving Day Addon
Well, the Turkey has been cooked and eaten, all the pies look like casualties of war. The family has been given all the best I have, so now I can write my thoughts on last nights show.
What I liked ~
The fact that they were trying to hunt the turkey ( but could they have eaten it?)
That the generator and the chocolate landed with Mimi and Stanley ( I think chocolate would be more important to me at that point than booze!)
What I did not like ~
That Heather was not involved with Thanksgiving Dinner, after that kiss with Jake, we see nothing else of any type of personal time between the two. He looked to me like he was feeling the same about her, now….. I see his leaning back to Emily. Yes, she has some pull with Jonah, since he is her Dad; but still…. she was none too happy to see him back in town at first , Jake should not look past Heather.
I think that next weeks episode might be where Roger comes back, just something I saw in the preview, but I am not sure.
The problems I see now are these -
1. Someone killed Gracie ( we know it was Mitch, because of what he said to Jonah, and how he acted early in the show around Gracie) so now , there has to be a legal type search, but some folks are not going to like the way it will be handled.
2. Gray wants the Mayors job, and is hassling him about it, getting an election. This will eventually take some of the towns energies that are better spent figuring out how to survive winter. I have been through the Kansas area in winter, and unless things have changed, it gets darn cold, frozen. There should be drives for warm clothes, blankets , heat sources, and food. Don’t spend time on trivial things, like elections. To me , this shows that the towns people are being led around like sheep ( oh no, I said the “S” word LOL), as if they have no mind of their own.
3. The issue of Eric leaving his wife, for another woman. I know love is love is love, but at this time, no man is going to just dump his wife and go off with someone else. This war would bring back into perspective all the important things for a person. And that woman, she should act like a lady and let go! She has acted like a petty school girl, whiny and irritating as heck.
The good things I am seeing
That Hawkins is finally being a more open person, and seems to be really wanting to fix his family problems. That he went home and got his family to show them what he had been doing was super. I am sorry I was so suspicious of him before, I too fall prey to judging books by the covers but for me, survival has become about being able to judge a person by their actions, so I might have to work on that some.
I like that Stanley and Mimi are getting close ( did I say that already?) and I think they are just perfect for each other. He is just so darn cute and nice, and she has shown she is more than an iceberg, she is human, and actually pretty cool.
I like that in the end, it was shown that if one rides the fence, one gets hurt. Gracie being like she was, and dealing with Jonah, was bad for the town. She had a driving force that will no longer have a place in society after a war like this, she had a bad case of greed. And sadly she woke up too late. But it was good that they showed that, might makes people realize that in real life, actions always have consequences.
The writers need to concentrate on the fact that winter is coming, Kansas style. If they want this to be beliveable, they better start writing as if they actually looked into how Kansas is. Are there really hills that look like that there? Looked exactly like the San Jose hills to me.
The rating for this episode – 8/10.
Now for the countdown video -
It was good to show that there are things we can get that will enhance our chances of survival, but the cost? Making money off of terrorism to me smacks of evil, the government spends so much, they could afford to get each family all these things right now. Why make us pay for things we will only need due to government policies? This video was not informative or even interesting, and I wonder what they *the writers* are heading off to with the way they left Hawkins lying on the ground.
Oh, and I am none too happy about the fact that I have to wait until February to see the rest of my show, if you writers are reading this blog, maybe you could see your way to slipping a few episodes to us faithful fans *wink*
Until next week, be safe, and tell your loved ones how much they really matter to you, it all could be gone in a second.
Crossroads ~ November 16th episode
November 15, 2006
Filed under "Count down video", "Crossroads", Episodes, Invitation, Weekly Episode discussion, new links and info added
Well, I wanted to get an early few thoughts before the show tomorrow night. I went to IDMb to see what others were talking about, and such. Saw an interesting post about Jericho fanfiction! I must admit that is not something I had thought about , and I think it will be something to keep an eye on if this show takes off like I think it will.
I plan on reviewing the show tomorrow night, right after so that I dont miss as much I as I did two shows ago, and then watch the new countdown video. I hope to figure out what they mean for the countdown vid to do for the show, draw more viewers? Maybe however unless I missed this as well, they do not mention it in the show, so you wont know about it unless you got to the CBS site regularly.
I would like to begin the section on survival websites , so if folks would begin passing on to me sites that are of real value I will begin to get them listed in the links section.
Until tomorrow night, have a wonderful day tomorrow and God Bless
edit 9:05 pm
Hmmmmmmmm…… first, instead , no before blowing the bridge, kill the idiots. Simple, kill them, before they come back and treat your town like the locusts they are. Odds are with what Eric and Jake and the Doctor can say about these morons, you can safely say that they are NOT from any government agency. And Government who? For all you know, the government is You now. Why in the heck would the words of the pepole not count, especially at this time? I think at this point, with Eric and Jakes words about how this government group (known as Ravenwood) acted at a hospital, this would have been catalyst enough to make everyone, mayor included see that isolation is the only means of survival.
