Jericho running commentary
Sep. 20th, 2006 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewbearSo I'm watching the series premier of Jericho, the new post-nuclear war TV show and decided to post a running commentary, like I used to for The Amazing Race. Here goes:
Our lead actually looks like a regular person rather than pretty-boy beautiful. Thank goodness!
Wow, there are a lot of regular-looking people here. A good sign, methinks.
Deaf character? Yeah, that's going to be a plot point.
Our Lead keeps giving different reasons for his absence and his old flame is about to get married... Mysterious Past + Unrequited Love = Rakish Hero.
Mmmmm.... two attractive bearded men in the same family... why must I be forced to choose!
"...born on third base, stop pretending you hit a double": what a nice, if unintentional, homage to Gov. Ann Richardson.
Aren't Presidential Addresses usually in the evening? Of course, it's more plot-effective if it's during the day, so we can see all the devastation clearly.
Little girl counts down to... destruction? Darn prescience.
Aaaaaand, there's the mushroom cloud. Middle America go BOOM!
3-2-1-ContactPanic!
Gotta admit, people seem to be reacting calmer than I would.
And the first mini-crisis: missing field-trip kids. But considering that we saw the bus several times before the commercial break, I think they're all going to make it.
Wow... I just noticed that there's a whole lot of browns in the color-scheme for this show. Reflecting the grittiness of the New Old West?
And Rakish Lead is being escorted to the schoolbus. After all, he's gotta make a good impression on the town SOMEHOW.
Okay, so the initial EMP took out all the long-range broadcasters, okay, but there's only one ham radio in town? In a small town? I cry bullshit.
So we have angry black big-city ex-cop, wacky alien conspiracy theorist and... audio recording of the blast site. Shit. Effective and chilling.
I wondered how long it would take for the power to go out. Jericho had to be connected to the regional/national power grid and a couple of years ago, we all saw how easily the entire grid can go down.
Carp. I didn't realize that the field trip was for a younger class. This is going to be massively traumatic, isn't it?
Aaaand, there it is. Impromptu tracheotomy? Rakish Hero is HARDCORE, y'all. He had some medical training during his Mysterious Past, that's for damn sure. I called up my parents and was joking that Rakish Hero was in some black-bag military agency while he was away, but it's looking likelier.
Oh, nice fakeout, writers! Make it look like they've found the schoolkids but actually it's a prison transport bus with at least ONE of the prisoners loose. I approve. :-)
Ah, good. I was wondering whether the message from the blast site was digital or on tape. More effective to share the misery, of course. And both Denver and Atlanta have been nuked... I'd say it's safe to assume that all major American cities are now radioactive charcoal.
And the resource rioting is about to begin. Lovely. I'm surprised that there isn't anyone trying to loot the grocery store yet.
I love equipment that doesn't depend exclusively on gas or batteries. Hand-crank and magnetics are great. :-)
Of course the schoolbus is going to run out of gas right past the prison van and the adults aren't going to be capable of walking the kids back. I'm just surprised that they're planning on having the kids walk themselves back. Even on a "normal" night, that's a recipe for injury. Add on the trauma of being in a crash and witnessing an impromptu tracheotomy, I'll be impressed if more than 50% make it back unscathed.
And the political backbiting begins already. Mayor Daddybear has no idea how to handle an upset crowd, does he? Whether or not he realizes it, he just lost a lot of his credibility.
Jake, our Rakish Hero, on the other hand, just earned hometown hero status. Considering the tension between him and Mayor Daddybear, I foresee some troubles ahead. Y'know, more than the nuclear apocalypse kind.
The treacly Music ofHeartstring-Tugging Sentimentality is playing; I guess this is supposed to be a significant moment.
Considering that the Sheriff (Original Recipe) is dead, I predict that angry black big-city ex-cop is going to become the new Sheriff (Crispy Recipe).
And apparently, Unrequited Love Interest is totally unaware of the bomb. But at least she gets to be the first to get a megarem dosage of radiation, what with her sightseeing trip to Nuked Bird Lane!
Hey! CBS is airing supplemental video about the non-Jericho survivors on their new broadband net channel, Innertube.
Our lead actually looks like a regular person rather than pretty-boy beautiful. Thank goodness!
Wow, there are a lot of regular-looking people here. A good sign, methinks.
Deaf character? Yeah, that's going to be a plot point.
Our Lead keeps giving different reasons for his absence and his old flame is about to get married... Mysterious Past + Unrequited Love = Rakish Hero.
Mmmmm.... two attractive bearded men in the same family... why must I be forced to choose!
"...born on third base, stop pretending you hit a double": what a nice, if unintentional, homage to Gov. Ann Richardson.
Aren't Presidential Addresses usually in the evening? Of course, it's more plot-effective if it's during the day, so we can see all the devastation clearly.
Little girl counts down to... destruction? Darn prescience.
Aaaaaand, there's the mushroom cloud. Middle America go BOOM!
3-2-1-
Gotta admit, people seem to be reacting calmer than I would.
And the first mini-crisis: missing field-trip kids. But considering that we saw the bus several times before the commercial break, I think they're all going to make it.
Wow... I just noticed that there's a whole lot of browns in the color-scheme for this show. Reflecting the grittiness of the New Old West?
And Rakish Lead is being escorted to the schoolbus. After all, he's gotta make a good impression on the town SOMEHOW.
Okay, so the initial EMP took out all the long-range broadcasters, okay, but there's only one ham radio in town? In a small town? I cry bullshit.
So we have angry black big-city ex-cop, wacky alien conspiracy theorist and... audio recording of the blast site. Shit. Effective and chilling.
I wondered how long it would take for the power to go out. Jericho had to be connected to the regional/national power grid and a couple of years ago, we all saw how easily the entire grid can go down.
Carp. I didn't realize that the field trip was for a younger class. This is going to be massively traumatic, isn't it?
Aaaand, there it is. Impromptu tracheotomy? Rakish Hero is HARDCORE, y'all. He had some medical training during his Mysterious Past, that's for damn sure. I called up my parents and was joking that Rakish Hero was in some black-bag military agency while he was away, but it's looking likelier.
Oh, nice fakeout, writers! Make it look like they've found the schoolkids but actually it's a prison transport bus with at least ONE of the prisoners loose. I approve. :-)
Ah, good. I was wondering whether the message from the blast site was digital or on tape. More effective to share the misery, of course. And both Denver and Atlanta have been nuked... I'd say it's safe to assume that all major American cities are now radioactive charcoal.
And the resource rioting is about to begin. Lovely. I'm surprised that there isn't anyone trying to loot the grocery store yet.
I love equipment that doesn't depend exclusively on gas or batteries. Hand-crank and magnetics are great. :-)
Of course the schoolbus is going to run out of gas right past the prison van and the adults aren't going to be capable of walking the kids back. I'm just surprised that they're planning on having the kids walk themselves back. Even on a "normal" night, that's a recipe for injury. Add on the trauma of being in a crash and witnessing an impromptu tracheotomy, I'll be impressed if more than 50% make it back unscathed.
And the political backbiting begins already. Mayor Daddybear has no idea how to handle an upset crowd, does he? Whether or not he realizes it, he just lost a lot of his credibility.
Jake, our Rakish Hero, on the other hand, just earned hometown hero status. Considering the tension between him and Mayor Daddybear, I foresee some troubles ahead. Y'know, more than the nuclear apocalypse kind.
The treacly Music of
Considering that the Sheriff (Original Recipe) is dead, I predict that angry black big-city ex-cop is going to become the new Sheriff (Crispy Recipe).
And apparently, Unrequited Love Interest is totally unaware of the bomb. But at least she gets to be the first to get a megarem dosage of radiation, what with her sightseeing trip to Nuked Bird Lane!
Hey! CBS is airing supplemental video about the non-Jericho survivors on their new broadband net channel, Innertube.