I will put more of my thought here tomorrow, it has been a long day for me, and I am more than beat. I will say this though, did the writers finally select the bad guys? China? I have not yet viewed the countdown video, which will undoubtably hold more clues about this possible Chinese connection, but I have to wonder at this choice, if that is what we will see next week. I think in the few seconds of the preview, that I saw a flyer in the dropped shipments, and it had a chinese flag (possibly) and the words at the top saying DO NOT FIGHT, did anyone else see this?
so, in closing , I say again, hmmmmmmmmmmm.
rating for tonights show – 8/10
night all
Count down video on CBS Jericho site
Has anyone else viewed the countdown video on the website for Jericho at CBS? I wonder about this, since interspersed with shots of (presumably) Hawkins typing to someone, we see and hear about the effects of Nuclear bombs on our bodies, and at the end it seems his position is compromised and he is found out, Men in commando attire coming down the stairs! I wonder where the heck the directors are going, and what this countdown video has to do with the show????
I am just eternally grateful that so far, the writers have not gone to the LOST type of show.
I read on the IMDb website for Jericho on the boards some really interesting thoughts, one of which grabbed my attention because the other night I missed seeing this ; there was a snow globe??? And some at the Jericho board think that this might be due to a Citizen Kane moment?
I am really happy to find that more are discussing this show, still wonder why they have a link at the website on CBS for a community, but no working link?
For everyone who is interested in the Jericho boards at IMDb, I have included the link in my links section.
Long Live the Mayor
November 2, 2006
Filed under "Long live the Mayor", Blogroll, Episodes, Weekly Episode discussion
Ok, so far in the first 19 minutes we see two important men return to town, one we know and one we don’t. The first we see pull into town in Jake’s car, which has been fixed to almost new state! He gets out of the car, and walks right into the court house, while across the street Heather and Emily are talking about Jake. Emily sees this man, and begins to get visibly upset. The man walks inside the police station and asks about Bailing out a ‘friend’ (Mitch) and this is where everyone realizes who is speaking, and then Jake walks into the room.
Turns out this man has a past that is attached in a violent way to Jake and Heather.
Meanwhile , the other surprise person to come back to town is Gary, who had gone out with the others to see what was left of the world. He brings bad news about Washington being gone, but tells everyone about how New York was able to stop three guys before they pulled the switch ( here we have a major hint, I think , about terrorism???)
Jonah, the mystery man who came to town, turns out to be Emily’s dad, the history he and Jake and Emily share? A botched robbery where someone named Chris died, and Emily’s Dad blames Jake.
Turns out that this Jonah, along with Mitch and his gang, have the stolen food that Dale had found on the train, and he wants a trade of the food for Mitch, which Jake agrees to , but Gray gets that nixed with the idea being that a deal would be the towns downfall.
During the Halloween party in town that night, Mitch is broken out of jail at gun point, and Gray grabs a gun to stop him and his buddies from getting away, no thoughts to the kids and others who are in the streets, or the retaliation that will surely follow a move like that. Jake stops him before he can get a shot off at Mitch.
The next day two more scenarios happen, one with Dale and Gracie and the other with Stanley and his new house guest have words when he has to tell her that DC is gone, she doesn’t take it well, thankfully at the end of the show they make up.
I will leave this at the place where Jake and Eric have to leave town for medicine and Emily has to give up her freedom from her Father to get the towns supplies back and also in the bargain,Jake’s car. Before Jake and Eric leave town, Heather does what she should have done before, she lets Jake know exactly how she feels about him, and he seems a bit surprised, but happy about her attention.
I will post the rest of tonight’s show tomorrow, seems I feel prey to some cold going around, sorry I tried to hold on. See you all tomorrow
good night
edit – Nov 2nd 6:10 pm
Alright, back to my discussion of last nights show.
Toward the end of the show, we see an interesting bit about Hawkins and his wife. They are discussing in the living room, why they seem so distant to each other, and we find out that he was separated from his wife, and that during that separation she had found some friendship with someone new. Hawkins is not happy about it, but he seems to keep his mouth to himself. Later he finds her at the bar, and tells her she has had enough to drink and needs to come home. SHe refuses, and they finally get to really talk about her one question, why did he come back to get her to leave Washington DC before the bombs. And he tells her because she was/is still his wife. This has to be the first time that I felt my resolve to not like him slipping, and confirms that I am not a great judge of character after all.
Hawkins better watch out, because Gray told Eric that he noticed allot of new faces in town, and specifically mentions Hawkins and his family, and how Hawkins had enough cash to buy their house just before the war began. Now with Eric and Jake gone to find medicine for their Dad in a town somewhere, Gray is going to be running things in Town ( thanks Eric for asking the nut to watch the place) and he has been displaying some tyrant type behaviors ( for lack of better words here) since the beginning.
On my scale of 1 to 10, I have to give this episode a 6.
I still think its too much of a soap opera, but I am beginning to see that this whole story is not going to be about outside terrorists, but about internal terrorism, and how we deal would deal with it. I am glad to see that New York was able to save themselves, I think it would have tacky to say New York was involved.
Until next week folks, you can always post here, if you feel an urge
